Once Tia had wrapped some ice up in a cloth she put it on her stomach to ease the throb. She looked up when Pony gave Dally the note. By the look that came over his face when he read it, she knew something was up. He said a few curses under her breath and handed her the note. Once she read it, she understood why Dally looked so upset. She knew she should have been expecting it, the Socs weren't gonna leave them alone forever. Still, deep down she had hoped the peace would last for as long as possible.

"Did he say anything else?" Dally demanded.

"Said to meet him at Buck's tonight." Pony said stepping away from Dally, he knew Dally liked to take his anger out on whatever was closest.

"What do you think happened?" Tia asked.

"I don't know." Dally said as Tia threw the note in the garbage. "Glory, it's the Socs, who knows with them."

"I'm going tonight to Buck's too." Tia stated after a few minutes.

Dally looked at the stubborn look on her face. He sighed, he knew even if he said no she'd still go.

"Fine, but bring KJ. I think he'll probably want to hear what is going to be said." Dally replied.

Pony secretly wished he could go, he was curious to know what was happening with the Socs. He knew better then to ask Darry. He had only been to Buck's once, after the rumble with the Socs, but he knew that had been a one time thing.

Soda and Steve got home from work soon after that. They waited for Darry to get home then they went outside to throw a football around for a while before supper to try and get rid of the tension in everyone. The divided up into teams (Darry, Johnny, Pony and Two-Bit against Dally, Tia, Steve and Soda) and started. Darry's team started with the ball, Tia watched as Darry ran with it, she saw Pony out of the corner of her eye and knew that Darry was gonna throw it to him. Pony was the fastest runner out of all of them and she knew she'd have to get him as soon as he got the ball.

Sure enough Darry through the ball to him, but Tia was ready. She was close enough that she jumped on him before he could take off. She brought him to the ground, unfortunately Pony's elbow smashed into her stomache when they fell. Tia let go of him and clutched her stomach, letting out a long string of curses.

"Nice tackle" Soda said, running towards her.

Once he got closer he could tell something was wrong.

"You alright?" He asked once she stopped cursing.

By that time, the rest of the guys had reached her.

"Damn, sorry Tia, forgot about your stomache." Pony said giving her a hand up.

"No permanent damage." Tia replied, giving him a reasuring smile.

It had felt like her stomach was on fire as soon as he had hit her. Getting elbowed in the stomache hurts enough in the first place, getting a tattoo earlier that day had added quite a bit to the pain level though. She looked up and saw Darry watching her closely.

"Forgot what?" Darry asked suspiciously.

Damnit, busted, Tia thought to herself. She had planned on telling Darry...eventually.

"Ahhh, do you remember the falcon tattoo I have on my stomach?" Tia asked biting her bottom lip.

"Yeah, the one your friendly brother made an X over." Darry replied bitterly. "What about it?"

"I got a tattoo over it." Tia said waiting for his reaction.

Darry scowled, he knew she would have used her fake ID to get it done and he didn't like her breaking laws. Even though she did break them quite often.

"Did you know about this too?" Darry asked Dally.

"Well I went with her..." Dally said slowly.

"You didn't even try and stop her?!" Darry yelled.

"Oh c'mon Darry. You know I couldn't have stopped her. So I figured I should go with her to make sure the guy who was doing it had some idea what he was doing." Dally argued.

"How responsible..." Darry replied sarcasticly.

The rest of the guys were standing around uncomfortably silent. Tia gave Two-Bit a pleading look. He winked at her, grabbed the football and made a run for the other teams end of the field. Everyone took off running after him, but Darry caught a hold of Tia's arm before she could follow.

"We'll talk about this later." Darry told her.

Tia looked up at him, worried that he might be angry at her. Anger was not what was in his eyes, instead they looked more worried then anything. She knew Darry worried about her a lot, most of the time she wished he wouldn't. But deep down, it did feel good to know that someone was watching out for her.

"KJ's here!" Soda yelled from the living room.

The bathroom door opened and Tia came out of the bathroom from changing out of her grass staind clothes.

"What time are you gonna be home?" Darry asked.

"Not sure." Tia said glancing at the clock, it was almost nine "Midnight probably, if i'll be any later, I'll give you a call"

Darry nodded, she knew he would like to go to Buck's the hear the news about the Socs, but he had to be up early tomorrow to work. She said her goodbyes, grabbed her jacket and walked out to KJ's car. She got in the passengers side and gave him a light kiss.

"Dally left a while ago, he said he'd meet us there." Tia said as KJ put his car into drive.

"Any idea what the Socs are up to?" KJ asked.

"No idea." Tia said sighing, she knew whatever it was, it wasn't going to be good.

Tia could feel the tension in the room as soon as her and KJ got there. She saw Dally talking to Tim quietly at the other end of the room. She looked around the room, recognizing most of the faces. Dally, Tim, Curly, Buck, Kent (the leader of the Brumly boys) and a few other well known Hoods and JD's from around. Her and KJ sat on an armchair and waited.

Tia was watching Dally's face intently, hoping to get a hint of what was going on. He looked cold, as always, but by the look in his eyes, she could tell he was pissed off. When Tim and Dally finished their conversation Dally came over to where Tia and KJ were and sat down on the couch next to them.

"The Socs have started again." Tim announced.

"Last night Kent's brother was jumped by a group of Socs, then this afternoon, Wade was jumped by another group of Socs." Tim explained.

Tia had met Wade quite a few times, an older Hood, tough as nails he was. One of the best fighters she had ever seen, thats why he was Tims right hand man.

"The thing is they weren't just jumped, the Socs took them."