"Every time a siren sounds, I wonder if you're around". A Pope Cody Fanfiction. Animal Kingdom - Season 1-6

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When j's mother, Julia, dies due to overdose, he has to live with his grandmother and his uncles. But J soon builds a rough relationship with a certain Zara "Zee" Malik, someone who has been living with the Cody's for a while and is Pope's daughter in everything but blood. J and Zee never got along.. yet they were so alike. What will years of living together do to the pair?

Growing up in a world where broken families, poverty, and drugs are the norm, J and Iris, are best friends. High school creates a distance between them but the pair find themselves further separated by J's unexpected move, following his mother's fatal overdose. Reunited by chance, Iris discovers J's new world of privilege, opportunity, and money. She quickly realizes all that glitters isn't gold. The Cody's are dangerous criminals. But is J innocently caught up or is he a willing participant? Love, loss, greed, revenge, crime, and survival are the name of this game. So is taking it all. Who will come out on top?

Joy has spent the last ten years running. From cold towns and worse apartments. From men who raised their voices too quickly. From motel rooms with broken locks and memories that still wake her up at three in the morning. By twenty-seven, she's learned how to survive quietly: keep moving, keep smiling, never stay long enough to belong anywhere. Oceanside, California was never supposed to be permanent. Neither was The Drop. After walking into the bar looking for work, Joy unexpectedly finds herself pulled into the orbit of the Cody family - a dangerous, volatile crime family held together by loyalty, violence, and Smurf Cody's suffocating control. Deran gives her a chance behind the bar, and what starts as an easy friendship slowly turns into something far more complicated as Joy becomes entangled in the family's lives. Especially Pope's. Quiet, observant, and deeply unsettling, Pope sees too much too quickly - the scars hidden beneath Joy's tattoos, the exhaustion she disguises with humour, the careful way she keeps one foot permanently out the door. As the lines between survival and belonging begin to blur, Joy finds herself becoming attached to the worst possible people she could ever learn to love. But nobody enters the Cody family untouched. And nobody leaves unchanged. A slow-burn fanfiction. This book will include heavy descriptions of drug use and addiction, self-harm scars/references, childhood abuse, domestic violence, emotional manipulation, mental illness, violence, trauma, sexual themes, and mature language. The feedback you guys gave me after i wrote my Jack Abbot books was AMAZING, thank you so much! I don't feel terrified sharing things i've written now, this will be VERY different to the other two books and a lot darker but i hope you enjoy it as much!

After years of violence, loss, and loyalty to a family that nearly destroyed him, Andrew "Pope" Cody finds something he never thought he'd have: a woman who loves him anyway, and a baby girl who gives him a reason to come home. Through prison calls, stolen visits, sleepless nights, and the fragile beginning of fatherhood, Andrew learns that maybe he isn't too broken to be loved - or to build a life worth staying for.

Maxine has lived in the Cody house since she was sixteen, long enough to learn that survival comes from loyalty, silence, and knowing when not to ask questions. At twenty-two, she moves through Oceanside like she belongs to it - sun-bleached, guarded, and permanently tied to a family that never officially named her theirs, but raised her all the same. For the past year, Maxine has been keeping a secret that could destroy everything she's built: a hidden relationship with Baz. He's married, reckless, and deeply rooted in Smurf's world, and whatever exists between them is as dangerous as it is inevitable. Loving a Cody has never been simple - and Baz won't be the last line she crosses. When Smurf's grandson Josh moves in after his mother's death, the balance of the house begins to shift. His grief and quiet intelligence expose fractures Maxine has spent years ignoring, pulling her deeper into the family's orbit. As loyalties strain and relationships tangle, Maxine is forced to reckon with the cost of belonging to the Codys - and whether loving them will ultimately be what saves her, or ruins her. I do not own any rights to Animal Kingdom OC x Barry "Baz" Blackwell OC x Craig Cody OC x Andrew "Pope" Cody

Craig Cody x Reader story!!! My own work. No requests

Ariella Mikaelson is the daughter of the famous Hybrid, Niklaus Mikaelson. After the death of her father and mother, her aunt Freya decided to ship her off to Nevermore for her own safety. Every since the death of her parents she has been having these dreams of this boy and what she doesn't know he has been having visions of her for the past 2 years. And he so happens to be Nevermore resident gorgon, Ajax Petropolus. Her aunt Freya told her before she left that no one knows her real last name or the fact of what she is and that it must be kept that way. The only person that knows her secret is the Headmistress, an old friend of her father. Read to find out more 1/9/23 #5- Wednesday #5- Netflix #1- Ajax Petropolus #1- Gorgon #16- Falling in love

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