(didn't get any reviews on last chapter…slightly depressing. Oh well! Here goes!)

(Veeta)

it didn't look good. We were about even in this fight, but those guys were hardcore. They'd kill you and think nothing of it…..nothing at all. I mean me and my gang we were tough. But killing wasn't our thing. Not our style. Scare 'em then leave 'em. It was like an unspoken rule. And right then it looked like our lives depended upon death…..and It wasn't fair. I'd dragged these people into this. And Jonny and Pony. Well they didn't need to get hurt. I remember turning to face them.

"look you guys you don't need to fight. I don't want neither of you getten hurt at my expense please you guys don't fight."

And then Ponyboy shook his head speaking for both him and Jonny

"way I see it we owe you guys. And there's no way we're gonna leave you here. 'sides haven't been in a rumble for awhile now"

He gave me a weak smile and I remember sighing thinking no one would ever listen to me

"all right but….damn you two be careful!"

Those were the last words I got out before someone fired a shot into the air. I'm not sure how long I lasted in the fight though I remember wakening up later.

***

It was blurry when I opened my eyes like the rain that covered the train windows that took me to Tulsa. Everything was distorted. I blinked once then twice and I could see a little clearer…. I sat up and immediately regretted it. It hurt like damn hell. I was all alone in a white room….. A groan escaped my lips. Not a hospital. Not a god damned hospital. What did I do to deserve this?

I leaned back and closed my eyes and heard footsteps them my door open.

"get the fuck out of here or I swear by the false god in heaven that I'll get out of this bed and pummel your sorry brains to cow shit"

I muttered assuming it was a nurse

" well at least you can still talk tough. Maybe you aren't as soft as I assumed you'd become"

I opened one eye seeing Dallas Standing in my doorway. I closed it again I was to pissed off at him. He let this happen to his sister. To me. To daggers. To TJ. To Kenny. And he had the nerve to come here and act all cocky to me? Fuck no I wasn't gonna stand for that. Sure as hell I wasn't

" fuck of Dallas. I don't wanna see your sorry face again. Ever."

I could almost see the smirk that was forming on his lip through my only half closed eyes now. Crap he was gonna tell me something…. Oh crap.

" 's gonna be hard seeing as your 'family' is staying here"

I sat up at this quickly, painfully and glared

"why are you here? To torment me Dallas? You abandoned us once. You'll do it again even If Cass and Daggers and TJ and Kenny all trust you I will never trust you. Ever again. And if they wanna stay then I'll go"

He flicked the cigg he had over his shoulder

"wouldn't that be leavening your family then V? Isn't that being like mean old Dally? You wanna do that fine. I don't care. I came here to do something you know I never do. ok? I'm damned sorry. And you can smirk all you want"

He said as my mouth formed into a sneer

"you can say I'm damned soft and I'll beat the shit out of you for it but I left for your own good I didn't wanna end up like your dad. Or like Cass's and you knew that. You damn KNEW that V"

He was yelling now people in the room across the hall were staring my sneer stopped and I stared at my bed sheets sloping with my body under them I closed my eyes again and sighed. I was never real good at doin this shit. But when he did say he was sorry. Which I had only heard him do once before on the night he left. He meant it.

" O.K. Dall."

I muttered feeling like a damned idiot he laughed

"ok kid. Ok. don't start with that shit"

He said as I looked up with a sad face on. It broke as I laughed too.

"now bitch c'mon the rest of everyone's waiten for you."

I climbed over the bed railing still wearing my blood drenched clothes.

"all right shit face lets blow this shit hole"

He raised an eyebrow and punched me a little harder then a play punch

"getting to cocky for my taste kid"

I rolled my eyes as we made our way into the waiting room where I had the shit squeezed outta me. By three guys and Cass.

"cant. Breathe. Guys."

I was let go and punched my Cass

"damn you and Dallas are too much alike"

I muttered as I left the hospital. And I guess we looked weird 'cause we were a bunch a' kids in bloody clothes but right about then I could care less. And even if I hated to admit it. Tulsa was my home again