Story: Helpless

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Story: Helpless; by Antigone
Topic Started: Apr 28 2008, 06:27 AM (342 Views)
BlindedxxFalcon	Apr 28 2008, 06:27 AM Post #1
Gang Leader Posts: 2,046 Group: Senior Member Member #14 Joined: September 9, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Two-Bit Mathews Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username BlindedxxFalcon	Great story behind this Link!!! I bet some of you have read it, but for those of you who haven't...it will make you cry. Be warned, it's 61 chapters and you'll get sucked in. So make sure you have a good chunk of time to read. Seriously, it's great.
	I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious. "Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register. By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart." He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "Any judge would toss that case out on it's ass." "You'd be surprised." Seven spreads the rag out on the brass bar to dry. "Sounds like a misdemeanor, if you ask me." I rested my cheek on the cool, damp wood. "No way," I said. "Once you're in, it's for life." ~ My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult


Shannon Marie	Apr 29 2008, 06:15 PM Post #2
Gang Leader Posts: 1,136 Group: Senior Member Member #145 Joined: February 26, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Two-Bit Mathews	Yeah I read that a few months ago. It actually took me a few weeks to read the whole story, not because I'm a slow reader but because I read the first couple of chapters and found out... well you know what so I read the last chapter to see how it ended and I decided not to read it so I wouldn't cry lol. Of course a few weeks later I did read it and I did cry lol. But it is a pretty good story. There use to be the same story (sametitle and everything) under a different author but I could't find it. Someone reviewed saying that it was plagerised and that the original author was antigone and, now, that story magically disapeared lol.
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ghoti	May 1 2008, 06:05 PM Post #3
Gang Leader Posts: 620 Group: Senior Member Member #98 Joined: December 23, 2007	That was amazing. I'd have to say it's one of my favorites now.
	" We all do things we regret. But no matter how many mistakes we make, the true test is to see if we learned anything and don't repeat the same mistakes."


Celestra	Jun 16 2009, 10:30 AM Post #4
Future Greaser Posts: 146 Group: Member Member #582 Joined: June 11, 2009 Favourite Outsiders Character Johnny Cade Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Fanfiction.net Username Celestra	Wow, I definitely remember lurking in the Outsiders section when it was that small and not too long after this was written, but I don't remember ever seeing or reading this. I just did; I'm glad I had a puppy in my bed to cuddle so I wouldn't cry. Edited by Celestra, Jun 16 2009, 10:31 AM.
	The green faerie blinked. "What in the world are condoms?" "Defenders of virginity. The lead one is called 'Trojan Man'." "Wow. Like knights or something?" Wisp asked, innocently. ". . . . yes. Knights," Saba muttered, not quite sure how to explain it all to him. "How the heck am I supposed to hand out knights?" "Miniature knights. Made of rubber." ". . . I don't quite follow you." "Wisp? Why don't you go and find ToonQueen before something else does?" "Should I bring condoms with me?" "JUST GO!!!" ~excerpt from The Pirates' Cove In Neverland Interactive Story


Comsie	Jun 16 2009, 01:06 PM Post #5
Future Greaser Posts: 106 Group: Member Member #575 Joined: May 25, 2009 Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Fanfiction.net Username Comet80	I'm goinf to start reading it now...Oh, it's one of those cancer storiesprepares tissues



samaryley	Jun 16 2009, 05:43 PM Post #6
Greaser Posts: 359 Group: Senior Member Member #465 Joined: December 17, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username samaryley	I have heard really good things about this story, but I am just one of those people who cries enough in real life that I try not to subject myself to more sadness in fiction. I am sure it is great, though, considering the people who have recommended it to me.
	"Nobody here knows what they're doing. That's why it's called research." -A. Einstein


Comsie	Jun 16 2009, 06:45 PM Post #7
Future Greaser Posts: 106 Group: Member Member #575 Joined: May 25, 2009 Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Fanfiction.net Username Comet80	I was bawling buckets at the end of this story. Even tho I pretty much knew what was going to happen, I cried uncontrolably.



TheLorax	Jun 17 2009, 12:00 PM Post #8
Gang Leader Posts: 1,521 Group: Senior Member Member #55 Joined: October 13, 2007 Favourite Outsiders Character Steve Randle Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username FlaminSquirrelz	Despite how everyone seems to be impressed by this story, I dunno, it's not really doing much for me. I'm not finding it too interesting.
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Mars	Jun 17 2009, 01:07 PM Post #9
Gang Leader Posts: 8,711 Group: Senior Member Member #1 Joined: September 6, 2007	I wasn't able to get into it either. I found it very choppy from a technical standpoint, and I was really distracted by the punctuation and grammar when I read. I suspect there was no beta reader, which isn't uncommon, especially for a story that was written so long ago. Some of the chapters are ridiculously short, and I'm sort of clueless why everyone sees all this emotion in it, because it seems kind of melodramatic in spots to the extent that I almost found it funny. It'd be interesting to see the author come back to it and rewrite it. I have a feeling it would be a much stronger story since the author will have grown a lot the last seven years.
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Comsie	Jun 17 2009, 01:15 PM Post #10
Future Greaser Posts: 106 Group: Member Member #575 Joined: May 25, 2009 Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Fanfiction.net Username Comet80	I'd love to see a rewrite of it. I found it sad, but then, I cry at almost anything. I love old fanfics, some are crap, and some are good. And I guess at that time, that was one of the few "good" ones. That fic actually reminded me of a recent fanfic, it's cancer centered, but it's about Soda. Which i could remember the title...



taylorjeanjn	Jun 17 2009, 01:32 PM Post #11
Future Greaser Posts: 113 Group: Member Member #568 Joined: May 9, 2009 Favourite Outsiders Character Dallas Winston Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username taylorjeanjn	I think it's called...erm...The Space Between, maybe? I'm not quite sure. Anyway, I liked this story. I mean, it was long, but I didn't really get bored or anything. I cried really hard. But, at the same time, anything involving the military or cancer tends to make me cry. -shrugs- I thought it was a lot better than most of the stories on ff.net. Edited by taylorjeanjn, Jun 17 2009, 01:33 PM.
	Quotes to Live By: Too often, we lose sight of life's simple pleasures. Remember, when someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, BUT it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and slap that ass upside the head. He who stands on a windowsill to see how far out he can lean without falling is a moron. If you wish on a falling star it might come true... Unless it's a meteor hurdling to earth... Then no wishes come true... Unless your wish was to be killed a meteor hurdling to earth.


Comsie	Jun 17 2009, 05:40 PM Post #12
Future Greaser Posts: 106 Group: Member Member #575 Joined: May 25, 2009 Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Fanfiction.net Username Comet80	taylorjeanjn Jun 17 2009, 01:32 PM I think it's called...erm...The Space Between, maybe? I'm not quite sure. Anyway, I liked this story. I mean, it was long, but I didn't really get bored or anything. I cried really hard. But, at the same time, anything involving the military or cancer tends to make me cry. -shrugs- I thought it was a lot better than most of the stories on ff.net. Yes, that's what it's called. I forgot. I thought it was good-well written and good for when it was written.



stereochick	Jun 17 2009, 08:20 PM Post #13
Greaser Posts: 419 Group: Senior Member Member #213 Joined: April 30, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Johnny Cade Fanfiction.net Username Stereochick	I read this 2 summers ago and I remember it had me seriously depressed for at least a week after I read it. I couldn't get all the way through it at once. I had to stop reading it for a few weeks because it was just too upsetting. There were times when I would start getting welled up THINKING about the story during class. lol, I'm so overdramatic. Ugh, cancer sucks. At first the grammar and choppiness kind of put me off too, but once I got into the meat of the story I kind of forgot about it. I remember I was listening to the song Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap a lot while I was reading it and to this day I find that song more poignant than it really is.
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Celestra	Jun 17 2009, 08:48 PM Post #14
Future Greaser Posts: 146 Group: Member Member #582 Joined: June 11, 2009 Favourite Outsiders Character Johnny Cade Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Fanfiction.net Username Celestra	stereochick Jun 17 2009, 08:20 PM At first the grammar and choppiness kind of put me off too, but once I got into the meat of the story I kind of forgot about it. Same here. But I kept in mind that it was from 2002. Even though it was choppy, it put really clear images into my head and every once in a while there would be a line I found particularly evocative that would make me teary. Even though it was a tad cheesy, when Ponyboy goes "I'm not gonna grow up" or something similar, I was like "ohnuuuu Ponyyyyy." The parts I liked best were actually the Steve parts. I try not to read too many things about illness because I find depressing (duh), but I liked that he was anger-based because I feel like anger and blame are seldom covered by writers for this kind of thing. Mind you, I don't do well with tearjerkers anyways since I can be pretty emotional. I can't watch people cry because it makes me teary too, both in real life and movies. I'm also paranoid that I'm going to get cancer because I know it runs in my family on both sides :'( Edited by Celestra, Jun 17 2009, 08:50 PM.
	The green faerie blinked. "What in the world are condoms?" "Defenders of virginity. The lead one is called 'Trojan Man'." "Wow. Like knights or something?" Wisp asked, innocently. ". . . . yes. Knights," Saba muttered, not quite sure how to explain it all to him. "How the heck am I supposed to hand out knights?" "Miniature knights. Made of rubber." ". . . I don't quite follow you." "Wisp? Why don't you go and find ToonQueen before something else does?" "Should I bring condoms with me?" "JUST GO!!!" ~excerpt from The Pirates' Cove In Neverland Interactive Story


Comsie	Jun 18 2009, 09:32 AM Post #15
Future Greaser Posts: 106 Group: Member Member #575 Joined: May 25, 2009 Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Ponyboy Curtis Fanfiction.net Username Comet80	Celestra Jun 17 2009, 08:48 PM stereochick Jun 17 2009, 08:20 PM At first the grammar and choppiness kind of put me off too, but once I got into the meat of the story I kind of forgot about it. Same here. But I kept in mind that it was from 2002. Even though it was choppy, it put really clear images into my head and every once in a while there would be a line I found particularly evocative that would make me teary. Even though it was a tad cheesy, when Ponyboy goes "I'm not gonna grow up" or something similar, I was like "ohnuuuu Ponyyyyy." The parts I liked best were actually the Steve parts. I try not to read too many things about illness because I find depressing (duh), but I liked that he was anger-based because I feel like anger and blame are seldom covered by writers for this kind of thing. Mind you, I don't do well with tearjerkers anyways since I can be pretty emotional. I can't watch people cry because it makes me teary too, both in real life and movies. I'm also paranoid that I'm going to get cancer because I know it runs in my family on both sides :'( That story actually started to mame me more paranoid about cancer >> But it was one of the better stories I've read.



calla lilly rose	Jun 22 2009, 04:57 PM Post #16
Future Greaser Posts: 29 Group: Member Member #484 Joined: January 13, 2009	I felt it was excellent... and that the author did a fantastic job. Had all the elements of what really happens to a cancer victim, their struggles and emotions, plus what the family goes through. And yeah, I bawled like a baby for a week if not more. But, I am partial to Ponyboy's character. Calla
	May all those who seek happiness find it, and if the door to that happiness is shut, may you find an open window to climb through.


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