Adore You ☼ JJ Maybank

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[ DON'T TOUCH HER ]

"hey, wake up." maya opened her eyes to see jj.

"so, this wasn't all just some elaborate nightmare?" maya said as she raised up. "where's pope?"

"he went to get gas for the phantom." jj said, "we need to go get it."

"okay, okay."

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"home sweet home." jj said bitterly after kei stopped the car in his driveway. jj got out of the car and took off his hat.

"do you want us to come with you?" maya asked from the back seat, leaning her elbow on the window.

"no. this will only take a second." jj leaned down and stole a kiss from maya. kei was still shocked by them kissing the first time, let alone being together-together, as pope said.

"i love you." maya whispered to him.

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the screen door swung open and hit the railing, jj coming out of the house.

"how'd it go?" kei as he closed the car door.

jj didn't say anything as he held the keys in his left hand.

maya leaned forward after hearing the boy sniffle, putting it on the left shoulder of the chair as her hand reached over the right side. he took her hand in his, biting the inside of his cheek as kei drove off.

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"there she be." jj said, opening the garage where boat was. "a 1983 formula 402 sr1." jj took the sheet over the front of the boat off, "the phantom."

"mhmm."

"the first boat to make the run to bermuda in under 16 hours." jj said, "forty years old! forty. and it's still the fastest thing that kildare's ever seen."

"it's kind of... a junker." kei said.

"really? she's right there, kei. she can hear you." jj said. "let's just put it this way. you would not be smokin' weed right now if she never exist, okay?"

"i just hope it runs." kei shrugged her shoulders.

"oh, no, she'll run alright. she's faster than any cutters the boys in blue got."

a bike's screeching was sounded nearby, "pope! finally." kei says, going to jog around jj and maya.

"hey, there. what's goin' on?" around the corner came rafe instead of pope. "jj? how you guys doing?"

rafe jumped on the boat as barry came in the other exit.

"well, well," barry said, pulling out a gun and pointing it at jj as he raised his hands. "see, don't think i forgot about me and you on the side of the road. i'm here because i want my mother fuckin' money."

barry went after jj and got him on the ground, the girls trying to intervene. rafe pulled maya as he grabbed kei.

"that's what i'm here for!" barry shouted, slamming jj on the ground.

"where's john b?" rafe asked.

"i don't know!" kei said, and slapped rafe. rafe picked up maya, her being a lot smaller than kei as she tried to go help jj.

"i really wish you didn't do that." rafe said.

"i know what you did." kei said.

"you murdered peterkin!"

"don't touch her!" kei shouted as rafe tried to stop maya from going past him to help jj, shoving her roughly. maya hit the ground and moved the table, hitting her head on the metal.

rafe grabbed kei's throat, "don't you fucking say those words again." rafe started shouted different things at kei before pope showed up. he hit rafe in the back with a crow bar.

"don't touch her!" pope shouted, hitting him again with the rod of metal.

rafe slapped the bar out of pope's hand and they begin to fist fight, pope clearly winning.

barry kicked jj before aiming his gun at pope. jj grabbed barry's ankle and tripped him, sending the gun flying across the floor before kei kicked it away.

pope began to take the fight too far, choking rafe with some kind of tubing he took off the table before jj grabbed him and snapped him out of it.

"hey, are you okay?" jj whispered.

"i'm fine." maya said.

"we've gotta get out of here!" kei shouted.

"maya, you're bleeding." jj said, seeing the blood trickle from a gash in the back of her head.

"i'm fine." maya said.