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Just Like Bonnie Did With Clyde

will you ride until you die? – Bebe Rexha

H•A•R•L•E•Y

I look at J for a moment, taking a deep breath.

"You go back to the Hotel, I'll be there soon." I state quietly and he furrows his brows.

"I thought we were taking Vinny with us and going home?" He raises a brow.

"I gotta talk to Hady." I tell him. "I'll be back up in the room by twelve. I promise." I shrug and he thinks for a moment, grabbing his gun from his holster in his jacket.

"Here," he loads it and hands it to me. "If anyone even looks at you weird, on your way back to the Hotel, kill them. I can't risk you getting hurt." He orders and I smile gently.

"Sir, yes, sir." I nod firmly and he smiles, leaning down and pressing a kiss to my lips.

When he finally pulls away, he tells Vincent goodnight and leaves.

I turn to him and press my lips together.

"Where's your mommy, Vinny?" I ask him.

"On the roof. It's where she goes to think." He tells me.

I want to go up there to her but I don't want to leave him in the apartment by himself.

I get an idea and grab J's gun from my holster.

"You shoot anybody that looks at you weird, you got it?" I raise a brow. "And only if you feel threatened, Vinny. Keep the door locked."

His eyes widen at the sight of the gun and he has to hold it with both hands.

"Uncle J's gun." He whispers in awe and I smile before I turn to go.

"Where's Jason?" I ask Hadlynn when I get up to the roof. She doesn't look at me, her gaze meeting the glow of the city ahead of us.

"Out and about." She replies.

I'm quiet, trying to think of things to say.

"I'm sorry, Harleen." She tells me seriously and I furrow my brows.

It's weird to be called that name again.

"Yeah, Johnny married me but it wasn't a damn marriage. It doesn't count so I shouldn't be throwing it in your face that he married me when J hasn't tried to marry you." She admits and I lick my lips, nodding. "I envy you, Harley." She looks at me. "I know you and J fight like fucking dogs sometimes and he hurts you and you hurt him but he still loves you. He protects you and cares for you and isn't ashamed of you. I don't have that and that's why I've always tried to get between you."

"You've deliberately been tryin' to break us up?" I furrow my brows and roll my jaw.

"I didn't realize it at the time but subconsciously, yes." She sighs.

I feel anger boil in me but I keep my cool and cross my arms.

"You had two men that was doin' all of that for you, Hadlynn. They both worshipped the ground you walked on and you did both of them incredibly wrong. I don't like Jason, but he didn't deserve the hell you put him through. And I don't like Johnny, but he sure as hell didn't deserve what you put him through especially after he got you away from Nathan when he raped you."

"I know — "

" — No, you don't know." I hiss. "Johnny and Joker have been best friends for over 13 years, you know that, right?" I ask her and she nods slowly. "They ain't friends anymore. Wanna know why?"

"Because Johnny treated me like shit after we were married."

"Exactly. And why did he treat you like shit?"

"Because I treated him like shit for years." She sighs.

"And why are we back here for Vinny?" I ask next.

"Because I took him away from you and moved in with Jason."

"And why did you move in with Jason?"

"Because I love him and he was murdered so I couldn't be with him when I wanted to be."

"And why was he murdered?" I press even more and she sighs.

"Because I disobeyed J and screwed around with him anyway."

"Ya see a pattern here, Hady?" I cock my head. "Everything that you do, every single action, has a consequence and it affects me and J. And if it's not something you've done, it's something you've provoked. No, Johnny shouldn't have beat you, but you provoked it. No, J shouldn't have murdered Jason, but you provoked it. You see what I'm sayin'?"

She stays quiet but finally nods slowly.

"Vincent wants to come home." I explain to her. "He's miserable here. He has you and he loves you more than anything, but he also loves us and Lucy and he needs us. Not some stranger that he doesn't even know all that well." I explain. "I don't want him to resent you. I feel like Lucyfer resents me sometimes and it's not a good feelin' at all."

"He already resents me since J told him about how I cheated on Johnny."

"Hadlynn," I scoff. "Vinny worships the ground you walk on. I see the way he looks at you. It's the way Lucy looks at J. He loves you so much and I know you want what's best for him but he wants to be home. He needs to be home with his cousin and around the people he's grown up with." I grind my teeth. "You need to be at home around the people you've grown up with."

"I can't leave Jason. I promised him I wouldn't leave him again, Harley." She shakes her head. "I love him. And I know I say that about every man who even remotely pays attention to me but I really do love Jason, Harleen."

"Him or your family?" I put her on the spot and she stays silent. "Him or your family?" I repeat sternly.

She shakes her head, squeezing her eyes shut and I see a couple tears roll down her cheeks.

"You think on that, and let me know." I order before climbing down from the roof, and going back inside to get J's gun from Vinny and head back to the hotel.

V•I•T•A•N•I

{Flashback – 2 Hours Earlier}

"I don't know why you're here, I'm not going back home." I tell Johnny once we get up the roof to talk.

"I'm not here to get you back. I'm here to get my son back. You know, the one you kidnapped."

"Oh, please, Johnny. He's my son. I didn't kidnap him."

"No, you just made him move in with the same bastard you ran around on me with."

I furrow my brows at him.

"So this isn't even about Vincent. This about me moving in with Jason."

"No, it's about you playing house with Jason and involving my son in it. I don't know what sick little fantasy you're living in where Jason is the father of Vincent, but I refuse to let my kid take part in your little game of manipulative bitch."

"Why is everything I do a game to you? I'm not always conniving and sneaky, Johnny." I snap and he raises a brow.

"Sorry after you spend an entire five years sneaking around it's hard to decide when you're genuinely trying to better a situation or just trying to get into someone else's pants."

I laugh at his statement.

"Hypocritical much?"

"I didn't cheat on you until you cheated on me." He hisses. "I tried, you didn't. You can't keep hanging my infidelities over my head."

"How about three years of living hell being married to you?" I raise a brow. "Is that allowed because god knows it didn't help either of us."

"Sure as hell helped me." He grits out. "I got all the anger I kept pent up, out."

"Yes, by beating me and scaring me into having sex with you. Please, by all means feel like a man." I roll my eyes and he grabs my arm.

"Don't even." He growls.

"Gonna hit me again?" I snatch away from him. "Doesn't matter. Because no matter how much you threaten me or intimidate me, I'm not leaving. I'm not going back to Gotham and neither is Vinny."

"Like hell he isn't, you holier-than-thou bitch."

"Johnny, let go of me." I state through my teeth. "Johnny." I take a deep breath. "Let. Go." I hiss. He doesn't listen and I finally snatch away from him. "Leave. Now. Just go." I shake my head and he rolls his jaw before turning to go.

"This ain't over, Hadlynn Quinzel. Don't think for a second this is over."

{Present}

When Jason gets in, I sit up in the bed and smile sleepily.

"What time is it?" I yawn and he looks at the clock.

"2:45 in the morning," he tells me, stripping his clothes off.

"Your dinner is on the table," I tell him gently and he groans tiredly before collapsing on the bed.

"I'm too tired for eating. I just want sleep." He lays his head on my stomach and I fall back on the bed, my fingers playing in his hair. "So, what'd you do while I was gone?" He asks and I take a deep breath.

"My sister and J visited." I tell him and he stiffens.

"They didn't really," he chuckles and I sit up and look at him. "Holy shit, Hady. Why didn't call me?" He sits up, looking down at me.

"Because I was fine." I assure him.

"Why were they here?" He asks next.

"To try to get Vincent to go back home with them, but he doesn't want to go without me." I tell him honestly.

He's quiet for a moment and I look at him.

"They want me to come back home to them." I sigh and he sits up and looks down at me with blue eyes.

"You're not going back with them, are you?"

"Of course not . . . "

" . . . You're not planning on letting Vinny go back with them, are you?"

"Well . . . " I shrug. " . . . They miss him, he misses them. He's not happy here. Joker and Harley are really responsible when it comes to him and Lucy. I think if I let Vinny go back, he'd be okay."

"But he wouldn't have his mother. And it wouldn't be the same to him."

"I don't know." I shrug. "I'll just have to see, I guess. I'm about to go back to sleep, love you." I kiss him briefly and he sighs.

"Love you, too." He replies before he shuts the lamp off, leaving me to stare up at the ceiling in the dark.

H•A•R•L•E•Y

"Daddy, stop I'm tryna sleep." I complain as he pulls me tighter against him as we're snuggled up under the covers of the bed.

He'd been constantly leaving love bites on my neck and I was trying to get some shut eye.

"HmmMm," he protests and I roll over, giving him his own "don't fuck with me right now" look and he raises an amused brow.

"Getting mad?" He teases and I roll my jaw and he starts chuckling until I elbow him lightly in the stomach.

He only takes this as an invitation to practically suffocate me.

He rolls over on me, his weight holding me down, his hands in my hair, his capped teeth biting, not nipping, biting into my neck.

I don't know whether to moan or shriek. It hurts, I know that much.

My flesh aches and when he finally pulls away, it stings and feels cold where the warmness of his lips leave my skin.

He's still chuckling a little when he pulls away and stares down at me, his finger lightly grazing circles around my cheek.

My mind goes back to what Hadlynn told me.

She'd tried to come between us.

It all comes together in my head.

Her constant neediness for him, when she kissed him, how she always quietly paraded around that he enjoyed her company more than mine every now and then . . .

I feel pure hurt rake through me.

My own sister, whether she was aware of it or not, had been trying to take the man I was madly in-love with, away from me. And I almost let her.

My hand rests on the back of his neck as tears make their way to my eyes and my bottom lip shakes a little bit.

It was almost ruined. The last five years of us being together was almost blown to hell over the stupidest things.

I take a deep breath when his features fall in worry.

"I talked to Hadlynn some," I speak quietly and he searches my eyes. "She's been tryin' to break us up for the last four years, Pud'." I tell him this as if it's news to him.

He just nods slowly.

"I've known that the entire time, Harley." He brushes a few hairs from my face. "One of the main reasons I can't stand the brat."

"She said she wasn't meaning to, it was subconscious. I'm not sure I believe that."

"There's a lot you've done subconsciously. For example, thinking you were curing a certain patient when really you were falling head over heals for him," he suggests and I take a deep breath.

"I guess you're right." I shrug a little.

"Besides, it takes two to tango and do you really think I'd waste my time sleeping with her and risk ruining what I have with you when I've got the best gal already?" He asks and I smile widely. "Exactly." He presses another kiss to my lips before he pulls away.

He rolls off me, wrapping his arms around my waist, resting his head right above my breasts.

I can't help but smile sleepily and press a gentle kiss to his forehead and hike my leg around waist. I doze off, feeling him kiss my jaw before I finally get some sleep.

I feel better better today after all the support and love I've received, so sorry for how I worded everything last night I just got frustrated.

Also if you've never heard "Ride Till You Die" by Bebe Rexha ft. Voli, I'm demanding you to listen to it. It explains J and Harley perfectly I swear to god it does.