Life on the cut (JJxReader) OuterBanks Fanfic

The Speech.

(A/N: This one is cute fiuriuheihew)

The horn honked loudly as JJ announced their arrival.
"Look who it is. The tortoise and the tortoise and the tortoise. Just a couple hours late." Pope huffed.
The three of them piled out of the car quietly. Y/N squeezing JJ's hand.
"Where the hell were you guys!?" Pope questioned them, angry.
"Paternal complications..." Kie uttered, fetching the hitch from the back of the truck.
"Mike's fucking Vic and then we saw my- We saw Luke at the chateau." JJ explained.
"Oh great." Pope said sarcastically, "While you were having family time with your pops-"
"Hey!" Y/N glared at him. Kie patted her shoulder, handing her a rope to carry.
"John B got bit! By a gator!" Pope shouted over Y/N.
"Like for real?" JJ looked panicked. The three of them were hit with a wave of guilt.
"JB.." Y/N breathed, the rope slipping in her hands slightly.
"Does it look like we're joking?" Sarah snipped. Pointing at John B's bloody leg.
Kie gasped, "Okay what the hell happened?!" 
"What happened?" John B asked, annoyed. "I got bit by a gator."
"He got bit by a gator!" Pope backed him up, shouting.
"I don't know why I'm being yelled at I put my ass on the line." Kie pointed at the truck. "You think I wanted to see my dad macking Y/N's mum, happily without me!? Huh?!"
JJ tensed up at the yelling. He was feeling rather fragile right now and needed his friends to stick together. He just lost the only real family he'd ever known. He couldn't lose this one too.
"You have no idea what Jay had to do literally ten minutes ago!" Y/N snapped.
"Exactly." Kie backed her up.
"Oh, oh JJ? What is he bleeding out of a bite wound? Huh?!" Sarah shouted back.
Kie tossed her hands up "Why are you yelling at us we did the best we could!"
JJ started shaking. Y/N noticed, and stopped arguing. The four pogues went back and forth in the background while Y/N slipped her hand into his. He looked down- upset.
"God damn it!"
"Again- why are you shouting at me!?"
"You're being yelled at because it was 20 minutes-"
"We got here a fast as we could!"
"Oh oh woah woah yeah-"
They were arguing so loudly that all their voices were morphing into one. JJ's grip tightened on Y/N's hand and he turned away for a moment, taking a deep breath.
"Shut up!" He shouted. No one heard him. "Guys- Guys!!!"
Y/N put her fingers to her mouth and whistled loudly. Forcing the bickering to end with a piercing shriek.

The pogues looked at the two of them, expectantly. Y/N, looked towards JJ.
"Seriously!" He exclaimed, "I can't take it anymore, all right!? Everyone just cut it out for a second..." He chuckled and ran his free hand through his hair. Y/N pulled him onto a tree with her, and they lent on it for a moment. "Look. That trip was hard for us. With all their parent bullshit- but also..." His voice wavered and JJ bit his lip.
"We helped Luke leave the island. Probably for good..." Y/N explained, squeezing his hand. 
"He's not coming back.. huh." Kie put a hand on his shoulder.
JJ shook his head. "Ever. He's straight up like the Spanish just, "Bon Voyage!""
The pogues all made a face.
"That's not the right language." Pope whispered.
"Hey." Y/N snapped her fingers at him. "Not the point bro..."
"Hey I know for a fact that all we've got..." He squeezed Y/N, "All we've got is you guys, okay? That's it. And we've come too damn close to losing you. All of you."
Kie nodded in agreement.
"I mean, shit" Y/N chuckled dryly. "You almost drowned, Pope you were kidnapped, Sarah you've been drowned too, JB was almost gator food... And god knows how many times we've been shot at or been in some lethal punch up...And, I mean JB, you saw it yourself. And you." She looked at the disgruntled Sarah. "You were on my very own deathbed baby. It's scary."
"We've been through a lot." John B agreed quietly.
"Exactly." JJ nodded. "So, this blaming each other is some kook-as bullshit. All right? We don't do that. Okay?"
They all nodded slightly
"Y'know... we're.." Y/N looked up at JJ.
"Pogues." He nodded, smiling down at her tenderly. "Sorry..." He snapped out of it, "That was a lot right now."
The pogues all started to smile. 
"Didn't mean to..." JJ mumbled.
John B, Pope and Sarah all shrugged at each other on the bloody roof of the Twinkie. And started to clap.
Kie and Y/N chuckled, clapping as well. 
JJ grinned, "Yeah.. all right."
Pope laughed lightly, "Well done."
"I gotta be honest that was the best freakin speech I've ever heard from you." John B clapped loudly. "Also, you should think about, like, a Rosetta Stone. Because your Spanish and French are flip-flopped."
"Totally." Pope agreed.
JJ flipped them off.
"We should bon-voyage outta here." Sarah chuckled.
They all spoke over one another in a cheerful chatter. 
"All right, let's go." JJ went to link up the cars.
"Let's save the Twinkie huh." Y/N nodded. 

"Keep her coming! Keep her coming!" JJ advised Y/N,(who was driving the truck), waving his hand. He was balanced on the back on the truck trying to guide them.
"She's almost out!" Kie called from the ground.
"Keep her going easy, easy, easy." JJ said. "Sarah, to the right." He told Sarah, who was steering the Twinkie. Sitting in a puddle of water next to Pope. John B sitting quietly in the back with the spyglass.
"Straighten out!" Kie said.
"I am!" She retorted.
And with that, the Twinkie was back on dry land.
"WOO!" JJ celebrated.
Y/N thumped the wheel loudly, "The Twinkie lives!"
"Whooo!!" Sarah called happily.
Y/N clunked a door open, and Kie jumped into the passenger next to her.
"She lives!" JJ laughed.
"Lets gooo!" Y/N laughed with him.
Kie clapped twice, saying "She is a pogue after all!"
Pope was already wrapped up in the diary. Barely listening to the celebratory laughter around him. 

(A/N: Now i have collage assignments to do and some other covid bs lmao 
Until next time Xx)