Pay Back's a bitch Dr Quinzel
Pairing: Joker and Dr Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn
Warning: Some slight violence.. Not heavy..
Chapter Summery:
Going back to where it began is being introduced to Harleen not long after her sixteenth birthday and after her parents die, when she decides try to become emancipated.
Chapter 2: Going back to where it all began...
Harleen sat straight up in bed, her hands resting on the bed, panting and breathing heavily, her blond hair everywhere as she remembered that dream so vividly in her mind... A man with Green hair and capped teeth, red lips standing over her in a darkened room as she was strapped to a steel bed with only a very thin mattress. She called him Mistah J in her dream, and Mistah J told her that he wasn't going to kill her, but just hurt her really really bad. She shook her head, reaching over to sip on her water as she tried to let go of that horrid dream, but unlike much of her other dreams, this one stayed with her.. It was frightening and exciting all rolled into one. She often took to writing in her journal what her thoughts were, feelings and her dreams.. This one stood out for some reason, she wasn't at all sure why.. but this wasn't the first dream she had about the green hair man known as Mistah J and it certainly wouldn't be the last.
Harleen Frances Quinzel had a relatively good childhood, Her parents had loved her and took care of her as all good parents did.. However it all changed when she turned sixteen. Sixteen was meant to be her year, the year that was meant to make sense to her and the year when she got some well deserved independence.. Well she never thought that she would get this much independence just after she turned sixteen.. However one full month after her sixteenth birthday, She was staying with a friend overnight and her world turned upside down. She was informed by a family friend Commissioner Gordon of her parents death in a house fire. Her world had been turned upside down in that one conversation. It had been hard for Harleen as she had been close to her parents, and she really had no extended family to even go to. Jim had offered to send her off to Bruce Wayne's Manor where he sent all Orphan's however as she was now sixteen, she decided to become emancipated.
Harleen had never really knew what she wanted to be as an Adult, however she knew that somehow, she would manage and find her way. Her mother had been a Doctor while her father had been a member of the Gotham City Police Department as a Detective. As she began struggling through her grief, continue her studies and at the same time trying her hardest to get herself emancipated, she kept hearing these strange voices in her head. A voice that sounded much like an angel and a devil all rolled into one, a voice that sounded oddly familiar to her. Finally she realized the voice, it was the Mistah J that had visited her dreams, he seemed to be visiting her more frequently and even of a day now.. "Did you hear that?", She would often times ask people, only for people to look at her a little strangely, not having heard what she had been hearing in her head.
As a result, she had been asked to speak to a Doctor, a head doctor, a Psychiatrist.. It's where she became passionate about helping people herself, the Doctor had really helped her make sense of her grief and put the voices down to missing her parents and wishing they were back with her.. Though she never did mention that the voices didn't belong to her parents, She didn't really want to stop hearing that sweet sultry voice that seemed to be calling her, sometimes taunting and other times seducing her. Harleen was a naive young woman and though she knew the voice was in her head and couldn't be real, she couldn't help feeling excited whenever she heard the voice or he appeared in her dreams. Usually it was tormenting her, punishing her, and other times he seemed to be sweet and gentle with her.
It wasn't for a long time later when she first met the Joker and had begun treating him and falling for him that she realized that he was the man who had haunted her dreams, the one that had pushed her to become the very Doctor she was today, so that she could treat him. She never mentioned it to him, and he never mentioned it to her, yet they both knew that they had met in her dreams before. It was why it was so easy for her to fall for him when she thought she was curing him, because she had already fallen hard for him from the tender age of sixteen. It's why she would follow him anywhere and do anything he asked of her. She had no one else and he was always seducing her with his words and she just wanted to be accepted, loved and wanted.
After she had written the dream up in her journal, she sat there for a moment, just re-thinking it over, it still wasn't fading away, it was just a vivid to her now as when she was fast asleep and she had to breathe in and out slowly, her eyes closed to get her breathing back to normal and her heart rate steady once more. Once she was calm, she stood up and put her journal away on her bedside drawer and got up to face another day. It was six months after her parents death and she was edging closer to seventeen every day and today was the day that would decide her fate.. Would she become emancipated and be free to do as she wished or would she be forced into the system for a year and a half before being kicked out.. She took a shower and carefully picked out her outfit, a black skirt and jacket combo with a white blouse, her black glasses matching and she wore black high heels as well.
She needed to appear confident and like she was ready to take on anything, when in fact she was handling everything badly internally and she knew if they all knew the truth, there was no way they would let her handle her own affairs. She was lucky that she had Commissioner Gordon on her side, her knew her parents, particularly her father well as he worked closely with him in the police force and he always saw Harleen as a polite and well respected young woman who would thrive well and handle any challenge that came her way. Once she was dressed, she walked downstairs and smiled at Jim's wife June whom had been staying at the Quinzel residence along with her husband as they waited to see what the courts decided for Harleen. "You ready?", She asked her softly, walking over and patting her back.. Just then she heard that same voice haunting her, telling her she better be ready, "Ready as I'll ever be", she answered as she plastered on a fake smile and walked into the kitchen to start her breakfast.
Hey Readers,
I really hope you all enjoy this chapter.. I have decided to make the first chapter kind of like a dream chapter now that I have decided to continue on with it. There won't be too much Harley and Joker interaction to start with, apart from her hearing him in her head and any flash forward or other dream like sequences between them.
I want to establish Harley's roots and though she seems like a sweet and polite young woman, that even before her parents death, she wasn't as stable as she made herself out to be. I think she always had issues, but her parents kept her grounded. When they died, it forced her to face those issues more directly.. and playing around with the idea that possibly the house fire wasn't an accident and we can all guess who could be to blame.. Don't want to give too many ideas away, but I do have a lot of ideas for this. I know there wasn't much dialogue in this, but I like to ready get in the character's head and get to know them. Please let me know if you like the chapter, or if you thought it wasn't as good as the first one.. I am looking forward to developing this.