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The air around her was murky, heavily pressing against her. The smell of burning surrounded in a comfort hug as the tears dried on her face. Eyes closing as arms wrap around her, protecting her from the outside world. She felt her world tilt and she held her breath. Golden eyes were there, cowering behind anger and regret. Gold closed to reveal in smoke, they burned into nothing. Her tormenters burned from the world, by...
Ash gray and purple eyes opened with a grunt of pain. Her head was throbbing to the beating of her heart making her sight cloudy. Blinking to wake up, she took her time to raise from the slouched position.
"You're awake, sister." Someone spoke with grief. Dark purple eyes stared at her and with a blank look, she spoke as if drugged.
"Coward." That one word echoed in the room. She blinked trying to focus on the body before her.
"Fight? Why did you start a fight? On your first night here." He asked her while looking at the staff around the room. He had to pull a lot of strings to get her here so that they could talk.
"Why should it matter, brother?" She was cold towards him. Her eyes that stared unblinkingly was colder than ice, hell would have froze over at her stare. He knew who he was talking too and he backed away as if burned.
"Nig-" The growl that sounded in the room froze his tongue in place. He stared in fear, shivering from the coldness of the person before him. He couldn't move.
"You had no right. No right. She was healing." Her words were soft spoken, but they reached him as if she was yelling.
"I did-"
"What was good for her. I love her, I wouldn't hurt her. I'm protecting her. Its for her own good." She finished for him and she smirked a cruel smirk.
"I've heard it all before, brother. That still hasn't change, your love. You hurt her, me, when you place us here. I made them so that I could hide, be forgotten. But they had to go and take her mask." She bit her lips as dark chuckles shook her frame. She watched her brother breathed slowly into fear. Her eyes narrowed as she tried to stand.
She looked down when she couldn't move her arms and growled. Her anger reaching new heights in years as she pull and tug against the arms of the chair. She was hand cuffed to the stupid thing.
"Give her, her mask." His voice was shaky and breaking as if he had never used it before until now. He watched her stop struggling to watch him and he gulp.
"Sorry, Sir. It's against policy." One of the staff, a nurse he thinks, stated as he stir away from the cuffed women.
"Give it back, nurse." The nurse looked away from him and paled at the cuff women. "Give it here now." She ordered, but the nurse stood his ground.
"Brother." His sister sweetly asked an unspoken order. Her eyes made promises if he didn't.
"Do as she says." He state to one of the other staff that was near the door. "Please." He tack on as an after thought. The one on the right of the door, he had a butterfly bandage bound over the bridge of his nose, nod his head and left the room. Brother smiled his thanks when he returned seconds later.
"Did she?" He asked and pointed to his own nose. The staff member nod his head and made his way to the cuff women.
Both persons in the staring contest stopped to stare at him. He handed over the mask after he uncuffed a hand.
"Thanks, uh..." She trilled off when her eyes didn't see a name tag.
"Luke. " Luke shrugs as he uncuff the other hand. They all watch as the women place the mask over her face, with thin fingers, pulled her hair into a loose braid before turning the bleach ends into a bow.
"Thank, Luke. I must be going, I don't know who might show up, but please greet them with this..." She whispered something in his ear and before her eyes soften and glazed over for second, she watch him nod his head in understanding.
When she blinked once again, it was to hard purple eye glaring into Luke's chocolate brown ones.
"Who might you be, Lil One?" Luke asked, the words spun like silk flowing out of his mouth before he could regret them. One moment eyes widen before glancing at his nose. Large smile graced them with a row of prefect whiten teeth.
"So you survived?" She questioned, her voice sounding like honey. Luke only nod, not knowing what she was asking.
"I guess so, Miss..." He trilled off when he noticed that she never answered his question. She frowned. Huffed as if listening to someone. Then giggles, rows of giggles left her with tears running down her face. She settled and sighed.
"Cheshire. You?" She asked half listening to her voice.
"Luke."
"Chess, shut up!" Cheshire growled as she closed her eyes. "Jeez, alright already. Nagging hag." She huffed out with irritation heavy in the sound. She glared at Luke and pressed her lips together tightly.
"Sorry." She mumbled. "There I said it. Now shut up!" She growled as her eyes glaze over.
"What just happen?" Another staff asked in wonder as they watch the women just sit stiffly in her seat.
"Now that was a surprise."
Everyone looked over to the owner f those words.
"How so, Black?" Luke asked as he stood to face him. Black blinked before meeting the others gaze.
"Cheshire never. I mean she has never gave her sorrys' to anyone. Not even to me." Black answered.
"Who was the one that was speaking to before Cheshire spoke?" A nurse asked as she tried to pray the mask off. A hand gripped her wrist tightly and ash gray glared at her.
"None of your business. Also don't." She ordered before glancing over to Black.
"Brother. Go to hell and rot." She stood and glanced at Luke. Everyone looked between the two.
"I'm ready to go back, if I am done here, Luke." She asked softly. Luke looked over to his boss, saw the nod of approval, and lead the you'd women out.
"So, uh..." Luke stopped speaking when he noticed the change in the women.
"Chess." She answered with a smile. In the back of her head, she can hear Shire scolding Cheshire like a mother.
"Chess. Its a cute name." He said without thinking. Chess giggled and Luke broke into a smile. "So, who was?"
"We don't know, honestly. Shire might k ow, she the oldest of the three of us." Chess answered as Shire broke to the surface to watch what was going on.
"Shire?" Luke asked wondering how she would act like.
"She like a mouse. Quiet, polite, completely different from I and Cheshire."
"Sounds like a nice girl." He watched her chuckle for a bit. Luke glanced at the door that they came to and put in the code before moving on.
"That she is, but its the quiet ones who have to be careful around." Chess chuckled out as they come up to the last door before her block. Luke held the door opened for her. Chess froze in the door way.
The floor was covered in blood that is still being clean off. Mops laid uselessly off to the side, soaked in blood. She could hear Cheshire laughing and Shire scolding the laughing women.
"I'm sorry." She mumbled. Luke stood just behind her. "Why is it still here?" She asked, kicking off the hand on her elbow.
"They need more mops." Luke answered, trying to get the women to move. Chess, sighed before turning slowly to look at Luke.
On edge, Luke watch the women change before him. The calm and cool changed in a blink of an eye to a women who was cold.
"I'm truly sorry for this." Chess whispered knocking the man out.
"Oh, you're back." Someone stated to her left. She glanced over to the left with a smile as she placed Luke on the floor.
"Get the keys. The keys." Someone else ordered to her right.
"Joker," Her voice was firm and unmoving. Pale green brow rose in wonder. "You staying in you cage." Joker smiled and giggled as if she was joking. When their eyes met, Joker stood still.
"Who, uh are you, sweetie?" He ask with his head titled to the side. Joker was sure that he was talking to someone differently. The purple eye was glaring coldly while the gray one narrowed with softness. A strange combination.
"Fuck off." The voice was different too.
"Ooh fun." Joker sneered in a must have gaze towards the being before him. The mask that they had given her, fitted her in a strange way.
"I mean it, c...What do ye mean! Make up ye damn mind, fuckin pawn. Call ye wha me want." She yelled out with a frown upon her face. Joker watched her leave to retrieve a mop that was soaked in blood.
"Shut ye mouth. Me! When me done, me going to claw eye out. Haha like ye could stop me. Fuck off, Shire. Me watch..." She trilled off into laughter as she opened a random cell. She dropped the mop into the toilet and flushed. Watching the blood run down, Cheshire lifted the mop and carried it out and flopped it onto the floor. Water covered the floor mixing with the blood and she moves in circles.
"Like ye could do beter. Ha, like ye to try. Me watch ye, ye couldn't even fine a broom, Shire. Ye could try, its like me could try." She kept talking to herself and her cell mates watched.
"Oh, for the dieing world, shut fuckin mouth. Me geting a headache. I wi-" She stopped in mid word before deflating and paled.
"Shire. Me understand. Me working, see." She whispered as she made another circle. Cheshire glanced over to Luke, who she had placed up right against the door, was starting to wake.
"Ye think? Me don't wanna, Shire ye do it. Wha, oi not fair, snow white." She sighed before placing the mop down and made her way to the guard. She kneeled in front of him and waited. Her frame changed and her eyes became softer.
"Chess, you could have hurt him. Cheshire shut it. What do I do? No, no I don't know if that would work. Maybe, bu...I don't know, Night. Doing it, doing it." A mouse like voice said as she leaned down into the man. She shifted her weight and waited.
Luke woke to someone next to him. When his eyes opened he meet a tearful gaze. A watery smile was given to him as he rubbed his head.
"Wha?" She placed a finger against his lips. Luke felt a blush form.
"Shire? You have to be Shire." Luke mumbled as Shire helped him stand.
"You fell by slipping on the floor." Shire lie was through her teeth without a second thought. "Your keys fell out of your pocket and I didn't know what to do." She finished with more tears in her eyes.
'Doing good. Just fine.' Night whispered against her ears as she watched.
"I'm alright and thank you." Luke said with a smile as he slowly guide her to her cell. He opened the door and let her pass through before closing it.
"I hope you feel better, Luke." Shire said sweetly and waved bye as he left. Everyone was silent until the ward's door closed behind Luke.
"How ye do that?" Joker was the first to question her. Riddle was next and Scarecrow didn't even speak to her.
"Are you this loose?" She asked the Joker right back with a blank stare. She heard him fall to the floor before a rage filled yells echoed.
"Ye know, your uh bitch. But that was uh brilliant!" Joker said after he had calmed down.
~ #$%&~
Shire woke to someone pounding on the clear door. She groaned as she rolled to face whoever was standing there. Luke was there smiling like it was going out of fashion.
"Rise and shine, snow white. (Here Shire blinked and broke out to giggles at her nickname.) Time for dinner." Luke waited until she was towards the back wall, facing him, before opening the door. She followed him.
They enter a side room to her ward and stood in the doorway to gaze around. One large cicluar table stood in the middle of the room. Six chairs were scooted in and wore backs that was padded unlike the seat. Behind chairs and table was trays of food with their names on them. Next to that was a wall that was just glass. Sunlight filled the room and Shire took a step inside.
There were three guards stationed around the room as they ate. They would take walks around the room, but otherwise left the inmates alone.
She made her way to a tray with Chess watching Shire picked one up with Chess' name under it before turning and randomly taking a seat. The guys joined her. Joker on her left, Riddler on her right, and lastly Scarecrow in front of her.
"Wha?" Shire looked down at the mush of something. She took the plastic spork and lifted a glop of it before watching it plop back onto her plate.
"I wouldn't play with it." Riddler stated glancing around the room, watching the gaurds. Shire glanced over to him with a raise brow.
"Eat, Snow White." Joker ordered. Shire looked over to him.
"It looks like it would run." Shire mumbled towards him and he giggled. She wanted to hear him laugh, not this drug induced calm.
"Eat." The word had came from before her and Shire meet blue eyes. The blue seem darker, like a stormy blue. She looked back down at her tray and sallowed.
'Do I?' She asked the other girls. Instead of answering, they turn from her with pale green skin as if they were sick.
Sighing, Shire spooned some and plop the mush onto her tray again. The others watch her. Then she narrowed her eyes and spooned some mush and the guys lean slightly as if they were on the edge of their seats with suspension. They watch the spoon be brought to her lips, Shire watched the boys reaction as she let it fall back onto her plate.
Riddler elbow fell off the table in disbelief as Joker jerked back out of his chair with laughter deep and full, but still fucking calm. She saw the eye twitch of the Scarecrow as he sit back into his chair. She just laughed.
'Stop playing.' A voice had her jumping out of her chair and looking around for the owner. Joker only laugh harder. Riddler chuckled, while the only other inmate smirk in amusement. Shire blushed.
"Fine." She mumbled as she stared at the mush. The order was than forced upon her mind as the hand was moved without her thought. She blinked.
"Well, this never happened before." Shire opened her mouth and pulled the spork into her mouth. The mush sat on her tongue before she forced it down.
"Wha is that made of!" She questioned as she cry. "Please don't make me eat anymore." She clung to the Riddler's arm as she cried. Joker broke into giggles that shook his frame.
"Oh, I like you." Joke said between his laughter. Riddler rubbed her back awkwardly as she cried harder. Then out of nowhere, she flung herself out of the odd angle and growled at him. Riddler only blinked.
"Can't ye do anything right, Shire? No ye can't. Now shut fuckin up and let me eat." Cheshire ordered and she spooned the mush. Surprise wide eyes watched her inhale the food without taking a breath. When there was nothing left on the tray, Cheshire chugged the water down in one go.
"That is how ye do it." She stated with a large smile at the looks she was getting.
A bell ringed not ten seconds later and they were piled out of the room into the next white room. Chairs made a half circle that face one single chair in the middle of the room. Cheshire noticed that there was no window or anything in this room. She was pulled lightly towards a chair and placed between Joker and Scarecrow with Riddler on Joker's other side. Then the room was filled with more inmates. They all took a chair that was away from Riddler and Scarecrow. Then a nurse walked in with a pill station on wheels with a doctor on her heels.
She felt Joker stretched his arm out over her shoulders and laid his hand on the other side of her chair. He leaned back into his chair and cross his legs at his ankles. The other guys of her ward pulled to their full height to keep everyone away from her.
She wonder why?
She soon found out why. Once their group therapy was done with their schedule pill intake afterwards, they were given free ring until lights out.
Cheshire felt their eyes on her, undressing her and she didn't like it. The pill she took didn't help either, she could already fell like she was becoming smoke. It took all of her willpower to stay in control.
Joker noticed the changed in the girl before the others and he wondered why he was worried for her. His dusky brown eyes narrowed as another overweight inmate walk even closer to them.
Cheshire groaned as her mind felt far away and she leaned into the Joker. She felt his arm pull her closer and his grip grew tight. She could already feel her host waking up from her sleep and she didn't seem happy about it.
The next to noticed the change was Scarecrow. His cold eyes watched as the women pulled into herself as if cold. He wonder what her fear was, to have her like she is, but he wonder why he felt something stir inside him. An emotion that he didn't understand and he didn't want to ask Johnathan. He had his own pride.
But, he did lean his shoulder onto hers after moving the arm that rested there. Blue and brown glared, but didn't do anything about it. Scarecrow listened as she breath and shifted so that her head laid against his shoulder and her legs, folded, leaned against Joker.
Riddler noticed the change soon after and change between the crown prince and master of fear right after. He moved his seat in front of her and guard her.
~ #$%&~
Her eyes opened for the first in a long time and shivered. She wondered why she was awake and where she was. She could feel heat, but she didn't know where it came from. Her eyes blinked slowly as Chess walked closer to her.
Chess smiled and kissed her forehead before laying her back down.
"Sleep." Chess whispered as she brought the blanket over her. She moved a few strands of black hair over marker cheeks and behind an ear before leaving.
~ #$%&~
Cheshire was brought back to her cell and she went straight for the bed. When she closed her eyes, she opened them to look at Shire and Chess. She knew that Night was close by and would hear them.
'They are tryin to wake her.' Cheshire stated with a growl. All three girls looked between each other worry.
'What can we do?' Shire asked worried.
'Hide it.' Chess stated.
'They'll check mouth.' Cheshire was frowning. Chess hissed while Shire fell to her knees.
'What can we do? What can we do?' Shire asked over and over. She was shaking.
Soft patting of footsteps froze them in their movements. Slowly as one they all looked over to the walker.
They were meet with a young teen, a male teen with long raven colored hair that fell over his shoulder in a low ponytail. Pale skin with one mark on his skin and his eyes were storming with rage.
'What is going on?' He asked. His voice lime water. It was thick, but clear to hear. The girls greeted him with smiles.
'Brother tricked us.' Shire answered as he stood next to her.
'Coward.' Muttered around the circle. Another set of footsteps her heard and this time it was to a female with golden eyes and hair. Her skin a tan colored with no marks.
'What are they doing, Shire?' She asked. Her voice was like a loin. It was demanding and loud, a force that sounded like a roar.
'Drugs. I don't want to go, Night.' Shire answered sadly.
'None of us are going anywhere. She wanted us here, she will get rid of us. Not some drug.' Night stated as she held Shire in her arms.
'Are there drinks, water?' Chess asked after a silence had come over them for half a moment. Cheshire thought for a second and nodded.
'Then I have an idea. This is what were going to do.'
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