Hi! I have to say, I'm not a native english speaker, actually I'm from Spain, so yeah. Prepare yourself for gramatical mistakes, weird things and inexistent words from my invention. Sorry! I just want to learn... So please, feel free to leave a review and tell me what's wrong so I can correct it ;) Anyway, hope you like it!
Too young for Arkham. Too insane for any juvenile center.
Batman watches as the clown plays with his fingers, looking completely absorbed with it. He looks so small, sitting on the floor, with his hands handcuffed. His legs are crossed, and his usual clothes are dry and dirty. He looks like another fifteen-year-old boy, but Bruce knows him well. No one else would have their face covered with paint. No one else would have his scars and his disturbed gaze. He is capable of anything to show Gotham who he is.
Gordon steps aside him. The two are looking through the glass, silently, watching the criminal doing whatever he is doing. Probably he is planning to escape again, thinks Bruce.
"Well", sights the commisioner, holding his cup of coffee "what we're going to do with him?"
Batman just stands there quietly. For the very first moment in his live, he doesn't know what to do with a criminal. Beat him again? Yeah, that was funny for the clown. Throw his directly to Arkham? Something is telling him not to. Prision? Never again.
So what now?
Joker rises his gaze from his fingers and looks directly at them, like he can see through the black glass. He looks just directly at Batman. At Bruce. And smiles again. His hair is dripping from the water of the rain. He just started shaking from the cold an hour ago.
He licks his lips, as he always do, and then he pronunces one word in silent, not even letting any sound went outside his mouse.
'Bruce' reads Batman from the clown's lips.
One week ago, Batman made Joker promise he would never reveal his identity. Know, being in that situation, Bruce doubts if Joker will decide to tell the valuable information for one of his attempts to get attention and break free from his captors.
'Bruce'
Enough.
Batman irrupts in the interrogation room, making the clown to step on his feet and reculate, not sure what his hero would do this time. But for his surprise and for Gordon's, Batman grabs the criminal for the dry coat and starts to drag him to the door.
In a pair of seconds, Gordon is just outside the room, questioning Bruce with the look in his eyes. But Batman only have to yell 'he's going with me' to take him aside.
Now Joker tries to walk as fast as Batman and not to fall to the floor, following him outside the building and inside the Batmobile. The other man decides not to unhandcuff Joker, just in case he decides to do something strange. He just opens the acompaintment's door and throws him inside the car. The other finishes upside down on the seat, but manages to sit straight and facing forward, folding his legs against his body and smiling once more. He continues to shake. A few seconds later, Batman opens the other door and sits besides him. Jokes giggles as Bruce takes off his helmet.
"What I'm going to do with you?" he frowns. The other just starts to laugh at him maniacally. Then he starts to cough again.
Bruce sights. Insane, and know… sick. Perfect. He grabs his cape, separating it from the suit, and covers Joker with it. Instantly, Joker frozes. He wasn't expecting that, but… That smell of him… He decides to leave it on.