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12. Wrath


Pulling his mask on, the Scarecrow walked towards a man who wasting away in solitary confinement , who was in fact rocking in his cell quietly, a look of terror on his face. Using a key he had slipped off of a guard earlier that day, Jonathan Crane strolled into the cell, closing the door behind him so as to keep some privacy. The guards were currently distracted by a small riot led by the Joker, a riot that Jonathan had actually talked the Joker into doing…all it took was to say "Because it's Wednesday" and the clown was perfectly fine with causing some chaos.

Brandishing his glove with fear gas syringes, Jonathan grabbed the man by the throat and slammed him against the wall.

"So, Zsasz, we still have a score to settle."

The man cowered in fear, but made no moves to resist his visitor, "Yo-you poisoned me!"

"But that simply paralyzed you for a short period of time. I believe you did have the intent of killing me. Quite a difference I would say."

Zsasz regained what little composure he had and broke into a sick grin, "I'm not scared of you Crane…you and I have history here. I just have to think back a little ways and all my fear of the 'Scarecrow' fades away…"

"Zsasz, I am going to enjoy making you scream in terror. In fact, when I'm done I may just give you to the Joker to let him have his fun. Do you like the sound of that?"

The psychopath's grin grew, "Do you know why I chose you to be my first victim Jonathan?"

"Would it happen to do with the fact that I was the person who claimed you insane and thus befitting of Arhman rather than Blackgate?"

"Why yes, very good Doctor. I was originally pleased to not be placed in Blackgate since I thought the people here would be so much more interesting. But…over time, I realized that I couldn't just go and kill people here. At Blackgate it would just be an everyday occurrence…so, I decided that for keeping me from killing so many more deserving victims I would kill you."

"I thought you said that you wanted to kill the 'interesting' people when we spoke in Dr. Young's office? You're contradicting yourself Victor."

"Well of course killing high class criminals such as yourself would be so much more enjoyable than simple vermin in a place like Blackgate, I wanted to pay you back for the missed opportunity Blackgate presented. I could have spent some time there, killed some filth, and then been sentenced here where I could go after the more interesting ones."

"So this is your petty revenge? You're pathetic."

"Oh contraire, I chose you for another reason as well!" Scarecrow grabbed Victor by the throat and began to squeeze his neck. Victor, getting the message, decided to divulge his other reason, "Out of all the supposed first tier criminals in Gotham, you have to be the biggest joke! You are what, at most a hundred and fifty pounds and you look translucent! At least Penguin has financial power and man power to back himself up. You? You're just some weakling who runs around gassing people to make them afraid of little poor Jonath-"

Slamming Victor's skull into the wall, the Scarecrow placed a syringe near one of the veins in Zsasz's neck, "Enough!"

"Aww, does the poor doctor dislike the truth? I promise I'll stop talking about you…"

"What makes you think I'm going to let you keep talking?" Crane rasped.

"I've gotten this far, haven't I? Now, a couple of the others and I were curious. We've heard about your current…experiment with our good doctor. With all of your recent good behavior since you switched Psychologists, we were just wondering if Johnny was crus-"

Jonathan cut him off by stabbing Zsasz with a syringe containing a triple dose of his most non-lethal fear gas. It would make the man scream and be terrified, but it would have no long term effects. After their little 'scuffle' the other day, Zsasz coming up dead out of the blue would make people suspicious of him. And suspicion would ruin his ongoing experiment if Young thought he was being dishonest with her.

So for now the sociopath had to suffer, and suffer he would…just like Young would in the end.