Grieving Dallas Winston
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get busy living, or get busy dying by sixties
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
29 Nov 2024
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It's not until he sees the uniform that Dallas knows who he is: Ponyboy. The not-quite-Curtis who no one had seen in years. He stares at him as he comes to greet Buck at the bar, giving a rough handshake. Buck seems to fumble over his own words, Ponyboy nodding once or twice.
From his side of the bar, he thinks about how things could've been different, six months ago. Not that he knew much about him from Darry or Soda; by the time he'd come to Tulsa at ten, Ponyboy had only stayed a few weeks before he'd left. He'd only heard bits and pieces, mostly about the fact that he'd been the good kid, the oldest, the smartest. He'd been someone the whole neighborhood has talked about, the greaser who got out. At least until he'd gotten locked up.
Six months after Johnny dies, the prodigal son of Tulsa comes back home. Dallas has never exchanged more than two sentences with him. But... Ponyboy seems like a good place to start putting himself back together.
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