AN: I've been on huge techno binge lately. I'm such a weirdo! No wonder I have no boyfriend! Jesus! Anywho...I don't know how much Johnny we get to see from here on in, it's a lot of Jhonen – Alice type stuff but Johnny gets mentioned a lot...etc...You get the idea. He's there in spirit lol ok so here we go...any ideas from here on in would be great but I've been working on this for a while I'd like to limit the story to 10 chapters, it's original, Summer Colors, wasn't even this long. This chapters kind of short, though. Sorry guys. Please, please, please give me some inspiration for this. I am SO stuck! PLEASE!

Chapter Eight: A Serious Explanation:

Jhonen took Alice to the couch, trembling. How on Earth could there be an explanation for anything that went on here? A rational one, at least. There wasn't, there just was no way to explain it all away.

She sat, facing him, and he facing her. He took his glasses off, and rubbed his face.

"Alright. I'm going to try to go through the sequence of events briefly." He said.

"Then we can continue our conversation from before?" she said, "I'd love to know what this is all about, but I'm just as interested in the previous topic of conversation."

"Dammit."

She giggled. "Did you think you'd get away with it?"

"Kind of." He said, half smiling, "Ok. Let's go. As you may or may not know, I was a pretty lonely dude before."

"I got that impression." She said, smirking.

He squinted his dark eyes at her, and raised an eyebrow. "ANYWAY, I guess "God" didn't like that, so a little 'angel' thing was sent down to my head into a dimension of freaked out I've never experienced before, EVER. But before he came into play, I fell asleep, and woke up at Nny's."

"...You...Woke up at Nny's?" she asked, blinking. She wasn't completely sure she heard that right, or if she took it right.

"Yes. I woke up, and he gave me my glasses back. He'd taken them off my face. We went out for Brain Freezy's, and I met this girl..." he said, pausing and glancing up at her to see her reaction. She seemed unaffected, which kind of hurt. One would think she'd be more interested in his past love life. "And Johnny killed her, and I flipped out and fell asleep again and woke up back here. And there was this voice that just kept saying go to the mall. And as much as I hate the mall, I couldn't disobey. And it led me to you."

There was a sort of long, awkward silence that they weren't used to. She asked a few small questions, and stared into space while he filled in the details. Then more silence.

"...Alice?" he whispered. It was hushed in the room, he was almost afraid to break the sound barrier.

She looked up at him. She looked like she'd gotten...Slapped or something. "So...Did your voice ask me to marry you, or did you?"

"That voice is long gone, it left shortly before I met you. Right after I woke up."

"...Ok." she said. He could tell she was trying desperately to accept this with an open mind. She probably thought he was absolutely insane.

"Alice, look... We...I...You..." he stumbled, trying to form a sentence. He took a deep breath. "We're an 'us'. We've been an 'us' pretty much since we met. I haven't felt so complete in so long. Johnny came to bother me because he wanted that same completeness. He wanted an ending. I'm going to give him something hopeful."

"Do you even know what hopeful is?" she whispered, bringing her knees to her chest.

"You said you'd be understanding, Alice! This isn't fair."

"Neither is the fact that you came into my life via psychotic episode!" she said, furrowing her eyebrows.

He reached out and rubbed her forehead. "I hate it when you do that."

She pouted, and he laughed, quietly, trying to hide it.

"And just what is so funny?" she said, her lip quivering.

"You're too cute." He said. That was a really, really mushy thing to say. Thank whatever god's listening that no ones in here with us.

She smiled. "Do you still love me?"

He gasped. "Of course! I'll always love you!" he said, and picked her small frame up and into his lap.

"Now...Onto the previous conversation, before we were so rudely interrupted." She said, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"But-"

"No! Jhonen! You promised!"

He sighed. There was no way out of this one. "C'mon, Alice-"

"Jhonen!" she said, raising her eyebrows as though she were disciplining a puppy. He shrunk down, and laid on the couch as before, her laying on his chest, in the glow of the television.

"Ok..."

"Yes! Finally!"

"Just don't think you're going to get away with not giving me your story here, ok? I get that they're disgusting people, but what did they do to you? I want a couple answers here." He said, "Answer my questions, and I'll tell you my story."

"You first, mister."

He sighed.

"Of course. How silly of me, to not obey my mistress like that." He said, rolling his eyes.

"Hey! Keep making comments, sir. You're going to be sleeping in a cage."

Jhonen blinked. "Ok then."

"Hehe." She smirked and snuggled into him. It felt good to have her in his arms, especially without complications, like Johnny. And the angel. And Kaz.

"Ok...Here we go." He said, taking a deep breath.