Chapter 2: Were all mad here, doctor
'Your task here in Arkham, will be to have some private sessions with the patients and you also have to lead some group sessions' said doctor Leland. 'I understand, who will I be guiding?' Asked Jennie curiously. 'Well, we thought to give you one of the easier to handle patients, we didn't want to throw you in the lions pit just yet'. So after a mutual agreement we decided that your first patient will be Jervis Tetch aka The Mad Hatter. I suggest you study the case a bit before talking to your patient advised doctor Leland. 'I've planned a session at 2 pm with mister Tetch for you, so don't be late' doctor Leland said. 'Of course not doctor Leland' Jennie said a bit shy.
Well, she had all morning to go through Mister Tetch's case file so she better got started. She went to the cafeteria with the case file under her arm. At this hour, there weren't too many people in the cafeteria except a few guards who had a break. She found a place to sit near one of the windows. Well, Mister Tetch let's see what you did to end up in a place like Arkham Jennie said to herself. Well, well mister Tetch is an Englishmen, who would have thought that? Hmm, it says here that he used to work at Wayne Tech, a company owned by Bruce Wayne. The man is an expert at neuro technology. Apparently he was in love with a girl named Alice Pleasance but she was already engaged with a man named Billy. Tetch was so furious that he used a mind controlling device that he made, on Alice, her fiancé and his boss Miss Tates. He then kidnapped a group of eight people and he was at last defeated by Batman in Gotham's Storybook Land. The only thing he said during his arrest was "Would not, could not, would not, could not, oh could not join the dance…" It was clearly a quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Jennie had read Alice in Wonderland as a child like so many others and she liked Carroll's style.
Jennie looked at the clock, it was almost 1 pm and the cafeteria was empty. She wanted to get a quick bite to eat and then she'd have to prepare for her first session with Jervis Tetch. She entered the small office, where her patient was already waiting for her. To her left stood a guard, who nodded at her when he saw her entering and then stared back to a spot in front of him. She seated herself in front of the man known as Jervis Tetch. She took her time to observe the man sitting in front of her. He was wearing a standard Arkham uniform and he sat very nonchalant. He had blonde hair, a bit of an overbite and blue eyes which were staring at her with some curiosity. So mister Tetch, do you know why you're here? They said I kidnapped a group of people and that I fought with Batman he thought but instead he just looked up and said 'Your hair needs cutting.' Well, there was an answer she hadn't' expected. Mm, well she had read that Tetch was obsessed with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland but could he only speak in quotes from Carroll's children's book or not she wondered. Do you remember what happened before you were arrested, that you kidnapped a group of people and held them hostage? I didn't mean to, I just wanted Alice to love me instead of that jabberwocky Jervis thought but al he said was "I'm afraid I can't explain myself, miss. Because I am not myself, you see?" It seemed that he used the quotes as a defense mechanism. After some time Jennie said 'that's all for today mister Tetch, the guard here will escort you back to you cell'. It was no more than a whisper but she could swear that she heard him say "we're all mad here.