The Dreams of a Nightmare
By DarkNightingale
Hey! So, here's chapter 2 for you. It's from Harley Quinn's point of view. Hope you are enjoying it so far!
Summary: Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Batgirl, Huntress, Black Canary, and Talia al Ghul all become trapped on the top floor of a deserted apartment building. With nothing better to do, they start chatting and end up revealing a lot about themselves to each other.
In order to help you keep track of all the people here is a list of the characters each girl has her own chapter and it's from their own points of view:
Characters:
Catwoman
Poison Ivy
Harley Quinn
Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)
Huntress
Black Canary
Talia al Ghul
It should be VERY obvious that I DO NOT own any of the above characters or any other recognizable characters.
Chapter 2: Harley Quinn
The darkness. The blood. The pain. The suffering. The kill. The screams. The Joker. All these things are sorrow, but they are also life. People say that dreams come true. But these dreams are already true. Why must they remain dreams then? Do we not suffer enough as it is? Why must our sleep be destroyed by reality? We experience it in life, everyday. It is all around us. But, to invade the one time that we are able to lose ourselves in a non-reality realm, the one way of escape, the dream—the reality—becomes a nightmare. But, I can never escape from the nightmare. My nightmare is my life and my life is my nightmare. My dreams are my reality and I cannot escape. No matter how hard I try. The Joker has control of me, and part of me wants to bolt and the other part….
I sat on the edge of the roof, waiting patiently for Red. She was gonna come and we were gonna go do somethin' really fun. Somethin' that I could never do with Puddin'. We would go racing around Gotham and nobody'd stop us! Not even Bats. He wasn't gonna ruin our fun. Besides, Red had submitted an anonymous tip-off to the police about Cat-lady going to the museum to steal the Cat's Eye Jewels. We weren't sure if she would, but we figured that she would probably have a great, yearning interest and would most likely go after them. So, Bats was preoccupied. We figured. I had an itching to get moving, but I had ta stay put—I had to wait for Red. I exhaled loudly, making it more of a sigh. I wish she would hurry up. Finally a soft voice spoke from the shadows.
"Harley? You ready?"
I turned around and a smile spread across my face, "Well, it's about time! I couldn't wait ta get up and move!"
Poison Ivy smiled at me and said, "Well then, let's go. What do you want to steal?"
I thought hard and I giggled as I thought of the one thing that would be the most rewarding, "Hey! Why don't we steal those Cat's Eyes? We'd beat Cat-lady to 'em. She'd be so pissed! That is, since she's all occupied and everythin' an' we'd beat her to it an' Bats would be occupied too."
Red nodded, "All right. Let's just hope the other Bats don't get involved."
Oh, that's right. Robin and Batgirl. They were always gettin' in the way. Annoying little wanna-bees. I shrugged though, laughing it off.
"It'd be even. If they show up I mean. Besides, we can outsmart 'em. They're bats remember?"
Red chuckled. And we were off. We took the long way to the museum; we didn't want to take Cat-lady's way, cuz we'd get caught with her. And we didn't want to be seen with her. We were standing on the top of a deserted apartment building when we saw Huntress coming at us. Ivy motioned to me to keep quiet and pointed down. The fire escape just outside. We jumped down and pried open the window. We jumped in and ran out the apartment, only bothering to slam the doors behind us.
We stood in the hallway breathing heavily and smiling at each other. We were good. I looked around. Just doors some elevators in the middle of the hall and a door at the opposite end of the hall. There was another small hall to the left of us and I assumed there must be another door like the opposite side. We stood there, unsure of which way to go. Finally Ivy started to walk over to the door closest to us.
"I think she should be gone by now." She tried to open it. Nothing happened. She tugged and tugged and then tried pushing it. It wouldn't budge.
"Maybe the other one will work. That one must be locked or somethin'" I suggested and headed to the other door. I tried it and nothing happened. I looked at Ivy, a fear slowly coming over me. I felt my mouth go dry and my throat become tight. I began to feel sick. Were we stuck here? I walked over to the elevator, praying that it would work, even though I knew it wouldn't. I pressed the button and waited. Nothing. I closed my eyes, feeling tears start to come, and took a deep breath as Ivy spoke, still completely calm and unworried.
"Well…let's look in the apartments and then we can just go out the way we came."
Good plan, I was forgetting, we had left the window open. Of course, we could just go back the way we came. But the fear was still sitting at the bottom of my stomach.
What if the door is locked? What if we can't get it open? What if we're stuck here? If we are stuck here, for how long? What if we die before someone finds us?
The questions swam through my mind as the fear kept building up on itself, like some tower of unsteady blocks. I felt the tears well up in my eyes again and blinked them back, trying to regain control. Of course we would get out! Red was a genius; she'd find a way out…right?
We proceeded to look through the apartments which were all disgusting with crap all over the floor and they all smelled like shit. Most of the apartments had nothing worth taking and no food whatsoever. But there were a couple with some scraps of food. We were digging through the cupboards of one of the apartments when I heard something slam. I quickly looked up, hitting my head on the counter above the cupboard I had been looking in.
"Did ya hear that Red?" I asked, unsure of whether I had actually heard something or I was just imagining things.
Ivy stood stock still, straining her ears, trying to hear another sound, "I…don't know. Be quiet. Don't move."
We stayed right where we were, listening, barely breathing. I heard a door creak open and then some footsteps on the carpet in the hallway. I glanced up at Ivy who put down the can of beans she had found on the counter, walked as quietly as possible into the living room, picked up a chair leg that had long since been missing from its chair, and walked over to the door, peering out the peep-hole. I slowly stood up, being careful not to hit my head on the counter again, and joined her. I saw a shape of some sort at the end of the little section of apartments we were in. The figure started heading towards the apartment we were in. Towards this very door. I started to panic.
What if it's one of the Bats? What if they catch us here? We have no easy way out or anythin'!
Again, thoughts and questions swam through my head, again bringing the fear in the pit of my stomach to a near climax. The figure got closer and Ivy inhaled sharply as we both realized who it was.
"What the hell is she doing here?!" I hissed at Ivy.
I wasn't sure if I should try and leave through the kitchen window. I didn't really want to deal with Cat-lady at the moment. Especially if the Bats were after her. Ivy stayed right where she was, and her hand went to the doorknob, as her other hand tightened its grip on the chair leg. I backed up a bit, ready to fight if need be. Ivy swung open the door and we were face-to-face with Cat-lady. She smirked.
"Well, well, well. Look who we have here. I didn't expect to find two bitches like you here."
I tensed, my hands slowly balling into fists at her insult. Sure the Joker insulted me plenty, but comin' from her…well….it seemed to sting more than when the Joker said it. I could tell Ivy was not pleased.
Through clenched teeth she said, "Yeah, well, can't say any better for you either. What are you doing here?"
Cat-lady's face fell slightly as she hesitated whether to tell us or not.
"Bats was waiting for me on my way to the Cat's Eyes. Now, I wonder who tipped him off?" Well, she knew, but she must've known. She's smart that way. And that also makes her dangerous.
She smirked and asked, "There any food in this one?" And she waltzed on in towards the kitchen. She looked down at the can of beans and continued to sift through the one that Ivy had abandoned. I glanced over at Ivy who stood there, hesitating. I suppose we were to work together for now. We'd have to stay here for a while anyway because if Bats was on Cat's tail…he'd be at it for hours. I sighed and slumped down onto the tattered couch in the crapped up living room. This was going to be a loooong night.
End Chapter 2
Well, there's chapter 2 for you. Do you like it? Please tell me you do! Two reviews and then the third chapter will be up! Thanks!
