A Pogues life- A JJ love story

Chapter Fourteen- Hawks Nest

3rd POV

"Hey, guys. So, like my dad's already gonna kill me. So what's this mandatory meeting about?" Pop said sitting down next to Kie. The group was around a campfire.

"Might as well tell him, man, before we're gaffed." JJ said poking the fire with a stick. Kie, Pope and Sage looked at John B confused.

"You ready for this?" John B asked. Sage and Pope nodded.

"Yeah." Kie said.

"So the gold never went down with the Royal Merchant." John B said making Sage sigh.

"John B," she said standing up.

"Oh my god, here we go again with this." Pope said as JJ grabbed Sages hand stopping her from leaving.

"No. All right, wait. Hear him out, all right?" JJ said looking at Pope and Sage, mostly Sage.

"It's been here the whole time." John B said with a little smirk. "It's on the island."

"Are you serious?" Kie asked. John B nodded his head. "Oh my god."

"I'd like to voice my skepticism." Pope said as Sage sat back down next to JJ.

"I'm sure you would, Pope, but can I please present to you with my evidence, sir?" John B said grabbing his backpack.

"Proceed." Pope answered.

"All right. So, in my backpack, I have a letter from Denmark Tanny." John B said holding out a letter.

"Who the hell's that?" Sage asked.

"Denmark Tanny was a slave that survived the Royal Merchant wreck. Check this out." John B said handing the letter to his sister.

"Okay, slaves weren't mentioned as crew members on the ship, but our dad, he found the complete manifest." John B said while Sage looked at the note. "That was his big discovery."

"So Tanny used the hold from the Merchant to but his freedom." John B said while Sage handed the letter to Pope. "After that he bought his farm. Drumroll please," JJ and Kie started to drumroll.

"Because that farm is..... Tannyhill Plantation." John B exclaimed.

"Tannyhill?" Kie and Sage asked in sync.

"Yeah. So, after that, he used his money to free even more slaves, and then he sold a shit-ton of rice, which pisses off all the white planters and then, they decide to lynch him." John B said, leaving the other four in silence to think.

"So on the day they were coming to get him, he writes a letter to his son as a farewell, and in the last line of that letter, he leaves a coded message about where to find the gold." John B said with a smile.

"Where?" Kie asked.

"Harvest the wheat in parcel nine, near the water." John B said. "Except there's no wheat. You see wheat is code for gold. Check this out." John B said sitting in between Kie and his sister showing the wheat symbol on the gold.

"The gold is in parcel nine, near the water." John B said, making Kie chuckle in disbelief. Sage still looked unsure about the whole thing as John B stood up and gave the letter to Pope.

"All we need is an original survey map of the property, and we've found the gold!" John B exclaimed.

"Okay so this might have a small chance of actually being true." Pope said as JJ hugged John B, picking him up.

"Hey woah! Hello! Fire. You're near the fire!" John B said as JJ dropped him.

"I'm so proud of you right now!" JJ exclaimed.