Boy Wonder

S4e5|| ALBATROSS

JJ pov

"Hide the body.", my best friend answered.

Is he fucking serious? Where?

"Hide the bo- where the fuck do you want us to put it?!", (Y/n) hissed.

She's fucking stressed. Then again, any sane person would be. After all, she's only killed her piece of shit stepdad. Pretty sure a gator ate him up. Sighing, she excused herself and left with Cleo upstairs, away from the body.

I went outside to have a talk with her uncle.

(Y/n) pov

I've never seen Cleo like this. She looks like Sarah when Ward died, only, Cleo is more shocked but her eyes hold on so much pain.

"So, I'm just gonna ask the stupid question: how are you feeling? Do you want something to drink? I don't have water but I'm pretty sure there's like a Dr. pepper up here or something-", I rambled.

"Angry. I'm so angry, man. That son of a bitch is going to pay and I have to be the one to kill him.", she answered truthfully.

"Great! Vengeful! I support it. We're going to track that fucker down and you're gonna kill the shit out of him!", I stated happily.

"Why are you so nonchalant about this?", she asked me.

"I don't know, Cleo. Maybe it's because I've killed a person who was supposed to care for me and the father I was supposed to never be separated from, died in front of my eyes. Death, in a sense, has made itself at home with me and I've grown numb to it. It follows me wherever I go but doesn't dare to touch me until I decide it's time for me to go. I'm sorry, truly, about your loss. If there's anything you need from us, let us know. Especially Pope, I mean, he is your boyfriend and all that.", I explained.

"Yeah, gotcha. I'm gonna nap now. See ya in a bit.", she said as she laid in bed, closing her eyes as I left the room, closing the door behind me.

JJ briefed us on what happened with Shoupe. It sounds like we're in the clear. Yet again, it's Shoupe, who's to say that we can trust my uncle, Sheriff Shoupe, protector of those who live on figure eight?

Night fell and Cleo came out of the room. We decided to host an impromptu funeral for Terrance.

"Okay, so, we're gonna take care of Terrance, obviously, and then we're going to take a road trip.", John B began.

"What?", I asked him.

"Yeah. Look, John B and I were talking. We think the North Star and the Half Moon Battery is referring to Charleston.", Pope deadpanned.

"If we leave right now, we'll have a fighting chance against those assholes who put you and JJ in the hospital.", my brother added.

"Do you have any idea how bad that'll look? JJ basically just told us that we're suspects in Genrette's murder and you want us to leave?!", I scoffed in annoyance.

"Well, yeah, not like we have any other choice, sis. I mean, the zoning notice! We're gonna lose Poguelandia, (Y/n).", he argued.

"They killed Terrance! They will kill for the fucking treasure! We're in way over our heads!", I spat back.

"And you killed your dad, (Y/n)! What difference does that make?!", JJ asked bitterly.