We Are Not Insane!
A/N: Yay, another Drakken chapter *smiley face*
Chapter Twelve:
Drakken muttered angrily the entire way to the rec room. He'd been going over what his therapist had said (three days ago!), but it didn't make sense to him. How could Shego just disappear without anyone knowing? The security at Arkham was absolute garbage, he came to realise.
He took his favourite seat on the faded red sofa once he was let into the rec room, and turned on Looney Tunes. Admittedly, it wasn't as fun without Shego, but it gave him something to do instead of moping around.
Behind him, the doors to the rec room opened and he heard two pairs of footsteps enter, but he didn't bother turning around.
It was only when the owners of the footsteps sat on either side of him that he turned away from the TV.
On one side of him was Poison Ivy, and on the other was Harley Quinn. Like him, they'd both noticed Shego's absence.
They were both adamant that Shego was involved in the escape plan so any chance they got, they came up to him and pestered him about her whereabouts.
He'd told them what his therapist had said about looking into it, but they still wouldn't leave him alone.
"What do you want?" He snapped before they could talk.
"We just wanted to know if ya'd heard anything about Shego?" Harley asked whilst holding her hands up after he'd snapped.
With a sigh, he gave up on trying to watch Looney Tunes, "no, I haven't," he dully said.
In that moment, bright red, blaring lights lit up along with a loud siren going off. Drakken looked up, startled, whilst Harley and Ivy didn't seem the least bit bothered.
Drakken stared around and watched as the guards all left their little 'safety booth'. "What's going on?" Drakken questioned the women either side of him.
"Breakout," Ivy sighed and changed the channel to something to do with gardening.
"This sorta thing happens all the time. This is actually the longest we've gone without someone breaking out," Harley explained with a smile on her face that almost looked like she was proud of her fellow inmates.
"I wonder who it was this time," Ivy said as her eyes followed a guard that had come into the rec room to make sure everyone was staying calm.
Harley jumped up off the couch and waited for Ivy to stand with her, "let's find out." The two women walked over to the guard who looked mildly nervous, and were soon joined by an equally curious Drakken.
Harley put a hand on hand on the guards shoulder and practically shouted a greeting, "hiya, Jimbo!"
The guard removed her hand carefully and stuttered out, "hello, Harley."
"So, who is it this time? Scarecrow? Two-Face? Or maybe Zsasz?" She laughed at the last one, and so did Ivy, both of them obviously sharing some kind of joke.
Jimbo tightened his hand on his gun, "I'm not sure yet. Haven't heard back from the others."
"Do ya think ya could ask? We haven't had any good gossip in a while," Harley nudged him in the side with a chuckle.
"I'm not sure I'm allowed," he said.
"We're gonna find out anyway, might as well tell us now," Ivy persuaded.
Before the guard could agree or disagree, a voice came through his walkie talkie. Drakken couldn't understand a word he was saying because the sound of static seemed to drown it out, but the guard understood him perfectly and sent back a reply.
"Yes, I'm in the rec room," the guard, Jimbo, said.
When the guard on the other side of the walkie talkie spoke next, Drakken could hear him, "okay, well, Charlie is injured so he's been sent to the medbay."
"How did Charlie get injured? Who escaped?" Jimbo cast a glance at Harley when he asked the second question.
"There were two inmates that escaped- The Joker and Shego," he informed, "Shego gave Charlie at least second degree burns on his neck," the guard continued.
Ivy, Harley, and Drakken all shared looked. Admittedly, Ivy and Harley looked more shocked than Drakken.
Harley angrily walked back over to the couch with clenched fists, Ivy following her. Harley then started pacing back and forth, practically grinding her teeth. Honestly, Drakken didn't know why she was so peeved about the escape. Shego would always come back for her boss. Hopefully...
"That lousy creep escaped without me?! Oh, I'm gonna have him for this. And replacing me with her?! What's she got that I don't?!" Harley raved.
"Glowing hands that can break him out of max security?" Ivy supplied only to get a glare from Harley. She smartly kept quiet and allowed her friend to rant as the alarms continued whining in the background.
As Harley calmed down, she took a seat on the couch whilst taking deep breaths. Both Drakken and Ivy joined her and waited for her to speak.
When she finally did, it was in a low, almost vengeful, voice, "alright, new break out plan..."
