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Jj was lying on the floor of the bus with his head in jo's lap as she slowly run her finger through his blond hair
"i mean, it's obvious, right?" john b said driving the twinkie with the all pogues in it listening to him "a family heirloom. what better place to hide a message? he had to know it was gonna get back to me, right?"
"yeah. it' possible" kie incouraged him sat next to him in the passenger seat
"it could also possible that you're concocting wild theories to help, you know, deal with your sad feels" pope said sat in the back with jj and jo with the compass in his hand
"bro, you know how i process my sad feels" jj said "dank nugs and the stickiest of ickies, that's how i do"
"jj" jo faced him then she shook her head to tell him that it wasn't the right time to say those things
"i'm not concocting, okay? my dad's trying to give me a message" john b seemed upset and jo saw jj close his eyes
jo slowly nodded "if it helps you believe, john b"
"look, i-i don't need a therapy session, okay? look, i'm not trippin' out"
jj opened his eyes "it's okay to trip, bro, but-" he was cut off by john b's voice as he turned to face jj "look, my-my dad is missing, okay?" he turned his head back to watch the street "missing" the pogues shut up
"you don't know what it's like to have the person closest to you vanish and then have no idea what happened. just wake up every morning wondering" john b said then jj looked up at jo who was playing with his hair with one hand and with is ring with the other one. jj knew exactly what jo thought in that moment, her mother walked away when she was 10 and she didn't know anything about her, she didn't know if she was alive or dead, if she was happy without her or not. but jo didn't say anything to john b, he didn't need her to tell him anything in that moment. jj just squeezed a little her thigh causing her to look at him and give him a small fake smile.
"it's been almost a year" kie said softly
"hey, he could have been kidnapped. that's definitely a possibility" jj shrugged
"yeah, could be in a soviet sub getting interrogated by kgb somewhere" pope said
"absolutely. uh..." jj tried to think of something else "atlantis!" jo looked at him confused "atlantis?"
"guys" kie warned before going back to talk to john b "look, what do you think the message is?"
"jo was right" john b said
"boom!" she laughed moving her hands in the air
"jo" kie shut her
"redfield it's not an anagram, it's a place. redfield lighthouse. that's my dad's favorite place" john b rolled to stop
