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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.
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- Part 4 of if i don't break it
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25 Feb 2026
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i can't hide from you (like i hide from myself) by darrelcurtis
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
24 Nov 2025
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Darry never means to call Ponyboy his kid—not out loud, not where anyone could hear, least of all Ponyboy. But the word keeps slipping out anyway: in grocery store aisles, late-night emergencies, quiet moments when he isn't careful enough to guard what he feels. Pony hears every one of them. And eventually, Darry says it on purpose.
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He stopped too late. The word was already in the air between them.
Pony’s breath caught.
“You… you said it again,” he whispered.
Darry’s hands froze where they rested on Pony’s shoulders.
“Did I?” he said, even though he knew damn well he had.
“Yeah.” Pony looked at him carefully, like the wrong answer might shatter what little ground he’d found here. “You called me your kid.”
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- Part 8 of if i don't break it
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24 Feb 2026
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Ponyboy told his brothers he was heading for the Dingo. He ends up not going after a turn of events, narrowly missing being at the location when it was bombed. But his brothers had no reason to believe he wasn't there. No reason to believe he wasn't dead.
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Based on the detail in That Was Then This Is Now that the Dingo was bombed.
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11 Feb 2026
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One Look and It's All Gone by moonlit_wonders
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)
15 Feb 2025
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Sodapop Curtis could sleep anywhere and anytime, and he could sleep through anything. Until the week Ponyboy was gone.
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A look at Soda and his role as brother told through sleep, through Pony's disappearance and his return.
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08 Feb 2026
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this is the darkest hour of the darkest night by hearth_goddess
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
25 May 2024
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“Ponyboy, what hospital are you at?”
“Saint Francis.” Ponyboy replied quietly, and Darry couldn’t keep himself from letting out a choked curse.
“We’ll be there in ten minutes.” He told Ponyboy.
His youngest brother huffed out a shaky laugh, a sound that Darry wanted to bottle up and cherish forever. “It takes twenty minutes to get here, Superman.”
Darry couldn’t help but grin slightly. “Then I'll just have to fly."Bookmarked by kocola
04 Feb 2026
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but then if you're so smart tell me why are you still so afraid? by mummifiedgoose
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jun 2022
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He cuts her off, “I know, Max.” he says softly. She feels relieved. “Listen,” he says gently, “If you’re ever feeling up to doing something like this again, you let me know. I’ll always be around, okay? Always.”
All of Steve's attempts at getting Max to come back from whatever metaphorical pit she had fallen in become worth it when she finally agrees to get some dinner with him and lets him into her world just enough so they can both pretend like everything is okay.
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20 Jan 2026
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Claudia makes up a bed for Steve on the living room couch. She’s kind—fussing over him, making sure he has enough pillows and blankets, insisting that he stay here as long as he wants. Steve watches her double-lock the front door and check on Dustin at least five times before she goes to bed. Steve doubts she’ll really sleep.
Steve’s grateful, and it’s comfortable, but he’s not going to sleep, either. Not while Dustin is alone in the other room.
He hopes Dustin doesn’t have any nightmares. He hopes his face doesn’t hurt too much, and that he doesn’t wake up with a splitting migraine. He hopes he isn’t crying himself to sleep. He knows he probably is.
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Steve & Dustin navigate their anxieties about each other, after everything.
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12 Jan 2026
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Her brain felt like it was going a million miles an hour, trying to piece together any and all information she had, tying strings and loose ends until it finally clicked.
"Wait, Steve, could you.. not hear me?"
Or: Steve struggles with hearing loss after his many head injuries over the years, Robin makes him feel seen.
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- Part 11 of Robin, The Heart.
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11 Jan 2026
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It started with Dustin showing up at Scoops Ahoy! with a flushed face and an old walkie-talkie. Dustin thrusted the old walkie into Steve’s hands without a word, then turned on his heel and left as quickly as he’d come inside.
(AKA Five times Steve was there for the Party when they needed him, + one time the Party was there for Steve when he needed them.)
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- Part 1 of The Adventures of Mama Steve
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09 Jan 2026
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I wish I could tell you that I want you to be my brother.
I wish I could tell you that you’re the best thing to come out of this move to Hawkins (besides meeting Lucas, but if you tell him that, I’ll kill you).
I don’t have time to tell you all of this, and even if I did, I probably wouldn’t ever say this, but I needed you to know this.or
What Max wrote to Steve + Steve getting to cuddle with his favorite kids
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07 Jan 2026
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there's nothing but time that's wasted by sapphirerays
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2025
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Robin stumbles, suddenly, almost bringing the two of them down. He’s just about able to grab for a nearby tree to avoid them both crashing into a pile, awkwardly keeping her upright.
“Jesus, Robin!” Steve starts, only to realise how ragged her breathing sounds. Alarm bells ring in his head. “Robin?”
She shakes her head, her eyes squeezed shut. “S’just—One moment—”
She sags to the ground before he can do anything.
Stuck in the woods, all Steve and Robin can do is wait for rescue... and hope it comes in time.
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04 Jan 2026
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A place (a person) where you feel safe by TheBoludaSpring
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Aug 2022
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In the hours that followed Vecna's disappearance, the kids just want to feel safe. They have associated safety with Steve.
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31 Dec 2025
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Yanking the phone from the wall with shaking hands, Dustin typed in Robin's number, he had to start over a few times but eventually the dial tone sounded and he clutched the phone to his ear as if it was a lifeline.
Or: Dustin has a nightmare about Robin getting hurt, she proves to him it wasn't real.
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- Part 9 of Robin, The Heart.
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30 Dec 2025
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it would only take the energy to fix it by loveinhawkins
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Jul 2025
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And Steve is patting him down; he’s patting him down because he’s right there, dirt in his hair and a shallow cut on his forehead, “Are you hurt?” he keeps saying because he’s alive, “Dustin, are you hurt?”
You keep leaving, Dustin can’t say. Stop leaving.
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- Part 3 of every clock's a different time
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28 Dec 2025
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All aboard! Ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay by iubilaeum
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Sep 2025
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Although Dustin heard Steve stop walking, he didn’t notice anything was off until he spoke.
“Uh… Dustin?” Dustin turned. Steve was standing stock still, looking oddly pale in the steely darkness. “Something’s…” He stuck his hand under his shirt almost mechanically. It came away dark red. “...wrong.”
Then Steve, with his eyes glassy and faraway, was lifting up the hem of his shirt to reveal a lacy network of puncture wounds.
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My take on Dustin getting Vecnaed!
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27 Dec 2025
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“DUSTIN!” Steve screamed, a choked, desperate sound, scrambling to his feet and running towards the unseeing boy. He was shaking slightly beneath Eddie’s hands, head twitching due to whichever vision Vecna was forcing on him.
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25 Dec 2025
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“D’you want the music on or off?” Steve asks. Max closes her eyes. Billy would never have asked her if she wanted the music on or off.
Set at the end of summer, 1985.
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21 Dec 2025
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Steve is dying.
Steve is dying, and his blood is dripping onto Dustin’s arms, and Dustin doesn’t even know where it’s coming from.
“You can’t,” Dustin mutters frantically, pressing at Steve’s head and arms and chest, trying to cover up a wound he can’t find. “You can’t. You have to be okay, Steve, you’re okay.”
Steve smiles, and there’s blood on his teeth, and Dustin can’t do this, he can’t do this, not again.
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Dustin gets Vecna'd.
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20 Dec 2025