Chapter 8: Move Out
Soda couldn't stop his run towards the patient. 441 threw his fist out and it collided with Soda's face. Soda dropped to the floor. The patient then looked at the startled Ponyboy. He was against the wall, frozen. 441 took a step towards the young Curtis, but Sodapop pulled the psycho's leg and he hit the floor too.
"Ponyboy! Run!"
Ponyboy instantly obeyed and jumped over the two on the ground, his book still clutched in his hand. As Ponyboy entered the hallway, he was Darry and Matthew running in his direction.
"Pony! Where's Soda!" asked Darry.
"He's in there with that guy!" he answered.
Matthew instantly ran into the room while Darry gave a command.
"Ponyboy. Run outside and get in the truck. We'll be there in a minute."
"But-"
"Just do what I say!"
Pony stared for a minute. Darry had just yelled at him. But Pony realized that this was a scary situation, so he didn't let him bother him. Ponyboy took off running down the stairs.
Darry turned around and followed into the room where Matthew entered. Matthew and Soda was an equal match against the patient. Darry joined in and they started to pound the guy until he was seemingly unconscious. All three of them backed up slowly.
"C'mon. Let's go," said Matthew.
They all jogged quickly out of the room.
"Pony's on his way to the truck. We need to go ahead and get out of here."
But when they reached the stairs, the patient had miraculously recovered. He had quickly ran out of the room, and lunged at Matthews back. They two went down the stairs as the patient rode on Matthew's back down the stairs. The stairs collided with Matthew's head enough to break his neck, and his body stopped. He was the patient's third victim.
Soda's eyes were wide. Darry would have stared, but he didn't have time. He grabbed Soda's arm and pulled him into the room that they had just exited. Darry closed and locked the door behind them.
"What are we going to do?" yelled Soda.
"Calm down. We'll be okay. We're on the second floor. We can climb down the roof."
Soda looked at the window and nodded. They could hear the footsteps of the patient. Darry and Soda ran over to the window. They tired lifting the window open. It took a couple of tugs, but it finally rose up.
"Go first," ordered Darry and Soda climbed out the window. The knob on the door was turning now.
Soda got out on the roof and slid down towards the rain gutter. Darry climbed out and used every piece of strength he had to pull the window down shut. The two climbed down onto the first floor roof, and made their way down onto level ground.
Ponyboy had no way of getting inside the truck, so he hid in the tailgate. He heard two running footsteps and looked up. Soda and Darry were running towards them. Ponyboy jumped out the tailgate and entered the truck with his brothers.
"You okay Pony?" asked Soda.
"Yeah."
Darry was starting up the car, but suddenly, Pete's car came zooming towards them. 441 was driving. No one saw it coming as the car rammed into the Ford and surprisingly caused a little damage. The front of the truck popped open to reveal leaking gas. It was also enough force to have the doors jammed shut.
"It..won't open!" yelled Soda.
Darry didn't see how the doors were jammed. But he didn't have time to ponder that thought. The patient was getting out of the car, holding a lighter. The brothers caught on to what he had in mind and desperately tried to get out of the truck. Still no luck.
The patient lighted up the lighter and a small smile appeared on his face. But the smile was quickly erased as a gunshot sound flew through the air and the patient dropped to his knees. He took a last look at the frightened brothers and fell onto his face. There was a police officer at the entrance of the woods. The doctor was right beside him.
………
"He wanted to come to this house because it was his ancestor's," explained the doctor to the Curtis brothers and a couple of cops.
"It was the home of a family that was going to be taken prisoner during a war. They killed anyone that wasn't in any relation to them. It seems to have passed on to the family."
The doctor's friend jumped in.
"These types of patients are usually focused on one thing. Which is why he was so quiet while in the hospital. He must have had a little common sense. But his family tree was still in his mind."
After all the explaining, and having the Ford fixed. The Curtis brothers got back into the car. Darry turned to his tired brothers and said,
"Let's go home."
The other two nodded. They were going back to Tulsa. Darry hadn't quite achieved his goal. The situation did make them mostly forget about their losses while it was going on.
End. Yeah I know. It was short. But it all happened in one night. So it wasn't bound to be a lot. Well. Next there's going to be Trix and Danny. The next story is Next Outsiders, Latest Story. Then one going to have some serious stuff in it. Then we'll start the sequel to Rebellious and Bitter with Johnny's son. You're going to see a lot of stories. And I'm going to throw in my Harry Potter story pretty, pretty, soon. Alright. Go look at Trix and Danny!
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