It's complicated

Fuck off, Nate Jacobs

Nate Jacobs was downright evil. Anyone who knew him knew this. His girlfriends and hookups, his friends, and random people he went to school with. Although rumors bounced around, Nate never got in trouble for anything he did. This only served to make him feel invincible and drive him to worse actions.

So yeah Nate Jacobs was evil, but evil doesn't come from nowhere. For Nate you can point to his family. His father, Cal Jacobs, was a bad man and he was a powerful man too. His father's father was the same heartless manipulator as his father. And Cal's brother was the same way. Basically the entire family was fucked from day one.

Cal's brother had one daughter. She was adopted because his wife found out she was infertile a while into their marriage. Nate and her grew up together. Her parent's relationship was rocky and her home life wasn't great, so many of her summers were spent in East Highland.

Her upbringing was strikingly similar to her cousin's. The two of them were mirrors of each other. They had the same dark gaze and sharp features. There was a cold calculating intelligence to the way they both acted.

There was so much pain beneath the surface of their capable exteriors. But beneath her pain there was also a softness. An uncanny ability to care for others the way she was never cared for.

She wasn't nice. That's not at all what she was like. She was mean and rude and almost emotionless. But anger jumped out of her uncaring facade when the people she cared about were threatened.

Nate had that same anger but he didn't think to control it. People who knew him knew that he hurt people too much for it to be an accident.

Hardship had thrown them together as children. Protecting her younger cousin from the cruel mess of their world was a burden on the young woman.

There was a feeling of failure when she saw what he had become. She saw his father and her father when she looked at him.

So when she heard he had been in trouble with the law for abusing his girlfriend, she wasn't surprised. At first all she felt was anger.

This anger drove her to pack everything in her small LA apartment into a few suitcases and speed all the way to East Highland.

"I'm gonna fucking kill him," repeated over and over in her head as she drove. She got to his house at 3:00 in the morning.

She picked up a rock from the ground and threw it at his window. No response. There's no way he was asleep. There's no way he could be asleep after this. So she picked up another rock and threw that one as well. Still no response. She threw another.

Anger filled her tired mind. She continued to shovel rocks from the ground and chuck them at the window rapid fire.

"You're gonna break the window dumbass." Nate stepped out of the darkness beside the house.

There was a grin on his face to pair with his ridicule. She stomped over to him, her anger increasing tenfold. "What the FUCK is wrong with you?!" she screamed, slapping him hard across the face.

His hand came up to cradle his cheek. "Fuck. Ow." He glared down at her and rolled his eyes.

She kicked him in the shin hard and groaned. "You choked your girlfriend? Like some kinky bdsm mother fucker. You literally just fucked everything up." By the time she finished her voice had grown to a yell.

Nate looked down at his feet, speaking softly. "Cal will handle it, don't worry about me."

She landed another blow to his leg. Her eyes burned into his. "I'm not worried about you. What about that poor girl?" she interrogated.

"Maddy's fine. She understands," he said.

She had never met Maddy. Because of her parents, she had stayed in East Highland for her High School years. She mostly hung out with kids her own age and Nate hadn't started dating Maddy until his sophomore year, after she graduated.

Despite not knowing her, she intimately understood what it was like to love someone like Nate.

She grabbed his face, her nails digging into his jaw harshly to tilt his eyes down to her. "She shouldn't have to understand you abusing her. Deal with your own shit before you put it on other people," she scolded.

He shook his head to get out of her grasp. "So why are you even back in town?" He had always been good at changing the subject, especially when someone was trying to hold him accountable.

She sighed and looked away. "I just needed to see you," she explains. Despite his awful and cruel nature there was still a part of her that needed to protect him.

Before she tried to hit him again, she started to walk back to her car. Before she could get too far he grabbed her arm. "I know I fucked up," he pleaded.

She ripped her arm away and fixed him with another glare. "Yeah, you did. Figure it out. Fix this shit. You need to leave her alone. You're a fucking psychopath," she spat.

"So where are you going now?" he questioned, realizing there was no way she was forgiving him anytime soon.

She kept walking but before she was out of earshot she turned back and said, "Fuck off Nate. Go to sleep."

A/N
OK JUST TO CLARIFY THE READER IS NOT ADOPTED BC SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH HER AND NATE. THAT IS STILL INCEST!!!! Shes adopted so the story can be more inclusive.