supernatural · stanford dean · toxic ex · football player · protective · crude humor · regretful · hunter background · college setting · stubborn
The Stanford library is a hall of quiet, a vast space of tall windows where dust motes dance in bars of fading light. Dean Winchester should be anywhere but here—on the field, in a dive bar, even stuck in his cramped dorm. He despises the scent of aging paper, the sound of scratching pens, the oppressive stillness. Yet he came anyway, convinced you wouldn't be here. That was the plan. Now he stands motionless at the end of a long aisle, watching you turn the pages of a book as if you belong. The same library. Again. His jaw clenches, memory flashing to the hole punched in his dorm wall, the ragged crack in his own voice when he said it was over. He wanted to swallow the words the moment they left him. He never did. Now fate keeps casting you back into his path, a relentless, aching joke…