Witness protection assisted arranged marriage

LupusDei

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Okay, this is kinda iterative on the "cute girl forced upon a farm boy disregarding if either wants it or not" general theme I have already explored on this forum repeatedly.

So.

There's a rich married pair and either he or her or both are in some super deep shit and need to dissapear. Permanently. Right now. However, in order to successfully do so, they first must hide away their young adult daughter, who ideally should know nothing about it all, for her own safety. Roughly two weeks before the deadline when the shit hits the fan in a major way, they visit an obscure old-time friend in his farmhouse. He happens to have a son the girl's age.

The boy knows nothing about it. All he sees is that a girl he scarcely knew as a child has blossomed to be super hot, and is on the premises of his farmhouse for a day. His hormones boil over, he outright forgets he have a girlfriend at school (but they sort of split for the summer with no promises, so perhaps he's not that much of an asshole about it) and makes a move. The girl responds kindly, even if she perhaps doesn't think much about him, but it's good fun, and she believes they're there for a day, no more. Anyway, by the nightfall they ended up in, say, sauna together.

It's after that they discover her parents have left, leaving her behind. She's a bit surprised, but not too angry. The boy had been doing great, and she may as well spend the weekend if her folks are such fools to let her. That the boy's mom doesn't object upon them retreating to his bed together still feels slightly surreal though.

Her parents have either planned for it, or jumped the opportunity. Either way, guy's dad knows minimum he must, and mom even less but the very idea that the girl stays. It is telephone conversations with girl's mother when it gets real weird for the boy. He is begged to invite the girl to stay, first for the next week, then he learns the thing is intended to become permanent. Lacking better idea how to do it without revealing the setup to the girl, he proposes her, and to his surprise gets a yes. The hastily set up home ceremony is attended by her parents, for a couple of hours. In with they reveal to her it the last she sees of them. And nothing more.

She is devastated, and trapped, penniless and homeless, although loved by her new family. But then his girlfriend shows up. Confused, she forbids him to break up with the girlfriend over her.

He manages, but then FBI witnesses protection contacts him, claiming they found him by the money girl's father had given him. He had no idea he had it (dad to blame), but doesn't say so. They show him a gravestone with his wife's maiden's name on it, dating death few days before they met. She needs a new, made up past, but everyone insists she should know nothing. Only our guy is sick by keeping secrets.

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1. Neither our boy nor the reader may ever learn the substance of it, but what the fuck the girl's parents are fallen into? Any ideas that doesn't sound too cheesy?

2. Why it's so important to hide the girl? Well, of course threatening her is a fine blackmail, but it seems there's probably more. Again, we may as well never know.

3. How I see the story right now, it's not publishable here because of age of the main pair. Any ideas how to make it work with them being actually legal adults?

Any other comments? I may as well to try to write this, so any assistance is appreciated.
 
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1. Neither our boy nor the reader may ever learn the substance of it, but what the fuck the girl's parents are fallen into? Any ideas that doesn't sound too cheesy?

2. Why it's so important to hide the girl? Well, of course threatening her is a fine blackmail, but it seems there's probably more. Again, we may as well never know.

3. How I see the story right now, it's not publishable here because of age of the main pair. Any ideas how to make it work with them being actually legal adults?

Any other comments? I may as well to try to write this, so any assistance is appreciated.

OK, basic concept has merit. I think you could make it work. That said, I found it just a little complex as is.

WRT specific questions:

1. The federal witness protection program in the USA apparently is mainly involved with criminals and their families, sources who have helped the authorities bring down major criminals.

Info on, say, defecting foreign intelligence sources, etc is harder to come by, but it must exist. Within the past month or so, the CIA is said to have helped a top source within the Kremlin escape once his identity was blown. It's hard to believe that the CIA (or equivalent) wouldn't set him up with some sort of new life.

So think of something related to the Angels, the Mafia, M13, the Klan or whatever - it's all plausible. So would a defector from a foreign intelligence agency. You don't have to go into massive detail with the backstory.

2. If you're dealing with some groups or people, family is a fair target for revenge. Even if there was no possibility of blackmail, killing relatives is certainly not unheard of. Ergo, the girl has to go.

Now why she wouldn't go with Mom and Dad to their new identity is something you would need to work on.

3. Nope. No way around it. Boy might, at age 15, think the girl 'looks hot'. Girl might, at the same age, dream of him kissing her. Anything beyond that while either is under 18 is a crash landing on this site and there's no way around that.
 
3. Nope. No way around it. Boy might, at age 15, think the girl 'looks hot'. Girl might, at the same age, dream of him kissing her. Anything beyond that while either is under 18 is a crash landing on this site and there's no way around that.

Perhaps you misunderstood me. I'm not asking how to get minors published here. It's just that the arrangement makes more sense in my mind if she's between 16 and 18, then the friend's family might have been originally intended to adopt her. The fast growing relationship between the youngsters updated that planning. If she's 18 the scenario is different and at least somewhat harder to explain, and tends more towards just jumping a blind chance to leave her behind, and there's little reason why she couldn't just go on her own and isn't trusted with what's going on. Well she even might be, nobody says she's not having her own secrets. But there's at least two different stories there then.

Now why she wouldn't go with Mom and Dad to their new identity is something you would need to work on.

It might be somewhat easier to hide individuals than families. And I envisioned it that her parents have their own contingency plans and take off before the authorities are involved, hiding from own government agencies as much as from whatever their primary threats are, even if those doesn't overlap. While they are resourceful and have done great work at separating themselves from the daughter (I even believe that false grave is their own doing), they apparently didn't believe they can make it together with her.

Perhaps they may be involved in some kinds of high risk high stakes multilateral negotiations and/or assume they will never regain any resemblance of normal life regardless of outcome, and chance of that for her might be their goal. The authorities are interested in protecting the girl even if the parents are out of reach, or at least monitor as possible lead. I like your thoughts that pure revenge or demonstrative actions could be involved in treat assessment for the girl.

And yeah, that's all a deep background discussion in any case. Unless I slip and go all out into a spy drama in endless sequels, what is not quite the interest right now.
 
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Perhaps you misunderstood me. I'm not asking how to get minors published here. It's just that the arrangement makes more sense in my mind if she's between 16 and 18, then the friend's family might have been originally intended to adopt her. The fast growing relationship between the youngsters updated that planning. If she's 18 the scenario is different and at least somewhat harder to explain, and tends more towards just jumping a blind chance to leave her behind, and there's little reason why she couldn't just go on her own and isn't trusted with what's going on. Well she even might be, nobody says she's not having her own secrets. But there's at least two different stories there then.



It might be somewhat easier to hide individuals than families. And I envisioned it that her parents have their own contingency plans and take off before the authorities are involved, hiding from own government agencies as much as from whatever their primary threats are, even if those doesn't overlap. While they are resourceful and have done great work at separating themselves from the daughter (I even believe that false grave is their own doing), they apparently didn't believe they can make it together with her.

Perhaps they may be involved in some kinds of high risk high stakes multilateral negotiations and/or assume they will never regain any resemblance of normal life regardless of outcome, and chance of that for her might be their goal. The authorities are interested in protecting the girl even if the parents are out of reach, or at least monitor as possible lead. I like your thoughts that pure revenge or demonstrative actions could be involved in treat assessment for the girl.

And yeah, that's all a deep background discussion in any case. Unless I slip and go all out into a spy drama in endless sequels, what is not quite the interest right now.

Your call, your story. From my point of view, what kind of parents simply abandon their young daughter, especially if she is likely to be facing difficulties? THat said, I'm sure you can find a workaround. Good luck.
 
Like the overall concept, as complicated as it is, in part BECAUSE it is so complicated and screwed up. Has a lot of room to mindfuck the audience.

Perhaps the 18 yr old daughter has a trust fund that makes her need her parent's approval on her 21st birthday to release a big chunk of change, and they make it clear that staying out of sight is a big part of this?

Perhaps the daughter's beloved teddy-bear has microfiche or USB backups of the critical info buried in its fluffy guts, unbeknownst to the daughter?

Maybe the parents are real pieces of crap that just need her out of sight before they recover the data for their own profit down the road?

If the daughter is more spoiled/non-self-sufficient, it would help hold the plot together IMO
 
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