16 Works in Ricky (Outer Banks)
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He was gone, B. At Christmas. What, you had to sit here and wait?”
John B looked up. “That's not what I'm talking about. You were there right? You saw what happened.”
“No shit.” JJ was on his feet before he realized it. “Dude came in looking for a fight. It’s like… Cut 101. You don’t throw a punch unless you want one.” He shrugged, but it came out tight. “Especially not at my dad.”
“You’d know, huh?”
The second it slipped, JB froze, like he wanted to grab it back, but JJ didn’t give him the chance. He stopped cold. Hands curled.
“What the fuck does that mean?”
__________JJ lives by unspoken rules: don’t mix the Pogues with your family, don’t talk about dads with John B, don’t cry, hit first, and for fuck’s sake never, ever piss Luke off.
Breaking one was all it took, and the rest went with it.
Now John B hates him, home is off-limits, and he’s stuck half-frozen on Kie’s bedroom floor trying to figure out where it all went to shit.Series
- Part 9 of Half-Truths
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The days/weeks following El Dorado - getting home. Tried to do a little bit of a different take, and won't stick directly to canon.
I have at least 4 chapters written but no guarantees on when I will post them.
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you see, love isn't rescue (it's someone to lose) by PrincessOfNothingCharming
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
14 Sep 2025
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Vic swallows hard to stop bile from rising up his throat. Because what he sees when he looks over Susan’s shoulder isn’t the drug addict with the long arrest record. It’s not even Georgia Maybank’s lineage. It’s also not just a four-year-old with blank eyes, a red cheek, and trembling fingers.
No, what Victor Shoupe sees when he looks across the church is a child who just needs a goddamn chance.
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When a tropical storm hits the night Luke is arrested, Shoupe - haunted by his choice to look the other way a year and a half ago - steps in to give JJ a second chance and a new understanding of the word family.
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JJ Maybank has always known what it means to survive. Bruised ribs, stolen apples, silence where love should’ve been—that’s just life on the edge of the Cut. But when a seemingly normal night spirals into violence, JJ finds himself abducted by Barry and Rafe Cameron—two ghosts from his worst mistakes, now intent on making him disappear.
Trapped, beaten, and isolated, JJ is forced to confront not just the pain of the present, but the ghosts of his past: a father who only taught him cruelty, a town that never saw him as worth saving, and a world where being a “Pogue” means you fight or you fall.
As his friends piece together what happened—and tensions on the island simmer to a boil—JJ’s will to survive becomes more than instinct. It becomes war.
But survival isn’t just about staying alive.
It’s about choosing to believe you’re worth saving—even when no one else does.
And JJ Maybank?
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A few hours ago, he’d been curled up on the floor of the Chateau’s bathroom, dry-heaving like a loser. His throat burned, his head was pounding, and his brain wouldn’t shut up about everything he’d screwed up. Stealing from his dad, running, being a piece of shit, the fact that he’d be fucking murdered as soon as he stepped foot at his house—it had all hit him at once.
He’d shaken. He’d cried. He’d felt every bit the damn waste of space his dad always said he was.
And then he’d stopped.
Gotten up. Washed his face. Fixed his shit.
Cause JJ Maybank didn’t stay down. He didn’t sit around whining and waiting for a rescue.
He’d done it because his friends needed him. Because John B needed him. And if stealing the damn pump meant the Pogue ran again, then that was just how it had to be.
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Spring on the Outer Banks means two things: trouble and the Pogues finding it. JJ is fighting to keep it together at home, while John B is barely holding on after his father’s disappearance. Pope and Kie do their best to keep the group steady, but even the strongest friendships are tested when real life hits hard.Series
- Part 1 of Half-Truths
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People always want to make sense of Jj like he’s supposed to fit in a category. Like he’s either the soft kid who sleeps with a stuffed shark under the covers and cries on his birthday when someone actually gives a shit—or the reckless, unhinged one who starts fights over nothing, who laughs when there’s blood in his mouth. But it’s not like that. It was never like that.
Because the same Jj who keeps a googly-eyed shark in the corner of his bed (that john b got him), like it’s a goddamn talisman is the same Jj who, when he was eleven, broke a grown man’s nose inside a haunted house.
Yeah.
That happened.
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The Maybank family were doomed for prison or an early grave, and there was nothing anyone could do to change that. It didn't stop the people who loved them from trying to intervene anyway.
After the loss of the Phantom, Luke overdoses.
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Into the Lion's den by you_got_nothing_you_got_nothing_to_lose
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
30 Jan 2025
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An alternative storyline that picks up at the fight between JJ and John B at the beach.
After JJ's impulsive decision to shoot at a cop fractures his bond with his friends, he's left abandoned by the people he once called family. With nowhere else to turn, JJ makes a desperate choice—to seek refuge with his father, Luke- a choice that drags him deep into the criminal underworld controlled by the ruthless Barracuda Mike.
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request by KyraCoker2026:
"Could you do a fic about Sarah and John b getting back from the Bahamas in season 2 and Sarah’s injury and the pain is a lot worse than the show let on. Because I don’t think that there is any way she could’ve been running around that much a day after getting shot and some sketchy doctor healing her and not be in a lot of pain."
I hope this is ok!! I wrote it while incredibly sleep deprived 😭 also, I kinda made the ending a fluff Sarah and JJ moment as I feel like they deserved it. hope that's alright.
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- Part 25 of Outer Banks
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request by @Igetwaytooattachedtofictionalcharacters:
"What if you wrote a sickfic of JJ after having to sleep in the cold rain after a fight with his dad. He goes to John b’s and hangs out with the pogues to pretend everything is fine and tries to downplay it but then he passes out or something like that and they figure out he’s sick and have to take care of him."
I hope you don't mind but I added a little extra whump in this too and changed the 'goes to hang out' to more of a 'looking for a safe place'. :)
TW: mention of abuse and breaking of bones.
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- Part 22 of Outer Banks
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The aftermath of Kiara Carreras trauma in season 3. She turns to unhealthy coping strategies to take back the control she had lost. Jj and the pogues help her through this.
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After Big John goes missing, John B has trouble adjusting to his new life, but things are still somewhat the same and the Pogues just try to enjoy their summer, while on all sides, everything seems to go to shit.
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- Part 2 of Outer Banks AUs
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After they reach the island, the Pogues have to come up with a plan to get back home and find a solution to the problem with Sarah's family and the cross.
Or, what I imagine/hope Season 3 will be like.
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- Part 4 of Outer Banks AUs
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Only two days after Midsummers, Luke Maybank goes to jail and JJ is put into a foster family. While that sounds like a good thing, JJ doesn't want this life.
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- Part 3 of Outer Banks AUs
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The Feeling From the Closet by johnbsfloweryshirt (iamamuggle14)
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
19 Dec 2021
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"Then she smiled again and that weird feeling he got sitting in the closet for hours went away. The one he wouldn’t have a name for for a while, even though it would come back."
Or, the way JJ feels loneliness.
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- Part 1 of OBX Character Studies
- Part 3 of sea shells and star stories
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Scraped Palms and Cut Knees by johnbsfloweryshirt (iamamuggle14)
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
14 Oct 2021
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The one where the Carreras decide to send Kiara to Blue Ridge and JJ gets a little too involved.