Where Have You Been All My Life?
AN: Hello readers! Here's another chapter! I will be updating for this story every possible chance I get for now on, because I have a few more stories coming. I want to get this done first, because it is the only Outsiders story I will be doing for quite awhile. Sorry. I will be focusing on Harry Potter after I finish this story. Look at my profile for more info on my stories, if you want. okay, here's Chapter 7! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Outsiders... Though it would be nice to own Dally... Yes, very nice.. ((drools))
HOSPITALS, NIGHTMARES, AND SURPRISES
Ann was surrounded by flames. She could feel the smoke filling her lungs. It was hard for her to see anything. She tried to figure out where she was. Was she in the burning church? She ran into another room, trying to find the exit, trying to find saftey. She looked around the room she had just entered and she saw a figure lying on a couch. She neared the figure. Ann gasped when she realized who the person was.
"Dad?" Ann shook her father. She was in her house. The day it burned down. She had to save her parents. She kept shaking her father, but he wouldn't wake up. She started screaming and screaming for him to wake up, but to no avail. She temporarily gave up on waking her dad and ran into her parent's room. There she saw her mother resting on her side of the bed. Ann tried to wake her mom, but it wasn't working. Why wouldn't they wake up? Didn't they hear Ann's screaming? Didn't they smell the smoke or feel the heat from the flames?
Ann ran back to her father and tried him again, but he still did not move. Ann then checked his pulse. He didn't have one. Ann didn't believe that. She put her ear against his chest. She heard no heart beat. She then put her ear near his mouth. No breathing came. Ann started crying, but ran back to her mom. She did the same to her mother, and got the same results. Ann kept sobbing and shaking her head, not willing to believe that they were dead.
Even though the flames were spreading, Ann stayed crying at her mothers lifeless body. She wouldn't leave them. Ann was feeling woozy, she felt weak and didn't have the energy to move. All she could do now was sit there and cry. There was a crash, like glass breaking, and voice yelling Ann's name. Ann knew that voice. But what was Dallas doing there, in her burning house? Ann called for Dally, and he came running to her.
"What the Hell are you doing in here? Don't you know the God damned place is burning down? We gotta get outa here, now!" Dally said urgently.
"No, my parents are here. I can't leave them. I just can't!"
"You have to leave them, or we're gunna end up dead! They're gone Ann. They're not comin back. Nothin's gunna change that. We have to save ourselves!"
Dallas grabbed Ann and pulled her to the living room. She struggled, but Dally managed to get her out of the window he had broken. Ann fell onto the ground in a coughing heap. She was too weak to move a musule, so she just laid there, weak and coughing. Then, out of nowhere, her home completely collapsed. She stared wide-eyed at the sight. Where was Dally? Did he get out? He was still in there! He was still in there! He was crushed!
Ann started to sceam, "DALLY! NOOO! DALLY! COME OUT! COME OUT! DALLY!"
He never came out.
He was dead.
Just like Ann's parents.
And it was Ann's fault.
Ann shot up straight in her hospital bed and yelled, "DALLY!"
Dally jumped slightly and, with a tone of annoyance, said, "I'm right here! Ya don't have to yell! Now whadda ya want?"
Ann was breathing heavily. She looked around and saw that she was still in the hospital, as she had been for two days. She saw that the whole gang was there, in her room, visiting her. This was the first time they had all come. Even Darry was there.
"How long have you been here? Why didn't you wake me?" Ann asked the group of boys.
"Long 'nuff to know you were dreamin' bout ol' Dal here," Two-Bit said with a wacky grin.
"Yeah, he was in my dream, I mean nightmare. But it doesn't really matter," Ann told them, not wanting to go through that horrible nightmare again.
"Shoot, I'd be scared too, if Dally turned up in my dream. What a scary sight!" Two-Bit said, cracking up at his own joke, but stopping when Dallas glarred at him.
"Do you guys know when I'll be getting outa here? I don't think I'll last another day having to eat the so-called jello they've been feeding me. I don't know what that stuff is, but it sure as Hell ain't no kinda jello I've ever tasted," Ann told them.
Darry gave Ann a warning look, and then said, "Well, the doctor wouldn't tell us much, but he basically said that you have a broken leg and that you won't be here too much longer. But you're gunna have to wear that cast for quite a while, lil lady."
Ann made a sound of frustration, "I guess I can deal. Just as long as I'm outa here fast."
They all talked for a while, then Steve, Darry, and Sodapop left for work. Johnny and Ponyboy left awhile after that, and then it was just Two-Bit, Dally, and Ann left in the hospital room.
Then the door opened and in waltzed a man in a brown suit and with a brief case in hand. Ann didn't like the looks of this guy, and neither did Dally or Two-Bit.
"Who're You?" Dally asked.
"I'm from the girl's home. I'm here to inform Miss Mele that when the hospital releases her, she will be coming with me to the home."
Ann was shocked, "What? No! I can't go! I'm staying right here in Tulsa! I'm not going anywhere with you!"
"Miss Mele, I'm authorized to take you into the girl's home. It states on the police report that you have no family members that will take up in."
As if on cue, the door opened once again and in came Tim, Curly, Angela, and another person. Ann's heart stopped when she saw this person.
"Todd? TODD!"
Her brother ran to her side and hugged her tightly, "Ann, It's been so long."
AN: Okay, R&R! Find out more about Todd's sudden apperance in next chappy!
