Ugh... Here's the next chapter. Todd is Squee if you didn't know... Many years have past so Todd is more mature and actually has more of a personality and role in this story. :)

Chapter One

"So, I haven't seen you in a while..." Todd, who is 23 now, looked at Jamie in a caring way. He didn't 'love' her, but he cared for her because secretly, inside, he knew she was Nny's daughter. Everything about her screamed Johnny. The same hair color, the way her hair parted in the front, the same shaped eyes, the similar clothing she wore, and almost the same dark personality. Todd knew she didn't enjoy killing as much as Johnny, but she cared about him as much as he had.

Whenever he thought about Nny, his stomach sickened at the thought of everything he'd done to innocent people. But he was only about 7 last time he'd seen him, but something about Johnny made him feel... happy. Overall, he'd actually been the only 'friend' he'd ever had. His parents had never really liked him, saying that he'd 'ruined their life', but Johnny always had been there to talk with him. One night, after he'd gotten used to the thought of Johnny being who he was, he'd climbed over into his window with Shmee. He knew Johnny would never hear him, at least, he thought. When Johnny found out he'd taken the time to come over and talk to him, he seemed over-joyed. Todd told him all about how his life was going, and Johnny had tried to help, but when he'd asked about how Johnny's was going, he'd only replied saying,'It's best we don't talk about it, Squee.'

When Johnny'd left out of no where, Todd had gone through a few years of depression. He'd noticed that no one really HAD cared for him. And as he got older, he'd started to walk over to his old, abandoned house, wanting to see if he could find out anything about Johnny's past.

He remembered his first time climbing out of his window, running over to the house to see the door jammed. He kicked it open and looked inside. It was worse then he'd thought. There was one blood-stained wall that made him cringe, and once he got the courage too, he cleaned it off. It took him a week.

Once he started to explore more, he found a bunch of secret tunnels, one was one that Johnny had told him led to his basement. From then on he used that one to get from his to Johnny's.

When he turned 20, he met Jamie, who was only 11. She wasn't as inoccent as everyone thought, and confided all her secrets to him. How did they meet? Well, they were both taking a nightly stroll when he'd accedently bumped into her. She was about to cut his arms off for doing so, but something about Todd had made her stop.

"I know, I'm sorry... I've been, busy around town." She sat down on the old couch that was in what was close to what seemed to be a 'living room'.

"You still have to clean out the corpses downstairs..." She mumbled, and Todd shot her a look of suprise.

"When have you been down there, Jamie? I told you that was off limits." An evil looking grin started up on her face and her eyes narrowed. She seriously looked like a homicidal maniac.

"Shmee told me too... He's very different around me then he was towards you. He tells me to do other things." Todd looked around the room nervously.

"Oh, Shmee? That old bear is still talking?"

"Oh, of course, all the time. In fact, I'm quite curious to know why there are bones, blood, and flesh downstairs in the basement anyways." Todds eyes bulged out like a bug. He wasn't going to tell her about what he knew. It might just make her worse. It might just make her more of a homicidal maniac.

"I'll tell you later," He sighed, and picked up a dusty TV remote and turned on the TV.

"See? That's why I think my life is f***** up. Because people like you don't tell me anything. It's always 'Oh, I'll tell you later Jamie,' or,'Oh, your too young to know about that,'. It's bull****."

Suddenly, Jamie saw a shadow in the back window. (The only one that wasn't boarded up)

"What the hell was that?" Jamie stood up and wandered to the window, curious about what was out there.

"Probably just a squirrel, I see them around here all the time, you know, one time-"

"Shh, be quite. It looked kind of like the dark figure behind me in the market I saw earlier... And, it was coming out of the treehouse."

The hairs on the back of Todds neck rose up, and he stood up. A 'squee' of fright arose out of him.

"Um, I'm going to go outside for a second... I need... air." Jamie shot a look at him.

"That was no cat, Todd. And if I find out you know otherwise, you most likely know the consequences." Todd gulped and ran to the door, and shot back to the backyard as fast as he could. It was too dark for him, he didn't like the dark. Sometimes, he wished he still had his little bear Shmee to protect him. Though he knew now that he could do nothing anyways. This neighborhood was one that a person should not go out to in the night.

"Jh-Jh- Jhonny?" He looked around the backyard, which was too small and didn't really have any bushes or anything to hide behind. Only the treehouse.

"I know your there Jhonny." He was building up his courage now, and he stood up tall like the man he knew he was. He told himself that he had no reason to be afraid.

"Johnny, listen, I think you should come out. I know you're here." A rustling came from the bushes, and Todd gulped. Was it really Johnny? Did he change? Would he want to kill him? He had a frog in his throat, and it just got worse as a tall, sleek figure with a trench coat down to his feet hopped out of the bushes, and he grinned the way a Homicidal Maniac would.

"Squee?" Suddenly Johnny stepped towards Todd and he cringed, thinking Johnny was going to do something to him. But instead, he was embraced in a hug, and a smile crept up on Todds face.

"Nice to see you Johnny."

"Long time no see Squeegee! You've been sleeping much more deeply lately! Good thing you always keep your window unlocked because I can't really use the underground tunnels anymore." He looked really enthusiastic as he moved about his old backyard,"S***, I got blood on my hands from that cashier..." He mumbled, and wiped his hand off on his shirt, leaving red blood hand stains.

Todd was about to ask when he'd been in his room, but decided otherwise.

"Where the hell have you been?" Todd asked, and sat down on the ground in a child-like way.

"Around... Though, mostly to other cities. Every once in a while I come back here to check on things... I went to LA once, and I-" Johnny looked to see if 'Squee' was listening, and stopped in his track. Todd and Johnny's relationship had changed a lot since they'd first met.

"Well, anyways, who's the girl?" Todd's eyes lowered, and Johnny already knew exactly who she was, but he wanted to hear it from him.

"You should know nny, I've known her since she was 11, and you've probably known her longer." Johnny cocked his head sideways, (That will probably happen a lot in this story) and smiled again.

"Your right, I do." He started to step by Todd, and headed towards the front yard.

"Hey, wait, where are you going?" Todd got up and started running towards him. Together, they walked down the street, silent, listening to the the wind breeze by. He remembered when he was littler, and him and the 'scary neighbor man' would walk down the street together in silence. Somehow, the silence spoke all the words they needed. When he and Shmee had been... closer together, he'd carried him around with them as he walked.

Johnny had never been very fond of Squee's little teddy bear, so he always had hid it whenever he'd hung out with Johnny.

"Johnny..." Todd started, but Johnny looked back, tears in his eyes.

"The truth is, I don't like what I've done."

"I'm sorry."

"I don't need your F*****' sympathy."

"Then why did you bring it up Johnny? I haven't seen you in what, 10 or 15 years? What do you want me to say,'Hello Johnny, haven't seen you in a while.'? I went through a long depression without you, why did you leave anyways? Why didn't you just kill me? Poor little ol' Squee, parents who hated him, and went through a period of insanity for 2 years before you left, and you were the only person little innocent boy Squee could ever confide in, and you just left? Why? Why did you murder everyone, but not me?"

More silence came between the two, and Johnny's eyes just got sadder. But suddenly, anger overcame him, and he pulled out a knife, because he carries one everywhere. He grabbed Todd, and shoved him up against a fence, raising the blood stained knife up above him. Todd held his breath, trying to stay strong against his 'friend.'

"D*****, do you really want to know why I haven't killed you Todd?"This was the first time he'd ever said his real name. His lips curved up into a smile that only could be made by Johnny, and then his eyes went soft.

"You were the only sense of innocence I had left." He whispered, and backed away.

"Johnny," Todd reached his hand out as Johnny started to walk away, so he started to catch up.

"Your daughter would've had the same impact on me as I did to you. Now, I don't know if you could call me 'innocent' anymore, which is another reason I don't understand why you don't just kill me now, but I know Jamie has made me think back to the old days." Johnny stopped and looked back.

"I'm going to go home now, and no matter what happens, just know that my windows always unlocked."

This wasn't the end.

Todd stepped back into the old house. He thought about how it reminded him of a broken down trailer.

The only thing he could see was Jamie's eyes in the dark, her hands curled around the arms of the moth-bitten couch.

As she stood from it to stare into Todds eyes, he let out another 'squee' of fright. He never could understand why he was so scared of Jamie, but never scared of Johnny.

"That wasn't a cat Todd Casil, to bad I'm not in the mood to see any blood right now," She turned around and plopped back down on the couch,"You do know that I don't appreciate you keeping secrets from me, right?"

Todd nodded, only for his life. Though they had somewhat of a 'friendship', he still knew Jamie was fully capable of doing harm to him. In fact, she'd once cut a good chunk out of his face.

As he remembered, he touched where he'd been cut 2 years ago, feeling around the deep scar she'd left.

"I know Jamie, I know." And 'Squee' sat down next to her and squeezed her hand. Not in a lovey-dovey way, but a friendly way.

There is no romance between Squee and Jamie because Todd=23 and Jamie=14. I don't know... It just wouldn't seem right... :/