INDIANA II JJ Maybank (Outerbanks)

chapter thirteen

They all turned to the window and saw two men step out of the car.

"Guys, guys is that them?" Kie asked them.

"No." JJ lied, trying to mostly convince himself that it wasn't really them.

"Is that them?" She asked a second time.

"Yes it's them." Indi confirmed.

"John B, I told you. Why does it always-" JJ started but John B grabbed him by the shirt and pushed him to the wall. Indi knew he was panicking on the inside and was trying not to show it.

"JJ, look at me." He said to him as he had him pushed to the wall. "Where's the gun?" 

"Gun? I- uh, I can't." JJ tried to remember where he had put his gun.

"Now you don't have the gun, the one time we need a gun." Kie said as tears started to well up in her eyes.

"Your backpack!" Indi told him.

"Right. It was in my backpack and then I-"

"Your backpack, on the porch!" John B said.

Before the rest even realized it, Indi had already opened the door and made her way over to the porch to get the gun for the. JJ followed quickly after her and as he saw the two men on the porch he fastened his pace and picked Indi up by the waist and took her back to the office. He put her back down and locked the door after them.

"They are on the porch." He told them as they all started to panic more.

"John Routledge." They heard the men yelling from outside. "Get the hell out here! Routledge!"

"We gotta leave." Kie said. They all searched for a way to escape.

"The window!" Indi whispered. "Quick open it."

They moved to the window and tried to open it.

"It's painted shut!" JJ told her.

"Indiana Routledge!" She heard the men again. "You better not be in there." 

The men were trying to open the door of the office as John B and Pope were standing against it. JJ and Kiara were still trying to open the window and Indi was just standing there. She felt as if she couldn't move her legs. Also freaking out because these killers knew hers and John B's names. Well worse, they even knew they lived here.

She snapped out of it as JJ had come over to her and lightly shacking her by the shoulders.

"You need to help us!" JJ told her as she went over to the window as they all tried to open it together know, but the window still wouldn't budge.

She quickly turned around and moved to her fathers desk, searching for something sharp to open the window with. She found a paper knife on the desk and took it to open the window.

The men had kicked against the door and Pope and John B went flying forward. There was a slight hole in the door and they could see a foot through it.

Indi finally managed to open the window and they all rushed over to it trying to get out as fast as possible as a gunshot was being fired at the door.

Indi jumped out of the window and ran after her friends to the chicken coop. They all hid inside it hoping the men wouldn't catch them there.

She was sitting next to JJ scared for her life as tears ran down her cheeks. Even if Indi was reckless most of the time she was scared for her life and the ones of her friends.

JJ held her hands tightly in between his, trying to stop her from crying. He hated when she cried even though she still looked beautiful while she did. In his opinion Indi deserves the world and should never have to feel scared or sad.

"Do something Pope, shut him up." JJ pointed to the rooster that was nearest to him and couldn't stop crowing because they were in his coop.

"What do you want me to do?" Pope asked them. The rooster was still crowing loudly about to blow their cover as they were hiding from the square groupers.

"Pet it, talk to it. I don't know." Kie said to him. Indi could see she was just as scared as her with tears running down her cheeks reflecting her own.

"You do something!" Pope argued back. JJ let go of Indi's hands and jumped forward to the rooster grabbing it by his neck and pushing it to the ground. Finally he snapped the roosters neck and starred at his hands.

Indi pulled JJ over to her and pulled him into a tight hug, whispering that it's alright and everything would be okey into his ear. She knew how much he loved that annoying rooster.

"Ratter! What the hell are you doing? Let's go!" They heard one of them yell and the one you assumed was Ratter turned away. He had made his way over to the chicken coop because he heard the rooster crowing, but now got back into the car. Seconds later the car drove away from the Chateau.

They all slowly got out of the chicken coop some of them more shaken up as the others. Indi was rubbing JJ's back as she stood next to him, still trying to calm him down.

"Get in the van." John B spoke up as he walked over to the van and got into the passenger seat. 

The rest of the Pogues just stood there dumbfounded at where John B wanted to go so suddenly.

"Let's move!" He shouted to them as they all got over to him and got into the van.