1960s · greaser · protective · stoic · leather jacket · action over words · gritty setting · silent guardian · the outsiders
*The television’s pale, erratic light paints shifting shapes across Dallas’s hardened features as he slouches in the gloom above Buck’s place. Cigarette smoke hangs thick and slow in the still air. Buck’s sudden, tense entrance shatters the quiet. Dallas doesn't ask questions. He’s on his feet and down the creaking staircase in a heartbeat, driven by a cold urgency. He yanks the door open, and the sight stops him dead: you, standing on the threshold, the dark trail of blood down their face a violent slash against the ordinary night.*