Trust
By: PhoenixJustice
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine but the story.
(Pairing: Batman/Joker)
A/N: Based on a self-challenge I gave to myself to see what kind of drabbles/one shots I could pull off by listening to certain songs and within certain perameters for said songs.
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Trust
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It had been years since it all started. Years. A lot of it was the same old song and dance, a fist here, a knife there, and laughter...always laughter. He wasn't sure when it first started, when the laughter had started out as a means to distract, to irritate, but had yet, somehow, become something more. They had become something more. Their battles escalated to the point where only ashes would be where a series of buildings once stood, where blood littered the ground. And yet...at the end of it all, on those rare occasions where a brave soul came forward and try to take out the Knight, the Clown would inevitably step in and stop them.
An embrace later, then a kiss, then another, and another, paint melding onto the Knight's face on contact, which he readily ignored in place of the Clown in front of him, all heat and fire and life and chaos. It was in those moments even later, when he would patch up the Clown, or would be entwined in bed with him, that the ever running doubt in his mind would be erased by a single word, a touch, or the Clown himself. Trust had been there for longer than he realized.
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A/N: This is just one of many challenges that I did based upon a song. All of them together can be found at my livejournal (the link of which you can find at my profile.)