The Outsiders Imagines & Preferences

{Pref.} When You Were Hurt By Socs

Info: Platonic. Sibling!reader. This is assuming they weren't with you when it happened and you're only lightly to moderately injured.

Darry's pulse is immediately at 200 the second he sees even the smallest scratch or bruise on you, and he will not calm down until you're patched up. He'll be interrogating you about what happened the whole time while he or Soda do so, and low-key makes you feel like it's your own fault while simultaneously treating you like you're made of glass. Definitely won't let you out of his sight when he's home for at least a week, and makes the others babysit you when he's at work. You're not going anywhere alone any time soon, that's for sure.

Sodapop helps Darry patch you up, or does it on his own if he's at work, and also takes care of comforting you. Seeing you hurt makes him feel bad too, but he won't show it, instead focusing on cheering you up. He keeps grumbling about how he'll give those Socs hell, but that's just empty talk because he refuses to leave your side until he's sure you're really okay.

Ponyboy will also help patch you up — cue all three of your brothers crowding around you and almost suffocating you in their attention as they fuss over you — but will mostly leave the comforting you to Soda if he's there because he's just the best at it. If it's just him and Darry he'll hold your hand while the elder patches you up, and roll his eyes at Darry's ungainly way of showing his worry to make you smile.

Johnny is close to a panic attack, remembering his own recent run-in with the Socs, and terrified of how badly they might have hurt you, even if he can see you're not nearly as badly hurt as he had been. He wants to reassure you you're okay, for his own sake as much as yours, but barely brings out a word, and in the end it's you comforting him, which just makes him feel worse because you are the one who's hurt! He'll look you over for injuries from head to toe, and put band-aids on every single cut and scratch you have, no matter how tiny. It could be a mosquito bite you scratched open, he's still putting a band-aid on it.

Dallas is absolutely seething. He'll quickly get you patched up, or leave you in the care of one of the gang, then he's off to hunt these fuckers down and make them pay. If there's another greaser around he'll get them to come with him, otherwise he'll just go alone, no fucks given. He will find the Socs who roughed you up, and he will make them regret they ever so much as set eyes on you.

Two-Bit hides his worry behind jokes, teasing you about losing a fight against the Socs while he cleans you up, but he interjects the occasional word of comfort to make sure you know he's not being serious, and cuddles up on the couch with you later. Definitely asks for an exact description of the guys so he can keep an eye out for them.

Steve outwardly keeps very calm, taking you to the Curtis' place where he knows you feel safest and patching you up there while Soda distracts you, but inside he's fuming, imagining all the ways he'll make those assholes suffer for messing with you.