Harley Baby 4
" I love to kill! I love to torture! That is a real life!" The Joker sings while shotting people on the mall that he was robbering. He laughs and beams at Harley, who is walking to an abandoned toy store. She crumples her face in the showcase, eyes on a cute clown plush. After shotting all people in the mall, The Joker stares at Harley one more time. She didn't take away her eyes of the plush. The Joker comes behind her and asks:
"What's so intringing about that plushie, kiddo?"
"I just found it cute, sir. It's really a nice plush. I named it Jester." She says, beaming at Joker.
"You named it even not having it?"
"Yeah. I like to give names to the things that I can't have. It seemes that they are mine." She says, smiling sadly.
"And who said that you can't have it?" The Joker says smiling. He walks inside the store and grabs the plush. He gaves it to Harley, who smiled with all teeth and hugged it tightly. After a few seconds, she hugs one leg of the Joker. His eyes are confused, he wasn't used to Harley just hug him. She usually wanted more, much more…
"That's the kindest thing someone has ever done to me." She says as she let go of his leg. "Thank you." She says, smiling.
"Aw, Harl. I…" but The Joker is interrupted by sounds of police sirens. He grabs two bags of money and hands the others to his henchmen. He motions to Harley to follow him and they go downstairs, running out of the fire exit. For a moment, The Joker forgets that Harley isn't so fast like before (I mean before she turns into a kid, get it? … Ahh, I am confused now!) and he just runs for a long time. He sees Batman and sends his henchmen to keeps Batsy busy. He runs so far to the point that he couldn't see the mall anymore. He turns on an alley and gives a sigh of relief. He drops the bags of money and says with a smile:
"We did it, Harley! Good job, kiddo." He turns around and sees that no one besides him is there. He suddenly remembers Harley's condition.
"Oh, no! Nonono!" He exclaims, running down the alley, completely forgetting abot the money bags.
"Harley! Where are you? Kid? Answer me! Harleeey!" he says, going more crazy than he was. He hears a scream, Harley's scream. He runs to the origin of the sound and sees three guys cornering Harley.
"So… what a pretty little face like you is doing here alone? Mommy and Daddy forget about you?" one of them says, with malice. The others laugh with malice too.
"I am n-not a-afraid of y-you." Harley says with bravery, but her eyes were glassy.
"Oh, yeah? You'll soon be." The biggest of the men says and pulls out a knife.
"Hey, man. It's not better keep her for ranson?" The other man says.
"Nah. She's clearly abandoned. What kind of father would let a kid in her age alone on these streets?" the man demanded. "And it's been a while I don't torture someone" he added, grinning to Harley. Harley starts to cry and sob, closing her eyes tightly.
"Why don't you take someone of your size, sport?" The Joker says. He emerges of the dark, with a smile on his face. But Harley could tell that he was very, very angry.
"Y-you! What you are doing h-here, Joker?" the one with the knife says.
"It's not of your business, asshole! Now, be a good boy and stay still. I wouldn't like to mess my new jacket with your blood." The clown says darkly. Joker sees that the clown plush that he gave to Harley was now left on the floor and dirty. His anger raised even more after that. He shots the other two guys in the head. The guy lets go of the knife and knells, imploring for live.
"Please, man! If that's for money, I will bring to you! And you could kill the girl too. I think it will be more funny to do that, right?" he says, hopefully. The Joker growls and looks to Harley, who is still with her eyes closed. She was to afraid to know what was happening.
"Kill the girl?! You are disgusting, but I am going to end this for you. See you in hell!" he says forcing happiness and shots the guy in the head. He keeps shotting him until he is out of bullets.
"You're welcome." He mutters to the body and walks to Harley. In the middle of the way, he grabs the clown plush and cleans it. He knells in front of Harley and taps her on the shoulder. She looks to him and smiles.
"You came back? Why?" She says as he handed her the plush. She huggs it tightly and gets up.
"Why I wouldn't come back?" he replies with a grin. She grins back, but it suddenly fells when she sees the guy who threatened her. The Joker notices it and says:
"He's not going to mess with you anymore, kid."
"Nah. If you haven't showed up, he wouldn't be able to walk for a month." She jokes. The Joker laughs of the 'Bravery' of Harley and leads her to the car. She giggles but her giggle is replaced with cough. 'That's not right' he thinks. Her cough should have stopped after she took the pills that he gave her. He eyes her, suspiciously.
"Harl?"
"Yeah, sir?"
"Did you took the pills I gave you to help you with your fever yesterday?"
"Yep. Yes, I did, sir" She says proud of herself.
"Oh, really? So why are you coughing again?" he demanded, like an angry father.
"I d-don't know, sir." Harley answered quickly. He leans in the eye level of Harley, and whispers:
"Harley. Did you took the pills to. help. your. fever?"
"W-well, I-" she starts.
"DON'T LIE TO ME, KID!"He shouts. Harley tries to run but he helds her wrists.
"Now, the truth." He says coldly.
"I f-forgot to took the p-pills" she whispers barely audible.
"Why?"
"I was v-very tired and I s-supposed that i-if I just sleep, it w-would pass." She says in a meek voice.
"And it passed for you, Harley? Because for me, you look like the same sick thing of yesterday."
"S-sorry, sir." Without thinking, he slaps his hand on her face, making her fly to the ground. He suddenly remembers… his father. He sees Harley, crying. She gets up to her feet, and looks at him with a miserable look on her face. It was getting dark and starts to rain. She doesn't say nothing, just look at him. It remembers him of his father. He had never looked that way to Harley, but now when she was a kid, he saw himself.
"Harley, I-" he starts. She just keeps eyeing him. She turns around.
And run.