Chapter 10 – Undeniable
J stepped out of the shower, toweling himself off roughly as he did. His skin nearly red from the heat of the water he'd used.
The bathroom was quiet and he wrapped the towel around his waist before stepping out into the bedroom, for a second panicking when he didn't see Eve on the bed.
He growled in frustration when he remembered that he'd handed her to Frost so he could get ready.
They had a busy day today and he wanted to leave soon.
Shelly better have that child presentable, they were heading to the Iceberg lounge before it opened for a private meeting with Scarecrow.
He was uneasy with the idea of taking Eve anywhere outside the building but he needed answers that he couldn't get on his own.
Crane was the only person he knew who could do tests and get them back to him today, he needed that.
He needed to make sure Eve was alright.
This unfortunately meant taking Eve to meet the Penguin as well.
God what would that asshole have to say?
Better not have anything stupid to say about his daughter or the fact that he had a child. He'd finally just finish him off if he did.
Easy, just like that.
Eve hadn't been here a whole twenty four hours and he felt his urge to kill returning, his urge to cause mayhem, to hurt people. All of it because she was here, because he wanted to do those things for her.
He threw the towel down on the ground and got dressed, hearing the hints of laughter coming from outside the room, the subtle sounds of music as well.
He walked out quietly, no one hearing him as he moved down the corridor to the living room where a few of his men were sitting around, watching something.
"Oh man, she's got you." One of them declared with amusement.
"Yeah, you assholes gonna help me up?"
"No, you stuck your head too close man, it's your own fault."
"Yeah well she's choking me."
"She's a little baby, she can't be that strong." someone said and J watched from the shadows as the man got up and walked over to a baby swing that was on the floor. In front of it was one of his henchmen who dressed up as an overgrown rabbit, his head down and both of the rabbit ears in the hands of Eve who was trying to stick them in her mouth as the swing went rapidly back and forth.
"You'd be surprised, this kid's got a grip." the man on his knees complained.
"What you expect, she's the boss's kid. Cute and vicious."
"God can you imagine when she's older? Gotham ain't gonna be safe."
"From who? From her or us?" That caught J's attention and he moved a little further into the living room.
Even Frost was watching, his neutral expression softer for once, a hint of a smile on his face as the men watched Eve toying with the rabbit.
Finally they got her grip off the ears and the mask pulled off the man. He gasped for breath and made a scene of falling to the ground.
Eve was grinning, a little laugh coming out as she continued to swing.
"That should not be as cute as it is." someone commented.
Frost looked up and saw his boss staring at them but when J put his finger to his lips he made no move to get up.
Eve had been changed into a clean outfit, emerald green. A dress with a matching jacket and hat.
"Hey Eveie? Ya gonna be a big bad gangsta when you grow up?" the man who'd pried her hands from the rabbit ears asked in a almost playful voice.
Eve laughed again.
"Yeah she is, gonna make super heroes tremble and pull off big heists. Hey don't forget, I'm your uncle Skylar and I've been working for your dad for a while now, when you own Gotham, don't forget to offer me a job."
"Like she'd hire you." Someone else laughed.
It was fascinating to watch, they were acting like Eve had been here her whole short life. As if they'd seen her every day for the last two months and that she knew them with trust.
"Nah, you know the first person she's gonna hire is Frost."
"I sincerely doubt that." Frost said getting up.
"Not you man, your future kid."
Jonny paused and gave the man a dirty look.
"Oh come on, we saw Shelly, she's got that look women get when they want a baby."
Jonny rolled his eyes at the man and walked up to the swing turning it off.
"Aw man, she was having fun."
"More like you were having fun." Frost corrected.
He piked the infant up, she didn't fuss like she had the night before. Somewhat used to him now that Shelly had shown him how to hold her properly.
Eve faced the hallway where J was and she instantly started making excited sounds, laughing and cooing for him.
He grinned at her and held his hands out, no one else had noticed him yet.
He moved forward and she continued her excited exclamations until he was close enough that the others noticed, they tensed for a moment before seeing that he wasn't paying them any attention.
The boys were well trained to ignore anything personal the Joker did in his home.
Frost turned around and transferred Eve back into her father's arms.
She cooed and latched onto him with the ease of any trusting child, he chuckled at her obvious affection.
"Daddy's girl." One of the boys said with amusement. J turned towards him with a half sneer.
"Oh, got something to say there?"
"Sorry boss." The man got nervous.
"No, say it." He insisted, coming forward, that predatory way he had that they all feared.
"Just, she likes you a lot. A daddy's girl."
The man paled but J started to laugh, throwing his head back, making Eve laugh with him, short bursts of laughter as if she wasn't quite sure why they were laughing but wanted to share the sound.
J looked down at her clothes. "Who dressed her?"
"The girls." they all said with a laugh. J regarded all of them.
"I took her down stairs, the dancers helped pick out the outfit." Jonny explained, almost apologetically. "They finally decided on this one."
"After how many?"
"I lost count." He admitted.
J had a lot of clothes himself, as many as Harley but he could see why the women were fawning over Eve like they were, why they'd dress her up, treat her like she was a tiny doll.
She had that magic about her, you looked at her and people were drawn to her like moths. Even these hardened criminals who would on an order kill anyone elses child, they wanted to be around her, they wanted to see her smile, see her happy.
Eve was wrapping them all around her fingers, just by existing, just by being who she was. As if she were her own force of nature.
It was a perfect recipe of power and might, attraction and something else, something that was her own secret, something he was sure Harley knew the answer to.
For months no one had laughed up here, no one had done anything even remotely entertaining but here they were, these men who would rather be down stairs trying to get with the women, they were sitting up here trying to entertain his daughter who was only two months old.
He had to wonder, how much power would she have over them when she was older? What would these men who had proven their loyalty to him a long time ago do for her? In her name?
"You ready?" he whispered to her, looking down at the gray blue eyes of this little storm.
Frost grabbed J's jacket and they left but before the elevator closed J barked out at the boys.
"Get back to work, I don't pay you to sit around playing with baby toys."
The strange power Eve had didn't stop when they got downstairs, several of the girls ran over to look at her, normally they kept their distance from him but it was as if he didn't even exist.
They cooed and fawned over how adorable she was, how cute her little hat was and how they'd take her shoe shopping later.
He had to growl at them to get them to back off, angering him a little that they suddenly forgot he existed but even after that when he was walking away with the baby and Frost in tow, they were calling out to the baby.
"Bye Eveie."
"Who named her that?" J asked when they got to the car, he wasn't taking the sports car today, he needed something a little less conspicuous. Instead of getting in the drivers side, he climbed into the passenger seat with Eve still in his arms. Her new car seat already hooked up in the back, still unused.
"Don't know boss, they just started to call her Eveie."
"They start calling her Ivy and I'm going to blow the place up." He growled, repulsed at the idea that they'd call her after that bitch.
They drove through Gotham, no one knowing that they were sharing the road with the joker, his windows tinted black. Eve watched the lights of the sun reflect on the buildings and J kept his eyes on her as she discovered her city.
You weren't born here princess but this is your city, this is your home. He thought to himself.
She should have been born here, she should mark her birth in this place but she didn't, he'd have to make that alright, he'd have to somehow fix that for her. Be enough for her, do something that the city wouldn't forget.
Yet, he still didn't want her far away, he didn't want to share her with anyone.
Except Harley.
"Did you know it's illegal to be in the front seat with the kid unless your the mother and breast feeding them?" Jonny said with a casual air about him.
"See princess, being a criminal already." J teased his daughter as she watched the world go by. "If you're lucky, the good men of the GCPD will pull us over, they should meet you."
Eve just kept looking out the window. Fascinated by the buildings.
Her eyes shouldn't have been so sharp and J knew that, except, they seemed keener than they should be, she could see much clearer than any child her age. He wondered if that was something she'd inherited from the chemicals or if, it had something to do with that injection site.
"Have they called you with any news?" J asked after a long silence. "I want that woman found."
"It's as if she disappeared, no one knows who she is, no one's seen her again. Only thing I can come up with is that she went out the window but it's a long way down from the floor she was on."
"That's not good enough Jonny boy, I want her found, I want whoever she works for too."
Someone knew who she was, someone had to know.
He looked back down at Eve.
She knew. She'd been with them, she knew the woman's real name, she knew why they'd done whatever they'd done but she was the one person who couldn't give him answers, no matter what he did.
Then again, if she could tell them. She'd tell them where Harley was, she knew that too. She knew exactly where her mamma was.
J pressed his head against the window, looking at what Eve was staring at.
"You like the city Eve?" He asked absently, as if Jonny weren't there. "Good, we're not moving to the country."
He'd bring her out later, on his own, show her the important places in Gotham she would have to learn one day. Introduce her to her home town, the only place in the world for someone like him.
The Iceberg lounge was closed but that didn't matter, they were expected. Jonny got out and walked around to open J's door. The clown handed his daughter to his second and got out, not reclaiming her as he walked casually tot he entrance.
The other car pulled up and the boys went to join J at the entrance, except for two who came and opened the trunk, pulling out a red stroller and a purple diaper bag.
Things that seemed very out of place with the rest of the trunk's assortment of weapons and equipment.
"I'm waiting." J called from the door. Looking back at the car, the boys had some trouble opening the red contraption. He didn't even know why they'd brought it, just carry her.
Still he watched as they placed her in the stroller, locking her in as she stared up at them. She liked his henchmen more as their characters than when they were out of costume, fascinated by the illusion that they were very large toys.
There was definitely something amusing about seeing Frost having to push the stroller towards the entrance,
The door finally opened and one of the Penguin's goons greeted them with a curt nod, though his eyes strayed directly for the stroller and the baby in it who was now busy with a pacifier.
"My boss is waiting for you inside, he wants to... see you before you start your meeting."
J had instructed Jonny not to tell Crane why they had to meet, just that he'd pay him well for it, he'd also told him not to tell the Penguin either.
All anyone knew, was that J wanted some tests done.
They walked through the club, hadn't changed, wasn't as glamorous looking as the Grin and bare it, or any of the other places J owned but it had it's charm.
A classic look, older Gotham.
Slow music played as they made their way into the main club area, at least twenty of the Penguin's men lounging around, their weapons on the tables, an obvious threat towards them.
He didn't see the bird but that didn't mean he wasn't somewhere around, he was probably lurking somewhere, making sure he was safely out of sight until he was sure this wasn't a set up.
"Come out, come out wherever you are." J sang as he moved towards the bar. Frost hung back with Eve. The two young henchmen standing the stroller as bodyguards.
"Long time no see, old friend." a voice said as the shorter man came out to the bar. "Haven't seen you around."
Penguin spoke with that ice cool demeanor of his, as if they were really friends and not rivals on the best of days, blood thirsty enemies on the worst but even the Penguin knew better than to fuck with the Joker right now. Loosing Harley made him too unpredictable, too unstable even for freaks like them.
He sat down at the bar and called for one of his own boys to get them a drink.
"So, what's all this about."
"Where's Crane?"
"He's here but you'll see him when you talk to me."
"That's not how this works Abner."
"It's Oswald and you know it." Penguin corrected with a wicked grin. "And you might be the self proclaimed king of Gotham city J but I'm still its god father, so how about we cut the crap and you tell me why your here."
As if sensing that her moment had come, Eve squealed happily in her stroller. Catching the attention in the room.
Penguin turned and stared at the place where the guards flanked her. Keeping out of the direct view of everyone but the sounds she made were too clear to mistake for anything else.
J enjoyed the shock that plastered itself on the man's face, he was enjoying that look more and more.
"Jonny, bring the princess." J called without looking in their direction.
Frost took Eve to the bar, her bodyguards walking on either side of the stroller with wary expressions.
"You found her?" Penguin asked in disbelief.
"Last night." J drawled, taking the drink from the bartender and sniffing it, grape soda.
Oswald looked into the stroller, examining the infant carefully, she was trying to reach a hanging strand of toys that one of the girls had put to entertain her when she was in the stroller. She had a fascination with teddy bears.
"How?" J was curious that no one had come running to tell the man about last night.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." J said, downing the rest of his drink, pushing his glass to the bar tender and motioning for him to give him more.
"Try me." Penguin looked away. "You sure this is your kid?"
"Jonny." That was all J said as he took his second drink.
Frost took Eve out of the stroller and with the help of her guard, took off her jacket. Revealing her tiny slender arms. She grunted as they moved her and tried to reach down for the bear she'd caught her eyes on but she didn't cry.
Frost brought her forward and showed Penguin her left arm where the red ink of her nickname shone against her pale skin.
"Honey bun." He mused. "Harley's doing I'm sure."
"Course." J grinned. "Ain't that right princess, your mama gave you that piece of ink."
Eve's eyes went right for J, focused on him completely.
"So what you need from Crane?" Oswald took his own drink, subduing whatever shock he might have about the infant. Glancing back at her a few times as he waited for an answer.
"My business." He hissed with a smile.
"My club."
"Well it's not my fault that old scarecrow likes it here."
"The bat doesn't come this way too often, he knows his place. Better for these sorts of meetings."
"I want the bat to know." J said suddenly and everyone tensed. "I want him to know she's here, I want him to see her, I want him to understand the mistake he's made."
There was a dangerous tone to his voice now, a madness, a rage that was dark and deadly. Frightening.
"J, you want to play with fire that's your business but you do it somewhere else, not here."
"Someone's done something to her, I want Crane to find out what." He said slowly, his voice still dangerous.
Penguin didn't reply to that, he didn't need to. It didn't surprise him, whoever held Harley Quinn wouldn't miss the opportunity to have a crack at the kid. He looked back at her. Eve laying across Frost's chest as if it were her own personal pillow, still staring at her father with... adoration.
"What's her name?"
"Eve." J said, glancing back at his daughter.
"Eve." Penguin repeated the name. "Fitting, very, biblical."
"Think more as in, the Eve of something." J corrected the meaning of the name, the way he saw it. The reason why it was Eve.
"Well hello Princess Eve." Oswald said with a hint of almost respect to the little girl.
She looked in his direction, her eyes focusing on him in the same way she seemed to look at the rest of the world. Understanding nothing but remembering it all.
"Smart little bird." Oswald commented. "Like she's trying to peer right into your soul those eyes."
It was true, you got that feeling when she looked at you. Like she was reading into your soul.
"So Crane, now."
"Carlos, get Scarecrow." Penguin called to one of his men, still staring at Eve's eyes. "She's got your eyes, fearless little thing."
"Careful." J said with a smirk. "You might get lost in the chaos."
Penguin scoffed and looked away. "Figures you'd give the world the next generation of chaos and damnation."
Both men finished their drinks, if Penguin was after a chess game of wills he wasn't in the position to win today, J wasn't in the mood, he could see it and the child seemed to amplify the situation, every time he looked in her direction, she was either looking at him or looking at J and the expressions were very different and very distinct.
She adored J but she had nothing for him.
"You realize that if the police or the legal system figures out you have that girl, they'll do everything in their power to take her from you. You're not exactly, father material."
"They'll face the same fate as Whale if they disrespect me like that." J stood, hearing footsteps coming from another room.
"You can't tell me you actually want this, that you actually want to be that child's father."
To answer his question, J held out his arms with no emotion and Frost handed Eve over to him. She made a humming sort of sound and found her favorite spot on his chest, sighing deeply.
"You tell me."
The Joker was the worst of them, he was the most dangerous because everything he did had no predictability to it, he did things just because he could. He could make them rich or he could bring them all down back to nothing. They all knew it, they all had to admit that J held that over them all.
He was a walking tornado waiting to happen but seeing him with that baby in his arms, it didn't make him seem more human. On the contrary, it actually scared Oswald to look at it.
That baby trusted the Joker, she lay on him with the ease and safety none of them had ever experienced and she loved him, Penguin had seen that look before, he'd seen the way children looked at their parents. She had that same look to her, complete adoration, love, faith and trust for him.
That wasn't right, even his own child shouldn't feel that. No one should.
What did that make this child who didn't have the sense to fear her psychotic chaotic father? What would Crane make of her?
He'd find her fascinating, her fearless demeanor, the happiness on her face to be with the Joker.
He wanted to say something about strange behaviors but it would be in poor taste, J had behaved, as behaved as the Joker ever was going to get and he might even get to keep the lounge open tonight, no need to replace walls.
Scarecrow walked in, even without his mask, the villain had a strange look to him, a sign that he'd never meant to be normal.
He didn't stop walking when he saw the baby, he didn't even look surprised.
"Well this is, an unexpected appointment Joker, you do realize I'm not a pediatrician." He smiled and Eve fidgeted in J's arms. "I can recommend several if you'd like."
"Cut the crap." J barked, getting impatient. "I make the jokes around here."
"And an impressive specimen she is." Crane stared more carefully at the child, focusing on her eyes. "I assume you've come for me to check the girl over?"
J rolled his head lazily but he didn't miss the way Eve tensed in his arms. Her fingers gripping into his shirt, as if worried that he would hand her over to the man. She didn't like him.
"Are you afraid little one?" Crane leaned forward and spoke directly to the infant. She made a whimpering sound and rubbed her face into J's jacket but didn't cry.
"Interesting." Jonathan mused as the girl looked back up at him. J couldn't see her eyes but he could see Crane's. He watched as they darkened, pleasure, excitement turning his eyes almost black as he looked at the girl.
You'll have to face this honey, I won't save you from the darkness, face it. Show them what you're made of.
Eve didn't cry, she just stared at him until she yawned, suddenly uninterested in the scarecrow and his fascination with her fearlessness.
Penguin sighed, feeling the tension ease. Eve turned away from Crane and started to idly play with J's necklace.
Her message clear.
You bore me, go away.
J smirked at the man and shifted so that he could hold Eve more easily.
"Guess you didn't pass the test Crane, my girl's done with you." He said in a guttural whisper. "So, we in business or what?"
"Well that depends on the business you're after, what is it you want?"
"Not here." he glanced in Penguin's direction. "Somewhere, private."
"As you wish." Scarecrow turned around and started walking back the way he'd entered. "Oswald, you don't mind if we use the back room?"
"Fine with me." he said and glanced at the girl. "She's brave, like her mother."
That was a very, very bad thing.
Belle Reve
Caroline stormed in, she was furious, at herself, at Harley, at Logan. At everyone.
God, she'd done this, she'd let Harley use her and now everything could go to hell.
Worse, Harley just might get her wish, she might not see Eve again.
Until...
What would happen then? How long until Joker found her? Then what?
Waller would kill them all for this, in a heart beat.
She hadn't lied when she'd told Harley that the people used to retrieve missing people were good, they were excellent at their jobs but there was that chance, that very good chance that they might not get Eve back at all.
Had they performed the injections?
God, if they had... was Eve alright? Had it been done right? Was it taking effect?
The procedure was experimental, it was dangerous too but a necessity. One Caroline very hypocritically would never allow her son to undergo.
Did that make her bad?
No matter how many times she told herself it was for a greater good, she couldn't push the nightmares away, of her own child being used like they were willing to use Eve.
And the others...
"I need to see her." Caroline said to Griggs when he met her.
"Not happening." He said firmly. "Look, she's been a mess since you left. We had to get everything out of there, she's attacked six guards, she won't stop her crying and screaming."
Oh, I bet she won't stop. Caroline pushed past him.
"Hey, you can't just go in there." Griggs tried to stop her but Caroline turned and faced him, a very severe look in her eyes. Griggs backed away as she spoke.
"This is an order beyond your station Griggs, deal with it."
"Look, I don't know what sort of Frankenstein's experiment you're doing but at the end of the day, this prison is my responsibility."
"And Harley is mine right now." Caroline countered and spun on her heel, making her way past the guards.
A tattoo, how could she have missed that damn tattoo?
"I want my puddin to see it..." Yeah, he'd seen it alright. Every criminal in Gotham city had seen the damn thing. Maybe even the whole country.
That clown was going to get them both killed.
She should have never helped her.
Caroline came to stand in front of Harley's cell, the blonde was crouched in the corner of her cell, like Griggs had said. Everything was removed, even her mattress.
"Proud of yourself there?" She asked the woman. Feeling her anger rising. "You got what you wanted."
Harley looked up and for a second, Caroline was surprised to find tears in her eyes. She'd been crying.
"Where's my baby?" Harley asked weakly. "What have you done with my baby?"
"Harley, cut the bullshit." Caroline wasn't falling for it again. No more help, no more breaking the rules.
"Where's my baby?!" Harley demanded again. "Where did you take her, why isn't she here with me?"
"I don't buy this anymore Harley." Caroline declared, pacing back and forward. "You know perfectly well where she is."
Harley put her head on her knees and started to cry, loud sobs that sounded, very real.
"You took her away from me, you promised you wouldn't take her away." she cried.
If she was acting, she was doing a really, really good job of it.
The tears were real, Harley's emotions were everywhere. The longing to hold her baby was real, there was nothing faked about that. She meant every tear she shed, her hormonal levels off the charts.
She could name them all, the chemicals in her head that were making her crazier than she should be.
Eve kept them at bay, the maternal changes that could cause postpartum depression in mothers. In her, full blown psychosis, not a jump at all. Just a new state of being.
One to exploit, one to use to her full advantage.
She cried because it came to her like breathing, she sobbed in pain because she was in pain. Her heart aching at what she'd sacrificed for her child, for her puddin but she wasn't like other mother's who believed their children were possessed. She would never, ever hurt her baby.
No, it came in a different form. It rattled with her voices, the aspects of her brain that were readjusting themselves to make room for a new fragment.
The mother.
Caroline confirmed her greatest desire, Eve had found her way to her puddin. They were together, he had her safe and sound, just like she'd wanted but now what?
The feeling was almost unbearable, the loss. Joy and misery mixed together to make a new emotion.
"Where's my baby?" she begged, looking back up at the woman again, her agony evident in her face and Caroline couldn't help but feel concerned now.
That wasn't faking.
Except Harley was in complete control of this new thing, she held it in her mind like putty and she felt it adapt inside of her.
Because for all the pain it caused, it didn't hurt the way someone might think.
There was pleasure too, glorious pleasure in the idea of Eve living at home, sleeping in a real bed. Being doted on, because she knew that everyone loved her. Everyone would love her, the city would love her little face, her perfect fingers, her beautiful eyes.
Her puddin would hold her and he'd never want to let her go. She knew those things as fact, as solid truth that she could hold onto.
She's already made puddin love her, the girls will fawn all over her, the boys will fall too. My honey bun will be a true princess, she's safe now.
"Harley, where is he?" Caroline asked. "Please, make this easy and I can help you."
"Where's my baby?" she asked again, more desperate. I will never tell you where they are.
"Harley." Caroline repeated, more firmly. "Where is Joker, where did he take Eve?"
"Where is my baby?" You'll never find him with my help. I'll never let you have them.
"Harley, help us get your baby back and she'll be back in your arms."
"You think I want her back here? "Where is my BABY?"
Harley had gotten up, coming closer every time she repeated herself.
It wasn't hard being crazy, she'd always been insane, so insane in fact that she was perfectly clearly sane. She saw the world like Joker, she loved to play with people, she did it well, they were so very easy and Caroline was no exception.
We're not friends, you'll hurt us, you want to hurt my baby. You're weakness is what got her home. I don't trust you, you will not have her if I can help it.
"Harley, they will kill him." Caroline warned her. "The people they've sent don't play games, they will retrieve her from him and they will murder every person who's been in contact with her."
Caroline's heart rate was racing now. Oh god, if they gave Eve the first injections, they would have to kill everyone who came in contact with her, they'd have to or...
Harley leaned against the bars and lowered her voice.
"Where's my baby?"
What are you afraid of little girl?
"Harley, Eve is in danger, your lover, your boyfriend will die. That isn't a threat, that is a promise. Tell me where she is and I can get her back safely and no one has to die."
"People always die Carrie, it's life but you still haven't answered my question." she glared at her, her blue eyes shining with madness and mirth. "Where... is... my... baby?"
Caroline threw her hands up and growled in frustration.
"Your baby is in the city of Gotham Harley and she is with your fucking PUDIN!"
Harley started to laugh, god it felt so good to hear the words, it felt so good to hear it confirmed.
She laughed harder in delight and collapsed to the ground, rolling onto her back and hugging herself in hysterics.
Home, she was home.
Be safe my honey bun, I love you. Tell daddy I love him.
Back in the Iceberg lounge, as J prepared to follow Crane into the back, Eve suddenly put her head up, looking around her. Crying out in surprise, as if something had startled her.
No one else could hear it, no one but the small child who now wrestled in her father's arms. A sound, familiar, loved and missed.
Eve could hear her mother laughing, as if she was in the room with her.
"I love you honey bun." Harley whispered into the air, still laughing loudly.
Eve started to hyperventilate, breathing heavily in excitement as she heard her favorite sounds. The heart beat of her father, the laughter of her mother, both things the child loved.
Mommy, daddy. Hers.
Both of them hers.
J looked down at her as she squirmed, he recognized something in that fight. Something very familiar.
It was the same way he got when he thought he heard Harley's voice, the racing in his heart, the inability to breath right.
"Miss mommy?" he whispered to her as they followed the master of fear into the back. Jonny following close behind, the boys reluctant to leave the baby so weakly guarded.
"I miss her too." He confessed, very, very quietly.
At the sound of J's voice, Eve finally calmed down and gripped onto his shirt.
She gave a long disappointed whine, not seeing her mother, saddened by it, heartbroken that it wasn't real.
Heartbroken, Eve closed her blue eyes and J felt tears fall down her face, hitting his skin as they moved. He didn't look down, he didn't have to.
She didn't scream this time, she didn't make a sound.
He just squeezed her a little tighter, glad he had an extremely good bluff.
He had his princess, now he had to find his queen.
A/N I literally finished writing and editing this fifteen minutes ago. I rewrote it four times in the past three days. Why? My program decided to be a pain and I kept going back and restarting it. Though, i'm pleased with how it turned out. I had a moment whee I was like, oh crap, how am I gonna link all this but finally it came to me. Something that was said in another of my stories review that other characters should be involved. And I thought why not, it's Gotham. So I went with more of the tv series Gotham penguin and the movie version of scarecrow, the performances of those two was very well done and to me much more believable than the comic and cartoon. You guys may not agree with me but well, that's just me. If you guys want to see these characters or others in the other stories, just let me know. I'd love to know what you guys think.
So yes, Eve got her nickname from the boys. I wanted her to have that natural charisma, bethe kind of baby that brightens the room shes in. You know, if J and Harley were 'normal' she'd grow up to be I dunno, something wonderful, something that you'd look at her if she was your daughter and smile proudly when she got her college degree or when she walked down the isle at her wedding. But... well this is Gotham city and they are definitely not us. So, definitely gonna rock the foundations of the city I think before we're done.
Oh, I would like to dedicate this chapter to Sunflowerseeds51, congratulations on the announcement. Whatever your baby is, I only hope what any parent should hope for their children. That they be healthy and happy. Everything else wil come with time. Enjoy the chaos that will come with that kid, it's a roller oaster that will definitely send you into crazy places but well Harley could tell you, it's totally worth it.
Anyway, you guys know the drill, double digit reviews and you get the next hostage. Hahaha. "runs to the next door." Ya guys coming?