Darry's Girl

Soda's POV

I leaned against a car at the DX looking around. I sighed as I watched Steve working on a car in silence (which he never did. He usually had the radio on or talking non stop). Everything hadn't been the same since Anna went missing. Nothing has been the same since Anna appeared on our doorstep. Steve caught me looking at him.

"Should I be scared or flattered" I smiled. He laughed. But his smile faded when he saw the upset expression on my face.

"Hey bud what's wrong?"

"We have to do something" he looked at me.

"Um yeah totally" he answered not knowing what I meant.

"About Anna smarty, we have to do something other that wait for those damn police to do something! We can ask around someone's gotta know something" he nodded.

"I hate police" I laughed and gave him an affectionate punch in the stomach.

Pony's POV

I sat there watching Two-Bit get drunk; Steve and Soda play poker; and Darry sitting stroking Emily's hair. I sighed. Johnny had always been the one to sit with me in silence, enjoying ourselves that way. Two-Bit jumped on the couch next to me and said,

"Hey what's wrong you look glum?"

"Just bored" he nodded and started jumping around like a maniac. I just could not hold my laughter in. When Two-Bit saw me laughing he said,

"Hey look I got him to smile! I have a gift" we all went silent.

"Right you stick with that" said Steve not amused. All of sudden we heard a knock at the door. Darry got up and answered the door.

"Hello officer" Two-Bit ran into the kitchen yelling "I didn't do it!" This time we did not laugh. Darry led the officer into our house. Emily went white, I knew what she was thinking 'cause I was thinking it too.

"Well" he said as he sat down "I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we have a lead." We all brightened up.

"The bad news is that if we are right then it is most likely that your daughter will not be found alive" Emily let out a squeak. Darry kept his cool, as always.

"And why would you say that?" he officer shifted in his seat.

"Well have you about David McKay?" (I made him up, but I did watch a Law and Order episode about a guy like that) we shook our heads. He sighed and he shifted in his seat. I could tell he didn't want to tell us.

"Um he is umm a very lonely man you see. And he is known for stealing babies." We all went white. I thought how low could you get? Stealing babies!

"So why do you think that Anna wont be found alive?" Darry asked. He shifted again. We were all sitting patiently. Two-Bit had come out of the kitchen by know.

"No child has ever been found alive." Emily tried to breath without losing her composer. That didn't work; she put her head on Darry's chest and started bawling.

"Well I see that you guys and…gal want to be alone so I'm going to go um….bye!" and he practically ran out the door. Steve started swearing like I have never seen anybody swear before. He was a raving lunatic. Two-Bit joined him calling this David guy every name under the sun. Darry was rubbing his temples. Soda had his head in his hands. Darry stood up. We all looked up and Two-Bit and Steve stopped swearing.

"That little…I'm gonna find that guy… and when I do…I'm gonna kill him." We all starred at him. Emily was the only one who dared to go near him when he was this mad.

"Honey please let the police handle him" he turned around to look at her his eyes softened. He looked at her for a while and said,

"But…but…what else can I do? The police spend no time on us greasers."

"He had a lead! And even if they didn't want to help us they still would because they want to catch this guy. And police help people, even us" He finally nodded.

"Um Emily, Darry, I have something to tell you" said Steve. They looked at him.

"Tim talks to this David guy, and always knows where he is. They are sorta well if you want to put it like this, buddies" my jaw dropped.

"How come I don't know this?" said Soda.

"Dally told me" we all were quiet for a minute. Even though I never really liked Dallas Winston I still missed having him around. Things just weren't the same without Dally and Johnny. They were our friends and part of our gang. We all missed them.

"Ok even though Tim is well…bad, I still can't believe he would hang around with a guy like that" said Two-Bit. I could tell that the fact that a man would steal innocent babies was hitting all of us were we have never been hit before. We have all seen stuff that any Soc or middle class would never see, but we have never seen anything like that. We have seen low. We have seen guys that are nasty but this…well it would not sink in. We couldn't believe it. Living on our part of town…it's rotten, and Two-Bit knew it, we all did.