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   I've Got You, Brother by silentcry3435

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

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   16 Aug 2025

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   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Steve Randle
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Two-Bit Mathews
   • Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis
   • Ponyboy Curtis
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Sodapop Curtis
   • Two-Bit Mathews
   • Steve Randle
   • Johnny Cade
   • Dallas Winston
   • Bob Sheldon
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Ponyboy has PTSD
   • Brotherly Love
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Brotherly Angst
   • Protective Steve Randle
   • Protective Two-Bit Mathews
   • Protective Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Protective Sodapop Curtis
   • Protective Siblings
   • Ponyboy Needs a Hug
   • (he gets it)
   • Good Brother Sodapop Curtis
   • Good Brother Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Self-Doubt
   • Nightmares
   • Body Horror
   • (in the nightmares)
   • POV Ponyboy Curtis
   • but like third person limited
   • Not first person
   • Dead Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston
   • Dead Bob Sheldon
   • Pony sees them in his nightmares which is why they're tagged as characters
   • It's a dark story about his experience with trauma and how it affects him
   • but it has a happy ending
   • Hopeful Ending
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Pet Names
   • Steve Randle is a Good Friend
   • Two-Bit Mathews is a Good Friend
   • I love Steve and I have thoughts about him and Pony so their brotherly love is shown in this sue me
   • Trauma
   • lots of angst but also lots of comfort
   • Insomnia
   • Fear
   • so not really character death? but like he dreams he dies so it can be seen as character death but its just a dream
   • Blood and Violence
   • I cannot stress this enough it's a very dark story about dealing with trauma but it ends happily
   • steve and two-bit and darry and soda are all there for him and take care of him
   • the horror aspects are brief but i'm tagging them just in case

   Summary

   Traumatized, Pony keeps the horrors his mind supplies him with to himself. It doesn't take long for Steve to notice, and one by one, his troubles come to light. And he's reminded that they're so much more than friends, they're brothers.

   Series

   • Part 8 of the outsiders fics inspired by songs
   • Part 2 of favorites

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   17 Aug 2025