Title: Leave Me Where I Am
Author: Acoustic Heart
Disclaimer: I do not own the Outsiders and I do not claim to. No profit is being made from this story.

Warnings: This story does contain rape. There may be a possible slash relationship in the future.

A/N: Ok, so you guys are absolutely amazing. I love hearing from all of you and I am SO happy people are actually enjoying my writing!

JUST ANOTHING WARNING! THE NEXT FEW CHAPTERS ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE A BIT GRITTY AND GRAPHIC!

(Told in Soda's point of view)

Chapter 7

The entire gang stood in the living room, looking at my baby brother in shock. He looked so distressed and scared and absolutely broken I felt like I was going to start crying.

What happened to him?

Who did this to him?

He looked awful, his hair was messy, his face streaked with dirt and blood and tears. He had various cuts and bruises on his face and his lip was fat and split. His shirt was soaked in blood and torn; I didn't even want to see the harrowing wounds that were without a doubt underneath it. His pants were ripped a disheveled, hanging low on his hips, his belt was missing.

I swallowed thickly.

There were thick handprints around his slim wrists, bruises flowering down his arms. His hands were also bloody and grimy, ridiculously so. Then there was his neck.

My gaze settled on it.

There were bite marks.

And Bruises.

There were Hickeys on my little brother neck. Some worse than others, some had drying blood around them some were red and fading there were large and dark blue, looking worse than the ones on his arms put together.

I felt bile rise in my throat, I swallowed harder this time, tearing my eyes away from my broken baby brother.

I looked over at Darry,

At Steve

At Two-bit.

Did any of them notice?

Darry looked over at me, our eyes meet and I knew he saw. Anger. That was an emotion I could see clearly in his eyes. Anger and worry.

His gaze broke away from my mine, he looked down at the floor, has jaw clenching and his hands turning into fists by his sides.

I looked back over to Ponyboy. He was still pressed against the wall, his arms wrapped around himself. God, I wanted to go over there and wrap my arms around him, not wanting to risk another outburst I refrained.

I clenched my teeth.

"Pony." Dally breathed out, he was standing right in front of him but far enough back that Ponyboy wasn't reduced to a shaking intimidated mess from the close proximity of the tough hood.

Pony's eyes that had been intensely focused on his shoes snapped up to meet Dally's. His eyes were dead, glassed over, probably from the pain but non-the-less he had a deathly glare fixed on Dallas.

"Dally." Ponyboy mimicked him.

I looked at him, shocked, his mood was a rollercoaster; changing from insane, to scared and terrified to bitter and sarcastic.

"Ponyboy, calm down, please, don't be like this." I pleaded him; tears were forming in my eyes.

He looked over at me.

I could barely hold his gaze.

I used to love his eyes. The emotion that played in them and that color of them.

Now I could barely stand to look into them.

I couldn't take my mind of the way they looked, the emotion in them, the way the color had physically dulled in his eyes.

"Soda?" It was like he was in some kind of daze.

Disoriented.

He finally looked around at the gang, really took in his surroundings.

"I'm gonna….I'm gonna go get cleaned up, kay?" He said so softly, trying to steady himself on weak legs, he pressed his hand against the wall, dragging it slightly.

I wanted to say something, offer to help him but my breath suddenly became caught in my throat and I was frozen in my spot.

I stared at the wall.

I heard him limping down the hallway.

All I did was stare at the wall.

I heard the door to the bathroom softly click shut.

But I could only focus on the bloody handprint and light smear of blood that was on the wall.

I heard gasps and curses and knew that everyone was sickened by it.

I just stared.

I felt Darry drape his arm across my shoulders, and I started crying.

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A/N: His it's me. So, as the author I feel it may be my duty to let you guys know this will probably not be a happy story, and it maybe not be one that goes to fast but I CAN promise you a happy ending. But about the Darry/Pony slash if you are looking for a hardcore slash relationship…you're not going to get one. I don't even know if this story is actually going to involve a pairing or even a Dally/Pony pairing. If anything it will most likely be a pre-slash relationship. Thanks that's it.

ALWAYS OPEN FOR REQUESTS/OPINIONS/IDEAS!