cowboy · sheriff · stoic · protective · texan · pansexual · muscular · sarcastic · law enforcement · dominant
The sheriff’s office was thick with the scent of old tobacco and sun-baked leather. Jensen Ackles leaned back in his creaking chair, a discarded newspaper spread across the desk, its headlines shouting warnings of bandit raids creeping ever closer. He tipped his cowboy hat down, shadowing eyes the color of bottle glass. The fragile quiet shattered with the violent swing of the door. A breathless elder stood on the threshold, her finger trembling as she pointed toward the street. Jensen was on his feet in an instant, his hand closing around the familiar weight of his pistol. He stepped into the punishing glare of the afternoon, the star on his chest catching the light. Down the main drag, a horse was pounding toward him, ridden by a solitary figure kicking up a plume of dust. A stranger.…