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Suddenly someone screamed.
The lead singer was dead, her cheek sliced. Afigure in purple sauntered onto the stage and declared
"Welcome ladies and gentlemen to our little show" She laughed at their screams "Now we need two volunteers from the audience" She pointed her gun at Bruce "How about our gracious host" Two men in viennaese masks dragged bruce onto the stage "And this young lady in purple" Two more men dragged Annie from her chair and onto the stage next to Bruce, Aceie held her knife infront of bruce's face like a microphone
"And our first volunteer is?"
"Bruce Wayne" She smiled manicly "Ah yes Billionaire Brucie" She turned to Annie "And you are?" Annie glared at her with so much hatred and anger, that if looks could kill Aceie would have been dead many times over "Detective Annie Gordon" Aceie looked at her, puzzled then realisation hit her "Oh Commissioner Gordon's daughter, last time I saw you you were this high" Aceie held her hand a ridiculously small distance from the ground "And tied up behind a crate" Annie seethed and shouted "You killed my Dad!" Aceie laughed but it didn't reach her eyes
"Don't paint Jim Gordon whiter than white, he killed my father and then Batman?" She ran her white gloved hend down her scar smudging the make up "Did this to me. Between them those men of 'hounor' destroyed my life and know this you hypocrites" She turned her attention to the trembling audience "Gotham City pays for the Joker's death tenfold" She clapped her hands and looked at Annie "You see, those explosions and deaths weren't my fault" Smoke filled the room. Over the paniced screams Annie heard the Ace's laughter, sharp as a blade and as clear as crystal.
"Annie . . . Annie!" "Miss Gordon" "Annie!" They were all shouting at her, shaking her shoulders but she couldn't hear them still the Ace's laughter flew around her mind accompanied by the memories of the night in the warehouse. "We have to get her out of here" Annie felt strong arms around her waist, lifting her off the stage and through the smoke. Then the world went black.
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She woke up in bed "Hey, sleepy head" Said Tia, smiling down at her "You had us all worried" Annie sat up
"What happened? All I can remember is her . . ." She shuddered ". . . laughing" Tia patted her reasuringly on the shoulder "Don't worry, you'll never guess who's been sittung on our sofa the past hour worrying"
"James?"
"Yeah, your James" Annie smiled "I told you Ti he's not my James" The pair laughed but inside Annie was still shaking I'll get her for what she said Dad, I promise
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Aceie skipped laughing around the hideout, her henchmen watched her warily "You OK Boss?"She laughed some more "I'm better than ok, little Annie Gordon this is going to be so much fun" She stopped skipping suddenly and looked at her henchmen "Are you smiling under those masks?"
"Yes Boss" They replied in unison, she drew her knife and twirled it expertly "Because if you aren't I'll help you" She grabbed the front of one man's shirt and pulled him towards her, knocking his mask off in the process. The man froze in fear as Aceie put the blade in his mouth while giggling "Smile, my boys, smile" The man winced as she removed the knife catching his lip, Aceie tipped her head to one side and looked puzzled "Did you really think I'd hurt my boys? Ha! Not today boys not today" She laughed once more and hop skipped out of the hideout.
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This is getting out of hand Alfred, I have to stop her this time" Bruce Wayne declared "Be careful Sir, she has caused your worst injuries to date" Said Alfred glancing at the many new scars across bruce's back "You were out of action for a while, we had to put out the story that you'd gone on a cruise" Bruce sighed, remembering the searing and numbing pain "I know, but she's up to something now, I saw it in her eyes when she realised who Miss Gordon was" Bruce Wayne, now batman mounted his bike and sped away into Gotham's night drenched streets.
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