"I sure as hell don't wanna be the one to tell KJ." Steve mumbled as they all sat around the house.

Pony and Johnny sat on either side of Darry asleep as it was quite late. Tim Shepard had stuck around too after sending the rest of his gang home. Dally stood, leaning on the wall with his eyes closed. He couldn't remembering ever feeling so angry yet so scared. He opened and closed Tia's switch blade in his hand as he tried to think of what to do.

"Do you think they'll do anything to her?" Two-Bit asked quietly.

"No, they are just doing this to scare us, to get back at us." Darry stated.

Tim glanced up, but Darry wouldn't meet his eyes. He was just as protective of Tia as the rest of the guys there and he knew that the Socs were cruel and heartless at time. He didn't want to think about what might happen to Tia.

"I'll kill them." Dally hissed "If they so much as lay a hand on her, I'll slit every last one of their throats."

"Before you start your all out blood bath, just give them a little bit of time. We might be able to compromise with them." Tim pointed out.

Dally shut Tia's blade and stuck it in his pocket.

"Where ya going?" Tim asked.

"KJ's." Dally stated.

"Don't worry, I'll watch him." Tim told Darry as he ran out the door after Dally.

As Tia's body layed motionless on the floor of the cold apartment, her vivid dreams continued.

She ran a good 3 blocks before she collasped on the sidewalk, gasping for air. She layed on her side and clutched her rib cage as small amounts of air slowly entered her lungs. After a few minutes, her raspy breathing was coming slightly easier, but the pain was not lessening. She thought her situation through in her head.

There was no way she could go near Benj or Evan for quite a while without getting the tar beat out of her. She couldn't stay out for risk of getting caught by her gang or one of the opposing gangs. She slowly got up and began her painful walk back home. She prayed that her dad would be asleep or passed out when she got there.

She saw the familiar house and quietly walked to the back. She pushed open her bedroom window and climb in. The room was pitch black, but she easily knew her way around. She climbed into her small bed and pulled up the blankets, within seconds she was out cold.

Tim stopped his car in front of KJ's house and they both got out of the car. It was quite late at night, but he knew it was best if KJ found out from them then tomorrow morning from someone else. Dally knocked/pounded the door. After a few minutes the outside light came on and an older man opened the door.

"I'm sorry for waking you up, but we need to see KJ. It's an emergency." Dally explained as politely as he could.

KJ's dad looked him over and sighed before going back into the house. A few minutes later the door opened again to show a sleepy KJ, lacking a shirt and still trying to do up his jeans.

"My dad said there were two scary looking hooligans out here looking for me." He said in a mocking tone.

"They took her." Dally stated.

"What?" KJ whispered, the playful smile on his face was gone.

"They took Tia barely an hour ago." Dally replied.