shadows in the city
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out of your head (and into your feet) by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
22 Jul 2021
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summer, 1979. ponyboy curtis wakes up to his regular heat partner, dallas winston, in his bed and decides that maybe it's time to be a little more than just heat partners. first one shot in a three shot series.
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- Part 1 of shadows in the city
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the skyline shines with a certain light by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - All Media Types, The Outsiders (1983)
04 Feb 2025
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Ponyboy's hand on his elbow, squeezing hard, pulling him back, voice panicked, "Darry — Darry quit it!" Even if he says the name, Dallas knows that warning is more for him. "Dallas is my boyfriend."
Oh. That name.
Darry: the big brother Ponyboy spoke about sometimes, who always seemed to have given Ponyboy a hard time, who pushed him to leave tulsa and do better for himself, who hit him once in his life and never again, who had a wife and pups and shouldn't be in New York but was here, and now, and giving Ponyboy a hard time.
He wasn't an ex boyfriend — just an annoying older brother, confronting his brother in a hallway like an asshole.
In 1981, after a mob job, Dallas goes to see Ponyboy, but there's an uninvited guest there waiting for him and with it comes the introduction of the Curtis pack to Dallas.
Things go smoothly. well. smooth in Dallas' estimation and Darry's estimation are a little different.
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- Part 2 of shadows in the city
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Ponyboy's apartment looks like a buffet at this point with all the food laid out in front of him. He's not rich at all; Dallas knew that the moment he showed up to the club. What's got him befuddled is why Ponyboy has all of this in front of him, spread out, squinting at a list.
He's a schoolteacher; he doesn't have a huge salary, evident from the fact that one part of his rickety table is held up by books, by the secondhand clothes he's wearing, from the fact that Dallas has never seen anything more expensive than Wonderbread in his apartment before until now. He's looking at rye, wheat, better white bread than he's ever seen as Ponyboy dunks a knife in a more expensive than usual mayonnaise, too involved in what he's doing to realize Dallas has entered.
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- Part 3 of shadows in the city