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Hera rushed out the door, meeting a visibly infuriated Charlie. Instead of confronting him though, she began running down the hall in the other direction, leaving Charlie standing there dumb founded. Inmates trampled him as they scurried out the door. Ace stood up. After driving her knife through the doctor's skull, a pool of blood had begun to cover the floor. She turned around, almost bumping into the Joker in the process. He looked from her face to the body lying on the floor. Before he could say anything, Ace gave him a smile and slid out the door, carefully stepping over Charlie. He instinctively followed her, dodging other criminals in the process. As they entered the main hall, guards and inmates battled one another for dominance and freedom.

"Stop!"

Charlie was running up to them now. Ace picked up a dropped bat and smashed the open all switch, allowing all cells in the Asylum to release everyone. Loud screaming was heard as a mob of the insane chased guards down the long hallway towards them. Ace tugged at Joker's arm, indicating it was time to run again. They dodged through the front lobby, reaching the key pad. Her grasp dropped from his arm, leaving it to hang by his side. A guard was huddled in the corner shaking and rocking back and forth. She pulled him to his feet.

"No please!" he begged as Ace shoved his hand against the scanner.

"Identification accepted", it claimed as doors opened, leading them to the outside world. She snapped the unsuspecting guard's neck, allowing his body to drop on the floor. All nearby inmates scattered through the opening with Ace and Joker close behind. The fresh air hit her lungs hard along with the bright lights outside….

Ace woke up with a blinding light in her face. She quickly blinked a few times to adjust her eyes to the light before trying to sit up which she found to be a mistake as pain instantly shot through her body, immediately causing her to lay back down.

"I see you have finally woken". Ace looked to her left where a doctor was filling out papers.

"You took quite the fall back there" he chuckled. She gave him a confused look, making him realize she could not remember.

"While you were in therapy you fainted and knocked your head off a chair. Luck for you an inmate caught you before you hit the floor. We rushed you in here as soon as possible to stop the bleeding." Brief memories started flooding back to her now in pieces, still not fully making her understand the whole story.

"She's bleeding again…." Ace was too busy listening to the doctor that she did not even see Charlie sitting in a chair at the foot of her bed, watching her like a hawk.

"Indeed it is", Doctor Forester carefully re-examined Ace's wound.

"I'll go get some gauze on my way to dropping these papers off to the warden" he finished inspecting her, before leaving the room in silence.

"Are there any cameras in this room?" Ace questioned.

"Nope", Charlie replied with a smile. Ace slowly and successfully sat up this time and leaned back against the wall.

"….Are you okay?" She let out a sigh.

"I should be as long as I don't go knocking myself in the head with chairs", she laughed while touching her bandages. She winced as her hands examined how deep the cut actually was. She had really done a number on herself this time. Charlie looked at her, wondering if he spoke his mind would she stay quiet and listen or kick the shit out of him.

"Go ahead and say it", she turned her head looking at him. He hated it when she did that, he always felt uncomfortable under her gaze, almost like she could see into his soul and instantly knew everything he had ever done.

"What?" he blinked at her a few times pretending to be confused. Ace sighed again.

"Something's on your mind that you want to say so just say it rather than play dumb". She was going to get it out of him eventually one way or another. Now it was his turn to sigh.

"…I'm sorry…" he finally spilled.

"Oh come ON Chris! Don't start that shit now", she finally had lost all patience and became irritated.

"Well geesh! I'm sorry that I feel bad about not being able to protect you while you're in here Ace!". 'Charlie' stood up and started pacing, while Ace scoffed.

"First off don't EVER raise your voice to me again", she glared at him, "And second grow some balls! God! You're the one who begged and pleaded with me to let you come in on this job so for Christ sakes, DON'T make me regret it just because you decided to grow a vagina and wuss out!" She was pissed, he could tell….and she was right, he had begged to come along…he plopped back down into his chair. Ace was muttering something angrily under her breath, while Chris thought back to when he had asked to come along. He was still new to Ace's group at the time and hadn't yet been allowed on any jobs with her yet. He wanted to prove himself and had become anxious, bugging her constantly until one day she snapped at him. She would have killed him too if Hera had not intervened, saying to at least give him a chance. Ace had reluctantly agreed before stomping up the stairs, slamming every door behind her. And now he felt embarrassed for being so weak in front of her. He glanced at her, seeing she was slowly starting to calm down. The doctor re-entered the room. He walked over to Ace replacing her bandages quickly so that the blood loss would be minimal.

"There", he said satisfied with his work, "You're free to go now". With that Ace hopped off her medical bad and B lined it for the door. Chris caught up to her in time to slap cuffs around her wrists before leading the way out towards the elevator. She followed him silently into the elevator waiting for the doors to close before speaking.

"Who caught me?" She couldn't help but be curious.

"Joker" was his reply as they stepped out of the elevator and headed towards the rec room.

'Hmmm…..maybe I won't have to find a way for him to follow me after all', She thought, smiling to herself about what was to come, now she just needed to confirm that she was right….

"Let me out!" Hera's voice echoed off the walls of her cell. Earlier when she saw Ace faint, she had immediately taken her from Joker's arms and started shaking her unresponsive body trying to wake her up. All the others had just sat there as guards piled into the small room and pulled her away from Ace. She had to watch as they gently put Ace on a stretcher and carried her down the hall. Hera fought against them with everything she had, but it hadn't gotten her any closer to Ace, instead they threw her into a padded cell and told her nothing about Ace's condition. Hera screamed out of frustration before kicking the door.

"Alright Hera…" she heard before the door opened revealing a guard holding a syringe.

"…Since you cannot seem to calm down on your own, we're going to give you a little help". He started towards her with two other guards towing behind him. They reached for her arms but barely had time to touch her before she grabbed the bigger one's arm and twisted it behind him. She kicked the other in the face, knocking him to the floor. The guard still holding the needle attempted to stick her with it but instead caught the guard she was holding. He instantly fell to the floor as Hera ducked past the one still standing and out the door, locking it. Hera ran down the corridors searching frantically for Ace, when finally out of the corner of her eyes she saw Chris putting her in the rec room. He allowed Hera to run past him and into the room, colliding with Ace's back hugging her tightly. Ace stiffened before looking back to see Hera hugging her. She awkwardly hugged her back, while turning around. Ace pulled Hera away from her slightly, looking down t her.

"Hera, you okay?" Ace barley finished her sentence before being sucked into another hug.

"Hey, hey it's okay Hera" she attempted to sooth her. 'Ugg', she thought,' I'm so not good at this!'. Hog cleared his throat making the pair turn around. Everyone was staring at them.

"What the FUCK are you all looking at?" Ace snapped. They all quickly turned back to their activities.

"Ace…." Hera's voice was quiet.

"I'm okay Hera, now shut up and tell me why you're here". She felt her shrug against her. Ace sighed and continued hugging her. Joker never took his eyes off the two. He would never allow any of his men to get that close to him, but why did Ace allow it? She was an enigma to him, but he liked it. To him it was just another game and he couldn't wait to break this one.