"___?" Johnny asked. His body felt stiffer than a wooden bored and his eyes were almost frozen together but he knew the back of your head anywhere.

You looked up from your work bench at the sound of your name,"Johnny?! Is that really you?!" You lifted the goggles off your eyes, you never thought you'd see him again!

He never thought he'd see you either,the last him he saw you was after he'd gotten shot.

"As much as I enjoy a touching reunion!" Gyro said,tossing Johnny up higher onto his back,"but this asshole is getting real heavy and I can't feel my fingers so if you dont mind-"

"Oh! Of course!" You got up and turned off your blow torch,"let me go get yall a chair real quick!" You tripped over a few unfinished products  as you opened a small closet door, filled with the jackets and hats of the other workers at your carpenter shop,you pulled out two folding chairs that had the cushion foam falling out and a bunch of bleach stains on it,"this way," you opened the break room door with your head and placed the chairs by the small wooden table.

"Thanks" Gyro dropped his friend down in the chair and flopped down in his own with a sigh,"God everything hurts" the blood from his bullet wound had frozen over but now that he was inside he could feel the blood start to stain his shirt.

"Jesus Johnny,I wanna ask what did you two get yourselves into!" You dug around the small kitchenette for some bowls and some cans of soup you had stored up "but I get the feeling I dont need to know"

"You don't wanna know..." he sighed as finished off the last of the liquor.

Gyro put his head down,most likely tired as hell from everything that had just gone down and Johnny didn't blame him. They'd just lost everything,all in such a short amount of time but he did get to meet you again and that brought a bit of a smile to his face.

He watched you buzz around the room from starting up the fire place, to grabbing some extra blankets and pillows for them to use and back to fixing the soup.

"Thank God for fire," Gyro grinned,sitting a little too close to the fireplace.

"You poor things,here" you placed a warm bowl of hot soup into the Italians hand,"and I got some jerky in the cabinet,just gimme a sec" you started digging around for the dried food.

"Thanks,___,you really saved our asses" Johnny sighed, the warm soup felt like heaven in his mouth.

"Yeah,I couldn't feel my fingers and-" you cut Gyro off by you yelling into the hallway.

"MASON! MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE UO THE SHOP FOR ME! I GOT VERY IMPORTANT GUEST!!!" The yelling made his ears ring a bit,"sorry about that,You were saying?"

"Nothing,just greatful for some heat" he went back to his food leaving you two to sit in silence at the table.

"...so,is this your father's work shop or what?" He wanted to smash his head into the ground,really? He hadn't seen you in how long and thats all he could come up with?!

"Nawh,pawpaw passed on a few months ago,doctors say all that coal dust from when He was younger finally caught up too'em"

Now he really wanted to bash his head into the ground," I'm sorry...I know how much he ment to you" unlike his father yours, Mr.Michell or Mitch as he demand everyone call him; was a loving man. When you two were growing up together at Johnnys home the blond often ranted to you about how he wished Mitchell was father instead.

"Nawh its all good, you know what the doctors said? They told me pawpaw should'a died years ago! He was stubborn old fart" you laughed,knowing he was in a better place," but I do still miss'em....you know before he passed on he asked about yah"

Now that was a surprise,he thought for sure Mitchell would have hated him after how he treated you,he hated himself about how he treated you,"oh...what he say?"

"He said 'I really hope lil Jojo finds his way, ___,make sure if you ever see'em again that you give'em a good smack for me!' So thats what Im'a do" you leaned over and smacked him hard in the back of the head," now Pawpaw can rest easy!" You grinned at the racer but saw how he didn't return it,"whats wrong flapjack?" His old nickname slipped out from your tongue,"hey? Its ok pancake,just keep your chin up and everything'ell be fine"

He chuckled at that,"I don't understand how you ever put up with me,___, even today I still don't"

You furrowed your eyebrows,very confused,"I'm not sure I follow you Flapjack"

He laughed again,"even now, even now still! You treat me with such kindness that I- I cant even find the words to-" he sighed and held his head in his hands,"___,do you remember? Way back when we were still kids at the time,getting into all sorts of mischief together..."

"Keep your chin up" thats what he told you one day as you were fixing a wooden post bar of the horse track. The darn thing just wouldn't stay up! No matter how hard you tried to get the nail to go in! "You're trying so hard,take a break for minute yeah?"

"I will as soon as get this flipping-" the nail broke off again, "STUPID WOOD!" you yelled,frustrated as hell!

"Hey! Come on! Let's go play upstairs in my room! We can be as loud as we want cause dads out here watching Nicolas practice!" He tugged on your arm.

"Fineeee, PAWPAW! DONT TOUCH THAT FENCE POST CAUSE IM GUNNA BE THE ONE TO FIX IT!" you yelled,drawing everyones attention to you. Your father gave a thumbs up,"ok now lets go!"

"How do you yell that loud?" Johnny could feel his ears ringing.

"It wasn't that loud," you grabbed his hand,"come on! Let's go play 'destory build destory!' " His eyes lit up at that, he loved playing 'destory build destory!'

"I want to be the monster this time!"

"Wah? No fair you were the monster last time!" You gawked as Johnny pulled the door open for you.

"No way! It was you last time! Besides you love building stuff!" He countered as you both raced up the stairs two at a time and busted into the young riders bedroom.

Inside where lots and lots of wooden blocks scattered about and the two of you immediately got to building,it took no time at all for you to build a massive city made of smooth,wooden blocks,"ok I think im done!"

"Woahhhh! They're so tall! They always fall when I try and Build them that tall!" He put on a paper mask on his head and put on his 'scary' voice,"Well look at this lovely city! I think it needs some redecorating! Bawh ha ha!" He said from his bed,trying to look menacing.

"Oh no! Not my block city! Help! Someone please help! The evil pancake monster is gunna destroy it!" You cried out.

"Oh no! Not the Johnny monster!" A new voice cried out. Nicolas stepped into the room,taking his boots off as he fell to his knees," what should we do,___?!"

"You have to stop him big brother pancake!"

"No one can stop me! I am way to strong for you human!" He jumped down from the bed and knocked over some blocks.

"Not on my watch!" Nicolas scooped up his younger brother,"surrender villain!"

"Never! __! Help me!"

You stood up and 'attacked' the older man,"I'll save you! Take that!" You playfully 'punched' him in the gut.

"Ohh! Ah!" He pretended to be hurt, "I'll never be defeated by you,little handy lass!" He then scooped you up too and started spinning you both around till you were all dizzy.

"Woahhh!" After Nicolas had put you both down you both tried walking only to walk right into each other and knock all the blocks down.

"Ha ha! Once again! Justice prevails!" He laughed sitting down next you two.

"Lets do it again!" You yelled,sitting up still a bit dizzy.

"Y-yeah! This time we can be the heros and-" Johnny was cut off by his fathers irrated voice.

"Nicolas! The press is here! Where are you!? Ni-ah there you are!" The oldest Joestar stood in the doorway,"I told you that you need to get ready! What the bloody hell are you doing in here!?"

"Nothing father we were just-" George cut his older son off.

"Never mind that just go make youself presentable!" He shooed the older brother out of the room,once gone George looked back at you both," and If I tell you two to stop making all that noise you'll regret it!" And with that he slammed the door close.

"Sometimes I wish your dad was mine,___"

"Me too, Mr.joestar is so mean to us!" You spat, "...you wanna go help me fix that fence?"

"Yeah!" And you two were off again,the bad mood having already washed away

"We were always getting into trouble with my dad back then," Johnny laughed.

"Yup,he was a total stick in the mud!" You laughed with him,"and I see you still have that old benie I gave you that one winter,I can't-wait" you squinted,there were two holes near the top where his pancake colored hair was sticking out of,"Did you seriously never learn how to sew Johnny?!" You knew he hated sewing but you never thought he wouldn't bother to fix the old hat he was wearing! "Give it here,I'll sew it up for yah" you held out her hand.

"What? No way! I like it like this!"

"Pancake, you got holes in your hat!" You reached for it and he put his,now warm hands,on his head and pulled away.

"No! I like it!"

You huffed and shook your head,"I honestly don't know why you still have it,ain't It outta fashion on something?"

"Fashion doesn't matter to me! Well not anymore"

"So then why keep it?" It wasn't the nicest or the warmest of hats.

"Because you gave it to me!" He touched his hat again lovingly,"this and that wheelchair was the only thing anyone had ever done for me since the accident..." Neither of you said anything. That period of Johnny's life was....chaotic at the time," and I know its way too late for this but I'm sorry,like really really sorry!" The memories of how he treated you back then rolled through his mind like film on a white screen.

After his rise to fame people started coming after him, well it was more like his money they were after. And deep down he knew it,he knew they just wanted him for his social status and fame but at the time he was just too scared to admit it.

"-Pancake I'm telling you! You gotta watch youself!" Both of you were having a bit of a spat in his room. This wasn't how your Johnny acted,he was a nice,polite and a respectable young man!

"Would you stop calling me that? I have a girlfriend you know!"

"Girlfriend? Pancake that ain't your 'girlfriend' thats a gold digger and she just hit a full mine," you put away your screw driver, Johnny had asked you to come tighten up his bed frame,"there, good as new!"

"You sure you aren't just jealous?"

"Pancake, I ain't got nothing to be jealous of,you know I love you more than anything else, thats why I'm telling you as your friend to watch what you do and say"

"You aren't my mom,___, get off my back!" He hated being lectured. He wasn't being used! He had a nice group of friend and a hot girlfriend who loved him! Why couldn't you see that!?

"Look,I know you hate lectures-"

"Then stop lecturing me" he pulled out his flask and took a swig. Outside he could see his girl and his friends walking inside the building from the window.

"-cake? Are you even listening to me?"

"Didn't hear a thing" he walked past you to unlock his door.

Now you were starting to lose your temper,"Johnny would you pull your head outta your ass for five minutes and listen to me?!" You'd seen too many people get taken advantage and you weren't going to let that him to Johnny,not on your watch!

"You know im getting real sick of your know- it-all-attitude,___,why can't you just support me!"

"Johnny, You know id never do anything to hurt you,never in a million years not even at gun point but the route your going is a dangerous one....I don't know what it is but I have this awful feeling that something bad is going to happen and fuck- Johnny!" You started to tear up,frustrated that your idiot friend wouldn't listen to you," If anything happened to you I- I don't know what I'd do"

He looked at you, you hardly ever cried but when you did it was always something serious,"H-hey! ___,what are you doing?"

You moved in front of the door and locked it,tears resting on your eyelashes,"Johnny,I know what I'm asking of you seems unfathomable but please,for your safety think about your actions and what you do; look real hard at the people you surround youself with...please? Do it for me?" You held your hand out for him,you wanted him to look you in eyes and promise!

Johnny swallowed,staring at you hard. The usual relaxed look on your face was gone,you were dead serious and to be honest,it scared him a bit,"___,whats gotten into you?" He couldnt take that determined look in your eyes,it felt like you were looking straight into his soul!

"Johnny you-"

You were interrupt by hard knocking at the door,"hey Johnny! Come on already! We have a party to go too!"

"Well?" You raised your hand higher.

Johnny swallowed and raised his hand reaching twords you and for a moment you had hope! Hope that what you'd said had somehow gotten through that thick skull of his only for Johnny to gently move you to the side and open the door.

"Hey dollFace,sorry about that, the party is in a few hours right?"

"Yeah Jojo! Come on lets go already!"

"We have to be sure we look good!"

"Hey,Jojo whos that?" The woman on his arm asked,looking dead at you.

"She came by to fix the bed frame, lets get going before we're late" he didn't looked back at you as he closed the bed room door behind himself. Leaving you,with your hand still out,alone.

And from there It all went down hill.

A few weeks later you both we're pigging out on sweet apple,blueberry,raspberry and every other kind of berry you could imagine flavored scones.You were still a bit crossed with him for ignoring you but men will be men so you hoped you could get him to look out for himself more.

"Oh man,its been forever since we've had these!" You swallowed some water after eating about five scones back to back.

"I know,these are amazing!" Johnny hummed,ever since you'd gotten your first payment and he his you both wanted to spend it something memorable and that was food! He enjoyed spending time with you like this,really he did but he couldn't help but notice how different you were from his girlfriend,Mina. While she was all soft sheets, fashion and partys you were all work and all play. His friends often questioned why he hung out with you, instead of other more desirable woman.

'Who in their right mind would want a woman who acts like a man?' Lamal would say outloud,cigarette between his teeth from Johnnys pack.

'Man those are the type of females who just cant get any man so they act like one cause they're too ugly to attract one!' Charles and Lamal laughed and he felt bad for joining in,cause he knew you worked hard because you had no choice but he couldnt say that.

"We need to come'er more often and-hey? Where you go'en?" You asked,he'd suddenly got up and placed the money for the check on the table.

"Sorry,rain check!" He said rushing outside,it tore your heart to bits when you saw him rush across the streets to his 'friends'. You watched with narrow eyes as he handed them each fat wads of money and you grit your teeth. Bunch of god damn gold diggers! How dare they leech of Johnny's success like that?! And Johnny,the blond idiot, how dare he let them!

You wanted to get up and yell at your idiot friend that he was being used! They didn't care for him like you did, they would lead him to his downfall,you could just tell! Sighing to yourself you pulled out your wallet and paied for your portion of the snacks. You'd return his extra cash the next time you saw him....when ever that would be...

Turns out the next time you saw him was a whole five months later. You tried getting his attention several times but he always seemed to be looking away or to busy handing out money to his 'friends'. So next time you saw him,you planned on bringing out all the stops,you didn't care if it embarrassed you or him,he was going to listen to you, you would make sure of it.

When you saw him again he was sitting at that Cafe you both liked to go to but sitting in your spot was another girl,not his girlfriend but someone completely new and-

'What the hell?' There was another girl hanging off his arm! The sight made your gut churn,this wasn't your Johnny, your cute pancake colored hair boy that used to knock down blocks with you and build crappy popsicle stick houses for Danny!

Stepping into the shop you made a beeline for the jocky and stuck your hand into your overall pocket and pulled out his money.

"Pancake!" You saw him visible flinch as the girls at the table looked at you,when he didn't respond you repeated his nickname again,"Pancake I know you hear me,you ain't deaf"

"Jojo who is she?" The brunette asked,leaning on his arm,you couldn't see her face but she was wearing a thigh length black dress.

"Go away lady! He clearly dosent want to talk to you! So beat it!" The other one snipped at you. She was a pretty blond with green eyes wearing stripped spaghetti strap dress,"bitch did you not hear me?" You ignored her and stood at your old table.

"Pan-"

"Lady, I dont know you, so leave me alone before I call security" he didn't look you in the eyes, like he was trying to ignore your very existence. What happened to your sweet Pancake?

"You left your change on the table a few months ago" you placed the money on the table but he still wouldn't look your way. Part of you wanted to yell and shake him till he came back to his senses, a different part of you wanted to kiss him till he was blue in the face and another part of you wanted to beat him upside the head with your wrench but all you did was turn to leave but before you did you said one final thing to him.

"All it takes is for one person to hold on to one end of the jumprope for it to work again" and you left,just as quickly and quietly as you'd come in.

You never expected to see Johnny again after that,you didn't speak to each other for a very long time. He moved from woman to woman while you and your father moved from shop to shop hoping to find a big break and expand his business.

"Baby girl! Guess what?! Yer old man finally found us some good business!" He showed you the new paper. At the top was talk about a nation wide race, a perfect place for the both of you to find work laying tracks!

"Pawpaw that great! You...pawpaw?" He flipped the page and looked horrified,"whats wrong?"

He handed you the paper and you couldn't believe what you saw,Johnny had been shot and was now paralyzed from the waist down.

"God...oh God no!" You started to tear up, you knew Johnny had been disowned, you could feel it! Who was going to pay for his hospital bills?! God where was he going to live?! "Pawpaw?" You sniffed, dropping the paper," what are we gunna do?"

"I cant leave the house right now but here," he handed you the automotive keys,"go fluff up that soggy pancake"

And thats exactly what you did,It didn't take long for you to find the hospital he was staying in.

"Hi I'm here to see panc- I mean Johnny joestar!" You said out of breath,you had to park the car alot father due to park so you ran the rest of the way.

"Im a bit surprised, your the first person to go see him,he's on 5th floor, door 67 hon but he's not in a good-" you'd already taken off up the stairs, "-mood" the lady behind the counter finished.

By the time you reached the fith floor you were gasping for breath as you pushed the door open.

"Ma'am are you alright?!" A doctor asked,clearly worried!

" 'm fine," you wheezed out,"where's Johnny?"

"Right this way," he help you up and guided you to the door," but I must warn you miss,he's in an awful mood," he pushed the door open," he seems to be asleep for now,please let me know when he wakes up"

The doctor closed the door behind you as you slowly crept twords the bed. There he was,peaceful 'asleep' in his bed,you'd snuck into his room enough times to know when he was faking or not.

You didn't know if you wanted to wake him up and scream at him or get in bed and sleep with him so you just decided to pull up a chair and wait till he decided to speak up then you-

"What are you doing here,___?" He asked,he sounded so lost yet mad.

"Why wouldn't I be here pancake?" Did he seriously think you'd wouldn't come?

"I told you to stop calling me that,I'm a grown ass man" he still wouldn't look at you,"get out,or did you come here to say I told you so?"

You grit you teeth and stood up. Grabbing Johnny by the jaw you forced him to look at you,"I came here because I was worried sick about you! You almost gave Pawpaw a heart attack!" You yelled staring into his angry and hurt blue eyes,"Do you really think so little of me Johnny!?"

"Thats not-"

"Do you honestly think I'd ever leave you!? That id ever abandon you?!  I made a promise to you,Nicolas and myself that no matter what I'd always be there for you! And I don't care if your embarrassed to be around me! I love you and there's nothing on this green earth thats going to stop me!"

"Would you give it a rest!? I can't move my legs __! Its over!"

"We dont know that! Anything can happen Johnny! Life is full if strange things! Things are shit right now I know!" You let go his jaw," but that's ok! Its going to be ok! We can figure this out! Toegther! Pawpaw and I just found work for the Steel ball run so you can just come live with us until-"

"I don't need you pity,__!" He snapped,he knew he fucked up! He knew it! He didn't need your pity or anyone's else's!

"This ain't about pity! This is cause I don't want someone I care about getting hurt anymore!" You yelled back,"look,pancake,I gotta get back to the shop but I'll find a way to help you yet" and with that you took your leave.

"Mmm,yeah,I remember that day,you nearly gave me a heart attack too!" You put a hand to your chest.

"I remember you just kept coming and coming no matter what I said, you even brought me the scones we used to eat all the time," he smiled at the memory,feeling a bit better after losing the corpse parts.

"You know I still feel bad about leaving you,I wish I could'a found'a way to stayed wich'a" you remember holding a wheelchair of your own desine under your arms as you pushed past the door to Johnnys room.

"..."

"Look pancake,I know it ain't the best but here," you unfolded the chair and placed it next to the bed,"I know you gotta find youself and all that but if you ever use this chair,I hope you'll think of me,I gotta go,Pawpaw is waiting for me" He didn't say anything as he looked out the hospital window,"...bye"

You sighed,it was better than nothing and left your blond friend alone with his thoughts.

"That was the day you gave me that chair, it lasted me all this time, you wouldn't mind making me a new one would you? Just to see how sharp your skills honed"

You grinned at him,"please,I could do in my sleep," you grabbed your tool belt and goggles ready to start forging again you left the two racers but came back to pop your head in,"I'm really glad I got to see you again Pancake, yall can stay here for the night, I'm sure neither of you have eaten a real meal in'a long time"

Johnny smile,"thanks,___, seriously" when you left the blond jocky turned to stare into the fire. He never thought he'd ever see you again,not after how he treated you,when this was all over he would go and pay his respects to your father.

"Wow,weren't you an asshole?" Gyro said,he didn't know much about Johnnys past but by listening he assumed it was one hell of a ride.

"Shouldn't you be asleep or something?!" He knew very well he had been awful to you.

"Well,at least you apologized, not many men own up to their mistakes...Pancake nyo ho!" He snickered.

"I swear you better not start calling me that Gyro!" Johnny yelled,a bit embarrassed at the nickname.

"Aww what? But it's so cute! Tell me,why did she call you that?" Gyro pestered, he tossed a few more logs into the fireplace.

"None of your god da-"

"Its cause its my favorite food and Johnny is'mah favorite person! Next to pawpaw of course!" You came in with a brand new wheelchair," and cause I remember when he was born he looked like pancake batter! You were such an ugly baby Johnny"

"__! I was not an ugly baby!"

"I believe it"

"Gyro! Oh my God!"

You laughed,"Come on yah ugly baby,get in the chair!" He moved from one chair to the next,"how does it feel?"

"It feels amazing!" He rolled back and forth,smoothly.

"Good,cause I put some snow tiers on'em and there's a few compartments for hold'en stuff! You don't have to pay me but I want you to promise me that you'll come and see me once you and your friend win the race,you hear me?" You held out your hand for him to shake.

"I promise," and he took it,finally after all these years he took your hand in good faith and will. You smiled down at him and tightened your grip on his hand then yanked him up into your arms, "___!"

"Dawh shad up! This is the least you can let me do!" You flopped into the pile of blankets next to Gyro and cuddled the jocky.

"C-come on! ___! I'm a grown man and-"

"Shad up! I ain't seen you in forever,consider this your fee for the food and housing!" You buried your nose into his shoulder and neck.

"Wa- hey! That feels weird!" He flushed,no one had touched him like this in a very,very long time. It was a pure kind of cuddling, one that he hadn't felt in forever and it felt...good.. He missed having this kind of human contact.

"Shh and take a nap"

"Yeah Johnny,take a nap,we could use one," Gyro placed his hat over his face and laid  down on the blankets and pillows.

"I don't need a nap! I'm not 10 anymore ___! ....___?! Hey! Don't you fall asleep on me!"  You still had him straddling your hips! Werent you uncomfortable? But that relaxed look on your face completely debunked his thought,"fine,dont complain to me when you wake up damp cause of my clothing" he gave up and let himself fall asleep on top of you.

You rubbed your hands up and down his back and played and tugged on the baby hairs on the back of his neck which you knew would knock him out immediately.

'Good night pancake,I'll see you in the morning' and you too,eventually nodded off.

A/N this was a request by someone on Tumblr