-{My Queen of Hearts}-{The Joker}-8-
-{Cheating Death}-
I opened my eyes and took a deep breath, bad Idea. My lungs were full of water and I soon found myself coughing. Coughing underwater is not a pleasant experience. I looked up towards the surface of the water and saw a glow radiating down. I was losing consciousness quickly, how did I know? Little dots were flashing everywhere in my eyes. I kicked towards the surface and swam as fast as I could. As soon as I broke through I started coughing again. This time the water came out of my lungs and replaced with air. I stayed there for a moment regaining my ability to breathe then I swam towards the waters edge. Once I got onto the bank I rolled onto my back and looked up at the stars and began to laugh. This was a laugh I hadn't used for years. This was a crazy maniacal laugh that I had only ever heard from one other person in my life, The Joker.
For some reason I couldn't stop laughing. I just found everything funny at that moment. The fact I'd died, come back and then nearly died again. I held my stomach because it was hurting from the laughter. "You guys couldn't have helped me to dry land could ya?" I asked thin air and began to laugh again. In my fits of laughter I didn't even noticed the two men in clown masks walking towards me. With one quick tug they lifted me to my feet. I was still laughing. I didn't even struggle I just found them extremely amusing. They dragged me towards the building that was behind me, I knew that building that was the building I had fallen out of. I laughed harder looking up and seeing the broken window.
The goons dragging back inside were looking at me as if I was crazy. Of course I was soaking wet so my makeup was running down my face and my hair was going curly and messy. My clothes were dripping onto the floor when we got inside and succeeded in causing the goon on my left to slip over, which of course dragged me down which dragged the last goon down. "DOMINOES!" I yelled out and started laughing even more hysterically. I banged the back of my head against the floor in my laughter and soon heard another laugh echoing along with mine. I looked up to see the Joker stood there laughing at the scene before him. There I was on top of one of his goons in a rather compromising position whilst the other goon was just getting up and slipped over out of shock landing on top of me.
This caused me to let out an "ummf" sound and start laughing again. The Joker clapped slowly, mockingly like he had the night before after my performance of "Crazy as a Dartboard" This brought back the last dying glimpse of my friend's faces into my mind. Their complete and total fear, the agony, the worry, for me, not themselves. That's when I stopped laughing. I could feel my anger rising, burning within me. My throat was on fire and my eyes stung. It was a feeling I hadn't felt in so long, adrenalin to the extreme passed through my veins. The goons finally got safely back to their feet and lifted me up by my arms. I refused to walk so they dragged me forward. I glared at the floor as the fire rose within me. "Well doll face looks like you've cheated death, you're not having a good night are you," the Joker mock pouted at me. I felt a sharp pain in my left cheek and my head was forced to the right. "You're not playing by the rules doll face," he purred, "Look at me," he ordered. I ignored him and stayed at the floor. "I guess, these two are going to have to persuade you to follow orders then," With that he burst into hysterical insane laughter and I felt the two release my arms.
