•The Way You Felt•

↳ VIII. The Forbidden Zone 3

sir jj - meet us at the salvage yard. we've got a plan.

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"faye over here!" pope whisper-shouted once i arrived. i ran over to the boys as kiara worked the first phase of the plan.

"you guys live for the crime live don't you," i said. pope gave the others a knowing look.

we watched as kiara led the guard to a random boat and the three of us made a run for it to the container with the drone.

"all right, so i might have the wrong numbers." jj let go of the lock sheepishly. suddenly a big guard dog came running at us.

"that's a cougar. never mind," john b ran off one way, jj pope and i the other. "so glad i took moon home before i came over here!" i said as we ran.

i climbed up a ladder to a bigger boat and hid behind the side of it. a few seconds later, jj jumped up out of nowhere and hid with me, the dog barking at the end of the ladder. "you okay?" i whispered. i glanced down to see her hand unknowingly grabbed my hand for protection in case we needed to run. i could feel my face heating up and turned the other way.

"whoever's up there better come on out!" the guard yelled from below. "don't make me go up there and get your ass!"

i watched as jj began to put his hands up to surrender. so i did the same.

"wait bobby. don't shoot." he stood up slowly so his face could be seen and i followed. "it's me, jj. luke's kid."

"what are you doin?"

"i swear i didn't want to okay? my dad made me."

the guard looked at me defensively. "and who's she?" he pointed at me.

"uh...this is my girlfriend." i gave him a strange look. we haven't even known each other a week. but i played along.

"faye." i introduced myself.

"he told me captain leo kept his cutting torch, faye came to help me search. he said if i didn't get it for him, he was gonna...he was gonna hit me again." jj sighed, breathing shakily.

again??

i dropped my hands like he had but rubbed his back for comfort just like he had when i talked about my mom.

"son of a bitch!" the guard muttered. so i guess it was true...

"i'm sorry." jj said, crying.

"come on down you two. i almost killed you!" the guard spotted us as we made our way down the ladder.

"i'll just come up with something. tell him i couldn't find it."

"sorry for the trouble." i said to the guard. i took jj's hand and we walked off .

i looked over at him too see him smiling and wiping his face.

"how in the world-"

"so let's talk about how you went along with the girlfriend thing." he pretended to still wipe his face in case the guard was still looking.

"let's not."

"you went along with it so quickly, just no hesitation."

"just following my leader."

my leader...

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"thanks for driving me home again." i said to the pogues. "hanging with y'all is the adventure i've been looking for." i smiled.