Chapter 36 - [BT] Collaborating on Charlotte!

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After finishing telling Johnny what happened yesterday we just sat on top of my broken down Audi R8 in silence, well Johnny was sat in silence and I was just looking at him wondering what he's thinking and if he's gonna point out that what I did was idiotic and stupid but I probably deserve it as an old man is in hospital with his fate unknown because of me. I continue to just sit there in silence and look at his face for a clue to what he's thinking before I can't take the silence any longer and go to speak, let me tell you it's weird when a guy like Johnny whose a.s.s is so far up his own arse he can see his own heart is just sitting there silent and it's just unnatural and abnormal for a guy like him.

"I know what you're thinking, I interfered and I ended up putting that old man in hospital right? I did the wrong thing as the carjacker could have been just using his gun to threaten Mr Parker and because I tackled him he ended up firing his gun and shooting the old man. I f.u.c.k.e.d up didn't I? I shouldn't ha-" I start to have a word vomit and I just can't stop till Johnny interrupts me. "NO! What you did was the right thing to do and you shouldn't think any different, because of you that old man has the chance to live and we don't know if he would have had that if you didn't interfere. You probably don't know who I am on account of not freakin' out when you met me but let me tell you that that means a lot coming from me as I am a member of The Fantastic Four, the one and only Terrific To-"

This time I interrupt him in the middle of his speech. "I know who you are volcano breath and I'm not gonna treat you any different because of it, I mean what did you expect me to do when I met you? Get down on my hands and knees and start kissing your feet? Talk about being full of yourself, you need to get that sorted out soon or people are gonna start comparing you to Tony Stark with the massive ego that sits atop your shoulders." I tell him, mainly because he has just got in my good book for saying that and I would rather he didn't become such a douche in the future and maybe I could help him with that. "Hey I ain't as bad as Tony Stark, though I wouldn't mind having all his cash or cars, man does that guy have some nice cars. And I don't expect anyone to kiss my feet or anything, maybe just a 'You're doing a great job man, keep it up' from the guys and maybe a smooch on the cheek from the girls but that's it I swear. Do I really come off as that much of a douche?"

I pat him on the shoulder. "Nah man I'm just messin with ya, though you do kinda come off as a douche but I can tell that you're a genuine guy underneath all that doucheyness,even if it is quite a lot of douche to dig through before you find that great genuine guy. What you just said to me proves that there's a heart in there somewhere and I really appreciate what you said, it means a lot to me and I guess I just needed to hear that. All this mushy stuff isn't good for my heart so can we get back to talking about the car? How long till its fixed and can you improve on it, money isn't an issue of that you can be assured. I am willing to spend as much as I need to get this baby repaired and even improved upon, Chantelle(that's right, every good car deserves a name and mines Chantelle) deserves at least that much." I no longer want to get this mushy with a guy I just met so I change the topic of the conversation back to my car.

Johnny coughs a little to rid himself of some of his embarrassment before he gets down to brass tax. "Yeah, so money isn't an issue and you want to get 'Chantelle' fully repaired and then fully knitted out on top of that?" He finishes in question to which I just give a firm nod, I need to make it up to Chantelle for treating her so bad. "Well we can do that but it's gonna take a few weeks to get it finished and we're gonna have to keep ringing you up to find out what you want done on it but yeah that should be fine, anything else you want?" He questions and there is something I want, me an Johnny just had a heart to heart but that's not enough to to gain access to the Baxter Building so what I'm about to ask next should help on that front. "Yeah, I was wondering if I could come by and help work on the car with you , I'll still pay full price it's just that I want to be involved in the process of bringing my girl back to full health and I don't have much else to do these days so I thought it would be fun."

Johnny just quirks his eyebrow a little before asking me. "Are you sure? Don't you have a job or university to go to? I mean I don't mind I always work on my own car so I can get why you would want to work on your own car but are you sure you want to come down here everyday and get your hands greasy working on it? It's gonna be a lotta hard work and you goths be prepared to do it everyday." I give Johnny a thumbs up and a bright smile(Naruto mode: Believe It!). Don't worry I'm prepared to do the graft and I'm making money every second as I own some stakes in some businesses so I have a lot of spare time, I'm ready to help bring my baby back to the peak of perfection and I wanna be part of the process!" Johnny smiles back at me like he understands, we both love cars and this is something I can use to befriend Johnny.

Johnny jumps up from his sitting position on my car and pats me on the back. "Alright man, come back here tomorrow at 9 in the morning and we'll get started, we will work from 9 till around 3 each time we do but be warned that we won't be able to work on the car everyday or for the same amount of time, I still have the hero thing to do after all and the hours can be quite sporadic, it's pretty much an all the time job so I'll have to cut the session short sometimes. Anyway I'll se you tomorrow okay, I'm going to go talk to Chloe again and see if there's anything still there to salvage, see ya later Nicky boy!" And he just walk away back to his man whoring ways,my key to the Baxter building is in this garage but that can wait for another day.

Right now I've got somewhere to be, specifically the New York Presbyterian Hospital. It's time I checked up on Ben and the rest of the Parker family and hopefully everything will be alright there.. Though somehow I doubt it will be...

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<AN> I now have a Pa treon up and running and their are already some chapters on there, please take a look. Some support from you guys would be appreciated and motivate me.

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