fast car

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• leave tonight or live and die this way by buckkybbarnes

  Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  19 Feb 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr./Paul Holden
  • Darrel Curtis/Paul Holden
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Paul Holden
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
  • Paul Holden
  • Ponyboy Curtis
  • (briefly)
  • Song: Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
  • Driving
  • Running Away
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • basically paul's parents suck
  • Pre-Canon
  • no beta we die like
  • well no one's dead yet but still
  • Out of Character
  • Underage Drinking
  • Doomed by the Narrative
  • Angst
  • darry and paul run away to new york
  • i had to get this out of my brain and now here it is

  Summary

  Darry never thought it would end up like this. They were supposed to make it out. Well, he mused, technically they did. He just assumed it would be, well, different.

  Or, Darry and Paul run away together.

  Series

  • Part 1 of fast car

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,926

  Chapters:

  3/3

  Kudos:

  39

  Hits:

  334

• starting from zero, got nothing to lose by buckkybbarnes

  Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  02 Apr 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr./Paul Holden
  • Darrel Curtis/Paul Holden
  • Paul Holden & Original Male Character(s)
  • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
  • Paul Holden
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • Implied/Referenced Underage Drinking
  • depending in how old you think paul is
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Hate Crimes
  • nothing too graphic though
  • paul holden is bad at feelings
  • and is an alcoholic about it
  • no beta we die like parry
  • Underage Drinking
  • paul and darry are terrible for each other
  • But that’s okay
  • Song: Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
  • this isn’t a songfic but the other fic in the series is
  • so songfic in law
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • at all

  Summary

  Paul and Darry run away. It’s not as idyllic as it seems. From Paul’s pov this time.

  or, Paul’s pov of the events of my other fic

  Series

  • Part 2 of fast car

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,479

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  9

  Hits:

  124