This is an alternate ending to my one shot. I'm glad people liked it!This is the last I'll write of it.

Ten-year-old Lucy Winston slipped into the Curtis basement. "Tom?" She whispered. Her brother was in front of her in an instant. He looked better. "You crazy, Susie? Using our real names like that? What's the matter with you?"

Lucy shot back, "What's the matter with you? You promised, Dally. That it would be just us. We gotta get outta here. It changed us." She started to cry. "Before we were Lucy and Dally, we were happy. We were close. Now we ain't. You loved Johnny, and so did I. We can't stay here."

"The gang-"

"Will get along without us. We've been here forever, Dally. They're gonna find out who we are. They won't turn us in, but they'll hate us."

"Alright. We'll go. What should our cover story be?"

"Ain't got no Dad and our Mama drowned. We moved on from Oklahoma City. You're 18. Can I choose our names again?"

"So long you don't name me after a city again. And no more famous names, or after cigarettes."

"Well, I was improvising!"

"Yeah, yeah. Got any names?"

"Elvis Presley is out?"

"Most definitely."

"How about Josephine and Joseph Jones?"

"A lot better than Ted E. Bear."

"I was four!"

He bent down and lifted her up on his hip, tickling her. He was definately a lot better. "Do we jump the train tonight Tommy?" Her big brother nodded. "It'll be quiet tonight. Pony has track meet so Darry and Soda will be there. Steve has to work, and Two-Bit'll be getting drunk." She threw her arms around his neck. "Thanks Tommy."

Later that night, the siblings who would now be known as Josie and Joey Jones slipped out of the Curtis home. They went to the train station. Joey lifted Josie up into the train and then jumped on it. Josie pressed herself back into a bale of hay, and her brother hid on the other side. There was a commotion from another car and the train started moving. Once the car was speeding along, Josie crawled over to her brother's side. She rested her head against his side and he wrapped his arm around her. They waited for an anonymous place where they could start over.

The End!