you’re Kildare sunshine and you’re everything to Rafe, Kelce and Topper — who consider you as their best friend with a lot of mixed feelings. when Rafe hear about what happened to you when you were younger, he feels the urge to proactively revenge you from any man who have hurt you in the past.
warning : mention of sexual assault. fight. angst.
[ part 2 ]
Topper holds him by the collar before punching him again, the man's head tilts, his face already blistered by the first blows from Kelce and Topper. Rafe shakes his head, wiping his nose on his t-shirt, because he absolutely doesn't care about anything right now but beating the shit out of him. he approaches and grabs him by the collar, he crouches down to his level to stare at him. both have their faces covered in blood.
“you don’t know who you messed with. uh Top’?” Rafe asks.
“she’s really important to us.” Topper agrees.
“she’s our girl.” kelce adds.
Rafe smiles as he sees the eyes swollen with the first layer of bruises, he tilts his head, furrowing his brow.
“and somehow you keep lying to us.” rafe says.
The man looks at them each in turn, he remains completely terrified, the waves are breaking a few meters from him, the blood is running on his face.
“she cried, and it’s been… what? 10 years? a little less? no?” topper asks.
kelce leans on him and grabs brutally his hair to look at him.
“would she be still crying if she said yes?” kelce asks.
“and why does she remember nothing about what happened if she said yes.”
rafe frowns, he looks at him, searching for the truth in his petrified eyes, he narrows his eyes, restraining the urge to smash his skull into the sand.
“cause she said yes, right? yeah? that’s what she said, right?” Rafe insists.
the man blinks several times, his heart beats hard and he knows he can't lie anymore. he had never had the leisure, he had only found this solution to try to get out of it.
“at first… and then she changed her mind but i pretended i didn’t —”
before even finishing his sentence, Rafe sends an uppercut under his jaw. his teeth are chattering and he doesn't have time to see Topper and Kelce kicking him. Topper picks him up and hits his head on the ground, he speaks to him but the man doesn't hear.
“i hope you remember clearly this day.” topper yells at him.
Kelce picks him up before kneeing him in the abdomen which sends him back to the ground brutally. Rafe breathes hard, he watches his friends beat this son of a bitch and the rage only builds inside him. he can’t stop thinking about y/n, her blank stare, the silent tears rolling down her cheeks as she passed him earlier in the day. he was unable to pull himself together, he breathed quickly while pacing back and forth. he tries to curb the violent urges he wants to make her suffer.
Rafe picks him up and he gives him a whistling slap, the man opens his eyes wide to meet Rafe's gaze.
Rafe picks him up and he gives him a whistling slap, the man opens his eyes wide to meet Rafe's gaze. he doesn't have time to understand much, Rafe throws him over his knee and when his chest hits Rafe's muscular leg, his breath catches. he has trouble breathing and Rafe picks him up by his hair.
“you’re gonna listen now yea?” rafe asks.
the man starts to speak but Rafe buries his head in the sand, just to make sure he's with his mouth open when he does that. he punches his ribs. Kelce picks him up and looks him in the eyes.
“if you tell anyone about us, we take you to the cops and we’ll have a good time explaining everyone on the island what you did.”
Rafe lets out a grunt as he turns and paces again, still not satisfied with this revenge. y/n deserved better. Topper slaps the man’s cheek several times, blood crackles against his hand.
“you should be happy we didn’t burn that shitty bar of yours.”
Kelce leans over the man, laughing.
“or drown you in the ocean.”
behind them, Rafe is losing control. it's not enough it's never enough. he grabs a stone from the ground, it is quite massive and quite heavy, Rafe lifts it before approaching them.
“lemme finish him.” rafe speaks pushing Topper with one shoulder.
Topper and Kelce's eyes widen when they see him arrive with this stone. there is no doubt that it will kill him if this stone falls on his head. Kelce stops him and Topper takes back this huge stone before throwing it into the water.
Rafe mutters under his breath and he tries to move towards the man to punch him again and again, but Kelce doesn't let him. he tries to hold it back, in vain.
overcome with uncontrollable anger, Rafe stands right above him, he holds him by the t-shirt and hits him again and again on the face, the man is no longer even conscious, he is completely knocked out. topper manages to pull him and push him further.
you’re Kildare sunshine and you’re everything to Rafe, Kelce and Topper — who consider you as their best friend with a lot of mixed feelings. when Rafe hear about what happened to you when you were younger, he feels the urge to proactively revenge you from any man who have hurt you in the past.
warning : mention of sexual assault.
“she only said he was workin’ there.” Rafe speaks calmly.
Rafe leans over the dashboard to snort his line of cocaine. he sniffs, his large hand rubbing the remains of cocaine stuck to his sweat-covered skin. It’s a sunny day, the heat is overwhelming but there is no time to lose. Kelce stares intently at the terrace of this pogue bar on the beach.
“she told you what he did specifically?” kelce asks.
Topper grits his teeth, unable to bear the unbearable idea that y/n could have suffered because of a man for even a second. yet she was only one among many, another not crushed in the heavy silence of a forced embrace.
“she doesn’t fuckin remember it.” Rafe sighs. “she said she was 14 and she said no but she can’t remember what happened next.”
Rafe and Topper exchange a look, they end up turning to Kelce who has wide eyes, completely shocked.
“so he did hurt our sunshine?” kelce asks.
topper has his eyes glued to the terrace of the bar, he squints to try to detect a man who could have liked y/n.
“his fuckin name is k.” rafe speaks. “kelce, go and meet him.”
Topper and Rafe turn to Kelce, he frowns as he stares at them.
“why me?”
“cause if we meet him first i’ll kill him and topper can’t go in prison.” rafe sneers. “we need your passive aggressive shit.”
Kelce rolls his eyes before leaving the car, he groans before turning back to them.
“one day you’ll have to act like adults too.” kelce mocks before heading toward the terrace.
