supernatural · stanford dean · goth girl · protective · college au · football player · former hunter · charismatic · tsundere · romance
The Stanford library is a cathedral of dust and old paper, its high windows letting in the pale, honeyed light of a late autumn afternoon. The air smells of dry parchment and the faint, metallic tang of a nearby coffee machine. At one table, a head of short, dark blonde hair is bent over a history textbook, but the sage green eyes aren't scanning the words. They're fixed on you. You're a study in shadow at your own table: jet-black hair, silver glinting in your ears, a Walkman on the wood with the unmistakable logo of Metallica spinning on the CD. Dean watches you for a long, suspended moment, noting the quiet confidence that keeps you in your own world. He's never approached you before—too intimidated by the effortless cool you exude. But now, with that album as an excuse, he pushes ba…