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"Austin, could you hurry it up! I'm hungry," Dallas yelled from his bed. His brother had gone in search of the nurses, who hadn't brought him his food yet. Austin had stayed the night again but had to work today. Austin had refused to go at first but Dallas insisted that he go to work. They were going to need money if they were going to pay for the hospital bill. Dallas could tell Austin was getting antsy. Most people hated hospitals, but no one more than his brother and him. Austin and himself had been in and out of the hospital so often in their youth that the halls only reminded them of their dark and painful childhood. The frequent visits to try to save Austin's young life, without the money for the medication that was required, had been so often he was known by name by all the staff at the Mary Queen's Hospital in New York. Dallas had also been known but the two of them hadn't looked like twins back then. Though Dallas hadn't been particularly well fed he wasn't anywhere near as unhealthy as his twin. Austin had looked skinny and more like a skeleton than a ten-year-old boy. His skin had been pale white and his bones stuck out from under his skin. Those had been some of the scariest days of Dallas' life. All the while their father had been passed out most of the time and drunk the rest. Dallas hated hospitals.

Austin came in with two bowls of porridge a little later. The twins ate together, enjoying each other's silence and then Austin went off to get ready for work. He didn't say anything when he left but he gave his brother a meaningful look. Dallas didn't need words to know that his brother was telling him to feel better and not to act too stupid.

After Austin left, Dallas got a visit from Tim Shepherd. Curly was still in the hospital and Tim was pretty much bored out of his mind keeping an eye on him.

"Man am I ever glad you got squished, else I'd be holding up the hospital or something right now out of sheer boredom." Tim said bouncing a ball against the wall. Dallas tried not to yell at him and just sat quietly. He really wasn't in the mood to listen to Tim bitch all day. He lied back in his bed and counted down the minutes till his brother would come back from work.

Pony sat on the couch staring questioningly at his older brothers who were in front of him. Darry was pacing awkwardly and Sodapop was standing in front of Pony rubbing the back of his head and avoiding eye contact.

"What's going on guys?" Pony asked more than a little worried. Both of his brothers looked at him then at each other and then at nothing. They were both acting so strange that Pony was sure something big was about to go down. He had expected a talking to from Dar about Angel but the way his brother's were acting now, he wasn't sure this was it.

"Seriously guys, your freaking me out. What is going on."

Soda finally looked at Pony and Darry stopped for a second looking at Pony before started pacing again as Soda talked, cutting in once in a while.

"Well… you see Pony… When a boy…."

"A man," Darry cut in.

"Yes, yes a man. Um, when a man loves a woman some very strange things happen… to him."

"And same with a woman," Darry said. "They get… feelings… for each other."

"Yeah and these feelings make them do stuff… together." Soda finished for Darry.

"Oh dear heavens above, are you two trying to give me the sex talk?" Pony asked aghast. His eyes widened in horror and so did his brother's. All three of them stared at each other awkwardly for three or four seconds before Ponyboy burst out laughing. Soda and Darry in their awkward relief laughed right along with him, not quite knowing why.

All three laughed themselves into exhaustion and then kept right on laughing. Darry was sprawled on the couch, Pony on the floor and Soda was bent over the table trying to support himself.

After ten minutes of relieved, confused and spastic laughter Pony finally settled down.

"I'm fourteen, I know what sex is. The twins gave me 'the talk' a long time ago," Pony said from his spot on the floor. Soda and Darry were relieved and horrified at the same time. They couldn't imagine anything the twins had to say about sex would be very constructive but at the same time neither of them were really willing to get into THAT discussion again. The two of them suddenly realized that if Dallas and Austin couldn't scare Pony off girls there was only one person who could.

"Hey Pony, you wanna come hang out with Steve and I tonight?" Soda asked.