The Pawnshop

(A/N: were getting into the thick of it now lads! This episode, 'dead calm' has JJ doin some reckless shit. I'm all for it 😂 kinda a long chapter so sorry it took so long xI'd also like to thank you for the votes, reads and comments again!!! WERE AT 8K reads!Check my conversations for a BLM petition you can sign xLet's get started!)

Pope swapped seats with JJ and dropped Y/N off with JJ at his place. Then went on to deliver everyone else to their respective houses before John B and Sarah went back to the Cameron's. The sun had risen by the time Y/N pulled herself from the van. Her head felt fuzzy and tired.

"I'll get you a bandage." JJ said, walking into his house, past his sleeping dad. They made sure to be quiet while fetching a bandage. Knotting it around Y/N's head. He snatched up his bag and went over to where she stood."Right- lets go." Y/N began to drag him out."What why?" JJ looked confused, "I thought you were staying.""JJ your dad's right there." She pointed at him passed out on the sofa. "Let's just go."JJ took a second to think, and followed her out.

They began to walk back to the beach showers so they could get cleaned up. It didn't take too long, Y/N slipped into the shower with JJ and smiled"Hey"He stepped closer "hey.""I missed you""What..?""You went away for a minute there. Couldn't stand it.""Your the baby, baby." JJ grinned and kissed her tenderly. "I love you""Yeah... I love you too." She held his hands. "Really truly. You mean the world to me.""You are the world to me. So I win.""Mhm mhm. Sure." She giggled and kissed him again. He hugged her tightly, the water pattering on their backs and rubbing down their intertwined bodies."Don't leave Y/N. Ever.""Who said I was going to ever leave?" She chuckled"I dunno just... just don't. Please."Y/N smiled and pressed their foreheads together "I'll always look after you Jay."

On the way out, walking along the wooden dock, they ran into Aiden again."Hey guys." He grinned. "Remember our meeting at lunch today?" "Oh uh- sorry man it's not a great time." JJ replied. God he was weirdly relentless.Aiden's green eyes sparked, "That's what Kie said you'd all say. Guess it's just me and Y/N huh."Y/N shook her head and took a deep breath, "Aiden you've got to stop asking me to go places with you alone... I don't want to."Aiden was taken back by her bluntness. "But we're friends..." "Wait he's been asking you out?" JJ's temper flickered- ready to flare."No not like that- as friends" Y/N chuckled."But- but you're not even dating!" Aiden protested.JJ glared and Y/N pulled him aside. "Look, Aiden. It's kinda awkward. Okay? You're nice to have as a friend. But that's it. Not a best friend- or even a good one if I'm being honest. Just a friend. And that's okay. You're a really nice guy and all but I kinda have a lot on right now. I'm really sorry."Aiden nodded- embarrassed. "Yeah. Yeah that's okay." And he began to walk away. "But look what happened to you while you were with them at Mrs Crain's!" He rushed back over and laid a hand on her head, "I would look after you!""I do look after her!" Snarled JJ.Y/N pushed his hand off slowly, "How did you know that.""You mentioned it..." Aiden began to get flustered."No. We didn't." JJ got up in his face and glared at him. He began walking into him as Aiden tried to get closer to Y/N."Leave." JJ demanded."She'd be happier with me! I can actually provide!" Aiden hissed in his ear. He was also strong- matching JJ, so they stood dead still trying to push each other away."Bull. Shit." "It's true.""No it's not!""I'd look after her she'd learn to love me.""But she loves me.""Um, fucking pardon? What about what I want?" Y/N turned up her nose.JJ stepped back, his cold eyes staring iced daggers into Aiden.Y/N looked at Aiden with pity, "I do love him. Just stop." "What? So you'd love some deadbeat, wifebeater Pogue and not m-" Aiden started to shout but JJ shoved him into the water."Well. That um, solves the problem" Y/N looked into the water at Aiden spluttering around."That's his second chance gone""Good... let's just go." She looked up at JJ, reaching for his hand."Yeah..." they began to walk away.They heard a splash behind them and some grunts."I feel like having a jog" Y/N laughed."Yeah me too." JJ laughed back as they fled the scene.

JJ and Y/N reached everyone at John B's at around midday. They found Sarah and Kie in the van, discussing how they were going to pawn off the gold and then get the rest of it."So... it looks like this?" Sarah pointed at something.Kie dragged her finger down the picture, "that's 50 feet, they're using 100feet rope."Y/N walked up to them after JJ bid her goodbye and went to find Pope."Whats that?" She asked, slipping it from Kie's fingers and looking at it, leaning on the doorframe.Kie snatched its back, revealing Y/N's mischievous eyes and smile."Map of the well." She chuckled."So what-" Y/N pointed out a wagon at the bottom of the rope, "that wagon will go into the hole and it'll pick up the gold? Like John B will load it on?""Yeah.." They chuckled, "straight to the gold room?""Who drew this?" Sarah laughed at the childish picture.Kie picked up her head from giggling, "Who do you think?" And she looked over at Pope, JJ and John B. Pope's eyes were fixed on the girls. Specifically; Kie.

John B said something to JJ and pointed at the girls- he went inside."It looks like a child drew it." Y/N observed.Sarah nodded, "it's just missing some crayons. Like they labeled the rope, 'LOng ropE!'. Why?" She giggled."Well we'll use that wagon-car engine thingy to gather the gold and hopefully not drop John B or get shot at. Again.""Exactly." Kie smiled."Guys." JJ walked over. "This better work." He tossed the gold onto the floor. "We can't pawn this is there's a giant wheat symbol on it.""Yeah no shit." Y/N picked it up- it was heavier than it looked. "We'll melt it down- right?"Kie picked up a blowtorch, "right."

They put the gold bars into a pan and held the flame over it, as well as putting it on the stove in the camper van. After a while, the gold started to melt and become a silky smooth liquid. John B and Sarah watched as Kie placed the blowtorch down. JJ and Y/N argue about who was to hold the blowtorch next from a nearby tree. "No look I'm good at it!" Y/N wiggled from his grasp and walking into the Twinkie."But you might burn it!" JJ laughed.Y/N picked up the blowtorch "How the fuck would I burn it?!""I dunno- fire?" He pointed at the hot flame, his finger hissed "ah-!""That fire isn't the blowtorch though!" Y/N pointed too and did the same thing. "Ow..."

"Oh give me that." Kie took the blowtorch form Y/N's hand and did it herself."I said I should've been the one too do it." JJ said smugly.Y/N climbed out of the van and pushed him jokingly, "it would've melted if you'd left it alone with me!" He pulled her in and held her back to his chest, holding her arms with one of his hands and her jaw with the other. "I'd say I'm pretty good at melting things." He whispered in her ear, watching as Y/N became putty in his arms. "See.""Fuck you." She sighed."Not now babygirl." And he gave her a kiss on the cheek and took the blowtorch from Kie, who was laughing at what just happened."Holy shit he got you." Kie laughed at her bold friend's blushing cheeks.

"Look!" JJ called as the gold began to lose it's shape.Y/N looked over his shoulder, "nice..." she grinned.She and Kie were dancing happily to the music blasting from the radio, the excitement filling the air around them."I can almost taste the cash." Pope said, using JJ's free hand to do a handshake.

Only once the gold was a slumped mess did they go to the pawn shop to sell it. It was very obviously melted. Like a dead snowman. They intentionally chose one on the Cut- worn down and dodgy looking.The van stopped and JJ jumped out of the side. Followed by Pope and John B from the front of the van. In JJ's hands was a blue cloth containing the gold."Hell of a job melting it down Dr. Frankenstein." Kie said as she walked past JJ."Like you could've done better." JJ snarled."I could've!" Kie raised her eyebrows. "Oh really?" He asked.Kie smirked, "I took a welding class!""Well-" JJ was interrupted by John B,"Woah woah hey, Sh! Chill out, okay?""Easy for you to say. You're not the one who has to pawn off this piece of shit!" JJ waved the clumpy Gold. "How'd I get this job anyway.""Well since you're sooooo good at melting things we figured you could use some of your "charm" on the lady in there. Unless you have none." Y/N smile, making Kie and Sarah giggle.

As everyone entered JJ spun around and doubled back. Grabbing Y/N's arm leaning her against the wall. She looked up at him triumphantly and he gritted his teeth... then smiled. He gave her a quick kiss, then another. Each one lasting longer than the last until he was making out with her outside. Her hands cradling his face."Dude!" Pope (who had come outside to see what was taking so long) hit his shoulder.JJ stood up, smirking, "yeah.. yeah I'm going." And he walked into the shop throwing glances at Y/N behind him."You gotta stop macking on walls while we're hanging out." John B said to her through the doorway."Just you wait until Sarah's more comfortable John B." She said and followed JJ through the door. Sarah's cheeks flushed.

JJ looked uncertain."You're the best liar Jay." Y/N patted his shoulder and slipped to the back of the store."Good afternoon mam." He said as the woman at the counter looked up."Afternoon." She was seriously judging if these kids had anything valuable."I see you buy gold." He went up to the counter.The woman pointed at a sign on the wall, "That's what the sign says, don't it?" "Well I'm sure you buy a lot of it because I'm about to blow your mind." He took off his bag and went to bring out the mushy gold."I ain't got much mind left to blow. So have at it." The woman replied with a sassy tone.JJ laid the gold down, "how bout them gold apples?"She chuckled, "that ain't real.""That ain't real?!""It can't be.""Feel how heavy it is."The woman picked it up, her arms wobbling."Mhm, lets get some light on that." JJ said- pulling over the desk light onto the gold.The woman used her magnifying glass's light and looked at it, "spray painted tungsten." She concluded."Spray painted tungsten? Really? Okay." The Pogues looked at him with concern. "Why don't you see how soft it is."The lady sighed. Annoyed at the people she presumed as time wasters. She brought out a small hammer and a sharp stick, "do you mind?" She said, and went to bash the point into the gold before he could reply. No dent."Wow. Would you look at that." JJ said sarcastically."Hold your horses." The pawnbroker said, "we ain't got to the acid test yet." And she reached behind the desk to bring out a vile of acid with a dropper. "Oo! The acid test." JJ said with obvious fake interest. "My favorite guys." Y/N chuckled softly with Pope, and the other three looked over with confusion. Would she believe it?

The woman dropped some acid into the gold- nothing happened."Well it ain't plated and it ain't painted.""Ma'am I'm telling ya, this is as real as the day is long.""It looks like somebody tried to melt it down." She ran her fingers over a half-covered wheat symbol. They all stopped moving, realising that she had immediately caught on."She's dead!" JJ shouted out. The other Pogues jumped and scattered in alarm."My mum. She had all this jewelry lying around the house, so I thought it was best to- to melt it down... to "consolidate" it."Sarah and Y/N stood at a bookshelf trying not to laugh."Seven pounds!" The pawnbroker said as she laid the gold onto a scale. "That's a lot of earrings.""Okay to be honest ma'am-""To be honest." Y/N whispered, she and Sarah laughed at the irony.JJ cleared his throat, "it's really hard to see my mum fall apart with Alzheimer's." He didn't dare meet the woman's eyes. "Mhm." Was all she saidKie stood with Pope, she looked at him and whispered "Alzheimer's?" Pope smiled and nodded, "he's good on the spot.""Give me a minute." The woman went to the back of. The shop."Take your time." JJ croaked with fake tears.

Pope and Kie went over to JJ and whispered something to him. "I thought it was a good lie." Y/N heard him say to Kie. Pope nodded and Kie just smiled and shook her head."I did expect more JJ not going to lie to you." Y/N hissed from across the room- trying to provoke him.JJ smirked back and was just about to reply-"She's back" whispered Pope and he and Kie slipped away."So, I, Uh... I talked to my boss." She shuffled over. "And?" JJ looked up. Everyone's eyes were on them."And, Uh, this is what I can do." She pushed 50K across the table. JJ raised his eyebrow... (A/N: swoon 🥵) "fifty thousand?" He stared at her as if she was joking. "You think I walked in here not know in' the spot price? Ma'am I know for a face that this is worth 140, at least.""Well sweetie your in a pawn shop. This ain't Zurich.Do I look Swiss to you?" JJ lent down and itched his forehead. "Ninety. Or I walk." "Seventy. Half price... and, Um..." she lent towards him, "I don't ask questions about where you got this."

JJ looked to John B, who was leaving on a table nearby and biting his thumb. He nodded. JJ bit the inside of his lip. "I'm gunna need that in large denominations please."Y/N was surprised at hearing such a big word come out of his mouth. The Pogues smiled at one another from random spots of the shop.The lady looked at them all. "Well here's the snag. I don't have that much denominated. Not here anyway. I can write you a cashiers check.""Cash. No ma'am I want the cold hard." He replied.The lady squinted at him."It is what the sign says Ma'am" Y/N pointed at the sign, 'Cash for Gold'She sighed. "Well, I have to send you to the warehouse. I have the money there. Is that alright?"JJ narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment. "Where is this warehouse?"

Y/N patted JJ's back once they all rolled into the car. She sat in his lap and he had the face of a child in his first sweet shop."You did good!" Kie said."I know. I'm kinda good at this is guess..." he brushed the hair from his face and looked smug."So..." Pope looked out the window of the van. "They keep money out here?" They drove past an old, worn out, tired looking shack."That's what she said." JJ chuckled."Stop." Pope snapped."I've never heard of resurrection drive." Sarah said from the passenger seat."Cause your rich." JJ sneered.John B cut him off "I've never heard of it either." - saving JJ a bollocking from Kie for being rude.Kie looked through a woods near to where they were supposed to turn off. "There's nothing but weeds back there.""You don't think..." Y/N furrowed her brow."All right, just cause it's just weeds doesn't means it's  like-" JJ stuttered.

A siren whooped from behind them."Cops?! Out here?" Pope looked out the widow behind them."God! Are you kidding me!" Y/N took the gold JJ was fiddling with and wrapped it up, stuffing it under a chair."What did we do?" Sarah said, pissed."Why are we getting pulled over..." John B mumbled."Chill guys-" Kie spoke, everyone stopping fussing."I hate cops." JJ said."Did you bring the gun?" John B said to him."No. Okay?""Shit I knew we forgot something." Y/N sighed."Everyone told us to leave it behind remember?" JJ replied."But we chose today to listen! Damn it." Y/N raised her voice.Pope looked at them wide eyed, "what you usually have it?!""Well we try to! Because of shit like this!" Y/N retorted."Thank god its not here or we'd be in more trouble! Please-" kie looked at JJ, "everything else in your bag better be legal."Y/N and JJ stared at each other.Y/N slowly pushed it under the chair."Oh god!" Kie threw her hands up.Pope went forwards to help her arrange the pillows over it."How much weed do you have on you bro?" Kie scolded.Pope saw the man approaching them from the cop car, "He's walking up!" "Sir-" John B went to turn to the officer.But was met with the barrel of a shotgun. The man cocked it. No one said a word.He had a skull balaclava in and Sarah thought he looked very familiar.

"Why don't I go ahead and see them hands in the air." He demanded. They all slowly moved their hands."All y'all hands up in the air now!" He shouted. They obliged."You! Out of the car! Let's go!" He pointed the gun to John B. He slowly got out of the car, leaving the Pogues watch in horror and fear."Out of the car! Let's go! Hurry!" He ushered him. "Let them out!" The man pointed at the side door. John B slowly walked over, "What you waitin' on?! What are you waitin' on?! Let them out!" The man shook the gun.John B pulled open the door. Sarah whimpered as they slowly stood up."Come on! Come on! Let's get out the car! Now!" The man shook the shotgun again. Sarah climbed out first and he said "there you go, pretty girl. Here we go! Hurry up! Get out the car! Now let's go!""We're broke-" JJ began- climbing out last."Shut the hell up!!!" The man shouted- pushing his gun towards JJ's chest."Alright relax!" Y/N jumped forwards- still with her hands up."Chill!" Pope said."I'll blow your damn head off!" He pushed the Barrel onto JJ's head as he tried to back away. "Lay down in the ditch! Lay down in the ditch! On your goddamn hands and knees! Down!" The Pogues lowered themselves down and sat in the ditch."Put your face in the ground!!" He yelled again.He shoved Kie's head "stay here just like that! Put your head down! Don't let me see you look up! Alright?!" And he made his way towards the van.They felt themselves start to shake with fear and adrenaline.

Kie began to sniff and John B went closer to her to try and comfort her. Y/N grinded her teeth and Pope bit his lip while JJ watched the man walk towards the gold."Wait until he turns around." Y/N whispered."No Y/N don-" Kie hissed."Shut up!" The man growled. He began to ransack the van. Ripping open the gloveboxes and tearing through seat pockets. "It's a set up guys..." Kie said- her voice shaky."That old bat shanked us." JJ said angrily."Argh fuck!" Y/N slammed her hands into the floor- the force made her head ache. There was a silence. Y/N stood up. John B watched her and followed her towards the van."Guys..." Sarah whimpered, Tears on her cheeks."Get down!" Pope snapped."Don't be a hero." Kie hissed at them. Sarah tried to hold John B down but Y/N beckoned him over and he followed. Sarah glared at her, "Y/N!"Y/N dragged a finger along her lips and went towards the van. She signaled John B to go into the man's car- he already knew what to look for. Y/N pressed her body along the side of the car and waited.JJ saw the man rip up a chair and find the gold. He smiled wide and stared at it. JJ's gut sank.

John B meanwhile was rummaging in his car. He ripped out the keys from the ignition. Y/N ducked down as the man came out of the van. He didn't see her beside the van or John B, hiding in the passenger seat."Y'all stay just like that.... unless you want your brains blown out all over this road." He hurried to his car. Y/N grabbed him and shoved him into the car, falling in alongside him as the door shut. A shot rang out- bursting her ears and John B's. John B elbowed him in the head. The man's attention was drawn to John B as Y/N pulled the gun from his grip and flew back against the door. "Guys I've got the gun!" She pulled the door open and fell out. JJ was the first over, followed by Kie, Sarah then Pope. The man punched John B in the back and then went for JJ. Y/N used this as chance to smash the gun handle into his head. Pope grabbed the gold from the car as the man fell down before Sarah's feet. She stepped back and Kie pulled her away. The man tried to grab her- barely missing Kie's leg. Kie pushed up against the man , placing his head between the open car door. and Y/N grabbed it, pounding his head between it. Pope kicked him in the chest and he grunted and fell back."You son of a bitch!" Sarah hissed.

JJ pulled down the man's balaclava, "I know this piece of shit!" He yelled, pointing at his panting, bloody face. "He's a basehead.""Probably knows my brother." Sarah remembered him at a party once."Sells coke to my dad." JJ lunged forwards and while Barry tried to scream his apologies. JJ hit him hard in the gut with the gun."JJ!" Kie went forward to stop him but Y/N gently held her back."Chill man!" Pope said.John B pulled him away and he threw the shotgun to Y/N who pointed it at Barry's head. "Why."He coughed."Why?!" She yelled."She-" he gasped for air, "she said- the gol.... money- 140k" he started coughing."Y/N stop!" Sarah protested."Y/N he's had enough." Pope pulled her shoulder back. She dropped the gun and yanked him up right, taking out his ID and giving it to JJ. She lifted his head one last time and smacked it into the car. "Piece of shit." She spat.

John B went to take the ID from JJ but he pushed him off, "we've got one last stop." he walked quickly to the van."Hey!" John B said after him."Let's go see where this son of a bitch lives."Barry cursed under his breath."I'm gonna remember this shit!" Barry screamed at them."Fuck off!" Y/N gave him the finger and got into the van next to JJ."You're gonna see me again! I know exactly who y'all are!"John B threw Barry's car keys into the woods and jumped into the van beside Sarah. The engine started and they drove away.

Barry lived in a shit hole. It was rusty and leaking- paint dripping, rats in the floor and trash in the garden. Half of the motorhome was overtaken with shrubbery and moss. Probably some mould too."Welcome to crackhead wasteland." Sarah rolled her eyes.Pope shook his head, "I don't know about this man..."John B punched himself in the head a few times, why did he let JJ drive? "Dude why are we here?""He never paid us..." Y/N said."Oh no. No no no no." Kie leant over the seats "we are not stealing from a drug dealer.""This'll only take a second." JJ got out."Where are you going?!" John B called to him."Yo soy justicia." He replied and disappeared into the house. John B went to chase after him but Y/N flicked the 'lock all doors' switch. John B shouted in frustration "Why do you always defend him!" John B shouted."I don't.""Yes you do! The last thing we need is another fucking JJ!""Seriously?! Even after all the times I've saved your fucking ass?!"John B didn't reply. Y/N turned around."Just explain wh-" John B began."I'm in love with him okay?!" Y/N exploded. "I love him.." he voice softened nearer the end. "We're always on the same side. Because no one is ever in his corner. No one. He needs this more than any of you know."No one said anything else.

"Someone should probably go after him anyway..." Kie whispered."Yeah alright." Y/N sighed and unlocked the door. "I got it..." John B walked over to the front door and disappeared inside."Why'd you unlock the doors so easily after all that?" Pope asked."Kie said I should. Besides he's calmed down a bit now."Kie was surprised but weirdly flattered.

It didn't take long for the Pogues to hear a bash and someone yell, "you watch your mouth man!"He used that tone of voice... Y/N assumed John B brought his dad into this. "Fucking John B.""Not everything is his fault!" Sarah snapped."He's not a saint Sarah..." mumbled Y/N"He's Better than JJ." Kie jumped forwards and grabbed Y/N mid lunge. She pushed her off... "Sorry. Sorry...." Y/N groaned and turned away. Running a hand through her hair, pulling the door open."Y/N stay here." Kie said sternly.Y/N spun to look at her, "why?!""I'll look out for him okay? Please stay and calm down." Y/N sunk back into the chair.

Everyone else jumped out, Kie went to the door with Pope and Y/N sulked at the van with Sarah standing a bit away."We're looking at five grand each for reparations for putting us through that bullshit." JJ said as he emerged. Kie and Pipe followed him as he rummaged in a duffle bag, "sorry about that y'all." He threw a stack at Y/N and she flicked through it."So that's what we're doing now? We're robbing drug dealers?!" Kie called at JJ. Sarah looked down, she was thinking the same thing. "Barry will find out."Pope agreed, "he'll come after us. This isn't the time to go wildin' out."JJ raised his voice "How'd you like having a gun pulled on you?" "Relax." John B walked at JJ and pushed him gently away from the scene."He had it right here on you bro." He pointed between John B's eyes."We just gotta get the gold okay. Just give me that shit. We're putting it ba-" he went to take the duffle bag but JJ shoved him against the van and pinned him there. Y/N was leaning on the side of the van next to them and jumped.

"You feel like a tough guy huh?! What are you going to do when he comes for us?" John B asked."We have a gun John B..." Y/N reasoned."I'm gunna punch him in the throat and shoot his brains out." JJ spat.Y/N looked up at him, her worried eyes falling upon two blind with rage."Yeah good fucking idea JJ." The other Pogues gathered around- not knowing what to do."I'm not putting it back." JJ picked up the bag and got into the back of van. Everyone looked at him."Are you guys getting in or what?" He demanded.He glared at his friend and grinded his teeth. John B held Y/N's wrist.JJ breathed heavily and got out the van again. "What.""We're sick of your shit." John B slowly walked over to him. Y/N opened her mouth, "zip it." John B pointed at her."Oh my shit?!" JJ scoffed. The others looked down awkwardly."Yeah..." kie said.John B nodded. "Yeah. Yeah your shit.""Your 'pulling guns on people' shit." Kie furrowed her brow."You acting like a maniac-" Pope began."He took the fall for you bro..." Y/N said."Y/N-" kie warned."No she's right! How much do I owe because of you?!" JJ poked at Pope."I'm gonna pay you back and I didn't ask you to do that!" Pope raised his voice."But I just did pay it back!" JJ shouted back louder, shaking the bag. "Right here. Right now. Without you." He glared at everyone. "You know what? That's exactly what I'm gonna do." He walked away from Pope. "Go off by myself. You coming?" He looked behind him at Y/N.She slowly picked up his bag from the floor and walked after him. "God damn it..." she mumbled, upset."Y/N really? Your going down a bad roa-""...yeah" She said sighing, and went back after JJ who didn't break his stride."Love is blind." Kie said."And in this case- life ruining." Pope sighed as the pair walked away back to JJ's house. They shook their heads and Pope looked like he was about to go after them but John B stopped him, and took him back to the van.

(A/N: well wasn't that heavy! Hope you enjoyed anyway 😂 sorry Y/N is crazy but nvm 😂 that's what I would've wanted to do.Until next time!)