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Chapter 6

"Darry... Soda, where am I?" None of could tell him that he was sick because we were so happy that he was ok. We just embraced him. After each of us took turns hugging him he had a chance to ask questions. "What happened?"

"We were in a car accident," Darry told him.

"Are you guys ok?"

"Well..." I began," the car hit from the back so Darry and I are ok, but..." I looked at Sandy and Pony looked at her too realizing she wasn't pregnant.

"You had the baby all ready?" he asked. We explained to him about the baby. "Oh Sandy," he gently," I'm so sorry."

"Shhh!" she said," save you strength." He laid there quietly for a few minutes then suddenly his face turned pale, he touched his head, and he made a little groaning noise.

"You ok?" I asked scared that something was happening to him.

"My head hurts real bad." I put my hand on his head and rubbed back and forth.

"Feel better?" I asked him.

"Yeah..." he said," hey what exactly happened in the accident?" I could tell that he was struggling to get words out and I know he was getting weaker.

"Well..." I began," when the car hit you were jerked to the side... your head hit the window...and...and...you passed out."

"Soda am I dying?" he asked weakly. I looked are Darry trying to figure out if I was really suppose to tell him that the doctors said there was almost no hope for him. When no one answered the question he know. "Hey..."he said to me," don't be upset ok." I guess I must have been crying, but when you've been bawling your eyes out for 3 days straight you start to not notice it after a while. "Just incase I do die," he said," there's some stuff I need you guys to know. I love all 3 of ya'll more than anything else in the world... Sandy." She walked over to him so she could hear his quiet voice. "You were always my sister...maybe not really but in my heart." Sandy started to cry after he told her this. Ya know like girls always do at the end of a chick flick when someone says something really sweet. "Soda," he looked at me and the ways his eyes were so plain so dead sent a shiver down my spine. "You always gave me the comfort I need... from when you sleep with me to when you take care of me when I'm sick."

"Pony," I said softly," ya don't have to tell us this cause ya ain't goin' nowhere" He didn't listen to me though.

"Darry you are my savior..." he didn't say anymore, he just passed out.

"No, no," I said sternly giving him a light shake," come back, come back." He didn't come back, so we all sat back sown and once again waited, prayed, and cried. I noticed that Darry was crying more silent that usual and seemed to be thinking about something. "Uhhh...you ok?" I asked him.

"As ok as I can be at a time like this."

"Oh," I said," it looked like you were thinking about somethin',"

"Well, I was... I was trying to figure out what pony meant... you know about what he said to me."

"Ya mean when he told you, you were his savior." He nodded. I thought Darry was pretty stupid. Hell! Even I new what he meant and I half the time I didn't have a clue what Pony was talking about, but I knew what he meant by that. "He meant," I explained it to him. "That you could have gone to college and become anything you wanted but after mom and dad died you didn't do that because that would mean you would have to put us in a boys home. And you know that we could get separated, that pony might not get a good education and he most likely wouldn't go to college. Now he can go and he can be anything he wants. It was you decision, let you have the better life or let him have the better life and because of the decision you made you saved our brother...and I guess ya saved me too...cause ya'll are all I really have."

"So I saved his life and now because of me he's dieing," he said guiltily.

"Darry, I told you this ain't your fault," I shouted stubbornly.

I t was quiet for a long time, but the uneasy silence was broken by the doctor coming in. He walked over to Pony and changed his I.V. The doctor turned and looked at us.

"You guys are having a hard time with this aren't you?" Nobody answered it was pretty obvious that we were.

"Umm, excuse me," I said trying to be polite," can you rate his chance to live on a scale or something like zero to ten. Ten being alive and zero being dead."

"Do you want me to be honest," he asked. I nodded. ". 5."

"What point, 5.5...3.5, 4.5, 5.5."

"0.5"

"Oh god no," I said to myself.

"I really am sorry," he said and he walked out of the room. I knew then that faith was a lie, Darry was right, and I didn't believe that faith was on my side anymore.

I could feel the anger, sadness, and frustration rising inside. I fell to my knees with a desperate cry. I looked up at the ceiling as if pleading to the heavens to hear me. "Why are you doing this?" I shouted angrily, "Why?" I repeated softly. I ran to Ponyboy's bed, took him in my arms and shook him madly as hard as I could. "Wake up!" I shouted, but nothing happened, "wake up, wake up, wake up please, please wake up." I was repeating for him to wake up and shaking him when Darry walked up to me. I walked toward him, but I was dizzy and weak so the first step I took I fell forward. Darry caught me under the armpit. I clung to him as if I was dying and he was my last hope. "Please," I told him, "I want my brother, why can't you do something. I just want him to be ok, please Darry why can't you fix this. You got us through mom and dad, through Johnny and Dally, why can't you get us through this." He looked at me with pleading eyes. They had the same look as Johnny's always had. For once his eyes were alone.

"I can't get you through this," he said softly, sadly, sickly, "so I can't do a thing for you...God damnitt I can't do a damn thing." He suddenly let go me and I fell forward. He ran to the wall and started hitting it and shouting. I watched him form the floor through hot tears. He had never lost control this way and I know then it was all over. I looked at the little machine that showed his heart rate. It was nearly out. His little heart that had endured so much, loved so much, and gave so much was almost gone. I noticed that Sandy was walking toward his bed. She sat down on the side of his bed and stroked his hair.

"Ponyboy..."she said comfortingly, "I know that the doctors say you aren't gonna make it, but you and I both you are. I mean, look at you almost being dead is doing to all of us... I know you can hear me, somewhere inside of you. You know your family will die without you and that's what keeps you alive... I need you...because you know how you said I was always your sister well you were always my brother. I always loved you, and God forbid it, something happened to Darry and/or Soda I'll take care of you. I always would have taken care of you... and I was thinking about why when I lost the baby I was so upset and I realized I wanted the baby so I would have someone to protect and take care of, but I already get that through you... please don't die...besides with your brains and talent you can help the world...we need you."

I was lying on the floor taken away by what she had said. If she had faith why couldn't I? I looked up once again at the little machine that showed his heart rate and I realized it had gone up a lot. My tears ceased and I jumped up from the floor.

"Sandy," I shouted excitedly, "look you made his heart rate go up. Come on," I urged her, "say some more stuff. Tell him how we feel."

"No," she said gently, "you tell him how you feel, he's listening."

"I don't know what to say," I told her.

"Speak from your heart," she said as she motioned for me to sit sown. I sat sown on the bed beside her and looked at Ponyboy for a little while.

"He looks so helpless," I said.

"I know it's hard," she said as I rested my head on her shoulder, "but he wants to hear you."

"Ponyboy... I ... I've been thinking about what you said to me... and the truth is when I put my arm around you or rock you back and forth you ain't the only one being comforted. I feel comforted holding you in my arms because I know you're safe and at night I'm always afraid something will happen to you, but as long as I have my arm around you I know you are ok and I can sleep soundly. I love you so much Pony." I looked again at the machine and sure enough it had gone up. I looked at Darry and I realized he had been watching us the whole time. He sat down on the bed beside me. "Look faith is real," I told him, "so why don't you talk to him."

"Hey Little Buddy, ya love it when I call you that don't you." I could tell by the way Darry looked at him Ponyboy was not only his brother, but his best friend, and his life. "Anyway I just want you to know that I you are my savior... Ya see if I would have become rich and all I would have lots of money, but no love, so inside I'd basically be dead, so you saved me. Besides you make me happy, you make me real and I need that."

I looked at the machine his heart rate was almost normal, but not quite. Darry looked to and he must have realized this too cause he leaned over him stroking his hair and crying so that his tears fell onto Ponyboy's cheek. He must have felt them cause something inside him gave him the strength to wake up. His eyes opened slowly.

"Darry," he looked at his face, "what is it, what's the matter?" he asked him.

"Nothing anymore," he said smiling. Darry gave him a big hug and after Sandy did too, but when it was my turn I just laid down beside him with my arm around him. I felt like I could lay there forever protecting him getting comfort from him and feeling my faith return to me.

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