Chapter 7

Disclaimer: I only own my OC Vicious/Brooke Wayne and Sami only owns her OCs Kyle Valentine/Mobby and Ace

Thanks so much to my PT, Sami (aka kurounue13)! Love ya PT! You're the Best!

The group arrived at the main house of the hideout. Mobby was the first inside and immediately took off her hat and her coat before going into the kitchen. She ran the cold water and put it on her face and the back of her neck.

Vicious walked in as she buttoned up her doctor's coat and went in the kitchen after Mobby. "So, are you really Samantha?" she asked softly. She heard a small sniffle from the purple-haired woman. "I was...but she died a long time ago." she said before going out to the living room. Vicious followed her out as she sat next to her on the couch. "You wanna...talk about it?" she asked softly and a little awkwardly. Vicious never did get along with other women very well and she certainly wasn't any good at talking about feelings with them...she was only comfortable with talking about feelings with Jack, not Joker, just Jack.

"I would prefer not to...but I guess I owe all of you...well mostly you, V, an explanation." she said as she pulled her hair back. "I think so too." she said as she watched Ace come over and put his hands on Mobby's shoulders. "You don't have to, my love. It can wait." he said softly. "No, darling...she deserves the truth." with a heavy, heavy sigh, Mobby then removed her vest and her button down shirt, exposing a white tank top underneath, but it was what was on her skin that shocked Vicious. Scars marred her soft fair skin. Vicious' eyebrows furrowed in confusion as she looked at the scars. The two worst that were on her was one across her chest, and one across her throat that was a little less visable.

"So...what happened?" Vicious asked quietly. "When I was six years old, my step father started abusing me. My mother knew, but...she didn't want to admit it. She wanted to keep the whole idea of the perfect upper-class family." Mobby began to feel vulnerable as she told them. Ace was right beside her as he held her hand and held her close to him while she explained and Vicious looked over at Joker and then back at Mobby.

"The abuse got worse the older I got, and the less and less my mother seemed to care. Finally on the night of my 13th birthday my step father came into my room..." Mobby's voice caught in her throat. Vicious nodded. "I can imagine." she said softly. "You don't-" she started. "Unless you have lived through abuse...no you can't." she sighed again. "He continued this until just before the night of my 17th birthday. By that time, I had already spent time in a mental hospital after slitting my own throat." Vicious sat back against the couch, shocked by the news.

"That night, my step father came into my room as always, but I was ready for him that time. I had stolen a kitchen knife and when he came up to my bed I jumped him from behind." a small smile cracked onto her face. "I killed him and then left." Vicious gave a small smirk. "I was wandering the streets covered in his blood...and then Jack found me. I hadn't realized what I had done until he brought me out of my haze. I then broke down crying and he took me in." Mobby said and Vicious looked over at Joker, who was standing by the front door of the house.

"He helped me and taught me everything I know. Samantha died that night and Kyle was born." she said and Vicious couldn't keep her eyes off of Joker as she looked at him. Joker looked back at her and offered a soft and fond smile as he remembered. "It was when I was 19 I met Ace. I almost shot him when we met." Mobby said. Ace let out a small chuckle as he kissed Mobby's cheek. "What a good day." he said wistfully. Mobby smiled and turned to Vicious. "Now you know my story."

"Thanks for telling me." she said softly as she looked at Mobby before her attention went right back to Joker as she got up and walked over to him. She wrapped her arms around him and kissed his cheek. Hearing Mobby's story, she caught a glimpse of that caring side of him that she loved. She smiled at him as she looked at him. "Are you ok, J?" she asked softly. He nodded slowly before holding her close to him. "Wanna go upstairs for a while? It's only one in the morning." she said softly. "Sure." he said softly. "I'm a tired boy." he said, making her smile. She laughed softly before she took his hand and led him upstairs before she remembered this was a new hideout and she looked back at him once they were at the top of the stairs. "Wait a minute, what about the hostages?" she asked. "All of that will be taken care of tomorrow, my sweet." Vicious smiled at Joker a little bigger. "I would lead you to our room, but I'm not sure which door it is." she said, laughing softly.

Joker smiled softly and took her hand. "Allow me, my lady." he said and she smiled as she held his hand and followed him to their room. He led her to the master bedroom suite. When he opened the door to the suite, her mouth dropped as she stepped inside. "Oh...wow." she said as she looked around the spacious room, from the very comfortable-looking bed, to the big window, walk-in closet, and even enough space for a small office inside the room where her computer sat on a desk.

"I decided to go for the best this time." he said as he came up behind her. She smiled as she looked back at him. "This is more than the best...it's beautiful, even though it, like the other place, looks like total crap on the outside." she said. "Well, gotta have a way to make it not so obvious." he said. She smiled. "True. We wouldn't want anyone finding us..even though it is pretty far from the city, but still." she said as she rested her head back on his shoulder as she kissed his neck softly.

He moaned softly as he picked her up and carried her to the bed. She smiled and held on to him as she kissed from his neck to his lips. "J, I've missed you so much." she said against his lips. "I know, doll." he said as he crawled into bed with her and curled up against her. She pulled away from him a little. "Jack, I don't know if you really wanna be too close to me. They didn't exactly give me much room for personal hygiene, but I did try my best."

"I don't care, I want you with me." he said. She smiled as she curled up in his arms again. "So do I." she said, smiling, as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He held her and cuddled with her. His hold on her was tight and secure. Vicious smiled as she felt his possessive embrace on her. She was so glad to be home again.

Next Day...

That Morning...

Vicious had gotten out of Jack's grasp that, even while he was sleeping, was tight and secure just like last night. She slipped out of his arms and went into the bathroom for a well-deserved and much needed shower.

The moment she stepped under that hot warm waterfall she sighed happily. Finally., she thought as she stayed underneath the water for a few minutes before she finally started taking her shower.

An Hour Later...

Vicious had stepped out of the huge shower in the master bathroom as she wrapped a soft white towel around her body. She felt so much better. She wanted to go back and take another followed by a bubble bath, but what she wanted most was to see if her lover was awake as she walked out of the bathroom and looked in the walk-in closet for some of her clothes that she found immediately on the left side of the closet, Joker's were on the right side. She found a small little comfortable outfit of a t-shirt and some small black shorts as she changed in the closet before she walked out and put her towel back in the bathroom before she kissed Joker's sleeping face, that was still painted, before she walked downstairs to venture around the house.

She came down to the kitchen and her eyes were wide. The entire kitchen was huge and spacious with stainless steel appliances and even an island in the center of the kitchen. Oh my God., she thought as she looked around before she got a glass out of one of the cabinets and got herself a cold glass of crushed ice and water, thanks to the lovely ice maker the fridge had before she walked out of the kitchen to look around more.

She sat down on the big couch in the living room and stared at the beautiful flat screen TV. She sipped her water as she lounged on the leather couch and rested her head against one of the velvet pillows that were on the couch as she took the remote and turned the TV on.

She smirked as she saw the news was on. Does he watch anything else?, she thought before she answered herself in her mind. I don't think so., she thought with a smirk as she watched the news coverage of what she and Joker did just yesterday at the hospital.

She smiled and continued to watch the news. She had finished her water soon and got up and walked into the kitchen as she set her glass down by the sink before she decided to go upstairs and see if Joker was up yet.

He wasn't in the bed where she left him but she heard the shower running. She smiled as she bit her lip softly and looked over at the bed where he always left his new clothes he was going to wear after his shower and this time was no different. She smirked as she stripped off her own clothes and laid them next to his as she went into the bathroom and sneaked into the shower behind him.

He jumped slightly as she touched him. "Awww, J, it's just me." she said as she kissed his back softly before she kissed his shoulder and finally her lips made it to his neck. "Don't sneak up on me, please." he said softly as he held her hands. She held his hands and nodded. "Alright...are you ok?" she asked softly. "Still a tad jumpy from yesterday is all." he said. "You?" she asked, smiling as she nibbled on his ear. "I don't know what's wrong with me." he said with a small laugh. She smiled and got in front of him. "Jack, if you wanna talk to me-" she started. "It's just... I have been waiting for years, just like Ace, to get that man." he said and she nodded as she tenderly started washing Jack off with his soap. She smiled when she heard the reaction from him as she smiled as she kissed his cheek. "I know I said this last night, but I have to tell you again. I've missed you so much, Jack." she said. "I've missed you too, Brooke." he said softly. She smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck and the two stayed there together for what seemed like days when it was really just about twenty minutes.

Soon, the water grew cold and they got out of the shower.

"So, what are we doing with the hostages later?" she asked as they got dressed and saw that it was one in the afternoon. "You will see." he leaned in. "It's a surprise." She smiled at him as she kissed him softly before she pulled away from him and went into the walk-in closet after getting dressed.

"So, should I wear something specific for this?" she asked as she looked through her clothes. "Purple." he said. She smiled over at him before she looked at her clothes and smirked. "I've got it." she said before she walked out of the closet with a pair of purple leather pants and a black low-cut top that she laid out on the bed.

"Ooooooooohhhhhhh." he said as he stared. "You'll have to wait til later to see me in it though, darling." she whispered in his ear before she went to the door and she looked back at him. "Do you want to eat something before our big day ahead of us?" she asked. Before he could open his mouth his stomach answered for him. She giggled. "Sounds like a yes to me. I'll make us something." she said as she walked down the stairs.

She fixed him a small breakfast and he ate all of it. "Was it ok?" she asked as she put their dishes into the huge dishwasher. "Indeed it was." he said. She smiled. "I'm glad you liked it." she said before she looked over at him and saw him staring at her. "What?" she asked, smirking. "How good are you with spray paint?" he asked and Vicious smiled. "I've had my experience with it." she said. He smiled at her and she looked at him. "Why?" she asked. "It's got a purpose in my little surprise." he said.

Later That Day...

It was in the evening now and it was a very slow news day since the Joker wasn't seen all day long.

Joker and Vicious both had Mike Engel of Gotham Tonight held hostage in the back of the Prewitt Building while Ace and Mobby were taking care of the other hostages.

Vicious spray painted the words 'Breaking News' on the white wall before Joker shoved Mike Engel down against the wall with some papers in his hands as Joker got out a camera and held it up as he pressed record. "Read." Vicious ordered Engel.

Engel sat there upside down with a red smile painted across his face. He stuttered and read the lines all the while Joker muttered a few of them along with Engel. He could only imagine the panic that was to ensue. Vicious snatched each paper he was finished reading until he was done with all of the papers and Joker giggled insanely as he turned the camera away from Engel and towards him a little as he shut it off while Vicious cut the rope to let Engel down.

"So do we let him go?" Vicious asked as Joker handed off the tape in the video to one of his men, who quickly ran off to deliver it. "Let's just leave him hanging." he said in the middle of his laughter. Vicious smiled at Joker as she stopped the cutting of Engel's rope while he screamed at them to let him down. "Oh shut up, you'll get down eventually...that or you'll die, either way we win." Vicious taunted him with a smirk before she threw the scissors out of his reach before she joined Joker at the exit of the room.

They walked out to the awaiting car in which Mobby and Ace were already in. "So, how'd tying up the hostages go?" Vicious asked maliciously as she and Joker got in the back of the car. "It be just as sweet as pie." Mobby said as they drove off.

Vicious smirked as she looked over at Joker, who was sharpening his new favorite knife. She crawled over to him and nibbled on his ear. "After this we're going home right?" she whispered to him. "You are to change, while I have some business to take care of with the other mobsters." he said. "Ace, you will be accompanying me."

"What? J, what the hell am I supposed to change into?" she asked. "That little purple outfit, remember? Don't worry, Mobby will be with you." he said. "Oh yeah. Alright, J, what are you doing with the others anyways?" she asked. "Just showing to them that this town needs a new class of criminal." he said as they pulled up to the house. Vicious smirked. "Alright. Is there anything else I need to bring?" she asked as she, Mobby, and Joker all got out of the car. "Just bring that smile." he said before getting into the front passenger's seat before he and Ace drove off.

Vicious smiled as she watched the car go before she turned back to Mobby. The two women walked into the house. Vicious ran up to her room and quickly changed into the outfit. She came down the stairs a few minutes later after she applied a little bit of Joker-esque makeup, black and purple eyeshadow and some red lip gloss. "So, how do I look?" she asked Mobby. "Like if Jack were a woman." she said and Vicious laughed as she grabbed a gun from the weapon drawer and put her favorite knife in her pocket. "Alright. So what do we do now?" she asked. "We go meet up with him." Mobby said as she put on her Fedora. "Is there an extra car for us to do that?" she asked. Mobby smiled as they walked out to the garage and saw a beautiful 1966 mustang. "Wow." she said as she got in on the passenger's side. "Be careful, this is my baby." Mobby told her as she started the engine and then roared down the street.

By the time they entered the big warehouse she had parked next to, they saw it empty except for a very large stack of money with Lau on top of it, bound and gagged, while Ace was nearby watching the fire burn the money and Lau as Joker got out his cell phone and he watched the fire as well with a sick smile on his face. "Calling us?" Mobby asked as she and Vicious entered and Joker closed his phone. "Not anymore." he said before his eyes landed on Vicious, who smirked as she neared Joker. "Oh, I love watching them burn!" Mobby said as she went to stand by Ace as he smiled and he pulled Mobby close to him as the two sat back to watch the fire.

Vicious looked at the fire before she looked at Joker and smirked. "Miss me?" she asked. "Indubidably." he said as he planted a kiss on her lips. She smiled as she kissed him and wrapped her arms around his neck as she deepened their kiss, making it all the more passionate.

The four then watched the smoldering inferno till nothing was left.

"Let me guess...the fun for tonight is only beginning, right?" Vicious asked, smiling. "Absolutely, doll face." he said. Vicious smiled. "Good. So what's next on our agenda?" she asked. "Dealing with the Bat." he said as he pulled her along soon followed by Mobby and Ace. Vicious smirked as she followed Joker out of the warehouse. He went in the van with Vicious while Ace and Mobby drove off to get the detonators set up.

When they arrived at the Prewitt building Joker went up to the top floor and stood there and waited. Ace stood with the massive rottweilers his face once again painted. Vicious was up at the top of the Prewitt Building with Joker as she stood next to him, looking down at the city with him. "J..." Vicious started. "Yes?" he asked. "What are we going to do after this is over?" she asked. "I don't know, I'll think of that later." he said before offering her a soft smile. She smiled at him as she kissed his neck a little. "I could think of a number of things we could do." she said softly in his ear. "I bet you could." he said.

She smiled as she and Joker watched the city turn from late afternoon to early evening before Mobby came up to the building. "Detonators are set." she said as she walked in and walked up to Joker and Vicious. "Here's the communication device for the ferries." she said, handing Joker the device. "Now all we have to do is wait." he said as he stood there, staring out at the city.

A Few Hours Later...

Vicious was listening in to the conversation on the ferries before she heard one of the men say that the other ferry had stopped its engines and Vicious smirked. "It's time." she said. Then they heard banging and loud noises from the floors below. "He's here." Mobby said. "Leave the dogs with us and go." Joker ordered Ace and Mobby. Vicious heard the sound of their guns cocking before the two walked down to the level below them.

The dogs surrounded both Joker and Vicious once Ace and Mobby had left as Vicious rested her head against Joker's arm while she listened to him on the radio to the ferries, instructing them on their task before all went quiet as they waited.

"Do you think they'd actually have the balls to blow another boat up, babe?" Vicious asked. "We shall have to see, now won't we?" Joker asked with a smirk. "And if they don't, we'll do it for them." she said, smirking as she watched the two ferries in the water not far from their location.

Joker held her close and kissed her forehead. She smiled at him as she kissed his painted cheek while they listened to the chaos going down on the floors below them. All was quiet as Joker held her. Every now and then he would nuzzle her hair before turning his attention back out to the city. She smiled up at Joker after he would nuzzle her hair. More and more chaos was heard a few minutes later and it sounded like it was getting closer.

"I know you won't let me stay with you when Bats gets here." she said softly. "No, because I won't let him try and take you away from me again." he said possessively. She nodded. "I understand that, I just don't want anything to happen to you." she said. "Don't worry, I can take perfectly good care of myself." he said with his trademark smile. She smiled at him as she kissed his red painted lips and as soon as the two pulled away from each other, their foreheads now together as they looked at each other in comfortable silence, there was a loud crash heard that was very close to their floor.

"I want you to go to Mobby and Ace. They will take you home." he said to her softly. "Jack, I'm not going home. I'm going to wait to make sure you're alright." she said. "I'm not discussing this time with you, Vicious. Go home." he said as he looked at her dead in the eye. She looked at him as she grabbed his face in her hands and kissed him quickly before she looked in his eyes. "You better come home." she said before she left.

She then walked down to the lower level and came off the stairs right as Mobby went flying through one of the dry walls. Vicious quickly ran over to Mobby when she heard a ferocious war cry as she looked over at Ace who was completely enraged as he tried to fight off Batman single-handedly while Vicious checked on Mobby.

Ace tried to fight him but was soon met with a massive boot to the chest. Batman then ran up the stairs and tried to grab Vicious before she stood Mobby up and helped her to the second set of stairs as she helped her walk down them as Batman then ignored the two of them as he went up to the top floor where Joker was waiting for him.

"Kyle! Mobby! Wake up!" Vicious jumped when she heard someone stumble down the stairs, but then sighed in relief when it was Ace. "Mobby." he said, his voice weak. "Darling, Mobby." he said as he cradled her head as Vicious got out of the way to look outside of the building to make sure she wouldn't see Joker on the ground.

Mobby moaned softly her head had a nice cut across her forehead. Ace cradled her head as he held her close to him.

Soon Vicious was out the door when she saw Joker falling from the building. "J!" she screamed, before Batman had then pulled him up by some kind of wire and she watched Joker be repelled back up to the building.

"Vicious, we have to go." he said as he picked Mobby up in his arms. "We have to go now." he ushered her out to Mobby's car with her fighting him the whole way. Finally they got into the mustang and drove off. "STOP THE CAR! THOSE GUARDS ARE GOING TO SHOOT HIM!" she screamed. "No, they won't!" he raised his voice. "The worst thing they will do is take him to Arkham!"

"THEY CAN'T!" she screamed before she opened the unlocked door of the car and tumbled out before she picked up one of her guns out of her back pocket and shot at the guards heads since they were wearing bullet-proof vests and they were concentrated on Vicious now as she started running away from the guards that were chasing after her. "GO GET J!" Vicious screamed at the car that Ace had pulled over on the side of the road after Vicious had jumped out of it.

He caught up to her and spun her around. "I'M UNDER ORDERS!" he picked her up and took her back to the car. "ACE, I WILL SHOOT YOU, I SWEAR! WE HAVE TO GET J!" she screamed at him as she fought against him, trying to get free. "Fine then!" he shouted as he threw her to the ground. "Do what you must..." he glared down at her. She got up as she glared at him and pushed him back before she went to the entrance of the Prewitt building and went inside.

She ran up the stairs and saw Joker being taken down by the police men and was about to be handcuffed. Vicious grabbed her gun as she cocked it and started shooting at the two police men. "What are you doing?" Joker yelled at her. "Saving you, what's it look like?" she asked as she looked at him, a little hurt but more irritable than hurt. "You were supposed to leave! You were supposed to stay safe!" he said as he got the handcuff off his one wrist. "I wasn't going to let them take you!" she yelled at him. "You told me you would come home and I made sure that happened, damn you." she said. Joker dragged her to a van and took her home.

Once they got home, she looked at him when they were inside. "I was just trying to-" she started. Joker then shoved her up against the wall and pinned her there. "I needed them to take me to Arkham. There was something in there that I needed!" he growled. "I can handle Arkham, I've been there more times than you could even imagine."

"What do you need in there?" she asked as she looked at him. "Information. Information and numbers of people loyal to Ace and myself." he said. "I just wanted to help your stupid ass!" she yelled as she pushed him off of her. "You should've told me you wanted to go to Arkham-" she started as she turned to look at him with a glare. "Ace was to inform you! But obviously you threatened to shoot him!...Where is he anyways?" he yelled at her. "How the hell am I supposed to know? He dropped me and I went after you!" she yelled as she pouted angrily and sat down on the couch in the living room.

Joker then came up behind her. "Then if he acted like that something took priority in his twisted head." he said. "Like what?" she asked, not looking at him. "What do you think?" he asked, giving her a dumb look. "Oh yeah." she said as she looked at him. "Mobby was in the car, maybe he took her to the other house to take care of her." she said. "Why? What happened?" he asked. "She got thrown into a dry wall by Bats." she said. "I'm getting so tired of him interfering in our little family." he growled out. Vicious looked at him and smiled a little. "I didn't know you felt as if we were all a family to you." she said quietly.

Joker's expression softened. "Mobby...Kyle is like the sister/daughter like figure I never had. Ace is my protege and first in command after Mobby, he's also like a son/younger brother...as for you...well you already know where you stand." he said. "Let's say I don't know where I stand." she said, looking at him as she got closer to him. "Where do I stand, J?" she asked him softly. He reached out and fiddled with her locket he had given her. "You are...my heart." he said. She smiled and touched him where his heart was. "You're mine too." she said. "That's why I couldn't let them take you to Arkham, no matter how many times you've been in there before I don't want to be without you." she said as she got closer to him and pressed her head against his heart after removing her hand. "I love you, J." she said. "I love you, V." Joker said softly. She smiled up at him. "Look, I'm sorry we fought, but we've both had a long day. Why don't we just go to bed?" she asked, smiling.

"Agreed." he then flung her over his shoulder and carried her up the stairs. She smiled as she held on to him. "You know how much that turns me on, J." she said. "Well...too bad." he set her down on the bed and quickly changed before crawling under the warm plush blankets. She looked at him and shrugged as she smirked evilly. "Alright. Guess you'll have to deal with temptation then." she said as she stripped down to nothing as she crawled into bed next to Joker. "Night night, J." she giggled softly. "Good night." he said softly.