Kaitou Joker
The Red Behind The Blue
The Lost Hope Returning
From the fiasco last time, Spade had to lock Joker in his room for their own safety, believe me, he isn't happy one bit.
"What did I do?" Shadow asked, sitting on the couch in Joker's living room.
"You did nothing, really, just you came to challenge him in the worst time possible," Spade stated.
"Um… what do you mean?" Rose asked.
"Every year, these three days are the worst for him, he gets panic attacks, becomes a murderous person, doesn't trust anyone whatsoever, attempts suicide…" Queen counted.
"Attempts suicide?" Shadow asked, his eyes widened. "What happened to him?"
"All we know it has something to do with his childhood and Clover," Queen said. "You worked for him once, so he sees you as an enemy in these days."
"Clover? He's dead!" Shadow said.
"But not his childhood scar," Hachi said. "He almost killed you, Mr Shadow!"
"You have a point…" Rose said. "Is it about when he met us?"
"Not likely," Spade said. "It was before he met us."
"Does Mr Silver Heart know?" Hachi asked.
"Um…" Queen thought. "Don't know, I'll call him!"
Silver Heart was taking a bath in the sauna, then his phone rang, and gave him a shock. "Queen? Silver Heart here."
"Grandpa, do you know why Joker's so… down in these three days?" Queen asked.
"It's these three days? My, my, I must have forgot!" Silver Heart said. "How is he?"
"King locked him up in his room," Queen said, thinking about that picture. "What happened when he's younger?"
Silver Heart fell silent, and only answered one word, "Clover."
"We know, grandpa, what happened with Clover?" Queen asked.
Silver Heart sighed, "His parents… were killed by Clover."
"Us too, then why is he taking this the hardest?" King asked.
"Because… Clover and Doubt disguised themselves as his parents," Silver Heart sighed again.
"Oh god," Rose gasped.
"What… happened…?" Queen asked, her voice was shaky.
"They wanted to use him… to find the key to the Time Telling Goddess," Silver Heart said. "Only."
"Now I hate Clover more than ever, if that's possible," Shadow growled.
"Then…?" Queen asked.
"That was when his parents promised to come back in three days, but they didn't," Silver Heart said. "He stayed in his house, in hope of his parents returning… for a year."
"Oh my god…" Hachi gasped.
The line was cut, they knew why now.
"Joker escaped!" Queen yelled, looking at the descended Sky Joker and Joker's suit was in his room, yeah, he ran.
"Where are we?!" Shadow yelled, looking around, and found a mansion. "What is this place?!"
"Split up! We don't want him to hurt anybody!" Spade shouted, he was worried.
"Wait!" Hachi yelled. "Mr Joker comes here every year, I didn't ask; but I think this is his childhood house!"
"What?!" Everyone shouted. "How can you tell us now?!"
"Just find him!" Spade yelled, and ran to the inside of the house.
The place was huge; maybe huger than Spade's childhood home, he ran through the dusty living room, the storage area…
The storage area? Spade froze to see all the treasure destroyed, from medieval armour to statues, they were all destroyed…
There was pink sand and glass on the floor; Spade could identify that was the remains of the Time Telling Goddess.
"Oh, Jack…" Spade sighed.
"Mama, papa!"
The memory was burned into his mind; ten years to forget that incident- tragedy, yet the nightmare came every single night.
How many sleepless nights has he been through…?
He walks down his old garden slowly, grass growing everywhere, which was obvious of lack of attention.
"Mom, dad, I'm here…" Joker said to himself, kneeling down to two stones.
Okay, I don't know their names, so I'm just going to make Jack's parents names up. Bear with me.
With our beloved memory,
Rest in peace.
Sarah Jones and Jonah Jones.
The shadow was cast over the two stones, Joker stood there, replaying the short time they had together years before.
"I did it…" Joker said through slight sobs. "I fulfilled my promise… I avenged you..."
"No you didn't," A hoarse voice said from behind, Joker turned around to see, Clover and Doubt.
"H-how?! W-we beat you…" Joker said clenching his fist, unable to attack because his tools were back in the ship.
"You never beat us," Doubt said warmly, unlike her before, she was just for killing Joker and his friends. "Jack."
"How did you-" Joker clenched his fist harder. "How did you know?!"
"We know everything about you," Clover said.
"Of course you do," Joker growled. "You tried to kill me and my friends!"
"Not that kind of information," Clover continued. "About how you loved your parents."
"You killed them! You killed my parents! I did love them!" Joker yelled, being torn apart by those words coming from him.
"We didn't kill them, Jack," Doubt said. "They're still alive."
Joker's eyes widen, and shook his head in disbelief. "They're not."
"You lost hope over the years," Clover said, not making any moves.
"What does that have to do with you?" Joker snapped, he wanted to make Clover suffer for he done, to everyone, yet he held back, for no reason whatsoever.
"I was there when you were born, Jack," Doubt said, which made a chill run down Joker's spine.
"You stalked me when I was born?!" Joker yelled, getting a little embarrassed. "What's so special about me?!"
"Because you're our son," Clover said, Doubt looking at him with a hurt expression.
"That's impossible! My parents died in a place crash!" Joker yelled. "You killed them!"
"They were missing, not dead," Doubt said.
"You're lying! Like you did to Queen!" Joker yelled at them, he did lose hope of his parents coming back, but somehow that feeling surfaced again. "Are you…?"
"Why would I lie to my own son?" Clover said.
"You tried to kill me when I was four, Clover!" Joker growled. "Would a father kill his own son?!"
"That was a test…" Clover said. "Every new generation of the Jones's family has to go through the same stage."
"You're lying!" Joker said.
"Even when you hated our family photo once?" Doubt asked, Joker froze at that sentence.
"H-how did you…" Joker's voice shook, his body shook, every part of the world he knew shook.
"I know, Jack," Doubt said, removing her glasses. "My son."
Joker fell down in disbelief. "M-mom…? T-t-that means…"
"Son," Clover said, also removing his mask.
"D-dad…" Joker's world blew apart, he never expected this, not even in his wildest dreams.
What he never dreamed of, or hope for, was his father to hug him again.
"It's been so long," Clover sighed, Joker froze, not knowing of what to do.
He slowly returned the hug, tears running down his cheeks.
Joker said two words that he longed for years, "Welcome home…"
