It seems Human Error Deleted this first chapter...all good now.
*A loud 'bang' can be heard in China as RTB's head connects with the table* I'm too tired to function properly...
Chapter 1
It was snowing in Gotham that night, that night when it happened, and even though there wasn't the slightest breath of air, there was a damp chill that sifted throughout and drifted on the air to make it seem like there was.
If you were watching anywhere from above you would've noticed the powerlines crackling as an overload of electricity made its way towards the worst side of the city, until it congregated in an abandoned area making lines blow off poles and power boxes explode.
As this happened, the lights around the area went out.
If you were to look hard enough, you would have seen a light blue flash...you still would've had to squint and strain to see it what with all the snow around.
It was two days later and Harley Quinn had managed to drag her boyfriend, The Joker, out for the night.
She might've been a Villain, but she was still a woman and she deserved a proper date with her boyfriend every once in a while.
It was on this particular night they happened to walk past an alley, as you did in these parts of the city, when they heard a sound from above.
Thinking it was The Batman and his tiny teenaged companion, Quinn ducked into said alley pulling Joker with her knowing, from the obvious look on his face, that he'd rather be doing anything else that night.
She pulled him toward some bins but stopped short when she saw a figure crunched into a ball.
It was a girl.
She looked to be between eighteen to twenty-three, so not really a girl per-say but it was definitely a she.
Now, Quinn wouldn't usually have worried about whether it was a guy or girl, young or old, prince or pauper, but it was what the girl was wearing that stumped her.
A thin spaghetti strapped shirt that could be seen underneath her thin jacket, light jeans and bare feet...in the middle of winter and she was visibly shivering.
She couldn't understand her reasoning but a small part of her wanted to help this stranger.
Quinn looked over at Joker, wondering what she should do, she could see his mind debating, the gears turning, and then he did something unorthodox, he took off his jacket and placed it around the girl's shoulders.
The girl looked up at this point, big blue eyes almost devoid of life and emotion.
"Don't move too much" said Joker "There's some things in the pockets that might react"
The girl looked at the jacket with a dumbfounded curiosity as Joker stood up and pulled his mobile out of his pants pocket saying to Quinn "You look after her, I'm going to call the boys to pick us up"
Quinn sat down by the girl and pulled her closer.
Now that she thought about it, it was out of the ordinary for either of them to care for anyone else, maybe, aside from each other.
The girl placed her head on Quinn's shoulder and closed her eyes.
"They should be here in fifteen minutes. I'll keep a look out for them and Bats. If he appears I'll lure him away, you just concentrate on looking after her"
Quinn looked at her lover in a new light, still confused by his actions, as well as hers.
What was it about this girl?
Fifteen minutes went by without a hitch and two of Joker's Clowns pulled up with the car, by this time the girl had fallen asleep on Quinn's shoulder.
As Joker's two thugs came to the bins and saw the girl they stopped and stared
"Who's this? What's going on?" asked one of them
"Don't ask questions. Just get her in the car and then shut up"