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Greasers Post-Book Grief and Healing by Cetigapolo
Fandom The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
05 Mar 2026
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Shorter stories (<10,000 words) featuring Curtis gang hurt/comfort and healing after the trauma of the book events. They are all compatible with each other but can be read as independent works.
Series also contains Soda and the Soc. That fic contains OCs, the rest of the series does not. Shorter works in the series are adapted to be canon-only one-shot style fics.
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03 Jan 2026
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every word you don’t say (i hear it anyway) by darrelcurtis
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
02 Oct 2025
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The room rustled with the sound of turning pages and murmured answers. Darry tapped the worksheet again, his pencil poised. “Alright. Last one on this page: ‘What do you think helps the character the most when he’s scared?’”
Pony hesitated, but not as long this time. “Um… maybe when someone’s just… there. Like, even if they don’t fix anything. Just not bein’ alone.”
Darry’s mouth quirked, proud, and he wrote it down in his steady handwriting. “You’re good at this, kiddo.”
Pony’s ears went hot, but he felt a little taller in his chair. Like maybe he wasn’t just surviving this class—maybe he was actually doing okay.
Darry’s pencil paused, but his voice stayed low, casual. “Funny, though. Sounds like maybe the character doesn’t even realize people wanna be there for him. Like he’s too busy worryin’ about bein’ a burden.”
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It’s Back to School Day at Will Rogers High, and Ponyboy is terrified. The teachers keep calling it a day for parents—and Pony doesn’t have any. He has Darry, who’s as close to a father as anyone could be, but the thought of dragging him through the halls makes Pony feel sick. So he tries to fake being sick instead. It doesn’t go the way he plans.Series
- Part 7 of if i don't break it
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03 Jan 2026
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your name in the silence (i’ll answer every time) by darrelcurtis
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
20 Jul 2025
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He didn’t know it yet, but the pattern was already being set. The quiet stepping-up, the constant looking out, the way he always made space for Soda first. He didn’t feel like he was losing anything. He felt like he was becoming something.
A big brother.
And even with all the titles he’d collect over the years – Team MVP, All-Star Quarterback, Star-in-the-Making – none of them would ever mean as much to him as that first one. That quiet, ordinary, extraordinary thing: being someone’s big brother.
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How Darry becomes a big brother — twice.
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- Part 6 of if i don't break it
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02 Jan 2026
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come down from your fences (open the gates) by darrelcurtis
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
27 May 2025
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“Pony,” Soda whispered, voice barely more than breath. “Please talk to me.”
Pony didn’t move. Didn’t flinch. Just stayed curled up, facing the wall.
“Pony, please,” Soda said again, and now there was a crack in it. Real worry. “Me and Dar, we’re scared. I miss you, honey.”
The words hit him harder than the bruises ever could.
A hand slipped gently into his hair, brushing it back the way it always used to. Pony swallowed, hard.
“‘M okay, Soda,” he mumbled. His voice was thin, frayed at the edges. “It’s okay.”
“It’s not,” Soda said softly. “You look like you’re fading away.”
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When a group of Socs corner Ponyboy and beat him up, they don’t just leave bruises — they leave doubts. Doubts about whether he really belongs with Darry and Sodapop. Doubts about whether he’s anything more than a stray they took pity on. Afraid to be a burden, Pony begins to pull away from the only real family he’s ever known. But Darry and Soda aren’t about to let him go without a fight.
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- Part 5 of if i don't break it
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02 Jan 2026
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dreams don't just come true (but now there's you) by darrelcurtis
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
21 May 2025
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Darry folded the paper, not unkindly. “Just don’t hide it next time. You don’t gotta act tough with me, savvy?”
That was when the words almost slipped out – I love you.
He wanted to say it. He really did. But his throat closed up around them, the same way it always did.
Instead he said, “Thanks for comin’ to get me. I know – I know it ain’t easy. Sorry”
Darry just shrugged. “Don’t worry ‘bout it. Told Bill my kid was sick and he let me off with no fuss.”
Pony blinked at him.
And maybe Darry hadn’t meant to say that – my kid. Maybe he had. Either way, it settled over Pony like a warm blanket.
He didn’t say anything else.
Didn’t have to. They’d both already said it.
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5 times Ponyboy couldn't bring himself to say I love you + the first time he did.
Series
- Part 4 of if i don't break it
Bookmarked by ineedmoretime
02 Jan 2026