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Chapter 2:

Artemis shook her head in horror. He couldn't be looking for her of all people! "Artemis," said Joey, "run, we will cover for you!"

"Yea, Artemis you need to run, he might hurt, or worse, kill you," said Damian.

"No, if I run he might kill the teachers," said Artemis trying to use her rational mind.

"No he won't, batman will save them," said Joey with a smile, "don't worry about here, get home and hide."

"What if he finds me there," she said with tears now in her eyes.

"He won't batman will catch him," said Joey.

"Joey and I will make sure he never finds out," assured Damian.

"Sure that's easy to say, but can you really keep it a secret? Remember what he did to those other people," said Artemis now shaking with fear. Damian and Joey looked at each other, she was right, and they knew it.

"We have to try," said Damian quietly.

"We're all going to die," screamed one girl in their class. The classroom went into a panic. Should they go to the assembly or hide? "If we hide here he will find us and kill us!"

"No Sarah," said a boy, "if we hide here we will be safe! A whole room full of people, what are the chances that he will show up?"

"Billy! What are the chances anyone is going to show up! He is going to come looking for us," said Kayla.

"Don't be stupid Kayla, why would he come looking for us," shouted Billy.

"You moron, she is right," shouted Sarah, "he is going to come looking for us!"

"Don't call me a moron, slut," shouted Billy.

"Don't call her a slut, asshole," shouted Kayla.

"Guys, this isn't going to solve our problems," said Joey, "we need to discuss this."

"No way, stoner! You're idea sucks. We can't cover for her! He would kill us," yelled a different girl named Valerie.

"Stay out of this Valerie," said Joey. The two really hated each other.

"Why should she stay out of it, she is part of the class," defended Kayla who happened to be Valerie's best friend.

"Guy's this is craziness," said Artemis.

"As if your one to call anyone crazy! You're probably just as nuts as your father is," snapped Billy.

"He is NOT my father and I am NOT crazy!"

"You know the more you deny it the crazier you sound!"

"Stop messing with her," said Sarah, "isn't she already going through enough!"

"She's the reason we are in this mess," said Kayla, "I say we give her over and hide here."

"No way," said Billy, "I'm on your side but we can't just give her up! I was taught better then that and I will not go against another class mate because of something she can't control!"

"Oh, what, you're going to go against her and now you're taking her side," said Sarah.

"Because what you guys are talking about is wrong! I don't care how much I don't like her I'm not throwing her to the mad dog just because of something that wasn't really her fault. It is her fault, but it's not something she did on purpose!"

"You're as crazy as she is," said Kayla.

"You're all crazy," shouted Artemis. She got up from her seat and walked to the classroom door. She was going to die, but she wasn't going out with the last memory being people argue over how it was going to play. She would have rather faced it head on anyway, at least she wouldn't look like a coward and would go out with dignity. She just hoped it wouldn't hurt to much. As she walked down the empty halls she heard the intercom come on.

"Um, excuse me students, but I believe there is and assembly and all of you are late. Because of that Ms. Happy's time here has been expired. AHAHAHAHAHA! Tell me Ms. Happy, why so searious?" All that was heard was screaming and cries of torture. Artemis felt her heart pumping in her chest. She stopped dead in her tracks. What was she thinking!?

She turned around and ran out the front doors. Outside where men dressed up in clown masks. One even had a crazy orange afro wig on. Artemis slowly backed away inside. It was either the class room where the others where fighting, or the theater where the teachers were possibly being tortured. She looked around her and saw an air vent with a chair under it. Using her brain she picked the chair up and put it on the desk it was sitting next to and climbed up to stand on the chair. She popped open the vent and lifted herself in. She crawled in and turned around. She had to find a way to get rid of the chair without it looking suspicious. She hung out of the vent and grabbed hold of the chair. She slowly moved it to the floor and, squeezing her eyes shut praying, let it go. There was a loud clanging noise and she opened her eyes.

She let go of her breath in relief and rolled back into the vent. The chair had landed on all four legs right next to the table. She put the vent back in place and laid there for a second counting her blessings. That sort of thing never happened. Her prayer was ended when she heard footsteps coming her way. She rolled over and looked down the vent at the clowns pouring into the halls. The intercoms had come back on.

"Sense non of you want to leave your class rooms, my men will collect you. Bad children, now we all get detention in the theater room. You will all remain until Artemis Napier is found. I can do this all day, can you, hmm?" It was cut off again and she watched as kids were being escorted out of the class rooms by clowns bearing guns, bats, poles, chains, and knives. Everyone was fearfully quiet as they were forced to walk to the theater.

Artemis looked around and saw that she was right next to the main office. Right next to her was the Joker sitting at Ms. Happy's desk with his feat crossed sitting on the desk. Next to him was Ms. Happy laying on the floor with her face cut up in the corners of her mouth making I look as if she had a big smile on her face while laying in a pool of her own blood.

Joker got up and walked out the door making his way ahead of the students who where to scared to even look at him. When she finally found another larger vent she crawled to it and looked through. The vent's had gotten bigger so she figured she had reached the theater room. Sure enough she was sitting right above the stage.

The Joker was bellow standing on the stage with a microphone in hand. Artemis had to be very quiet. The school was not that big and the theater wasn't either. You could hear everything in that room.

"Good morning," he said with a smile, "welcome to today's entertainment." He spread his arms out wide and a spot light showed on each of his victims. The teachers were all lined up and tined down to a chair shaking in fear. "Today we will be playing a little, uh, game. You see, I'm going to ask you a question and one of you rug rats is going to answer. Drum roll please," he said cuing for his henchmen to start playing a drum roll. Joker blind folded himself and turned around to the teachers and pointed a finger out to them. He slowly moved his hand down the line. Finally he settled on one. He walked toward them still blindfolded and stood in front of the unfortunate chosen one, Mr. Barks.

Joker removed his blind fold and laughed down at his play thing. He pulled a blade out from his pocket and walked behind Mr. Barker. "Now, first question, does Artemis Napier attend this school?" Silence, no one answered. Joker looked around the room and walked forward. He pointed at a football player with his knife. "You," he said, "surely you can tell me if she is here? No? Alright." He jumped off the stage and roamed down the first roll stopping and asking students every other person.

"Do you know her? No? How about you, do you know where I can find Artemis? Nope? You know Ms. Napier? How about you tubby?" Finally he gave up and stood back on the stage and walked up to the teacher. "Do you know?" He came down to eye level with him and put his blade on the teachers face. He closed his eyes and prayed to God while pissing himself. "I'll take that as a no." He walked back to behind the teacher and slit his throat open. Mr. Barker gave a sigh of shock but his head fell forward slowly and he started to bleed to death. Screams and pandemonium broke out. People started crying and panicking. They made a move for the door but henchmen stood between them and the way out. Two gun shots rang through the room and everyone stopped and turned around.

"Uh, return to your seats please before someone get's shot." Everyone silently did as they were told. Artemis felt her arms go weak and felt that she was about to faint. She slowly let herself down on her belly as she watched in anticipation. The Joker blind folded himself and started tapping the top of teachers heads. "Duck, duck, duck, duck, goose!" He made his decision. Mrs. Dale. She was to get married to her boyfriend next weekend. My heart sank. She was one of the few teachers that didn't call her a lost cause. Sure she slept all the time in class, sure she never did work or take notes, and sure she has been 'sick' with enough fake doctor notes to write a book, but she was still smart!

"Does Artemis Napier go to this school," asked the Joker with his knife on the teachers neck. She took a deep breath and showed no emotion on her face.

"Yes," she said.

"Good," said the Joker now petting the top of her head, "and where is she at this moment? Can you point her out from the audience?"

"I could," she said. She turned her head and looked at the Joker defiantly, "but I wont." Whispers where heard from all corners of the auditorium. The Joker looked around at the other students. He laughed wickedly and pressed the knife hard enough to make some blood seep from her peach skin. Artemis closed her eyes trying to force the tears to stay back but it was a fight she was loosing. They stung her eyes and leaked a bit in the corners of her eyes. She heard the sound of creaking and all the noise stopped. She popped open her eyes and looked down to see everyone looking up at the vent.

Artemis held her breath, she felt the metal under her give way to her weight and down she fell.

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The Joker looked up at the vent. He could swear it was just making a creaking noise. Suddenly the vent gave way and fell to the ground. "Nice fucking vent installation," he snarled. He saw someone come out of the vent backwards and start to wobble around the room in a dizzy fashion. It was hilarious; she just dropped in out of nowhere. A girl from the audience stood up from her seat and pointed at the girl.

"That's her," she shouted, "that's Artemis Napier!" The Joker laughed even harder, the chances!

"You bitch," Artemis shouted. He chuckled a bit. She had nerve that's for sure.

"Um, princess," said the Joker to Artemis, "it's not nice to hide from dear…old…dad."

"Can we go now," shouted the girl. Joker and Artemis turned their attention to the girl.

"I'll kill you Kayla," shouted Artemis.

"Skank! You can't touch me!"

"Why not!? All the teachers are tied up, no one is going to stop me, what are you going to do about it!?"

"I'll kick your ass hoebag!"

"What the fuck is a hoebag! Your fucking retarded sometimes I swear."

"Bitch that is it!" Another set of gunshots and the two girls stopped fighting.

"I think you ladies forgot what kind of situation you are in. Now, Artemis, quietly come with me and I will let your classmates and teachers go," said the Joker still holding the knife to the lovely teachers neck.

"How do I know you will let them go," she asked quietly. He just smiled and put his hand out.

"I'm a man of my word," he hissed. She looked down at her favorite teacher. Mrs. Dale shook her head mouthing the word 'no'. Artemis gave a sigh and took the Joker's hand. He grabbed a hold of her and stormed out of the room quickly. Artemis had to run to keep up with his long legs.

The henchmen cleared out quickly. When they where all gone, Joey and Damian quickly stood up and left the theater trying to fight past the panicking crowd. They finally squeezed out and ran to Artemis's house. They had to get to her mother.

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Damian and Joey arrived at the house, it looked as if the door where standing wide open. Damian started forward with Joey close behind him. They walked up the steps and into the house. The house looked ransacked. They crept to the kitchen.

"Jessica," called Joey.

"Hey, Jessica," shouted Damian, "where are you!?" They caught sight of her tied to a chair. Her eye was black, she was missing a couple fingers and a smile carved on her face. She had the words HAHA carved across her forhead. Joey fell backwards with his hand over his mouth. Damian ran for the phone but heard nothing, it was dead. He pulled out his cell phone and called the police.

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Next time: Gordan comes all the way from Gotham and Artemis and the Joker return home.