May_39898
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I see a spark in the making by May_39898 for stupidthingsgoodoutcomes
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
25 Dec 2025
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They watch a Christmas movie JJ’s never seen before, the kind with way too much snow, actors who look like they’ve never been cold a day in their lives, and a happy ending you can clock from a million miles away. When it gets late, Big John glances toward the window, where rain has started tapping hard against the glass. JJ follows his gaze and thinks, Hopefully snow later. Not for the magic of it—he’s learned better than that—but so he can pack a handful (probably more) down John B’s shirt and make him squeal like a wounded seagull.
“You staying over?” Big John asks, voice rough but casual, like it’s no bigger a deal than when he asked JJ earlier if he wanted seconds.
Or, in other words, this is my Secret Santa prompt for the beloved Stupidthingsgoodoutcomes, where JJ learns throughout the years that Christmas belongs to the people who care enough to stay; and yes, very goofy, very co-dependent Jaybe energy coming right at you!
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A collection of snippets capturing JJ and John B’s friendship!
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- Part 9 of Home Was Never a Place
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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.
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He still didn’t totally get why he cared so much—why he kept looking for signs JJ was okay. But maybe he did know. Because no one deserved to come home to the kind of shit JJ did.
Not even a guy he barely knew.
So he knocked.
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John B, newly evicted and lonelier than he wants to admit, moves into 2A—right next door to JJ Maybank in 2B, a classmate he barely knows. But thin walls and the angry voice of JJ’s father, Luke, make it harder and harder to pretend he doesn’t hear what’s really going on—and even harder to stay a stranger.
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John B’s always noticed JJ’s firsts—the quiet ones no one else sees. The first time he told the truth without flinching. The first time he reached out, not because he was in pain, but because he wanted to. They’re small things, easy to miss. But to John B, they mean everything. Because each one is JJ letting himself be known. Letting himself be loved.
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Years later, John B writes those first down—the quiet turning points that made them who they are now.
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- Part 11 of Home Was Never a Place
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She slowed her breathing and searched her mind for a recent memory. Anything at all that might give her some kind of clue.
She remembered driving out to Salton Sea. She remembered a body in the desert, and a small diner off the highway. She remembered calling Grace, fighting with Jane, driving back to Sacramento alone.
Awareness hit her like a bolt of lightning, and her eyes shot open. The brightness in the room sent a white hot stab of pain through her skull but Lisbon did not close her eyes again. She darted her gaze around and found herself not in her bedroom, but in a brightly lit hospital room with daylight spilling through the half-open blinds, sunbeams pouring over the foot of the bed. The beeping came from a monitor which she was strapped to, the pace of which had increased dramatically in the last ten seconds. She looked down to find herself dressed in a hospital gown and half covered in a scratchy blanket.
The distress call. The dilapidated old house. Partridge. Red John.
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02 May 2026
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Tag for 2x03, Red Badge. It didn't sit well with him, leaving just like that. She'd asked it of him, true, but since when had he ever simply obeyed unless it suited him?
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01 May 2026
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"I need to see her," Jane begs.
For once in his life, he is at their mercy, flayed and naked, his heart at their feet. He's never, in all his years at the CBl, pleaded without a motive. But she is–was what kept him honest. His guiding North Star.
"Please, I want – I need to be with her."
One last time.
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01 May 2026
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They fall back into their comfortable silence, and she feels herself grow drowsy too. Her office becomes a bit fuzzier, and he seems warmer, closer and there. Sometimes, she thinks she should say something, say something beyond their platonic orbit. She could fall apart right here, spill the words that batter throughout her skull from time to time. But she’s tired and the world becomes quiet and she should go.
(She doesn’t).
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30 Apr 2026
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When Teresa Lisbon joins the CBI, practically everything she's ever wished for falls on her plate: an excellent career, a new love and the like. Things start to unravel when she slowly, but surely, discovers that her new husband is the famous serial killer, Red John. Will she forgive him, or does she have to rely on Patrick Jane to help her out of one of the biggest messes she's ever found herself in?
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27 Apr 2026