I have a song stuck in my head. Have you guys head SexyBack? AH! I'm in love with the song for some odd reason. I'm bringin' sexy back. Yeah! Them other boys don't know how to act. Yeah! Ha. I'm weird. Anyway, the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: Pixar owns Cars. I'm not Pixar. But I should be.
"SALLY!"
Obviously, Chick had not remembered the rules. The Sheriff had clearly stated that there would be no bumping! And definitely no bumping off the road! Lightning raced over to the edge of the road that Sally fell off of. She looked horrible. It made Lightning get a little shiver in his gas tank. No, she couldn't be… "SALLY! ANSWER ME!"
Every time Sally attempted to get up and talk, she'd find her voice was ruined, and would fall right back down. She felt too sore to get up. She tried to move, but it wouldn't do anything. She almost felt dead.
Daringly, Lightning had the urge to go down there for her, but how would he do that safely?
He would jump, that's what! He backed up until his rear was almost touching the wall of rock, and then sped forward until he reached the edge of the cliff. He bounced down, and then up right before he was about to fall off of the cliff, and landed without any damages. He looked over to Sally. Right behind her was a ramp! God, I'm stupid. He drove over to Sally as quickly as he could. "Sally, Sally, you okay?"
Sally shook her head. Heck no she wasn't! She couldn't move, talk… she could barely do anything!
"Do you think you'll be alright?"
Sally shrugged. She honestly had no idea if she was going to make it or not. With the tears streaming down, she felt like she couldn't save herself.
"Should I take you Doc's?"
Sally nodded. She would feel much better if she was in the hands of somebody who knew what they were doing.
Lightning gave her a little nudge. "Hey, you'll be fine, alright? I'm always here for you." He gave her a tiny kiss on the fender and went behind her so he could push her up the ramp. While it hurt her, it was the only thing he could do. Hopefully she would be okay, like Lightning told her she would be.
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It was a very difficult task, but somehow, Lightning managed to get Sally to cross the starting line again. Everybody gasped when they saw her, and her mother bursted out into tears.
"Holeh shoot, Lightnin'! What happened tuh Miss Salleh?" asked Mater.
"What do you think, Mater?" said Lexie. "Aw, poor Sally! Chick bumped her, didn't he?"
'Yeah," said Lightning. "I'm glad I decided to come along."
"You have nothing to be proud of!" declared Sally's mother. "Look at her! She'll never be herself again!"
"If it weren't for me, I bet she'd be dead in an hour!"
"She wouldn't have even raced if it weren't for you! She's become, become-"
"Independent?"
"That is it! I'm leaving here as soon as my daughter's okay and she's coming with me!"
"Oh, no I'm not!"
Everybody was in shock to hear Sally's voice. She was okay! She'd be fine! Hopefully. Her voice sounded like a broken record. The scratches seemed to be on her throat, too.
"Sally, darling, you're my daughter and I can take you with me if I want to."
"I moved so I could get away from the life in LA, away from my boss, away from YOU!"
"Do you have any idea what you're talking about Sally? This man here-"
"Saved my life. And I love him, mom. We are getting married and nobody is going to stop us."
"MARRIED? Sally, you're crazy! You'll never live up to your brother."
"When did my brother come into this?"
"Your brother cares about other's needs."
"I wish I had a mom that actually cared about me! Do you know what it's like to try to impress somebody, but just because you don't live up to be perfect, which nobody is, by the way, they treat you like trash that just got thrown off the street. Is that right?" Sally wanted to cry in front of everybody, but she was showing enough vulnerably already. She drove off, and once she was sure that nobody was there, she started crying her heart out. It felt as if her mother just wanted every single aspect of her family to be perfect, and that she would be the burden of the family, as she had been from day one.
"Sally!"
It seemed like Lightning couldn't leave her alone for ten seconds, even though she needed him. "Lightning, I'm fine, alright?"
"You sure about that? You realize that you actually won since he bumped you."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah. I told you he'd cause trouble on that track." He paused for a second and got closer to her. "You alright? Everybody could hear you crying."
"I'm fine, seriously. I'm just a little upset."
Lightning nudged Sally with a smile. He saw her wince, so he softened up the nudge. "No need to be upset. You don't have to be mommy's little girl. I don't know why, but I doubt she's your mom at all."
Sally let out a giggle. "Oh, she is, trust me."
"Come on; let's go to Doc's to fix you up."
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I fell in to a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down, but the flames just went higher (A/N: I love the movie Walk the Line, so that's how I even know who Johnny Cash is.)
Old time radio playing, nobody in the room, it was days like this when he had time to think about things. Everyday things that actually mattered. Like, a roof above your roof (A/N: Ha ha ha. Roof above roof.), or oil to drink, or people that cared about you no matter what.
No matter how hard he tried, he just wasn't meant to have people that cared about you no matter what. Lightning didn't care about him at all until he was found to be the Fabulous Hudson Hornet. And Elle… she had left him after his crash. One little crash and she was gone. He had loved her. And he though she loved him. But he was wrong. Oh, he was very wrong. She was just like Dina had been. Only for the winners, not the losers.
Almost like Lightning was.
When he thought about Lightning and Elle at the same time, he realized how much Lightning reminded him of Elle. They had the exact same eye color, and the same smile and all those other little things that everybody notices when they say that people look just like you.
But those things had to be coincidences, not genetics.
"Doc!"
Doc turned around to find that Lightning and Sally were side by side as usual. The only different thing was that Sally was very badly beat up. So beat up, in fact, that it was worse than anything he'd ever seen. Worse than… Elle looked like. "What happened here?"
"She challenged Chick into a race, and he bumped her off a cliff," said Lightning.
Doc nodded his head. She looked terrible. The fact that she was even able to smile like she did was a shocker. "You hurting at all?"
"You think?" said Sally. "Plus my mom hates me, which is actually normal."
"What's your mom's name, anyway?" asked Lightning.
"Dina."
Doc turned around at that name. Dina. Oh, dear lord, Dina.
Lightning kept on talking to Sally. "Ugh, I think I hate her. Bright-yellow. It blinds me."
Sally giggled, and then coughed a little. It hurt her throat to laugh. "She got her headlight redone about three years ago. (A/N: That would be plastic surgery in the Cars world)"
"Seriously?"
Sally nodded. "She's gotten so much work done."
"Sally," said Doc. "Your mom doesn't happen to be a Bentley, does she?"
Sally put on a weird face. How in the heck did he know that? "…Yeah, that's her."
"Oh, god." Doc remembered her fairly well. "Sally, your mother used to date me."
"WHAT?"
"But she cheated on me with another racecar."
"She hates racecars! How could she've dated you and another?"
"She's dated more than two, Sally. Ten, actually. And I'm sure she's told you that she had a husband that died."
"Of course she has."
"Well, none of that's true. She never had a husband, and your father never died." Doc paused for a bit. Usually, he kept secrets, but he couldn't. Sally just looked so… awful. "I know who your dad is. I can… I can tell you if you want."
"Doc, you're not sounding like yourself. You're usually one to keep things in."
"Usually, yes. But it's something you need to know."
Sally soaked up all the information she had been given. After all these years, her mother was living a lie! She never had a husband or anything! It was no wonder that Sally and her brother looked absolutely nothing alike. "Doc, I don't think I'm ready to know who my dad is yet. I just, it's been a rough day. A very confusing, terrible day."
Doc nodded, understandably. "Now, let's check out the damage."
"Do you want me to stay?" Lightning whispered to Sally.
"Nah, I'll be fine," said Sally. "Love ya"
"Love you, too." Lightning pecked Sally on the fender before he left the room. He let out a sigh. It was only four days until the Piston Cup, and Sally had just nearly died. How come something weird always happened before the race that would always be the most important race of the season?
"Hey, you!"
Lightning turned around and saw three girls, one purple 2002 Cadillac Cien, one green 2002 Lamborghini Murciélago 6.22002 Lamborghini Murcielago 6.22002 Lamborghini Murcielago 6.22002 Lamborghini Murcielago 6.22002 Lamborghini Murcielago 6.2, and one white 2002 BMW Z8. They all looked like the kind of girls that the DRHs would mess with, only Sally's age. "What do you want?" said Lightning
"You're Lightning McQueen, right?" asked the white car.
"That's my name," said Lightning.
"Yes! We're in the right town! I told you, Alex," said the purple car.
"Nothing wrong with being cautious, right?" said the green car, Alex. She turned to Lightning. "Do you know where Sally is?"
Lightning put on a confused face. They obviously knew Sally, but how? "Um, yeah. She's in the doctor's office."
"Aw," said the white car. "That stinks."
"Did something bad happen to her?" asked Alex.
"Kind of…" said Lightning. "She was in a little race, and she got pushed off of a cliff."
"Whoa, that's… bad…" said the white car. "She was in my prayers already, but now she's in them two times."
"Hailey, you're crazy," said the purple car, who was now the only unidentified one. "She can't be in yours two times! She was in mine two times first!"
"Shut up, Claire! If you're gonna talk, at least make sense."
"Should I tell her you guys are out here?" asked Lightning, who was very confused. This week was going crazy.
"Yes, please!" said Alex. "Tell her it's Claire, Alex, and Hailey."
"Hey!" said Hailey. "My name should be first! Not last!"
"Wait!" said Claire. She turned to Lightning. "You're her boyfriend, right?"
"Fiancée, actually," said Lightning.
"What?" said Hailey. "You guys are getting married?"
"Ugh, I'm gonna kill her!" said Alex.
"Just shut up and let Lightning talk her, for god's sake!" said Claire.
"Thank you!" Lightning went in Doc's office and let out a huge sigh. Thank god the girl-fest was over.
"Any particular reason you're in here?" asked Doc.
"Well, yeah. Sally, there's some friends outside waiting for you."
"Which friends?" asked Sally.
"An Alex, a Claire, and a Hailey."
Sally's mouth drop about a foot before she spoke. Is it seriously them? "Really?"
"Really. Chrysler, they're crazy."
Sally smiled when she heard that, although it hurt like heck. "They're just being themselves. Hey, Doc, when do you think I'll be done?"
"You're not leaving this place for another day, Sally," said Doc. "With these injuries, I think you need to go to a hospital."
"A hospital? How long do you think I'd be there?"
"About a week."
"WHAT? Lightning's Piston Cup is only four days away, and I'm gonna be in the hospital?"
"If you're lucky. There's still a slight chance you might die, Sally. That engine of yours in ruined. If that engine gives out, you will, too."
"Doc," said Lightning. "She can't die. You've got to make her live."
"I can't do that, Lightning. If you want to take her to the emergency room at the hospital, she might be okay. But somebody's going to have to get her there."
"Mack can take her. My girl's gonna live. I love her."
"Lightning," said Sally. "I know I'm gonna live. I've lived through worse than this." She paused. No! I wasn't supposed to say that! "Where would you take me anyway?"
Lightning had to think about that. "Wow, Sally, I, I don't know. Maybe LA or something."
"LA's too far away, Lightning. We have to stay within Arizona (A/N: Radiator Springs is in Arizona, right? Well, it is now!)."
"Then we can go to Phoenix."
"Where would you stay?"
"I have relatives there. My sister'll take me in."
"You have a sister?"
"Yeah. Secret past, remember?"
Sally froze. He had just given away a part of his past. He had a sister! "…Of course. Secret past."
Lightning smiled. He wouldn't tell her the rest until they were married, but still. "Hey, speaking of Piston Cups, Doc, I need to talk to you about a… deal I wish to make with you."
Aw, now I feel bad for Lightning and Sally. Sally's near death, and Lightning might lose her. What am I doing to them? Aw, crap, I better not cry over fictional characters.
Oh, great. Now I have another song stuck in my head. Leave the Pieces. Gorgeous song. Hm, why not do a parody?
There's something you can do or say, you're gonna say I rock anyway, so just give a review when you go. ;-)