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oh to be wanted regardless (showing me sacrifice and singing your promise) by fictionstew
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
26 Jul 2025
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He bites his lip again, like the pain will shake him awake if this is all a dream. It feels like it is, being comfortable and warm and surrounded by people who love him regardless of the things he hates most. His past and his scars and his fears. He doesn’t wake up, though, and he thanks the God he doesn’t know if he believes in.
He sleeps in his bed. Kiara by his side, pressed against his chest. They sleep with the window open and the door cracked, just so he doesn’t feel trapped. They talk and talk, about everything and nothing in the comfort of the dark. The only light coming from the moon and the stars outside.
AKA The Pogues buy the house JJ grew up in, and they pour their hearts into making it a home. Even when JJ can't sleep in his childhood bedroom or share the memories of his past, they stick by his side and carry him through the change. He's never been more grateful. A further take on how JJ copes with buying back the Maybank house, and the first few days after moving in.
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Mother Nature do me a favor (don't let them know he's turned me black and blue) by fictionstew
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
30 Dec 2024
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“Shirt, J,” John B says.
JJ doesn’t move. He rubs his face with his hands, looks to the door.
“No one’s coming in.”
“They’re on the porch, B.”
“It’s alright,” John B says.
JJ is looking at him now, and his eyes are wide. JJ doesn’t scare easily. He doesn’t shy away from a fight or ever miss the chance to stand up for his people.
But being seen? That scares the shit out of JJ.
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Time blurs between the first time John B patched up JJ, and all the times inbetween. JJ struggles with letting people in and letting himself be seen-- the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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John B still feels sick, because it’s finally confirmed. The small whisper of a thought he had weeks ago. The thing he never thought could be true. And now everything hurts– everything hurts, because he can’t imagine how he went so long without knowing. Without noticing.
But as much as he hurts, he knows JJ hurts worse.
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What if John B didn't know about JJ and Luke? What if he's finding out with the rest of them? Set throughout the first season.
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Pope shakes his head, rubs his neck. “You don’t want me to make this a thing.”
JJ nods, says nothing.
“I have to make this a thing, J,” he says finally. JJ groans, but deep down he’s glad someone doesn’t listen to him for once. “I don’t know what’s going on. I want to help.”
“Nothin’s goin on,” JJ mutters. “This isn’t new, Pope.”
“Yea, I gathered that much.”
Pope waits. He’s always had a way of getting to JJ, even when his other friends couldn’t. JJ would spill all his secrets to Pope, if he asked. He always will.
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JJ has an anxiety attack, and Pope is the only one around. Thankfully, Pope is a JJ whisperer.
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- Part 2 of Unspoken Things
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nothing about the way you were treated ever seemed especially alarming til now by fictionstew
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
30 Aug 2025
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Pope finally puts together the pieces and learns about Luke. He doesn't take it well.
*Set sometime during season two, after Luke leaves the island and before the Coastal Venture