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Chapter 7

"Hey Nightwing." Jason was breathing was staggered, and his body was starting to ache. "Did fear gas always feel like this?"

Dick shook his head slowly, feeling the sweat crawl down his face. "No. I tried the antidote Batman usually uses, but – it's not working."

"Yeah but – shouldn't the effects – I don't know – wear off by now?" Jason's back was sticking to Dick's, and he could feel his muscles contracting and twitching.

"Withdrawals." Dick blinked trying to get his eyes to focus, he noticed the shadows of multiple people thrashing around and walking to their secluded side of the cavern. "We're – we're not the only ones."

"That's not what – I'm worried – about." Jason said breathlessly, a fountain of gas was pouring out of one of the familiar looking black boxes hooked into the floor in front of him. He clamped his teeth down trying to hold his breath, but something in the back of his head begged for him to take up as much of the gas as possible. He stared coughing, complying with the other conscious.

The ache in his body subsided feeling a surrounding warmth fill his muscles, and he could feel a smile split his lips. Dick was laughing behind him, then it shifted into a painful yell. "F – Fight it!"

Jason watched Cass's shadow flow out from the gas pump with a demonic smile on her face. "No! Stop!" Scarecrow's mask morphed into her's.

"Patients seem to be depending on the treatment." His laugh was imprinting into their minds. "Increasing the dosage."

Screams were coming from around them, but they all had the same voice in Dick's mind. "Save me, Dick!" You're not real. You're not real. He squeezed his eyes shut repeating to himself, pressing his lips together, but the voice grew louder. "I can't walk. Help me."

Jason flung his head back, smacking right into Dick's. Jason rolled his eyes, then squinted at the other people crowding them. They flashed as Cass then back as themselves. "Stay away!" He was thrashing his body side to side. Again they flashed as Cass, but instead of turning back, they became the Joker.

"We want to know how loud she'll scream your name before we kill her."

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut – up!" Jason yelled.

"But Jason -" The Jokers faded back into Cass with the stitched smile, "don't you love us?"

Scarecrow reared back smiling behind his mask, watching Nightwing and the Red Hood writhe. There was no doubt in his mind. Batman would come. Especially if Killer Croc could do something right for once, and capture the two he really wanted. Catching Nightwing was unexpected, and the Red Hood was a bonus, but the other two were the ones that mattered.

He walked away from their closed off area, and sat down in an oversized chair, watching all his patients succumb to fear. This had been the second time emitting the gas in the cavern tonight. He made sure that all of them would see him coming, and giving them what they asked for, but then Killer Croc came back with Nightwing and the Red Hood.

He rested his head on his hand watching blood splatter onto the ground. A patient was hallucinating that something was crawling out of his skin, so he clawed at it. Scarecrow smiled. Wayne Enterprises was going to distribute his medicine throughout Gotham; he just had to get Batman's attention first.