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The love story of JJ and Kiara, from reckless adolescence to tender adulthood, one touch at a time.
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The plane has three seats on one side, and two on the other. She looks down at her ticket. 17D. A window seat. There’s one open spot, and a messy, blonde head of hair sitting next to it, glowing in the last of the daylight cutting through the plane’s windows. The guy, because it is a guy with the shining golden mop, looks up and sees her walking down the aisle toward him. His eyes are a clear, cutting blue, and the minute they lock onto hers, she feels like she’s seen him before, like she’s known him all her life. Some odd part of her sees this stranger and relaxes completely, her heart sighing ‘oh, hello. It’s you.’
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Kiara has been coerced by her mother into coming home from her world travels for Christmas, and meets a handsome (and oddly familiar) stranger on the plane. JJ’s been deep-sea fishing in Alaska and has been dragged home to the OBX by his buddies for the holidays. They end up having more in common than they might think. -
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Chandler Groff doesn’t believe in ghosts. He probably should have. S4 AU and fix-it.
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JJ sighs something long and suffering, snatching up his coffee for the trip back before Sarah drinks it all. God, it’s annoying when she’s right, the liquid smooth and far more pleasing than any Folgers shit he’s ever had.
This time when he walks in, the floral incense knocking him out along with the low folk music, she’s there at the front. Her service smile fades when she registers the customer.
“We’re closed.”
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Or, JJ is dragged to a vacation from hell, and the annoying barista in town doesn't make it any better. Even if she's hot.
[jiara week 2023 - day 4: au]
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John B knows JJ better than anyone. So when JJ convinces him they need to up their macking game if they ever want a shot with Kie—
Well... there could be worse first kisses, right?
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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
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Because JJ had always wanted to live, it’s true. The reckless stunts. The large stakes. The bets he couldn’t back up. It had never been suicide; it had been living, the only way he knew how.
It’s not enough. It’s never been enough. Because JJ wanted to live, but in its stead, dying doesn’t seem so bad.
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“This didn’t happen,” JJ said, his eyes finally meeting hers.
Kie absorbed the words like a part of her had known they were coming all along. She looked away from JJ, out at the lit up manor behind him - the grand facade, empty inside.
JJ dragged a hand through his hair, looking at her intently. “You get - you get why this can’t happen, right?”
Kie could feel the whole night closing in on her, like the perfect encapsulation of the last year of her life - the snide remarks from the girls at the Kook Academy, the laughter from the boys. JJ, standing in front of her, slipping away. She couldn’t keep doing this. Couldn’t keep getting this close only to lose him again, over and over.
or: it's Kie's kook year, and somehow she just keeps running into JJ
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On the boat to Morocco, JJ copes with alcohol.
That is to say, he doesn't cope at all.
Everyone feels the fallout, one way or another.
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Baby Shark and Other Natural Disasters by Ross38 for PrincessOfNothingCharming
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
19 Aug 2025
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He groaned into the pillow, face still half buried. “If I hear that song one more time, I swear...”
“That’s not the dance!” came JJ’s voice, scandalized. “You gotta do the fin! The fin, Momma!”
“I’m doin’ the damn fins, J!” Anna yelled back, cackling like a maniac, “Doo doo doo doo doo doo…” Something glass hit the floor. JJ howled with laughter.
“Doo doo doo doo doo doo’” he bellowed from the hallway then, thumping past “Daddy shark! Grrr!”
“Fuckin’ hell,” Luke muttered, but he was grinning.
__________________The story of how JJ got his shark necklace.
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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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A look at a missing moment from season 3 that then leads to an alternate scene in 3.08.
Insp. by several people on twitter :D
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He looks even lighter than the rough-around-the-edges boy she met at ten years old at the end of John B’s dock. She remembers she had dared him to jump into the water even though it was the middle of November.
If she thinks hard enough, she can remember everything about him, everything about them. As she pulls her fingers through his hair she drifts back to different moments.
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A look into Kiara's thoughts during the plane ride to South America. (consider this a prequel to 'there's nothing like this')
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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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There must have been a moment where someone pointed her out— John B, maybe, or their homeroom teacher Miss Rose, who always introduced every new student to the class with way too much fanfare— said, that’s Kiara Carrera, and continued about their day as if anything would ever be the same again. There must have been because when John B makes it to the cafeteria ten minutes late one day and shoves Pope aside so he can squish in next to him on the bench instead of sitting across from him with JJ like he usually does, when JJ realizes he’s doing it because there is a girl standing behind him, a girl who takes the empty space next to him without any preamble, JJ doesn’t need an introduction. He already knows her, somehow, but if there was ever an initial introduction, it’s lost to time.
or a collection of missing moments from ‘lamplight like parallel suns’ and onward, told from JJ’s pov.
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- Part 2 of definitely maybe
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The Best of a Bad Deal // Book Three: Revival by fayedartmouth
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
16 Oct 2025
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Everyone is living. Because JJ’s the one in remission. But they’re all coming back to life in their own ways.
The final chapter of “The Best of a Bad Deal.”
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- Part 3 of The Best of a Bad Deal
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Everyone knew how this story would end, right from the start. JJ Maybank didn’t get a happy ending. Everyone just knew – sooner rather than later – it would definitely end.
A retelling of S4 part 2, with a fix-it twist.
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- Part 1 of Second Chance Verse
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Love Is an Open Door by fayedartmouth for PrincessOfNothingCharming
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
31 Jul 2025
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JJ gets more than the blunt end of a machete. AU for 2.10, with extra whump and a touch more Jiara.
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But Without You I'm Incomplete (Oh, I Think It Must Be) True Love by May_39898
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
08 Jul 2025
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“He’s just really sunny. Like, everything feels better when he’s around. But he doesn’t get a lot of… good stuff. Not like we do. And I think he needs someone to love him. I just… I love him. A lot.”
Pope looked thoughtful, then shrugged. “That’s okay. You can like whoever you want. I think it’s nice.”
John B nodded, the tight feeling in his chest easing a little. He didn’t have the right words for what he felt—not yet—but he knew it mattered.
Even in third grade, it mattered.
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An intimate exploration of John B’s attempts to understand and define the profound connection he feels with JJ over the years.