It was the middle of the night when Harley and Joker awoke to the sound of banging at their door. Joker lazily sat up and pulled on a pair of sweat pants as he ambled downstairs to the front door, in no particular rush. The banging continued "All right already! I'm coming!" Joker yelled as he reached the door.

He opened it to see a small girl standing in front of him, she looked about seven years old. Her clothes were dirty and she was clinging to a small teddy bear. Joker looked at her and said "I'm sorry we don't have any money to give you" as he began to close the door.

"I don't want money" came the girl's meek voice.

"Then what do you want?" Joker sighed leaning on the door.

"I want my daddy" she answered.

"Your daddy aint here, look somewhere else, sweetheart" he began to close the door again.

"But…but you're my dad" she said.

This stopped Joker dead in his tracks "What?" he asked quietly?

"Y…you're my dad"

"I don't have a daughter, so just go home to your mommy little girl"

"My mommy's dead"

Joker stared at the girl as she stared back, Joker remembered what it was like to be alone on the streets and knew how horrible it could be. He looked at the girl, she looked almost identical to him, other than the bleached skin and green hair of course "W…what was your mommy's name?"

"Jeanie Napier" Joker closed his eyes at the sound of her name, he remembered her. She was his wife before he had become the Joker, he also remembered that she had been pregnant when he left her "Mommy said that if anything happened to her that I had to come find you" when Joker didn't respond she continued "You're Jack Napier, my daddy and I'm Chloe Napier, your daughter"

Joker looked down at her again, she had Jeanie's eyes and her hair "Wait here" Joker said as he walked back inside. He went to his room he shared with Harley and sure enough she was still asleep, she slept like a rock. He walked back downstairs to find Chloe walking around the room "I told you to wait out front" he said as he lifted her up and sat her at the counter. Joker walked around to the other side, he leaned on his hands and looked at the girl.

"I'm hungry"

"Of course you are" Joker mumbled. He looked around and found as piece of pizza from a couple of nights ago, it was slightly mouldy Good enough he thought "Here" he said as he put the plate down in front of Chloe.

The girl made a face at the meal "Ew"

"Well what do you want?"

"Do you have any ice-cream?"

Joker growled as he took a tub of ice-cream out of the fridge and set it down in front of her. He looked around and pulled a spoon out of an old bowl of soup and put it next to the ice cream for her to use "There, better?" Chloe sighed and shook her head as she stood up and walked over to the sink, she turned on the tap and rinsed the spoon in the water until it was clean. She then returned to her seat and began to eat the ice cream. Joker stared at her "You're just like your mother"

Joker then heard someone coming downstairs "Who's that?" asked the girl as she clung to her bear.

"That'll be Harley"

"Jay?" Harley called "Why aren't ya in bed no more?"

"Down here Harley" Joker called back.

"Jay its two o clock in the…" Harley trailed off when she looked up to see Joker standing beside a small girl sitting at the counter "Uh…Jay? Who's this?"

Joker took a deep breath "This is Chloe…she's my…" he hesitated, would Harley really be ok with this?

"He's my daddy" Chloe said as she beamed up at Joker.

Joker lifted his eyes from the floor to look at Harley without lifting his head "Is that true Jay?" Harley whispered.

"I uh I dunno yet"

"You don't know?" Harley asked as she walked closer to the Joker "How could you not know if you had a child or not?!" Harley asked as she burst into tears "How could you do this to me?! How could you betray me like this?!"

"How did I betray you?"

"You had a child! You obviously fucked another woman!" she shouted but Joker remained calm.

"Chloe go sit on the couch ok?" Joker said and Chloe nodded silently and walked to the couch. The only sound that could be heard was the padding of Chloe's socked feet and Harley silent sobbing. Once Joker had closed the door to the living room he rounded on Harley "Don't you dare use that language around her!"

Harley looked up at him in surprise, Joker had never had a problem with profanity before but now all of a sudden he despised it "Why did you do it?"

"It was before I met you, before I met the bat even. I was married, I thought she was dead Harley! I didn't know she had my kid!"

"Well you should have check shouldn't you?!"

"I THOUGHT SHE WAS DEAD!" Joker yelled so loud that Batman himself probably could have heard.

This made Harley stop sobbing and screaming "What are we going to do with her?" she asked quietly.

"I don't know" Joker sighed looking through the crack in the door at the little girl.

"We could raise her" Harley suggested.

"Do you really think that we are in the right state to raise a child?!" Joker retorted sternly.

"I could take care of her" Harley said "Rocco could help, he had a daughter"

Joker groaned "We'll let it sleep here tonight, we'll figure out what to do with it in the morning"

Harley nodded "Ok" she approached the living room "And don't call her an it, 'it' is your daughter"

An hour later the Joker was sitting across from Chloe who was snuggled up in about five blankets that Harley had given her. Harley had since gone to bed but Joker stayed down stairs looking at Chloe "Why do you do that?" she suddenly asked.

"Do what?"

"Stare at me"

"Just thinking" He said standing up getting ready to return to his own bed.

"Oh" she yawned "Good night daddy" she sighed as she closed her eyes again.

Daddy? Joker thought that'll take some getting used to Joker bent down and kissed her on the forehead "Good night, sweetheart" He stood up and began walked back to his bedroom "Great, now I have to take care of two dames" he said as he landed on the bed face down "Why me?"

"Jay? You alright?" Harley asked turning over.

"I'm fine" he replied as he took her in his arms.

"You think we might keep her?"

"We'll figure something out in the morning. Now let me sleep you useless waste of space" he said closing his eyes and nuzzling into the back of Harleys neck making her smile and fall asleep herself.