duchess → outer banks

EPISODE XVI.

[someone beat us to it]

The morning after their conversation was, awkward, to say the least. But luckily, there was a bigger matter to focus on: find the Merchant.

"Alright JJ! Pin it here," John B said. The Pogues had taken Heyward's boat to the spot where the famous shipwreck supposedly was.

"Roger that! X marks the spot," JJ stated.

Duchess stood at the side of the boat next to Kie, both girls looking to John B as he lowered the drone into the water.

"Alright, ladies and gentlemen. To going full Kook."

Duchess leaned over the side of the boat, watching the drone sink until it was out of sight. "Alright, JJ, we're right over it," John B said, surveying a map and GPS," Ten seconds northwest."

"Got it! Ten seconds northwest," JJ repeated, moving the boat as John B ordered.

Next to Duchess, Kie was slowy letting down more and more wire. "One hundred feet," she announced.

"Only eight hundred more till we see the Merchant," Duchess said, mostly to herself.

From where he was surveying the drone's camera footage, Pope let out a gasp. "What, what, what is it," John B asked, rushing over to his friend.

"It's nothing," Pope admitted. Duchess just assumed he had saw something move across the camera view.

"Don't do that to me man," JJ yelled.

"My bad," Pope replied," Just thought I saw..." He trailed off at the end. Obviously it was nothing significant. "And to quote The Hobbit 'down, down, to Goblin Town. Down, down, you go my lad.'"

Duchess laughed. "Of course you know quotes from The Hobbit by heart. You're so nerdy."

"Oh please, don't pretend you aren't a nerd Miss 'I Have Most of The Revenge of The Sith Script Memorized'."

"Hey, that takes talent!"

"Still pretty nerdy though, Duchess," JJ called.

The Pogues fell silent in anticipation for a bit, the silence only breaking when Kie announce that the drone had dropped another hundred feet. As the drone got closer and closer to where the Merchant was supposed to be, Duchess was more and more nervous. What the hell were they going to do if it wasn't there? What were they going to do if it was? Five hundred million dollars, she thought, We're going to be so fucking rich.

"The tide's turning," Kie announced.

"Hey JJ," John B called.

"Yup?"

"Ten seconds easy, alright? South-southeast!"

"Copy that!" Duchess felt the boat move some more.