Lovely was fixing her hair up in the mirror of her room. She looked down at her body that was battered and bruised. She could hardly breathed but once she heard the slurs of words, She found herself jumping out the window of her room with her bedroom door locked. She ran and banged on the Curtis's house and Dally opened the door shirtless and. Dally raised an eyebrow up but she fell into Dally's arm. Dally eyes went wide and he lifted her up and placed her on the couch before calling Darry to the living room. Darry felt Lovely's forehead.

"Get the keys now, Lovely has a fever." He commanded Dally and Dally grabbed the truck keys.

Lovely was admitted into the hospital. Ponyboy paced back and forth biting his lip, it was already past 2am in the morning. Ponyboy was exhausted. Two-bit shook his head, he couldn't joke when something was seriously wrong with Lovely. Two-bit considered Lovely like his younger sister. All of the gang thought of Lovely as one of their own.

Steve was the last to arrive to the hospital, you could tell he was not sober which was shocking cause Two-bit was sobered for once. Dally walked out of the hospital to smoke, he needed to let go of the tension.

Ponyboy couldn't help but blame himself while Darry urged his younger brother to sit down in a rough tired voice. Darry was always rougher with his tone and voice and that never changed. Ponyboy couldn't help but glare at his brother but nonetheless sat down while folding his arms across his chest. Pony and Darry made a promise to stop fighting and Pony was hell bent on keeping that promise.

"Lovely Gardens." A deep doctor voice called and Darry stood up along with the rest of the gang. Dally was back from his smoking break. He stood next to Pony placing his arm around Pony's shoulders a sign of comfort and empathy from Dally. Ponyboy was getting to used to the small gestures that came from Dally and Pony know saw what Johnny saw in the rule bending greaser that was fond of his best friend in the gang.

"What's wrong with her?" Darry asked and the doctor placed a hand on Darry's shoulder. Darry and the doctor goes way back, he was the doctor of the Curtis's when Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were still alive. In fact the doctor was friends with Mr. and Mrs. Curtis.

"Broken ribs, stab wound that is infected, internal bleeding, the list goes on. Lovely is lucky she even alive at this rate." The doctor spilled out the details. "I should call her parents."

"Don't do that."

"Darry, Lovely parents have to know."

"Her dad is not the perfect parent. She's like Johnny." Darry spilled out the details for him and the doctor nodded.

"Okay, I won't tell her father but her fever still high and the bills are high Darrel. Who's going to take care of the medical bills?" The doctor pointed out to the gang.

"Don't worry about the bills, I will take care of it." Darry sighed while watching Ponyboy walked towards Lovely's hospital room. Dally placed a hand on Darry and gave him a small smile. Two-bit stood next to Darry.

"We all will help." Two-bit nudged him. "She's one of us."

"What, you going to get a job?" Darry joked at Two-Bit.

"People can change." Two-bit walked away catching up to Ponyboy. Dally nodded. All of the gang walked toward's Lovely's room. They all stood there now saying the damage that was laid on the 15 year old girl. Dally felt anger bubbling inside of him but the anger cooled down when he saw Pony holding Lovely's hand.

"She'll be fine Pony." Two-bit comforted the youngest member in the gang and Pony sighed while shaking his head. The doctor opened the door and all of the gang looked at him.

"She going need surgery but I need permission from her father to do so..." The doctor told the gang. "But we are waiting for her fever to go down."

"Is she going to wake up?" Ponyboy asked while removing his hand from Lovely's hand.

"It's up in the air, the fever is so high that if she does wake up, she will be delusional and on top of that she will be in pain. I suggest you guys go home. There's nothing you guys can do by being here." The doctor advised the gang and the gang left the hospital together truly exhausted. Ponyboy couldn't help but fall asleep on his way back to the house.

Ponyboy and the rest of gang bolted out of the car and that's when they saw Mr. Gardens truly passed outside of his own house. You could see Lovely in him in that moment. Dally gave him a glare knowing that he hurt Lovely. Ponyboy was put inside of his room and he curled up inside the blankets of his bed. Darry sighed while shaking his head.

"He's not going to give him permission for surgery." Dally commented.

"Maybe he will."

"No there's no chance, I mean a father who hits his only daughter, you think he's not going want to kill her." Dally kept spitting facts and Darry shook his head before reaching inside his pocket to see an old faded business card.

"I have an idea." Darry looked at everyone.

The very next morning Darry was in the kitchen dialing a number that he thought he would never use again but Lovely mattered to Ponyboy and he would feel guilt if he didn't help this girl that reminded the gang of Johnny Cade an boy who had been hit, kicked too many times that he was afraid of his own shadow.

To be honest, Darry didn't know if Ponyboy could handle one more lost before finally losing it.

"Darrell."

"I need your help."