Crossing the line
- Jensen Ackles x y/n F/Reader
- Summary: Jensen and y/n have been friend since childhood. She always loved him didn't dare to tell him. But what happens when Jensen visits her on the night before his wedding?
- Warnings: nothing much, little teasing towards spice.
- English isn't my first language
- Please do not copy my work. Comments, likes and sharing are appreciated.
- Under no circumstances do I wish to harm the Ackles familie.
The soft glow of the television flickered against the walls of Y/N’s small apartment bedroom. She was half-asleep, wrapped in her blankets, when she heard the familiar click of her front door unlocking.
She didn’t even stir. He had a key—he always had a key. And when he didn't he'd found a way.
As little kids their parents were friends, they had sleepovers and play dates and barbecues.
In high school he crawled through her window to have movie nights or just nightly conversations on her bed, he often fell asleep next to her.
And when he moved out, following his dream, and since became the Jensen Ackles, the famous actor, she gave him a key to her apartment, so he'd still have a way into her little world. She supposed that meant something.
The bed dipped beside her, the scent of whiskey and Jensen’s cologne filling her senses. A lazy grin tugged at his lips as he flopped down beside her, fully clothed.
“Jensen?” she mumbled sleepily, rubbing her eyes.
“Hey, sweetheart.” His voice was slightly slurred, his green eyes hazy yet warm as he looked at her. “Didn’t mean to wake you.”
Y/N sighed, shifting to sit up. “You’re supposed to be at your bachelor party.”
“I was.” He grinned lazily, stretching his arms above his head. “But it felt wrong, you know? My best friend wasn't there."
"Did Jared bail on you?" She joked
Jensen bumped her arm. "Fine, I meant my best girl wasn't there."
Her heart clenched at his words, but she pushed the feeling away. This was Jensen, her best friend since high school. The man who always found his way back to her, no matter how high his star rose. And tomorrow, he would belong to someone else.
She scooted over, making room for him. Without hesitation, he slid under the covers beside her, his body warm against hers.
The movie on the screen played out a familiar trope—two best friends secretly in love, dancing around their feelings until fate intervened.
Jensen snorted, watching the main characters exchange longing looks. “Come on. This is so unrealistic.”
Y/N smirked, glancing at him. “Oh, because love is so logical?”
“No, but—” he gestured at the screen. “Boy and girl, best friends. Cute, but why do they always have fall in love? That’s Hollywood nonsense. Why can’t they just be friends? Why does one always have to ruin it.”
Y/N rolled her eyes, ever the romantic. “Maybe some people do fall for their best friend. some people don’t realize what’s right in front of them. It’s not about inevitability, it’s about feelings. Real ones.”
He was quiet for a moment before smirking. “We’re living proof it’s fake. Look at us. Best friends for, what, fifteen years? Never crossed a line.”
Something about the way he said it made her chest tighten. “Yeah,” she murmured, voice softer now. “Never.”
After the movie ended Jensen exhaled deeply, turning onto his side to face her. “Remember that camping trip senior year? One tent, freezing cold.”
She smiled at the memory. “We had to share a sleeping bag. Because someone planned a last minute camping trip and forgot his bag.”
He chuckled. “Yeah, and you kept complaining that I was hogging all the warmth. I was just trying to survive. You were a human furnace, Y/N. I had no choice but to steal your heat.”
Y/N felt her face heating up remembering how it felt to sleep in his arms that night.
His eyes darkened slightly, though his smile remained. “Still. We never crossed a line. That means something, right?”
She hesitated. “Want to watch another movie?” Turning away from him so she could grab the controller.
She scrolled mindless through the movies she knew Jensen would liked.
He exhaled heavily, staring up at the ceiling. Then he turned back to her, his voice quieter now. “Do you think I’m doing something wrong?”
Her breath hitched. She stared at him, her mind racing. Did he mean being here with her tonight? In her bed, on the eve of his wedding?
Her heart screamed ‘no’— because she want him there, because she knew he belonged with her. And if he'd give her a change she would do her best to make him feel loved and happy.
“Jensen…” She hesitated, then finally whispered, “Maybe a little... I-I mean..."
Her voice broke."If you were my boyfriend, I wouldn't want you to stay at a girls house, specially not the night before our wedding."
A shadow passed over his face, his lips pressing into a thin line mumbling. "Yeah, the wedding.”
He exhaled heavily, staring up at the ceiling. “I meant… do you think I'm doing the right thing... marrying Danneel.”
Silence blanketed the room. Y/N’s pulse pounded in her ears as his words sank in. She had spent years locking away feelings she had no right to have. But now, here he was, lying beside her, questioning the biggest decision of his life.
“Jensen,” she whispered, her voice barely audible. “You love her.”
“I do,” he admitted, turning onto his side to face her fully. “But it doesn’t feel the way it should. It doesn’t feel like… this.”
Y/N’s breath hitched. "L-like this?"
His fingertips brushed against hers under the covers, the smallest touch, yet it sent her world spinning. "Save."
Y/N kept looking at him, unable to read his expression. Was he teasing her? Did he meant it? Or better yet, how did he mean it?
“Say something,” he murmured, searching her face for answers.
She wanted to. God, she wanted to tell him everything—that her heart had been his since high school, that she had been waiting for him to see her the way she saw him. But what could she say now, on the night before his wedding?
“You’re drunk, Jay,” she whispered, though even she didn’t believe the excuse. “You should go to sleep.”
But Jensen didn’t want to. He whispered, his fingers still tracing hers. “I just… I always thought I’d find a girl who’s a little more… you.”
She swallowed hard. “Why?” she whispered, barely able to form the word.
“Because everything comes so natural with us,” he admitted, his voice rough with honesty. “I don’t need to think about what to say. I don’t need to watch what I do. I don’t have to work out to look good enough, because I know you'll love me as I am. I can just be me.”
Jensen moved to lean on his elbow, almost hovering over her.
His words poured out, unfiltered, raw. “You know me better than anyone. You see all my flaws, all my screw-ups, and you still let me in—hell, you still let me into your bed."
"You trust me, blindly. And I feel safe with you, safe enough to tell you anything. Even the fact that I'm afraid that I'm marrying the wrong person tomorrow. Maybe I need a girl like my best girl."
Jensen seemed to lean in, clsoing the space between them. But Y/N placrd her hand resting on his chest.
Y/N tried hard not to look at his lips while stumbling over her words.
“Maybe… you were never meant to find a girl like me. Because you don't... I mean... you chose her and, you know find her well... attractive. And I’m… me. And girls like me look like me.”
Jensen frowned. “You are beautiful.”
She pulled her hand back from his chest, looking up at him.
“Exactly. You would call your sister beautiful. And your girlfriend, I don’t know, hot, sexy... attractive?"
Jensen's smirk did nothing to ease her beating heart. "My point is, Jay. You'd never want to be or do... things, with a girl who you see as a sister."
His frown deepened as he stared at her. Then, his voice dropped to a whisper, barely audible in the quiet room. “Would I want to do this to my sister?”
Before she could process his words, his lips brushed against hers—soft, hesitant, but filled with something she had never dared to believe in.
He pulled back just slightly. Y/N’s lips parted, her breath uneven, his eyes locked onto her, searching a reason to stop, but she didnt look angry or upset.
Her mind screaming at her to say something—anything—but before she could, he kissed her again.
This time, her hand moved to the back of his head, fingers tangling in his hair, pulling him closer as the last of the space between them disappeared.
The kiss deepened, slow at first, but quickly unraveling into something more. Jensen’s hands roamed, his fingertips tracing familiar yet uncharted territory.
One hand gripped her waist, pulling her against him, as if closing the distance that had always existed between them.
He felt her hand tracing his chest, soft and unsure, but he needed to feel more of her touch. His free pulled the fabric of his shirt, tugging it over his head before tossing it aside. Before his hand grabbed the inside of her knee, so he could nearly melt against her.
That same hand tracing her thigh, her hip, feeling the soft cotton underwear while he make his way over to her stomach.
His breath was warm against her skin, his lips teasing against hers, lingering—testing. He hovered above her, eyes dark, questioning, waiting for any sign to stop.
But Y/N didn’t pull away, not this time. Instead, she pulled him closer, her own body betraying years of restraint. And for once giving in, not caring about the consequences, at least not tonight.
No. Tonight, the line had been crossed, one they could never undo.