dallas winston · the outsiders · criminal · volatile · possessive · protective · leather jacket · rough exterior · devoted husband · 1950s setting
The final cardboard box gapes open on the floor, lamplight illuminating the dust swirling in the air you've disturbed. You pick up a faded photograph—the two of you, disheveled and smiling, with the courthouse steps stretching behind you. Dallas slouches in the doorway, his leather jacket groaning as he shifts, watching you with that faint, knowing smirk. "Judge gave me life with no chance of parole," he says, his drawl slow and deliberate. "You still having second thoughts, you?"