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They tried not to think about it too much, about how they became the Pogues and how the Pogues ended and how the deciding factor in both cases was JJ Maybank. Honestly, most of the time, they tried most of the time to not think about JJ at all if they could, especially now that they were back and settled down in the Outer Banks, grown up and home in Kildare County, and everything looked the same as when they were just kids, just fooling around on a boat in the marsh that July but really nothing would ever be the same again.
Because JJ was gone.
But they still hoped, more than anything that JJ had landed somewhere quiet. They hey hoped JJ’s life was boring in the best way, full of ordinary worries and normal stress. The kind of problems that meant his past wasn’t running the show anymore. He hoped JJ wasn’t still fighting ghosts. That wherever he was, he wasn’t still carrying Luke or Groff around in his head.
And that he wasn’t lying awake worrying about the rest of them.
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last time i drank (i was face down, passed out, there on your lawn) by laylap2003
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
16 Feb 2026
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JJ feels awful.
It’s been seventy-two hours since he had a drink.
Seventy-two.
And he’s counted every damn second of it.
Ever second since John B and Pope dragged him off the dock and shoved him into the Twinkie.
Every second since Kiara stood outside the intake door as they admitted him.
Every second he's been here, at Changing Tides Treatment Program.AKA: JJ Maybank confronts his relationship with alcohol over the years while in rehab.
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Watch you breathe in (watch you breathin' out) by laylap2003 for fayedartmouth
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
31 Dec 2025
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The room tilted, his head spun and his skin burned and froze at the same time. JJ realized he was sick.
"Shit," he muttered into Kie's pillow. And then he was out like a light.
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From stupid ideas to dangerous plans, JJ Maybank never does anything halfway.
So when he catches the flu going around the marina, things go from bad to worse to spiraling fast. -
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Just a little one-shot of domestic bliss featuring JJ and Kiara living together post-S3 in which JJ has been using Kiara's shampoo.
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JJ Maybank's life on Kildare Island was a whirlwind of surfing, fishing, and carefree living.
Little did he know, a chance encounter with a tourist would alter the course of his life forever when a simple phone call rocks him to his core.
But with the support of his friends, he makes the choice to embrace fatherhood, pouring his heart and soul into the precious blonde bundle cradled in his arms.
Aka: JJ, Kiara, Sarah, John B, Cleo and Pope navigate parenthood together as the Pogue family grows.
Aka aka: Bo Maybank, Lizzie and Jack Routledge and Denny Heyward (the next generation of Pogues) growing up in OBX.
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Fun fact:
Did you know that the smallest shift in a hurricane’s path can either flatten a house or miss it by a mile?
The same goes for people, really.
Turns out…you can take one kid out of the mix, just one, and everything changes.
Everything breaks.What would have happened to Pope, John B, Sarah, and Kie if JJ hadn't been there to save their asses.
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- Part 4 of Run
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JJ Maybank was a Pogue to his core. Maybe not in blood but in heart and Pogues don’t die easy. Somehow, JJ was alive.
He could breathe. As long as he didn’t think about how close he’d come to never doing it again, as long as he ignored the ache in his side and how he’d gotten it, as long as he pushed away Kiara’s screams that still echoed in his head and the way the darkness had swallowed him whole.
As long as he shoved it all down, buried it deep where even he couldn’t reach it—
He’d be fine.
(aka The story of JJ surviving Morrocco but breaking in the aftermath of the lies, the trauma, the abuse.)
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- Part 3 of Run
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JJ swears he’s never felt more alive than in the moments right before everything falls apart. Living for the rush, riding high, thinking he’s untouchable—then Groff’s knife sinks in and his world shatters.
He survives, just barely, but with the law still gunning for them, the others have no choice but to head back to OBX without him and Kie.
But for JJ and Kiara, it’s a chance to live without limits. They run, ditch everything they’ve known to take the surf trip they always dreamed of.
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- Part 2 of Run
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“Yucatan,” she says, before she even realizes the word is leaving her mouth.“You’re not going to jail for this, Jayje,” she cuts him off, looking at JJ, only at JJ.
“I’m not gonna let you.” Her voice is steady, sure. “If you hadn’t stood up for us, no one would have.”
JJ stares at her, eyes flickering back to life, like she’s dragging him back from whatever dark place he had slipped into.“Yucatan?” he says again, like he’s letting himself believe it.
Kiara squeezes his fingers, leans in just a little closer. “Yucatan,” she confirms.
A story of JJ and Kiara running away with each other after JJ's crash out during the town council meeting.
AKA: JJ and Kiara create a life for themselves in Yucatan and have the happy ending they always deserved.
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- Part 1 of Run
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Freshman year wasn’t turning out how JJ had imagined it would. Not that JJ had ever really imagined how it would be at all. He didn’t spend time planning for the future he didn’t really want because what was the point in that?
It was something he wasn’t sure he even wanted to survive. But then all of a sudden everything changed and he didn’t even see it coming.
(Aka JJ OD’s in a dark parking lot and Shoupe comes to save the day.)
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Shoupe had always kept an eye on JJ Maybank, whether JJ knew about it or not. From the first 911 dispatch to the Maybank house at three to the day JJ declared he didn’t need his help anymore at sixteen, Shoupe watched over him the best way he knew how.
It wasn’t always good enough, but still sometimes things work out in the end.
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This time, when Big John leaves for the weekend, it’s the ocean that calls to John B and JJ, the waves promising escape. They paddle out far, pushing themselves beyond the break, laughing like they’ve left every consequence behind on the shore.
It ends in disaster, of course—
6 months after the bonfire and the fight with Rafe, and 3 months after JJ spent his 13th birthday in a hospital bed, he’s still reeling. The bruises have faded, but the scars haven’t healed. He’s a shell of the kid he once was—physically weaker, emotionally lost.
But out on the water, though, he feels a flicker of the kid he used to be. The risk, the thrill, the rush—it’s the closest he gets to feeling alive. So he chases it, paddling harder, craving the danger like it’s the only thing keeping him tethered to the world. But the ocean has other plans for him.
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- Part 3 of Sucker Punch
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JJ survived Morocco. The Pogues got their revenge on Groff, found the Blue Crown, cleared their names, and finally saved Poguelandia. After everything, they were home.
Kiara and JJ finally got to live their dream: a legendary surf trip, just the two of them. But when a rainy day hit, it threatened to derail their plans.
Yet, with a little South American weed, a few cold beers, and hours spent reminiscing about how far they’d come, the rain didn’t seem so bad—suddenly turning into something better—complete with a spontaneous proposal and a coastal elopement, proving that stupid things have good outcomes all the time.
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Kiara glanced up from her phone, a smile tugging at her lips. “Wait—does this mean I get to find out your real name? The mystery of the JJ in JJ Maybank?”
John B smirked, “Oh, the lore, Kie. There’s a reason I’m John ‘B.’”
Kiara’s jaw dropped. “No way. Your name’s John?”
JJ rolled his eyes, slouching further into his chair. “Don’t make it a big deal.”
Kiara’s grin widened as she leaned forward. “What’s your middle name?”
For just a second, JJ froze. His smirk faltered, but he quickly plastered it back in place. “Wouldn’t you like to know?” he drawled.
Aka JJ is the last of the Pogues to get his driver’s license.
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She took his hand and pressed it to her chest, just above her heart, hoping to ground him. “You’re part of my life whether you like it or not. I’m choosing you.”
JJ was quiet, staring out at the water, letting her words sink in. “I don’t want to drag you down, Kie. You deserve someone who isn’t…this…this messed up.” His voice was rough, full of self-loathing. “Just go. You don’t need me in your life.”
Kiara took a deep breath, her heart pounding as she realized what she had to tell him. Reaching into her pocket, her fingers trembling, Kiara pulled out a small white stick and held it out to him, her voice barely above a whisper. “It’s too late for that, Jayje.”
Or—a cathartic re-write of Season Four that gives JJ the happy ending he deserves.
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JJ grew up hungry.
Not just the skipped lunch kind of hungry, but the constant ache in your stomach, gnawing at your insides, skipped lunch, didn’t have breakfast or dinner the night before, or even, lunch the day before that kind of hungry.
The kind of hungry that never really left, no matter how much he tried to ignore it.
AKA: a one-shot about JJ Maybank finally having it all. A home. A family. And three home cooked meals a day.
And how it changes him.
#season4doesnotexist
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JJ’s shoulder suddenly brushes against hers, and she glances down to see him stretched out beside her. He’s still small—skinny and wiry, all sharp elbows and bony knees that stick out awkwardly whenever he moves. He’s the smallest of the group by far, and she still towers over him by a good couple of inches.
It makes her feel annoyingly smug—stronger, bigger. For now, anyway.
“C’mon Jayje,” she says, nudging him with her shoulder. “You’ve gotta have some plan for your birthday this weekend. It's gonna be the big one-three, man.”
Kiara is absolutely determined to plan the most epic birthday for JJ. Not because she owes him anything or because she feels like it’s what friends do, but because, well, he deserves it. And maybe, just maybe, she wants to see that grin of his a little wider on his special day. But of course, the universe—or maybe just JJ’s cursed streak of bad luck—has other plans.
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- Part 2 of Sucker Punch
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To JJ, Kiara Carrera was his entire world, his everything.
But when she shatters his heart and it seems like the rest of the Pogues are moving on without him, he plunges into darkness, locked in a battle with the inner demons he’s held off for too long, desperately struggling to find his way back.
Story based on Stick Season (Forever) by Noah Kahan.
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JJ Maybank was spiraling. Hard.
He sat slumped on the steps of his childhood home, eyes locked on the dark stretch of sky above, like it could give him some kind of answer. But no answers came. Just the heavy weight of what he’d found out.
His whole life?
A joke.
A goddamn lie.
Now, as he faces a battle for treasure and a hidden legacy, JJ must confront a truth more terrifying than any storm brewing on the horizon. With the truth closing in and the world he thought he knew crumbling around him, the only thing keeping him tethered is Kiara, the girl who’s always believed in him. But can he rise from the wreckage of his past and fight for what really matters before he self-destructs.
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At twelve, JJ was the youngest and smallest of the Pogues, and it was really starting to piss him off. While John B, Kiara, and Pope shot up taller and stronger, JJ felt the sting of still being “the baby.” Determined to prove himself, he took on reckless risks—jumping off cliffs, swimming too far, and picking fights he couldn’t win.
Each bruise felt like a badge of honor.
This weekend, John B and JJ’s first time home alone without Big John looming over them, promised freedom—just two best friends in a house, feeling like kings. But when their wild adventure leads them to the Boneyard, fun quickly turns to disaster thanks to one kook in particular: Rafe Cameron.
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- Part 1 of Sucker Punch