Here is ending #2 The last bit.

This is the last chapter. I hope you all enjoyed my story. Once again THANKS for reading my story, reviewing, following, and favoring my story. It means a lot.

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Dally and Two-bit got to the hospital in about 20 minutes, due to Dally's driving.

Both Two-bit and Dally headed up to Johnny's room.

"Hey Johnny-cakes we won the rumble man! We beat those socs!" Dally boasted when he walked into Johnny's hospital room.

"How are you feeling Johnny?" Two-bit asked.

"Not good man. I am tired of all the fighting. Both with my parents and the socs." Johnny replied between painful gasps.

Both Dally and Two-bit realized that Johnny was struggling not only to talk, but to breath too.

"Come on Johnny don't talk that way man, you will be fine. You are not gonna let a little fire beat you." Dally spoke up.

"I am done Dally, I would have gone into that fire anyways. No way was I gonna let Ponyboy and those children die because of me!" Johnny rasped big time.

"Pony like those kids deserve to live..."

"So do you Johnny!" Dally yelled at him.

"I know, but life is not fair. Tell everyone goodbye for me and that I will miss them, especially Pony. I.." Johnny then collapsed and became unresponsive.

A nurse came running in quickly followed by some doctors. They all tried to revive Johnny, but both Two-bit and Dally (who were watching all this from by the window) could see that their efforts were in vain, for Johnny never woke back up and died a few minutes later.

"I am sorry. We could not save him." A doctor spoke to Two-bit and Dally.

"No. No. NO!" Dally screamed the last no and then he took off running out of the hospital.

Two-bit left a few minutes later and high-tailed it back to the Curtis house. For he knew something bad was going to happen.

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(Curtis household)

Everyone inside was still awake, save Ponyboy. They all looked up when Two-it came barreling in the house as if trying to escape a tornado.

"What happened Two-it? What is going on?" Darry spoke up for everyone.

"Johnny's gone. Me and Dally were talking to him and then he became very weak, and then he just died." Two-bit sobbed.

All the guys stood in silence as they were so shocked. Lisa gasped in horror. He eyes began to tear up, and a minute later she was crying her heart out.

"Dally could not take it, he ran off. He is gonna blow. We have to find him!" Two-bit said in a choked up voice.

Before anyone could make a move the phone rang. Darry quickly ran to answer it before it woke Pony.

"Hello."

"Darry, it's me man. I need your help, I just held up a store, man. The police are after me. Can you meet me at the place in the park?"

Dally said with emotion in his voice.

"Yeah Dally we will help. Just get there and stay put, we are coming."

Before either one of them could say anything, they both hear police sirens (on Dally's end). Dally hangs up the pay phone and runs.

"That was Dally. The police are after him. We got to get him and hide him before the police catch him." Darry spoke after he put the phone down.

All the others agreed and the all left the house to try and get to Dally before the police caught him.

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(A little time before the phone call - with Dally)

Dally ran out of the hospital sobbing. He did not know where to go. He was so over come with grief that he just wandered for a while.

He finally came upon a grocery store that was open late. He walked in and went over to the magazine rack and just started flipping through them.

The man behind the counter was getting annoyed with Dally. For Dally was not buying anything.

The man spoke up.

"Are you gonna buy something or not? If not then you need to get out of my store."

Dally then staggers over to the man and brings out his empty gun and points it at the man. Dally then "fires" the gun, laughing sarcastically. Then he runs out of the store with the man chasing him.

The man then runs back into the store and calls the police. Not five minutes later did Dally hear the police coming after him. He found a payphone and called Darry.

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(Back to the present)

The gang nearly caught up with Dally, but the police were closer.

Dally pulled his gun back out and "shooting it" toward the police. The police got out of their cursers and drew their own weapons. Once Dally brought out his gun they started to fire at him.

The gang screamed at the police telling them that the gun was not loaded, but it was too late. The gang watched in horror as Dally was shot to death in front of their eyes.

"NO! You stupid shits, you GOD dame idiots!" Darry screamed.

The others had horror looks on their faces and too stunned to say anything.

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(Funeral)

Johnny's trail still happened, even though he died due to his injuries from the fire. In the end he was found innocent of murder as it was proven that he killed in not only in self-defense, but defense of an innocent toddler.

The gang had both Johnny and Dally's funeral together. Other greasers like Tim Shepard and his gang came too. They buried Johnny and Dally side by side in a cemetery just right outside of town.

Pony did not understand what was going on (at the funeral and burial). He just wanted his friends back, and he kept crying for them.

"Want 'ohnny Darry!" "Want Dally, Soda!"

"I know little brother, but both Johnny and Dally went to heaven. They went to be with our mommy and daddy in heaven."

"They come back?" Pony asked with hope in his voice.

"No Pony they cannot come back, but you will see them again someday, just like you will see mommy and daddy again someday." Soda explained to Pony.

This went on a few more times.

Darry and Soda took turns comforting their brother and trying to explain that Dally and Johnny went to be with their parents (Darry, Soda & Ponyboy's parents) in heaven. After about three times explaining it to the distraught toddler, Pony nodded his head in acceptance and then he just cried softly in Soda's arms for the rest of the service.

Soda just rocked Ponyboy to help calm him and also to help keep himself calm. Pony was his anchor during this day. Darry had Lisa next to him comforting him and Darry comforting her too. The funeral went off without a hitch.

Pony remained quiet for the rest of the day, except for the occasional crying. After the funerals everyone headed home or where ever they went to grieve, people grieve in their own way. No one would really ever get over their deaths, but they knew that they had to move on.

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(Epilogue)

Curtis Brothers:

Darry and Soda continued to live their lives like they have been since their parents died. The both continued to raise Ponyboy to the best of their abilities.

Soda and Sandy broke up when Soda found out she cheated on him, by getting pregnant by another man. Soda eventually started to date again. He began to date a girl named Emily and they would end up getting married. Soda moved out when Pony was eight years old. Soda ended up fighting in the Vietnam War, and when he came home he and Emily had three children.

For Darry he and Lisa made their relationship official and got married about five after Johnny and Dally died. They both continued to raise Pony along with their own two kids.

For Ponyboy, he continued to be raised by both his brothers. Even when both Darry and Soda got married, they still made time for him. Pony excelled in school and he eventually became a writer. Pony never became a true greaser like his brothers and their friends. Pony did grow up to be happy and healthy. He became a great writer and he too would end up getting married and have a family of his own.

Two-bit finally found a job that he was willing to work and be good at. He ended up becoming a counselor to young children and teens. He found his calling when he witnessed Johnny's life and death. He dated on and off over the years, but then he too eventually settled down and got married. He ended up getting married to a war widow who had a little daughter that Two-bit counseled. They would have a son and Two-bit would name his son after Johnny.

For Steve he continued to work at the gas station where both he and Soda eventually became managers. Just like Soda and Johnny he too got drafted by the military to fight in the Vietnam War. He went missing about a year later. He was eventually found, but he was never the same again.

THE END

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A/N: Well that is it. On a side note I know Soda dies in the Vietnam War, but he is one of my favorite characters, and S.E. Hinton never mentions that in the book, (but she did come out later stating that) so I changed that. I like Soda alive don't you?

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