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The Outsiders Vampire AU - V2

For each of these we start with a different character and see how this all plays out.

It starts with Johnny, who's jumped by some Socs. Some vampires, he'll realize when he comes too in the Curtis house. He's got a nasty scratch down his face from when the soc - he thinks his name was Bob - tried to get his neck.

But Johnny had moved, and he'd missed the first time.

He's hungry, but nothing sounds good. Darry frets over him a bit and tries to take him to the hospital, but Johnny says he'll be expected at home. Darry tells 'im he ought to go to the hospital. Johnny shoots back that his parents 'id kill 'im if they found out.

He's starving by the time he gets home. He can smell something all around him on the walk home. It smells good, but he doesn't know what it is.

His dads reeling drunk when he arrives. He gets to walloping on Johnny, and at first Johnny just takes it. He's too hungry to care. He's so hungry he could eat a horse.

Suddenly, he finds himself standing over his father - or the husk of him that's left. He wipes his mouth and there's blood on his sleeve - his father's blood. He's appalled with himself... but he feels better. Less hungry, more tired. It's still light outside, but a short nap won't hurt him none.

He's awoken by his mother screaming in the living room. He hurries out and nearly trips over his father's husk. It all comes flooding back. He feels very, very nauseous. He's also a bit hungry, but it can wait. His mom shouts at him, screaming and asking what happened. Johnny tells her he doesn't know - he knows he can't tell her the truth. She screeches and cries and drinks herself to sleep, just like his pop. Johnny ignores the old bat and spends half the night wandering aimlessly around the surrounding neighborhood. He checks up on the Curtis place a couple times. He finds the lights out and everyone asleep. He checks up on Two-Bit, who's nearly asleep on the couch - drunk out of his mind.

Last are Steve and Dally, seein' as they live farther away. Steve's house is locked up tight. He hits up Buck Merrill's place, but doesn't go in. Watching from the street, he catches sight of Dally a few times, and he watches as he drags a girl up the stairs around four. Finally starting to feel tired, he retraces his steps and ends up back at his parents' house by five.

His mothers over the toilet, wrenching like a sick dog. The smell is nearly unbearable. Johnny tries to make it back to his room but hears him go past. Once he's finally laid down, she bursts in, screamin' at him and tryin' to hit him. She can't see straight enough to do it. Her hits are weaker too - maybe cause she's drunk to maybe cause of whatever's happening to him. But just as he's pushed her off, something comes over him, and when he finally wrangles back control, his mother is also a dead husk sprawled on the floor in front of him.

Johnny's scared, real scared. He doesn't know what to do. His parents aren't stellar, and no one will look for them for a couple days, but what'll happen to him? He killed them for Heaven's sake! Glory! He'll end up in the cooler. No. He can't go to the cooler.

Dally's mean when Buck first wakes 'im. 'Cept, when he opens 'is eyes he'd swear it's lil' ol' Johnny Cade who's standing there.

It is Johnny Cade. And Johnny practically drags him down the stairs and outside in the chilly morning without any effort. Dally doesn't even have a shirt on. Johnny offers him his jacket and it half fits, and he explains everything. He tells Dally 'bout gettin' jumped, then the thing with his dad then his mom. Dally's mortified by the end of it, but with a quick smirk n' a crack 'bout this bein' an opportunity to turn things around, he gets them on track. What does Johnny want? He wants to live a normal life. Okay, well, that's gonna be hard, but Dally'll try to help him. But it's a big ask, n' he ain't doin' it for "free" this time.

Dally has to head to work, and Johnny picks the lock at Pony's house and crashes on their couch. Pony getting home from school wakes 'im up. Johnny's a little hungry, but he can resist it easy right now. Pony asks why he wasn't in school n' Johnny says he didn't feel well... within a few minutes though, he tells Pony about his parents. Just the part about them being dead though.

Pony can barely believe it. He makes Johnny and himself some dinner, n' Johnny's able to choke it down 'fore Darry n' Soda get back, but he throws it back up in the back yard while Pony talks to Darry.

Johnny's forced to rehash his story. Darry's mortified and Soda... he also seems mortified, but more so than Darry. Darry suggests - and he admits it sounds bad - that maybe it's for the better. Dally comes by and he suggests that perhaps its better Johnny doesn't report his parents dead. He can slip between the cracks and avoid the system that way. Darry doesn't like it, but Pony and Dally do. He's outvoted.

In the months leading up to the Rumble, Johnny learns a lot about what he is. Dally helps with some of it. He gets in contact with a soc named Randy, who's a friend of Bob's. He admits that Bob isn't human... but he won't elaborate, saying Bob'll kill 'im if he does.

Johnny eventually learns that he doesn't have to have blood straight from the source. Or even, from a human source. He steals from blood drives occasionally, and a whole cow can last him a week. He just can't take to many of them. He eventually figures out that if he takes from several humans, they'll walk away just fine, and they won't turn out like him (he figures that'll only happen if you bite but don't eat). Dally offers himself as a backup - Johnny refuses outright. But Dally never officially rescinds his offer, which only confuses Johnny more.

Dal ends up in the cooler after a couple months, leavin' him on his own. He drops out of school and finds a job workin' nights at another DX where he runs the counter and sometimes helps the mechanics with menial repairs. They start teachin' him to do things, like check n' change oil or replace certain filters. The head mechanic even offers to apprentice him for a few years. Johnny agrees.

He doesn't see the gang much anymore, but he sometimes stops by before work. He does so the day Ponyboy gets jumped. And who jumps him but Bob the soc.

Bob doesn't slice him like Darry thought. He bit him. Pony's out cold, and Johnny knows what's happening. Dally seems to get it too. Pony comes to violently. Dally holds his brothers back while Johnny wrestles Pony under control in the lot. Once Pony's cooled it enough to move, they make for one of the farmers' fields. Once Pony's done, Johnny explains everything.

They arrive back at the Curtis house long after dark. Darry's waiting up, reading the paper, and Soda's nodding off on the couch next to Steve. Two-Bit's got the tv on and Dally waits on the porch. He warns them before they go in that Darry... Darry's Darry. He shouts, demands answers that can't be given. Pony starts to go red eyed and Johnny has to rush him away again. Pony cries in the lot, admits he's scared of what he's become. Johnny confides he feels the same way.

Once Pony finally calms down, they start to head back. Bob jumps 'em again, along with a couple of new buddies - vampires. One of them Pony recognizes, and in turn he recognizes Pony. It's Paul, Darry's old friend.

The fights fast. Pony runs and they all go after him, but Johnny thrusts an entire tree-branch through Bob's chest and kills him for good. The other two flee the scene. Johnny, now with three murders on his hand, runs to Dally with Pony hot on his tail. They end up in Windrixville, with nothing to do but sleep and try to waste time.

They talk, and Pony reads. The week goes by quick enough. Dally comes to get them and explains that they'll be a Rumble, but the fuzz are still looking for them. The boys leave the church with Dally to go back to Tulsa regardless. They aren't there when the fire catches. Two children die.

When the Rumble rolls around, who leads the Soc's but Paul. The other vampire who jumped Pony and Johnny is with 'im. Even with Tim Sheppard's gang and their own, they don't know who's who or what. The fight devolves rather quickly. Paul clobbers Curly Sheppard and tosses him aside, bitten, and turns his attention to Darry. Darry's no match physically, but Ponyboy and Johnny managed to pry Paul off him. Pony has to jump the other soc who they know is a vampire and Johnny's left with Paul.

He nearly losses. Darry reengages and gets thrown off, going limp once he hits the ground. That's when Dally jumps in with Johnny. Pony - with help from Tim and Soda - subdues the other vampire and Pony's able to jump back in with Johnny. They pin Paul, who refuses to stop, and Johnny ends up taking a stick to his heart. Ending him.

The Rumble ends with the socs scattered and the last vampire fleeing for his life. Steve throws up and Soda cries when he sees Darry out cold. Tim thinks Curly's dead at first till he starts to come too, but a crisis is averted, and Pony takes him somewhere else to explain everything.

But Dally... Dally's hurt. Bad. Johnny smells it and as people frantically disperse to find a car, he asks Dally a question. A couple, actually. He asks if he remembers the time that Buck clobbered him for coming in without paying his cover, and how he didn't have so much as a scratch. And Dally remembers, though he can barely talk. Johnny asks if he wants him to do this. Dally says he doesn't have a choice.

In the end, three of the Curtis gang never grow up. They wander from town to town throughout the Midwest and the Heartland, and the South and Appalachia; rolling with life as it deals them hand after hand after hand. They lose Soda in 'Nam, they nearly loose Steve there too. Darry grows old and Two-Bit gets sober. Steve never does. He dies by the bottle, but he finds happiness for a time. It's some small solace. Darry dies of a heart attack, but he's made it. He's a soc now. Two-Bit works 'til he dies, he's barely sixty-five. Curly joins them every now and again, but he sticks by his lonesome more often than not.

Johnny, Pony, and Dally wander with the wind across the plains, forever young. Forever stuck with each other.

After a while, they agree that they wouldn't have it any other way.

With each of these there are different outcomes depending on who gets bitten first. I also play with the mechanics a bit between stories, but they'll stay pretty consistent - for my own sake.

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