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Chapter 2

Elevator problems

Tiana groggily opened her eyes and winced lightly as light from outside hit her face. "Keiko… what are you doing?" she sat up, her satin blankets sliding down to her waist. She looked to the side of her double bed and saw Keiko standing beside it, holding the adjuster of her blinds.

"It's such a beautiful day Tiana! You should be enjoying the sunlight with me, not becoming a vampire." She chimed dramatically.

"What…" Tiana began groggily stepping out of her bed and shivering slightly as her feet touched the cold wooden floor. "What if I want to become a vampire?" she rubbed her eyes and looked turned to look at her sister.

"Sister don't give me that, now come on! We're going shopping with Rachel today!" she clasped her hands together in cheer.

Tiana shot her little sister a glare. "You go. Me sleep." She said in a monosyllable voice.

Keiko rushed to her side and clutched her sisters hand. "Please Tiana, go… Rachel hasn't seen you in so long and she misses you and I miss you too." She begged in one rush.

Tiana quirked a brow. "How could you miss me?" she questioned, her voice sounding bored but curious at the same time. "I live with you."

Keiko looked at the ground and murmured something that Tiana couldn't hear.

"Pardon? Keiko I didn't quite catch that." Tiana questioned bluntly.

Keiko let out a sad sigh before breathing in deeply and answering. "Physically you're here Tiana, but… You…" she looked up at her sister and tried to explain what she meant. "You… the person you are… your soul…" she laughed nervously and scratched the back of her head. "Your just not there anymore…" another deep breath. "Its not just me… even Rachel has noticed these past few months… your just not there anymore."

Tiana let out an inaudible sigh. "Fine… when are you leaving?" she questioned letting some of her tiredness slip into her voice.

Immediately Keiko's face lit up and she looked at her sister with bright eyes. "Really? Yay!" she hugged her sister. "I'm so glad."

"Don't make me change my mind." Tiana said coldly, not returning the embrace. "Now tell me, when are we leaving?"

Keiko immediately moved away from her sister and gave her a nervous laugh before replying with. "In about an hour… Rachel's going to pick us up and we're going SHOPPING!!" she raised her fist in the air with glee at the last part.

Tiana rolled her eyes at her sister antics before commenting. "Fine, now can you please go? I'd very much like to have a shower and get ready… if that's not to much trouble."

Keiko smiled lightly and nodded. She then left the room- knowing that that would probably be the best thing to do- she didn't want to test her luck with a Tiana who had just woken up. She had learned that lesson last time… Keiko shivered lightly at the memory.

Tiana let out a sigh before rummaging through the drawers that were beside her bed and pulled out some clothes. She then turned and entered the room that was beside her bed. The room was a large pure white tiled bathroom.

She placed the clothes on a small table that was in the bathroom and proceeded in getting ready for her shower.

XXX

"Keiko, where the fuck is my fucking coffee." Tiana grumbled as she stood in the kitchen area of their, modern looking… and expensive apartment.

Keiko was sitting on the leather couch in the living room which was only separated by a change in the flooring, the living room carpet, the kitchen Tile. Keiko looked back at her sister who was searching through the cupboards of the kitchen area. She let out a nervous laugh and said. "I'm sorry sis… I errr… had to throw it out… umm… Ash got into it…"

As soon as she had finished speaking a small grey kitten jumped onto the back of the couch and looked up Tiana with innocent yellow eyes and Mewed.

If looks could kill both Keiko and Ash would have died at least ten times over.

"Now is THAT what you're wearing?" Keiko questioned jumping out of the seat and running to her sister, she then proceeded in inspecting what the poor girl was wearing.

"…What's wrong with it?" she asked bluntly giving her sister a sister a small glare.

She was wearing a plain baggy white business shirt that went down to the middle of her thighs with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows, the shirts top two buttons were undone and so was the bottom three ones.

She was wearing a pair of plain light blue flared jeans with this and black small heeled shoes.

Her hair was tied back in a plain pony tail however the purple strands were left out of the face to make her face look softer.

"It's just so… plain…" Keiko stated staring bluntly at her sister.

Tiana crossed her arms. "At least I'm not dressed like a hooker." She stated looking up and down her sister.

Keiko was wearing a blue strapless shirt that ended just above her belly button, with a REALLY short denim skirt that left very little to the imagination and to complete the outfit was a pair of thigh high leather boots.

"What's wrong with this?" she did a twirl.

"Keiko please don't do that I don't want to see your pink fluffy G-string now change into something at least half descent." Tiana sounded scarily like a mother then.

"Aww…. But… but…" Keiko pouted.

"Now!" Tiana snapped a smirk forming on her face as Keiko trotted off to her room to change… muttering curses under her breath.

Tiana chuckled and went to sit on the sofa. Once she had sat down she ignored what was on the plasma T.V in front of her and reached for the daily newspaper.

"Top model dates football superstar…" Tiana shook her head as she looked down at the photo of Keiko standing beside 'Jet' "So you're dating Jet now?" she called out to her sister.

"It was just one date!" Keiko called back from her room. "He's nice and all but he isn't what I want in a man!"

Tiana rolled her eyes and tossed the paper onto the coffee table in front of her. She then looked over to Ash who was giving her that would melt ice. "Don't you give me that look." She stated. "Coffee wreaking little shit." She then rubbed the kittens head and looked up at the T.V. Her eyes widening at what was on the screen. A clown…

"Hey, hey kids its Krusty the clown!" As she watched the cartoon clown another clown came to her mind. A small blush formed on her face as she remembered her meeting with him and her fingers unconsciously brushed against her lips.

"Tiana? Are you alright?" Keiko asked waving a hand in front of her sisters face. She had to admit though she was slightly unnerved by the look on her sisters face… NEVER before had she seen her stiff serious sister blush…

Tiana instantly broke from her trance and her hand came to rest at her side. "Yes I'm fine." She said far to quickly, she then looked her sister up and down and noticed that her sister was wearing a nice blue sundress with some heeled shoes… it still looked… revealing but it wasn't as bad as the other one… "Well that one looks better…" as she spoke a knocking could be heard at their door.

"Oh! That's probably Rachel! I'll get it!" Keiko cheered jumping back. 'I wonder what made Tiana blush like that…' she thought walking to the door.

XXX

Tiana twitched lightly as Keiko ran to another shop after spotting 'The PERFECT shoes' She let out a sigh and looked at Rachel who was walking beside her in the shopping mall. "How do we put up with her?" she asked.

Rachel smiled at Keiko who was currently acting like a teenager. "She deserves days like this, she's always working hard with her work… To answer your question we 'put up' with her because we care about her and besides, she only acts like this every now and then." Rachel replied knowing exactly what Tiana meant.

Tiana smirked. "I suppose your right." She then looked at her younger sister. "I must say though… If she acted like this every day I would murder her."

"So what have you been doing lately?" Rachel asked deciding to change the topic. "I haven't seen or heard from you in the longest time…"

Tiana blushed lightly as she remembered what she had done last night but she quickly shook it off and replied with. "Not a lot… just working and making sure Keiko doesn't go out looking like a hooker." She glanced at Rachel through the corner of her eyes. "What about you? I heard you're with that Harvey Dent."

Rachel smiled lightly. "I suppose you could say that."

Tiana smirked knowingly and thought back to when she had first met Rachel.

It had been right after Keiko had become one of Gotham's top models. Keiko had been invited to one of Bruce Wayne's parties and had dragged her along for 'emotional support' and the ironic thing was that Keiko had ditched her after the first ten minutes of the party!

Anyway Tiana had kept to herself for most of the night though she did have some small conversations with the butler Alfred but other than that wine was her friend that night, that is, until Rachel had come and introduced herself. Of course Tiana was a little distant with her to begin but after talking with her for a while they just clicked and became swift friends.

Tiana smiled lightly at the memory, Rachel was one of the few women she had met in Gotham who wasn't a complete floozy. No offence to them they were probably very nice women but what Tiana had seen of them led her to the conclusion that they were floozy's.

"How about we go upstairs and get some food?" Rachel suggested breaking Tiana from her musings.

Tiana nodded in agreement. "Keiko!" she called getting the attention of her sister. Keiko pulled her eyes away from a ruby red pair of shoes and glanced back at her sister. "One those wouldn't suit you." Tiana began. "And two, come one we're getting some food."

Keiko nodded and the three made their way to the elevator.

XXX

Tiana was the first to reach the elevator. She pressed the up button and while waiting for the elevator looked back at her sister and Rachel who were trailing behind her. She smirked and walked into the elevator with the intention of pressing the button of the floor she wanted to go to but hold the doors open for the other two. She pressed the button for floor '4' but just as she was about to hit the button that kept the doors open someone pushed her out of the way and hit the door closing button. The doors slid shut in Keiko's and Rachel's faces and began to move.

"Just who do you think you are!" Tiana ordered of the man in a black coat who had so rudely pushed her out of the way as well as made the elevator go before Keiko and Rachel could get on it.

The man's shoulders shook as he let out a familiar laugh. "And just what is so funny!" Tiana growled pocking the man on the back to put emphasis on her point while ignoring the little voice in her head that told her she shouldn't have done that.

Her eyes widened as the man turned, revealing just WHO he was.

XXX

"What a rude man." Keiko commented glaring at the shut doors of the elevator as though that would make a difference.

Rachel sighed. "Come on we may as well take the stairs." With that she turned to make her way to the stairs.

Keiko sighed. "Stupid arrogant man stealing the elevator…" she murmured before she turned to follow after Rachel.

XXX

"Joker…" Tiana spoke trying to sound calm as thoughts of being stuck alone with a psychotic killer flowed into her mind accompanied by thoughts of how good of a kisser said killer was.

The Joker cackled as he read the emotions that had passed through her eyes. "Hello beautiful." He finally spoke when he had finished laughing.

"Hello." She spoke calmly. "Why are you here?" she was beginning to feel a sense of deja-vu(spelling?).

The Joker chuckled again, before pulling out his knife from a pocket. "Why should I, uh, tell you, beautiful?" he placed the side of the blade to her neck.

Tiana glared at the man with a painted face in front of her and as she opened her mouth to speak something terrible happened. The elevator shook and with an ear piercing screech came to a halt. 'Oh god no…' she thought as the lights flickered but thankfully stayed on.

The Joker chuckled lightly and removed the blade from her neck. "Seems like we, uh, have a situation beautiful." He chuckled again.

"Tiana." Tiana corrected before brushing past him and pressing the button of the intercom system. "Hello? I need help." She spoke calmly not wanting to sound like one of those hysterical women she had seen on so many of Keiko's movies.

The Joker chuckled and sat down in one of the corners of the elevator he then decided to play around with his knife.

The intercom made a raspy sound before an obviously male voice could be heard. "Hello? What seems to be the problem?"

The Joker mouthed an imitation of the man and chuckled when Tiana sent him a glare. "Yes the elevator has stopped between floors," she looked up. "two and three."

There was a pause before the man on the other end spoke. "Alright Miss, I'm sorry but it will take us a few hours before we can fix the problem. Please miss, wait patiently."

If Tiana were the type to go into hysterical fits she would be right now but since she wasn't like she closed her eyes, crossed her arms and slumped to the floor muttering a curse or two. "Great, I'm stuck alone in an elevator with a murderer." She looked up at the Joker and froze as she saw him staring at her with a grin holding his knife in his hands.

"Err… umm…" as much as she didn't want to show fear the way he was looking at her with that knife was just too unnerving. She searched her mind for things that she could say that would distract his mind from thoughts of killing her… or maiming her… or torturing her…

She cleared her throat and spoke the first thing that popped into her mind. "Knife game?"

XXX

"I wonder where Tiana is?" Keiko mused as she and Rachel stood in the middle of the food court.

"I hope she's alright." Rachel commented.

XXX

"What sort of game?" he purred the word 'game' and sent her a very suggestive look.

A small blush formed of Tiana's face. 'There is no way in HELL that's going to happen, I'll NOT give into the cliché!' she mentally chastised herself. 'But you would be in heaven if something like that were to happen so give into the cliché.' Another part of her mind argued.

The Joker watched with knowing eyes as a red tinge formed on her cheeks, he chuckled again as she shook her head as though that would help her.

Once Tiana had finished shaking her head she sent him a look and spoke. "Game umm…" 'God do I even know any games?' she thought to herself before staring at the knife and suddenly a memory of a game she used to play when she was younger popped into her head. "Well this particular game is more fun with alcohol so…" she reached down the collar of her shirt and under the shirt, she then reached into her bra and tugged on something for a few moments before pulling out a sliver flask.

The Joker laughed at the sight of her. "Never, uh, come unprepared?" he laughed as she sent him a small glare. He then licked his lips. "But, uh, tell me why I shouldn't just, uh, kill you?"

"Because if you kill me then you're stuck in here bored?" Tiana retorted hoping that he wouldn't kill her; she wanted at least a few extra years on the earth before dying.

He chuckled before returning to the original topic. "So how do we play this game?" he crossed his legs and waited patiently.

Before answering Tiana shook the flask as it felt a little light, the flask made no noise indicating that there was no liquid in it. "Oh no…" she muttered before tossing the flask behind her, it hit the wall with a clank and fell to the ground. "Well I guess we'll have to do this without booze."

She let out a sigh and silently wished she had booze, it probably would have helped her get through this. "Anyway the rules of the game are: You have a knife and fifteen seconds, you have to stab the blade between each of your fingers at a fast pace without cutting yourself in those ten seconds. If you do cut yourself you have to do something that the other says, no exceptions. If you don't cut yourself then well you don't have to do anything."

The Joker grinned he had a feeling he was going to like this game.

XXX Twenty minutes into the game XXX

"You have to be joking me…" Tiana groaned as the Joker won yet another round.

The joker chuckled before licking his lips a speaking. "Well? I'm waiting Beautiful. You either are or you aren't."

She sighed before answering the question he had asked. "I am, okay?" she was somewhat irrated, she didn't like it when people asked her this question, it made her feel… unattractive.

The joker's eyes widened and he mouthed the words, 'You are?' "Wow that's something Beautiful, and here I was thinking you wouldn't be virgin." The way he said the word sounded so haunting, Tiana had to hold back a shiver.

"Tiana!" she corrected. "And what about it!?" Tiana snapped glaring at him. "Is there a problem with it!?" she crossed her arms and huffed lightly.

The joker laughed lightly. "No problem with it beautiful just wasn't expecting a beautiful thing like you to be one. Heh."

Tiana smiled lightly, finding it hard to stay mad at him for some reason. "Yer, well, lets get one with the game."

XXX Fourty minutes later XXX

"How do you keep winning!?" Tiana whined.

The Joker grinned but didn't answer her, instead he patiently waited for her to comply to the order.

Tiana let out a sigh and walked to the intercom system. She was slightly surprised he had asked her to do something as childish as this, though she was more surprised she was actually doing it! if Keiko or someone else were to see it they'd probably have a heart attack.

She smirked at that thought before shaking her head. Back to the task at hand! She pressed the button of the intercom system. "Hello… are you still there big boy…" her voice sounded so lusty and seductive.

The Joker grinned and held back laughter.

"Uhh… umm… yes miss?" Came the nervous reply of the man on the intercom system.

"I just wanted to know how long you're going to be… It is getting quite hot in here…" she let out a gasp to add some more exoticness to the situation. 'I can't believe the fuckers making me do this! Why is he making me do this? I was expecting something like you know 'cut your leg open' or something like that' she inwardly ranted.

The distinct sound of a muffled groan could be heard on the other end. "Miss, we'll have someone there as soon as we can."

"I'll be waiting…" she replied with before switching the intercom off. Once she had done this she looked at the joker with what was probably an attempted glare but one look into the mirth his eyes held she couldn't help but snap and laugh aloud, almost instantly after he joined her.

XXX thirty minutes later XXX

Tiana watched intently as the Joker pressed the blade between his gloved fingers. 'How come he's able to do this so perfectly?' she thought with a pout. 'I mean its not as though I've lost every round… just most of them and he's yet to loose… well I guess I should be grateful I mean its not as though he's made me do anything too degrading.' She glanced down at the small cuts on her fingers that were beginning to get a small burning sensation.

'I need to get these cleaned up…' she inwardly groaned before looking back at the Joker. 'No use asking him for help he'd probably only do something if he felt like it… or was bored…' she sighed and continued counting down the seconds, sure the game was getting boring but hey at least he wasn't killing or raping her.

"Three, two-" she was cut off by the elevator shaking.

When the elevator stopped it's shaking the voice on the intercom said, "Sorry about that we're fixing the elevator, it should be fixed soon." Tiana glared at the intercom then looked back down and saw the Joker glaring at his gloved finger. She narrowed her eyes to get a better look. He had cut it! She grinned. "Well I guess it's my turn to get whatever I want."

He gave her a look that seemed to be a pout and a glare but said nothing. Tiana grinned and put her hand to her chin in thought of what she could request of him.

"hmm… clean the blood from my fingers… umm.. please?" she spoke shakily holding her hand out to him.

He made a small noise and took her hand. Tiana closed her eyes as a shiver shot through her spine. He wasn't even touching her with his skin and she was reacting like this!

Her eyes shot open instantly however as she felt a hot and wet article slide across the cuts on her fingers. Her eyes widened as she looked down and saw the Joker staring down at her hand while he licked them gently. 'He's licking them!!' she inwardly shouted. She had expected him to clean it with a handkerchief or something but this!?

She opened her mouth to say something only to slam it shut to hold back a moan as a tingling sensation took her. She closed her eyes and looked away.

After a few moments she felt the wet organ leave her hand and heard a chuckle. She looked at him and felt her head glow a violent red. Her eyes then slowly lowered to her hand and noticed that all the blood had been licked clean, the red on her cheeks went even redder.

"Well umm…" she opened her mouth to speak only to have her lips covered by the Joker's in a deep kiss. At first she was stunned but soon enough she felt herself giving into the kiss, she could taste her blood on his lips and strangely enough she seemed to like the taste.

Wrapping her arms around his neck she smiled. 'Well this is an interesting turn of events.'

A/N: The end of chapter 2 yay! I hoped you all enjoyed it!

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