Beep
Beep
Beep
A steady metallic beeping slowly made it's way to my left ear. In my opinion, one of the most annoying sounds in the universe. Lifting my eyelids I glanced around. Blurry. I tried blinking. Made a world of difference. White coat. That's what I saw. A person in a white coat. Now, I realize my speech is a bit choppy but that's about how my head feels. Blinking again, I try harder to focus.
I was in a hospital.
The Fuck?
I'm in a hospital…. What the fuck for?
The beeping in my left ear grew more frantic than I had otherwise realized. More shuffling.
"Well, Hello beautiful."
Shifting my glance to the right, my blood turned to ice as pair of coal eyes met my view. Feeling my eyes grow ridiculously wide in horror as the man's tongue darted out to swipe at his jagged, ruby grin, I felt my stomach drop in the realization that what was going on.
At some point in the not too distant past, I was on my way home from work. I wasn't causing trouble, or being a nuisance. I had just turned the key in the door; it was my night to close the bakery. Then everything went amuck.
I heard gunfire. So, being the genius that I am, I hit the ground and threw my belongings somewhere above my head out of a misplaced sense of panic. I heard the window above me shatter. Shaking, I opened one of my eyes to see my box of baked goods and glimmering pieces of glass strewn about. Then I heard the footsteps.
I wanted to scream, it's a miracle I didn't.
I saw someone half running, half limping towards me. My heart started racing and the adrenalin rush kicked in.
Leaving behind everything, even the bakery key (Which, I will probably get fired for), and ran the opposite direction.
My heart was pounding in my ears, I was scared shitless.
I ran towards the street, hoping to god a taxi would magically appear.
A taxi did not appear….and then everything happened REALLY fast.
I didn't see a taxi, but for some reason that I will never be able to justify, I just happened to miss the speeding black Sedan that was in motion.
For time purposes, lets just say that I didn't look both ways.
And THAT… Is probably how I ended up here.
In a hospital.
With Gotham's most wanted criminal.
The Joker.
