Heart Of Gold || Outerbanks

13.

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"Hey, guys. So, like my dad's already gonna kill me. So what's this mandatory meeting about?" Pope spoke up sitting down next to Kie. The group was around a campfire.

Luciana sat next to JJ, looking at Kie. The girl was obviously avoiding any interaction with her. Luciana sighed quietly looking back towards the others.

"Might as well tell him, man, before we're gaffed." JJ said poking the fire with a stick. Kie, Pope and Lucy looked at John B confused.

"You ready for this?" John B asked.

"Yeah." Kie said.

"So the gold never went down with the Royal Merchant." John B said.

"John B," Lucy started said standing up.

"Oh my god, here we go again with this." Pope said in annoyance.

"No. All right, wait. Hear him out, all right?" JJ said looking at the Pogues.

"It's been here the whole time." John B said with a little smirk. "It's on the island."

"Are you serious?" Kie asked. John B nodded his head. "Oh my god."

"I'd like to voice my skepticism." Pope raised his hand.

"I'm sure you would, Pope, but can I please present to you with my evidence, sir?" John B said grabbing his backpack.

"Proceed." Pope answered.

"All right. So, in my backpack, I have a letter from Denmark Tanny." John B said holding out a letter.

"Who the hell's that?" Luciana asked.

"Denmark Tanny was a slave that survived the Royal Merchant wreck. Check this out." John B said handing the letter to her.

"Okay, slaves weren't mentioned as crew members on the ship, but our dad, he found the complete manifest." John B said while Lucy looked at the note. "That was his big discovery."

"So Tanny used the hold from the Merchant to but his freedom." John B said, Lucy handing the letter to Pope with disbelief. "After that he bought his farm. Drumroll please," JJ and Kie started to drumroll.

"Because that farm is..... Tannyhill Plantation." John B exclaimed.

"Tannyhill?" Kie and Luciana asked in sync.

"Yeah. So, after that, he used his money to free even more slaves, and then he sold a shit-ton of rice, which pisses off all the white planters and then, they decide to lynch him." John B said, leaving the other four in silence to think.

"So on the day they were coming to get him, he writes a letter to his son as a farewell, and in the last line of that letter, he leaves a coded message about where to find the gold." John B said with a smile.

"Where?" Kie asked.

"Harvest the wheat in parcel nine, near the water." John B said. "Except there's no wheat. You see wheat is code for gold. Check this out." John B said sitting in between the two girls and showing the wheat symbol on the gold.

"The gold is in parcel nine, near the water." John B said, making Kie chuckle in disbelief. Lucy looked at JJ in shock, him smiling with hope. John B stood up and gave the letter to Pope.

"All we need is an original survey map of the property, and we've found the gold!" John B exclaimed.

"Okay so this might have a small chance of actually being true." Pope said as JJ hugged John B, picking him up.