At the touch of the gun, Eva froze. Her sobs stifled and choked as she tried to fight back the urge scream. Taking a few deep breaths, Eva looked over her shoulder "Why are you doing this?"
Joker pulled a thoughtful face, and began to scratch his head with the gun "I always figured myself a guide to the unenlightened—"
Suddenly, he aimed the gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Eva reeled back, as the bullet flew right past her head and shattered the pavement a fraction of an inch from where she knelt. The silence raged in her ears, it took a moment for her to realize that she was screaming. A fresh wave tears hit. Eva's hands were shaking so badly, she could hardly keep a grip on the paper bag. On trembling legs, she stood and made her way to the man. He was bleeding again and gurgling through the wash of rusted red, he wasn't screaming anymore. At this point, too much blood had been lost, and his begging had been reduced to muddled whimpers "Peesh, pesh, Ah tarry, noo, noo, peesh—"
Only 2 hours ago, this scum had tried to drug and rape her, he deserved this, he definitely deserved this. Eva felt a tap on her shoulder "You might need this, sweetie."
Joker offered her a knife. Shutting her eyes, she took the blade. This was happening, if she wanted to live, this was gonna happen. Reaching into the bag, she grabbed the tongue. It had gone cold and it slipped through her fingers like a dead fish. Eva had done tattoo jobs on tongues before, but where that had been live screaming flesh, this was dead. One more deep breath, and a moment to compose herself. Within seconds, she struck. Putting the knife up to the guy's neck as she pressed his tongue to his closed mouth. He screamed through rusted teeth when Eva grabbed his head and forced it back to get his mouth open. "Shut up! Just shut the fuck up!"
It was liked he had cemented his teeth shut. Hearing an impatient sigh from behind her, Eva let lose an inhuman shriek and drove the knife into the man's leg. That got him to open his mouth in order to express the agony. Forcing him down and driving her knee in his neck, she crammed his tongue back into his mouth. He began to choke "Swallow! Swallow it you fucking asshole!"
He started to convulse and vomit. Sneering in disgust, Eva leaned down next to his ear. "Eat the damn thing and you live."
She knew damn well that he wasn't going to be able to swallow. One required the entire tongue in order to swallow. "Chew it!"
He was having a panic attack at this point. With that, Eva forced his mouth open and shoved her hand in. Forcing the tongue down his throat, if he just swallowed his tongue tonight could end. "Swallow!"
He wouldn't stop screaming! Why wouldn't he stop screaming!? It was then that she noticed laughing in the background, Joker was in hysterics. He hadn't been this amused in a while. Then, the tongue was gone, the fucker had managed to swallow it and was choking. Falling back, Eva crawled backwards and emptied the contents of her stomach against the building opposite the Iceberg. Her knees buckled and she collapsed into a mess of tears and dry heaving. "Oh God, oh Jesus fucking Christ…"
A hand came to rest on the small of her back. Eva tried to shrug him off, but Joker wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her. "Yes, the first time is always the hardest."
The man shuddered and gurgled past his tongue. Smirking, Joker turned and pulled his gun, the air around them exploded and the man went quiet "Would have been cruel to leave him alive."
He gently turned her around "Oh, oh, no more tears. You did great."
Pulling her close, he chuckled. "Shit, you're a natural. He wouldn't open his mouth, and you went on instinct and… You just stabbed him!'
She was going to hell, Eva was certain that she was gonna burn. She had never been the religious type "Gotta say, it was a thing of beauty.'