MERCEDES, jj maybank

68.

FREEDMAN'S CHURCH

Trinity finally made it back to Goat Island, where she was reversing back into the place where the Twinkie was stranded.

"Go," She tells JJ.

He nods and goes out of the truck, running around the side to get the winch.

"Where the hell were you guys?" Pope shouts. Trinity looks at the four sat on the roof of the Twinkie which was basically submerged.

"Um, paternal complications," Trinity points to JJ and then looks away awkwardly.

"Luke was at the Chateau," JJ says blankly getting the stuff out of the back of the truck.

"That's great!" Pope shouts, angry at the two of them, "While you were having family time with your pops, John B got bit by a gator!"

"Like for real?" JJ questions them.

"Does it look like we're joking?" Sarah points to the blood and to John B who was obviously in a lot of pain.

"What the fuck, what happened?" Trinity asks.

"John B got bit by a gator!" All four of them shout at once. JJ looked to Trinity making sure she would be offended or affected negatively by everyone screaming at her at once.

"Alright! But we're here now! We didn't know Luke was gonna be at the Chateau!" Trinity shouts back at them.

"It should have taken twenty minutes!" John B continued to shout at Trinity.

"Why are you yelling at me?! I got the truck and we got here as fast as we could!" Trinity defends herself but they keep on yelling to the point it was hard to tell who was saying what.

"Shut up!" JJ snaps. "Seriously, guys, I can't take it anymore, alright? Everyone cut it out for a second." JJ says going to the nearest tree and leaning against it. "Look, I just helped my Dad leave this Island for good like he's not ever coming back. Straight up the like Spanish, just, bon voyage." JJ waves a hand.

They all quickly glance at him, eyebrows furrowed, "That's the wrong language," Sarah whispers.

"All we got. And I know for a fact all I got is you guys, okay? You're it. And I've come too close to losing you - all of you! I mean shit, like you almost drowned," JJ points to Kie, "Pope, you were kidnapped, Sarah, you've been shot, Tee, you literally vanished, and John B, you were almost dinner for a fucking gator, bro. So this blaming each other is some Kook-ass bullshit, alright? We don't do that. Okay? We're Pogues...sorry, that was a lot right now, I didn't mean to..."

They all look at each other and smile, before giving JJ a round of applause. "Well done," Pope tells him.

"I gotta be honest that was the best fucking speech you have ever given!" John B looks to his best friends and keeps clapping. "Also, you should think about, like, a Rosetta Stone because you Spanish and French as flip-flopped."

JJ holds both his middle fingers up at him, then turns his head to Trinity with a big smile.

"Come on, Napoleon," Trinity says to him, to continue getting the winch on the truck.

"Yeah, we should bon voyage out of here!" Sarah shouts watching JJ.

After getting the two cars connected Trinity went back into the truck and JJ stood in the cargo bed, conducting what was happening. "Alright, babe, put your foot down!" JJ shouts, thumping his hand on the roof of the truck.

Trinity presses hard on the accelerator. At first, the wheels were just spinning through the mud and then finally got the momentum to pull the Twinkie slowly but surely out of the water.