1:30 AM Tuesday morning.

Nightmare

I was running down a dirt road…a sand colored road…rocks and other objects I stepped on jammed into my foot…but I didn't stop. Somewhere, where this dirt road ends, I'll be home. Home with my brothers a friends.

The road changed suddenly…it began wet and a dark copper red color. My once moving feet now stopped, stuck into the wet dirt. A…familiar smell struck my nose...the smell of iron…wet iron…

..the smell of blood.

I looked at my surroundings, bullet shells…hundreds of them covered the ground.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Shots rang through the air.

I looked down the dirt road and saw Dally running to me a gun in his hands. He stopped a few feet away from me…and his eyes…his dead eyes…looked into mine.

Bang! Bang! Bang! I saw a bullets come for the barrels of guns and fly through the air…each one..one bye one…piercing its way through Dally's flesh…

I stood there frozen as his body went forward…his eyes still looking into mine…

BANG BANG BANG!

Time slowed then…I moved my eyes in time to see a shiny copper and silver bullet pass over Dallys shoulder and had a bulls eye right between both my eyes…

I couldn't move…

..couldn't scream.

I was gonna die.

BANG!

I awoke from my nightmare. That last 'bang' wasn't from my dream it seemed real. The Florence lights flooded the room and the floor keepers came in.

I was still half asleep, I couldn't hear what they were saying. Someone was screaming. Mr. Rice grabbed my arms and pulled me from the bed.

"What's going on?" I asked, as he tried to pull me out of the room. "What-" I didn't finish, I looked over my shoulder then and saw it

Blood…

"No…" I pulled away from Mr. Rice, and broke through the growing crowd. "No." I repeated. "Leo, no…oh dude." I dropped to my knees in front of the still form my hands touched his forehead and were immediately covered with blood. "Leo…!" I screamed…

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Darry POV

The phone rung around 2 am in the morning. I had barley gotten to bed, every since we put Pony in that 'Mental House'. I rarely got any sleep.

"Darry! Soda! Get the phone already!" Two-Bit yelled from the living room. For crying out loud, he was closer to the phone the either of us were. Sure enough when I entered the living room Two-Bit was stretched out across the couch, not moving at all to answer the phone.

"Lazy bum." I murmured and he tossed me a look as I answer to phone. "Curtis residence, this is Darrel."

The voice on the other line was low and quiet.

There was an accident. Pony went into shock. Come as soon as we could.

I hung up the phone without saying good-bye or asking who it was. Soda was behind me asking what was going on as I grabbed a t-shirt and shoes.

"Put on some shoes, we're going to the Home." Was all I said to him before I ran out the door.

*

"No! I'm signing him out now!" I yelled at the woman in front of me. "As his guardian I have a right to do that! He is not safe here! Look at him! All you do is drug him and wish for the best! IF you even do THAT much!"

"Mr. Curtis! Just calm down, please!"

"Calm down!? You just had a kid kill himself!" I turned to look at my brothers Soda was sitting on the floor near Pony. Pony rocked back and forth his hands covering his head as he murmured something's. "Mom…Dad…Johnny, Dally..Leo…I'm the grim reaper…"

"No…Pony." Soda was saying softly, and reached out to touch him. But Pony kept pulling back.

"I'll kill you if I you touch me!" He screamed and went back to rocking and murmering.

"Give me the papers. He's coming home." I said the to 'doctors'. My baby brother was coming home, we'd take care of him…I don't know how but we will.