Life on the cut (JJxReader) OuterBanks Fanfic

The Breakdown.

(A/N no gator attacks in this one friends. Just the set up x)

Rose, had received some mail. An amazon package and some letters resting on top. She rifled through the white envelopes, until she found one that said 'Via air mail, correo aereo, par avion'. That was strange... She flipped the letter and ripped open the seal. As soon as she opened it the wind was knocked out of her. Rose gasped lightly and slid to the floor along the doorframe. She held the letter, shaking.

JJ patted the last of the soil down, and they finished up with the burial. He wandered back to the Twinkie with Y/N and John B. Kie was resting on the roots while Sarah lent on the thick trunk. Y/N was leaning on the Twinkie, staring up at the angel oak with great curiosity. John B was sitting in the open door next to her. Pope however, was not as relaxed. His brain was already racing. "I just don't get it... I mean you guys saw the map!" He exclaimed. "He hides his gold so no one can find it for 170 years. And then he sends a message to his son, Robert, to come here to his mothers grave. But the message never gets to him. Denmark wanted him to find the cross I just know we're in the right spot! It just feels like-"
"-like we missed something." Y/N finished. She was staring up at the tree- but her expression went from calm to amazed. She paced quickly to the base of the tree and said, "Guys. Come here."
The five of them rushed towards her as Y/N heaved herself onto the Twinkie's roof. Kie followed behind.
"There she goes." John B said.
Y/N reached up to a hole in the tree, now eye level. She reached down for JJ, who took her hand and let her pull him up.
"What does this look like?" She pointed at the hole.
"Like the picture in the painting." Kie breathed.
The three pogues on the floor looked up at them, no one said not to do it.
"Worth a shot right?" JJ said confidently.
"Yeah." Kie nodded.
John B agreed, "Let's do it."
Y/N looked at JJ, and JJ looked at Y/N.
"So you gunna-?" She asked Kie and JJ.
"No chance." Kie scoffed.
Sarah spoke up from below, "You do it."
JJ rubbed his neck, "Well Y/N saw it first so I figured-"
"And I went in the storm drain." Kie added.
Pope snapped his fingers, "It's true she did do the storm drain."
"I literally got shot." Y/N chuckled.
"Well there won't be a gun in there so." John B pointed at the hole, "In."
"Yeah no I'm gunna do it, its just..." Y/N bounced up and down a bit, trying to hype herself up to push her arm into the unknown.
"She's scared." Kie whispered.
"Not scared of mama gators but no, scared of the random tree hole." JJ folded his arms and chuckled.
"I'm not scared." Y/N reached towards it.
Kie smiled, "You seem scared."
Y/N slowly pushed her arm into the hole, twisting it around a bit to make it feel right. It didn't. Then- something grazed her fingers. And it wasn't wooden. "There's something in here." she chuckled, (at a devious prank she was thinking of) and suddenly her face fell, "Wait-" 
Y/N let out a blood curdling scream. Her arm pulling her into the hole with surprising force. The pogues were terrified about the state they'd find her arm in once... if they got it out. Kie and JJ tried to pull Y/N away while John B, Pope and Sarah scrambled at the roof of the Twinkie in a panic. Everyone shouting over one another.

Suddenly- Y/N started to laugh, and let JJ and Kie pull her out.
John B- half climbed on the roof to aid one of his best friends, flopped onto the metal roof with a huff. Everyone stopped yelling. Sarah rolled her eyes and Pope glared at her, "Oh you bitch."
Kie huffed and pushed her towards the tree, "What the hell."
Y/N was still giggling, "Ohh... I totally got you there."
"Oh yeah. Real original." Pope snapped.
JJ was the only other pogue with a smile still on his face, "Was there actually anything in there?"
"Yeah." Y/N picked her hand up, and in her palm was a long cylinder, wooden with golden tips. It was sort of the shape of a closed up telescope. 
Pope held his hand up, "Let me see."
Y/N twisted the object in her hands, and lent down to hand it to her friend.
Engraved on the side, was, "HMS Royal Merchant." Pope said in amazement.
Y/N leapt down next to him, "Let's see it, captains orders. Here we go-" She stretched it out. "It's a fuckin pirate spyglass."
"You're not the captain yet baby I am." JJ said, taking the spyglass from her and looking through it.
Y/N stood on the other side and took off the cap, "Can you see my eye?"
"Oh shit yeah." He laughed, "How pretty."
Kie chuckled from the roof, then pointed out, "There's something on the ends."
John B took the spyglass from JJ, and Pope looked over at the smallest cylinder. 
"An inscription right there." He grinned, "Look at that."
"Oh what does it say?" Y/N said excitedly.
"What is it Popie?" JJ asked.
Pope smiled broadly, "You've come this far, do not falter. The cross is on the freedman's alter.... Freedman's alter! The cross is at the church!"
John B hit Pope's shoulder with excitement. The pogues all looked amazed... They only had one second to be excited, as they knew they had to go now.
"What are we still doing here?" JJ asked, "Let's go!"
"Come on! We got it!" Pope was ecstatic.
"Woogidy-woogidy" Pope and JJ said on chorus, celebrating. They jumped happily into the Twinkie and she roared to life, happy for the pogues whil they sped down the dirt roads towards the church.

JJ was shotgun, John B drove, and Pope and Y/N knelt between the front seats. Kie and Sarah lounging in the back seats. But alas, their good mood was quickly squished.
"Ah crap." John B sighed.
"The fucking tide." Y/N pressed her head into JJ's shoulder.
Pope made a face, "This doesn't look good."
"How deep is that?" Kie asked.
"I dunno." JJ said, ruffling Y/N's hair. "Road's completely gone."
"So is the damn forest." added Y/N.
They clunked to a half in front of the puddle.
"Tide rose faster than I though. Just-" He whistled, "Just like that. We're stuck."
"Just a little bit." John B shot back.
"JB how high are your spark plugs?" Y/N picked her head back up to look at him.
"They're good. We're fine." He answered bluntly.
Kie's brow burrowed and Pope looked suspicious.
"How high are they...?" She asked again.
"Oh um..." He looked out of the window, "Just above the tailpipe."
"Okay so that's, what? Three feet?" Pope said.
JJ nodded with his eyes shut, "That's three feet yeah."
"It can't be three feet deep." Kie said.
"Exactly." John B tapped the wheel, "Then what's the problem."
"Not a problem." JJ said, looking out to the water.
"She'll make it." Y/N rubbed the car's roof.
"We're good we're good she'll make it." JJ agreed with her, and crossed his fingers. Y/N crossed hers too and JJ grabbed her hand.
"Ladies and gentlemen fasten your seatbelts, hold onto something." John B said, revving the engine. They buckled up- if one was available.
Kie grabbed the base of her chair, Pope grabbed John B's seat, Sarah held onto the roof handle and her chair while Y/N used her spare hand to hold JJ's seat, he was also grabbing a roof handle.
"We're going into hyperdrive." John b said.
Y/N squeezed JJ's hand, "Well punch it chewy."
"I'm gunna sat a quick prayer." JJ uttered, doing tapping his head and both his shoulders.
"Three, two. One."

The Twinkie started throwing up more mud than she did last time. Throwing leaves and twigs into the air, flinging them backwards.
"Ahh.." Y/N paniced.
"Okay! Okay!" JJ winced at the sound of the tires spinning. They began to get friction and propel the pogues into the water.
"You got this you got this!"
The wheels were slipping.
"Hey hey!"
"Go faster!"
"John B tree!"
"Ohhh fuck!"
"Woah woah!"
"Faster faster!"
The chaos started layering as the pogues all shouted over one another. Water was spraying over the dash and the windows.
"Ahh!"
"Speed is your friend JB!"
"woahhhh...!"
The water was splashing out in streams of blasting droplets. The pogues were shouting and cheering the Twinkie on, land was visable on the other side.
"You got it you got it!" JJ laughed.
"Careful you'll-" Y/N began.

The Twinkie lost her stability, and swung dead off target. Flinging herself and the pogues into the deeply flooded forest. She chuckled and broke down in the middle of a grand patch of murkey water. 
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." John B muttered quickly.
Pope looked out the window, "I think we miscalculated."
Sarah made a face and pinched her fingers together, trying to say 'wow only a little sherlock'.
"I knew I should've driven." JJ sighed as John B put his head into his hand. 

The six of them disembarked. The water was maybe knee deep on the shorter of the pogues, and anyone wearing jeans were now feeling rather stupid. 
"Maybe we can walk from here." Pope said to them. 
"What and leave the Twinkie?" John B pointed at his car. The top of the boot was open. And the water was very nearly up to the bottom of the doors.
"The tide is coming in... JB's right we can't leave her." Y/N patted the van.
"So then what are we supposed to do?" Sarah asked. 
"Not stay here." JJ looked around, anxiously.
...
Kie rolled her eyes, "I can.. take my dad's truck."
"Kie are you sure?" Pope looked at her, worried.
She took a deep breath, "How much worse can it get, you know?"
"I'll come too." Y/N took Kie's hand. "We'll need a winch from the chateau."
Kie nodded, and they started to wade away.
JJ stopped them, "That's like two miles." 
Sarah nodded, "It's a good idea."
"If you're gunna do it, let's go. Tide's coming in." John B ushered them along.
"I'm coming too." JJ waded after Kie and Y/N. "Double time girls."
"What- you're the one behind us JJ." Kie laughed.
"Yeah not if you keep walking at this pace." He shot back. 
The three of them reached solid ground, and quickly made their way back to the town.

(A/N: Until next time b x)