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i've called many things 'love' and so many things 'grief' (they've all just been versions of uncertainty) by PrincessOfNothingCharming
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
27 Apr 2025
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He swallows, but it feels like there’s a lump in his throat. That’s the only reason tears spring to his eyes. The only reason.
It’s also why he doesn’t lift his eyes from the ratty blanket in his lap. Why he chews his cheek. Why he slides his hand into his hair and tugs until it hurts a little, until John B’s foot bumps against his own again.
Then, he musses his hair one last time before grinning, “Bro, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. It was… unbelievable.”
When he lifts his eyes, John B’s already looking back at him. His smile slips. Just a fraction. Just enough.
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An examination of JJ's relationship with intimacy, love, and physical touch following an assault by an older woman. (Set from Pre-Canon through the time jump between S3-S4.)
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28 Apr 2025
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JJ and Kiara have always been close, but when things change between them, something shifts. JJ can’t figure out why it feels different, while Kiara remains unaware of what’s brewing.
In this push-and-pull game of will they, won’t they, both JJ and Kiara are left questioning whether they can ever get past the walls they've built—whether they can admit what's been there all along, or if it’s too late.
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A slow-paced Jiara with a little bit of deflecting, and a lot of tension.
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20 Apr 2025
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“Remember the last rule, Sar.”
Sarah scrambles up, looking through the blinds, “Huh? What are you talking about?”
Kie turns away and heads back to the high tops.
“Never trust a kook.”
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14 Apr 2025
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i won't ask you to wait (if you don't ask me to stay) by the_rumors_from_inez for sydne
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
22 Aug 2023
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if love was blind, jj maybank probably wouldn’t have spent so many high school class periods staring at kiara carrera’s legs from the back corner of the classroom. kie probably wouldn’t have felt warm all over every time she saw jj follow his friends into the Wreck, hat on backwards, laugh boisterous, smirk dangerous.
if love was blind, jj and kiara probably would have been just fine when they were home for the holidays. they wouldn’t have met eyes in the glow of bonfires and fireworks and festive lights, wouldn’t have thought, just for the weekend.
if love was blind, year after year after year, they wouldn't end up back at this, thinking the road not taken looks real good now.
messy as the mud on your truck tires, but hear me out.
ten years of 'tis the damn season.
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26 Mar 2025
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“Well, kid,” Shoupe‘s eyes are blue, though they don’t hold the rage of Luke Maybank, the desperation of Ward Cameron, the manipulation of Chandler Groff, or the distrust of JJ himself. They’re more open than JJ expects, gazing at him in a way that makes him nervous simply because it’s unfamiliar. “You’ve had a busy month, huh?”
“Not really.”
JJ’s lips quirk up before he can help himself. He tilts his head and raises a brow, “I think you might be forgetting an important detail there, Sheriff.”
Shoupe raises his brow and lifts his notebook, “According to your good friend Cleo, Chandler Groff ‘knifed him real good.’ That about cover it?”
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With the crew back in Kildare, JJ has some run-ins with the different fathers who have shaped his life.
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- Part 6 of Us Against the Universe, More Like
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23 Feb 2025