Gang I had this Ben and holly enemies to lovers dark romance fanfic I wrote when I was younger
Looking back I can't believe I wrote this when I was like 11 during the COVID. So it was not a 'fanfic' with chapters, just an idea I had that I jot down.
It was about the little kingdom but a very elitist political version. Fairies believed they were superior and Elves were heavily prejudiced against and they were treated as sl@ves. I made up stories for the side characters but I'm gonna only talk about our main cast.
Ben Elf and his family were the royal family's personal slaves and amongst that, Ben and Holly, the crown princess and next in line for throne, formed a secret friendship. Ben was very resentful towards fairies and he wanted to escape the little kingdom for good(A little exile group with Senile old elf as the leader). He always thought the crown princess had an otherworldly beauty but let his belief come in between and always behaved rudely with her when he had to tend her. Holly wasn't like the rest of her family and believed fairies and elves and all the other species should be treated with equality. Ben intrigued her, so she tried to form a friend with him. Despite Ben's initial doubts, they soon grew really close. Holly was tired of all the lessons and strict rules regulations(Under Governess Plum) she had to attend, and her fairy friends who were all fake and shallow, So Ben was her escape, the real friend she ever had. They had very close friendship. Ben at a point started trusting her so much he told her about the exile group.
However, King Thistle found about the exile group as well as the friendship between Ben and Holly(Ben's friend, Burnaby who was jealous, snitched) so naturally he grows furious and wants to execute all the elves. But his daughter convinces him out of it, so he decides to banish Ben to 14 years in warfare and the rest of the elves involved to a lifetime prison sentence. However, Ben thinks Holly was the Snitch and grew to loathe her with every fibre of his being.
The story starts when Ben returns from his banishment. He doesn't trust anything related to Fairies and he is determined not to run away anymore, to prove himself as a proper knight despite being an elf. Holly has a fiancé now, future prince consort, which makes him hate and resent her even more.
He is assigned as Princess Holly's personal guard by the knight commander, who doesn't discriminate against elves and believes Crown princess Holly deserves the best knight as her guard, despite being skilled with the sword herself(it's a skill she had to learn). So Holly avoids him, and he doesn't even try to hide his hatred for her, but does his job properly in protecting her.
So yeah that's the premise. What do you guys think? Should I write it as a proper fanfic?
