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𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔．．．

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the container was hot and sweaty. julia was asleep, pieces of hair sticking to her forehead while the others spoke to one another. olivia was sat trying to listen to jj, quite literally almost falling asleep as she did.

"nice work, john b. you know these things lock from the outside, right?" jj shook his head

"okay, i was just trying to get us on the boat, jj." john b replied, his voice barely above a whisper. "i wasn't thinking that far ahead."

"we're stuck in here like rats. in this death cage!"

"its hot." olivia mumbled.

"okay, jj, you're not helping."

"you dont have a lot of room to talk right now. you said you had a plan, but what happened to thinking ahead?"

"i find your lack of self-knowledge disturbing."

jj laughed "last i checked, you literally shot an oil container with a gat. "

"oh my god! shut up. shut up." kiara snapped "pull it together."

everyone was absolutely fed up. they just needed to find sarah and go home, right? right..?

——————

"hey pope, how do you kill a snake?" jj asked randomly

pope shook his head, feeling tired "you go for the head."

"exactly. but the head, in this instance, is the bridge. to take the bridge, we need maximum firepower. and i happen to know that there's an armory on this ship in case of pirate attacks." jj went on

"pirate attacks. you lost me." olivia shook her head "killing everybody here is not a plan." she stood up and walked down the container.

julia lay asleep peacefully, occasionally letting out a small hum as she dreamed.

"guys!" olivia whisper yelled. "cam we fit through that, yeah?" she asked, looking up to a vented window

"hell yeah. nice one, liv." john b smiled

"what was that about a swiss army knife not coming in handy today?" jj held the knife in his hand and he started to unscrew the screws.

——————

JJ continues his pocket knife on the screw, trying to open the window.

"Okay," He speaks up, "we raid the armoury, get weapons, roll back here, and plot the next move." He hands Pope the screw, "The armoury is on the third deck, aft, near the laundry room. Let's roll."

"JJ. Hold up. I don't think we should all go out there. It's too risky." Pope looks up at the blonde.

"Why?"

"Okay, I gotta be honest. I think you should stay here." JB speaks up, speaking his mind.

"What?

"I have Sarah that I'm gonna go after. And Pope has.."

"The cross." Pope finishes for him.

"Yeah. Let's go get it." JJ ignores what Julia said.

"Also, if you go out there, there's 100% probability that you're gonna do something stupid." John B says, everyone nosing at him.

"Okay, first of all, I think the correct terminology is "ballsy." That is it."

"Okay, get down." Pope mumbles while John B grabs JJ.

"No. Get off!" JJ pulls away from John B's hand. "I'm a field player."

John B shushes him before speaking, "If we go out there, and we get in a bind, we need somebody to look out for us. That's what we need."

"Okay. I get it. I get it. I get it. I'll be on the B team."

"I never said "B team.""

"Sorry. Are you calling me "B team"?" Olivia comes in between the two boys.

"Didn't mean to offend you." JJ turns to the girl.

"Did B team not just find our way out, or am I totally tripping?" Olivia speaks up, stating the facts.

"Hey, look. Just hand back. Hold down the fort." Pope tries to speak softly.

"Great. Looking forward to it. Mm-hmm." JJ nods along, sarcastically.

"I'll babysit." Julia mumbles, looking at Kiara, JJ and Olivia

"You guys have fun. It's your funeral, your game. I'll be in here, on the bench.."

"Hey," Julia grabs ahold of Pope and John B's shoulders, "don't get shot. That's all I got."

"Um, 'Don't get shot.'" John B mocks his sister.

"Well, that's disheartening and scary." Pope adds.

"Positive affirmations, Julia.

"Yep. No problem."

Julia and Kiara help the boys out, while Olivia follows after JJ.

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Olivia is sitting, sweat covering her face, and rocking back and forward slowly.

Kiara and Julia asleep somewhere down the bottom of the container.

"I've been thinking. When all of this is over, and we're just rolling in the dough, I'm gonna get a new board. I'm gonna deck it out, and I'm gonna go on a surf trip" Olivia looks down at the blonde a small smile on her face as he continues, "I don't know where, but, like, the world's calling. I don't know. Name a place."

"Spain." She smiles a little more, looking down at him again.

"Then after spain, South America or South Africa. One of the South places."

"You'll go to South Africa?"

"Then Micronesia maybe, and then..and just ride. Wherever the waves take you, you know?"

"So that's the plan if we were to get a ton of cash? That's-the dream? Surf trip?"

"Ripping jungle break all day long. Bamboo hut, cooking a fish on a fire, and after that, you go back out and just hit the waves again. That's the dream." He does hand gestures while he speaks, sounding genuinely happy and excited about his dream.

"Sounds perfect."

"Yeah

"Got room for one more?" Olivia looks back at him wiggling her shoulders and smiling again.

JJ laughs, "You got your passport?"

"You don't have a passport." She reminds him.

"Hell no, I don't have a passport. Kookies thing ever."

Olivia starts laughing.

"You don't need—"

He gets cut off by Pope, outside the window, "Hey. Hey. Open it."

Olivia jumps down from whatever she was sitting on and JJ pulls at the window.

Olivia wakes Julia and Kiara up as the two boys make their way back into the container.

"I thought Rafe got you guys for sure." Kiara mumbles, rubbing the sweat from her face.

"No. We're chill." Pope pants.

"All right. Okay, let's put the grate back on." Julia says.

"No, wait. Hold it." Pope looks at her.

"What? No. Put it back."

Olivia jumps slightly when another person comes up the window, "Jesus Christ! I kill you, John B!"

"Who is this?" Olivia asks.

"Just relax. Just relax, okay? I told you I had a surprise." John B looks over the three girls.

"Who is she? What's going on? John B!" Julia urges, looking at her brother.

"Hey, hey. Julia, relax. Relax. Remember I told you about the girl we met in the Bahamas that saved us?"

"Uh..Cleo, yeah?"

"Cleo." John B looks up at the girl.

Olivia looks up at the girl too, grateful to meet the girl that saved her sister.

"She's gonna help us, all right?" John B continues.

"Next time, ask me." Cleo speaks up.

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julia went with her brother to find sarah, they were currently in the halls, searching every single door that was locked

"sarah!" john b yelled "open up! sarah! sarah."

"dude, chill out! you're gonna get us caught." julia slapped his shoulder.

yet, he didnt listen and continued to yell "sarah!"

"shut up!!" julia covered his mouth.

eventually, the two made it to the boiler and john b would not shut up. julia felt herself get frustrated "john b, if you dont shut the fuck up, we are going to get caught and killed. how are you supposed to see sarah then?"

just as those words left julias mouth, a hook appeared in front of the two siblings eyes and rafe shows his face.

"rafe.." julia exhaled slowly

"watch your heads. so, what they hell are you two doing here?" rafe asked, standing back behind the shelf

"just put the hook down, rafe.. please.." julia pleaded, her and john b standing behind the same shelf.

"why would i do that, huh?"

"this isnt about you. all right?" john b said carefully

"its not about me?" he asked in disbelief

"no." julia shook her head "no one is here for you.."

"this is about sarah, okay?" john b repeated

"i dont know. i think it is." rafe closed his eyes and john b started to run.

rafe chased after him, hitting the straight end of the hook into john bs stomach. as soon as john h was on the ground, julia tried to calm him down. she then felt herself on the floor, tasting blood in her mouth. he had pushed her.

"are you okay? you nose is bleeding." john b asked quickly.

"in fine.." julia wiped her nose with the bottom of her shirt.

"same old shit." rafe exhaled, standing over the two. "pogues stealing from us."

"you dont have to do this, all right?" john b tried to talk then out of it.

"you know, i cant..." rafe started to breathe heavily and swing around the hook in his hand slightly "im not gonna let that happen." he went to land the hook inbetween them both.

the two siblings rolled opposite ways and julias back was aching, probably from the force of the floor. she got up as fast as she could, running to follow john b. he made it up a couple of the steps before being dragged down.

a fire shot out the pipes for a second, almost burning rafes eyes. he held his hand over his eyes and groaned in pain.

"you go!" julia yelled as her brother went up the stairs

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"come with me." rafe grabbed onto julias arm tightly. she did as she was told and followed him through the halls of the ship. occasionally, he rubbed his eyes a little.

"you okay?" julia asked as he stopped near a set of stairs.

"dont ever pull some shit like that again, do you understand?" rafe pointed his finger in her face

julia nodded, her nose still dripping a little. rafe wiped it with his thumb before his expression softened "im sorry.." he placed a kiss on her forehead

"its okay.." julia whispered, she knew he never meant to. has it happen a few times before? yes. did he mean it? no. was is going to happen again? maybe.

"i... i didn't mean to.." he apologised again

"i said its okay.." julia wrapped her arms around his neck, trying to bring him comfort.

"i'll make it up to you, i promise." he gently kissed her. once he pulled away, he led his finger across her bottle lip. rafes eyes flickered between julias and her mouth.

julia didnt say anything, she just smiled. rafe took her hand and led her onto the outside of the boat. they hid behind a container, watching the cross be lifted.

julia silently cheered to herself, more in her mind than outloud. cleo dropped the rope and rafe ran, sliding across the floor and grabbing it again.

pope dropped the crane and the cross dropped into the water. julia watched rafe slide across the floor, trying his best to keep the rope in his hands.

julia ran over to him, hearing him groan and grunt to himself. it was taking his whole willpower to keep hold of the cross. "rafe, let go! just drop it!"

"come on!" rafe said to himself, trying to pull the cross back up. "help! help! come on!" he called out

julia watched pope and cleo jump off the boat and into the water. as soon as she turns her head, she sees many of the boat workers run over to help rafe.

"shit." she mumbled to herself. julia quickly knelt down and placed a kiss on rafes mouth. "i gotta split." she ran to the edge of the boat

she was scared. petrified. julia was scared of the ocean and what lies beneath it. she couldn't jump from this high, what if she drowned? what if she swallows too much water? what if— her thoughts were cut off as her finger started bleeding.

"great." she mumbled again, taking her finger out of her mouth. when she turned around for a second, contemplating whether the jump or just stay, she saw rafes shirt ride up, revealing his lower stomach.

julia quickly turned around and jumped off the edge, into the water. she saw john b, sarah, kiara, cleo and pope already on the boat.

"shit, wheres olivia and j?" john b asked, searching the waters

"last time i saw them was on the other side of the boat." cleo pointed.

john b drove the lifeboat to the other side of the ship. olivia was holding a passed out jj in the water. pope and julia helped get him up as olivia got herself on.

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Olivia goes straight over to JJ as the boat starts and the get away from the bigger boat.

"J! Please! Please!" She pleads the blonde.

"Wake up." John B joins.

"Please get up!"

"You gotta wake up."

JJ starts coughing, water coming out of his mouth, "There you go. Yeah, yeah. Cough it out. Cough it out, baby." John B urges the boy while Olivia taps his chest helloing him get the water out of his body.

"Welcome to the land of living, dude." Pope speaks, a bright smile on his face.

"No CPR needed, huh?" John B jokes.

JJ's immediate attention goes to Olivia's hands on him, "Hi." She smiles down at him when he finally looks up at her.

"'sup?" Everyone laughs.

"Dude!" Pope says through laughing.

Olivia cradles his head, hugging him.

"Just always looking for attention." John B jokes.

"Whatever it takes, right?" JJ speaks up.

Olivia takes a wet rag from Cleo, and pressing it to his head.

"What the hell happened?" He looks up at her."

"Blunt end of a machete." She tells him.

"Machete?" He speaks, seemingly proud of himself.

"The blunt end."

"Next time, duck." Julia speaks up.

"I'll try to remember that next time. Thanks."

"This shit ain't over." Pope looks back at everyone.

"No, it ain't." JB agrees.

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Julia, Olivia, Cleo, Sarah, and Kiara sit on the beach watching JJ, John B and Pope bringing the boat onto land.

Olivia looks over at Julia and smiles, earning a smile back.

"Good job, guys."

"Good job." Sarah and Kie congratulate the boys.

"JJ, you all right there, buddy?" John B asks the blonde.

"Yeah. Still a little dizzy. Okay, anybody know where we're at?" He looks around.

"Deserted beach. Unknown island." Pope answers.

"All right, I'll take that as a no." JJ look at the ocean, "Plan A, huh, Pope? That went well."

"This is the lowest we can go. We literally have nothing else to lose. The cross, gone."

"The gold, gone." Julia adds.

"Seriously, if we had a nickel for every time we got beat up, I'd sat we're at dollar fifty."

"That's more than I got on me." Olivia shoots back at the blonde in front of her.

"That somehow doesn't make me feel better." Sarah also adds.

"Yeah, you're right." John B agrees with her, "But, I mean, we've..we've had some good stuff happen, right?"

"Name something." Pope asks sounding suspicious of the boys words.

"Um..Uh, the boiler room. What? If the boiler didn't explode I wouldn't have gotten away from Rafe. I couldn't have gotten the Zodiac and gotten us out of here."

"That wasn't luck." Cleo shakes her head. "That thing was gonna blow the second I stopped feeding it."

"Sterling my thunder, Cleo. Um.."

"Sorry."

"Okay. Pope, you're related to Denmark Tanny. That's crazy."

"And I lost all his inheritance."

"You know what?" John B stands up, looking at everyone. "Guys, this is it. This is the Pogue life. We are in the Caribbean. It's our own little slice of paradise. With my best friends, with my family. So, I don't know. I wouldn't wanna do it with anyone else. Look, and while you guys were complaining about every little thing..JJ?" He walks over to the blonde.

"Hmm?"

"I was looking at those burly lefts." He points to the waves in the ocean.

"There's some slabs out there." JJ looks back at JB.

"Just a few."

"Kie, see that? I know you wanna get out."

"No boards."

"Well, we can bodysurf till we make some boards."

"Lame."

"Pope? Come on, man."

"They do look pretty tasty."

"Oh, yes, they do."

"There's nobody around. We could squat here for a bit. Kind of belongs to us now, huh?"

"You got a point."

"Eight-way split?" The two do the handshake.

JJ looks down at Olivia before up at everyone, "Poguelandia." He says in a posh accent.

"Oh boy." Olivia mumbles.

"I claim thee Poguelandia." He then switches his voice back to normal, "I like the ring of it. I'm gonna make a flag. It's gonna have a chicken on it. With a coconut bra, smoking a j.."

Sarah, Kie, and Julia laugh.

"..in Crocs." And everyone laughs at this.

"I could use a J." Julia speaks up.

"Can we vote on this?" Sarah asks.

"Shall we get to work?" Pope turns to John B.

"Let's get to work. Let's start working on provisions." They do the handshake again. "Set up shop."

Olivia looks up at JJ's hand taking it, "Going full Pogue." She speaks to him then helping Julia up.

"What is a Pogue, anyway?" Cleo asks.

Then Pope teaches her what a Pogue is and the handshake.

Later that night everyone sits round a fire, laughing and smiling at everything and anything.

Julia and Olivia look at each other a smile, brightly.

authors note:

im going to slit my throat now.