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Coco Gangster!AU: The Star-Crossed Lovers

– During the 1920’s there was a lot of money to be made in smuggling alcohol from Mexico to the United States, which was in the middle of the prohibition era. 

– Hector was a young man that found easy work as a people pleaser, the man in a smuggling crew who maintained the underground network needed to get goods through border checkpoints undetected. 

– Although not worth much in a fight, Hector was a smooth talker who could talk his way in or out of anything and worked the underground network to get whatever information his crew needed. A real charmer, he had all the buyable prohibition officers in his pocket, largely because of small things, like remembering when an officer mentioned their daughter had a piano recital last week and following up a week later to ask about how it went.

– Imelda was the daughter of the smuggling boss Hector worked for. Her family did not view themselves as criminals but as business people. Imelda kept rather aloof from the less than strictly legal actions of the family business by direction of her father, but one day she happened to answer the door when Hector was coming to give a report.

– Instantly smitten, Hector began courting her, using every bit of his practiced charm and musical prowess to woo her, patiently waiting out the months it took for her to return his affections.

– It took several months after that to convince Imelda’s father to agree to the marriage, and Hector had to agree to quit working on the smuggling route and get completely legal employment. As a musician on the side and a hard worker, Hector agreed immediately and he and Imelda were married soon after.

– Completely devoted to each other, Imelda and Hector were the envy of everyone around them, earning a reputation as star-crossed lovers and an unbeatable team, not to mention low-key dangerous to cross, mostly because of Imelda’s training as a sharpshooter. (She carried a small firearm wherever she went by direction of her father. Hector found this incredibly attractive.)

– When their daughter was born they cut off all ties with the smuggling world and with the help of Imelda’s father settled down in the small town of Santa Cecilia to raise their family in peace, overjoyed to have the chance to raise Coco and be happy together.

– This changed when Ernesto, an old childhood friend of Hector’s and a smuggling colleague, come calling one day. He asked if Hector wanted to join him on a music tour like they’d always dreamed of as kids, assuring Hector that it had nothing to do with smuggling this time. 

– Although Imelda was unhappy with the plan, she and Hector decided to accept Ernesto’s offer, assuming that Hector would return safely in a few months time with some extra money to help support the family and some new inspiration to support his musical endeavors.

– Neither of them realized that Ernesto had secretly orchestrated his own smuggling deal (an incredibly dangerous one that if pulled off could launch him to great riches and power in the black market, even greater than Imelda’s father)  and that Ernesto needed a smooth talker to pull it off.

– When Hector never returned from the trip and Ernesto abruptly rose to great fame and fortune (in the smuggling as well as the musical world) Imelda assumed that her husband had abandoned her and Coco for a life of crime with Ernesto. 

– Devastated and heartbroken, Imelda erased Hector’s memory from her life as best she could, banning music from her home and taking a personal vendetta against the world of crime that had stolen away the love of her life.    

[Read Part 1: The Bosses]