OUTER BANKS
episode 1: PILOT
part 6

the pogues were sitting outside of the chateau waiting for john b to come out, kie was sat on the couch playing the bongos  with pope next to her on a small seat, then ren and jj were sat on this table. jj was throwing rocks into nowhere, with his other hand on ren's thigh. she was just dragging her hand up and down his back.

they heard the door close and turned around to face john b,

"look, i'm calling it off. alright?" he said. "peterkin said you if i stay out of the marsh she'll help me with DCS," he added.

"and you believed her?" jj asked removing his hand from ren's thigh getting up.

"yes, i believe her, jj." john b said matter-of-factly.

"an actual cop john b? come on man, rookie mistake!" ren sighed.

"look! all i gotta do is stay out of the marsh for a couple days, and she'll help me out!" he yelled.

"it doesn't help that your ass was the one shooting the gun," he threw down the brush he was holding.

"you know what i should've done man? just let topper drown your ass." jj stated.

ren gasped at the boy, "you don't mean that jj! don't say that," she walked over and sat by kie.

"yeah, because topper was gonna drown me," john b sarcastically said

"sure as hell looked like it," jj said,
"i mean have you looked in the mirror lately?" jj walked over to them.

"come on, tell me some more. come on," john b taunted jj.

"they always win don't they man?" jj asked referring to the kooks,
"kooks versus pogues, they always, always win!" he hit the thing above him,

"it's okay!" kie yelled at him,

"no kie! it is not! they don't want us to go down into the marsh. that means there's something valuable down there, and you know it." he pointed at john b.

"jj's right guys, there's gotta be something down there," ren agreed

"and i understand why you don't want to go. your the golden boy, you got way too much to risk, and you," he turned to kie, "your already rich as fuck anyway," he said to her which made her look a little taken aback.

"but you! me and ren man! we got nothing to loose, nothing!" he said to john b,

"and we know it never used to be that way for you," ren stated, "but it has always been that way for us, so now you have to deal with it too," she grabbed jj's hand who smiled at her.

"i don't want to talk about it!" john b tried to walk past them but jj wouldn't let him past so in return john b pushed him.

"so that's it?! your just gonna give up!" ren yelled after him.

"john b! listen to me, i have a plan." he said "you got the key to cameron's big boat right?" jj asked already knowing the answer

"no," john b lied

"there's scuba gear inside man, we borrow that and then we go to the wreck this afternoon, and that is what's gonna save you man!" jj stated, "you don't see rich kids going into foster care do you?" jj said.

while john b went to go get the scuba gear, pope and kie set up the boat while jj and ren got some more stuff.

"hey baby," she said to the boy who had just hugged her from behind.

"hey princess," he said before throwing her on the bed and jumping on her,

"hey there," he said in a very deep voice

"hi, you okay?" she asked

"yeah," he instantly pressed his lips against hers for a while before pulling apart and saying.

"i've been waiting to do that all morning," he spoke pushing a piece of hair behind her face.

"oh yeah? well i've been waiting for you to do that all morning," she pressed a kiss to his forehead before getting up and leaving a pouting jj on the bed.

"do you think we have time to you know," he winked at her.

"jj! no we don't, in fact kie just texted me saying the boat is ready so let's go," she walked out of the room with a very horny and moody jj.

they got on the boat and drove out.

kie was checking the tanks and realised something,

"these are empty, you took empty tanks?" she asked in disbelief.

she checked the last one but it wasn't enough for all of us,

"okay this one is quarter full, enough for one of us,"

"love it when a plan comes together," pope said sarcastically.

"does anybody know how to dive?" ren asked walking away from jj.

"anybody?" kie asked noticing nobody was saying yes

"it's kind of a kook sport." jj stated

"man has a point," ren agreed

"i read about it?" pope said more of a question.

"oh great!" ren exclaimed sarcastically

"great, pope read about it. so someone's gonna die." kie said

"look, y-you put the thing in your mouth and breathe. how hard could it be?" jj said

oh how wrong he was

"well, if you come up too fast, nitrogen gets into your blood, and you get the bends," pope corrected

"bends like bend over and.." jj went off

ren let out a scoff and stood up.

"the bends kill you," pope said sternly

"right," jj acted as if he knew that was right,

"i- i can dive," john b lied.

"none of us can dive," ren said

"since when can you dive?" kie turned to the boy.

"yeah you can dive, i'm cool with that." jj said

"let me do some calculations real quick," pope stood up and started thinking,

"you serious?" kie asked john b who shrugged in response.

"okay so that boats about thirty feet down," pope stated with a listening ren beside him.

"so it'll take 25 minutes at that depth.

"which means you need to make your safety stop about" he thought for a second, "ten feet," he finished.

ren walked to the edge of the boat removing her clothes, revealing her black bathing suit and jumped in with her t-shirt.

"uh what was that all about?" pope asked referring to ren jumping in.

"i don't know, but i liked it, a lot, like a lot lot," jj admitted taking in the beautifulness that was ren's body.

kiara scoffed at the boy and turned back to the rest of the group.

"uh so, when you, uh, when your down there, you look for the cargo hold. you stick this thing in and twist and pull, okay?" he placed the thing in john b's hand.

ren emerged from underneath the water, jj watching and helping her get back up on the boat.

"i ties my t-shirt about ten feet down, your safety stop bud," she patted john b on the shoulder then curled into jj's side.

pope was explaining the breathing situation to john b while the others watched.

"hey, just a reminder if we get caught out here in the marsh we're basically screwed so, better get a move on," ren pointed out.

kiara walked up to the front of the boat and placed a kiss on john b's cheek, which made jj and ren look at eachother with the same look.

"diver down?" john b asked after kiara stepped back,

"diver down," she repeated him.

john b jumped into the water before giving a salute hand signal, then submerging into the water.

"wow, what one heck of a day so far." ren sighed .

it had only been a few minutes until john b had dived but they heard sirens in the distance,

pope looked back and saw the police,

"shit jj, ren!" pope said before turning back to them.

"holy fuck just act natural," ren grabbed the shirt that jj had just thrown her.

as they pulled up pope sat down and said, "evening officers,"

"evening," to which one of them replied.

"jj, tie this off," pope said to him

"how you kids doing?" he asked before asking another question,
"you know the marsh is closed?"

the group pretended as if they didn't know,

"i didn't know that, but why is it closed?" ren asked

"well, we're conducting a search out here. boat went down," he explained

"oh wow,"

"seen anything?" he asked them,

"no boats here sir,"

"no"

"no boats"

ren was starting to worry, and worry was not an emotion she felt a lot. she was worried about john b, and his breathing.

"where's your friend yall are always hanging out with? he here?" he asked,

"well do you see him?" ren asked before continuing, "he's working sir," she said. in case you couldn't tell, she doesn't like shoupe very much.

"hm," shoupe sent sending a glare to the girl, and he didn't like her either.

"i'm gonna check your little boat out," he said stepping on.

ren instantly moved out of the way, she didn't want to be no where near him.

"no yeah come aboard." they all said.

he noticed that there were only one life jackets so he asked them a simple question,

"you got another one of these?"

"yeah, uh, it's in the hold," kie said getting up,

"show him," ren said from the back of the boat.

then shoupe started walking to the front of the boat, also where the rope was tied.

"uh you might wanna be careful there, don't wanna slip," pope says.

"i got it," he replied.

and he just stood there, looking into the water.

after awhile he found nothing interesting and walked away,

"all right," he said getting down

"all right!" ren repeated.

"beautiful day isn't it?" he asked them.

"sure is," they exclaimed.

"hey shoupe," ren started, "have you heard from my father, he hasn't really spoken to me since you know.." so basically ren's father abuses her. like jj's father does him, shoupe knew but her father stole money so he could buy himself out of it.

"no sorry ren, please stay out of trouble," he said to her

"no promises," she laughed.

"you let us know, if you see anything on your way out," he said to them.

"will do sir." pope said

"we'll be gone soon." jj said as they were starting to drive away,

"yes you will,"

once they were a little away the group headed towards the front of the boat looking for john b,

"he's definitely out of air," pope said worriedly.

but just then john b came out of the water and took off his mask,

"there he is!" jj yelled.

"oh god, jesus christ," pope panted.

"don't scare us like that man!" he said again

"how'd it go down there?" ren asked.

"did you find anything?" jj helped him on the boat.

"did i find anything?" john b said under his breath.

"yeah!" jj said

when john b threw something on the boat the pogues went crazy,

"yes! well done buddy!"

"that's my boy!"

"nice one dude!"

"you okay?" kie asked after they had all calmed down.

"yeah, i ran out of air," he patted

"you scared the shit out of me," kie said,

"yeah, the cops were up here. but, uh we took care of 'em." pope said

"you missed the show," ren added.

"hey guys, guys, bogey, two o clock." kie said referring to the boat in the distance.

"what?" jj asked

"do you guys recognise that boat?" ren asked,
"cause it doesn't ring a bell to me," she added

"i've never seen it," kie said

"what are they doing back here the marsh is closed?" ren asked

"i don't know, but let's not stick around to find out," jj had a good point,

"right, let's go!" ren said

"jj, get the bowline," john b ordered

"yeah,"

"i'll help you," ren said knowing it was heavy, she walked to where jj was and started helping him pull up the bowline.

"should we wait on them?" pope asked,

"no! hell no!" ren yelled,

"no we're not gonna wait on them pope," john b answered more calmly than ren.

"go get the stern. go!" he yelled at pope,

"are you joking? jj, ren hurry up!" kie yelled

"don't wait for us! go!" jj yelled back to them.

"let's go!" kie yelled at them

once they managed to pull it up they stood at the back, and jj wrapped his arm around ren's waist.

"go! go, go, go, go,go!" they all yelled

"go into the marsh!" ren yelled at john b.

the boat behind them started speeding up. chasing them.

"their following us!" kie panicked.

"this can't be good," pope said

"no shit! john b go!" ren yelled

"dude you gotta go faster!" jj yelled at him

"i'm going! i'm going!" he yelled back

just then a shot fired and almost hit them.

"what the fuck?!" ren yelled dropping to the floor like everyone else.

"john b! get down!" jj yelled to him.

another shot was fired

"oh my god, we're gonna die!" pope yelled

ren had a plan but she needed kie's help.

"kiara! pass me that!" she yelled to her getting up.

jj wrapped his hand around her ankle but she quickly kicked it off.

"get down!" jj yelled

"shit! pope, move!" she yelled grabbing the thing ren needed and passing it to her.

ren threw the thing in the water and soon enough their boat slowed down and then coming to a complete stop.

another shot was fired before they got away.

"oh my god!" ren exclaimed,

jj hugged her from behind,
"next time i tell you to do something, you do it!" he whispered in her ear before kissing her on the cheek.

"whoo!" they yelled

"holy fuck that was scary!" john b yelled.

they got off the boat and onto the dock, about to reveal what was in the mystery bag.

"ooh! what do you think it is?" ren asked excitedly.

"it's gotta be money right?" jj asked

"oh no, yeah totally!" ren agreed.

"that it a couple of keys with street value to the low- to mild-mills!" jj said .

"can we please just open the bag?" pope yelled, what a rare thing pope just did.

"wow pope," john b said

"never seen that before!" ren said

"that's a rare outburst of emotion," john b said to him

"okay you guys are literally killing me with anticipation, open the bag! we nearly did over this!" pope said as john b started to open the bag,

inside the bag was a tank looking thing and john b struggled to open it but when he did he tipped it upside down and out fell,

"a compass?" ren asked in defeat

"oh wow, yup. that's about right," pope said

"we almost died over a compass?" ren said again.

but john b just kept staring at it.

"dude, what? it's not worth anything?" jj asked to the boy who was still staring at the compass.

"this was my fathers," was all john b said.

A//N

OKAY GUYS! episode one, is completely complete! thanks for reading episode one and i'll see you guys, in episode two!

- aaliyah