Lucy and Joker had finished up swimming, and Lucy was now in the shower. Her head against the wall in thought, feeling the warm water fall down her back. Her green hair stuck to her face, and back, and she was hugging herself. Lucy was holding the half lidded eye look, thinking, talking to herself. "This is normal," She whispered. "No, isn't normal?" She questioned herself, and words she spoke moments ago. How was she to handle the situation she had been given? She walked in here with a mission? Save her mom, and get the hell out of Gotham with her. Lucy felt as if her original plan was slipping from her grasp as if it were water falling out of her hands, and she was the idiot trying to catch the water.

'Joker is a master manipulator, he is playing you like a fiddle and you are allowing it Lucy!' Lucy thought to herself as she hit her head against the shower wall in aggravation. 'He doesn't care about you, he doesn't care about your mother! In fact, Harley probably doesn't care about you either! She left you to grow up with her bitch of a sister!' Lucy growled at her thoughts, punching the shower wall, and then gasping in pain and holding her hand tightly.

Lucy had never had thoughts like this before, so why was her mind making her think this way? She was more aggravated than usual, more stressed and emotional. She figured it had everything to do with the situation she had put herself in recently, or it was the acid she threw herself in playing with her mind, changing her in more ways than she thought humanly possible.

"Of all the traits I could have received, I got the big batch of crazy-itous!" Lucy whispered loudly too herself. She didn't want to get caught talking to herself. It was something she did a lot, but not in front of others, and not so angrily. She hadn't noticed, but she had made herself cry, from anger and sadness. 'Why couldn't I be like you mom, the before you, the Harleen inside you..?' Lucy began thinking to herself and holding herself tighter. 'I don't want to be like dad…' She though slowly hitting her head against the shower wall in thought.

Lucy took a deep breath wishing the air had been cool, instead of her warm and heavy shower air. Lucy looked down at her hand and noticed the bruise that was beginning to form on her knuckles. She hadn't meant to hit the wall so hard, in fact she didn't want to hit the wall at all. The wall didn't do anything to her! Lucy groaned at her forming headache, and decided it was time to get out of the shower and face the day with a brave face, and a new attitude.

Lucy decided at this moment, it was time to think clearly, and responsibly. She couldn't let Joker get in her head, she couldn't let her childish fantasies of having a father get to her head and play with her heart strings. Hell, she couldn't let Joker play with her heart strings! He wasn't her father, and he wasn't her friend. At this moment, Joker was her accomplice. Or to be smart, she was his accomplice.

Getting out of the shower quickly and wrapping herself up in a towel was her first job, second was finding clothes. Lucy went to her room and plopped herself on the ground and started looking through her bag. Her clothes were nothing compared to what her mother had in her wardrobe, she kind of wanted to borrow her mother's clothes. Deciding against it, Lucy pulled out her blue tank top, and denim skinny jeans, which were white washed in bleach and Lucy had personally cut holes into the pants, Lucy called them her "rocker jeans". Lucy rummaged through her bag again once she was dressed and found her hair brush, she quickly ran the brush through her green hair, and then pulled her pony tail off her wrist and then put her green hair into a tight bun.

Lucy walked into the bathroom to inspect her job on her hair, before shrugging at her decent job, and leaving stopping at her doorway that led to Joker's room. She really wish she hadn't blasted the door away. God, another reason to hate herself! Just what she needed! Lucy walked out barefoot, not knowing if she should wear shoes or not. She didn't really care.

Lucy made sure her phone was in her pocket before actually leaving Joker's room, and into the hotel's long daunting hallway. The long hallway kind of made Lucy nervous, the sound of many gunshots didn't help with that anxiousness either. Lucy made a furrowed brow and a confused look before letting her gut decide to follow the sounds. 'Maybe it's Batman coming to take me home?' She thought to herself, mentally giving herself an unimpressed laugh. 'Yeah right, he'd probably label me as one of them and have me hauled to Arkham. Asshole.' She glared at the floor as she walked towards the sound.

As a kid Lucy had loved Batman, even had an action figure she'd stick a tutu on. She had thought Batman was the shit, but after finding out who her real parents were she didn't like him anymore. She didn't know if it were the influenced hate, or the fact he never did save her from being mugged in an ally when she was 14. She kind of thought of Batman as some guy that only enjoyed fighting crime, if the people causing it were big time villains. She had been mugged by a hobo who wanted her MP3 player, the only people to save her were the EMTs and the police department for getting her, her MP3 back.

Once Lucy came to a stop at where the sounds of gunfire were coming from, she narrowed her eyes at the door. Did she really want to walk in there? Or did she want to ditch the Joker, go home, and get ice cream with Steven? She wanted to do all of those, but she realized she could only do one. She figured if she left, The Joker would just come looking for her, even if didn't want him too, or did she? She didn't know anymore! All these teenage hormones were getting to her head.

She didn't want to admit she liked The Joker, she didn't want to admit that she didn't mind spending time with the psychotic bastard. Lucy was stuck with her mix of feelings towards him, she had yearned for a father growing up and now she was getting what she had asked for, even if what she had asked for was a little too much for her.

'He's a psychotic, mass murdering clown, your father, a player, a gang war starter, a trickster. Why am I still here? For mom, mom wouldn't want me to get involved in this shit.' Lucy thought to herself still looking at the door in thought.

As much as Lucy wanted too, she couldn't turn herself away from the door. She grabbed the knob and pushed it open, only to be met with a bullet hitting the wall next to her head, meeting the insanity filled eyes of her father with her filled with fear eyes. He had almost shot her.

Lucy's eyes looked away from his, and to around the room, she stayed in her frozen state, she hadn't imagined ever seeing something so…traumatizing. Before her were all the bodies of Joker's henchmen. Joker had literally killed them all. She hadn't expected it, but with Joker you couldn't really expect anything.

Lucy grabbed her chest, her anxiety levels rising as she stared at all the dead bodies. She had hardly ever seen a dead body before, let alone 30. It looked as if some of them had even been tortured, others still had knives poking out of their chests and stomachs, some organs littered the floor, but it looked as if the majority had been shot. She tried to find a different spot to look at, but anywhere she looked there was blood, the walls, the ceiling, the floor.

Lucy could hear his laughter, his voice trying to talk to her, Nick's voice trying to talk to her. Everything to Lucy was muffled. She felt bile raise to her throat, making it burn. She closed her eyes, she was seeing black spots in her vision. Was this real? Was this happening? Was she dead and this was Hell? And Joker was the devil?

Lucy opened her eyes, and Joker was in her face, looking at her with a tilted head, and those same amused, insane eyes. Lucy let out a startled yelp, pulling herself out of her momentary daze, she fell back. She landed on her ass, looking up at The Joker with terrified eyes. She didn't talk, she couldn't get a word out of her mouth.

"You like it?" Joker asked in his raspy voice, in a whisper. He licked his lips and went to extend her hand, but she crawled backwards slightly tears in her eyes. He smiled, an insane smile, amused and mouth opened. "I killed them for you!"

Lucy grabbed her heart at the pain that hit it. This wasn't her fault was it? Was it her fault these men died?! Had she killed them? Joker said he'd do it…To make her feel safe. She didn't feel safe.

Joker laughed at her. Watching her think, seeing the pain and fear all at once in her eyes. He loved it! He loved seeing the emotion hit people's eyes, that's usually wear the fear showed first, the eyes, the pupils always got smaller, he always loved the detail that fear showed. He liked seeing the fear this strong in Lucy's eyes. It made him amused.

"Don't you see?! You asked me too!" Joker jumped up and down turning to one of his men that were pleading for their life, on the ground his legs shot so he couldn't walk. Joker kicked him in the stomach, the man groaned and grabbed his stomach.

"You're crazy…!" Lucy screamed at him, crawling backwards until she hit the wall in the hallway. She felt so scared, so vulnerable, she felt like she should run, but her legs felt like jelly.

Joker paused at that, beginning to laugh, his hair was a mess, and strewn about, blood covered his pale skin, some even on his face, only because he had drawn a smile on his face in blood. Joker laughed with his head tilted, turning around and walking over to his daughter, he knelt down at her side, and then stopped laughing, suddenly punching the wall by her head. His hand went through the wall. Lucy yelped and let her head inch away from his arm.

"What?" Joker hit his head with his free hand. "What did you call me?" He growled, letting some laughter escape from his mouth at the question.

Lucy Just looked at him in fear, her adrenaline pumping. She was in flight or fight mode, but she couldn't move. She stared at him, she half expected his half lidded eyes, but she was seeing a side of The Joker she didn't want to see or experience. She felt like her heart was in her throat, tears falling from her eyes. She started trying to crawl away back against the wall.

Joker bared his teeth like he was an animal and growled. He grabbed her by her tank top and pulled her forward. She clenched her teeth trying not to scream in fear.

"Say it, say it, SAY IT!" He yelled at her. Lucy gasped.

"You're crazy!" She screamed at him, and Joker brought his hand back and back handed her across the face, making the side if her head hit the wall hard.

Lucy screamed in pain and in shock. Her hand immediately going to hold her face, as she looked at him in shock. Tears streaming down her face, Joker looked at her, no smile on his face except for the bloody one. He grabbed her by her hair that had come undone from her bun, and yanked her up with him, Lucy yelping the whole time. Joker dragged her by her hair into the room and over to the still alive man, that was still pleading and crying for his life to be spared.

In all honesty, Lucy wanted this to end. "No, no no! I'm not crazy Baby Doll." He said, insane laced in his voice, as he put a gun in her hand, making her hand close around it. Lucy looked at the gun in fear, a bruise forming on her face already, her eyes wide.

"You can either live in this world on top, or you can die with it, sitting on the pile of shit that this world had created for you." Joker started ranting. He held her hand that held the gun tightly. Lucy watched him not knowing where he was going with this. Lucy let a sob fall from her mouth.

Joker rolled his eyes when she wasn't getting it. "You can either die bottom feeders like them-," Joker said, making her hand hold the gun against her temple, putting her finger on the trigger. Lucy's heart started racing faster than normal, she tried to control her breathing and her hands afraid that'd she'd squeeze the trigger on herself. "Or you can live long enough in this world to see the end of it." He said making her hand point to the man who started shaking his head no.

Joker than took a step back letting her hand go. Lucy looked at him afraid of what he was going to make her do. He was going to make her decide to shoot the poor man, or shoot herself.

"Or you could be the savior of it," Joker extended his arms out, making motions for her to shoot him.

Lucy was sobbing looking at the gun, at Joker, at the man, and was thinking about shooting herself. Neither one she wanted to do. Her face burned, her hands burned and she didn't understand why her powers hadn't malfunctioned yet. She looked to Joker who looked amused, pure insanity in his dark eyes, he held a smile on his face, a thrilled one, like one you'd make going on a roller coaster.

Joker was soaking in this moment, he knew to her she only had one choice. Joker looked her dead in the eyes, watching her wheels turning.

Lucy looked at the man, Joker was going to kill him either way, but what was going to happen to her if she shot him and made that choice? That was it, she didn't know! Joker was unpredictable his moments, movements, his thoughts and everything in between was unpredictable. There was no telling what Joker had instore for her! And Lucy didn't know if she wanted to find out.

Lucy put the gun to her head. Joker's smile faded. He hadn't expected that. He tilted his head. "If I do this, it's all over. I don't have to worry about anything anymore." Lucy suddenly said suddenly with a laugh. "About you, Harley, Hayley, and this fucked up society!" She said. Joker tilted his head, and laughed.

"If you stick with me Baby doll, you can show all of Gotham City what you can do about their society," Joker said his arms dropping to his side. "You won't have to hide anymore. The ones that'll hide will be the ones that screwed with Lucy Quinzel"

Lucy looked at him. 'I won't have to hide?' she thought, and she liked the sound of it. She dropped the gun from her temple and pointed it at the guy's head

'The guy was going to die anyways right?' She thought before she pulled the trigger of the gun, and then dropped the gun.

Joker laughed so hard, that it echoed throughout the whole hotel.

A/N: Hello! Another chapter, I hope this one is better than the last! Haha Please tell me what you think! : )

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