Helloooo out there in the wonderful world of fan-fiction, as a brief introduction, this is an idea I had floating around for a good while in my head, yes it is a long story but I promise you it is a fun rollercoaster of death, sex, drama, and some comedy in Gotham. I hope you enjoy.

Important Note: I do not own batman...or anything DC. The only thing I own is a TV and some shoes oh and Emerald.

It was a dark night in Gotham City. The air was of the usual dense quality, with the people to match. With the sudden silence of crimes, it made everyone on edge, especially Batman. Every night during his patrol he would bust the usual street thug that would come along and steal an purse or two. Yet, the usual big names have not attacked anyone; No Poison Ivy trying to convert this world into something that is more plant like, No Sandman using his dreams to make money his reality, Not even any Joker planning any type of attack, it was just strange. He began to jump rooftop to rooftop until he reached his destination; the clock tower. Upon reaching the clock-tower he noticed a woman laying in the street crying.

"Ma'am do you need help?" Batman asked the woman

The woman flew up and kicked him the back of the head and smiled. He looked up and looked at the now revealed Harley-Quinn that stood before him.

"oh gee, bats I never thought you would help a little damsel in distress like me. Too bad I already have my knight in shining armor"

"I would never help someone like you"

"Ouch that hurt my feels bats. Oh well it's ok, I know my daughter will help me out. In fact she is probably looking at where to hit you that cinder block that she just found'
"Huh-"

With a quick thud Batman became one with the sidewalk, he looked up and noticed that there was a green cloud of smoke that began to envelop the sky. He then heard the chuckle of an familiar foe. The purple suit was enough to give him away in an heart beat. The Joker.

" Hey, hello Bats!"
"What are you doing Joker?"

"Isn't it obvious Bats? I am getting ready to rob a bank or two as you watch from a proper viewing area"

"I will not be sitting here watching you, defile this city in any form"

" I am afraid that is not a choice that you can make in your position."

A large hammer came to the back of the Bat's head. Everything went into a darkened perspective for the bat. Harley-Quinn came close and picked up the bat. Then a second shadow followed closely behind. The shadow jumped rooftop to rooftop following the couple and their prize. Finally they reached their destination. The remnants of an old Rollercoaster stood in the distance overlooking the darkened landscape. The Joker smiled at the shadow that was following them. Harley dropped the bat into a cage that was fashioned out of an old fashioned dunk tank and tied him was conscious and listening to the conversation.

"Emmy don't be afraid to come here my dear."

The shadow walked forward and came out of the darkness. A young woman whom was in her mid twenties, well built, raven hair touched down to her shoulders, with her ends splashed in turquoise. Her emerald green eyes looked up at the Joker and Harley-Quinn.

"Okay, daddy J" said the raven-haired woman

"I am going to need you to watch this gigantic excuse for a nocturnal animal" waving a gun in Batmans direction, the girl looked at Batman and frowned. She tapped the glass.

"alrighty, wait does he bite?" The Joker put a comforting hand on the girls shoulders and the bat noticed she flinched.

"No, my dear, trust me he can't harm anyone but himself at this point" her face seemed to stick with her original uncomfortable expression. Harley looked at the girl she took in, she looked a little distraught.

"Baby, maybe we should just take her with us this one time. You know, I wouldn't want to-" A smack silenced the mother figure, with a look from the younger girl standing in the room that spoke many volumes. The Joker breathed and looked at his latest target with a grin and a look that only a few have ever seen.

"I call the shots around here, don't you ever forget that"

"ok, mr.J" The bruised woman replied back
the young girl and the bat made eye contact and he could see there was a glimpse that she was worried about something, then she smiled at the joker.

'' Okay, later mama Quinn, daddy J!"

With that The Joker and Harley-Quinn disappeared deep into the tunnel of love. He groaned to lure the young girl over to where he was. The raven-haired woman walked towards the bat and smiled at him.

"you know, I wouldn't have thought that you would've fallen for something as simple as that." Now leaning on the case and playfully smiling

"I doubt that your real parents would approve of what you are doing right now" Her stance intensified and she crossed her arms and looked away

"In all honesty you do not know my real parents, man bat" He noticed her change in demeanor and tried to get her to let her guard down so she would reveal more information

"How did you come down this road Emmy?" she smiled and relaxed and looked at him

"Emerald, to you...man bat"

"Batman to you" She smiled and put her hands up in a defensive motion.

"Batman"
"How did you get involved with Joker and Harley-Quinn?" She looked at him with a thoughtful look and looked up as if to think.

"As far as I remember Joker and mama Quinn were always in my life. Ever since the great fire down at the orphanage, I was wondering around in the streets for 5 days until mama Quinn found me and took me in. Joker took a while to get adjusted to havin' me around but eventually he warmed up to me and the rest is history."

"How long have you been helping them with all of their robberies and crimes?"

"Woah, no no I revealed some of my history, you have to tell me something about yourself, why did you start fighting manbat?"

He took a deep sigh and looked at the younger woman that stood before him knowing that he ran a risk of blowing his cover if he told her the truth, yet something told him that she was just interested. The room grew tense and she took a step closer to the tank to get a closer look at her captor. She touched the glass. Her voice was soft.

"Well batsy what happened?"
"When I was smaller my parents were shot by a man whom was selfish and had only his own thoughts in mind. I much like you was sent off to an orphanage."

His company looked shocked, yet somewhat puzzled. She took a deep breath and frowned.

"I am surprised you did not go after the piece of trash that did that to you. Why didn't you?"

"It wasn't in my nature to kill, it was in my nature to save"

Emerald looked distraught and her eyes burned with was triggered in her. She took a deep breath and looked at batman eye to eye.

"In this world there are those that will not stop at anything to continue to kill and hurt innocent people. When someone like you lets them free you let more lives go to the dirt. I should know Joker does it all the time, and you keep letting him go, the way he hurts the people, the mothers, daughters and that bus full of kids he blew up last month. Yet, you keeps letting him go into the asylum where he breaks out. Then continues the cycle again. One day you will be forced to chose between what your morals say is right and what will save a life."

While talking Batman was working on the ropes that were holding him in. It became a regular routine between him and his enemies, he often wondered if they timed how quickly he would get out of the bonds that held him in. Oddly enough the person he was having the conversation with smiled at him as if she knew. Her demeanor changed and She smiled at him.

"I was wondering how long it would take you to get out of those ropes..."That statement caused batman to get sightly annoyed, it reminded him of Selina

"why are you here if you are not for what Joker is doing"
"Honestly, someone needs to take care of the only woman who took me in, and quite frankly...I love her too much to leave her alone with that sadistic maniac. So see we all have moral obligations "

She smiled at him and frowned. Then looked at the door. The sound of Joker and Harley's steps grew closer. The joker was yelling about something.

" I'm afraid our time is cut short"

"You should get out of here, you are too smart for this."
"So should you...DADDY J! MOMMA QUINN! He is trying to escape!

Emerald looked at him as Harley-Quinn and Joker came running into the room with a few of their goons behind them. Harley ran up to Emerald and rushed her out of the room. When Emerald looked back she saw Batman knocking half of the goons out. They touched eyes for a brief second. Batman ran towards the Joker and moved to punch him, The joker sidestepped and sliced at Batman. He smiled and looked at the bat that stood before him.

"You know I would've never thought you would take an interest in my Ruby.I find this rather interesting. The funny thing is I put up cameras around this place, and I always thought that, she never liked me. Oh well, I guess Harls is going to have to say goodbye to her play thing. After I am done showing her who the real monster is around here!"

He laughed manically, and charged towards Batman and missed. With a slight of hand Batman kicked the Joker in the face and took him down. More goons game into the room, and charged at Batman as he was apprehending the Joker. He looked at the clown that was trying to roll towards the door that led to the same direction of Harley and Emerald. He knew exactly what the Joker was going to do and he wasn't going to allow for that to happen. He threw fists left and right and knocked out the goons, when he turned around to look at the spot where joker was last seen, only to see the ropes which held the joker in place on the ground. He heard maniacal laughter and screaming coming from the other room. Then a crash came form the window from the room that Batman was was robin, he looked at the panicked expression the bats face.

"Robin LETS GO!"

With that they both ran down the hall into a room where they found Emerald on the floor covered in blood gasping for air. Looking up at Batman.

"Don't let him hurt her please..." The woman that was laying on the floor was trying to reach out to him to go help the one woman who was considered a mother figure to her. Batman knew that that woman she wanted to be saved would be woman on the floor was his main concern right now. He turned around and looked at Robin and yelled out his next statement.

"TIM CALL FOR A BUS NOW!" Robin knew that they were'nt too far from the Joker and if they ran outside they could catch him and his sidekick before they got too far away.

"But what about-"

The intensity rose as the man wearing the suit looked at the "boy wonder" and his expression displayed every bit and piece of anger that he could show.

"NOW!"

Robin ran out of the room to gather a signal to make a call from his transmitter, shocked at Batmans sudden emotional display. The bat sat with the young woman in his arms looking up at him, she smiled. Batman started to bandage her up and look at her questioning whether or not to say anything to her. The silence felt like hours. She spoke.

"Who would've thought I'd end up dying in the arms of a man whom let the very man that killed my dad go free...You...should know that if I survive this, I am going to consider getting myself one of those nice suits you have." He was confused by this statement, only because it would seem that she would know who her dad was, yet she was smaller when Joker came and adopted her, why would she turn against the very man that took her in.

"What do you mean?"

"What do I mean man bat? For a detective you have a horrible sense of what someone is saying"

There was silence again. The girl seemed to be drifting in and out of consciousness. Batman began to question what is making him stay and watch over her. It felt different this time around, it felt as if he was connected to her somehow. The need to take her in was different in comparison to Tim Drake. He did not know what this was. She noticed him staring at her and smiled.

"Take a picture it will last longer."
"Huh?"
"You was staring at me, what never saw a girl before?"

"no, its not that...I was worried"

"about little ol'-" she coughed up some blood "me?"

The ambulance workers rushed in and got her on a stretcher and out of the vicinity, he was worried about the damage that was done. He felt a small tinge of anger, in comparison to the usual feeling of when someone usually gets hurt. He wanted to hurt Joker, he asked himself why does he feel that way. He looked out towards the night and disappeared. Robin came in and looked around. He sighed and looked at the hole that was left in the ceiling.

"You don't know what you are getting yourself into."

It was a bright day in comparison to the usual weather in Gotham. The people looked somewhat more happy. The air surrounding the First Hospital at Gotham was highly different in comparison to the aura that surrounded the city of Gotham. Six months have gone by since that night in the factory. Batman had apprehended the Joker the next morning with a few added bruises on the Jokers person .Bruce Wayne sent flowers to Emerald while she was in the hospital, but never heard anything back. A young man in his mid-teens entered his office and looked drained. His raven hair was combed back and his blue eyes pierced right through Bruce's worried expression, he knew who he was thinking about and he didn't like it.

"Still thinking about that criminal?"

"She isn't what you think she is..."
" This is the first time I have seen you like this Bruce, you are slipping...what makes her so special?" Noticing his constant disapproval of Bruce's thoughts Bruce thought to fire back in a playful tone

"you sound jealous...are you Tim?"

"no, don't even think that Bruce. I am just worried she is far more evil than you think." Sounding both appalled and worried at the same time.

"I dunno there is something different about her"

What makes you think that she is different?" Bruce didn't know what it was that kept her on his mind.

"Tim, I honestly don't know."

A voice came in over the intercom Telling Bruce Wayne that his 1:30 interview appointment was coming in. Tim looked at him and left as a woman walks in. Her caramel colored skin and clear complexion drew Bruce's eyes in. She smiled at him. His eyes started to draw from her legs up to her torso, where there were two round indents in the front of her wasn't one to let his manly instincts take charge, but there was something about this woman that made his instincts take over. She noticed he was staring at her, and his dark brown eyes connected with her green ones.

"Hello it is a pleasure to meet with you." she smiled and extended her hand
"The pleasure is all mine, have a seat tell me a little about yourself" he connected with the extended hand and smiled

As the conversation went on he couldn't help but to occasionally glance at her legs and chest. She noticed yet kept up a professional face. They talked and laughed for hours. There was a pause in the room and Bruce looked at the woman that was sitting before him. He had made the decision when she first walked in but he had to make sure, he was right.

"Well , I would like to congratulate you on your new position with Wayne industries."

"Thank you for hiring me sir."

"You can call me Bruce, "
"Hmm...in that case you can call me Ruby, see you around Bruce"

With that she was in as quickly as she she left. Bruce was used to being the one who was doing the charming and not being the one whom was being charmed. Yet, something called him to her. Tim walked back in and looked at Bruce and smiled at the mans blushing face.

"So, how did the interview go, seeing as you were talking for about...five hours" He said while playfully looking at his watch. The older man stayed serious yet flashed a smile at the playful youth.

"It actually went well. Better than I expected."

"Oh?"

"Yea, she is someone I think you will have a great time getting to know and get along with"

"It seems that you want to get to know her more." He laughed and punched Bruce in the arm playfully. Bruce looked out the window thoughtfully and smiled.
"Maybe I do..."

The cityscape of Gotham under the setting sun was enough to calm the most unsettled of the night. Yet the Darkness began to settle in on the tops of every building and envelop the city. Armed with nothing but vigilance batman went out for his evening patrol. The city was anything but quiet. A cloud of smoke was coming from the first Gotham Hospital. He dropped to a nearby rooftop and looked at the nearby Robin parked in an adjacent garage hub made special for the bat mobile. A small sound of static erupted over the loud speakers.

"Hellooo! Is this thing working? Here ya go Mister J!"

"Thank you Harls, hello Gotham this is your local man of the year Joker out to play a fun game with you today! This hospital is being contaminated with a little bit of my happy gas, you see..you have until 12 am to pretty much get everyone out...see heres the catch, at every nook and cranny my lovely assistants are waiting to shoot on sight, well actually all but one...now I know that nosy bat isn't going to keep his nose out of this I set something special up for you too batsy! I have snipers with bullets laced with cyanide and if you still feel compelled to go crazy and try to be the annoyance that you are I will increase the dosage and release speed...so just so you know patients and doctors of Gotham you are on your own! TaTa!"

The speaker made a stopping noise. And Bruce began to talk to Robin.

"Robin i am going to need you to trace the area for any camera frequencies and do a heat scan to map out the snipers."
"Right on it!"

"Batman I am picking up 7 snipers and 3 cameras in the south-west, north-east and south walls of the hospital and there is some one moving across the rooftops towards your general position"
"Wait...what?"

In a flash of an instant a woman appeared next to Batman, she purred softly. He knew who it was.

"Hi Selina."
"Hey Batman"

"Why are you here?"

"Ivy is in there and I owe her a favor and I thought you may need the company"

" I can handle this all on my own." she put a finger on his lips and smiled.
"Shh...Bruce I'm helping whether you like it or not."

Bruce sighed and looked at the woman sitting beside him and looked back at the Hospital. He let her know all of the Intel. If there was anyone she hated more than the penguin, it had to be the Joker. The women noticed Bruce's demeanor something about it seemed much more determined than usual. She fought in her mind whether or not to ask him whats going on. She decided against it, because after all he was the original "Man of Steel" when it came to emotions.

"The Joker would not expect Selina to be working with me, so what we shall do, is have you go around the back where the Joker would be looking for me and Robin to come from, Robin will , while they are reoccupied with Selina, get in from the north, and me on west corridor, Selina once the snipers are taken care of I want you to press this button" he hands her a bat shaped pendant with a blinking light on it "I will come to where you are located and let you in-"

In the midst of his planning a loud bang was heard, and all of the snipers fell off of the roof, and a woman was floating above the hospital, covered in flames. She shot a fireball at one of the Jokers cannisters that was pumping the gas into the hospital. She quickly flew into the hospital, where gun shots were heard. Batman, Robin and Catwoman quickly dashed towards the building. The woman opened the front door and let the doctors out with the patients so they can run to safety. Batman looked shocked as he looked closer at the woman aiding all of the people.

"Emerald"

She looked in his direction before getting hit with a rock by one of Jokers henchman. She looked down at him, smiled and blasted him with a fireball and then flew off into the distance. The trio was in shock of what they just witnessed. It took a lot to throw batman off. But he quickly snapped back into focus when he heard the sound of the speaker reactivating again.

"I see that someone took it upon themself to call in some help of a whiny brat, thats okay I have my men tracking that stupid excuse of a sidekick for me. Got that Bats'? I'm going to kill that little screwup Ruby! So you either stay and help out these simpletons or risk me coming back and killing everyone while you try to rescue that little Bitch! And trust me I will!"

This is the first time Batman had heard the Joker lose his calm demeanor, he figured it would be smart for him to stay. He looked back at Robin whom was helping Catwoman get the injured Poison Ivy out of the hospital. Robin looked at him and walked towards the Batman.

"Do...you want me to go after her?"

"No."

"But.."

"She...can handle it"
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