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A Wild Ride Home by the_clover_cottage
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
24 Jan 2026
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2026 UPDATE: BEING DISCONTINUED BUT REWRITTEN!!
inspired by "Home" by @Fefe_the_cat, if you haven't seen it definitely check it out!
modern/foster care AU with the outsiders and some silly OC's!
I honestly don't know what im doing lmao i just kinda started writing this one day7/5/25 UPDATE: It occured to me that readers may think there is too much of a focus on psychology-related topics in this fic. Psychology is my passion and I happen to like writing about it. Please do not take it the wrong way.
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A Love That Lives On No Matter Where I Go by Glitchy_Sanwix
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
30 Dec 2025
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Michael Ponyboy Miller was born into money. He was what the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma, called a "soc". He used to have the perfect life, with a loving mom and dad to spoil him rotten. But one day, his mom was killed in a car accident where she was hit by a train while crossing the tracks to the east side of town, and Michael lost everything after that. His mom, his friends, his dad, and his happiness.
It seems like nothing will ever get better, but when he makes friends with a timid greaser who is so much like him, life seems to turn around. Even though Michael despises greasers after their turf took his mother away from him, he still wants to give them a chance because he has nothing else to lose. Maybe, just maybe, he might find a new family this way, too.
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Chapter 1 has been reworked due to plot changes. Those who have already read the chapter before October 18th, 2025, please reread it!!
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You're a Greaser Now (And There's No Going Back) by fictionalcharactergraveyard
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
28 Dec 2025
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As I pulled into the driveway of my newest foster home, I had only two things on my mind. Paul Newman, and cigarettes.
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Or Ponyboy Davis's newest foster home is in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1965. He’s used to bouncing around homes, the survival that comes with it all. What he isn’t used to however, is a gang that would change all that. -
Getting some new brothers. by im14ivebeen14foramonth
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
04 Dec 2025
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Darrel gets a kid brand new to foster care and one who's been through it all his life. But how will Pony and Johnny deal with their new home which is so different than they are both used to. Maybe they will like it here
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Cold Blooded Old Times by Viooooletty
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
03 Dec 2025
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Ponyboy Lewis has been in the foster system for as far back as he can remember. At 13, he's given up on his life looking like anything other than a slow crawl towards a bleak future. That starts to change after he is placed in a home on the east side of Tulsa.
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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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Agent 42 knew he was always going to end up 6 feet under. Whether he escaped or not. His life was a never ending circle, fly, fight, work, eat, sleep, repeat. Over, and over, and over. There was nothing destined for him, no “Great prophecy” like the handlers praise about, no “better future” for him to enjoy. He was never meant to enjoy anything.
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Ponyboy is the face of a popular company sworn to taking down and capturing any undocumented harpies, using their own harpy forces to capture them.
(I dont know how to write summary’s 💔💔)
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- 894
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Nobody's Son by AshRiver_0909
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
21 Nov 2025
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Ponyboy Cade had never had his cuts taken care of before; sometimes his mom would patch him up when Dad hurts him too much, but he’s usually unconscious when that happens, and she’s never there when he wakes up. So it was an odd experience, having Mrs. Curtis disinfect and put a band-aid over his knee with gentle hands. He had never been treated gently before, and when he started thinking about it, his eyes stung, so he decided to not think about it any more.
Ponyboy & Johnny Swap!AU
Ponyboy Cade & Johnny CurtisSeries
- Part 2 of A Study on Resentment
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People Are People, But It's Like You're Made Of Angel Dust by AshRiver_0909
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
19 Nov 2025
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Ponyboy Cade loves Johnny Curtis, and he’d fight anyone who says otherwise. Johnny is everything, after all. Ponyboy would have nothing without Johnny and he knows it. Johnny was Ponyboy’s first friend, the person who introduced him to the gang, the only person who truly gets him, his best friend. Without Johnny, Ponyboy would have never felt what it’s like to be loved, and for that Ponyboy will always love Johnny. But sometimes, during moments when no one is looking at Ponyboy (no one ever does anyways; not really), he resents Johnny.
Ponyboy and Johnny swap!AU
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- Part 1 of A Study on Resentment
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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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This House Will be Your Home by aceoffaspaid
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
30 Sep 2025
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After the sudden loss of his parents Darry Curtis took a step down from taking in new fosters. But now, he’s ready to open his home once again.
The three kids his social worker introduces him to- Dallas Winston, who spent his life between homes that left him more broken than the last , Ponyboy a quite kid who can’t seem to speak, and Sodapop, who lets in to easy just to get shut out again.
They don’t trust easy and Darry knows that. With the help of Matt- his longest current foster he’s determined to help these kids.
Or, Darry wants to prove to his new foster kids that this home can be permanent, and show them what love is.
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Where the Sun Meets the Storm by Legends_Never_Die
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
23 Sep 2025
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Dallas hadn’t spoken to his kid brother in six years. Not since he’d left New York.
If he was honest, he hadn’t really even thought about the kid. At first, it had just been too painful. But it got easier. And the farther and farther South he found himself the easier it had become to forget about Ponyboy Winston.
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Or the AU where Ponyboy Winston is sent down to Tulsa to live with his brother Dallas. But it would only be for five months. Because Ponyboy would never forgive his brother for leaving. He and Dallas would never get along...right?
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His eye, it is the East and West (excerpts) by stallionA (itsrllynotA)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
20 Sep 2025
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Ponyboy Curtis and Dallas Winston - A Soc and a Hood - meet at a party one chilly, October night that sends off a chain reaction of secret meetings, falling in love, and a shared heat. Keeping a secret relationship is easy, a secret baby isn't.
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- Part 1 of East and West
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The Theater by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
13 Sep 2025
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The gang heads out to the movies on a sticky summer night—without Ponyboy, who stayed home after a spat with Darry.
What should’ve been an ordinary evening turns strange when the screen shows something unexpected. It’s just the beginning of a night none of them could’ve predicted.
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- Part 3 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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The Boy We Didn't Deserve by Cherry_Blooom, Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Aug 2025
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A series of request-based one-shots and short scenes centered around Ponyboy Curtis. From warmth and sibling cuddles to heartbreak, betrayal, and fierce redemption, this collection explores what it means to hurt—and to hold—the youngest Curtis boy.
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- Part 2 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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paper maps by ChristmasEve12
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
11 Aug 2025
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title probably to be changed!!
“Are you even listening?”
I nodded. “Yeah, just reading.” Reading was sort of a stretch. I was really skimming the papers, eyes darting between bolded sentences and highlighted lines. By now, I knew to skip past the big words, the government seals. It took me only a handful of seconds to find what I was looking for.
“We’re going to Oklahoma?”
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Ponyboy moves into Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1966. He's just there for his dad's job, and he's never made friends that last, but he has a feeling that this time, it might be different.
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Wyld Side by peyoso
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, World of Darkness (Games)
02 Aug 2025
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In 1951, Ponyboy Curtis was born under the crescent moon somewhere in the wilderness of Illinois.
In 1965, the mangled bodies of five young boys are found on the East Side alongside a catatonic Johnny Cade and a missing Ponyboy Curtis.
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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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ponyboys dad is an abusive Douch bag. Ponyboy is a sarcastic smart ass.
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Saturday Night Wrist by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
22 Jun 2025
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I’m bad at summaries uuuuuhh
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Ponyboy is a soc (wow so cool I didn’t read the tags) he’s also gay for Johnny and curly 🤔
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