ꨄ𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄
－𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦！✫⁂𖦹
𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿✲

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𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔．．．

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sheriff peterkin lied on the floor, coughing heavily. john b pulls away from sarah and knees down by the dying woman. "hold still, hold still.. its okay, where is it?" he scrambles down onto his knees, trying to find where the bullet went through her. "where is it, oh my— im sorry."

the sound of the woman grasping onto the little amount of life she had left. "im sorry. im sorry." he mumbles, he pulls the bandana off his neck and holds it against her wound.

"call.." the woman wheezes out.

"im sorry." john b mutters to himself again

"call.." she repeats "call for help."

"dad!" rafe yelled.

john b grabbed the radio, and calls for help, although he alerts rafe and ward.

"hey. wait." ward tries to calm his son "rafe, no! rafe!"

"dont try it, asshole." rafe points the gun against the boys face, getting closer.

"rafe— john b, give me the radio." ward holds his hand out, waiting for the radio to be placed in in.

"no.."

"come on. give me the radio. the damn radio." he takes the radio from john b, susan starts to gasp and groan.

rafe lift his gun again. "rafe, put this gun down." ward puts the radio in his face, trying to calm him down. "i've got this."

"run.." the woman whispers

"im not leaving you." john b keeps pressing the bandana on her heavily bleeding gunshot wound.

all of a sudden, john b runs away which starts rafe anxiety back up again. he tried to chase after, being stopped by olivia throwing herself in the way, trying to stop him from chasing him.
olivia grabs the gun "no, please! dont!" she yells.

"rafe, no! wait! rafe, please!" ward wraps his arms around rafe, who starts screaming.

julia places herself infront of him and puts her hands on the side of his face."hey, look at me.. its okay.." julia hoped it would calm him down, and it did. little did she know this was only the start of his tantrums...

"what is wrong with you?"sarah asks then ward goes to rafe and mumbles something about talking her, sarah and julia home. "I'm not going until the medics come!"

"get them home!"

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"she had the hammer back. you know that." rafe said

"the what?" julia asked

"she was gonna blow his head off." his eyes stayes glued to the road. sarah reached out and held julias hand as they sat in the back.

"no, she was arresting him, rafe." olivia turned her head to look at him.

"okay, i couldn't sit there and let it happen, okay?" julia could hear the sadness in his voice. "she was gonna kill him. yeah, yeah. yeah, she was gonna kill him." he started to hyperventilate.

olivia tried to jump out the car, before she quickly got pulled back in by rafe who was now shouting. "hey! get back in!"

"ow, rafe!" olivia tried to escape his grip.

"what are you doing?"

"get off of me!"

"swear to god, all right!" he yelled again. "ive had it with your bullshit! you need to focus. you understand me?"

"do you realise what you've done?" her eyes were all wet and so were her cheeks

"i saved dad. what was i supposed to do, okay? sit there, hope for the best? all right? listen, im a proactive type of person. olivia, im a proactive type of person." he reached out to touch her

"get off of me. dont you dare touch me!" she swatted his hand away.

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john b was on the run from the cops. somehow, they were convinced he killed peterkin. currently, the pogues, minus olivia and sarah, were hiding in a car. the news broadcast caster spoke through the radio "good news for residents of the outer banks. dominion power says their underwater transmission line, which will restore power to 90% of the area..." sirens where heard. "...should be functional within 24 hours."

two cop cars drove past the car they were hiding in and the news broadcaster updated on the peterkin case "and still, no arrest in the shooting death of sheriff susan peterkin. the state police have issued a statement regarding a local person of interest, a juvenile from—" kie switched it off.

"i was trying to listen to that.." julia mumbled as she lay back in her seat.

"lets game this out. maybe you guys can help, being the smart ones and all, but..." jj sighs as he holds the joint in his hand "...who are the cops going to believe? ward cameron or us? so the accuser is a bigshot developer kind of lord of the island, got the governor on speed dial kind of person, and thw accused... is john b, who is... pretty much a homeless 16-year-old boy at the moment."

john b mumbled a little 'thank you' whilst pope mumbled 'shit'

"okay, man. yucatan, all right? im saying that's the only option. what other options do you have?" jj raised his hands

"enough with the mexico bullshit. sarah will bail me out." jb shook his head

"she did witness the whole thing, so did olivia and julia." kie agreed

"and they're gonna snitch on their brother?" pope asked

"not happening, bro. okay? we've got to get off the island." the blonde sat up

"the ferry." julia shrugged

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pope and julia went to the ferry just to see that it was closed. julia tucked her hair behind her ear, seeing a poster that said 'wanted' it was a picture of john b and the reward was 25k.

pope picked it up and the two walked back to the car, trying to act normal. "so, um... okay, so, bad news. the ferry's closed, and there is this." he hands it to kie to passes it back.

"well, john b, uh... this is a good framer of you." jj joked

"okay, so the whole island is looking for jb right now." julia bit her bottom lip

"congratulations, john b. you're famous." jj handed him the poster.

"guys, we got to get to the HMS. we need small, no running lights—" kie started to panic

"its at the château, kie." john b closed his eyes

"and i wonder if cops got the entire place staked out. let me think. oh, yeah. no. they definitely have that place locked down."

"yeah, copy that." kie spoke.

"let me think. just give me a second." pope looked down at the steering wheel before immediately looking back up. "jj."

"what?"

pope turns around in his seat to look back at jj in the backseat. "does your dad still have that boat? the cigarette boat, the phantom. the one he used to race."

"maybe."

"you could get right up to the coast, no problem." he turns back around in his seat.

"it won't be easy, pope. i don't know where the keys are."

kie speaks to herself as jj rambles about not knowing where the keys are. "okay, look. the surf's running from three to four."

"why is nobody moving forward?" pope complains about the cars in front of them.

"can you relax? jj, how much weed did you give him?" kie turns around and looks at jj pointedly.

"guys." jb whispers interrupting kie. "your car's on the poster."

but no one answers him as pope beeps the horn making people turn and look, "can we move it?" he complains.

"pope!" kie yells at the boy. "it won't help. don't honk the horn."

"it's the guy, it's the guy right there!" a little boy shouts to his mom from across the path.

"shit." kie mumbles.

"we got a snitch. pope, turn the car on." jj taps the headrest of pope's seat.

a man comes up to the window and knocking on it looking down at jb who has lowered the seat to not be spotted, "he's right there! i found you!"

"Hey! we gotta go!" kie shouts.

"turn the car on!" jj adds.

"pope, turn the frickin' car on!"

"i am trying!" pope defends himself, trying to turn the car on.

as pope gets the car he hits the gas and ultimately rams into the car in front of them. pope continues to drive into the car before going onto the grass and around all the cars.

"what are you doing?" kie yells. "watch out! pope! whoa, whoa, whoa, watch him!" kie yells more as pope drives the car into a mailbox. "my mom will kill me."

"i should be the last to say this, but you are not okay to drive. stop!" jj shouts from the backseat.

pope hits the breaks before looking back at jb, "john b, get out."

"he's right." jj agrees. "we'll draw the cops, you run. i'll get the rig, and i'll meet you in the dump tomorrow, okay? three o'clock, okay? three tomorrow at the dump."

"yeah. yeah." jb speaks as he climbs out of the car and runs into the trees.

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julia was in bed, with her laptop open, watching the last few minutes of 'Avengers: EndGame' when her mother called her down.

julia paused her movie and jumped out of bed. as she made her way downstairs she grew hungry. at the front door, she was greeted by olivia. "hi."

"hii" julia smiled widely.

the two girls went into the kitchen and gathered a few snacks. by a few, it was more like a lot. olivia had her hands full with chips, chocolates and candies whilst julia carried to bowls of popcorn and two bottles of pepsi.

once upstairs, they both climbed into the brunettes bed and watched the rest of endgame before moving on to another movie. the room was full of conversation and laughter as the night progressed.

eventually, the two best friends grew tired and called it a night, falling asleep cuddled up to each other.

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riri's thoughts:

julia is my spirit animal