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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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- 185,404
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- 28/?
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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
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It isn't gold or treasure that's missing when the Pogues leave Morocco for Lisbon; it's their heart, their joy, their laughter. Their best friend.
And he deserves a hell of a lot better than an unmarked grave.
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A Post-Season 4 Fix-it that doesn't erase Canon, but DOES work to undo the worst parts of it! JJ Maybank will get the happy ending he deserves!
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03 Feb 2025
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When you achieve your dying wish— where do you lead life after resurrection? The blue eyed boy had a few ideas. New dreams with Kiara, more specifically.
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JJ gets revived by the Blue Crown and furthermore navigates his relationship with Kie, post-Season 4. Majorly a deep dive into Season 5 and beyond.
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01 Feb 2025
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Once he stops resisting, JJ realizes that becoming friends with Kiara is like swimming against a current—much easier when you surrender yourself to the push and pull of the water. And yes, of course they all have a thing for her—because Kiara is pretty and smart and awesome and obviously has the poor taste to slum it with JJ and his idiot friends.
And JJ doesn’t really understand why that is, why Kiara chose them, but he really doesn’t want to mess this up.
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a prologue to jj/kiara. pre-season one.
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18 Jan 2025
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i hate that mistletoe, it makes me think of our first kiss by smileymikey for YellowLaboratory
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
29 Dec 2021
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“What,” she says, very slowly, like if she doesn’t she might snap and start shouting, “is that?”
JJ glances at her, and then back at the tree. Maybe she needs glasses. “It’s the tree.”
Somehow Kiara’s face gets even more scrunchy. “The tree.”
“Is there a problem?”
“JJ. That’s a fucking ornament.”
or, JJ and Kiara are put in charge of planning the office Christmas party.
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03 Jan 2025
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“He said you were a super-hot, rich, hippie chick.” He counts each one on his fingers, several of which are decorated with shiny silver rings.
“Did he?” she quips, but she has to bite her lip to hide her smile.
“The super-hot part goes without saying,” he says, and she flushes. “Hippie chick—“ He tugs gently at a loose curl where it’s hanging over her thick headband, then makes a show of dragging his eyes across the writing on her shirt. “’Sustainability is hot.’”
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Kiara wants to peel back the JJ's layers. Little does she know, he wants to do the same.
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25 Dec 2024
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Welcome to my Outer Banks Thanksgiving special! This story will revolve around JJ Maybank and what the holiday has been like for him throughout the years.
If you’ve read any of my other works I hope you enjoy the Easter Eggs I’ve left in this special holiday story. I had a blast writing this!
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25 Dec 2024
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She doesn't know what she's still doing here. Sometimes, she doesn't know what she's doing at all.
And there isn't anyone or anything left to remind her of that, not anymore. Nothing other than the twist of darkness within, the spiral of her reflection.
But since when does she back down from a challenge? Least of all from surfer boys sweeping in with easy smiles and perfect hair. They can afford him. They’re drowning. And the thing about surfer boy is, he seems like he knows how to swim.
It’s a mistake. She knows it before she even says it.
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Or, an obx/the bear au nobody asked for.
[jiara week 2023 - day 5: based on a book/movie/show]
[jiara bingo - coworkers]
[obxtober 2024: au, lyrics]- Language:
- English
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24 Dec 2024
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caught between (the devil and the deep blue sea) by HomebodyNobody, monicasposh
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
12 Dec 2024
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The thought of his days being Kiara-less is a terrifying and looming reality he never thought he’d have to face. A life without her feels empty, directionless, like a ship lost at sea, with no compass to guide it home, and no anchor to tie it down once it’s there.
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- English
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- 4/13
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22 Dec 2024
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It was the first week of June, a warm early Saturday when Kiara made her way into JJ’s self-proclaimed room at the Chateau, threw herself on the bed where he lied half asleep and asked, “You wanna make out with me?”
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The story of a summer fling turned into family through the eyes of a boy born into misfortune.
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- 9/9
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19 Dec 2024
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After four years, one month and two weeks, it's time to go home.
what happened next (around the world sequel)
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- Part 2 of around the world
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- English
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- 120,142
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- 13/13
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14 Dec 2024
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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]
[obxtober 2024: surfing]- Language:
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- 7/?
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11 Dec 2024
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Let's all go back to the happier times in their lives. End of Season 2. Poguelandia.
The Pogues are stuck on a deserted island. No food, no shelter, no way to get home. Sticking together is all that matters. When JJ and Kiara get separated, they will do whatever it takes to get back to one another.
Read their lives in Poguelandia and how everything changes when feelings get in the way.
It's them against the universe, forever and always.
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11 Dec 2024
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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.Bookmarked by catchingwaves
19 Nov 2024
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Moving in with JJ Maybank was never part of the plan. She was supposed to be independent by now, in college working toward a degree in environmental engineering, maybe somewhere in California, or even Hawaii. But she’s not. She’s still stuck on Kildare, working at the Wreck and daydreaming about a life beyond the Outer Banks. She can’t pinpoint exactly where she went wrong, where The Plan failed and she fucked up enough to land here, in a shitty fishing shack on the marsh with a guy named Jesse fucking James, paying rent to Sarah Cameron’s boyfriend and still working at her parent’s restaurant, nearly two years out of high school with no future and no plan for one.
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a roommate AU in which Kiara was never friends with the Pogues until after high school and thus is still finding out who she is and where she belongs. Alternatively; what is home, and where will she find it?- Language:
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09 Nov 2024
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I read PonderRose's The Son Between Us and wondered how it would play out in the show
I have practically no experience with kids
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- Part 1 of Kate Sharma Song Fics
- Language:
- English
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- 168,680
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- 18/18
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11 Sep 2024