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Two Years Later

I grabbed onto the doorway of the hallway and propelled myself around the corner. I ran to the apartment door and flung it open, a huge smile spreading across my face. "Hey, there are my men!" I exclaimed. Nick and Kevin, who was holding five year old Spencer, stood in the doorway. They had gone Christmas shopping for Jane and I and offered to take Spencer with them for a boys' day out.

"You ready to go?" Kevin asked smiling.

"You know it!" I said. "What about you Spence? Are you ready to go ice skating around the big Christmas tree?"

"Yeah! Is Santa gonna be there Mommy?" he asked.

"You know what, I think he just might be," I said. I took Nick's hand and we walked down to the busy streets of New York City, where we had decided to spend Christmas with Kevin's family. When we got to Rockefeller Center Spencer skated between Nick and I.

"Faster!" Spencer shouted happily. Nick and I shared a look and laughed. Before I could protest, he took off, dragging me and Spencer with him. "Whoa!" Spencer laughed hysterically. The next thing I knew, Nick's feet were out from under him and up in the air. Spencer and I followed suit. We all lay in a pile and to my relief, both of my boys were laughing. I started laughing with them.

"I love you!" I said to Nick.

"I love you too!" Nick said between laughs.

Later that night, at about ten thirty, Nick, Spencer, and I went back to the apartment that we were renting for December and January. I finally got Spencer to go to sleep after he talked endlessly about seeing Santa Claus and the huge Christmas tree. I walked out into the living room and saw Nick putting his coat back on. "Where are you going?" I asked worriedly.

"I have to go pick something up. Don't worry, I'll only be twenty minutes and I'll be right back," Nick said and kissed me quickly. "I promise I'll come straight home," he added when he saw my confusion.

"Can't you wait until tomorrow?" I said as he headed to the door.

"Nope, I can't wait another second. I ordered something for you and they just called to say it arrived, so I'm going to get it. I love you!" Nick yelled from the hallway.

"Okay, bye," I said to no one. I had just sat down on the couch when there was a knock on the door. "Back already?" I asked myself. I opened the door and stumbled back in shock.

"Marissa," Drake said as he let himself into the room. "I have to talk to you."

"What the hell are you doing here?" I asked confused.

"I had to talk to you. I had to warn you," he said out of breath. "Oh God, you have no idea how worried I've been about you." Drake came over and we embraced each other tightly.

"I know, I've worried about you too," I said, my panic rising.

"I don't have much time. He wants you Marissa. He's looking for you."

"What? Why has he decided he wants me just now?"

"No, it's been since you left. He couldn't find you, I never told him you anything and you must have covered your tracks really well. But he knows you're here, you have to come with me now. We have to run," Drake spilled out quickly.

"He found me? You mean he knows exactly where I am?"

"Yes! Come on we have to go now!" He said taking my hands and pulling me towards the door.

"Drake wait, I have to get my son!" I said dragging him back into the apartment. His jaw literally dropped and he stopped moving.

"You have a-" Drake started to say, but before he could finish a gun went off behind him and a bloody hole appeared in his forehead. Blood splattered onto my chest and neck and I jumped. Drake was still holding my hand as his body fell away to reveal his killer behind him.

"Hello, Beautiful," the Joker said as if he hadn't just killed one of my best friends.

"No," I whispered. "How did you find me?"

"Oh, sweetheart, you didn't think you could get away from me, did you?" he said and walked slowly towards me. "You've been a very bad girl. And, uh, I think you need to be taught a lesson." He pulled out a knife and advanced on my slowly. But I couldn't run. I had to keep him as far away from Spencer as possible and I would have to run right past his room if I tried to get back to my room.

"Get. The Hell. Away from me," I said in a low, menacing voice.

"What are you gonna do Em? Hm? Remember, we both know who would win in a real fight," the Joker said and lunged at me. I refused to stand still and let him attack me and I was no good to Spencer dead, so I had no choice but to run to the back of the apartment. I narrowly missed the Joker's groping arms and knife as I sped to the bedroom I shared with Nick. I slammed the door shut, but before I could lock it the Joker kicked it right in. One hand wrapped around my neck while the other pushed on my waist to force me back into the wall. The hand on my waist then moved to my mouth, the Joker's favorite way to torment people, with his knife threatening to carve their face just like his.

"I promised you we'd be together forever. I'm a man of my wor-d," he said in a strangely deep voice.

"You also promised me you'd never hurt me. You had no trouble breaking that one!" I said trying to keep my voice from rising and waking Spencer. Too late.

"Mommy! I heard Spencer yell, then to my horror, his little self appeared in the doorway of my bedroom. "Mommy who is that!" he screamed, terrified.

The Joker whirled his head around and stared at our son…unbeknownst to him. For once, I think he was too shocked to do anything. I grabbed both of the Joker's arms in an attempt to keep him from running after my son, if he tried to.

"Spencer go back to your room, lock the door and don't open it for anyone!" I yelled quickly. To my relief, Spencer ran and did exactly what I asked. My relief soon lessened when the Joker turned his head slowly back to face me. And he looked pissed.

"You screwed around with some guy? You let some guy fuck you when you knew you belonged to me? Very, very bad move there, princess," he said. He smacked me across the face. "How could you do that!" He slammed me into the wall. "I told you that you belonged to me! Did I not make that perfectly clear!" He stared at me breathing heavily for a few seconds. "I'll just go take care of that little brat and this will all go away. Then I'll deal with you." He started towards Spencer's room.

"No! Don't kill him! I swear to God if you hurt him!" I screamed, storming after him. The Joker wasn't stopping. I didn't know what else to do, so I yelled the only thing I could think of. "He's yours! Joker, he's yours!" That stopped him in his tracks.

"He's what?" the Joker asked. I raised my hands to my face, horrified at what I had just done, but knowing there was no other way to keep my son alive.

"He's your son. I got pregnant before I left and he's definitely yours," I confessed. I started to shake with anger, terrified that the Joker would kill our son anyway. "And if you hurt him…" I couldn't finish my sentence. The Joker had turned around was now facing me.

"I... have a son," he said unbelieving. "An heir to carry on his daddy's business! I could get used to this."

"No! That is exactly why I left! I will not let you corrupt him!" I screamed. The tears were really threatening to flow now. The Joker's face grew soft. He came over and gently cupped my face, but I pushed him away.

"Hey shh shh shh shh shh," he soothed as he replaced his hands and brushed my hair back. "Don't you see what this means? We can be together now and I don't have to carve up your pretty little face. I'll take you back to Gotham and you can be my little queen again. We'll raise our son," this he said with a smile on his face "and everything will be the way it was before. Everything will be perfect."

I looked into those dark eyes and tried to find some amount of humanity in them. But all I saw was black evil and hatred. I shivered as the Joker pressed a kiss to my lips and I realized that everything I had done to protect the people I loved was for nothing.

The Joker is back! I know we all missed him. But Drake is now dead, which I'm kind of sad that I killed him, because I liked him. But I think he needed to die. Anyway, please review!