The Soft Violence of Love
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Something Smaller Than Forever by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
05 Jun 2026
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Summary
Darry is sixteen years old and has been breathing hospital air for three days.
Three days since the world rearranged itself into before and after. Three days since he learned that love could arrive weighing almost nothing—and that his hands, which have hauled shingles and thrown footballs and held together three people's worth of falling apart, might not know how to hold something this small.
Sodapop has not stopped moving.
The baby has not stopped breathing.
And Darry, who has not cried, sits very still on the patched couch and learns that some facts arrive already irrevocable: the morning, the floor beneath his feet, and the five fingers no bigger than grains of rice that have decided his thumb is worth holding.(Or: The night the Curtis brothers became three.)
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- Part 1 of The Soft Violence of Love