Challenge: Drabble123
Prompt: 04. Long dark night of the soul
Summary: [Joker, Joker / Alice] Heads I win, tails you lose.
Rating: PG-13
Author's Note: I freakin' swear. On some of the routes in Joker Alice will be completely minding her own business... and then suddenly she'll be in the prison for no apparent reason again.

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Alice was halfway to her room when the carpet under her feet warped unnaturally into stone and sent her stumbling to the ground in what was becoming an all too familiar pattern.

"Well, well, what have we here?" Joker leaned over the fallen girl. Gaze deliberately dropping down to take in her flimsy nightgown, he gave a wide, leering smirk. "Come to visit me again, did you?"

"Hardly." Cursing under her breath, Alice pushed herself up off the ground. Her arms crossed defensively over her chest. "I didn't come to visit either of you, Black-san."

"Don't call me that." He sneered at the nickname, narrowing his good eye. "We're not as separate as you like to think we are."

"Really, just two sides of the same coin then?"

"Fucking, smart ass." Joker gave her an almost amused look. "So? Heads or tails? Have you've figured out yet which side of the coin I am?"

"You," Alice declared flatly. "Are just as crazy as everyone else in this world."

His dry cackle echoed eerily off of the prison's stone walls.

"And yet you just can't stay away, can you?"