Finding Light in Dark Places
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When silence hurts more by Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
10 Nov 2025
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Ponyboy was still so young—just fourteen, still soft around the edges, and too full of love for a world that hadn’t been gentle with him. Orphaned and aching, he clung to his older brothers with all he had. He gave freely. Unconditionally.
Darry and Sodapop loved him back—deeply, fiercely, in the only ways they knew how. But they forgot something vital:
Homes aren't only broken fists, blood, or broken bones.
Sometimes, a home loses its meaning in the quiet—
when the silences stretch too long, when the affection becomes rare, rushed, or reluctant, when shame replaces tenderness, and when presence becomes performance.This series is full of tenderness, aching warmth, and quiet heartbreak—each part a soft unraveling of how neglect doesn’t always shout… sometimes, it just forgets to hold on.
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- Part 1 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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The Boy We Didn't Deserve by Cherry_Blooom, Kammly
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Aug 2025
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A series of request-based one-shots and short scenes centered around Ponyboy Curtis. From warmth and sibling cuddles to heartbreak, betrayal, and fierce redemption, this collection explores what it means to hurt—and to hold—the youngest Curtis boy.
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- Part 2 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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The Theater by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
13 Sep 2025
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The gang heads out to the movies on a sticky summer night—without Ponyboy, who stayed home after a spat with Darry.
What should’ve been an ordinary evening turns strange when the screen shows something unexpected. It’s just the beginning of a night none of them could’ve predicted.
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- Part 3 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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Flicker in the Dark by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
03 Sep 2025
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Inside a dark theater, Ponyboy is completely lost in the world on the movie screen.
The Shepards? They’re lost in him. Quiet glances, twitching fingers, and smirks that say too much—they’re not watching the movie, not really.
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- Part 4 of Finding Light in Dark Places
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A Gift They Didn’t Deserve by Cherry_Blooom
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
23 Nov 2025
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The Shepards had never felt true love. At least, not the kind that makes your chest ache with sweetness so sharp it steals your breath, not the kind that weakens your knees and makes you feel weightless and rooted all at once.
They had known fists and knives, alleyways and slammed doors. They had known hunger that clawed through their ribs, betrayal that cut deeper than steel, anger that kept them alive when nothing else would. But love? Real love? That was a foreign language, something they had only caught in glimpses—mothers holding babies close at the grocery store, a boy laughing with his brother as if nothing in the world could break that bond.
Not until Ponyboy.
And even then, it was strange.
Wrong, almost.
A thing they weren’t built for.
Aka: A compilation of one-shots and two-shots about one of Tulsa’s most dangerous gangs… and Ponyboy Curtis.
Something that shouldn’t have worked out the way it did.
(But then again, God’s been in the business of making impossible things happen since the beginning of time.)
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- Part 5 of Finding Light in Dark Places