HELPING HAND

Chapter 1

Johnny/ Fan fic character

Inspired by Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez

By Nora Dougall

Summary: Johnny gives a different type of lesson to a different type of victim.

Disclaimer: I am not the creative force behind Johnny or anything else there in; as for Vincent (or "Pain")? He's mine. Back off.

Balancing a paring knife nimbly on his index finger, Johnny awaited patiently in his basement for his latest "pupil" to awaken from his tazer induced coma. He took a minute to study the kid slouched before him, hooked up to his "Radio Shak Torture Buddy," drooling ever so slightly in his oblivious coma. He looked almost exactly the way that Johnny did. He was clad all in black except for the white pin stripe shirt sleeves under his "Grateful Bread" t-shirt. He wore the same pants, the same boots, and the same mop of greasy black hair. They were both rail thin with the same liquid paper skin tone. Virtually the only thing that made them different, in appearance anyways, were the smears of black eye shadow circled around the young man's eyes and the puddle of lipstick painted on his lips, black of course. Somewhere in Johnny's mind, he was profoundly disturbed. Yet on the surface, he couldn't help but smother a slight chuckle.

All at once, as if reacting to this quiet laughter, the young man began showing signs of life. And at this, Johnny prepared to greet his student.