Johnny's ideas were always diminished by everyone.
By everyone he meant Everyone, his sister, Ben, Reed, and even you, his girlfriend.
The Reed part was understandable, he kind of did have the biggest ego out of everyone even if he played it down. But his heart ached every time his sister and Ben shook theyre head if he said something which he thought was smart, sending him "really?" Looks from across the room.
Even his fans just thought he was the charm boy, every show they made about the fantastic 4 he was the comic relief. He was just a role to fill in.
Reed was the smart one.
Sue was the motherly figure.
*Ben was the strong one."
Johnny the comic relief.
But every team needed one right? Sometimes he was okay with making me laugh, cheering people up.
But he thought things would be different with you, you were a social media person for the Fantastic 4, when he first met you he flirted with you constantly, at first you weren't interested, though he was just trying to get you into his bed.. but then you saw through the flirting, the actual nice gestures, how he paided attention to everyone in the room. So you gave him a chance.
At first it was fine, you were intent, listening to his ideas. But the more time you spent around his family and just everyone in general you saw that everyone took him as a joke and you got well.. used to it..? Shooting him the same looks Sue did.
One day he noticed some consistency in multiple robberies, pieces that connected. He told Reed about it but he just waved it off, he gave him the benefit of the doubt because he had just became a dad and had more important things to worry about like Franklin.
But when you told him you seemed uninterested, Continuing to read the book you were reading, telling him that it was probably nothing. It hurt.
You started to notice things were off only a day later, he didnt talk to you about his project, he didnt send you a good morning text because he had got out of bed before you, he was just quiet around you. He still did all the nice stuff, made you coffee, made you a sandwich if you were working to hard a forgot to eat, but he didnt yap about stuff he was excited about. You thought maybe he was just tired.
But this went on for weeks, you finally confronted him when you went to his room one day, which you guys switch from staying in his room at the baxter tower and your apartment, and he was already in bed, facing away from you, no "i missed you-" "have you ate-?" Just silence. You sat on the bed next to him.