Happiness Is a Butterfly - Rafe Cameron

Happiness Is a Butterfly - Rafe Cameron

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She came to the Outer Banks for summer nights, old memories, and her best friend. She didn't expect violence, secrets, or him. Caught between privilege and poverty, loyalty and conscience, Daphne Anderson finds herself pulled into the orbit of Rafe Cameron-volatile, magnetic, and spiralling fast. As parties turn dangerous and lines blur between right and wrong, Daphne must decide who she really is... and how far she's willing to go before the island swallows her whole. Some summers change you. This one might ruin her. AN: - This story follows the timeline of Outer Banks season 1 and 2, but mainly follows Daphne and her relationships, inevitably bits about the Gold Hunt and the Pogues do come into play due to Rafe's involvement (especially as we get into season 2), but this story does not focus on them. - This also includes scenes from Outer Banks as you can imagine, I've tried to keep details word for word but I cut a few scenes short and abbreviated. Some of them are just from memory or the general gist of what happens. - This is a Rafe Cameron fic so naturally there needs to be some trigger warning: alcohol, drugs, guns, violence, swearing, discrimination towards the Pogues, domestic abuse: physical; emotional; financial, death, murder. - Also details may be exaggerated from Outer Banks, just to give the story more depth and lowkie just for the funnies. Have fun y'all xoxo
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Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

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