Stand by me (Jjba X Reader)

Chin held high |Johnny x reader

"___?" 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"