Chapter 9

Author's Note: Here is more. I am going to have the breakup between Soda and Sandy soon, so vote if you would like to. It was going to be in the next chapter, but I still have so much yet to cover. So far I have one for public and one for private.

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Johnny quickly ran to Ponyboy and while his entire body was shaking he put two fingers against Pony's throat. He felt nothing.

"JOHNNY GET PONYBOY AND GET OUT OF THERE!" Dally screamed from outside the church.

While still shaking Johnny lifted Pony and ran to the nearest window.

"Dally! Ponyboy is not breathing or moving!" Johnny yelled to Dally in a frightened voice.

"SHIT!" Dally cried.

"Here give him to me and get out of there!"

Johnny handed Ponyboy to Dally and just as he was about to climb through the window a piece of the ceiling landed on Johnny. Johnny cried out and then was silent.

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"JOHNNY!" Dally cried out.

Dally did not know what to do. Here he had a non-breathing Ponyboy in his arms and one of his best friends was trapped in a burning church.

Help came to him in the form of one of the ladies named Sarah. She and the other adults heard what Johnny screamed to Dally.

"Here let me take him I know CPR. My husband is a doctor and he taught me how to do it. I can save this little one's life." Sarah told Dally.

Dally knew he had no choice so he nodded to Sarah and handed over Ponyboy and just before he jumped into the burning church to get Johnny he looked back and saw Sarah performing CPR on Pony's little body.

He quickly found Johnny and pulled him out of the church and just before he blacked out he looked over at Ponyboy and saw him breathing.

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Dally woke for a little bit in the ambulance. Jerry was riding with him.

"Hey man were is Ponyboy and Johnny?! Where are they?!" Dally demanded when he saw this strange man riding to the hospital with him.

"They are in the other ambulances. You and your friend are heroes! You saved your friend's kid son and the other children too." Jerry praised Dally.

"Ponyboy is not Johnny's son. Ponyboy belongs to his brothers. Now will you tell me how they are man or not?" Dally replied angrily.

"They are both pretty bad from what I saw, but I am no doctor and that might change when they see the doctors at the hospital. Where are you guys from anyways?"

"We are greasers, well Johnny and I are, not Ponyboy. We are from Tulsa."

"Are you serious? Greasers?" Jerry asked in disbelief.

"Yeah man we are." Dally then passed out again.

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Dally got checked out at the hospital he was given some oxygen for his smoke insulation and his burned forearm wrapped. After some instruction on how to care for his forearm he was then released. Dally did not leave the hospital instead he found a seat, after being told to by a nurse when he tried to get information on Johnny and Ponyboy. He waited to hear how Ponyboy and Johnny were doing and he was not alone. The fat man named Jerry who still had black smoke on him like Dally was waiting with him.

He was sticking around to make sure all three of the boys would be alright.

Dally lighted up a cigarette. Jerry then had to make a comment.

"You know you shouldn't be smoking kid. It is bad for your health."

Dally just took a puff and then blew the smoke at Jerry. Jerry coughed a little and swatted at the smoke.

"Yeah well what are you going to do about it man? I am my own man." Dally retorted.

Before Jerry could respond a nurse and an orderly pushed Johnny by on his gurney. Ponyboy followed next on his gurney, but unlike Johnny he was sitting up and awake, and he was clutching at his doggy for dear life.

When Ponyboy saw Dally he tried to get to him. Ponyboy tried to get off the gurney and run to Dally. Ponyboy was scared out of his little mind and the only person he knows is passing by him.

"DALLY!" Ponyboy screamed/cried. Ponyboy tried to reach for him.

The orderly and the nurse who were with Ponyboy stopped the gurney.

Dally quickly put out his cigarette and blew out the rest of the smoke. He then got up and went over to Ponyboy.

Ponyboy was reaching for him. Dally just stopped by the side of the gurney, but he did not pick up Ponyboy yet. He turned to the nurse and orderly.

"Will it be ok if I watched him until his brothers get here? We will be right here in these chairs and there is a nurse right there if anything were to happen." Dally asked.

The nurse and orderly looked at one another and were about to say no. Dally seeing this quickly said something.

"Look man let him stay with me until his brothers get here. Look he is frightened and he don't know any of you, he will be calmer with me."

Then Dally said a word that anyone, including his friends, rarely ever heard out come out of his mouth.

"Please."

Then Jerry piped up saying that he will make sure that Dally does not leave this area with the boy.

Both the nurse and orderly nodded reluctantly. Dally smiled and then lifted Ponyboy up.

"He needs to get a new IV and have his meds later. I will come back and get him when the time comes, which should in a half hour, and hopefully his relatives will be here by that time. I will let the doctor know that you have him and where you are." The nurse stated.

Dally wrapped Ponyboy up in a blanket to keep him warm (mindful of his hand where Ponyboy recently had an IV inserted and taken out) and then he made sure Pony had his doggy. Once that was all set Dally sat back down in his chair with Pony in his lap. The nurse and orderly walked away.

"You ok Pony?" Dally asked after a few minutes of silence.

"Me hurt all over Dally. My head hurts too!" Pony answered.

Pony then laid his head on Dally's shoulder.

About five minutes after that Dally noticed Pony looking all over the place, it was as if he was looking for somebody or more accurately two someone's.

"Dally me want Soda and Darry."

"I know bud they should be here soon. And a matter of fact look." Dally said to Ponyboy.

Then Dally pointed to someone. Ponyboy looked to where Dally was pointing and his entire face broke into a huge smile.

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A/N: Here you go. I will be half way through my next chapter by the time this is being read by you all.

Thanks to everyone who has reviewed and who are reading this story. =)