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Chapter 7

Morning regrets

Keiko groggily opened her bloodshot eyes, she let out a low groan at the feeling of her head pounding. "Ugh…" She murmured placing her hand to her forehead, wincing as the light from her window hit her face. "I-I think I know why Tiana hates the morning…" She mumbled before reluctantly rising to a seated position on the bed.

"What happened last night?" she thought aloud before flashes of what happened to her flashed through her mind. The club, Bruce, the thugs, batman, her ankle and Tiana's alcohol. Keiko's eyes widened and she buried her face in her hands. "Please don't tell me I made an ass of myself in front of Batman!" she sobbed into her hands.

A mewing sound broke her from her sobbing. She slowly took her hands away from her face and looked down at Ash who was rubbing against her side mewing lightly as though worried about her. She forced a smile and petted the kitten. "I'll try to be happy for the both of us okay? At least until Tiana gets back…" she didn't even want to think 'if Tiana got back' she knew her sister would be back… eventually.

She suddenly gripped her head and moaned in pain. "My head…" she damn near cried. "How can Tiana drink that stuff…? It feels like theirs a chainsaw going off in my brain…" she slid to the edge of the bed and attempted to stand only to fall back onto the beds soft-ness which only served in making her migraine worse.

Ash mewed in shock as Keiko nearly flattened him on her fall back. "Sorry Ash…" Keiko murmured moving to get up again, this time she didn't fall back and she looked at herself in her life-size mirror that was conveniently attached to her door.

She realized that she was still wearing everything from last night, she also noticed the bandages on her ankle. "The Batman…" she spoke before blushing lightly.

She jumped lightly at the sound of a knock on her front door. 'What time is it?' she looked at the clock on her drawers. "Twelve pm…" she opened her bedroom door and walked into the living room. "Who the fuck could be here…?" she suddenly froze as she realized who she was sounding like. She let out a sob. 'Tiana come home please… even if only for the house order to be back… I don't want to be you, only you can fill those shoes…'

She held back another sob and slowly walked to the door, wincing as another knock seemed to echo through her head. "I'm c-coming…" she winced before reaching the door.

She slowly opened the door and smiled weakly as she saw Rachel standing there. "H-Hello…"

XXX

Tiana shot up as she woke in a sweat. She wiped the build up of sweat from her forehead and winced lightly as her forehead rubbed against her arm. 'What?' she thought before looking at her wrists and saw dark purple, fat fingered bruises wrapped around her arm.

Her brows furrowed in confusion and she looked at the other arm and saw identical markings only these ones went down her arm then up in a harsh motion as though she had ripped her arm away from something.

"What?" she then looked to the side where she saw the Joker sleeping peacefully while twirling a bloodied knife in his fingers. Her eyes widened as she realized just WHOSE knife it was… hers…

Her heart sank and clenched as she began to remember the previous night and what had happened to her… 'Oh gods…' she hesitantly crept out of the bed and once standing she turned to face the bloodied corpse of the 'clown' that had tried to rape and kill her. She trembled, her eyes wide and her mouth dry as she realized what she had done to the man… she let out an ear piercing scream.

The Joker woke up instantly to the sound of her scream, at first he was a little confused as to why she was screaming but after about a millisecond he grinned as he realized what was happening. He let out a chuckle.

The sound of his chuckling caught Tiana's attention. Her head swung to him and her red eyes met with his. "What is so funny!!" her voice crackled as her throat was dry and she was holding back tears. "I-I've murdered a person!!"

That caused him to chuckle some more and sit at the edge of the bed. Looking up at her he spoke smugly. "You, ah, didn't seem to, ah, mind laasst niggghtt." There was a taunting tone in his voice.

She went red, whether it be from anger or embarrassment was unknown. 'Fuck.' Was the only word her mind could process at that current moment.

She visibly trembled as she slowly crept to the corpse. She had never seen an actual mutilated body before, let alone murdered a person and while she knew that it was in her self defense she still felt terrible for what she had done to this man.

The Joker chuckled and rose from the bed and watched with humorous eyes and she crept closer to the dead man. "You, ah, did quite a number on him." he let out another chuckle.

Tiana turned back and shot him a heated glare. "It was self defense!" she defended herself holding back a sob.

He chuckled in response.

Tiana took a breath and stepped closer to the body and felt a pang of guilt for killing him but she didn't feel like those women she had seen on T.V. Those women who were always in hysterics for killing someone in self defense, she didn't feel like that, she was oddly calm and all she felt now was small guilt and she felt the emotions she had felt before begin to seep away, it was as if her body had just accepted what happened.

Just as she was about to turn to say something to the Joker she felt something clutch her ankle. She looked down and was horrified to see the man who was not quite dead clutching her leg. She let out a scream before looking around frantically for something to use against the man.

In the corner of her eye she saw a flash of silver and without thinking she grabbed her silver flask that was still on the ground and thrashed it against the man's nose, a small crunching sound showed that she had not only broken his nose but had pushed it back into her skull.

"Why won't you die!!" She screamed bringing her flask down on his face again and again. Blood splashed against her face as she made his face grotesque and unidentifiable.

"DIE! DIE! DIE!" she screamed emphasizing each word with a hit to the face. Once the hold on her leg slackened she rose and staggered back realizing what she had done. "Oh god…" the worst part of this was that she felt no pain in that action, only a small sense of justice and a growing passion…

She turned to the joker who was watching her with a knowing grin on his face. She narrowed her eyes at him, she had to do something about that look. With a growl she lunged at him and crushed her lips against his.

He grinned and took over the kiss.

XXX

"Thank you for waiting for me." Keiko spoke as she walked out of her room and into the living room. She had changed out of the clothes she had worn last night and had had a shower, she was now wearing a pair of grey slacks and a white wife beater, her hair tied in a low tie.

Rachel smiled. "Its okay, how are you feeling?" she questioned noticing that Keiko looked like crap.

Keiko smirked bitterly and lifted Ash who was nuzzling her leg. Petting the kittens head she replied with. "I'm tired, I just wish she was home." She moved to sit next to Rachel on the sofa.

Rachel nodded in an understanding. "You love you're sister a lot."

Keiko shook her head. "Its not just that… she's all I have left." She looked away from Rachel's questioning gaze. "She's the only member of my family who will talk to me… other than our uncle but he's gone… Tiana's given so much up for me… I wish I could thank her for it…"

"I'm sure you'll get that chance." Rachel soothed placing a hand on Keiko's shoulder.

XXX

"See killing gets you wet." The Joker grinned as they broke the kiss apart.

Tiana glared at him. "Grr…" she growled before pulling herself from his arms and flinging the surprisingly unlocked door to get away, only to freeze as she saw Phil in front of her with his fist raised as though he was going to knock on the door.

His eyes were wide and looked her up and down before he opened his mouth to speak but no sound came. It was in that moment Tiana went red as she realized that she was standing naked in front of Phil. "Umm… hi…" she spoke before stepping back and shutting the door.

There was total silence in the room as Tiana walked back until she fell back onto the bed. She fell onto the bed with a soft thump, the room remained silent then after what seemed to be an eternity the pair threw their heads back in laughter.

XXX

"Bastard left me alone again…" Tiana huffed sitting on her bed, she had long since changed into her now rather dirty dress. She sat there glaring at the television that was continuing to play the Maury marathon. She glanced at her knife. "Maybe I should just kill myself and save him the trouble later?" she suggested to herself.

"Don't do that." A familiar voice replied as the door opened.

Tiana turned and watched the man enter the room. "Hello Phil." she spoke as the dark haired man entered the room and glanced at the dead body on the floor.

"The boss did a number on Clyde." Phil spoke inspecting the dead body of the 'clown'

Tiana smiled almost sheepishly and scratched her arm nervously. "Actually… eh-heh… that was me…" her eyes met with Phil's and he grinned.

"Impressive work senorita." He chuckled, a small hint of an accent in his voice. He pulled a small radio out of his pocket. "Hello. We got a body in the hostages room, send someone to dispose of it." he spoke into the receiver, his voice now sounding American.

Tiana pulled a confused face. "Are you Spanish…?" she questioned.

He looked up and her and with a soft smile nodded. "Si Senorita." He spoke, his accent becoming thick and Spanish again.

"I see…" Tiana replied smiling back at the Spaniard. Though she did have to admit it was strange to see a member of the Joker's group smiling at her softly. "Why do you change your accent?" she questioned.

He smirked and wiped some blood off his fingers and onto the ground. "I change it so that I fit in more around here senorita." He answered rising to a stand. "If you make yourself like an individual in this line of work there's a chance the boss'll remember you, which increases the chance of death." He smirked at the last part.

Tiana made a face. "So I guess I'm going to die soon then, heh." She laughed dryly and leaned back into the mattress.

"I do not think he will kill you senorita." Phil spoke sitting on the edge of the bed. "Oh Maury's on." He spoke craning his head back to watch the T.V.

"Don't tell me you enjoy this show…?" Tiana asked bluntly.

"It's not that bad." Came the murmured reply.

Tiana sighed before glancing at the dead body on the floor, she still felt somewhat bad for what she did because she had never killed someone before, sure she had thought about it, but what person hadn't?

"You needn't worry about Clyde senorita, trust me, that bastard deserved that at least another ten times over." Phil spoke knowing what was going through the woman's mind.

"What person deserves death?" Tiana questioned, glancing at him through the corner of her eyes.

"That bastard senorita, was a re-offending rapist. He had raped twenty one…" Phil shuddered. "…children… all little girls under five…"

"That sick bastard." Tiana spat throwing her shoe at the corpse and giggling lightly when the heel stuck in the dead man's eye.

Phil turned back to Tiana after glancing at the shoe in the mans eye. "Now back to the original topic, the boss will not kill you senorita."

Tiana huffed. "Right, Look Phil I'm no idiot, I've heard some of the stuff he's done to people and I'm willing to bet once he's sick of me he'll kill me."

Phil shook his head. "Senorita, he has been enjoying himself with you I can tell, you fascinate him." he rose from his seated position. "He won't kill you."

Tiana huffed again. "Whatever but I bet you fifty bucks by the end of this week he kills me."

Phil grinned. "You're on Senorita."

XXX The end of the week XXX

Tiana sat wide eyed in the passenger seat of an old van as one of the Joker's men drove the van down the streets of Gotham.

'Where are they taking me…?' she thought to herself as she watched the road, her mind going back to the week.

She had spent all of it in that room, with the exclusion of the times she was allowed to use the toilet and shower. Were it not for her contact with the Joker (which was usually just insults thrown at him followed by hours of sex), and Phil she would have gone insane as there is only so many Maury episodes or episodes of anything that one can watch before they want to jump up and down like a monkey and stab the television repeatedly.

"What are you thinking about Beautiful?" Tiana jumped out of her thoughts at the sound of a very familiar voice behind her. She turned her head around and saw the Joker grinning at her, his head poking out of the partition between the front of the car and the back van part.

"Tiana! And not a lot…" She replied, over the time she had spent with him she had gotten used to the questions about random things, like, what she was thinking about, her life in general, what turns her on… just random things.

"Where are you taking me anyway?" she questioned turning her head to look back at him.

He grinned. "Watch the road beautiful."

"Tiana!!" she snapped turning her head to face the road again. Her eyes widened and her mouth went dry when she realized what street they were driving down.

"Joker I…" she didn't know what to say and remained silent as the car came to a stop in front of an apartment building. Her apartment building. "You wha…." Her mouth fell open in a gape and she became silent and watched stunned as the passenger door was opened by Phil.

"Out ya go lady." He spoke in his American accent.

She nodded dumbly and slid out of the van. "Bye-Bye beautiful!" the Joker chimed from the car.

Tiana was so stunned and out of it that she didn't even correct the Joker's name of 'beautiful'. She nodded dumbly and walked slowly as Phil led her to the safety of the sidewalk afraid that in her current state she may just walk out onto the road.

"You owe me fifty bucks senorita." He murmured under his breath as he walked her up to the entrance of the building.

Tiana didn't respond, just continued to walk towards her building. "See ya!" Phil chimed before running back to the van. Once he was on it sped off.

It was ten minutes before Tiana snapped out of her trance. 'He let me go?' she thought looking around her for any sign of the Joker but only found a Joker card in her hand. 'Must have put it there when I wasn't paying attention…' she thought as she stared at the little X's and O's that were drawn across the card.

Shaking her head she put the card in her pocket before entering the building and making her way to her apartment.

XXX

Keiko, who was making herself some tea, froze as she heard a jiggling of keys at her door. 'Could it be…?' she slowly turned and holding a knife on the off chance it was a burglar made her way to her door.

Once the door opened she shot forward with the knife. "BURGLAR!!" she froze with the blade mid air however as she saw who was standing in the hallway. A very dirty looking Tiana.

"Tiana…" she breathed, tears welling in her eyes. "TIANA!!" she dropped her knife and flung her arms around her sister. "You're back!! I missed you! How did you get away from that bastard!?" Keiko sent a barrage of questions to her sister.

"Keiko." Tiana hesitantly returned the hug. This lasted roughly five minutes before Tiana spoke again. "Let go." She removed her arms from her sister.

"Tiana…" Keiko stepped away from her sister. "Are you alright? What did he do to you? Did he hurt you? How did you escape?"

Tiana's usual scowl formed on her face. "I'll answer questions after I have a shower." She brushed past her sister coolly and walked to her bathroom.

Keiko watched her sister walk into her room. She didn't even bother to care that her sister was being cold to her that was just how Tiana was. Keiko smiled softly and let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. "The orders back… Glad to have you back Tiana."

A/N: didn't turn out how I wanted but I still liked it, if there's anything I need to change let me know :)

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