"It's such a shame, you're going to miss your sister's birthday party" Mom said matter of factly. I sighed and looked out of the window. The Floridian sun shone through making me squint. Outside my sister Lily was making rainbows with water from the sprinklers. Today was the last day I would spend with my family for a whole year.

The next morning I would be flying out to Toronto to start my new job on a new movie, Suicide Squad or Bravo 14 depending on who you talk to. I was extremely excited, this was to be my first professional feature film to assist on. I had worked on a couple of commercials but it was all down to my dad, it was he who was an old friend of Jeff Authors, the first assistant director and had put in a good word for me. It's not what you know, it's who you know as my father always said. Now I would be off on a plane to Canada to assist the actress Margot Robbie, making sure her time on set of the film goes as smoothly as possible. I couldn't wait to get started.

"I know mom, but I can try and get her an autograph or something to say sorry" I replied watching as my dad snuck upon my little sister and I laughed when he dumped a whole bucket of water on her head. Lily, who was turning ten next month, was not impressed. She looked exactly how I did at that age. Mousey brown hair, bright blue eyes and hundreds of freckles. At twenty seven I had obviously kept my blue eyes, had dyed my hair black and had lost a majority of my freckles, just like my mom.

"Are you sure you're ready for this honey?" my mom asked as dad and Lily made their way inside.

"Of course she is!" Dad answered for me "Amelia is ready for anything"

"Aha! Thanks dad!" I said shaking my head. I stood up and pulled Lily into a great big hug.

"I'm gonna miss you Millie" said Lily making my t-shirt very wet with her hair.

"I'll miss you too Lils, don't worry you'll blink and I'll be back. You'll see" I kissed her on top of her head and then walked into my bedroom. My room was once the garage but dad had converted it when we decided that Lily should have my old room. As I was technically meant to have moved out a few years ago with my then boyfriend only to find that he was cheating on me so I called off the move.

I loved my oddly shaped haven. The walls were purple and the bedspread was either black or white depending on the season. A massive bag sat open on my bed half empty. I still hadn't had the time to pack and now I carefully shoved almost my entire wardrobe into the suitcase and sat on it to make it shut. I then double checked that I had my travel documents in my bag for tomorrow, nodding to myself I returned to the kitchen/diner to spend my last night with my family.

A month later I had settled into the shooting schedule with ease, the night shoots were a little odd at first but I soon got used to them. David Ayer, the director was lovely, in fact the whole team were amazing and Margot was so easy to look after it was like hanging out with a friend instead of organising a star.

The only person I had yet to meet, although I had heard from the other assistants that he was a bit of a nightmare, was Jared Leto who was playing, no, who was the Joker. The actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars front man was a method actor and often embodied the character he was portraying. He hadn't arrived on the set just yet and so Margot and his scene's had been delayed somewhat. They hadn't even rehearsed together which I wasn't happy with.

"So are you sure you don't want me to organise a meeting with Jared before you two do your scenes?" I asked Margot one day when we were sitting in her trailer.

"Nah" said the Australian actress still in her Harley Quinn costume "it'll be a surprise when we do the scene for the first time."

I nodded, slightly worried that Jared's Joker would chew and spit Margot out. I tightened my ponytail, an annoying habit of mine that often ended up with me having a headband headache at the end of the day all the time. "Is there anything I can get for you? We've got a while before you're due back on set."

Margot thought for a moment before saying "yes, are you able to go down to the nearest comic book store?"

"More Harley Quinn comics?" I asked

"Yeah please, I just wanna make sure I've got her right you know?" I smiled at her and put a consoling hand on her arm. "You're doing a great job Margot really. I am a big fan of the Batman universe and I certainly think you're doing Harley justice"

She smiled back at me and put her hand over mine. "Thanks Amelia, it means a lot."

I left the trailer and made my way almost out of the complex where I jumped into a free car and travelled about ten minutes across Toronto to the nearest shop. I bought a handful of comics with Harley Quinn in them after consulting the list I had made on my phone of the ones Margot had already read and hot footed it back to the set.

On the way back to Margot I took a different route and ended up going past a new trailer that had Jared's name on the door outside it. His blinds were down and the door was firmly closed, the only sign of life was his assistant Louise sitting on the steps outside scribbling furiously. She was a similar age to me, around twenty nine with short brown hair and had a tanned complexion and brown eyes.

"You alright Louise?" I called to her. She looked up and nodded but said nothing which I found a bit odd, she had always been chatty before Jared had arrived. She glanced back at the door behind her then got up and walked over to me.

"Sorry" she whispered "J's in there getting into character. He needs peace and quiet to focus so I have to sit outside"

"God, that's intense"

"Yeah, but it'll be worth it in the end"

"What's he like to work with?" I asked checking the time on my phone, I still had a bit of time before I had to be back with Margot.

"Jared's lovely. The Joker is creepy, psychotic and when he's in a bad mood is a nightmare"

Then I heard his voice come from inside the trailer calling for her so I said goodbye to Louise and returned to Margot. The schedule for the next day's shooting had just been emailed to me and I noticed that Margot's scene with Jared in the club was tomorrow evening. I guess I would get to experience the Joker sooner than I expected.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed my new story. I'm writing this and my other Suicide Squad fanfiction at the same time so I'm hoping that I'll be able to update them at a good speed. Please leave a review and let me know what you think!