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BATMAN CREATED BY BOB KANE. PLEASE EXCUSE SOME ERRORS BUT
ENGLISH IS NOT MY PRIMARY LANGUAGE.
This story is dedicated to Dennis O´Neil And Alan Moore.
BATMAN: BEHIND THE HOOD
I´m sorry, I´m truly sorry. That was not suppossed to happen.
Sometimes I can remember that night (day?).
I was just an ordinary burglar (a clown) with one thing in mind:
Get enough money to be saved for life (you had a family, you dumb ass).
Family? I don´t remember any family (Alicia?).
The mob was my family. But I had two kids with Alicia.
(Two gangsters, you idiot, they forced you to go to that plant!)
I loved my kids. I´m not really sure what their names where...
(Your wife was pregnant!) but I think one was called Mark and the other Jack.
Jack? That name rings a bell... Who´s Jack?
Well, it doesn´t matter now.
Alicia´s mother was killed, you know. Actually (I think) I killed her...
Wait, no, that´s impossible. I don´t remember killing anyone before that night.
What (night)? Your wife died in an accident. Something with a heater.
Weird accident with electricity. (That inspired you, right? you made
one of your most famous gadgets with high voltage.That thing you
use when you shake hands). Gadget?
She and her mother died (Did you kill your son or her mother?) and I was so sad.
Actually I think I was sad, I´m not sure right now... But I went with my kids (gangsters)
to this beautiful (stinking) plant. Mark and Jack wanted to (steal something)
play in that place. I was so (afraid) sad.
But I went anyway and they made me put some kind of hood.
A Red Hood (You were the Red Hood?).
Anyway, I don´t know exactly what happenned later but I was running,
you know (you were afraid, coward), running of the bad people (police).
They wanted to take my kids away. My wife was sick (Dead! she was dead!) and I needed money.
And a job. I needed a job, that´s why I used (loved) to tell jokes on bars.
Jokes. I love jokes. Don´t you love them?. Laugh, laugh until your face hurts.
My face hurts. Something in the water. It burns... God...
Then It came. It´s wings were so big.
And It came against me (Darling... That´s when we first met).
This monster spoke to me, said something.
"It´s over, Joker." (No, not that)
"So, Red Hood... We meet again" (Yes, something like that)
Meet again? I´d never seen that monster before. The (Bat) creature tried to kill me.
(No! He tried to stop you, maniac!) And he pushed me to the river (To the acid! You Fell!).
And it burned. God, it hurt bad. And Mark and Jack were dead.
My wife was dead. Mark was dead.
Jack was (is) dead.
Jack fell in the acid (Your kid? Wait, what happened?)
Jack died that day.
I must take his hood, damn hood I can´t see right...
Burns. Pain. All that pain together (Alicia? Who is Alicia?).
So many deaths. Since that day many more...
The hair green, the skin white, the lips red and the smile... forever.
It´s all a damn joke now. Laugh with me. But, but...
You know what is the biggest joke?
You really want to know?
I´m not sure I want to stay alive. I´m still waiting for death.
I should have died with my kids.
But he did not kill me. I hope he will change his mind someday.
I´ve made nasty things to make him do it.
He never kills. Not even me (he wants to).
I´ve made his (my) life miserable and yet...
He will not kill me.
Laugh. Laugh with me. Because I will be out again soon.
And I will tempt him again. Like I´ve been doing since that night.
The night Jack died.
BATMAN CREATED BY BOB KANE. PLEASE EXCUSE SOME ERRORS BUT
ENGLISH IS NOT MY PRIMARY LANGUAGE.
This story is dedicated to Dennis O´Neil And Alan Moore.
BATMAN: BEHIND THE HOOD
I´m sorry, I´m truly sorry. That was not suppossed to happen.
Sometimes I can remember that night (day?).
I was just an ordinary burglar (a clown) with one thing in mind:
Get enough money to be saved for life (you had a family, you dumb ass).
Family? I don´t remember any family (Alicia?).
The mob was my family. But I had two kids with Alicia.
(Two gangsters, you idiot, they forced you to go to that plant!)
I loved my kids. I´m not really sure what their names where...
(Your wife was pregnant!) but I think one was called Mark and the other Jack.
Jack? That name rings a bell... Who´s Jack?
Well, it doesn´t matter now.
Alicia´s mother was killed, you know. Actually (I think) I killed her...
Wait, no, that´s impossible. I don´t remember killing anyone before that night.
What (night)? Your wife died in an accident. Something with a heater.
Weird accident with electricity. (That inspired you, right? you made
one of your most famous gadgets with high voltage.That thing you
use when you shake hands). Gadget?
She and her mother died (Did you kill your son or her mother?) and I was so sad.
Actually I think I was sad, I´m not sure right now... But I went with my kids (gangsters)
to this beautiful (stinking) plant. Mark and Jack wanted to (steal something)
play in that place. I was so (afraid) sad.
But I went anyway and they made me put some kind of hood.
A Red Hood (You were the Red Hood?).
Anyway, I don´t know exactly what happenned later but I was running,
you know (you were afraid, coward), running of the bad people (police).
They wanted to take my kids away. My wife was sick (Dead! she was dead!) and I needed money.
And a job. I needed a job, that´s why I used (loved) to tell jokes on bars.
Jokes. I love jokes. Don´t you love them?. Laugh, laugh until your face hurts.
My face hurts. Something in the water. It burns... God...
Then It came. It´s wings were so big.
And It came against me (Darling... That´s when we first met).
This monster spoke to me, said something.
"It´s over, Joker." (No, not that)
"So, Red Hood... We meet again" (Yes, something like that)
Meet again? I´d never seen that monster before. The (Bat) creature tried to kill me.
(No! He tried to stop you, maniac!) And he pushed me to the river (To the acid! You Fell!).
And it burned. God, it hurt bad. And Mark and Jack were dead.
My wife was dead. Mark was dead.
Jack was (is) dead.
Jack fell in the acid (Your kid? Wait, what happened?)
Jack died that day.
I must take his hood, damn hood I can´t see right...
Burns. Pain. All that pain together (Alicia? Who is Alicia?).
So many deaths. Since that day many more...
The hair green, the skin white, the lips red and the smile... forever.
It´s all a damn joke now. Laugh with me. But, but...
You know what is the biggest joke?
You really want to know?
I´m not sure I want to stay alive. I´m still waiting for death.
I should have died with my kids.
But he did not kill me. I hope he will change his mind someday.
I´ve made nasty things to make him do it.
He never kills. Not even me (he wants to).
I´ve made his (my) life miserable and yet...
He will not kill me.
Laugh. Laugh with me. Because I will be out again soon.
And I will tempt him again. Like I´ve been doing since that night.
The night Jack died.