The Joker slammed his hands onto the table in anger.
''Are you telling me that they busted yet another one of our raids, AGAIN?'' He said in a calm yet furius tone that made the runts shiver in fear.
''It must have been Harley, she is working with Batman after all!'' The others started nodding in agreement but the Joker showed his disagreement by throwing one of the plates against the wall.
''You really think i'm that stupid?! Of course she had no idea in the first place.''
''Maybe then it's someone else, there has been a rumor going on about another possible ally of Batman's.''
''Hmm interesting, come back when you've found out if it's true or not.'' The grunt nodded and left.
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Jenny had just finished another round of cleaning out the pest in town at least for tonight, as she slumped on her sofa she wondered to herself if it was never gonna become better. Her life was so different before she was hired to work for Lucius Fox at Wayne Industries, where she found out that he was helping out the cape crusader, although she was skeptical at first eventually coming to their aid became part of a normal evening. She had become very good friends with Harleen and after an outing which led to her being kept hostage she decided to let them train her, she was a very fast learner and in weeks she was already helping them out but in months she was able to hold out her own against many.
Yeah it was dangerous and every now and then she found herself with a bruise or a cut but she wouldn't give it up for the world, plus Batman and Harleen had become like family to her, which was weird considering she had known them for just a year but the things they had been through together made it seem like they all knew each other their whole life.
Jenny turned on the tv and saw on the news a photo of Batman and Harley, she sighed in relief seeing that she wasn't in it though it did take a lot of will power not to get seen too much by normal people. For now she was known in Gotham as a legend, a mith, a wisper. Some called her the silver arrow for her tendency to start off fights using silver arrows, although she was well known for her excellent skills in archery she was also very good with hand to hand combat thanks to the training from Harleen.
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That night Harley was with Wayne, he was helping her bandaging up a wound on her back, neither of them were akward of their closeness after all she was living with him, Jenny often questioned whether or not they were together but they weren't, they had a quick fling but it was never a relationship, neither of them could quite say what they were but it didn't seem to stop the banter going on between them, she hissed when the disinfectant touched her back.
''I should've let Jenny take care of that.''
''Is that your way of saying that i suck at this?''
''No but at least she's trained in it, plus she's got a more delicate touch.''
''Well i thought she might have been a bit tired from tonight, after all she did save us tonight.''
''You're right, but that girl sometimes i wonder if there is something she can't do. I mean she's trained in medicine, biology, mechanics and she's excellent on the battle field.''
''Yeah i bet one day she'll even beat me.'' She chuckled, then a though came across her mind and she looked sadder.
''I think that she's holding her feelings back.'' He looked at her puzzled but didn't doubt her.
''And how would you know?''
''Let's just say i have a lot of experience in putting up walls and not showing how i really felt, the scary thing about it is that after a while you forget you're even doing it and it becomes a part of who you are.''
''You think you can help her?''
''I hope so because she won't be able to live like that forever.''
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The next evening she and Jenny were sitting on the edge of a sky scraper one of the tallest.
''You were right Harls the view up here is to die for.''
''Yeah but i lied, this isn't the reason why i took you up here, i wanted to talk to you.''
''And you needed me to be this high up to have a chat with me?''
''I wanted to tell you about my past, i had a pretty great childhood until my parents got divorced , you see i wanted to get along with both of them so bad that i started developing different personalities or masks i guess, like with my mom i was all feminine and stuff while with my dad i was all about sports and boy stuff. When i was about to finish high school my dad passed away, on his death bed he told me that i didn't have to wear the masks anymore and that i could finally be myself, at the time i was terrified because it had been so long that i had forgotten what my likes and dislikes were, for me those masks were all that was left for me.''
''How did you cope?''
''I can't say i was alone, i had some pretty great friends at the time who helped me through it without even knowing it.''
''Is that why you started studying psichiatry?''
''I guess so, it started with wanting to figure myself better but then i realised that i wanted to help other people who went through what i did or worse.''
''I'm sorry about what the Joker did to you, after all he didn't just brainwash you and take 2 years out of your life he also ripped you from your dream.''
''He did rip me away from my dream job but my dream was to help people and in the end that is what i'm doing, just not in the way that i had originally planned. But enough about me i want to know about you.''
''What do you mean?''
''Oh don't play coy, to be doing what we're doing you can't be 100 percent normal plus the other day when we raided that drug house you started acting weird.''
''So you noticed huh?''
''I'm your primary trainer, of course i noticed.''
''I guess i better start from the beginning, when i was 10 my dad walked out on me and my mom, after that things went pretty much down the drain and they weren't that good to begin with either, she started drinking a lot which caused her to get fired and she would constantly get mad at me, i thought that was hell but i was wrong because quickly enough things escalated to a new level of hell when she got married to a man who happened to be one of the biggest drug dealers around. I thought seeing my mom drunk most of the time was bad but seeing her strung out so bad that she couldn't even recognise me was just...hell. As his business got better he started bringing a lot of his customers to the house and hosting drug parties, i hated coming back home because i knew what would be waiting for me back there so i spent most of my afternoons at the library where i could read books in peace, you could say that studying became my escape. Fortunately my studying wasn't for naught, the school offered me a scholarship and i took it and ran as far away as i could.''
''Didn't anyone else know what was going on ?''
''Of course they did Harley, anyone who had eyes could see what was going on inside that house but it's not like they could do anything about him.''
''Why not?''
''Everyone who had any common sense knew not to get in his way, i guess i was just too stupid.''
''What do you mean?''
''I didn't get along with him, but how could i? He was coked up maniac, i hated going back home but for the time that i was i tried being invisible, i really did, but a lot of the times in order to insure mine and my mother's safety i had to stand up to him, whenever i did it always ended badly.''
''How bad?''
''Nothing way too serious.'' 'But enough to once land her in the hospital for a few days ' she added mentally.
''Why did you never tell us any of this before?''
''Memory lane isn't exactly a road i enjoy revisiting, ever since i left that hell i did my best not to ever think about it again so i filled my day with studying, hanging out with friends, literally anything i could to take my mind from it. The other day when i saw that kind of scene again i had that same feeling i used to get back then, like i was constantly drowning but nobody would ever come to save me.''
''If it's to any consolation i would have jumped in to save you, no matter the reputation your shitty stepfather had in town.'' Jenny smiled and hugged Harleen.
''Thanks, means a lot to me that you even said that. I better get going.'' She said getting up.
''Already?''
''Unlike you and Wayne i have a normal job aside watching the streets of Gotham, so as much as i'd like to stay longer i have to get up early tomorrow.''
''Alright, alright i get it. See you tomorrow.''
As Harleen watched Jenny walk away she sighed and shook her head, she got that feeling again, something about this girl was annoyingly familiar and no matter how hard she tried she couldn't figure out why. She had also felt this initially when they met and had dismissed it but now it was really starting to become irritating, she had to know.