With Dally driving, they got to the Dingo in record timing. As they were pulling in, Tim and his boys were already there walking towards the group of Socs. Dally slammed the car door and quickly walked towards the Socs, without a second of hesitation, he hit Paul with a right hook that would shatter most jaws. He would have jumped on him if Tim, KJ and Two-Bit wouldn't have gotten a hold of him.

"Now that isn't a very nice thing to do, Dallas." Paul said, laughing as he spat blood on the pavement.

"Where is she?" KJ demanded, giving Dally a minute to cool down.

"I have no idea who you're talking about." Paul replied smugly. "I do believe we have some of your trash though."

With that two Socs dragged Wade through the crowd and pushed him towards the Greasers. Still partially drugged and thoroughly beaten, it took two Greasers to keep him standing.

"We want Kent's brother back, and Thalia. Now." Tim replied, trying to keep his voice even.

"I'm sure we could arrange something for you to get your greasy boy back, but I think I'd like to keep the girl around a bit more. She is a sweet little thing, awfully hard to give up." Paul kept his eyes locked with Dally's, he knew he was hurting him.

"I swear to God if you lay a hand on her..." Dally began, but Paul cut him off.

"Now Dallas, can you answer one thing for me?" Paul drawled on. "Is there a story behind that tattoo she has? You know that once she has on her stomache, right under her right-" Before he could get the rest of it out, Dallas was on him. It took a dozen guys to pull the too of them apart. Even once he was off Paul, he was still yelling and cursing.

"Get off me! I swear I will rip him apart!" Dally yelled and struggled.

"Temper temper Dallas!" Paul said, laughing and breathing heavily. "She is quite a girl, I can see why you are so attached to her, tough as nails she is. But she looks just like a scared little girl everytime she sees me. Crys just like one too. I swear if you don't learn to behave Dallas, I will give her more of a reason to be scared of me."

With that he turned around and the rest of the Socs started to get back in the car.

"She's just a girl!" KJ yelled out, still holding onto Dally.

Mitch stopped and turned around.

"Please, please don't hurt her anymore." KJ pleaded, looking Mitch in the eye. "She's only 14."

"Only 14...just the way I like em, young and innocent." Paul joked with a Soc, but glanced over his shoulder and caught Dally's eye.

Mitch looked away from the Hood and got into one of the cars. He knew she was young, he had guessed 17 or 16, but 14. They had kidnapped a 14 year old girl and they were keeping her drugged. He never felt so low.

Once again, Tia was thrown back into her unnatural sleep. In her dreams, she awoke in a strange bedroom. She quickly came to her sense and realized she was in her brother's apartment in one of the bedrooms and she wasn't alone. She could feel a warm body behind her and two strong arms around her. Benj. The events of the last few hours hit her hard and she struggled to breathe for a second. Once she calmed herself down, she carefully moved out of Benj's arms and climbed out of bed.

She hurt all over, once she'd gotten back to the apartment Benj and her brother had helped clean and bandage her up, but it didn't help the pain much. Her right knee was heavily bandaged alone with her stomache. Three of her fingers were in splints and her sprained ankle was wrapped too. She shook her head, trying to clear it. The room was dark, but she felt around and found her boxer shorts on the floor and pulled on one Benj's t-shirt when she wouldn't find her tank top. She felt her eyes tear up when she glanced over at the bed where Benj layed asleep.

The only reason he hadn't gotten laid that night was because he knew Tia was in pain and exhausted. He had gotten everything else he wanted though and Tia hated herself for it. She had been tired of fighting and let out for a few hours. The hate she felt for herself that night was that only thing that gave her the strength to leave that apartment and walk back to her house. She climbed through her bedroom window for the last time, pulled on a pair of jeans and a tanktop. She tucked her blades into her backpocket and pulled her leather jacket on.

She climbed back out the window and limped the few blocks to the highway and stuck out her thumb. Within 15 minutes, a truck pulled over to the side and she climbed in.

"Where ya heading?" The trucker asked.

"Anywhere, but here." Tia replied closing her eyes.

When the Socs got back to the apartment, they heard a commotion coming from the bedroom. Mitch shoved past the rest of them and opened the door. He walked in to find one of the Socs holding the girl down.

"What the hell are you doing?" Mitch yelled, shoving him off of her.

"She woke up abut 1/2 and hour ago and started going insane on me." The Soc yelled and then looked up at Mitch to show a starting black eye "Look at what the little bitch did to me!"

"You were asking for it!" The girl shot at him and climbed to her feet.

The effects of the drugs were wearing off, but were still present. She wobbled a bit when she got to her feet and gritted her teeth.

"Get out." Mitch told the rest of the Socs pointing to the door, Paul opened his mouth to argue, but he saw the determind look in Mitch's eyes and thought better.

Once the door was shut, Mitch turned back to the girl.

"You're only 14?" Mitch asked sitting down on a couch in the corner of the room.

"Yeah." The girl replied, eyeing him cautiously. "Who told you?"

"I don't know, some hood. Tall guy, dark eyes, dark hair. Had a tough look to him, but pleaded when it came to you." Mitch explained.

"KJ," The girl said and swallowed hard "my boyfriend."

"What's your name?" Mitch asked.

She hesitated for a second and replied "Tia".

"I've never seen a group of Hoods get so worked up over a girl." Mitch pointed out.

The girl clenched her jaw again and glared at him.

"Believe it or not, I am on your side." Mitch said quietly.

"Than let me go." Tia replied, trying to keep her voice even.

"I can't do that." Mitch replied, shaking his head.

"Than can you stop drugging me?" Tia asked after a second and then added. "Please."

"That I can do." Mitch replied, he didn't want to cause her anymore pain.

A heavy silence fell on the room as the two of them watched either other warily. The look on the her face when she woke up from her hallucinations still haunted Mitch's mind.

"Can you tell me what you had been dreaming about?" Mitch asked slowly.

"Why should I?" Tia shot back.

"Why shouldn't you?" Mitch replied.