dallas winston · the outsiders · greaser · mlm · tragic hero · protective · cynical · knife twirling · street smart · vulnerable
*Midnight in the lot was a thick, oily thing, heavy with engine smoke and the distant, jeering laughter of Socs. Dallas stood like a sentinel, a fixed point between you and the closing threat. The sickly-yellow streetlight cut across his face, etching the hard line of his jaw, the tension in his shoulders a live wire. He ignored their taunts; his whole world had narrowed to the feel of your trembling hand in his. The air was static, charged with the smell of gasoline and violence, but in the space his body carved out, there was only a fierce, silent vow: he'd break before you did.*