Chapter 3

"So, girls, this is a new situation for all of us and I'm really excited with how it worked out."

Evie Jenkson had decided to have a session with Dahl and Tesson together, and was eager to see how it would go. Not only did both women have similar physical problems, they were in the same situation. It was something new for the psychologist, something entirely different, not like the time Celine met Harley. She was looking forward to new developments.

The two criminal ladies were sitting in two strollers listening to Evie's words, more or less.

"And what is your personal goal for this session?" Mary Dahl was the first to ask a question. Mary was not sure what she should think about it.

"She wants to help us, Mary. Didn't you listen to the first session we had here?" Celine could not believe that Mary was so stupid as to not remember their first meeting. Evie had introduced herself and talked about her wish to help them.

"I was busy thinking about my wonderful career as a star at the time," Mary snapped in annoyance.

"It's not nice that you don't listen. Miss Jenson was so nice at my first session with her. She even made it possible to get my Fio back, after the mean guard took him away," Tesson said thankfully. This was something that would always make Miss Jenkson special in her eyes; she was different from everyone else working at Belle Reve.

"Excuse me? I was put in this horrible car and driven here and put in this ugly uniform. I hate the color orange. This is not me!" Mary answered miserably.

"So it was a free ride for you, huh? At least you weren't put in a playpen like me. I mean, come on, lady, you don't need to scream out loud how horrible your life is," Celine said, with growing anger.

"I have every right to say that, Tesson! I don't age! I was born with a condition that stops me from aging. I will never have a normal life!" Now Mary was getting angry.

"Calm down, it was a normal questions," Tesson answered and turned her attention back to Evie. Sure, Mary would never have a normal life, but was that a reason to get mad at her? No, it was not.

"Don't tell me to calm down! You know how bad this life is. No, wait you don't kow it. You weren't a star, Tesson," Babydoll seethed.

"Well maybe I wasn't, but my life wasn't that easy. You wouldn't understand that. You didn't have to life with parents that told you all day, 'Hey, don't be like that. Don't be a bookworm. Don't be shy. Do what we say or face the consequences.' My parents were horrible people. I couldn't take it any more. My life right now is not perfect, but it is something new, something that I can use to take revenge on all the people who destroyed my life. I can use this new chance to have some fun!"

Celine crossed her arms over her chest and watched Babydoll as she finally turned her attention away from her orange uniform and listened.

"Should I feel sorry for you? My life was not easy either. I lost the only family I ever know – my show, Love that baby. That show was my life. I felt a little bit normal then." Tears gathered in Mary's eyes as she finished her sentence.

"I thought I could bring my old TV show family back to the old set and everything would be just fine. I hoped it would be like it was twenty years ago when we were all together. We would be happy and have the family life I've always wanted, but everything changed. Stupid Cousin Spunky was not Spunky himself, it was this Robin person. Then Batman chased me and I was lost," Babydoll said sadly.

"How did you feel about that, Mary?" Evie said gently.

"Not good. I wanna be normal," Mary whined loudly. Celine felt a little bit sorry for her and was unsure about what to say since Mary had been so rude. She looked away from the ex-TV star.

"We're never going to be normal. We are the part of society nobody wants to see or to have around," she said, finally. "Let's talk about Batman. Do you think he, too, is a little too old for his costume?"

"Hate Batman," Mary snapped.

"That's great! I hate him too. Such a stupid man. We could do something bad to Batman together," Tesson suggested.

"Don't waste your time with that jerk. He's took busy putting innocent people in prison, people like me," Dahl said with a sad sigh.

"Huh. If you're innocent, then why are you staying in Belle Reve? I mean, I made some major chaos in Gotham for weeks. Did you really try to kill the grandson of the actress from your old show?" Tesson asked carefully.

"It was a mistake that put me in here. After Batman sent me to an asylum to fix me I got a job in a hotel. Everybody saw Babydoll in me, not who I really am. I had a setback after I met a wonderful person. He was so strong and I thought he understood what it meant to be different. But he broke my heart, and after my relationship was destroyed I thought it would be helpful to take revenge on the actress who played my older sister. She was a grandmother by then and the little boy reminded me so much of her – how nice she was to me during the show. He didn't have a right to life, that's all," Mary explained. Celine found this very interesting, the idea of taking revenge on someone because of a resemblance to someone else.

"Cool! I did the same to Professor Aurelius Luton when he came into my cell and thought it would be funny to be nasty to me," Tesson explained cheerfully.

"Oh, I heard about that professor. He is in the same sector as I am. He is always talkinga bout how insane his experiment," said Mary.

"I heard that he will leave us in a few days. He is going to be sent to a hospital for special care," Evie said, looking up from her notes. She had taken down every word of the fascinating conversation between Babydoll and the Crazy Little Girl.

"How sad it that?" Celine said. She sounded shocked but there was a huge, made smile on her face.

"That was sarcasm, right?" Mary asked.

"Yes, it was. Mary, do you have any friend in here?

"The idiots here mostly laugh about my wonderful show. No, I don't have any friends. What about you?"

"I have a lot of friends: Floyd, Harley, George, and my best friend Fio," Tesson listed. She was proud of that list. It was important to have friends in prison.

"Good for you. You are not lonely," Mary said.

"We can be friends if you like. Then we can try to make chaos together or have ice cream together," Celine offered.

"I will think about that," said Mary.

"Well, girls, that was an interesting session, wasn't it?" Evie asked. She wrote down a few more notes and ended the session.