A Girl With a Boy's Name
OR: that AU Outsiders that nobody asked for.
So here, Johnny Cade is a girl. With a boy's name, 'cause her parents just don't care. Also nobody dies, unless you count Bob.
And yes, this will be romance.
Also I do NOT own The Outsiders, no matter how much I wish I did. This is book Dally, blond and beautiful.
Chapter 1. Meeting
Dallas Winston, thirteen year old JD, lit a cigarette. He was tough, and he knew it, and he knew that everybody else knew it.
But just now he did not want to cause any trouble, not yet.
Ponyboy, a tiny little nothing, all of ten years old, bounced up. "Hey Dally! How's tricks?" Dally rolled his eyes. He hated it when little kids tried to be "cool".
"You can't have a cigarette, get lost."
The kid wilted. "Ah, please, Dally! Just one! Come on!"
Dally growled. "I said get lost."
The kid beat it. Dally sighed and closed his eyes. Now maybe he'd at last get some peace and quiet.
"Excuse me?" A small voice squeaked below him. Dally opened his eyes and looked. A very small boy, not any older than Ponyboy, was staring dolefully up at him.
"Who're you?" "Johhny Cade. Are you Dally?"
"What's it to ya?"
The kid recoiled a little at his harsh tone but didn't leave. "Ponyboy asked me to bum a cigarette off you, 'cause you wouldn't give him any."
Dally raised an eyebrow. Gosh, this kid was innocent. But something about him just…touched him.
Dally found himself tossing a pack to the kid. "Take it. Smoke some yourself, Johnnycake."
He'd meant the last bit as a sort of insult, but the kid smiled. "I like that. Thanks a lot!"
Kids. Dally didn't like them, as a rule.
All except for this kid…