Title: Busy Day
Rating: PG
Summary: He didn't particularly HATE kids...
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The party was in full swing, shitty disc jockey hired at last minute by a hungover school principal and all. The nucleus of the cafeteria consisted about a hundred high school kids decked out in either all-out or ramshackle costumes. He saw a few Batmen but none were his.
Batman didn't know he was out tonight, and if all went as planned, he wouldn't until much much later.
He came through the back door, slinking through the darkness with ease and without any of the teachers noticing him. He fiddled with the gun hidden in his sleeve, resisting the urge to just slice up a few of the kids who ran around the room. He didn't hate kids, per se, they always were better at laughs than adults. He just hated this much puberty in one room.
He slunk through the throng before he found the girl, long brown hair, brown eyes, round face like her father; the Mayor. He sidled up alongside her and peered around the crowd.
There in the corner, a man in a Pennywise mask, that was one of his.
Over there, with the Mime uniform and painted face, yes that was one of his too.
And dear Harley-baby, decked out as Jessica Rabbit winked at him from afar, blond hair sprayed red for this eve. He felt a rush of bloodlust as well as some other kind of lust that involved blood and somewhere other than on the floor when he realised that there was a hunting knife strapped to her bare thigh.
He briefly wondered where she was hiding the semi-automatic.
His momentary reverie was interrupted by a girl dressed in an offensively pink dress, opalescent crown and scepter. The vague idea of Glinda from that Oz movie came into mind and he glared as she looked intensely at him.
"Oh my GOD!" she screeched over the pounding music. "You look JUST like that Joker guy! It's like, completely perfect! How did you do the scars?"
He scowled, and grabbed the Mayor's daughter around head, slamming his hand over her mouth to avoid any undue screaming, and blinked. Well, he figured, what was the fun without a little chaos.
Bang.
