Uncharted Drabbles (Reader x Various Characters)

Belong (Rafe Adler x Reader)

AN: The first request in my iPod Shuffle One-Shot challenge which was a request for a Rafe Adler X Reader pairing. Eight skips were requested and that ended up landing on Belong by Cary Brothers. So give it a listen if you can and I hope you enjoy the story! (Brief language warning! This is going to be angsty. How angsty? Hella...)

I told you the words and then knew it was a lie/I wish I could offer an appeal/You're wrong / I don't belong/You're wrong /I don't belong to you

The moon was absolutely breathtaking this evening and you barely noticed the chill in the air. Perhaps that was due to the drink in your hand, on any other night you might have been sipping tea while watching the iridescent moon hanging in the sky. Then again most nights you didn't find yourself in Scotland, trapped in a hotel room, battling your inner demons. So, no... the drink in your hand was not tea but something harsher and distinctly bitter. Perhaps, it was Brandy? You didn't really care; it was whatever you happened to swipe from the Hotel mini bar. All that you really knew about the drink was that it was incredibly expensive and it tasted like shit. Although, it was doing a pleasant enough job of warming you up from the inside out; with another sip of that burning liquor the cold couldn't chill you through the thin cotton of your nightgown and robe.

You looked over your shoulder and smiled lightly at the silence that continued to drift through the open door. Rafe has gone to bed a few hours ago but you were still wide awake and you reasoned that you were simply fighting a losing battle against jet lag. You had fallen into a pit of silent contemplation, a habit that you had picked up recently in the past few years. Truly, Glasgow was a beautiful city wholly alive and filled with people but even in a city as big as this, you couldn't help but feel the bitter sting of loneliness. It was a ridiculous notion to feel lonely when your lover was asleep in the next room but you felt it just the same.

This wasn't your first trip to Scotland but just like your previous trips they were fueled by the same reason, Henry Avery. Or it was his treasure that was fueling these frenzied searches and trips halfway across the world. Once upon a time, you had found Rafe's passion and ambition to be some of his most attractive qualities but as time went on you didn't appreciate it as much. Ambition and passion were fickle concepts that too quickly spiraled out of control; those traits were too easily manipulated into obsession or madness. You wanted neither of those things to befall Rafe but he was headed down a path that you could not follow.

Rafe had been searching for this treasure for far too many years and you had been with him through most of that journey but only recently a new fervor had taken hold. Something had changed in the last few days that had put a newfound fire in his search for Avery's treasure. You knew that it had something to do with the Drake brothers; people that had been a part of Rafe's life long before the two of you had met. Your hand clenched tightly around your glass as you thought about how you and Rafe had met all those years ago.

You had been attending a benefit gala for your family's business and it was a stuffy positively dreadful event; the only real purpose it served was for entrepreneurs to flaunt their money and show off. You had been cornered by a particularly persistent businessman, Clarence Smith; you tried not to roll your eyes as he proceeded to inform you of how well his business had prospered that quarter. You had long since ceased adding anything worthwhile to the conversation and had instead taken to smiling as you sipped your drink; perhaps throwing in an affirmational nod here and there. You had begun discretely scanning the crowd, looking for an opportunity to excuse yourself from your current conversation when you locked eyes with someone across the room. He was speaking with another party guest but his eyes were firmly planted on you.