If I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too.
JJ MAYBANK / FEM!OC
OBX SEASON 1
FIRST DRAFT ⸻ 05/08/20 → 07/17/20
EDITED ⸻ 02/09/23 → 04/19/23
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JJ keeps fiddling with the key to the Phantom. He's stressed out. After his dad, and what happened... after, with Kathryn, his nerves have been tugged at, yanked, and exterminated. He was just fine a few weeks ago, just going with the flow, getting high to numb the pain and not caring about anything except for the Pogues.
And then came KD. KD with her mesh shirts thrown over her white caracos. With her dark skin that soaks up the sun. Her eyes that twinkle when she's about to say something sarcastic. Her nose that scrunches up when she's thinking hard. His bandana around her wrist.
Of course, at first, he didn't exactly care in the same way he did the Pogues. Really, he just cared if he could make her blush and uneasy, and be a pain in her ass. Because she just came back as if nothing happened, as if her leaving didn't cement the idea that no one would ever stay for him.
But he learned the truth, and despite the murderous tendencies it awakened in him, it also drew them closer. Tension gave way to flirting, and he was whipped before he knew it.
It couldn't happen, not now, at least. Not with everything, and it pained her, and it pained him, but he was best that way, rather than drive each other to the brink of insanity.
"It'll be fine," he says out loud. "It'll be fine with the Phantom. She'll get out of here quick."
Kathryn hums. "At least we didn't do this for nothing," she sighs.
She hears the sound of a police siren before she sees the car. Out of instinct, JJ ducks in his seat, hiding, but they just pass them by.
"They're still looking," Kie says. "It's a good sign."
"Yeah," Kathryn hums. "Let's just hope they don't find him before three."
It's the only thing they told John B before he left. Three at the dump. The boat is close to it, about a five minute drive, in a hangar, so that's good.
Kie parks in front of it, before sighing a little. "Pope should be here by now," she says. "I should look for him."
Kathryn gets out of the car, nodding. "Yeah, you do that. Meet us back here before three."
