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   A New Life by jtophat

   Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • No category
   • Complete Work

   13 Jul 2024

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Dallas Winston
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis
   • Johnny Cade & Ponyboy Curtis
   • Johnny Cade & Darrel Curtis & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis & Steve Randle & Dallas Winston
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Steve Harrington
   • Ponyboy Curtis
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Sodapop Curtis
   • Dallas Winston
   • Johnny Cade
   • Steve Randle
   • Two-Bit Mathews
   • Steve Harrington
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Good Brother Sodapop Curtis
   • Good Brother Darrel Curtis
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Underage Smoking
   • Psychometry
   • Supernatural Elements
   • Angst
   • Ponyboy Curtis Needs a Hug
   • 1980s
   • Alternate Universe - 1980s
   • Survivor Guilt
   • Hawkins Lab Experiment Ponyboy Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis is 012
   • He is also twelve years old for timeline purposes
   • We are going to pretend that the Curtis parents died when Ponyboy was Twelve
   • Not Really Character Death
   • Ponyboy just thinks that Eleven is dead
   • Post-Season/Series 01
   • Pre-Season/Series 02
   • Crossovers & Fandom Fusions
   • Brotherly Love
   • Mental Health Issues
   • I can't tell you what exactly
   • But something is going on in there

   Summary

   He stood at the front door, ready to knock on the house whose address he had checked and double-checked hundreds of times. He knew the names of the people who lived there, Sodapop and Darrel Curtis, even though there was no chance that they knew him. At least not on sight. He couldn’t blame them either, he was still getting used to his own name.

   Ponyboy.

   Even the thought of the name felt foreign to him. He couldn’t imagine what it would be like to say that name out loud or to respond to it but he would learn soon. Because, once that door opened, he would finally have a name. He would no longer be Twelve, the experiment with his number tattooed on his wrist, he would become Ponyboy Curtis.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Once A Number, Now A (Pony)Boy

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   12 Jul 2025