Shame On The Night

"Diego... why'd you ask me to come out here? Why to this pond? Why with Slow Dancer and Silver Bullet, why not Switchfoot and All Shook Up or any of the other younger horses?"
He means for it to just be one question, but they all tumble out at once, verbally tripping over one another in his rush to escape the uncomfortable quiet.
"Why did you call me Jojo?"

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some quick notes on this nextgen timeline/everybody lives au:
+post-SBR johnny, gyro, and hot pants move onto a ranch together
+moses was found by hot pants abandoned in a river and adopted her, diego is her father figure but he and hot pants aren't and have never been romantically involved
+diego adopted four boys off the street while in england at this time (those four being the sbr universe equivalent of giorno, donatello, ungalo, and rikiel)
+vadim and zemfira are baba yaga and his daughter