With The Tide (Outerbanks JJ Maybank x OC)

Chapter 3 - Storm Clouds on the Coast

This chapter does have a bit of mentions of abuse so please be aware when reading.

Next chapter will bring in a bit of canon from the first season. As i said when i started this i may diverge from canon a bit to move the story line in a different direction. If you have any suggestions or ideas please let me know. I have certain things i want to use but i can always adjust certain things.

As always thanks for reading :)

I entered my house almost numb to everything around me. Locking the door I let my legs take me up the stairs. It was like my brain and body were disconnected. I couldn't come up with a straight thought, however my body knew what I needed. In my room I immediately went to the bathroom running the sink on cold and splashing the water over my face. Using the towel to dry myself I looked up in the mirror. The reflection of the girl in front of me was not one I had seen before. My hair that had started in a neat braid was now wild with hair having been pulled out. My cheeks were red and my eyes were bloodshot. I followed my features down to my neck where my heart sunk. There below my jaw was a small bruise forming and I instantly felt my stomach turn.

I barely had time to make it to the toilet before the food from my meal at The Wreck and the booze from the party made their angry entry back up. I continued emptying my stomach until all I was left with was dry heaves. As the blood finally stop rushing to my head my sense finally came back to me and I could feel my phone in my back pocket buzzing. With shaky hands I grabbed it and an image of JJ making a face that would usually make you smile appeared on the screen. I wasn't sure how much time had passed between my run home and my breakdown in the bathroom but I had missed calls from all of my friends and had several unopened texts. As my phone continued to buzz I felt a sudden rage over come me and I tossed the phone as hard as I could across the bathroom. It crumbled to the floor on the other side of the room, the buzzing stopping and the screen silent and black.

After a few more minutes I made my way from the floor of the bathroom into my bedroom pulling off the shorts and shirt I had worn, now covered in sand and dirt and threw them into the laundry bin before pulling on a long sleeve shirt I stole from the Chateau one night and a pair of sweats. Even in the heat of the summer I found myself shivering. Curling up on my bed I let the tears flow freely again.

"Roe open up its me." I heard someone outside my window tapping on the glass. I knew it was but I didn't know if I wanted to open the window, not after what happened that night. The tapping continued and I tried to tune it out, "Come on Rowyn open the window." It was almost a pleading tone. Going against my better judgement I rolled off the bed and went to the window pulling up the blinds. There he was crouched on the ledge of my roof. Releasing the lock on the window I opened the window.

"Go away JJ." I say sourly turning my back on him as I walked back to the end of my bed.

"What?" he was surprised by my commented.

"Go away." I say again but this time it was quieter and I sat down defeated on the bed putting my face in my hands.

"Yeah that's not going to happen." He said and he came up to sit beside me. "Hey Roe look at me are you..." his hand reached out and brushed my shoulder and I immediately flinched away jumping up.

"Don't." I said by voice breaking and I finally met his eyes. His bright blue ones were filled with concern, anger, fear, anxiety... there was so many emotions I could see in the one look he gave me that I started to feel overwhelmed. "What the hell were you thinking!"

"Huh?" my sudden outburst threw him but he didn't take long to recover. He stood up and made a step closer to me but I put my hand up to stop him.