Okay peoples. sorry for the long wait. what with the holidays and all sneaking up on me i had to do a rush on x-mas shopping. Not to mention I am still racking my brain on what to get my bf for our third year anniversary. So yeah. If anyones got any good ideas let me know please, it would help alot. I have gottewn sch crappy anniversary gifts for the past two years compared to what he gets me. So any ideas wouyld be helpful. Now I hope you all like this chapy. Thanks to all my reviewers.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE OUTSIDERS OR ANYTHINGF ROM IT, S.E.HINTON HAS THAT WONDERFUL PLEASURE. I DO HOWEVER OWN EDEN, THIS STORY AND THE PLOT TO THIS STORY, AND EDENS PAST.

CHAPTER #6

RUN AWAY FROM THE PRESENT,

PONY'S POV

I was pretty nervous about this whole thing. I was intending on asking Eden a few questions before I took her to go see Dally. I wanted to know how she knew 'ol Dally exactly. But all in good time. Suddenly however Eden stopped abrutly halfway to the Dingo and looked at me long and hard.

"What?" I asked inocently.

"Why'd you really ask me to come with you? Besides to see Dally." Eden asked.

"Just to see Dally and get a bite to eat." I said.

"I wanna know why you really asked me." She said.

I stopped for a minute then sighed. I can't lie to her. Even if I do she'll know i'm lying. I figure it's better to tell her the truth anyhow.

"I wanna know more about how you knew Dally." I answered.

"Now was that so hard?" She asked.

I looked at her a little confused. She wasn't mad like I thought she might be. Of coarse she'd probably be even more mad if I had lied then sprung up the question later.

"I don't like people lying to me." She said noticing my look.

"But you lied to us." I said.

"No I didn't. I never lied to you." She said calmly.

"You never told us about you. Or answered our questions." I said slightly confused.

"But I never lied. I always told you the same thing. Ask me no questions and i'll tell you no lies. That's not lying. It's avoiding the question." She said simply with a mischevious grin.

"Ok. So exactly how did you and Dally know each other?" I asked.

"You really wanna know huh? Alright. But i'll warn you that it's not all that great. But...then again, you already know about me killing my folks. So I guess the fact that I robbed a store won't shock you." Eden laughed.

-Flashback-

Eden was soaking wet running down an alley with a bag in her hands. Two cops were running a few yards behind her. "Shit! Where the hell am I now?" Eden asked herself angrily.

"Stop! If you don't stop we'll have to shoot!" One of the cops yelled.

Suddenly Eden was grabbed by the arm and dragged into a room. There was a hand over her mouth. She tried to scream but it was muffled.

"Shut up!" Came a guys voice whispering urgently.

"If they hear you were both gonna end up in jail." The guy whispered.

Eden sat quietly and heard the cops run past thier hiding spot. They sat still for a minute making sure the cops were gone. The guy moved his hand from her mouth.

Eden whipped around and got ready to fight. She looked hard, but her vision was a little bleary for some reason. She heard a chuckle and looked in that direction.

"Chill out kid. I just saved your ass from going to the cooler." A guy said flipping a switch for the lights.

"Who the hell are you?" Eden asked.

"Names Dallas Winstoon. Everyone calls me Dally." Dally said holding out his hand.

Eden calmed down a little more, but she was still weary. I mean come on, no one who lived on this side of town trusted anyone, even if they just saved your ass from the cooler or detention center. At least this guy wasn't trying to kill her though. Her vision cleared up now and she saw a handsome greaser guy standing in front of her. He was about five inches taller then she was.

"My names Eden, everyone just calls me Eden." Eden said shaking his hand with her right and keeping her left hand on the blade in her pocket, she never left the house without it.

"Nice name. So what are you running from the cops for?" Dally asked.

"I stole some food and got caught like an idiot." Eden said holding up the bag in her hand.

"Hmmph, rookie." Dally grinned.

"I aint a rookie!" Eden said defensively.

"Then why'd you get caught?" Dally asked sarcastically.

"Cuz i'm having an off day. I wasn't paying attention is all." Eden said looking away with a dark look.

"Whatever. You smoke?" Dally asked.

"Yeah thanks." Eden said taking the cigarette from Dally's hand.

"Who said you could have one?" Dally asked.

"I did." Eden said lighting it.

She wasn't afriad of this guy. Besides, she had already learned, you show any weakness and you'll get into some serious trouble. The best way to do things was in a cocky manner, like you thought nothing could touch you. Act tuff and be tuff, or you'll get hurt.

Dally laughed to himself and got another cigarette for himself.

"Your alright kid." Dally said.

"Thanks. Don't call me kid." Eden said sharply.

Dally looked at her for a minute.

"Why, don't like to be reminded that your a kid?" Dally asked.

"No. Becuase i'm not a kid." Eden replied.

Eden hadn't thought of herself as anywhere near a child, or a kid for a few years now. She may be a child by age, but inside, she was older then her years, and her face and manerisms showed that clearly. Dally caught onto that pretty quick.

Dally noticed that she wouldn't look him in the eyes. It kinda bugged him. It's supposed to be polite to look at someone when thier talking to you or when your talking to them. Even greasers knew that.

"Think i'm ugly or something?" Dally laughed.

"What?" Eden asked confused.

"Well, you won't look at me. So I just figured you think i'm ugly is all, and if thats the case then your the first to think that." Dally said confidently.

"You have a very high opinion of yourself don't ya? I don't think your ugly, but trust me if I did I was not the first to think it." Eden said dryly.

-End flashback-

"That's how I met Dally, after that we kept bumping into each other and just became friends. We stole together, conned people together. Everyone we knew said we were like brother and sister. And we really were. I mean, we didn't just start off that way or nothing. It just sorta happened after bumping into each other constently, he stole from the places I stole, so we figured, two people on the job gets more. And I hussled the joints he hussled, so we started to use his conning skills with my innocnet looks, people always fell for it. We were never caught hussling or stealing. He taught me everything I know about the trade." Eden said.

"Thats pretty cool." I said after listening to her story.

"Yeah. He saved my life once." Eden laughed. "I'll never forget that"

"So how'd he save your life?" I asked curiously.

"Well, it wasn't to long after me and him had met, this was before everyone started to call us brother and sister. I had gotten kicked out of my house that night for the third time that month..." Eden started.

-Flashback-

Eden was walking down the streets aimlessly looking for somewhere to sleep for the night. It was pretty cold outside. All month it had been raining on and off, and tonight was no exception. It started to rain and Eden grumbled to herself and pulled the hood of her jacket up so that she could see where she was going.

Dally was walking home from a party when something bumped into him and fell over.

"Hey asshole! Watch where your walking!" Yelled a familiar voice.

"Me? I'm not the one looking at the ground all the time. This isn't your garden ya know. There arn't any flowers." Dally laughed holding out a hand to help Eden up.

Eden pushed away his hand and got up herself.

"I'm not helpless. And stop making fun of my name. It's not my fault my parents are a bunch of drunken idiots!" Eden said angrily then started to walk past Dally.

"Hey I wasn't trying to offend you or nothing. Let me walk ya home." Dally offered politly.

Dally didn't care to much, but he didn't want to see this kid get hurt. She was so young, yet already older then her years and her parents treated her as bad as his old man used to. She reminded him of himself, just a younger female version.

Eden kept walking like she didn't hear him. This annoyed Dally.

"Hey! I'm trying to be nice. Just let me walk you home." Dally said holding her arm.

Eden turned around and glared at Dally. Thats when he saw her eyes. They looked just like a lunar eclipse. It was amazing.

"I don't have a home to go to! My parents kicked me out for god knows how long! So fuck off already!" Eden yelled snatching her arm back.

Dally was frozen for a moment. Those eyes were not natural. He finally snapped out of it when Eden was about ten feet ahead of him. He ran to catch up with her. Realizing this kid was gonna be a part of his life somehow once he did this. But he figured, what the hell. This could be worth it.

"Hey Eden! Wait up!" Dally called after her.

Eden turned around to face him.

"What! Are you a stalker or something? Are you deaf? I have no home for the next couple of weeks. So there's no where to walk me to got it? God!" Eden threw up her hands then stared at Dally who was grinning.

"What is so funny?" Eden asked.

"You. Do you spaz out like that on everyone? No wonder your single kid." Dally laughed.

Eden smacked Dally's arm. She'd only met this guy a few times and already he was irritating and acting like he was her friend or something. But what if he was? Would that be a good thing? So far all the friends Eden had ever had, which were few and far between, had either ditched her in the end, or gotten hurt so bad that she ditched them to prevent it from happening again.

"What did I say about calling me kid huh? And I did not spaz out. Idiot." Eden grumbled the last part to herself.

"C'mon kid. I got a place you can stay nice and dry until you can go home." Dally laughed putting his arm around her shoulders and leading Eden towards his place.

"Try anything funny and i'll turn you into a very unattractive woman." Eden said seriously.

"Yeah yeah. I ain't gonna try nothing funny with a kid. What do I look like a pervert?" Dally laughed.

"Yes." Eden answered.

"You wern't supposed to answer that." Dally said.

"You asked. And I only speak the truth." Eden smiled.

-End Flashback-

"So I lived with Dally whenever my folks kicked me out." Eden said as they walked into the Dingo.

"I don't get it. How'd he save your life?" Pony asked.

"Becuase I was gonna kill myself that night. If Dally hadn't taken me in I would have been another suicide on the side of the road." Eden answered.

"Oh." I said looking at the floor.

"Don't get so down kid. I didn't do it did I?" Eden asked.

Just at that moment a group of socs walked into the diner. I couldn't help but notice that the moment they walked in Eden got into defense mode. She looked like she was getting ready for a brawl. The socs walked over to our both and looked from me to Eden.

"You in our booth greasers." The guy said.

Niether of us said anything. I tried to pretend that I hadn't heard them. But that proved to be a mistake. The guy grabbed my colar and picked me up.

"Did you hear me you piece of white trash shit!" The guy asked holding me a few inches off the ground.

It happened in a flash. Eden was on her feet and had a knife from the table to the guy's throat.

"Put him down and leave us alone or you'll be the third death i'm responsible for." Eden said in a deadly whisper in his ear.

He put me down shakily. Everyone in the diner was watching us now. The guy turned to look at Eden after she moved the knife. All of his buddys were standing against the counter looking real scared.

"What the hell are you?" He asked looking at her eyes.

"I'm fucking pissed is what I am. And your dead if you don't get the fuck out of my sight." Eden said angrily.

I was pretty scared myself. There was no other way to describe it, for that moment when she had the knife to his throat, and she was telling him to put me down, I saw her eyes. They just looked...like the eyes of a murderer.

The guys all scrambled away from behind her, but everyone was still looking at us. The owner of the diner told us to leave and never come back in. He was actually speaking to Eden, but I followed her. Halfway down the road Eden suddenly spoke.

"Dally thought that once." She said catching me off guard.

"Thought what?" I asked.

"That I have the eyes of a murderer." Eden said.

"How'd you know?" I asked totaly confused, was she a mind reader?

"Becuase he had the same look on his face as you did." Eden said sitting down on a bench.

"It was right before Dally left to come here." Eden started before I could even ask.

"We were walking back to his place, I had been kicked out of my parents house yet again. And we were jumped..."

-Flashback-

Dally and Eden were just grabbed by a bunch of thug looking kids. They held thier arms behind thier backs and circled them.

"Got any money?" One kid asked. They all had a ski mask over thier face.

"No. We got nothing. Come on let us go." Dally said calmly not struggling.

Eden was following his lead and just sat there with her head down. The leader of the little group holding Dally and Eden capture didn't like that.

"No money! No nothing?" He yelled.

"Yeah man. Were broke." Dally said calmly.

"What should we do with them?" One of the guys asked.

The leader thought about it for a moment.

"Do what you want with him...but she's mine." The leader laughed so did his gang.

Dally started to struggle now. In the past few month's Eden had become the little sister he never had. And he did everything with her. Stole, conned, hussled. Taught her the trade. He even wanted to bring her with to Tulsa when he left in a few weeks. He'd heard the horror stories of her home life. "Don't worry. It's not all bad. I get time to think in the closet." Eden would smile. But Dally knew it to be a mask. He was gonna ask her to come with him but then they were grabbed.

"What? No! Leave her alone!" Dally yelled.

He couldn't say much more after that, they started to beat him up pretty bad. The guy holding Eden gripped her more firmly as his leader came over and touched her face.

"Look at me!" He yelled.

Eden still looked to the gound.

"I said look at me bitch!" He said yanking her head up by her long black hair.

"What the fuck..." The leader mumbled looking at Edens strange eyes.

Eden grinned evilly. It happened so fast. She had the guy holding her captive on the floor in seconds and had managed to get his gun. She stood behind the leader of the group with the gun to his head and one of his arms in an FBI hold.

"Shit! Let me go!" The leader yelled.

"Hit him one more time and i'll blow his fucking brains out!" Eden yelled to the thugs beating up Dally.

His group members stopped beating up Dally and looked over in shock.

"Now, you are all going to leave here quietly. And if you ever fuck with us again I will not hesitate to kill each and every one of you. And don't think I won't enjoy every fucking moment of it. Am I understood?" She asked popping the guys arm out of it's sockit.

He screamed in pain but said yes. The group and thier leader ran off into the night. Dally looked up at Eden in shock. Her eyes looked like that of a murderers. But it was only for a second, then her eyes changed back to that of a lunar eclipse. She dropped the gun and fell to her knees.

"Eden? You all right?" Dally asked getting up with difficulty. It felt like a few of his ribs were broken.

Eden just sat there and it started to rain. She had no expression on her face. Dally knew this must not have been the first time she had done something like this. Now he knew more then ever he had to get her out of this place with him.

"C'mon kid. Lets go home." Dally said holding out his hand to help her up.

And for the first time Eden accepted his help. They were much closer after that. She no longer stayed quiet and defenssive around him, and he wasn't as much of a smartass towards her. Eden satyed with Dally for the few weeks left of him staying in New York. He had laready asked her to go with him, but she didn't give an answer. On the morning he was getting ready to leave he went to wake up Eden to find she was gone. Only a note left behind,

Hey Dally,

I'm real sorry aobut this. But I can't go with you. I want to but I can't. If I do, and something happens again, I might end up hurting you. And I can't handle that. Your my brother. You always will be. Give me a little to starighten things out. I promise I'll meet up with you in Tulsa though. My Dad's getting transferred there in a few years. Stay out of trouble alright? You can't have all the fun.

i'll see you later,

sincerly, your little sister, Eden

-End Flashback-

"That what you wanted to know?" Eden asked as she finsihed.

"Yeah, i'm sure Dally will be happy to see you." I said.

"No he won't. I'm not the same Eden he used to know. That Eden's gone. The only thing left of her is a ghost." Eden said sadly.

I looked at her for a minute and let her compase herself. We were in front of the jail now.

"Whenever your ready." I said.

"Better get it over sooner then later." Eden whispered.

ALRIGHT FOLKS. I AM WRITTING THE NEXT CHAPTER AS WE SPEAK. IT SHALL BE POSTED EITHER LATER TONIGHT OR TOMORROW. SO PLEASE REVIEW. THANK YOU SO MUCH.