"Are you injured?" Joker stares. The first thing Gordon says to him after so long and it's this?! Batman looks equally shocked.
Noticing their stares Gordon continues.
"Every time the Joker is injured, the fire appears, and then people die. It's too much of a coincidence."
"..." Batman offers no reply. Truth be told, he have a small, nagging suspicion that this may be the case, but have not acted upon it yet.
"Gordy?" The Joker cuts into the silence. "Are you, uh, going mad? Cause this is the craziest thing I've ever heard, and this is coming from, ya know, me of all people!"
Gordon glared at the clown and the Joker pouted. Batman suddenly feel a surge of anger towards the clown. Not like he looked much like a clown without his paint.
"Joker.." He warned. Turning to Gordon, Batman picked up the conversation. "He was knocked out yesterday." "Yeah, Batty, and by you, no less!" Joker cried. At least he did not mention the rea-
"All because of a little-" Batman glared at him and he closed his mouth.
"Whoa, you two really think that the fire has, uh, anything to do with all these people offing themselves?"
"Yes." And that was all it needed to send the Joker into a fit of laughter. Gordon looked angry and Batman stopped him.
"This is Gotham." Gordon stated plainly. "And?" The Joker's tone was mocking. "Gotham is crazy enough to cause this." And the Joker laughed again.
"Are you sure those two would be the best?" The pale haired woman asked, her blue eyes settling onto the man next to her. He looks her in the eye. "They have managed to find each other. Through time and space and alternating dimensions. Every single lifetime they have been through. They are the best hope for dis-spelling the curse once and for all."
"Why should we want the curse to be destroyed?" A sharp voice piped up. A warm pink glow surrounds the person's body. The man and the woman looked at the skimese man.
"The curse grows stronger every moment. These mortals have woken it, and now it spreads through Gotham like a plague. Soon it would consume earth, and the other realms. Including ours."
The Skime looked alarmed at this, but it questioned further. "Then why shall we choose them? Surly others has managed to follow their partners throughout the years?"
"Not like this." The woman sighed wistfully. "They have managed to be with each other through the history of time. From being banished gods, to demons, to Skime" She paused and looked pointedly at the Skime "to mortals. They were friends, enemies, lovers and acquaintances. Even if they only manage to brush shoulders in a life they still found each other."
The Skime and the man was speechless. The man spoke up. "How would they break this curse, then?" The woman smiled and turned to him, fingers threading through his golden hair. The Skime coughed loudly, and they untangled themselves from each other. "I forgot that Skime cannot feel sexual desire." The man says lightly.
"Ah yes, but our kind takes more pleasure in intellectual and aesthetic desires." The Skime replied. The man smiled. "Now is not the time for such conversations." She smiled pleasantly. "They would have to stop this because the ones who broke the seal placed a link upon one of them." The men gasped sharply.
The man furrowed his brow. "We would need to send someone to help them." "Fear not, love." The woman stated. Her cold blue dress spiraled around her, contrasting with the man's pale purple and the Skime's grass green. "I have noted that they have help from lord Skryard himself."
The three looked into the mirror of R'dir, the link to the mortal realms. Commissioner Gordon's face appears on the smooth surface. "But he is just a mere mortal!" The Skime cries out.
"Fear not." The man speaks up. "When the time is right we shall meet with them. For now, we have no say in mortal affairs, even though this may affect us." And with such words, the Skime nodded and disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving the man and the woman in their thoughts.
Bruce kicked around in his large bed as he dreamed. Little did he know, in the Batcave, his 'guest of honour' was dreaming as well. Bruce is too engrossed to care.
Bruce cannot move. His body was not in his control. He sat in a small dingy cell. A prison camp for POWs, he remembers, for some strange reason. The door opens and his captors throws a blond man in. The man was too busy screaming in french at their captors to notice him in the corner.
The door locks again. The man turns around to face Bruce and Bruce's breath hitched. This man is the Joker. He was sure of it. He may not have the Glasgow scars, but one look into his poisonous eyes and he knew. They sat there, in a small and damp cell for god knows how long, and the dream fades away into black.
Another dream, or rather, a vision starts. Bruce still had no control over his body, but he could tell a glorious ceremony is occurring. A beautiful woman, her blond hair cascading over with mischief and her lips pulled into a smirk, looked at him. Bruce knew that this woman was the Joker. He, or rather, she pulled him close into a kiss, and this vision fades away again.
This time, he is Batman, and the Joker is still the Joker. He notices that his suit is slightly different, the kevlar feeling more like spandex. The Joker grins wildly, but the scars are gone. In place of scars and paint, was bleached white skin and poison green hair. Even without greasepaint his lips are still red as ruby.
The their fight changes into another direction. The cowl came off, and Bruce cannot even protest. Their lips locks in a frenzy of tongue and desperation, and, no matter how wrong he tells himself this is, it still felt achingly right. Batman pulls the Joker into another kiss, and Bruce woke up with a start.
"What the hell was that?!" He exclaimed to himself. The dreams (They are just dreams, right?) vividly imprinted in his mind. He shook the offending images out of his brain and stumbled into the shower, hoping that cold water would calm his heated body.
A/N: So Brucey has some dreams, and the Joker was featured in all of them. What do you think that the man and the woman are talking about? Ask me anything you want to and I would be happy to answer! :)