𝙿𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 |𝚁𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝙲𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚗/𝙹𝙹 𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚔

𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿

Present

"Look I'm calling it off. Alright? Peterkin said if I stay out of the marsh she'll help me with DCS." John B says calmly.

"And you believed her?" JJ says in a questioning tone. "Yes I believe her JJ." John B replies. "An actual cop John B. You believed a cop." JJ says angrily.

"Look all I gotta do is stay out of the marsh for a couple days, and she'll help me out. And it doesn't help that your ass was the one shooting a gun." John B replies.

"You know what I should have done man? I should've just let Topper drown your ass." JJ spat. "Yeah because Topper was gonna drown me?" John B asked.

"Sure looked like it. I mean have you looked in the mirror recently. They always win don't they, Kooks vs Pogues. They always win." JJ says angrily. "It's okay!" I say trying to calm JJ down.

"No it's not okay, it is not. If they don't want us to go down I to the Marsh that means there's something valuable down there. You know it, I know you do. JJ tells John B.

"And I understand why you don't wanna go, you're the golden boy you got way to much to risk." JJ says to pope.

"And you guys—you're already rich as fuck anyway. Why would you bother." JJ says to me and Kie.

"But you and me man, we got nothin' to lose! We really don't alright. And I know it didn't used to be that way for you." JJ speaks to John B.

"I don't wanna talk about this." John B says to JJ. "John B listen to me! I have a plan." JJ says while walking after John B.

Me Kie and Pope all take a quick look at each other.

"You got the key to Cameron's big boat right? There's scuba gear, we borrow that and then we go down to the wreck this afternoon and that is what's gonna save you man. You don't see rich kids going into foster care do you?" JJ tells John B.

Later

"This is empty." Kie says. "John B you took empty tanks?" I ask him. "Okay this one's a quarter full, it's enough for one of us." Kie says.

"Love it when a plan comes together." Pope says sarcastically. "Does anybody know how to dive? Anybody?" Kie asks. "That's kind of a kook sport." JJ replies. "I read about it." Pope says.

"Great Pope read about it so someone's gonna die." Kie says. "Look, you put the thing in your mouth and breathe. How hard could it be?" JJ asks.

"If you come up too fast, nitrogen gets into your blood, and you get the bends." Pope replies. "Bends like, bend over an-" JJ jokes before Pope cuts him off. "The bends kill you." Pope says seriously.

"I can dive." I say. "I'm not cool with that." JJ says. "Since when do you know how to dive?" Kie asks me. "I'll be fine." I say to stop them from worrying.

"No you won't be fine, I'll do it. It's fine." John B says to me. "Let's me do some calculations real quick." Pope says.

"That boat's about 30 feet down. So it'll take 25 minutes at that depth. Which means you need to make your safety stop at about ten feet. For two minutes." Pope says.