𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 || 𝗷𝗷 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸

- you ignorant fuck -

"Pogues, baby!" He yells, watching JB run up the beach to them all.

"Mission accomplished, sir." JJ says, doing a fake salute to him. He lets go of Melia, letting her walk over to her brother.

John B takes one look at her and rage floods into his body, his eyes flicker up to JJ and he mouths the word 'Rafe'. John B sighed, pulling her into a hug.

She laughed softly in his arms, she didn't even know what the fuck she was feeling. She needed this to be over.

And she knew her brother had a plan, so maybe it would be over?

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They were all sat around a fire, cicadas chirping in the background. Melia had barely spoken a word, she wasn't sure how to feel. She wasn't sure how to feel about Rafe, about her Dad, about the gold, about her brother and Sarah FUCKING Cameron. It was all becoming too much.

Fuck- she hadn't had a panic attack in forever, that encounter with Rafe was nothing like any of the others, it was weak. So why did it freak her out SO much?

"Hey, guys. So my dad, like, he's already gonna kill me.. So what's this mandatory meeting about?" Pope asks, sighing.

The others had picked up on Melia's mood, but they know not to ask when she was feeling like that. At least most of them knew.

"Might as well tell him, man, before we're gaffed." JJ says, looking at John B.

Melia was sat between JJ and her brother, both clearly monitoring how she was. She didn't want to be babied. She hated the feeling. But she was WAY too tired to speak up on it, so she let them do what they wanted.

"You guys ready for this?" John B asked, looking between the Pogues.

Kie looked at him with a look of disgust on her face. "Yeah, obviously? Why else would we be here." She rolls her eyes.

Yeah she was definitely tired as well.

"So, the gold never went down with the Royal Merchant." JB begins, looking around at everybody's confused faces.

Minus JJ and Melia of course, they knew everything.

"Oh my god, here we go again with this." Pope mutters under his breath, shaking his head.

"No. Wait, all right? Hear him out." JJ says, resting his arm on Melia's shoulder.

She flinched slightly at the touch, clearly on edge, but she relaxed immediately after making eye contact with him.

"It's been here the whole time." John B says, laughing quietly.

Everybody went silent, looking at him with curiosity.

"It's on the island."

"Are you serious..?" Kiara asks, furrowing her eyebrows at the three.

"Oh my god.." She mumbles.

"I'd like to voice my skepticism." Pope adds, crossing his arms and looking at them.