Timeless (An Outsiders Fanfiction)

Chapter 12

My face went white. My eyes went wide. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. It was taking me forever to process what just happened. I stood there still as a statue, jaw dropped and staring at the paper.

I forgot Dallas was standing beside me but I was soon snapped into reality when he took the paper away from me. I was still in the inevitable shock and was-for the first time in forever-scared. I was scared. Not for myself, but for the gang especially Johnny, Dallas, Two Bit, and Sodapop.

I dropped to the ground and curled my knees up to my chest hiding my face. I started silently crying and I was hoping this was just another bad dream. But no matter how hard I tried to convince myself, I knew this was real life. Dallas plopped down next to me and slung an arm around my shoulders.

"I know, don't tell anyone but I'm scared, too." Instead of anger and hate filling his voice it was more of a hurt emotion.

"I want to go home and see the gang." I looked up at him with tears blurring my vision. He nodded and carried me like a baby into Buck's truck. We went searching for Johnny and found him in the lot. I was laying down in the back seat blocking myself out of the world while Dallas told Johnny what was happening.

We found Two Bit randomly roaming the streets and he hopped in the back with me. We were speeding to the Curtis house. I was still not paying attention to anything around me. All of a sudden, I heard a honk, a screech, and a bang. Then, I felt nothing.

-Dallas' POV-

I woke up in a hospital bed and painfully remembered what had happened. All I recollected were two headlights through the rain. The nurse came in and I asked her what had happened. I wasn't in the mood for keeping up my tough guy rep at the moment.

"You were hit on the right side of your car by an oncoming mustang. Luckily, you were on the on the left side so your injuries aren't as bad. Apparently, there were two boys in the other car who put a brick on the gas pedal and jumped out of the car before it hit you. Doesn't seem like much of an accident to me. Sorry sir."

"Uh yeah what about my friends?"

"Well, the person sitting on the left side in the backseat is in the same condition as you. But the people that were on the right side-that got hit directly-aren't doing well. Sorry but they are both in comas and we don't know when they will wake up. It's been a day."

I was crying by then. Johnny and Elle were on the right side. "When do I get out?" My voice was cracking through my tears.

"You can visit them now, let me get a wheelchair." She came back and helped me into it and I wheeled to where the nurse showed me. They were in the same room together. The tears that were dripping from my face were now pouring.

They looked dead. Their faces all bruised and cut. Their limbs all in casts. The oxygen masks covering their noses and mouths. The only thing that indicates that they're alive was their chests that rose slowly and slightly up and down.

Two Bit wheeled in and he looked like what I imagine I looked like. He was bawling and as was I. He looked at me with hurt in his eyes and went over to Elle while I went over to Johnny. I took ahold of his free hand, "Johnny? Can you hear me bud? Please don't give up, man. We need you, I need you. Don't die, please, just fight. I love you, man, don't go."

I looked over at Two Bit and he was cussing and screaming and crying into Elle's arm. He was just as upset as I was, maybe even more. I'm going to murder who did this.

-Two Bits POV-

I started yelling and crying when the nurse told me the news. I've never felt so much hatred. I felt like Dallas. When I got into their hospital room I saw Dal in a wheelchair like me and he was crying like me. I looked at him with as much empathy I could give.

I turned to the body on the hospital bed covered in cuts and bruises. I didn't realize who it was until I saw under her swollen face. It was Elle. I was getting so angry, depressed, and just plainly upset all at the same time.

"GODDAMNIT!! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME! I'm so sorry Elle please, please come back. C'mon I know you can hear me you ain't gonna let yourself die, damnit. C'MON ELLE please just wake up. I love you so much don't leave me. DONT FUCKING LEAVE ME I LOVE YOU. I love you..." I was practically losing my mind, I love her too much. I need her, I don't know what I'd do without her. If she dies, I'm going with her.