JJ and Pope were pissing behind a tree with a huge sense of urgency because they knew Rafe and Kelce saw them leave their seats in front of the scene. Just as they zip if their flies and leave, JJ turns right into the muscular body of Rafe, who shoves him back a step with ease. JJ stumbles in to Kelce behind him and it's after they see the multiple other kooks that the two pogues realized their cornered.
Their eyes travel towards Pope hungrily, "You proud of what you did Pope? Ruining my property huh? Your dad proud? How 'bout your mom?" Rafe taunts easily, stepping closer to the two until JJ tries to stand between them. Pope reacts first though, slamming his head into Rafe's face with a shout. A sense of pride runs through JJ but he still comments "Dude not your face, like this!" JJ punches one of the kooks straight in the nose. The fight continues for mere moments until Kiara comes around the movie screen, surprised by the scene unraveling in front of her.
JJ is fight two kooks at once as Pope is being easily beaten by one, she decides to help Pope first, using her backpack as a weapon, bashing it into his back. It ends up being useless because someone comes up from behind her and easily picks her up and tosses her to the ground. She lands hardly, she just barely catches a glimpse of her blonde friend getting dragged over to a large tree in a chokehold. JJ tries his best to fight back, throwing punches at the assaulting kids, but it too proves to be in vain because he just keeps getting dragged.
Kiara watches it happen in slow-motion, the two kooks, one of whom she recognizes as Kelce, lift JJ and slam him into the large oak tree. In particular, his head. The blonde goes limp and all struggle is wiped out of him. They slam his head one more before letting him drop bonelessly to the grass.
She cries out and tries to run towards him, but once against she is met by a large wall of muscle that pushes her down. She growls from the floor, deciding to take the logical approach when her bag catches her eye. She takes out a metal lighter and runs to the giant canvas that everyone's eyes were on, also shielding the view of their fight.
"Shit." She mutters to herself as he shaking hands fumble it. She had to hurry up because now all of the kooks were advancing onto Pope, telling him insults and threats.
It takes a couple tries in the harsh wind but once it catches, the canvas goes up in flames easily. She takes a large step back before turning back around towards where she assumed Pope was currently getting beat up. What she didn't expect, but she's not complaining, was for the kooks eyes to grow wide and then scurry away. The pogues are left in the dust, or flames if you will. Pope struggles awkwardly to help himself up, Kiara stopping by his side for a short moment for crashing her knees into the floor next to JJ.
His eyes are slightly open, glassy orbs shining as the harsh flames behind them reflect off of his iris's. He seems to be awake though because he too was struggling to sit himself up, uncoordinated hands scrambling uselessly before he collapses with a wince.
"Shit Jay..." Pope murmurs, wiping the blond hair away from his friend's sweaty forehead. There's no response.
"Pope we have to leave before the cops come." Kiara observes everyone running away and multiple sirens could be heard in the distance. "I know I know just..." Pope trails off, staring at his limp friend beneath him.
"JJ can you hear me man?" He asks gently but still receives no response. "We have to go man." There's a groan of what they take as aknowledgment and JJ's eyes roll listlessly to the back of his head before returning and squeezing shut.
Within a minute they have JJ fastened over their shoulder and his limp legs drag behind them on the dirty ground. Kiara has to stop and adjust her grip on him at one point, to which he moans at. "I know Jay." Sympathy lacing her tone. "Just a bit further, stay awake man."
They manage to make their way to the beach a little bit further away from the still burning fire, they had arrived their via HMS Pogue, so the boat was still pulled up onto the shore there.
The two of them gently lay JJ across the metal flooring of the boat, Kiara is left in charge of making it comfortable. She folds a spare hoodie from under a bench and put in under his head to resemble a pillow. Pope huffs as he shoves the boat into the water and hops on. He tries not to rock the boat much but it's close to impossible.
They make their wake back to Chateau, unsure if John B would be there.
JJ is still in his state of near unconsciousness when they pull the boat to a stop by the familiar house's dock. "JJ you hear me? We're at the Chateau but you wanna help us get you inside?" Kiara says worriedly.
JJ's open agains slowly, looking past them but giving the first verbal response of the night other than the occasional grunts and groans he'd been giving. "m'tired...restin' m'eyes." His voice slurs drunkenly, making Pope wince for him.
"I know man but we've gotta get you inside." Pope rests a hand on JJ's shoulder, hoping to give JJ the message that he'd help him up.
"m'kay." JJ murmurs, his lips barely move as he speaks, but he makes no attempt to get up.
Kiara and Pope eye each other with fear for their friend, would they need to take him to the hospital? This wasn't normal JJ behavior for when he had a concussion, which he's had many in their presence.
The two of them help JJ to a sitting position but aren't surprised when his eyes starts spinning around in his head and his starts to fall backwards again.
JJ sees his vision get obstructed by the black dots the flow into his peripherals. He thinks he falling? Maybe? But to be honest he can't actually tell what's happening. It's like he's living in a dream, his brain was wading through thick syrup and he couldn't think straight. It was an odd and disconnected feeling that he couldn't' even begin to describe. He hears his friend's requests to sit up and he thought that he had, only realized he didn't even move when the two friends above him pushed him up.
They struggled to actually get JJ off the wobbling boat but after that, it was easy to drag him through the torn screen door and place him onto the couch. "JB?" Kiara shouts. "You here?" She searches the house but it seemed unlikely because she received no response.
"I don't think he's here." Pope replies as Kiara wonders back into the room. Pope had his hands rubbing against JJ's scalp in order to find the massive bump beneath the skin. He finds it relatively quickly when he presses on a swollen spot that protrudes from his head near the base of his skull. JJ gasps in pain when Pope presses into it accidentally, his hand forms a fist against Pope's quad beneath him as his back arches for moment during that quick burst of pain.. "Shit." is heard.
Pope nods understandingly. "You need anything?" He asks gently. "Do you have a headache?"
JJ gives a thumbs up to the seconds question, afraid to nod with the pounding behind his eyes and pulsing from the back of his head. Kiara sees this from where she had been standing near the coffee table a couple feet away, she silently leaves to check the bathroom for some time of medication like Tylenol. Happily to find one, she grabs a pill from a nearly empty bottle and fills a glass of water.
JJ winces as he swallows both the liquid and pill. But glances at Kie in order to give his thanks. "Pope?" It's quiet, almost missed by both.
"Yeah buddy? I'm right here." Pope murmurs, giving JJ's wrist a squeeze.
JJ smiles as his eyes fall shut, he drags them back open to make eye contact. "You 'kay?" Pope snorts out a laugh, along with Kie, before responding.
Despite the occasional bruise littering Pope's face and throat, he isn't lying at all when he says "Yeah man I'm okay, it's you I'm worried about." JJ answers with a tired grin, and he genuinely looks happy and more relaxed than Kiara and Pope had ever seen him.
Kiara steps closer "Go to sleep Jay." She plays with his fingers lovingly but JJ doesn't react, neither does Pope. "We'll wake you up in an hour." Pope says with a chuckle.
It doesn't take long for the blond's eyes to slip shut and him to relax into the cushion he had been laid on, Pope stands up and backs up a step, letting Kiara sit with JJ quietly while leaning her head onto his chest to listen to his soft breathing.