#like- it's not a 'we can't date cuz we're on opposite sides' thing- it's a:

[ilivelikeimtrying]

Nimona AU where Ballister is a villain but like, he's not even really that evil, like, at all. He's just, really bad at being a Villain.

And him and his "Nemesis" have the worst relationship, meaning that they have a great relationship because they don't even actually hate each other like Nemesis' are supposed to.

V!Ballister, doing an 'evil' monologue: Well well well, sir Goldenloin, it has been quite some time since we've last- What's wrong?

Ambrosius, whose face was scrunched a bit: Huh? Oh, it's nothing, these ropes on my wrists are just- they're burning and itching is all- you can keep-

V!Ballister, panicking and running over: Really?! Oh Ambrosius you've been here for hours! Why didn't you say anything sooner?! Are they too tight? Is it this new brand? I told Nimona not to get these ones but no-

*cue to Ambrosius staring fondly at Ballister as he continues to ramble about never buying this specific set of ropes again*

Half the time Ambrosius doesn't even know why he's fighting the guy, like, The Director is all "He's the personification of an Evil Villain" at Ballister and Ambrosius is staring at the same guy seeing him help a little girl get her kitten out of a tree and give a good bit of the money he stole to people in need and points at him like "Really????? "

[mindswriters]

pull the trigger — r.c.

Summary: since your family arrived the Outer Banks, your dad's been doing his job as a researcher oficer and chasing after Ward Cameron's dirty business. Rafe was Ward's puppet on a plan of making you fall in love with him, just so you could be used as an easy hostage to affect your dad. But when things get way too bad, would Rafe have the courage to hurt you just to impress his father?

Pairing: rafe cameron × female!reader

Warnings: language, typos probably cuz i didn't reviwed it, guns, violence, crying, mentions of killing and having sex (just once), this is angst and toxic af, but ends with fluff for the sake of fiction.

Word count: 3.4K

A/N: well shit, it's been a long time innit? i'm sorry for being MIA for what, 10 months? anyways, i'm going through a rafe fever and started writing this idea with no intention to post, but i liked the result so here i am :) hope you guys enjoy it and see ya again probably in another many months xx

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When me and my family first arrived the Outer Banks, the Cameron’s were the first ones to welcome us. My dad has business all around North Carolina, what makes him an important figure in here, and that’s why Ward Cameron, the richest man on the island, invited us for lunch at his house in the first weekend we had here. I was fast in becoming friend with his daughters, mainly Sarah, knowing that she's just one year younger than me, but Wheezie is such a sweet girl too, in the first minutes of conversation they already explained me everything about the island in a very cool way. Now I know that there are the Pogues, people who live in the poor side, called The Cut, they're the working class. And there are us, the Kooks, rich people who live in the figure eight. Sarah was sure to firmly point that she thinks this whole pogue versus kook thing the stupidest thing ever, just like me.

And as if I would forget, Ward has a son too, his prodigal son Rafe Cameron. Everyone in the Outer Banks knows who Rafe Cameron is. The handsome, popular, dreaded troublemaker Kook Prince. I must admit that in the first moment, he wasn't very nice with me, but not too mean also, just indifferent. Giving me a couple stares from his sit at the opposite side of the table, not talking anything besides "hi", "yes", "no" and "bye". But things between us are really different now, since this "welcome lunch" was 7 months ago.

After that lunch I started to hang out a lot with Sarah, and her boyfriend Topper, who was Rafe's best friend, so of course me and Rafe started to talk more frequently. We used to spend whole afternoons chilling' at their house, playing games, around the pool, or simply doing nothing. But even though my reason for being there initially was my friendship with Sarah, it was inevitable that I'd end up getting sidetracked when she's with Topper, which I totally understand, after all they are boyfriend and girlfriend. But the good thing was that it resulted in a very close relationship between Rafe and I, we got to know each other better little by little, at first, he really could seem arrogant and moody, but today I can say that I know a side of Rafe that no one else knows, this is what made me fall in love with him.

After a couple months of friendship, then being friends with benefits while dealing with our feelings, we finally started a relationship. Surprisingly, Rafe was the first one to confess his feelings and ask if I would be his girlfriend, and of course I said yes. We've been dating for 3 months now, I won't lie and say that we have the perfect relationship, of course not, from time-to-time Rafe can be still a little temperamental and difficult to deal with when he's around other people, especially our families. I don't know why he acts like this, but I'm pretty sure that I have my own flaws too, so I can't blame him. And besides that, when we're together, having our time as a couple, it's the best thing in the world. Be it our bike rides around the island, the sunsets at the beach, our bedroom rendezvous where he always makes sure to make me feel like a goddess, and especially when we just stay up late at night venting to each other about anything and everything. In these moments I know that I love Rafe with my whole heart, and I can tell that he loves me too, I feel it, because as I said before, I'm sure that I'm the only one who got to know this real and human side of him.

Today I woke up to a partially clouded day, which was not that common at the Outer Banks, so I decided to stay at home and do some things I was planning to for a long time, like organizing and redecorating my room. I texted Rafe good morning, and we made a voice call while I was having breakfast, but soon he had to hang up because his dad wanted him at the office with urgency, we shared our lovey goodbyes and went to do our things. I need to admit that I get a little worried when Ward asks something urgent to Rafe, because I know that they don't have the best dad-son relationship ever, so I've sent another text to Rafe, around 12pm, just asking if everything was okay. I ate my lunch and did the dishes practically without taking my eyes off my phone, waiting for him to text back. But he didn't.

That fact that it was taking so long for him to reply me just made me more worried, afraid that something bad could've happened. So, to get rid of these thoughts, I figured I'd take a shower, to cool my mind off and try to fix in my brain that Rafe was just busy doing business things with his father. After a couple minutes I got off the shower and wrapping myself around a towel I went to my room, hopefully reaching for my phone when I heard the notification sound. It was finally Rafe. But as soon as I opened the text, my smile was replaced by a knot in my eyebrows. He ignored my question and just asked me to wait for him at a place that I didn't even knew that existed. Starting to get nervous in the exact moment, I just texted back saying that I'd be at the address he sent me in a few minutes. So made sure to put on my clothes and grab my things in the fast way possible, to rapidly drive to where Rafe wanted me to be.

I arrived the place in less than 15 minutes, it was quite close to the Marina but way more hidden, looked like a garage of old boats and yachts, that seemly no one frequented anymore. I confirmed the address on my phone to see if I wasn't in the wrong place, but no, Rafe wanted me here. So I sent him a quick 'I'm here' and he answered back with 'Give me 5 minutes'. I sighed trying to keep calm and left my car, entering the building through an open gate and made a bee line to the metal stairs, taking a seat in one of the steps and pretending that the place didn't gave me chills. Luckily, I didn't have to wait too much time before I heard Rafe's bike outside, I quickly got up and went to meet him halfway on the garage.

When Rafe came into my sight, I instantly knew that he wasn't okay. He was sweaty, hair disheveled, heavy breathing, arms exaggeratedly flexing, almost like he didn't know what to do with his own body. And the worse of all, he refused to look directly at me.

"Rafe, baby, what happened? Are you okay?" I asked getting closer and trying to reach for him, just to see him take two steps back, running his hands through his hair and staring at the ground.

"Yes, Y/N, I- I'm fine, okay?" he stuttered aggressively. Y/N, he never calls me Y/N, it's always 'babe', or 'princess', even when he's mad at me.

"Rafe, look at you, you're not okay baby. Would you please tell me what happened?" I tried one more time, the worried tone was clear in my voice.

"Your dad happened." he mumbled after a long sigh, hands running through his face this time.

"Baby, I can't understand, what was that?" I asked kindly trying to approach him again, but he was faster in taking an angry step forward.

"Your dad, Y/N, that’s what fucking happened." he said firmly through gritted teeth, making you frown.

"My dad? What are you talking about?" you shook your head in confusion.

"Yeah, I figured you wouldn't know what I'm talking about." he chuckled darkly, putting his fists on his on waist "But well, you should, I mean, is your right to know that every morning when your loving daddy leaves your house, he's planning a new way of fucking with my dad's business."

"What the fuck Rafe, what are you trying to say?" at this point I couldn't even control myself anymore, my nerves getting the best of me.

"You remember that night, when I told you that someone was trying to mess with my dad's business?" he asked nervously looking at me for the first time since he entered this place.

"Yeah." I gulped staring back at him.

"Well, that's your beloved daddy, sweetheart." he said making you frown harder and shook your head "Yeah, since you and your perfect little family arrived the Outer Banks, your dad is moving mountains to get in the way of my dad's business, when he has literally nothing to do with that."

"I don't know what you're talking about." I took a step back, my hands trembling and my heart beating fast. At this point I was half angry and half scared of the look in Rafe's eyes.

"I'm telling you that what we do is dirty job, Y/N, we're involved in some real bad shit, okay? And for a while your dad's being our biggest problem." he said angrily, turning his back from me.

"If you guys really do all this dirty shit, then my dad is just doing his job! And seriously Rafe? 'We do'? I thought you had promised me that you weren't working with your dad!" I retorted in the same tone as him, remembering the nights where he talked about the wrong things his dad does and I asked for him to stay away of it.

"But I am, Y/N. I am because my dad trusts me, and one day I'm gonna be as powerful as he is, have this whole island in the palm of my hand. And don't you think that you're not involved in this shit too, of course you are. As soon as my dad discovered the big law defensor that was trying to screw him was your dad, he knew that the only way of getting him out of our way was through you." he pointed at me biting his lip, I couldn't even tell what he was feeling right now, it was just too much for me.

"No- that’s not- Why are you doing this?" I tried to stay defensive, but it was practically impossible, I was so confused, and angry, the world seemed to be falling around me in this moment.

"You keep trying to defend your dad, saying that is his job, but if he was really smart, he would've never let me have you, he just needed to think a little more to know that having you around my family was always our strongest weapon against him. Why do you think I asked you to be my girlfriend, huh?" he said sarcastically, breaking my heart, but I could see the hurt in his eyes too.

"That's not you." I whispered with watering eyes looking directly at him, and when he refused to look back at me, a big wave of anger hit my brain and body "Fuck Rafe! Tell me what the hell is going on and why are you acting like this? It seems like you've been snorting again! That's it, right? You're doing coke again, aren't you? Even after all the shit I did to get you through it, you're still a mother fucking crackh-" I started yelling at him with so much anger that I didn't imagined what his next move would be. I just figured it out when I felt his hand gripping my throat tightly.

"You shut up! Shut up, okay?" he yelled at your face "If you really want to know, yes, I've been snorting again. But because it was the only way I'd get to do what I have to do." he stepped forward making me stumble until my body was trapped between him and the wall.

"Rafe you're scaring me... W- What do you have to do?" I managed to ask, my lips were quivering while I did my best to hold my tears.

"Fuck, I'm sorry" he mumbled under his breath, and I couldn't even hear what he said, just when I was about to speak again, I felt him move abruptly and something cold touch my temple.

"Rafe? Baby, what is that?" I started crying, I knew it was a gun, but refused to believe and to look at it.

"Dammit Y/N, we warned him! He knew that if he kept chasing us, we'd fucking kill you! And he didn't stop! It's your dad's fault!" he said breathing heavily, I could see the sweat in his temples and the sad look in his eyes, and could also feel that the gun was unsteady, almost like he was shaking in fear, just like me.

"Rafe..." I pleaded looking at him with wet eyes and cheeks strained with tears.

"Don't look at me like that. My dad wants me to do it. He trusted me to do it. I have to." he said nodding his head, trying to believe his own words, what made my heartbreak even more painful.

"You can't do it Rafe, not to me. Not after everything we had together. You know you can't. You're just trying to impress your father, because you think that if you do what he asks, he's gonna trust you, or love you more. But he won't Rafe. Not as much as I do. And I know you love me too, Rafey, I see it in your eyes. So please, he's just using you-" I said calmly, trying to convince him and seeing him look away from me with his lips trembling and blinking his eyes to get rid of his tears. "Rafe, plea-"

"Shut up! I told you to shut the fuck up!" he didn't let me finish the sentence, yelling with his unsteady voice and pressing the gun harder against my head "You don't know what you're talking about. I need to do it, or he's never gonna trust me again. I'm gonna prove him I can do it." he said through gritted teeth, hand shaking around my throat.

In this moment I knew I had two options, I could just keep pleading for his mercy, or I could trust him. Give him what he wanted. Rafe needed to know that someone trusted him, loved him. He never felt that before. And I knew that it was worth the try, for all the moments we had together, when he vented to me, and I pretended I wasn't feeling the tears that fell over my thighs while his head rested on my lap. Or when he whispered that he loved me because he thought I was already sleeping. I still believe him. So, I just took a deep breath and decided to trust him with all my life, literally.

"You know what? Do it." I simply said, closing my eyes and unintentionally holding my breath "If that's what you wanna do, then do it. I trust you."

"Y/N- I- What are you saying?" he stuttered confused, starting to lose his grip on the gun, but even with my eyes closed I was fast in grabbing his wrist, making him press it on my temple again.

"Just do it Rafe! Pull the fucking trigger!" I ordered firmly through gritted teeth, squeezing my eyes shut and hoping that he would do what I expected, but also shaking in fear with the little chance of getting killed by the man I love.

"Dammit" he whispered, and I could feel and even hear his desperate breath against my face, the gun was trembling in my skin and I was just waiting for him to shoot it, but suddenly the pressure in my head was gone "Fuck, I can't Y/N, I can't" I heard the gun hit the ground and Rafe's first sobs.

"I know, Rafe, I know" I started sobbing too, feeling his head fall oved my shoulder and immediately throwing my arms around his neck to hold him tightly.

"I'm sorry, baby, I'm so sorry" he tried to lift his head up and look at me, but it just made him cry more, hiding his face on the crock of my neck again "I love you, I would never... fuck I'm so sorry" he cried.

"I love you too baby, that’s why I trusted you, okay? We're okay now" I grabbed his face in my trembling hands, nodding and looking at him with a warm and wet smile.

"No, no you shouldn't" he sniffled shaking his head, making me lose my grip on his face, what he took as a chance to reach the stairs and sit on the second step "Y/N I tried to kill you! You can't say you love me after what I did, I fucked up again" he protested bringing his legs closer to bury his head between his knees.

"Don't you say that, okay?" I rapidly reached for him, taking my seat beside his body and hugging him close "I know you would never hurt me. It was just your dad getting on your head, like he always does. He likes to see you weak. You thought his intention was to use me against my dad, but he was using both of us. Please tell me you understand that baby." I whispered while resting my chin on his shoulder.

"I just wanted to be a good son, you know. I wanted my dad to trust me, to love me like your dad loves you." he finally looked at me, lips quivering hard from crying.

"You are a good son, Rafey. You'd do anything to see your dad get what he wants, and to save him. The problem is that he doesn’t deserve it. Ward doesn't deserve to have a son like you." I affirmed using my cold hands to wipe away the tears running down his face.

"I'm sorry for scaring you, for holding that shit against your head." he pouted holding my hand "He said he would reward me if I did it, I tried to tell him I couldn't but then he said he loved me. The first time since I was a kid that I heard those three words from my dad's mouth. And it was fake."

"I'm really sorry for you baby, but it was. And I need you to understand that, I know he's your father, and you just want him to love you, but you can't keep doing it. It's destroying you, and you don't deserve it." I said pressing my forehead head against his, tight grip in our hands.

"I love you, fuck I love you so bad, please don't ever leave me, you're everything I have." he sobbed before linking our lips together in a loving kiss.

"I won't baby, I would never. I love you more than anything, okay?" I assured him pecking his lips and caressing his face.

"'Kay." he hiccupped nodding his head, I let him take a deep breath before catching his lips in another kiss.

"I can't go home. I don't know if I want to see him ever again." he sniffled after we broke the kiss, wiping his own nose and cheeks.

"My family has a house for rent here at the island, there's only one bed, the kitchen and bathroom furniture, but I think that's enough for us to stay there for a while." I suggested while tying my messy hair in a loosely bun.

"Baby, it's your family's house, they wouldn't want me there. Besides, what do you mean 'us'? I'm not gonna let you leave your house to live with me." he frowned looking at me.

"We don't have to tell them, at least not today. And I'm not telling that I'm gonna totally leave my house, but I mean, why would I not want to make company for my boyfriend living alone in that big ass house, huh?" I gave him a side smile biting my inner cheek.

"Yeah, come to think of it, it's not a bad idea." he smiled kissing me again, this time without any tears between our cheeks.

Is really weird and even wrong to think that, but somehow, I'm grateful that Ward asked Rafe to kill me. If it wasn't that, maybe he would spend his whole life blinded by his dad's false words. And today was only the first step of me saving my boyfriend from that horrible man. From today on, it's gonna be only us in our happy ever after.

old days taglist: @blueflame2778 @outerbongs @maybebanks @lolpineapples @k-k0129 @dani-c20 @jjsmaybcnk @wicked-laugh @wallflowercal @obx-pouges @alwaysasadaesthetic @marvel-ousnesss @ifilwtmfc @iateamoth @raekenliar @voguesir @angelicbabybutterfly @itsagurl @ofmaybankheart @valelozada @Mlang00 @dlvvrx (10 months later some of you guys probably changed usernames, don't blame ya tho)

hope you guys liked it :) i spent a whole lot of time without writing anything, so it'd be nice to have some feedback <3