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"Oh, God, my head," Kyla groaned once she had woke up the next morning. She place her hand to the side of her head, trying to stop the killer headache that she had.

"Finally," she heard JJ breathe out, so she looked over at him, noticing that they were inside John B's house. She groaned again as she sat up since the headache obviously wasn't going away any time soon. "Yeah, that's a hangover," the blonde told her, giving her a tight lipped grin.

"I should have never drank so much," she told him, regretting it now. "Wait," she then said, furrowing her brows. She realized she didn't remember going to bed last night...and she barely even remembered last night all together. "What happened last night?"

"Oh, uh, you passed out after Rafe, Tara, and Barry tried to pay us a little visit," he told her, trying to jog her memory.

"They did what?" Kyla asked, her eyes widening at what he just said.

It was JJ's turn to furrow his brows. "You don't remember? We had to climb up the tree to hide from them, and Rafe started goin' all bonkers and just typical Rafe level shit," JJ recounted and Kyla's mouth dropped in shock. "Wait, do you not remember anything from last night?" he questioned, thinking that Kyla didn't remember that she tried to...well, do more than just making out.

"Uhhh...I remember starting to drink and then I kept on drinking and, uh...that's it," she revealed to the boy, making his eyes widen slightly. "Oh, man, this is bad."

"Yeah, maybe," JJ said. She gave him a look, which made him glance away. "No, I mean, uh, not you. Just the, uh, Rafe and Tara thing. If they know that John B and Sarah are here now, then more people are bound to find out," JJ explained.

"Oh, my God, you're right!" Kyla exclaimed, springing up from her seat, which only made her wince since her head started throbbing even more. "Okay, does John B have Advil or Tylenol somewhere?" she questioned, sitting back down as she closed her eyes and held her palm up to her forehead once again.

"Uh, probably. I'll check," JJ quickly said, running over to the small kitchen where he started looking through all the cupboards.

"Oh, and JJ?" Kyla called out, slightly opening her eyes as she squinted over at the boy.

"Yeah?" JJ asked, continuing to look through all the cabinets.

"Did I do anything crazy last night? Like something I would never do?" she said as she closed her eyes again. She didn't remember if she did or not, and just wanted to make sure. The question also made JJ slam a cabinet on his hand.

"Ah! Shit!" JJ shouted in pain, cradling his hand as he breathed through the pain.

"What? What happened?" Kyla questioned quickly, getting worried. She didn't open her eyes, though, because it only seemed to make the pain in her head worse.

"N-Nothing!" JJ lied before he found a bottle of Advil. He quickly took it and found a water bottle before he walked back over to Kyla. "You, uh, did nothing too crazy," he lied again, not wanting to tell her what she wanted to happen.

It would only ruin their friendship.

"Too crazy?" Kyla repeated, opening her eyes so that she could open the Advil bottle. "What does that mean?"

"Well, every drunk person is already crazy as it is, so you were just loud, that's all," JJ told her, shrugging nonchalantly.

"Oh," she replied, taking 3 Advil tablets before she placed them in her mouth. "That's good." She then untwisted the water bottle cap and took a sip, swallowing the tablets.

"Yeah...Good."

John B then quickly ran inside his house, making Kyla and JJ look over at him. "Hey, good to see that you're awake," he said to Kyla.

"Barely," she replied, waiting for the Advil to kick in.

"Yeah. Okay, uh, but we see Kiara and Pope pulling up, so come on," John B told them before he rushed out of the house again.

JJ got up from his seat. "Wait, where are we going?" Kyla asked as JJ helped her up.

"We need to talk about what we're gonna do about the Rafe and Tara situation," he told her as they quickly walked out of the house and towards the docks where John B and Sarah were.

"Oh, right," Kyla said with a nod. "Oh, right," she repeated, now starting to realize how bad this was.

"Finally. Hey!" JJ yelled out once Pope and Kiara walked off the boat and onto the docks to tie up the boat. "Guys, don't tie up! Stop it!" he shouted as he quickly ran over to them. Kyla quickly rushed after him, trying to ignore the pain in her head. But, she was still going faster than John B and Sarah behind her since the boy was helping Sarah walk because of her injury.

"What?" Kiara asked in confusion.

"We're dipping," JJ told them.

"Wait, why?" Pope asked.

"What? What are you talking about?" Kiara questioned, scrunching her face up.

"I got it," Sarah told John B breathlessly as she held onto the railing, making John B's arm fall off of her.

"Where'd you guys go? What happened last night?" he quickly asked the two confused teenagers.

"We slept on the break. What's up?" Pope said.

JJ walked over and to Pope and replied, "Slept, right. Yeah." He then patted Pope up on the shoulder supportively, making Kyla roll her eyes at him. "We were up all night worrying, and making sure Ky didn't choke on her own puke."

"What? Ky doesn't throw up," Kiara told the blonde, making JJ look back at Kyla in confusion.

She nodded. "Oh, yeah, I haven't thrown up since I was, like, a baby. I just don't really have a gag reflex," she told him before she realized how dirty that sounded. JJ realized, too, and he started to snicker. "Oh, my God, I didn't mean it like that! Shit, am I still drunk? I don't even know anymore," she said, making a face as she stepped onto the boat.

"Focus, guys!" John B exclaimed as he and Sarah made their way down the ramp. "We gotta get the hell out of here."

"Rafe knows we're here, so we have to leave, like, now," Sarah told the two who were away during the whole fiasco, making their eyes widen.

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"Look, if Rafe, Tara, and Barry know, it's only a matter of time," Kiara said after they found a new place to hide out in. John B's place wasn't safe anymore.

"Before everyone knows," John B finished for her.

"Making things harder for us as always," Kyla added with a sigh, making Kiara nod her head slowly. Her headache had calmed down and she was starting to feel like more like herself, thankfully.

JJ scoffed. "I told you. We should've just gone south, man."

"Just — Just stop it," John B told him.

"Why does no one ever listen?" JJ questioned loudly, starting to get angry.

"I-I-I get it. I get it. I get it. I understand," John B quickly said, making JJ shut up as he paced back and forth.

"I have an idea," Sarah spoke up shakily, making everyone look over at her. "With me back, my dad's going to have to choose between me and Rafe." Kyla sucked in a breath. A few weeks ago, she knew that Ward would 100% have chosen Sarah since growing up. Rafe tended to get neglected by his father a lot. But now that Sarah was with the Pogues and Rafe was helping Ward left and right...she really didn't know the answer any more.

"Sarah, Sarah—"

"He's gonna choose me," Sarah cut John B off, and Kyla looked down at the grass.

"Just please listen. Ward keeps lying to you, Sarah," John B told her, now making Sarah look down.

"Sarah, he's not gonna agree after everything that's happened," Kiara said sadly.

"No. I...I know it sounds crazy."

"Yeah, it does," Kiara agreed, her voice rising.

Kyla looked up at her sister. "Kiara—"

"I know!" Sarah exclaimed, cutting Kyla off. Kyla sighed quietly, not knowing what to say. She knew that Sarah didn't want to believe that her father was fully evil, but after Kyla watched him kill Gavin on top of everything else...she wasn't sure if her father would try to help his daughter. "But he's my dad," Sarah continued after a moment. "And I know him, and I know he loves me. I'm just asking for two hours."

JJ raised his arms up before they fell harshly to the side, not agreeing with what Sarah was saying at all. Kyla wasn't sure where she stood, but she knew the others thought that Sarah's idea wouldn't work because they weren't saying anything.

She then got up from where she was sitting, wiping her tears as she walked away from the group. John B looked around at everyone before he said, "Sarah." He turned around and walked over to her, quietly conversing with her until she walked away towards the boat.

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Kyla, Kiara, and JJ were gathering pieces of wood and sticks to make a fire, so that they could stay the night, before they saw Sarah driving back towards them on the HMS Pogue. They quickly jogged back to where John B and Pope were sitting, dropping the pieces of wood on the ground.

"Sarah!" Kiara called out before they headed over towards her.

"Hey!" Kyla shouted, waving at her to be welcoming just in case things didn't go as she planned. She had been waiting in anticipation, hoping that Ward didn't do anything to Sarah. But now that she saw her best friend come back in one piece, she sighed in relief.

"You made it," JJ said.

"What happened?" Pope asked as they ran up to her. She didn't answer as John B helped her out of the boat, and Kyla knew that things didn't go well. She could also tell by her facial expression.

"So, how'd it go?" John B asked after a second.

Sarah shook her head. "You guys were right. It didn't work," she told them before she sniffled sadly. "Sorry."

"Welp, then that settles it, guys. Now, y'all need to load up in the paddy wagon and get the heck out of Dodge right now," JJ told them, pointing at the boat behind them.

"Right, you'll need supplies, and you'll have to split as soon as possible," Pope said with his hands on his hips.

"Guys, I think it's too late," Kiara pointed out before Kyla looked out into the water, hearing police sirens. Kyla's eyes widened and her mouth dropped in shock.

"They followed you here?" John B asked his girlfriend. "Must've been your father."

"We're gonna have to find another way outta here," Pope said quickly and Kyla licked her lips nervously, not knowing what to do at all. She was at a loss for words.

"Stay on the beach with your hands in the air!" a SBI agent yelled through a megaphone.

"Now! Go now! Run!" Pope started to scream and Kyla quickly started to run away with the Pogues, trying not to look back. "Come on! Come on!"

"We've gotta outrun them!" JJ shouted as they ran across a small dip of water, heading towards the trees.

"Go! Come on! Let's go! Let's go!" Pope urged in a strained voice.

"Go!" Sarah said before they made it across the water, heading into the forest of trees.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Pope continued before Sarah fell right in front of Kyla.

"Sarah!" Kyla yelled, going over to help her up.

"Go! I got her!" John B told her before he quickly picked Sarah up, helping her run next to him. Kyla ran ahead of them, looking back every now and then to make sure they weren't falling behind. "Go! Go!"

They then started to run through a tall grass field, making it hard for them to see anything. "Sarah, you good?" Kiara called out.

"Yeah. You okay?" John B asked Sarah.

"Yeah," she answered shakily.

"Okay, go! Go! Go!" John B urged until they made it out of the grass field, hopping down into some deeper water. Kyla jumped down, making it splash a little as she tried to wade through it as quickly as she could. "JJ, grab her hand," John B quickly told JJ, who helped Sarah down into the water.

The water started getting deeper as they reached the center of it, so they all had to swim to the other side. "Go!" Pope said.

"Come on! Let's go," JJ said as they started to reach the end.

"Freeze! Stop!" a few officers said behind them, and Kyla looked behind her to see that they were where they just were a few seconds before.

"Guys!" Kyla said in a high pitched voice, crawling up the ground to get out of the water.

"Stay where you are!"

"Come on! Come on!" John B quickly said before they made it onto land.

"Go! Get up! Get up!" Pope said.

"Go! Go! Go!"

"Behind the tree. Let's go!" John B told them and they all ran behind the large tree, coughing and panting to try and catch their breaths.

They started hearing more sirens and more yelling come from all around them, making Kyla bite the inside of her cheek as she resisted the urge to just cry.

"We're trapped," JJ said.

"They surrounded us," Pope told them as he breathed heavily. "What do we do?"

"There's no getting out of this. We gotta take a stand," JJ said and Kyla looked over to see JJ taking out the gun, wiping it down with his bandana.

"JJ. JJ, what are you doing?" Kyla questioned shakily, feeling her throat become shallow. JJ didn't answer as he started to load it up. "JJ, stop. You can't," Kyla said, starting to cry.

John B then moved over from where he was and grabbed JJ's hand. JJ tried to pull away from his grip, but John B used his other hand to pull the gun away from him, dropping it onto the floor. "It's gonna be all right," John B whispered to JJ before he patted JJ's cheek. "Here we go."

JJ then covered the gun with the dirt and Kyla sniffled, putting her head back against the tree as she accepted what was about to happen.

"John B!" she heard Shoupe shout. "Step out of the clearing!" he yelled and John B stepped out slowly with his hands up. "Get down! Do not move!"

"I'm surrending!" John B told them and Kyla looked down, slowly raising her hands.

"Don't move!" Officer Plumb shouted.

"Hands up, John B!" Officer Thomas yelled.

"All right, the rest of ya'll stay right where you are. Keep your hands where we can see them," Shoupe directed and Kyla slowly walked out with JJ, showing their unarmed hands.

"Don't move!"

"Hey, listen, Shoupe, I wanna testify," John B told him.

"It's about time. Get down. Do not move a muscle," Shoupe said as he pointed the gun at John B, so John B quickly knelt to the ground. "Everybody else, don't move."

"Don't move. Keep your hands where I can see them," Plumb said right as Thomas grabbed John B, picking him up before he threw him onto the ground.

"Serious? Come on!" JJ shouted angrily and Kyla started to silently cry even more at the sight.

"Hey, Thomas!" Shoupe yelled.

Thomas continued to beat up John B, and all the Pogues started yelling at him to stop. "STOP! YOU'RE GONNA KILL HIM!" Kyla shrieked as Thomas kicked John B in the face, making her let out another sob.

"Sheriff, what is that? You're gonna let that happen?" JJ screamed furiously as he pointed to John B, making Plumb point the gun closer at JJ.

"Don't move!" Plumb warned and JJ quickly brought his hands up again.

"Do something!" Kyla begged Plumb, but she just kept her gun pointed at JJ.

"LET HIM GO!" Sarah cried.

"STOP!" Pope shouted.

"Thomas!" Shoupe said as he tried to pull Thomas away. "Stand down!"

"Get off!" Thomas yelled before he grabbed John B by the collar, holding him up. "This is for Peterkin," he told him before he punched him hard in the face, sending him down to the ground.

"NO!" they all shrieked.