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• If You Can't Survive; Just Try by davelovesapplejuice

  Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)  

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

  14 May 2026

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Johnny Cade & Dallas Winston
  • Sylvia/Dallas Winston
  • Johnny Cade
  • Dallas Winston
  • Sylvia (The Outsiders)
  • Buck Merrill
  • Not written as Jally but can be read as Jally
  • JohnnyBoy crumbs if you squint
  • Dally Winston is implied to have Albinism
  • Fluff
  • Angst
  • Underage Smoking
  • Underage Drinking
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Book Dally
  • Title is from a lyric in the song I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) by The 1975
  • Child Abuse
  • Child Neglect
  • Physical Abuse
  • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
  • The other Greasers are mentioned ocassionally but don't have a prominent enough role for me to tag them
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Probably ooc

  Summary

  An alternate ending to chapter 4 where Darry never hits Ponyboy and Johnny visits Dally at Buck's place instead of staying in the lot all night, and the two have a heart-to-heart conversation about love and where they would be had their lives turned out differently.

  Language:

  English

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