"Jeeze, Dally!" Tim yelled as Dally took a corner on two wheels. "Try not to get us killed, will ya?"
Dally wasn't listening to him, the only thing on his mind was getting to Tia as fast as he could. He was glad that Tim had agreed to let Dally drive his car, Dally wanted control right then, mainly because he couldn't remember the last time he had ever been this scared. He risked a glance in the rearview mirror and saw that Darry's truck and the other car was close behind. Please god, let Tia be alright, he thought and kept his foot to the floor.
"Don't worry, Pony. I'm sure Darry will be back anytime with Soda." Tia told a very nervous looking Pony.
He nodded glumly, but could not rid himself of the knot of nerves in his stomach.
"Go get some sleep, I'll wake ya up when they get home." Tia told him.
"Promise?" Pony asked.
"Promise." Tia replied.
Pony went into his room as Tia went and got a blanket for Johnny, who was sound asleep in the armchair. Once she had the blanket over Johnny, she turned off all of the lights except for the one outside and flopped down on the couch.
She awoke when she heard footsteps coming up the front walk, still drowsy with sleep she rubbed her eyes, but could see nothing through the darkness. She thought it was the boys coming home, but froze, there should only be 6 sounds of footsteps. She could hear at least 10, she slowly sat up and swung her legs off the couch. She didn't even get the chance to wake up Johnny before the screen door flew open and a good dozen Socs piled into the house. It took them a matter of moments to find the lightswitch, the change of light burned Tia's eyes. She knew right away that the Socs had used Soda to lure the guys away.
"She's in here!" One yelled as soon as he saw her.
Tia glanced around, all of her exits were blocked. Johnny, woken up by the noise looked frightening and tried to shrink into the chair.
"What the..." Pony asked coming out of his bedroom, but stopped at the sight of so many Socs in his house.
Tia reached into her back pockets and got her blades out, she knew the three of them didn't have a chance against this many Socs. All she had to do was last long enough for the guys to get home. Please god, let them get here soon, she thought and stood up to face her challenge.
Dally slammed on the brakes, quickly shut off the car and flew into the house. The house was dark and he reached for the light switch. He prayed that he would see Tia, peacefully asleep on the couch. He felt ice travel through his veins at what he did see. Chairs, tables, lamps, were all knocked over. He bent down slowly and picked up two blades lying inthe middle of the floor, Tia's two blades.
Darry came into the house carrying Soda and layed him gently down on the couch.
"Were too late." Dally said quietly.
"Pony? Johnny?" Darry called out.
A loud noise came from inside the bathroom. Darry ran to the bathroom door with was being kept shut by a chair until the door handle. He pushed the chair out of the way and pushed the door open. He saw Pony and Johnny sitting on the bathroom floor, their hands bound behind their backs and tape over their mouths. With Steve and Two-Bits help, Darry got the two boys out of the bathroom and untied. Pony and Johnny had obviously put up a fight. Pony's lip was bleeding heavily once they got the tape off, Johnny's wrist was swelled up, either sprained or broken.
"They took her, didn't they?" Pony asked as soon as he saw the Soda was there and alright.
Darry nodded, so full of emotion, that he couldn't talk.
Dally hadn't said a word, he should have known it had been a trap, how could he have been so stupid? He looks at Tia's blades closely, he could see blood on the edges of both of them, he prayed it wasn't her blood.
"What happened?" Tim asked coming into the house.
"They took her, those-" Dally said every dirty word her knew "took her"