AN: THANKS FOR ALL THE REVIEWS! I THINK I'M GOING TO COUTINUE THIS. OH YEAH I FORGOT TO MENTION, JOHNNY AND DALLY SURVIVED SO THIS TAKE PLACE A YEAR OR SO AFTER EVERYTHING WITH THE CHURCH HAPPENED.

STACY'S POV

"Be careful!" I called to Tess from my spot under a shady tree. Tess, Two-bit, and Pony were climbing the monkey bars at the park we were at while Dally, Johnny, and me were sitting under a tree not too far away.

"You worry too much." Dal told me as he smoked a cigarette.

I rolled my eyes. "I'm her mother, it's my job to worry about her. Besides, she's fell off those before and I'm not iching to run her to the hospital for another broken arm."

Dally smirked and shook his head slightly. "Not every mother worries twenty four seven about their kid. Hell, the Curtis' are the only ones who used to have parents that worried about everything they did. My parents sure don't give a fuck."

I looked at him carefully. "Are their parents dead? You said used to."

Dal's eyes seemed to harden. "Yeah, been dead for a year now and don't you go botherin' them about it. It's still a touchy subject."

"I wouldn't. It's none of my business anyway." I tell him as I watch Tess swing wildly from the very top. "Be careful!"

"She sure does look a lot like you." Johnny told me as he watched Tess.

I smiled at him. "People say that a lot but I don't really see it. All she got from me is her blonde hair but then again her dad was a blonde too."

"You can see it in her face." Johnny told me as he pulled out another cancer stick.

I smiled as I turned my attention back to Tess, who had just jumped off the monkey bars from the highest point. "Tess Elaine Richards! You are going to get hurt!"

She just laughed and followed Two-bit and Pony to the slide.

I sighed. "God, sometimes I feel like I'm talkin' to a brick wall."

I herd a deep chuckle and I looked up and glared at Dallas. "What?"

"Man you had to have worry worts for parents to turn out the way you are. Give the kid some freedom, she's fine. Those two idiots won't let her get hurt." Dal told me as he shook his head and sat down by Johnny and me.

I laughed a little. "Trust me, my parents were anything but worry worts. They didn't give a damn about my brother or me."

Dal smirked. "Welcome to the club."

I laughed as Tess came running over to me. "Come slide with me Mommy!"

I sighed. "Why don't you slide with Two-bit and Pony?"

She pulled on my hand and tried to pull me up. "Pul-ease Mommy!"

Truth was, ever since I was little and fell off the very top of a almost seven feet high slide, I've been terrifide of them. Luckly my brother had been standing around watching me and had caught me before I hit the ground.

"Why don't we go swing?" I asked her but she only shook her head.

"No Mommy, I want to slide!" She coutinues to try and pull me up.

"I'll catch ya at the bottom." I try to reason with her but she shook her head.

"Come down it with me!" She told me as she gave me the ever so hated puppy dog face."Pul-ease Mommy!"

I sighed as Dal gives me a questioning look. "Why won't ya just slide with her?"

"Why don't you get Dally to slide?" I asked her with a grin.

"She appearently wants you too." Dal told me with a grin. "Don't even try getting me involved here."

"Pul-ease Mommy!" Tess whinned and I really wish it could be anything but that dumb old slide.

"Baby," I said as I looked her over. "Why can't you just go down it with Two-bit and Pony? I'll be watching."

"No Mommy! I want you to do it!" She told me as tears started to form in her eyes.

"Go with the kid, Stacy." Dally told me as he looked over at her.

"I can't." I told them, praying Tess wouldn't cry. I hated when she cried more than anything. It makes me feel like I'm not doing somethin' right.

"Why?" Tess and Dal asked me at the same time.

"Mommy's scared of heights." I told Tess, which was mostly the truth.

"It ain't that high Mommy!" Tess told me as she pointed up at the slide which looked to be the same height as the one I fell from.

Dally looked over at me and the look in his eyes told me he didn't buy it. Then he smirked liked the devil and I knew he knew. "You're scared of slides, huh?"

I glared at him as he threw his head back laughing. "Shut it. I am not I just don't like them."

Dally just coutinued to laugh and I looked over at Tess who was giggling. "Mommy's scared of something stupid."

"Tess!" I say to her as Dal laughs harder and I hear Johnny chuckling. "I am not scared you guys now shut it!"

"Man, I never laugh this much." Dal says once he finally stops and looks at me with that stupid grin of his. "Poor little Stacy Richards is scared of a little ole slide that even her two year old daughter isn't afraid to go down."

I punched him in the shoulder as my face got red. "Shut up Dallas Winston!"

"Come on Mommy. I'll hold your hand, I promise." Tess told me, sending Dallas into another laughter fit.

"I don't know baby." I tell her trying to think of a way to get out of this.

"Aw come on Stacy." Dally told me with his devilish grin. "Go down it with your daughter."

An idea sparked. "OK y'all, I'll go down it but Dally has to go too."

Dally raised a brow at me. "I ain't going down no kiddy slide."

I smiled. "Then I can't either."

Tess looked over at Dal. "Pul-ease Dally!"

Dal looked at her not even fazed. "Nope."

"Are you afraid of it?" I asked him with a grin on my face.

He gave a short laugh. "Nahh baby I ain't the one afraid here so don't try to point that on me. I just don't like wimpy stuff and that includes an itty bitty slide."

I gave him a look. "That's not tiny, that's huge!"

Dal chuckled. "So you are afraid."

I growled and tried to hit him in the arm again but he saw it coming and grabbed my fist. "I don't think so babe."

"Come on you guys, pul-ease!" Tess begged.

"You have no idea how much I'm starting to hate you." I tell him with a glare.

Dal smirked. "You ain't the first to say that."

"I wonder why?" I asked sarcastically of course I was only playing around though. "Who wouldn't hate a rotton hood who sucks at pick up lines."

Dal pinned me to the ground and had a smirk on his face. "What was that Sunshine?"

I tried to get up but I could barely move from under him. I saw Tess looking alarmed by Dallas and was about to go up to him but Johnny grabbed her, telling her that Dal was just playing around with me. After I gave a slight nod, she stayed where she was in Johnny's lap.

"Let me go right now Dallas!" I yelled at him but he only chuckled.

"Why should I? After that little remark I think I should -" He started but then his smirk grew. "Hey Tess, I think I will go down the slide with ya."

My eyes darkened. "What? No!"

"Yay!" Tess cheered as she jumped up and down.

Dally smirked at me as he got up and pulled me up with one fiece jerk. "Come on Stacy."

I looked at him and shooked my head. "OK, OK I take back what I said!"

Dal just chuckled. "Too late kid."

He grabbed my arm and pulled me with him as he followed Tess to the slide. I tried to get free but found that he had a stoned grip on me. He had to drag me the whole way since I had the heals of my feet drug into the ground which hurt because I was wearing only flip flops. Tess climbed up first and I tried to stay behind Dal but he simply pushed me infront of him.

"You can go first." I tell him as I tried to get around him.

Dal just smirked. "Nahh baby, that's alright."

He tried to push me up the steps but I refused to move. I smirked, he couldn't make me go up the steps. Dal seemed to see what I was thinking because before I knew it, he had lifted me off the ground. I shrieked and tried to escape as he went up a few steps.

"Put me down, put me down!" I yelled as I tried to get free. The fear of falling again now fully intack as I start to tremble.

"Are you going to climb?" Dal asked me, his hot breath tickling me ear.

"Yeah." I say softly as I accidently looked up. Tess, who was waiting for us at the top, seemed so far away and so high up. True to his word, he let me go and I slowly climbed as I started getting dizzy. There had to be a way out of this. God, there had to be.

"Come on babe, we don't have all day." Dal told me as he tried to push me forward again.

"Stop Dally!" I yelled at him as I almost tripped. "Oh God."

He had a hand on my back. "You're fine now quit worrying."

I looked back at him and by mistaked looked down. It seemed like I was almost as high as the fuckin' clouds! I had to get out of this, I just had too!

"Don't look down stupid, go!" Dal told me but his eyes softened when they met mine. "Come on, what is so scary about this?"

"I fell off a slide like this when I was little and if my brother wouldn't have caught me, I could have been seriously hurt! I don't want to fall again." I tell him as I realize how close we were to the top. All we had was five steps left.

"I ain't gonna let you fall, don't worry." Dally told me.

"Too late." I told him as we neared the top. It was time for me to stand up at the very top and sit down. This was the part where I fell last time so I was definitly not happy about doing this. I looked back at Dally. "Come on, why don't we do something else?"

"Sure, after we slide." Dallas told me.

"Come on Mommy, it's not that bad I promise." Tess told me as she slid on the slide a little but grabbed on to the bars so she wouldn't completely fall, moving so I can stand on the last step.

"OK." I say as I slowly stood up on the last step with shakey legs. I felt Dally hands on my waist as I slowly sat down and once I was sitting, I grabbed Tess. I smiled nervously, at least the worse was done with. I was soon lifted up again and I gasped and held Tess more tightly. Dal was holding us as he slowly sat down on the step.

I was soon placed into his lap and he smirked at us. "Ready?"

"Yeah!" Tess squealed with delight.

"Just hurry and lets get off this thing!" I say as Dal pushed the railing so we went flying downward. Tess was laughing while I was screaming my head off as the wind pushed through my hair. After what seemed like five minutes, we were on the ground.

"That was fun!" Tess says as she jumped out of my arms as I stumbled out of Dal's lap and sat on the ground, out of breath.

"If that was fun then I think I'll just be bored my whole life." I told them.

Dal smirked at me. "Aw that wasn't so bad."

I gave him a look. "I think I'll keep my feet firmly to the ground like gravity wants it."

Dal pulled me up and we walked back over to where we were sitting. Two-bit and Pony were now over there and they were all grinning at us when we sat down.

"I hear you're scared of slides." Two-bit said as I layed down on the ground.

"Will y'all shut up about it already." I tell them as I closed my eyes. "I hate 'em, I was just forced to it, and now I feel sick. Thanks Dal."

Even though my eyes were closed, I knew the rotton eighteen year old was smirking. He seemed to do that a lot. "No problem baby."

"You havin' fun here Dal?" I herd a new voice and I opened my eyes to see a tall guy with curly black hair full of hair grease and he had a long scar on the side of his eyes that ran down his face. His eyes were cold like Dally's and were such a dark blue that they looked black. "Tryin' to relive some of your childhood?"

Dally's face was stone cold. "Just gettin' some revenge but what's your excuse for swinging the other day?"

The guy just smirked. "You must be getting me mixed up with Curly."

Dal smirked. "If that's the case then Curly's turning out to be the splitting image of you then."

Tim smirked. "Don't I know it." He then turned to look over at me. "Who's the broad?"

I slightly growled. What's with people calling me a broad here? "You mean who's the girl who's about to kick your ass if you refer to her as a broad again."

Tim raised a brow and gave a bitter chuckle. "I know you are not talkin' to the Tim Shepard like that? You must be new around these parts."

I raised a brow. "What's with you people 'round here thinking that you deserve all this respect?"

Dal just shook his head at me before looking back at this Tim guy. "You remember ole Donny Richards?"

Tim's eyes seemed to get even colder at the mention of my brother's name. "What about him?"

"Meet his sister." I tell him as I rolled my eyes as he looked at me shocked for a second before covering it up. "I take it you knew my bro?"

"I was good friends with him. He was my second in command." Tim tells me as he looks me over, probably trying to find any resemblance between Don and I.

"So you're the cold ass bastard who wouldn't know what fun is if it bit you on the ass?" I asked him with a smirk. "Don told me a lot about you."

Tim glared at me. "I can see that."

"Mommy!" Tess came running to me from the sandbox where she was playing. "Mommy!"

I groaned as she landed on my belly. "What bad butt?"

She giggled. "Come play with me!"

I sighed. "Where ya want to play at?" I could feel that Shepard guy's eyes on me but I ignored it.

"Help me build a sand castle like we do on the beach!" She said as she tried to pull me up.

"OK babygirl." I say and I turned back to the guys. "We shall return."

DALLY'S POV

We watched them run off to the sandbox, laughing the whole way.

"I remember Donny telling me his sister was pregnant a few nights before the rumble." Tim told me. "Said that she was in a lot of trouble and that after the rumble he was going down there to help her out, maybe bring her here."

I nodded my head, acting like I didn't care. What the fuck is wrong with me? I shouldn't have to act. The only person I care about is Johnnycakes and I'm going to leave it that way. Just 'cause some girl and her kid moves here doesn't mean I should give her a moment of my time. Hell, I hate kids so why should I even bother with her?

"What kind of trouble was she in?" I hear myself ask.

Tim looks at me kind of oddly before answering. "All Donny told me was that the baby's father was after her and was trying to kill the baby and that he was gonna leave to go kick the guy's ass."

"Too bad he never got the chance." Two-bit said as he shook his head sadly.

"Hey guys!" Tess called from across the park. "Come look at our sand castle."

Two-bit sooned grinned. "We're coming!" Tim and I followed behind them as Two-bit ran forward like a little kid to see the kid's 'art' work. When we made it over there, I saw a mountain of sand with a small stick that had a piece of grass wrapped around it as a flag at the top of it.

"That's cool." Pony told her and she smiled.

"Yeah it looks awesome kid, highfive!" Two-bit said as he held up his hand and Tess slapped hers with his.

She looked up at her mom. "Mommy we don't have any seashells to make windows here."

Stacy frowned but soon smiled at her daughter. "We may not have seashells but there are some rocks over there we could use. How about that?"

Tess grinned brightened. "Great idea Mommy! I'll go get some!"

"I'll go with her." Two-bit said as they both ran over by the swings.

Stacy smiled after them and then looked down at her watch. "It's already five thirty? Man, where has the day gone?"

"Well you did sleep for a few hours earlier." Pony reminded her.

"I wouldn't have if someone hadn't let me fall asleep." She says as she looks in my direction.

I rolled my eyes. "Maybe you shouldn't have got too comfortable by me."

She glared at me. "Well maybe you shouldn't have layed by me."

I gave her a look. "Maybe you shouldn't have told me I could."

She glared harder but I could tell she was dying to smile. "Well maybe you shouldn't be so warm and comfy!"

Tim smirked. "Sounds like I missed out on something interesting."

"We got some!" Tess yells as she came back with Two-bit. After placing the rocks in certian places, the castle was finished.

"I think we should be getting home, it looks like it's going to rain." Stacy says as she looks up at the dark clouds.

"Aw man!" Tess says with a frown. "Can't we stay a little longer Mommy? Pul-ease!"

Stacy sighs. "Sorry babygirl but no. You still got to eat dinner and I know you're tired since you haven't had a nap today."

"I ain't sleepy!" Tess says as she tried to change Stacy's mind. "I'm wide awake!"

Stacy picked her up and laughed. "Well hopefully I can fix that soon."

"Pony, Johnny, and I are going to head to the DX and wait for Soda and Steve to get off. We'll see you later Stacy." Two-bit says as we all start walking to the gate.

"Bye Two-bit. Bye Pony. Bye Johnny." Tess says as she waves bye.

They grinned at her. "Bye Tess, we'll play tomorrow!"

Tess giggled and we turn directions and start heading towards Stacy's house.

"Y'all don't have to walk us home, really." Stacy says as she turns to me and Tim.

I shake my head. "Yeah and let some socs jump y'all?"

Stacy rolled her eyes at me. "I can take care of myself and my kid."

"Your brother would kill me if I let you walk home alone." Tim told her.

"Well Donny's dead and he can't do nothin' now." She said bitterly.

Tim gave her a look and she shut up. We walked for awhile in silence until we got half way there.

"Thank God." I herd Stacy mutter and both Tim and I turned to look at her.

"What?" I asked her.

"Tess is asleep." Stacy says as she looks down at the kid. "At least I can get some work around the house done now."

"What do you need to get done?" I asked her. "The place looked clean to me."

Stacy raised a brow at me and gave a short laugh. "If that was clean then I would hate to see your idea of dirty."

Then it starts to poor down raining. I cursed under my breath as the cold rain hits my face and starts to come down hard.

"Come on!" Tim yells as we follow him into his house which we were lucky enough to have been close to.

"Mommy!" Tess cried out as we opened the door. "I'm all wet."

"I know baby, Mommy is too." Stacy says and catches the towl Tim threw at her.

I dried off with mine as I watched Stacy dry both her and Tess off. "This your place?" She asked.

"Yep." Tim answered just as the door opened again and in came both Curly and Angela.

"Damn it's raining hard out there." Curly says as he grabs him a towl out the bathroom.

"Did you just now realize that?" Tim asked him as he threw his towl at Angela for her to use.

"No." He answered as he looked over at Stacy and Tess. "Who are you?"

"None of your concern." Tim told him before Stacy could answer. "Get whatever you're thinking out of your head right now kid."

Curly just sat on the couch but Angela looked at Tim with a brow raised. "Why are you fuckin' a girl who has a kid? Better yet, why bring her here to screw and bring her kid along?"

Stacy laughed. "Oh please, I wouldn't fuck him if he was the last guy on earth!"

Both Tim and Angela looked at her before turning their attention back on one another. "Then who is she?"

"And ya can't just ask me yourself?" Stacy asked her. "I was on my way home with him and Dally and it started to rain so we ran in here. Which, by the way, I need to get home."

"In this rain?" I asked her with a brow raised. "Good luck with that."

She glared at me. "It should lighten up soon."

Angela looked her and Tess over. "I don't think I've seen you around here before, are you new or somethin'?"

"Yeah, we got in late the other day." She says as she sways back and forth, rockin' Tess back to sleep.

"Well I'm Angela." She says as she smiles at them. "How old is she?"

Stacy smiles at her. "I'm Stacy and this is Tess. She's two."

"You two remember Donny?" Tim asked Curly and Angela. They both looked up at the mention of his name. Nobody really talks about Richard anymore, especially the Shepard's gang. I think it's better that way.

"Yeah, what about him?" Curly asked Tim.

"This is his sister and niece." They looked over at her shocked.

"You're Stacy Richards?" Curly asked her. "His sister from Panama?"

"I didn't know he was such a big deal around here." Stacy said as she sighed.

"He was like another big brother to me." Angela told her sadly. Donny Richards was like the long lost Shepard brother to them ever since he had first moved here when he was fifthteen.

Stacy smiled sadly at her. "He told me once about a girl named Angel. Said he couldn't understand why she would settle for such scum when she was a lot better than that. Is that your nickname?"

Angel looked at her, shocked once more. "Yeah. He talked about me?"

Stacy nodded. "He told me about a lot of people. He really wanted me to come live up here with him."

"Why didn't you?" Curly asked her, eyes as hard as steel.

She sighed. "I couldn't or I gladly would have. There was so much shit to deal with at home and then I had all these other people to deal with...I just couldn't no matter how much I wanted too."

"Looks like the rain's stopped." I say as I looked out the window. It was only sprinkling now.

"Well I got to get her home. It was nice meeting y'all." Stacy tells them as she follows me to the door.

"You too." They tell her.

"If you need anything just come by." Tim told her and she smiled and nodded.

"You too." She says and we make our way back on the streets in silence.

"I wish I could have seen him." Stacy says softly and I knew she was talkin' about Donny.

"Didn't you talk to him?" I asked her as I lit up a cigarette. This conversation was getting kind of uncomfortable and I hate when girls get all emotional.

She gave a bitter laugh. "Yeah, the last thing I told him was that I was pregnant and he nearly flipped. Swore up and down that he was coming to get me and that if I wanted to live, I wouldn't fight him. Two weeks went by and I could never get in touch with him after that. I read in the newspaper later that week about his death."

I sighed and put my arm around her as she started to cry. God, did I hate with chicks cry; it drove me plum nuts to hear them blubbering on. "Hey he was planning on coming after you after that rumble."

She shook her head as more tears fell. "Yeah but appearently God didn't want that for me because he took Donny away."

I sighed. "Kid, it's OK. He's been gone for a while now."

She whipped at her tears with her free hand. "I know it's just this town. Maybe I shouldn't have come here, I should have known that this place would be full of painful memories about him and pretty soon everyone will know I'm his sister and how will they feel? Me being here is just going to remind people of him and I doubt anyone wants or need that. Maybe I should just move somewhere else."

I turned her around to face me. "And go where, Stacy? You said it yourself, this is a pretty good place to be if you want to hide from someone and appearently you're trying to hide. Who cares what others think, they can't just run you out of the town 'cause you remind them of someone baried down the road!"

She looked at me with tears in her eyes. "Maybe you're right." She said softly.

I smirked at her. "You see how much easier life could be if you just kept that in mind."

She laughed lightly as we stood infront of her house. "Thank for walking me home Dally."

"Yeah, yeah." I muttered as I grounded my cigarette.

"Good night and I guess I'll see ya tomorrow." She says as she turns to go inside and I walk across the street and into the Curtis'. I don't know what it is about that little Stacy broad. Any other woman would have talked to me like the way she does or act remotely similar and I would have been through with them in a second. There's just something about this broad.

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