A collection of One-shots about Darry and Sodapop raising Ponyboy :) Each chapter will have something different unless the title says otherwise. I take requests FROM REVIEWS and if anyone has an input or an idea, I'm 99.9% sure it'll become a chapter :)

I Don't own The Outsiders the brilliant S. E. Hinton does.

Prologue.

When Born Soda was told he would be a big brother, not knowing what that meant, Darry told him that he would be just like him. Upon hearing he'd be just like Darry made the little boy happy and anxious for their little sister's arrival.

As luck would have it, Mrs. Curtis blessed the family with a boy.

A new brother.

"He's so small." Soda pointed out.

Darry nodded, holding up Soda to look into the hospital bed where their brother, Ponyboy, was sleeping.

"He is small, that's why we gotta' protect him." Darry answered.

Soda was confused. "From what?"

Darry shrugged. "Monsters, I guess."

That made Soda cringe, monsters? What would monsters want with his little brother? Well, over his dead body would they take little Ponyboy from him.

Soda watched him like a hawk after the whole hospital statement.

Darry told him monsters didn't exist.

"But you said in the hospital that they did!" Soda cried. "No monsters go to Ponyboy!"

As much as Darry found it amusing that Soda would take on the job for this whole "big brother" thing, he still wasn't happy when Soda didn't accept his apology for his lie.

Soda spent his days gazing at the sleeping boy. He found it so fascinating to see the baby sleeping. He'd often be shushed out by his mother to let the baby sleep in peace. But you could count on Soda being right next to Ponyboy when even the tiniest of whimpers escaped his little mouth.

One day, tragedy struck The Curtis'. Ponyboy was sick with fever and a cold. While their mother fretted about, cleaning the house or rocking a sick Ponyboy, Soda sat outside the room, just waiting and hearing the poor cries. There was nothing he could do and it scared him.

Sometimes Darry would sit with him.

Pretty soon, they made it a habit.

Even after Ponyboy was well and back to the babbling little baby boy, they still wouldn't allow him out of eyesight.

Not even for a second.

Just because he was turning fourteen, doesn't mean that rule would be lifted, either.

Alright, The Prologue is done, chapters will be longer in the future, this is just to see if I should continue.

Reviews? (Hopefully)

Suggestions? (Probably)

-Kylelover101