Chelsea sat looking at her computer in total shock, she couldn't believe what she was seeing. Just a few minutes ago she had gotten an email from her boss at Gotham hospital, thinking that her boss just wanted her to start work sooner than the two weeks she was allowed to have. When she opened it however, her boss tells her that she is being transferred. Chelsea honestly wouldn't mind transferring to other hospital, the patients in Gotham hospital were mostly criminals after they got in a fight with Batman or they had some sort of gang war. But instead she was sent a email telling her that due to Arkham being low on hospital employees she was being transferred until further notice.
Chelsea tilts her head on the back of her chair and groans loudly while rubbing her face with her hands, she quickly sends her former boss an email asking her if she knew any information on when she was starting or what her schedule would be. Chelsea then begins to realize how ironic it was that she was starting to work there right after the Riddler was just caught and token into Arkham. Upon thinking about the Riddler she then realizes how full Arkham is with super villains right now, the only one not in Arkham is the Joker, who from the sound of police sirens outside is getting chased right now.
Ding Chelsea quickly looks at her computer and sees a not so familiar email pop up, she looks at the name and sees that the warden Quincy Sharp of Arkham sent her an email. Chelsea had always wondered if there was something wrong with him when he said he wanted to be the warden of Arkham, who on earth would want to actually work there? Chelsea had also done some research about him and what he has done for Arkham after he became warden and from what she had figured out he seems to be worst then the last. Criminals and super villains had been escaping at least two weeks after they got caught, the last warden had kept them inside for a month before they escaped.
Deciding to stop stalling with how bad of a warden Sharp is, Chelsea opens the email and sees her schedule, he also discuses where and when she would start, but what really caught her eye was the last paragraph,
After much thought and looking through each of the doctors in Gotham I have decided that you would be the perfect person for the job, looking at your record it seems that you have worked on plenty of criminals, poison ivy and scarecrow. You are also able to keep your mind on the task of healing the patients without trying to harm them or doing a poor job. Furthermore you also have been working as a doctor for six years now, also having three years of volunteer work at hospitals in Gotham. With all this in mind you have been chosen to work at Arkham Asylum, where you will be tasked to help mend, with the help of others, to the more dangerous criminals.
Chelsea ignored everything after that and just stared blankly at the last line,from now on she will be working on the super villains. She also didn't now how he was able to get the information of her bandaging up Poison Ivy and Scarecrow, technically she wasn't experienced enough at the time to even be near them. With Poison Ivy, she had gotten all the doctors and nurses to leave her alone with her powers but Chelsea had somehow either not been affected or Ivy wanted her to do it but either way, Chelsea was left to tend to a bleeding out Poison Ivy who had done nothing but watch her and allow her to work on her.
Scarecrow was a entirely different story, she had only been a doctor for two years and wasn't very experienced with working with criminals yet and so when they brought in Scarecrow, who had just come out as the famous super villain scarecrow, he had several broken ribs and was bleeding profusely. He also had his mask off and with all the injuries he had she had thought that he would be screaming in pain or knocked out but he was laying there with his eyes open and from the looks of it, he was observing everyone. They had put him in a room that they used for super villains at the time, they started to work on him. After about twenty minutes of him being in the room, she was told to bring some water to a certain patient a few doors past him, on her way there she peeked in the room an saw none of the doctors were there and he seemed to be trying to bandage himself. She had without even thinking went into the room and started to help him, she kinda blacked out, so focused on helping him she didn't even know if he was talking to her. After he was done, she put him back in his bed and made him comfortable by fluffing the pillows, putting the blankets on him and even serving him water. He hadn't said anything or complain when she helped him and had even thanked her when she was leaving, that day was half the reason why she has a fear of the Batman.
Chelsea sighed again when looking at the email to see that she would be starting the next day even though she technically had another 4 days of vacation but she decided that she would rather get this over with then be her alone with her dark thoughts about what could happen when she did go to work. She then looks at the clock and decides that it would be good to go to bed at that moment, and just as she hits her head on her pillow, the Riddler gets up.
Edward knew it was going to be easy to get Chelsea transferred to Arkham just before Jokers big plan, he just didn't think it would be that easy. He knew that Sharp wouldn't look twice and would make his assistant to do it, so all he had to do was find some a little more than average things Chelsea had done and the assistant would have picked her. He did find some more than average things Chelsea had done, from helping Scarecrow, he wouldn't count Poison Ivy hard or very average for she was too stupid to be considered hard, and Chelsea had even skipped a few grades which made sense for doctors were usually in their early thirties to mid thirties while Chelsea was only twenty seven. He found himself looking up any information on her, he found out that she grew up in an average family and originally lived in Metropolis before moving to Gotham to live with her aunt when her parents died in a car accident. Everything in her life, from Edwards eyes, was average! So he didn't understand how she was so smart.
He sighs and shakes his head knowing that he of all people should understand that smart people could come from a family of idiotic barbarians, his father was the epitome of an idiot and his mother was a useless old hag. Again he shakes his head to rid of his useless thoughts, he had still so much to prepare for what's to come within a week. As much as the Joker is an idiot, Edward has to admit that this plan is ingenious, the Joker's plan matches Edwards plans which is much unusual for the man, for two reasons. One the Joker practically prides himself on not coming up with plans and just winging it and two his plan makes it so the Batman will die, which is something the Joker would never usually want. Edward stands up and paces in his very small cell, thinking over everything in this plan and trying to come up with some explanation about the Joker making such a smart plan like this.
His plan also allows everyone to have a moment to shine and take out the bat or at least try, but also allows himself to have the most time to shine but there is something about his plan that makes Edward suspicious, the way Joker waved off and diverted the attention after a certain question had been asked. What was Joker going to fight Batman with or what at the end if he is able to get there, usually he blabbers on about what he did or what he was going to do in such detail that makes Edward cringe inwardly. This time however he wanted others to talk about their plans and what they were going to say or do, no one noticed because of their small brains except Edward and Scarecrow.
With that final thought Edward realized he should question Scarecrow about him meeting Chelsea, for in the report about their meeting it seemed to be rushed and with little information. Edward could care less about her meeting Poison Ivy, the woman is to stupid to try something when a beautiful woman was near.
Edward hears soft footsteps coming to his cage making him quickly get closer to the bars and he warps his hands around them. Around the corner comes one of his brainless goons. The man runs towards Edwards cell and takes a deep breath, "You useless runt! What took you so long? Are you both stupid and slow? Do you not understand how important this is? Well spit it out, tell me about the trophies, are they all placed?" Edward questions the man not caring for the scared look on his goons face, "W-well boss, we have completed all of the rooms and are now just finishing with the trophies." Edward sighs annoyed with how slow his goons are, "You still aren't finished? Even toddlers would be done faster then all of you knuckleheads." Edward insults the man then waves him off, making the man run off in the direction he came from.
Edward needs everything to be perfect for when Joker starts his plan, he needs to have his new contestant ready for what is to come, he even made the woman her own trophies, while Batman got his usual green lighted trophies, Chelsea got a nice purple lighted trophies. He also made it so her puzzles are easier to do in the sense of her not having the Bats cheating materials. She would also be going in areas with little activity when Jokers plan is activated, He would also have one of his man watching her from a distance just in case some idiotic barbarian decided to attack her. He didn't want her to be harmed by anything unless it's because she got either one of his puzzles wrong or one of his riddles.
Edward feels a surge of excitement overwhelm him as he lays on his uncomfortable bed and tries to go to sleep.
Chelsea walks up to Arkham with a horrible feeling in her gut, everything in her telling her to turn around and go back home to her warm bed. But she ignores this and continues up to the front doors of the man building of Arkham she takes a deep breath and opens the door, stepping into the building. Chelsea looks around with disgust on her face on how the place looks, the floors have an unholy amount of dirt and garbage on it and the walls seem to have dry specks of blood. The woman at the front desk takes her look wrong and says, "Yeah I know, being around crazy people isn't the best. Your the new doctor, right?" Chelsea frowns at the woman's words but nods anyway, not wanting to make enemies with someone already. The woman fakes a smile and points down the right hallway, "This way is were the infirmary is, walk to the end of the hall and then make a right, it's the fourth door on the left." Chelsea nods and sends the woman a thankful smile.
Chelsea walks into the infirmary and gasps quietly at how dirty the room was, garbage was everywhere and the sheets from the beds looked like they haven't been washed in years. There also wasn't anyone in the room, patient or employee making her frown deepen, there should always be at least one doctor ready to help. Chelsea plops her bag down on the nearest table and decides as her first objective would be to clean up the infirmary, so she leaves the room to go ask for some cleaning equipment.
After what seemed like hours, Chelsea was finally done cleaning the room making her collapse in the nearest chair to rest her tired feet, just a few moments later the door opens and a loud gasp is heard making Chelsea look up and see three people piling into the room with their mouth wide open. Chelsea grins at them tiredly and waves her hand, "I decided to clean up the place, how does it look?" The three people simultaneously close their mouths and look her with confusion clear on their faces. Chelsea slowly stands up and makes her way to the three people and sticks out her hand, "My names Chelsea and I'm the new doctor here, the place looked like it needed some cleaning so I cleaned it." The three nodded their heads and the man in the middle shakes her hand, "Hey, I'm Micheal and uh yeah this place needed to be cleaned for a while now." He awkwardly scratches the back of his head and nonchalantly bumps into the woman to his right, "Y-yeah uh my names Elizabeth and I heard you were suppose to come but I just didn't think you would." The last person of the three people looks at Chelsea and smirks, "Yo, my names Ben, nice meeting you sweetheart."
Chelsea groans inwardly but keeps a smile on her face ignoring Ben's comment, "Well it's nice to meet you all but not to be rude but how on earth did you work in such a dirty environment?" Micheal awkwardly looks at the ground and clears his throat, "Well it was like this when we came here and we tried to clean it but it would get dirty very quickly due to all the inmates getting into fights or trying to break out of the room." Chelsea nods taking in this information but then another question comes to her mind, "Well why weren't at least one of you here? There always has to be a doctor ready at standby." This time Elizabeth clears her throat and answers, "No one ever comes at these hours, everyone's in their cells and even if someone were to be hurt the guards will only bring them here when it's time for them to eat." At those words Chelsea feels absolutely disgusted with how things are done in Arkham.
The three doctors all thought the same thing about the woman in front of them, she looked out of place in Arkham. Chelsea's presence to them screamed innocence and purity, they thought that she wouldn't understand the cruelty of this place and she would be eaten alive in here. All three of them silently went to their stations and got ready for what was to come, Chelsea not understanding sent a look of confusion to Micheal, "Like Eli said before, when it's time to eat they bring the injured here and it's almost lunch time. Not only are we gonna have the injured from the cells but there is always a few fights at the cafeteria which will bring even more injured here. Just get ready, it's gonna get busy."
And was he right with that last statement, it was super busy, patients coming in left and right. To say that Chelsea was tired would be the understatement of the year but she continued to help with the injuries on the men and women, She treated them all nicely and even made conversation with a few of them. Working at Gotham hospital made Chelsea learn that to be respected by the patients, she had to be nice and respect them, of course there would be the people that would be mean or say dirty things to her no matter what she did but most of the time the patients were nice to her. The patients themselves looked shocked whenever she said someone nice to them or smiled at them, it was horrible for Chelsea to think that people no matter how bad and mean would be shocked because someone simply smiled genuinely at them.
By the end of her shift she didn't realize it but she was the talk at Arkham, everyone talking about the woman who acted nicely to the inmates at Arkham without grimacing or glaring at them. Chelsea had gotten everyone's attention, even the big super villains, but Edward felt worried to say the least at all the attention she caused herself, he had to make sure that the others knew that she would be his "victim" so they would leave her alone when the plan started. He knew that him claiming her would do very little with most of the super villains but the smaller criminals would stay away.
Edward wasn't happy at all at the attention on her but decided that the best thing for him to do is to grab her before the plan starts to make sure no one else gets her first.