[A/N: I own noneof Alice in Wonderland, Batman/Batman Begins/Dark Knight nor any of their characters or settings, they belong to their respected owners; only Alice Riddles and my other Ocs belong to me, I do hope you enjoy this story :D *]

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`Alice Riddles laid upside down on the only couch in Arkham Asylum's main recreational room, her pant covered legs hanging off gracefully off of the back of the couch as she just mumbled little lullaby and played with her overstuffed stitched up teddy bear there. It was really cold in the room at the moment, probably below in the low twenties but there was Alice barefoot and wearing a short sleeved shirt, other patients were in the room as well but Alice ignored them all. Jervis Tech, aka Mad Hatter, wasn't coming in this room today, he was in solitary confinement for some reason, why Alice didn't know. She missed him already. Her blond hair nearly touched the floor, the doctors made her get it cut short and it made Alice so upset that she would not come out of her cell for three weeks, she'd just stare at the wall and rock back and forth, within those three weeks Alice only ate three times, this probably why she was so fragile right now. Alice then froze in her actions, staring at nothing as she still held her teddy bear close to her now.

In a few quick movements Alice was sitting on the couch, hugging her knees with teddy still close to her chest, at the far-left as if hoping the couch would make her sink in like quicksand. Her head bended down and her blond hair covering her face now even as short as it was. She licked her lips once and breathed softly and slowly as she felt someone sit down at the far-right, the weight of it making the couch springs cringing loudly under pressure. Alice didn't even look to her right but kept mumbling to herself not to look, not to see, not to hear or feel but it was too late.

"Hiiiii." The Joker cooed in her ear then, brushing back her doll like blond hair and grinned ear to ear, his yellow teeth showing and Alice tensed up right away, trying to slip out of his embrace now as he wrapped an arm around her, tightening his grip a little that his fingers bruised her skin "Alice, Alice, Alice." He mocked her, staring at her with drooped eye-lids, he looked around then scowling as if annoyed now. Ah ha. He reached over towards the ground, a arm still around poor Alice there, he snatched up the TV remote then sat back up straight groaning with relief then seemed to just enjoy himself, leaning close to Alice, to close for comfort.

"Hmm. Why don't we see what's on TV, huh?" He didn't wait for an answer as he clicked the power button on the remote, and the TV screen popped on and there was static, hmm. Joker growled under his breath and threw the TV remote at the TV itself, the innocent object hitting the TV then falling towards the ground, hitting it with a small clatter "Ya can't ever find anything good on TV nowadays. Ya gotta do everything yourself for the sake of entertainment. Dontcha, Ali?" He lowered his voice so only she could hear but then checker-pieces-eating Becky got to close, and he took his free hand and shoved her away roughly without a care in the world and she tumbled back, nearly making a table fall over as she collected her balance on a metal chair, still then she was crazy as usual, muttering how the Joker had paid attention to her. Yeah. Normal.

"Leave me alone." Alice had the courage to whisper in protest as he neared his face towards her, still staring at her with drooped eye-lids, he frowned once more then, sighing in disappointment, looking down but then in a flash he had a hand entangled in her hair, yanking her closer like this harshly, she whimpered and looked at him defeated already, so easily.

"We uh wouldn't want to ruin that beautiful face of yours, would we, Ali?" He asked, smacking her left cheek with his other hand then, still somehow holding her close, he let one of his fingers go to the left corner of her lips and then trace up to where her cheekbones were "We need to put a smile on that face-uh."

"Joker. Time to go back to your cell." A guard spoke in a gruff voice, another one of his buddies appearing beside him then, both frowning.

"Ah, yeah.. Just give me a minute here, 'kay?" He told them, looking from them back to Alice, starting to whisper something to her until a guard dared to tug him away from her

"Now." The guard commanded and the Joker looked back up at him, licking his lips before yanking away from Alice roughly and then stood up on both his feet and walked over to the recreational door with arrogance, both guards following, not even bothering to look at the frightened Alice Riddles. She sighed then in relief as the Joker was gone, her left hand playing with her blond hair and the other holding her teddy tightly to her, at least Teddy didn't have to go to solitary confinement too, right? Yeah.

Alice glanced over to the windows in the room when hearing a giggle, Marissa Garcia, one of Alice's main idols, was sitting on the couch ledge there and Dr. Crane was whispering something to her that was making her blush. Those two scared her sometimes, well...actually nearly everything scared Alice nowadays. Alice looked away, blushing herself, and just observed the room. In the corner was Issac, the germophobic genius as Alice loved to call him, whom was tapping to fingers at his forehead, talking about calculations and what to use to clean his cell. That was just like him. Then over by a table was Ms. Ivy, Alice never called her Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn talking about the Batman. Alice quickly looked away as both looked at her, she bent her head down then and bit her lower lip but then only to peak over to the right and saw Penguin arguing with The Riddler over who the Batman is, not that neither really knew that is.

Alice then seemed to relax, sliding her legs down the couch and resting her head on the arm-rest and hugging Teddy to her chest as said before, it was really interesting to see the other interact. But now in Alice's mind, she was thinking of Wonderland and the Cheshire cat, smiling to herself and giggling softly without a care in the world. Alice Riddles was in her own little world right now, far from reality.

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