YAY! More of a character developing chapter, and explaining a little bit of what makes Jester angry in life! And happy late birthday present to me xD
Darker Days
Chapter Nine
No One
I jumped up with a gasp, looking around me at the room Joker and I usually slept in while my breathing was still haggard. I twitched and looked down at my hands, and gasped before tripping out of the bed to go into the restroom. My hands were covered in blood, flashing blood.
I tore open the door and threw the goon that was sitting on the toilet out. I looked in the mirror and almost screamed. Almost. I whipped to the shower and turned the water on hot and waited for steam to block the my face in the mirror, even though I could still see the splotches of blood that covered my hair, face, chest, arms- everything was covered blood.
I jumped into the shower, ignoring the scalding temperature and scrubbed at my skin through my clothes. I scrubbed, and scrubbed, but it wouldn't go away. I screamed and scrubbed harder, using my nails to scratch the blood off.
The blood was finally gone from my hands. I sighed and turned off the water, stepping out of the dingy shower. I chanced a glance in the mirror and smiled at the small, steady streams of blood that came from where my nails scratched too deep.
I began to laugh a little, my eyes still wide and my head hanging from my shoulders loosely.
"It's gone… It's gone… It's gone. It can't be…… IT'S GONE!" I screeched and punched the mirror, ignoring the shards of glass that imbedded themselves into my knuckles. I pounded on it with the other fist, breaking the few remaining slabs in the frame.
I punched again, and again, and again. My eyes were still wide, but with fury now.
"WHY IS IT GONE!!!!!!" I screamed, punching once more, and once more, ignoring the shards being forced into my bloody fists.
The door burst open and the Joker stood there, a glare on his newly painted face.
"Stop screaming!" He shouted at me, stepping onto the blood speckled tiles.
"You stop screaming! All you ever do is smack me around!" I snapped, pushing past him and into the hall, my clothes dripping all over the floor.
I plopped onto the couch angrily, and glared at the TV, watching the mindless gooey-ooey stuff that the goons were watching.
Joker came in and sat in the seat next to me. We both just sat there and glared at the TV, ignoring each other and the awkward silence that was only filled by the 'seductive' music from the TV and the heavy breathing of the actors pretending to make love.
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And the awkwardness continued through the weekend. We would sit in the same room, but not crack jokes like usual. Oh well, I still have a bet to win.
"TODD!" I exclaimed as the white van drove off after dropping me off at school, feigning happiness.
"BABE!" He exclaimed, running at me and hugging me in a protective way. "I was so worried when I couldn't find you after the ball! Where were you? How are you feeling?"
I didn't reply, just looked at the still glass filled cuts on my hands. I heard Todd gasp.
"What happened? Who did this? I'll kick his ass!" He grabbed my shoulder and dragged me to the nurses' office to get my hands bandaged.
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"Why won't you tell me what happened?" Todd asked as we sat at a table for lunch, my hands at my sides, hanging uselessly.
"Because I can't", I replied, staring off past the clouds, wishing that I had known Millissa was moving from Gotham and leaving me in this school full of losers. "I can't tell anyone, they'll take me away. Just like with momma… just like with papa… I like it there. Don't take me away."
"What are you talking about?" Todd asked, shaking my shoulders to get my attention.
And it finally clicked, it doesn't matter. They can't take me from him if I'm not in school. They can't take me if I'm not at home. They can't take me if it's not reported.
My eyes immediately fell to the black object placed in between my breasts, then snapped to Todd. I put on a sickly sweet smile on my face.
"Todd, can you take me to the nurse again? I just started my period", I lied, giving him a sheepish smile to fake embarrassment.
Todd's face went from shock to embarrassment quickly before he complied. As we were walking, I kept looking at my brother's knife. I would use it, to prevent them from finding out. I would do in Todd, then go into the nurses' office and do her in too.
No one would ever know. No one would ever find out.