So you might be wondering
What happens after you find the lost city of El Dorado, get blown up, two of your parents die, and you're stranded in South America with a sack full of gold.
Well, let me catch you up.
First, you catch a ride back home...
...and you sleep for, like, three weeks.
And when you finally get back... you make peace with the fam.
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18 months prior
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Reuniting with Rick was intimidating to say the least. Grace didn't know how to approach the situation. She hadn't seen him in what felt like a decade.
Despite this, when she pulled open the door to her childhood home, JJ right behind her, a feeling of calm washed over her.
Hell, she'd survived an explosion, hunted for gold, and narrowly avoided death an uncountable amount of times; this was nothing.
At the sound of the door opening, Rick's head snapped up from the T.V. program he was absorbed in.
Time seemed to stand still.
Grace stared at her stepdad and he stared at her, eyes flickering from her face to her dirt covered body, to JJ, and back to her.
When the moment clicked into place in his head, he jumped to his feet, and practically ran across the room, throwing his arms around her and pulling her in tight.
Grace was frozen in shock momentarily. She'd never known Rick to be an overly affection guy. She could count the number of times she'd seen him and her mom hug on one hand.
Realization hit Grace like a tonne of bricks. He was worried about her. So worried, in fact, that the relief of seeing her was so overwhelming he acted against every awkward, and affection-adverse bone in his body just to hug her. She hadn't been worried about by a parent like that since she was 14.
Grace threw her arms around him, reciprocating the affection. Before she knew it JJ, who had been standing off to the side, was pulled by Rick into the embrace.
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And after all the loose ends were tied up...
the gold.
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"Our joint account balance..." John B paused for dramatic effect, "...after paying JJ's restitution at 10:04 am on Tuesday..."
The teens huddled around the ATM of a corner store.
Grace rocked back and forth on her heels, antsy.
JJ pulled off his cap, bracing for the reveal.
Cleo and Sarah clutched hands with one another.
Kie's face donned an impatient look.
Pope stared into the side of John B's head, willing the words to leave his mouth.
"Our joint account balance is one point one million, seventy-two thousand, five hundred and forty-nine dollars," John B revealed.
"You said mil?" JJ asked, as though he couldn't believe his ears.
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𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 - JJ Maybank
FanfictionGrace Cameron was a Pogue. Always has been. Sure her dad and half-siblings were the Kookiest a Kook could get but her mom had grown up on the Cut so she did too. Her friend group vowed to have a good time all the time but when a boat goes down in th...
