Gabriel: *is hiding behind a desk* Please don't shoot me? I know I have like three other's to complete but….

Joker: *appears next to Gabe* Why so serious dear?

Gabriel: *Freak out flail* OHSHIT! *arms pop off*

Joker: *laughs* Don't own Batman, or DC or me.

Gabriel: *sigh* *picks up and reattaches arm* nope.

~~~~*Chapter one: Batling*~~~~

Bruce Wayne turned off the interstate, driving onto the private drive to Arkham Asylum. The sun was shining bright and the sky was cloudless as he went along the twisting road. A complete opposite of the inner turmoil that was raging in the wealthy man.

He had received an urgent message from the head of the Psych ward demanding his presence. The Joker had been demanding to see him ever since yesterday and had even threatened an orderly. Joker had been acting normal and peaceful up until he started to demand the billionaire attention.

He pulled into the small parking lot and slowly walked to the building. He didn't know what this call was about but he felt he was sure it had something to do with his secret as he was being called on by the man who had tried to make him kill and break his rules.

He was guided into a small room. And sat at a medium sized white table. The walls were a soft beige and rather dull. There was a large square window for the orderlies and others to look in but still provide some privacy for the inhabitants.

Bruce almost didn't recognize the other. His hair which used to be tinted with green was actually dirty blond and all the face paint was removed leaving the Glasgow smile very apparent on the somewhat tanned face. He came in with his head down in a straight jacket and was set into the seat opposite of Bruce. The Orderly nodded at the billionaire then walked away.

"Hello Brucey." The Joker smiled. "How are you today?"

"What do you want?" Bruce just wanted to get to the point. The Joker apparently didn't want to. He looked off to the left and pursed his lips and squinted if trying to remember something.

"You know they have a pill for everything these days?" The Joker asked. "I'm on eight right now. Though they're going to cut me down to three in half a year."

"What do I care?" Bruce growled.

"One of the drugs is making my head a little fuzzy, kinda makes everything not so fun, you know?" The insane man shrugged. "It's also messing with my memory, you see."

"Get to the point."

The Joker sighed. "You know you should listen, Isn't it your job to help those who need help?"

"I'm not you shrink." Bruce moved to stand up.

"Come on Bats." The Joker let out a laugh, watching the other's expression. "Settle down."

Bruce held his emotions in check but moved to look at the other. The Joker continued. "Almost didn't catch it. Remember how I though you were Dent cuz of that woman? Well they were doing a special of you on the tube and low and behold, there's a picture of you and her all cuddled and close. And I thought to myself. 'Now Jay, that looks like a pretty happy couple, and he is loaded to the teeth, Now doesn't that seem just like my friend bats?' And sure enough it clicks. Too bad she left you for Dent though."

Bruce glared, hurt in his eyes as he felt the urge to kill the other. "What do you want?"

"When I was a kid, my dad was an angry drunk and one night him and mom were fighting, he knocked her to the side, she laid on the floor out cold." The Joker said. "He then turned to me and I felt fear fill me. He walked up, a knife in hand and grabbed me, holding it to my cheek. 'Why so serious, Son? Why so serious?' He yelled and jerked that blade across my face."

He makes a swipe over the right side of his face. "Forty Eight stitches, Bruce, all done by my mom, she was a seamstress at a factory, no way to kill the pain. Couldn't go to a doctor, Dad drank all the money away."

"Then you grow up, get a job, try to live life. I found a woman that loved me, we were married and lived in a little two bedroom house in the bad side of town." the Joker continued, looking off in the distance. "She was so beautiful, I love'em dark, dark hair, tanned, and with bright eyes. Her's were green."

Joker looked at the other's bright blue eyes and smiled, Bruce blinked and suddenly felt like he was being appraised.

"She always was an optimist, always telling me to smile and look at the good things. She was a gambler though, got in deep and couldn't get out. So a loan shark cornered her one night and scared her pretty face. She was devastated, was always crying and sad, didn't know what to do. But one day, I went up to her and said 'Baby, I still love you, you're still beautiful, please just smile.' But she couldn't, so I took a razor and with shaking hands put it in my mouth."

He made the motion of what he did and Bruce felt his stomach squirm. "And I said. 'look sweetie, see the scars don't matter. It'll be alright.' But she was horrified, she couldn't stand the sight of me, and left me with in the hour. Chucking the wedding ring of 10 years in the trash as she walked out."

The expression was filled with pain at the old memory. "I was ready to die then, I had that razor in my hand and was ready to cut open my arms."

He held out his hand like he had back then. And almost peaceful expression on his face. "But then something happened. My beautiful gift, my angel, came up to me and set her hands in mine."

He turned to Batman. "I'll cut you a deal Bruce. I'm gunna go crazy in this place, but if you do one favor for me, I'll stay in here and serve out the sentence. If not, I'll break out of here, and people will die."

Bruce narrowed his eyes. "What do you want done?"

"You ever see that movie Annie?" The Joker smiled. "Well congradulations, I want you to be Worbucks."

"What?" Bruce blinked.

"I have a daughter." The Joker smiled. "Her name is Melody Jest, She's 8 years old, she likes the color green, dogs, drawing, and she loves reading."

"You want me to adopt her?" Bruce sounded a little outraged.

"You don't have to adopt her, but I want you to take her under your wing." The Joker laughed at his own pun. "Now…. You going to do it?"

Bruce glared at the other then growled out. "Where do I find her?"

The Joker smiled.

~~~~*TBC*~~~~

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