Outer Banks Season 1
Episode 1 -- Pilot

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John B stood on top of the roof, his arms outstretched as he and Pope pretend to shoot each other with finger guns. Adria chuckled lightly as she glanced at the blonde boy beside her before looking out over the houses.

The girl took a breath. The blonde looks at the girl, studying her features before he spoke "What are you thinking about?"

Adria glanced at the boy as she smiles lightly "I don't know, just" she sighed "like traveling the world, seeing different cultures, or even surfing in every ocean- only the warm places though" she quickly adds.

JJ smiled at the girl "Basically a surf trip"

"pretty much" She shrugs before her gaze shifts below her to Kiara as she walked out of the half built house.

"they're gonna have Japanese toilets with towel warmers" Kiara complains with an annoyed expression on her face

"Of course" Adria's attention shifts to the blonde boy beside her "why wouldn't they" he shrugs.

Adria pats the boys shoulder as she began to climb down the scaffold.

Kie Sighs "this used to be a turtle habitat but who cares about the turtles, I guess?"

Adria nudges Kie with her elbow as she came up beside the girl "I do" she shrugs her shoulders.

Kiara gives her a smile "thank you, Drea" she sends a look to each of the boys as her eyes land on the fluffy haired brunette on the roof "could you not kill yourself please"

"don't spill that beer, I'm not giving you another one" JJ glanced at his friend with a stern look before taking a drink from his own.

just as JJ finished his sentence John B fumbles with the beer before it slips from his grasp and onto the deck below him.

"Of course you did" JJ tossed his arms in the air

"Smooth" Kie mutters causing Adria to chuckle as John B groans holding his arms out towards the spilled bear on the deck.

"hey, uh, security's here" Pope called out gaining their attention "let's wrap it up"

Kiara and Adria share a look with smirks on their faces.

"the boys are early today, Gary is that you?" JJ hollers down at the security guard "oh it's good to see you man!" the blonde makes his way towards the two girls.

Adria shakes her head as she laughs "now you're just asking for it" she playfully shoves him as the teens begin to run through the house shouting and laughing.

Adria jumps down the last little bit of the stairs as they dodge the security guards and columns. Adria glances over her shoulder when she looks in front of her again she skids to a stop nearly falling as she catches herself with her hands and begins to run away from the guard that was just inches away from her.

She runs outside turning a corner as she sees Pope, JJ ran up beside her, Adria glances over her shoulder once again as she stumbles and falls to the ground JJ looks at her then the security guard that was gaining on them as he runs over to the girl and takes ahold on her arm and pulls her up as the two begin to run again .

JJ glances at the girl "I thought you did track?"

Adria looks at him with wide eyes "when I was twelve, And I quit" JJ makes an 'o' shape with his mouth.

the closer they got to the fence the more they ushered Pope to hurry as he hopes over the fence but landed flat on his face.

JJ jumps over with ease while Adria managed to get over  but stumbled slightly as she stops and grabs Pope's arm quickly helping him to his feet as the three sprint towards the Twinkie aka John B's van.

"Come here you little pricks!" Gary shouted over the fence they had just climbed over.

they jump into the van as they laugh, Adria laid against the floor of the Twinkie as she runs a hand through her hair

Pope's laugh gains the girls attention "Check out Gary gunning for a raise" he points towards the man

Adria propped herself up and moves towards the open door to see Gary chasing them on foot

"hey, slow down" JJ leans out the door an unopened beer in his hand "come on, your so close"

"guys come on, you're gonna give him a heart attack" Kie spoke

"you can do it" JJ continues to tease Gary before he tosses the beer in his hand to him "there you go, they don't pay you enough bro"

"JJ, come on, stop" Kie says firmly and grabs his arm pulling him back into the van

"Oh, come on. That sort of initiative is just begging to be punished" JJ's gaze fell onto the raven haired girl "Even Drea thinks it's funny"

Adria couldn't help the smile on her face as she chuckles, avoiding Kiara's gaze not wanting to know the look the girl was giving.

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Kiara and Adria walk down the dock  from Kie's house, Adria had gotten ready there after spending about fifteen minuets looking for a pair of shorts that Kiara had borrowed. Beside their parents insisted they were home because of Hurricane Agatha.

"Top of the morning " John B calls out

"Whatcha got?" Pope asks Kie who was carrying a small cooler.

Kiara shrugs "oh you know, just some yogurts and carrot sticks"

JJ holds out his hand and helps the pair onto the boat "how about my kind of juice boxes?"

Adria nods her head slightly "yeah"

Kiara and Adria take a seat on the boat as the continue down the river, Adria opens the cooler and hands out a beer to Kiara and JJ taking one for herself as the three cheers and take sips from their drink.

"let me show you a party trick" JJ spoke as he makes his way to the front of the boat as the rest of the group grumble

"terrifying" Kie mumbles

JJ looks over to Pope as he spoke "hey Pope can you go a little faster"

"oh god here we go, I'm moving" John B states as he gets up, walking away from his spot on the boat

"Come on this isn't going to work we've tried this like 6,000 times" Pope argued as he began to speed up the boat

"I got this, it's gonna work" JJ said confidently

"Alright, if this works I'll give you a hundred bucks" Adria spoke up from her spot on the boat.

JJ raises his brows and looks to her and points "I'll take that bet, but you better pay up" he raises the beer bottle and begins to pour it as the boat speeds up the beer flies back some hitting his mouth while most of it missed it.

"you're getting beer in my hair!" Kiara complains, Adria covers her face.

"Alright, Alright, you're done" Pope and John B say to him trying to get him down

Adria stands up knowing that the blonde won't listen to any of them and also getting tired of beer hitting her face as she takes a step onto the front of the boat "Alright JJ─" before the girl could finish her sentence the boat comes to a abrupt stop sending Adria and JJ flying into the water.

JJ resurfaces Adria following as she coughs "you guys Okay?" John B asks the pair.

Adria nods a grimace on her face "fucking wonderful" she spat out sarcastically.

"I think my heels touched the back of my head" JJ croaked out.

Adria looks up onto the boat "Pope what'd you do?" she groans.

"Sandbar, channel changed" he replied

"No shit" JJ commented as he swam up beside Adria "hey I saved the beer though" he looks over to Adria "and you owe me a hundred bucks"

Adria gave him a look "come on, that doesn't count, half of that landed on us"

he bunches his shoulders "hey a bet is a bet, now you gotta pay up"

Adria raised a hand "Okay first of all half of it missed your─"

Pope's voice cut her sentence short, stopping the bicker that was bound to break out from this conversations "Guy's . . . I think there's a boat down there"

"shut up" John B muttered.

"No Guy's I'm serious there's a boat down there" Pope points into the water.

Adria's brows furrow as she tries to look through the murky water the sunlight beaming off it wasn't any help. John B and Kiara walk up beside Pope "it's a boat!" he exclaims.

"holy shit he's right" Kie began to take off her shorts "let's go" John B took off his shirt and dived into the water followed by Kiara.

"you think there's a dead body down there?" Pope questioned as he quickly took off is shirt to join the others in the water.

Adria takes a breath as she dives down following the others, her hands grab onto the roof of the boat as she looks it over before she pushes off it resurfacing, pushing her hair back away from her face.

"you guys saw that right?" JJ looks between the group.

they all nod saying their versions of yes as they begin to swim back towards the boat.

"that's a Grady White, A new one of those is 500 G's easy" the blonde Pogue states "that's a primo rig"

Adria began to push herself up onto the boat, mentally cursing herself for having such little upper arm strength, She wasn't weak but wasn't necessarily the strongest of the group.

Adria felt a pair of hands on her ass causing her head to turn swiftly as she sat herself up on the boat "JJ, get your hands off my ass" she spat out at the boy giving him a look.

JJ held his hands up in a nonchalant way as he chuckled lightly "Looked like you were struggling, just trying to help"

Adria's face contorts at the boy as she stands "You can look all you want but you can't touch" her eyes narrow at the boy as he climbs onto the boat.

Adria notices the looks from the other Pogues as she waves them off with a roll of her eyes.

Once they're all back onto the boat John B nods changing the conversation back to the Boat in the water "Yeah, yeah, that's the boat I saw when I surfed the surge, maybe it hit the jetty or something"

"you surfed the surge?" Kiara questions as he meets her gaze and hesitantly nods.

JJ chuckles "yeah that's my boy Pogue style" the two high five.

Pope stands up "Wait, wait, do we know who's boat that is?"

"no but we're about to find out" John B reaches down and begins to pulls out the anchor.

"dude it's too deep" JJ spoke looking into the murky water.

The brunette presses his lips together with a tilt of his head "Oh for the weak and feeble JJ" John B finally pulls out the anchor and lifts it in his hands.

Adria raises her brows already seeing what his plan was "This is a stupid idea, JB"

JJ looks back at his friend "yeah, well, I'm not resuscitating you. Just making that clear up front"

John B shrugged "that's fine"

"John B" Kiara spoke quietly.

He chuckles and turns to her with raised brows "what?" Kie glanced to Adria the girl immediately seeing the worry in her eyes.

"Diver down fool" Pope salutes him John B does the same thing "Diver down"

"yeah he is" JJ quickly runs up to him and shoves him in the water, the boy quickly sinking down.

The four rush over to the edge of the boat and look into the murky water concerned for their friend. Adria's arm brushes against the blonde's beside her, Her attention shifting from the water onto the boy beside her.

Her gaze staying on him, maybe a little longer than it should but it's not like it meant anything, they were friends.

She notices Kiara giving her a look with almost a smirk on her face. Adria rolled her eyes before she looked back to the water.

After a minute or so John B emerges from the water "Oh my god that took forever "

"Any dead bodies?" Pope asks quickly

Adria looks at the Heyward boy with furrowed brows "What's with you and dead bodies?"

John B shakes his head "No"

"Looting potential?" JJ asks.

John B shakes his head once again "No" he holds up his hand which had a key dangling on his finger "but I found this motel key"

"A key?" Pope asked almost in disbelief that that was the most interesting thing he found.

"Yes, A key, Pope" John B climbed back onto the boat.

JJ pulls out the anchor "great! we salvaged a motel key" The sarcasm laced in his tone was not missed.

"Guys we should report the wreck to the cost guard" Kie chimed in.

Adria nodded "yeah, we might be able to get a finders fee, earn a couple bucks" she grabbed her button up short sleeve shirt covering her arms seeing as that was the only dry clothing she had after getting flung into the water in her shorts.

"yeah and not work all summer. Thanks Agatha, Ya bitch"

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The five walked up to the cost guard station but was completely ignored by some people talking about damage to boats and a dog with diabetes, they all shared looks and walked back outside.

"well that went well" Pope commented

"what's the plan?" JJ asked placing his arm on John B's shoulder.

He looked deep in thought "I think I know how we're gonna find the guy who owns that boat" he holds out the motel key.

Pope swiftly shakes his head "We don't know who's room that is. It could belong to anyone" he argued

JJ takes the key from John B's hand "I'm in" he tosses them over Pope's head

Adria catches them contemplating the idea before a small smirk covers her face as she nods "me too" and passes the keys to Kiara.

She had her own smile on her face as she looks to Pope "come on, We'll be look out"

They begin to make their way to the boat "Finder's fee, Just sayin' " John B taps his friend on the shoulder "and hey, at least you'll only be an accomplice"

Adria chuckled and John B's comment and the look one Pope's face. Kiara took her cousins arm pulling her to the side.

Adria looked at her with furrowed brows "What?" she questions

Kiara eyed the girl "what's with the look you were giving JJ?"

This only grew the girls confusion. "What? what look?"

Kiara gave her an all but unconvinced look "Drea, the comment on the boat and then they way you're looking at him come on"

Adria scoffed with a roll of her eyes "please, Kie, we're friends"

Kiara squints at the girl as she hums, and not a I believe you hum either, causing Adria to roll her eyes once again.

"Come on! Ships leaving!" JJ called out to the two girls.

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JJ whistles at the sight of the motel "I thought the Chateau looked bad"

"this place is a shit show" John B commented "Motel or Meth lab?" Kie pipped in

"you be the judge" Adria snorts glancing at Pope "probably both"

"doesn't look like a place someone with a Grady White would stay" John B added.

"no, looks like a place someone with a Grady white would get killed " Pope deadpanned.

"alright here we go" JJ muttered "this is you're captain speaking HMS Pogue comin' in for landing" he spoke making his voice sound like he was talking through a walkie talkie

the blonde jumped off the boat onto the land once it got close enough he placed his hands at the front helping it come to a stop "whoo!" he hollered before tying  the boat off

"we good?" John B asked him and JJ nods "yeah, we good"

"alright here goes nothing" John B makes his way up to the front of the boat

Kiara looked over to Adria with furrowed brows before realization dawned on her about what her cousin was about to do.

Adria shrugged before standing up "I'm coming" all heads turn to her as she walks to the front of the boat

JJ holds his hand out as he helps her to the ground "hey" Pope calls out Adria turns to him. He looks between her and John B "don't let him do anything stupid" he points to JJ.

"Oh we will" JJ nods and John B shrugs "I'm not making promises"

"Yeah, I know" Pope sighs

Kiara hands John B the keys her hand lingering for a moment "be careful, Okay"

JJ and Adria share a look, Adria trying to stop the smile dawning on her face while John B chuckles  and nods "yeah" he pats JJ on the shoulder as he jumps down from the boat "let's go" he begins to walk to the motel.

Adria and JJ following close behind "why are all these mattresses out here?" Adria's attention falls on John B before looking at all the mattresses

"after a hurricane the ditch 'em 'Cause they're all moldy" JJ answers.

Adria looks at him with furrowed brows "Really?"

the three walk up the stairs to the upper level Adria's eyes scan over the numbers on the doors "Just be so carful, John" JJ squeezes his friends shoulders.

John B was quick to shove him off "God, You're so weird" Adria chuckles as she looks over her shoulder receiving a look from JJ.

"what was that about?" JJ continues to talk

John B bunches his shoulders "I don't know maybe she wants us to be careful"

"since she's heard you're being threatened with exile, she's just been, like, 'oh be so careful John B' " JJ's voice raised as John B shoved him off once again " 'Oh give me that John D already' like when are you gonna swoop on that man?"

John B looks at him "bro, you know the rule no Pogue on Pogue macking" he shrugs "besides you're the one always hitting on her, man and don't even get me started on all the comments towards, Drea"

JJ nods "dude of course I'm hitting on them they're a super hot, rich, hippie chicks slumming it with us"

Adria glances over her shoulder "you do realize I'm literally right here" She gestures to herself "Oh, and I'm sure you're aware that Kooks are assholes"

JJ waves her off "why? I can't figure it out either, but who cares, bro I know that door's locked because I've tried it, have you?"

Adria turns to them "clearly this is going to be a long conversation where I get brushed off when I say something while JJ tries to prove his point, So I'll meet you guys down by the room" she holds her hand out indicating that she wants the keys which John B tosses to her she smiles and turns on her heels walking down the level looking for the room.

A smirk plays on John B's mouth "what about that door" he points to raven haired girl who was waking in front of them.

JJ looks to his friend then to Adria as he watches the girl his eyes look her up and down he bunches his shoulders "we're not talking about that right now, we're talking about how you should try the door with Kie"

John B chuckles "Come on, we all see how you look at her and the flirty jokes-"

"Why are you turning this conversation onto me, this is about you and Kie-" JJ gets cut short as Adria's voice cut him off "hey guys I think it's this one" she points to the door "29"

the pair walk over to her, John B nods "This is it"

"Okay" JJ walks up to the door as he knocks "Housekeeping " he spoke in a high pitched voice he knocks once more before walking over to the small window and knocks

"should we try it?" John B looks at the two Adria nods "yeah" JJ answers him

Adria hands him the key "no power, no security camera's no one's gonna know" JJ comments. John B opens the door

Adria looks around the empty room with raised brows as she walks in after JJ "I was hoping for something more" she pauses nodding her head side to side "exciting"

John B shuts the door "I'll check the bag. See if there's a name on it" he looks over the bag

"got a jacket" JJ states " Denim slides" John B says

"No name on the jacket, it's a nice jacket though"

Adria takes a breath as she looks around the the room "definitely over 50 he's got new balances" John B and JJ continue talking to each other as Adria walks over to the end table by the beds her brows knit together.

as she looks at the map as she feels someone come up from behind her Adria glances over her shoulder to be met with JJ looking at the same map she was "yo dude come here. Maybe this is where they were fishing"

"let me see" John B walks up beside them as Adria shifts over sightly towards JJ, glancing to him for a moment as the girl gets squished in between them.

Adria points to the coordinates on a sticky notes "right there"

John B shakes his head "No, that's off the continental shelf. That's big Swell nobody fishes there"

Adria looks at the map once more before shrugging and wandering around the room once again "Ooh!" JJ's voice caught her attention

"did you find anything?" John B questioned

"a really awesome Dopp kit you won't let me steal" Adria snorts at the Blondes remark.

"yeah 'Cause we're not stealing shit" John B adds as he crouches down and opens a cabinet revealing a safe as he begins to punch numbers in.

JJ joins the pair as he nods "punching shit at random that will . . . definitely work" he says sarcastically

"wait a second, wait a second, here" John B walks over to the end table picking up a white piece of paper with the numbers 6 1 6 6 written on it.

"I don't know about the second one of these coordinates, they . . ." Adria walks up beside him looking at the piece of paper

"wait my cousin said you could catch swordfish here" he paused for a moment before shaking his head "nah, that wouldn't make any sense, what about surf spot?"

JJ looks down at Adria, she shrugs "might be"

John B chuckles gaining the girls attention, which was easy to gain "holy shit" he mutters Adria's curiosity getting the better of her as she walks back over to John B while JJ continues to talk.

the blonde looks beside him once again but no one was there he turned around "Uh, JJ" Adria spoke seeing the cash in John B's hand.

"Hm?" he hummed in reply.

Adria takes a breath "yeah, you're gonna want to see this" JJ walks over almost completely ignoring the money as he reaches into the safe grabbing the gun jumping back in almost excitement.

Adria gives him a look with wide eyes- in all honesty she thought he would grab the cash first "Put the gun back, JJ!" John B whisper yelled

"Dude this is a SIG Sauer, this is a fucking spending gatt, man just Bam! Bam!" he points the gun pretending to shoot.

"JJ" John B grabs his friends arm stopping him from moving around the room "we're not stealing anything!"

Jj rolls his eyes "just take a pic of me, right here"

John B raises his brows "you want me to take a picture of you?"

JJ nods "yeah, just" he poses with the gun

"do you want to make our own incriminating evidence? is that what you're talking about?" John B said in disbelief.

JJ scoffs "come on" JJ looks to the Monroe girl "what do you think?"

Adria looks between the two boys as she takes a deep breath tilting her head slightly "well, I mean we've kind of created evidence, you know finger prints and shit"

JJ smacks John B's shoulder "see, Drea says I can keep it"

Adria raises her hands "wait a minute, that's not what I said" her brows furrow and head turns to the window from the light tapping noises coming from it.

John B makes his way over to the window, hearing what Adria heard as he looked through the blinds before jumping over the bed to the other small window by the door "Cops" he muttered

before knocking came from the door "Kildare's county sheriff's department" was heard through the door

JJ grabs ahold of Adria's wrist as he pulls her slightly, making their way towards the window.

The three were pressed up against the wall outside the motel room. Adria held onto the the wall tightly as she tries not to look down. Her and heights weren't very good friends.

Adria went to adjust herself but her foot slipped from the small slab of roof they were standing on, her eyes go wide.

JJ quickly wrapped his arm around her as she steadied herself but in the process knocked the gun from his pocket as it hit the dumpster with a bang.

Adria's eyes squeeze shut as she smacks her head lightly against the wall as she tries to push herself closer than she already was .

the blinds open quickly Adria glances to John B as they wait for Shoupe to move away from the window as Adria's heart practically beated out of her chest.

After what felt like forever he finally walked away from the window Adria letting out a breath she didn't even realize she was holding as her head rested on the wall.

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"well, that was fun" JJ commented, the three were back on the boat away from the motel.

JJ chuckles "could have warned us a little sooner"

"Yeah" Adria nods in agreement while she looks between Pope and Kiara

"we would have, except Pope was on the math team" Kie states giving the boy a look.

"you were on the math team?" JJ's gaze falls onto Pope

he doesn't answer before changing the subject "the cops took everything like it was a crime scene, did you guys find anything?" Pope looked between the three.

JJ stands up "did we find anything? No I don't think so-" he pulls out the stack of cash and the gun from his pocket "Oh yeah we did"

Pope shot up from his seat "what the hell?"

"dude, what?" Kiara glanced to Adria who just shrugged, JJ walked over to Pope" dude chill. Come on"

"why would you take that from a crime scene!" Pope whisper yelled.

JJ shrugged "better then the cops having it"

Adria tilted her head with a confused look from his comment.

"seriously" Adria looked to Kie who was giving her a look

Adria's mouth fell agape as she tries to think of what to say before sighing "It's JJ, what the hell was I supposed to do!" she gestures to the blonde but Kie just sighs

"I'm gonna lose my merit scholarship" Pope panicked, his hand on his forehead.

JJ wrapped his arm around Pope "hey, hey, hey, Sh, sh, sh, sh" he raised the gun shushing Pope "at least you have us, right?"

"I'm living a nightmare" Pope walks away from him falls down in the seat beside John B.

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Word Count; 4509
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A/N :  I swear it'll get more interesting when more stuff starts happening, first chapters are a serious struggle for me