A/N: Wow chapter ten… sorry it's taken me so long to update I was on a little holiday and didn't have access to my laptop.

Disclaimer: I own my own characters but I don't own Batman.

Chapter ten

What's in a name?

"Tiana?" Keiko spoke softly opening the door to her sister's room. It was still rather early and she had to be cautious about waking her sister, Tiana could be almost psychotic if woken before nine a.m. She slowly stepped into the room and gasped at the sight she was greeted with.

"Tiana…? Are you…" she took a deep breath. "…awake?" she stared at Tiana who was sitting on her bed with the blinds open letting the light into the room. She was fully dressed and seemed to be reading a book.

"What do you want Keiko?" She spoke bluntly not looking up from her book.

Keiko jumped lightly at the sound of her sisters voice. 'She's up before me?' she raised a stunned curious brow at this, the last time Tiana was up before her was when they had left home… she shuddered at that memory… her point being Tiana didn't wake before her unless there was something severely wrong. "Are you okay…?" she spoke hesitantly. "You're never awake before ten…"

Tiana twitched and gave her sister an annoyed glance. "I'm reading a book I like, now if you don't mind I'd like to read some more before I have to get up and leave for work," she made a noise and placed the book in her lap. "So what do you want?"

Keiko jumped at the sound of her sisters voice, she chose not to comment on the fact that Tiana didn't have to leave for work until about five p.m. "I was wondering i-if…" she stuttered lightly as she was still somewhat stunned about Tiana being awake, she was also slightly intimidated by the grouchy and pissed off look she was receiving from her sister.

Tiana sent her sister an indignant glare. "Well? Out with it!" she snapped sounding more grouchy than usual.

Keiko jumped and swiftly answered knowing it was probably the smartest thing to do with Tiana's current mood. She took a deep breath. "I was wondering if you wanted to go to the memorial service of the police commissioner with me next week?"

Tiana raised a brow. "The commissioner's dead?" she hadn't heard about that.

Keiko's eyes widened at Tiana's statement. Was she serious? "How could you not know!?" she damn near shouted. "He was killed by the joker!" she flailed her arms in anger. "It was on the news last night, do you not watch the news anymore!?"

'Last night…' Tiana flashed as a memory of her watching –erm… attempting to watch Ren and Stimpy while The Joker did some rather interesting things to her flashed before her eyes. She blinked the memory away. "I'm sorry sister I didn't watch the news last night…" she mumbled.

Keiko blinked. Did Tiana just apologize to her? "Umm.. Its okay do you want to go with me?"

Tiana shrugged. "Sure, whatever."

"Okay then," Keiko nodded. "Well I have to go now, I have work" she stepped back to leave the room. "I'll see you later okay? –oh hi Ash!" she waved goodbye and left the room as the little grey-blue kitten walked into the room.

Tiana shook her head at her sister who had been behaving strange around her ever since she had gotten back from being The Joker's hostage. 'I suppose she probably thinks I'm 'traumatized' by what happened.' She snorted. 'Yeh right, the only thing that 'traumatized' me was that clown 'doll' incident…' she held back a shiver, after that she wasn't going anywhere near a clown ever again… The Joker didn't count.

She closed her book and placed it beside her before glancing down at Ash who had jumped onto the bed beside her. "Hey little shit head." she spoke almost warmly as she rubbed his little head. Ash purred and leaned into the touch.

She smiled lightly as a memory from a few days ago popped into her mind.

XXX Flashback XXX

"Where did you get that beast?" The Joker, who was standing in her kitchen, glared down at Ash who was prancing around the apartment like he owned it.

"He's not a beast Joker." She chastised while lifting the kitten. "Come on baby you can go to mommy's room for a while." She then walked Ash into her room and shut him in so that The Joker and him wouldn't be anywhere near eachother, it wouldn't do well to have Ash mauled.

The Joker glared at her before jumping back and sitting on her kitchen counter. "Where did you find that creature?" he asked referring to Ash. He took out a knife from his pocket and proceeded in twirling it in his fingers.

Tiana sighed. "Must you be so mean to him?" she moved to get herself a drink of water. "If you must know I got him off an Irish man down at the pub I go to." She filled her glass with some tap water.

He sent her a questioning look while continuing to twirl his blade.

"I went to the pub for a drink and noticed that the owner was giving away kittens that his cat had given birth to, I saw Ash and he was just so cute and there was something about him that told me he was for me." she smiled sweetly and took a sip of her water.

The Joker sneered. "'Cute? That thing is far from cute."

Tiana shrugged. "I suppose it's a matter of opinion." She really didn't feel like getting into a debate about cats with him. "I'm a cat woman, have always been. I suppose since you don't like them you'd probably be a dog person?"

XXX End Flashback XXX

She sighed, The Joker hadn't been happy that day- especially after she had made that assumption about him liking dogs. Her hand lowered to a cut on her waist which was covered by her clothing, that was what she had gotten after her assumption, he didn't seem to appreciate it for some reason.

'I'm in too deep to get out now aren't I?' she sighed sadly and continued to pet her kitten. 'Though… I don't know if I want out…'

XXX

Keiko sighed as she left her work, today had been extremely tiring all it seemed her boss wanted her doing was either filling out paper work or standing in the most unorthodox positions for the photo's.

She sighed happily and turned to walk down the street, she was very happy about not having to be at work anymore that day, she loved her job she really did but it was all about beauty no one saw her for who she really was and if you had one blemish on your face they would cover it with so much make up to make you look like a Barbie doll. Keiko really didn't know why they had more than one model, because after all the make up they all look pretty much the same anyway.

She was bought out of her thoughts by a voice from behind her. "Keiko!"

Keiko jumped lightly at the sound of her name and turned to see Bruce Wayne walking up to her. "Hello Bruce." She smiled as he reached her.

"Keiko," Bruce reached her, a smile on his face. "It's been quite some time hasn't it?"

She nodded. "Yes, the last time we spoke was the party…" she trailed off remembering the events of the party.

Bruce nodded. "Would you like to join me at my pent house for some dinner?" he suddenly questioned out of the blue.

Keiko's eyes went wide at his request but her shock only lasted a few moments before she all but shouted. "Yes!"

XXX

"Here you are miss Keiko." Alfred smiled placing a cup of tea in front of her. "Dinner should be ready soon." He said to Bruce before leaving.

Keiko called out a 'thank you' to Alfred before turning her attention back to Bruce who was staring at her intently. "Yes?" she asked a little unnerved.

He shook his head. "Its nothing…" he took a sip of his drink. "I haven't seen you since the party…" he began though there was a certain hesitancy to his voice. "I heard that your sister is back, how is she?"

Keiko sighed. "Physically she seems fine… though… mentally…" she shook her head. "I dunno what it is, she just seems different, like, before she left she was always grumpy but her eyes always held a tenderness to them, I knew that even though she was grumpy she was still happy…" she took a sip of her tea before continuing. "but now… she seems so guarded… as though she's hiding something from me… I-I don't know what though."

He nodded sympathetically. "Perhaps it has something to do with The Joker?"

Keiko let out another sigh. "Probably…" her face contorted with anger. "What did that sick bastard do to her!?" she slammed her hand down on her table in anger. She instantly sobered though once she realized what she did. "Oh! I'm sorry," she apologized. "I'm so glad I didn't break anything."

Bruce chuckled. "It would take more than that to-" he paused mid-sentence and his eyes stared at her hair as if he was noticing something.

"Bruce?" she asked confused. "What's wrong?" she reached up and patted her head thinking there was something in her hair.

"Your hair… white…?" he continued to stare.

Keiko paled. "Oh god…" she quickly grabbed her bag and began searching for a mirror. "Please don't tell me its that time…" she hastily pulled her mirror out of her bag and flipping it open inspected her hair. Her eyes went wide and her face paled significantly as she saw the white re-growth in her hair.

She suddenly jumped from her chair. "I'm sorry! I need to go!" she then fled the penthouse leaving behind a very stunned Bruce Wayne.

XXX

Tiana sighed and looked at herself in her bathroom mirror. "I'll be amazed if I'm even able to cry given the amount of time these things have been in my eyes…" she mumbled before carefully placing her index finger to her eye and slowly pulled off the purple contact that lay there, she then repeated the process with the other eye.

She blinked several times and felt her eyes water. 'Guess I was wrong.' she inwardly smirked before lifting the eye drops and dripping the liquid into her eyes to help moisten them.

"I had a feeling those were contacts." Came an all too familiar voice from behind her.

Lips formed a smile and she turned to see the Joker leaning casually against her bathroom's doorframe. "Why the contacts?"

She crossed her arms and raised her eyebrow. "Why the make up?"

"Touché beautiful but I asked first." He grinned.

She smiled. "Firstly it's Tiana!" she let out a sigh. "I don't even know why I do it anymore, same as dying my hair," she flicked purple strands out of her face. "I suppose its just habit now."

He licked his lips and sent her a questioning look.

"Keiko is has albinism." She explained. "As a result she has purple eyes and white hair, when we were growing up she used to get teased for it, so I, barely the age of seven went out and got a small part time job helping the local farmer… once I had the money I went out and bought the purple contacts and got the strands of my hair died purple…" she smiled almost warmly. "After that Keiko no longer got singled out and teased… in fact after that she became more confident and began making friends…"

"How very noble of you." he smirked and she couldn't tell whether or not he was mocking her.

There was a long silence between the two of them where he just stared into her eyes. They were a strange colour, they were hazel yet they were a different type of hazel, there were small tinges of green mixed in with the light brown but there was also a deep reddish brown surrounding the edges. They were dark eyes yet soft at the same time, The Joker found himself approving of them much more than the contacts.

"Now…" Tiana began changing the topic.

"Yes?"

"What's your name?" Before she had a chance to react she was pinned to the wall with a knife dangerously close to her eye.

"Why should I tell you?" he pressed the knife to her skin.

She resisted the urge to gulp and replied calmly. "Well… I need a name to call out while we're…" a small red tinge colored her cheeks. "You know…"

He grinned an almost cheesy grin. "No, I don't know."

She glared hotly. "Bastard."

If possible his grin widened and he took to running the blade up and down her cheek.

She took a shuddering breath. "While we're having sex, I need a name to call out, I sincerely doubt that it would be good if my sister or anyone else were to hear me screaming out 'Joker'"

He seemed to think on her words for a few moments before nodding in acceptance and surprisingly enough he complied to her wishes, though whether or not the name he gave her was real was debatable but she didn't mind. "Jack."

"Jack…" she repeated his name slowly testing how it would sound, after a few moments she nodded. "Jack."

A/N: Sorry again it took so long for me to update but things haven't been good for me but hopefully now I'll be able to update sooner ;)

Hope you enjoyed the chapter!