Change can be good
Summary: Ponyboy goes off to college with a scholarship but what happens in College?
Disclaimer: I don't own the outsiders. But I do own everyone else.
Chapter 18:
Darry POV:
I finished off the guy I was fighting and was about to go team up with Soda, but I looked over at Pony first. He was down on the ground, and John was kicking the daylights out of him. With one last, smooth kick to the head, Ponyboy was out. I was about to go over there and beat the guy for everything that he's done when I heard.
"DADDY!" I looked over to see Mally running to Ponyboy. I tried to stop her, but she was too close already and John had her in his arms. I looked back at Pony and realized that Silvia was in the kitchen window taking pictures of John. I started to make my way over to John and Mally.
"Don't move or the kid gets it!" John yelled, pulling a blade out of his pocket and holding it up to Mallys throat.
"DADDY!" Mally cried. I looked past John, to see Pony slowly waking up. I tried to keep the conversation going so Pony could wake up and come at John from behind. All of John's buddies were too busy taking care of themselves to look over and warn John, so I was only worried about hurting Mally.
"Hey, come on man. You don't really wanna hurt her do you?" I asked.
"I really don't care, and if it comes to that I will." He said.
Pony POV:
"Come on, think about it. You hurt her, you hurt your wife, and you go to jail. Is she really worth it?" I heard Darry ask.
"I'll take that chance." I heard John say. I opened my eyes to see the gang still fighting, now with the ratio 6 to 3, and Darry standing in front of John who was holding Mally and had a blade in his hand. I saw Darry glance at me and I knew he was stalling John for me, I nodded and looked around for something to hit him in the head with. I saw a branch not too far off, and slowly made my way over to pick it up.
"I'm pretty confident about not going to jail, seeing as it's my word against a bunch of greaser's." John said, as I made my way over to him and knocked him out with one smooth swing.
"DADDY!" Mally cried, as she ran over to me. I took her in my arms and went inside, followed by the gang as John's buddies stumbled over to their leader. As soon as everyone was inside Darry locked the door. I sat on the couch with Mally still in my arms, crying her eyes out. I looked over at the guys and they all looked pretty bad, I just wondered how bad I looked. If it was bad enough to scare my own child, it must have been pretty bad. But then again, Mally was probably scared because of how I had fought John, and eventually lost, getting hurt.
15 minutes later Mally was still crying into my shirt so I decided to take her into my room and calm her down there. When I left Dally was holding Mason, but Mason wasn't crying. I guess he'd seen Dallas fight before so he was used to it. I came into my room and sat down on my bed.
"I don't wanna live with them daddy." Mally whispered. It was pretty muffled but I understood.
"I know babygirl, I know." I said holding her close, not wanting to leave her ever again.
"Am I going to have to live with them because you took me away?" she asked.
"No." I lied. I really didn't know.
"You're lying." She said. She always could tell when I was.
"No I'm not. You're not going to live with them cause I won't let them take you away from me." I told her the truth.
"But you can't stop them. John said so." She cried.
"You just let me worry about that, ok?" I told her.
"Ok." she said. We stayed there for a little longer, but Mally started to get sleepy so I got her, her pills and let her fall asleep in my room before going back out into the living room.
"Hey." Johnny said as I sat down on the couch, next to Angie.
"Hey. Thanks for helping me out earlier." I told them.
"No problem, you know we'd never turn down a fight." Steve spoke.
"Ya, and besides, it was worth it." Dally said.
"You should really let me take a look at those bruises, and cuts." Angie said.
"Nah, I'm fine." I told her, kissing her forehead.
"How's Mally?" Darry asked.
"She'll be fine. She's just worried about having to go live with Jaime." I told them.
"Well neither of you have to worry about that. I took some pictures of how John handled Mally and then of how you handled her and I'm pretty sure that, that'll be enough for the judge." Silvia said, as she handed me a bunch of pictures. I took the pictures and looked through them, stopping at one of me and Mally in my bedroom.
The next day:
Pony POV:
I woke up the next morning next to Angie on the couch. The gang hadn't left until pretty late the night before so I ended up falling asleep right there on the couch with Angie beside me. I got up and went into my bedroom to check on Mally. She was still sleeping and she looked so peaceful. I went into the kitchen and started on breakfast, I thought I'd make French toast with eggs and bacon, chocolate milk, and chocolate cake. Just as I finished Mally came into the kitchen, dressed and ready to go to the trail. We were supposed to be there at 11: 30 and we had to be there at 12:45 so we had to hurry. Angie came in a few minutes after Mally and we ate breakfast.
After breakfast Angie left to go home and get ready for the trail, while I went to take a shower. I turned on the water and let it settle my nerves. I knew that John and Jaime would use my 'kidnapping' against me, but I had a good reason for it and I had the pictures that Silvia took to fall back on. I got out of the shower, wrapped a towel around my waist and went to get dressed. I put on a baby blue dress shirt and my only suit on top. Mally was wearing her favourite jeans, which were dark blue with sparkly blue hearts on the bottom, and a lime green t-shirt with a white sweater on top.
"Ready to go?" I asked her. She just nodded. I was a little worried, she hadn't said anything all day, but I decided to just ignore it. We got into the car and drove to the court house. It was a pretty good half an hour drive, and it felt a little weird since Mally hadn't talked the whole. We finally arrived at the court house and met the gang there.
"You ready to have this whole thing over with, and be able to go back to your normal life?" Jason asked as we approached.
"Yes, definitely." I replied.
"How bout you?" Maddie asked Mally. Again, she just nodded.
"Well, lets head inside then." Dally said and we all followed. We did that thing where we stand up, the judge comes in, she sits down, and finally we sit down.
"I'd like to speak with Malvina Curtis before we proceed." The judge said before standing up and waiting by a door for Mally. Mally got up from where she was sitting, beside Darry and Kayla, and walked over to the judge, then walked with her into the other room.
Mally POV:
I walked into the other room with the 'judge' and sat down at a chair across from her.
"Malvina, which one of your parents would you prefer to live with?" she asked.
"My daddy, I guess."
"And why?" she asked. I wasn't in a talking mood at all that day so I just shrugged.
"Alright, let's get back out there alright?" she asked and I just nodded.
"Now when you go back out there I want you to go sit beside the bailiff, ok?" she asked and I just nodded again.
"Alright." She said again and we went back into the court room. She went back to her desk and I went to sit by the bailiff like she told me too.
Pony POV:
I had no idea what the conversation had gone like. The way Mally had been that whole morning worried me that she'd say something that would make the judge think I wasn't a good parent or she'd be too quiet and the judge would think of what was wrong.
"Don't worry, you'll be alright. It'll all work out the way we want." My lawyer told me.
"I hope so." I told him.
"In the custody case of Malvina Curtis, sole custody will be granted to…" the judge said. As soon as she paused before saying the name I started to hold my breath. "Neither parent." She finished. "Malvina Linda Curtis is to be put into a children's home until adoption."
Ha ha, I just had to stop there. Hopefully, I'll be able to update soon but I'm not sure. My schedule for the summer is all weird. My grandparents are coming and I don't really know how much time I'll have to update but I'll try my best. Please R&R.:)