***Authors note***
So last time I did one of these chapters in Batman's point of view, you guys seemed to really like it, so I thought a little different, we can do it in Jessies p.o.v. At first, I thought of her as kind of a throw away character, but I actually kind of like her and decided to put her in the story more. And I thought it would be cool to see the story from her point of view. Especially since the next chapter Katie has no idea what is happening on the home front.
I only plan on doing only the one chapter from Jessie's p.o.v so it's kind of a long chapter, and it's not imperative to the story if it's too painful to read, you can skip it and not miss a whole lot. Ha-ha I'm not used to writing super happy preppy characters so, it wasn't easy.
ANYWHO, enjoy! (If that's at all possible…)
Jessies p.o.v
Jessie was in one word. Terrified.
Or two words. Hecking terrified. Like oh my gosh what the hecking heck? Bruce had called her this morning and told her everything. That the Joker had been following her bestest friend in the whole wide world and she hadn't said a word about it.
The last time they talked was only last night, she had told Jessie all about her new job, how well she was doing. How much she hated Charles, even though low key he sounded hot as all heck. And they did shots like they used to do every Friday night, it was great!
And then she went home, and all that crazy, crazy stuff happened. Jessie couldn't understand why Katie hadn't phoned her herself. But then again, Katie wasn't the type to make a fuss, even when a fuss was what the situation called for.
But that was Katie, she would pretend everything was fine while it all collapsed around her. Jessie was pretty sure Katie was heading for either a nervous breakdown or a stomach ulcer from all the stress. Both of those options were SO not cute.
It couldn't be helped though, Katie was the kind of girl who would stand in the middle of a hurricane and say, 'What a nice breeze.' She could be on fire and only say 'It's warm isn't it?' Be in the midst of a earthquake and say she felt slightly dizzy and might sit down.
Jessie didn't know whether Katie was crazy or just that chill. But she would probably bet her last pink glitter unicorn on crazy.
But anyway, Bruce had called her. Jessie thought it might be to ask her out but that was not the case. He told her what happened, and that Katie really needed her friend. Which was her!
So, Jessie packed every Disney film she had ever bought (or borrowed and never returned) and made her way to Katie's flat. Bruce had told her he would be by later with Chinese food for everyone, so it was kind of like a date. A weird kind of double date… In Jessie's mind, it counted.
Jessie might even accidently fall asleep on Bruce's shoulder while they watched movies. Maybe he could be her prince charming, her Flynn Rider, her Prince Phillip, her Prince Eric, her Kristoff.
Dreamy! He probably had really ripped shoulders. Jessie giggled as she imagined her hands running over them. And then a little lower… Eiiii!
But Jessie was scared as soon as she stepped into Katie's flat. And no, she didn't wait for an invitation, best friends don't need such formalities. But in this flat, the Joker had been here. Jessie was scared of touching anything in case he had. He was so super duper scary!
Jessie didn't even watch the news if he came on. Not that she watched a lot of the news. But Clowns brought joy and laughter, not murder and death! He was desecrating the name of all circus clowns. And Jessie liked clowns, but she didn't like him. Not even a teeny weeny bit.
But never the less! Jessie put on a smile and watched Disney movies with Katie and Officer Thomas, who was super nice. And cute as all heck! If she wasn't so interested in Bruce, she might even flirt with him.
But she was pretty sure he had a wife and kids, Jessie wasn't into all that. Seemed messy, she was happy with her billionaire. Imagine all the unicorns she could buy! SHE COULD BUY A CASTLE! Would that make her a princess?
Jessie sang along to all the songs, because duh she knew them all. She even acted out some of the scenes, even though most of the time she was shaking like a leaf. But she was going to be strong for Katie, because Katie had always been so strong for her.
Even when Katie lost her baby, Lilly, she was still strong. Jessie had bought Lilly a little unicorn, for her birthday ya know. Katie had been saying Jessie was going to be her babies god mother, and she was so happy. She couldn't remember the last time she had been so happy.
But, when she found out what Caleb had done, done to her best friend. Jessie didn't stop crying for days. Especially when she went to the hospital to visit Katie.
But Katie… she just carried on, like her whole word wasn't on fire and burning to ash. Like Caleb hadn't taken away the only piece of happiness he had ever given her. Jessie was happy when he was sentenced to prison, she hoped he never got out. And if he did, well Jessie didn't even know what she would do. She hoped she didn't have to find out.
Jessie knew she wasn't very… physically imposing. Or imposing in any other sense, but she loved Katie and would do anything to make her happy.
"Everything alright?" Jessie asked Katie, she was at the door but not opening it, which was weird. Officer Thomas had been AGES in the hallway. Why didn't she just let him in?
"Of course." Katie smiled, so Jessie went back to picking a movie.
It was so hard deciding! And she didn't want to pick one too scary, because Katie was still recovering! So, the Lion King was out of the question. The scene with Scar and the hyenas was so spooky! Even if the song was so gosh dang catchy.
Just as Jessie was shaking off a shiver of seeing Scar singing, Katie fell over. She was so clumsy! But then she was shuffling back, away from the door.
"Katie? What the heck?" Jessie rushed over and helped her to her feet. Just what was happening!?
Jessie screamed when the first gun shot fired and was sobbing as more followed suit. Who was shooting? It was so loud and scary.
Katie grabbed a hold of her hand and dragged her behind her. Jessie struggled to keep up with Katie, but she followed. If not, she would have stayed rooted to the spot, too scared to do anything!
Katie went to her bedroom window and was trying to push it up, but it wouldn't move. Why was she at the window? Jessie wasn't going to jump out! That didn't seem like a smart idea. Even if there was gunshots.
"Katie?" Jessie asked, hearing the door breaking.
Katie pointed to her bed and Jessie didn't understand, now was not the time for a nap!?
"What?" Jessie asked as she was pushed.
"Under the bed, you need to hide." Katie pushed her to the floor and Jessie thought she was going to crawl in after her, but she didn't.
"What about you?" She asked, tears still streaming down her cheeks as the gunshots continued.
"He knows I'm here, but he doesn't know about you." Katie pulled out a gun from the bed and handed it to Jessie.
"Do you know how to use it?" She asked, Jessie's eyes grew wide as she took the gun off Katie.
"No!" Jessie half shrieked, she wanted to throw the gun to the other side of the hecking room. And she did ever hecking want to! She shouldn't hold a gun! Antonio didn't even let Jessie use a knife, never mind a gun.
"Point and pull the trigger. Look Jessie, I think the Jokers going to take me. As soon as we're gone, call Gordon ok? He is the police commissioner, tell him everything. As quick as you can, ok?" They could both hear the door breaking more and more.
"Katie, you can't let him take you!" Jessie grabbed onto her hand and tugged her under the bed. "Hide with me."
Why didn't Katie see? She could hide instead, Jessie would just tell Mr Joker she went outside for a smoke. Jessie thought Katie seemed the smoking type.
Leaning against a wall, flicking ash of the end of a burning cigarette. Eyes narrowed as she watched the world pass by. Not a single care.
She was so cool… But you know what isn't cool or cute? Lung cancer kids.
But Katie didn't smoke, but did he know that? Jessie could totally lie, she had been telling everyone she was 21 for the past five years. She hadn't been 21 for a while.
But Katie shook her head at Jessies plan.
"He knows I'm here, I don't want you in danger. And officer Brooke, I don't know if he is alive, but if he is you need to get help for him too, ok? Can you do it?" Jessie realised officer Brooke hadn't come back. But he has a family, he likes Disney films, he can't die… Why was this happening?!
Jessie didn't want responsibility, she HATED that. She liked to just sit there and everyone else could do the important stuff. But this time she couldn't, she had to be strong, for Katie.
"I can do it." Jessie began to sob again, she hated this. It was so scary, and she didn't look cute AT ALL right now. She was an ugly crier, she knew it.
But all of a sudden, the door completely broke apart and it was so loud, Jessie couldn't help the small scream that escaped when it did.
Katie put a hand over her mouth but that didn't stop the new stream of tears.
"Don't come out until we're gone." Katie whispered. Jessie nodded and shuffled under the bed completely. She had to trust that Katie knew what she was doing.
Katie was smart, of course she knew what she was doing. This was all going to be ok. Jessie held the gun in front of her. She didn't really know how to use it, or at all. But movies made it look easy, so how hard could it really be? If Jennifer Lawrence could fire a bow, Jessie could fire a gun. Hopefully…
"Am I interrupting?" Jessie heard his voice from above her and put her own hand over her mouth to stop the scream that threatened to erupt from her. He was even scarier in person! And Jessie couldn't even see him yet!
"Stay back." Katie warned him. Jessie wanted to cheer from under the bed. 'Kick his clown butt Katie!' But Jessie thought Katie might be mad if she did that, so she kept listening instead.
"No gun?" He questioned, and the gun felt even heavier to Jessie, Katie should be holding this, not her. At least Katie knew how to use it.
"I wanted something more hands on." Katie was so super scary using that voice, even Jessie was worried for Mr Joker. He was going to get his booty kicked.
"As amusing as this is." The Joker feet suddenly began walking across the room and Jessie watched with big round eyes. What was happening? She hated that she couldn't see.
Then the hammer hit the ground right in front of Jessies face. Well, like a foot away. But it was still super scary! Jessie didn't manage to hide the squeak that escaped from shock. She got so spooked it just slipped out.
There was silence in the room, but then she heard Katie do it, oh that didn't sound right at all. She sounded like she was in pain, not cute at all.
"Cute." Ok, so Mr Joker thought it was cute. No accounting for taste, Jessie's was so much cuter! But that's not the point…
Then Jessie could see one of Katies feet lifting off the floor and then both running out of her room. Jessie watched confused, but then the Joker fell to the floor. Did she kill him?
When he moved Jessie whimpered, he was so not dead! Then she seen him freeze, oh no, did he hear her? She held onto the gun with a tight grip, but she still had no idea what to do with this big hunking piece of metal. Could Katie not have got it in pink? Or purple, maybe Katie would let her paint it later.
And then the Joker's face was looking under the bed, right at Jessie. She wanted to scream seeing his actual face.
It was so much scarier than pictures, especially since it was looking right at her. Jessie wanted to run away but she was stuck. She wanted to scream and cry and have Katie protect her. But Katie had ran out the room.
The Joker grinned at her like a wild man before rushing out the room, looking gleeful. Jessie felt the tears stream down her face as she sobbed as quietly as she could.
Then Jessie could hear an almighty crash from the next room. What had happened? Should she go look? But then Katie might be super mad at her. And Katie was really scary when she was mad. Even scarier than Jessies mum had been growing up. And she was REALLY scary. So Jessie waited.
After it had been a few minutes since the crash Jessie couldn't hear any other noise. And she just couldn't wait anymore. She needed to see what was happening. And even though she was so scared, she crawled out from under the bed.
She took the gun with her, although she might only be able to use it as something heavy to throw. She crept out of the bedroom, not making a sound. But the flat was empty. Her dvds were strewn across the floor, but nothing else was there.
Jessie heard a groan from the corridor and ran out. She seen the back of the Joker and ran back into the apartment. That was too close.
After a few more seconds she went back out. Katie told Jessie to check on Officer Brooke. He was stirring as he laid against the wall. His hat and shirt were gone, which was strange, did he get too hot? Then she remembered she had to phone someone. Erm, who was it again?
Bordon? Jordan? Lordon? Fordon? Rordon?
No wait Jessie thought of an animal to remember the first letter.
Goat! Goat Gordon. Oh yeah!
She felt around in Thomas's pockets. 'Forgive me Mrs Brooke, this is strictly for all the right reasons. No unnecessary touching is going on, I assure you.' Jessie took out his phone and went to unlock it. But it had a passcode.
UH really?!
She tested her luck wit 4, because that was her passcode, but it didn't unlock. Drats.
She spotted his shirt a few steps away and could see the shine of his police badge. Maybe that had numbers on it? She crawled over and looked at it. It was so shiny! Wait no, Jessie thought, curb your magpie urges and look at the numbers!
City of Gotham police department
Police Officer Thomas
4674
She tried the number and it worked, she was in!
He had a couple of texts from his wife, but Jessie didn't peek, that would be an invasion of privacy. She could always do that later.
She went into his contacts and looked for commissioner, she was sure that was what Katie had said. Commissioner, goat, Gordon. She finally found it and dialled it right away. It only rang a couple of times before it was answered.
"Hello commissioner Gordon." The other voice answered, the voice sounded tired. Jessie thought she should recommend he had a really nice bubble bath, with candles and duckies. Maybe a nice glss of wine… But again, that could wait.
"Hello Mr Gordon, it's Jessie." She greeted.
"Sorry who?" Gordon asked, that was super-duper rude!
"Jessie. Katie's friend." Jessie reminded him, they had met before. He had come to the restaurant the day after Katie had, asking about if anyone had come looking for her.
"Katie? Oh, her co-worker?" But Jessie was not happy with that.
"Actually, sir, we are best friends." Jessie huffed. Men didn't understand the complexities of female friendship.
"Yes, of course. How can I help you?"
"Oh yeah, Katie was kidnapped by Mr Joker." Jessie was about to repeat herself when there was only silence until Gordon spoke again.
"What?" He asked.
"Kidnapped, Mr Gordon." Jessie clarified, maybe in his old age his hearing had gone?
"When?" The man sounded like he was rushing around now.
"Like 5 minutes ago?" Jessie guessed, she wasn't too good at guessing time and her unicorn watch was at home.
"Why didn't you start with that?!" Gordon shouted.
"I do not appreciate that tone Mr Commissioner! I have had a very stressful day! And Officer Brooke is also really hurt, I have a lot of my plate right now!" Jessie felt like crying again.
"Officer Brooke? How hurt is he?" Jessie looked at him and he wasn't moving anymore, but she could see he was breathing.
"He's breathing, but not moving." She told him, she didn't know medical things. If Jessie was a smart doctor lady, she wouldn't be waiting tables!
"Sit with him, call me back if something happens. We are on our way to you right now." The phone hung up and Jessie stared at it bewildered for a moment.
That. Was. So. Rude! She tucked the phone back into Officer Brookes trouser pocket. Although she did want to dig through his messages to satisfy her own curiosity. It seemed inappropriate given the current circumstances.
A few minutes later, the elevator dinged open at the floor and Jessie could see commissioner among some other officers and paramedics. The paramedics immediately came over to officer Brooke, so Jessie stood back. And Police officers surged past her into the apartment. Mr Gordon took Jessie to the side. Away from the commotion.
"Are you okay?" He asked her, then Jessie couldn't hold the tears back any longer.
"No!" She wailed throwing her arms around commissioner Gordon. He froze but let her cry on his shoulder.
She had enough of being strong. It sucked, and she was ready to stop now. She wanted Katie back, Katie would be good in this situation. She would be able to answer questions and probably would have known what to do with officer Brooke too. Why did Mr Joker take her?! She was her friend and he had no right to just steal her!
"Did you see which way they went?" Gordon asked her softly. She extracted herself with a less than cute sniffle and a nod.
"They went down the hall and to the right." She told him.
"But that just leads to a supply closet." Gordon said, Jessie sniffed and shrugged.
"That's where they went. I remember."
Gordon shook his head and shrugged. "You might remember it wrong. It's a traumatic event that you've just been through, it isn't uncommon to recall details wrong."
Jessie pouted and began stomping down the hallway.
"I'm upset not stupid! My eyes work fine!" She yelled. Gordon was following her.
"We've already been down here." He tried to stop her but Jessie was determined. She came to a door and slammed through it.
In front of her was two more doors. She opened one and it was a supply closet. Gordon sighed from behind her. The next one had a 'Supply closet' sign. But then why didn't the other? If they were both supply closets? And Jessie had seen the Joker coming down here, he was hardly going to get a broom to sweep up the remaining door, now was he?
Gordon sighed and put a hand on Jessie's arm. But she shrugged it off and opened the door. Might as well check it.
It led to a long hallway and a set of stairs. Jessie turned to Gordon with a satisfied smirk. "Now who's dumb?"
"Apparently me." He mumbled before he slammed the door open to the hall where police were still milling about.
"I want two units down here. NOW!" Gordon yelled, making Jessie jump slightly. Why did police shout so much?
She was just happy she had been right. But she wouldn't say told you so to Mr Gordon, he was super scary. He was nearly as scary as Katie. Nearly...
Batman arrived a little later. Gordon and Jessie were in the apartments security centre. Which was a whole lot of screens, but no one employed to watch them. Jessie thought that was silly.
When he arrived Jessie instantly stood in front of him and offered her hand for him to shake or kiss. Whatever.
"I'm Jessie." She smiled. He shook her hand, if a little hesitantly. "Big fan." She told him with a flutter of her eyelashes. She let him pass to stand next to Gordon who was rubbing the bridge of his nose. Annoyed.
"Gordon."
"Batman." They greeted each other before both turning to the screens.
Gordon played the video again. Jessie had already watched it with him. It showed the Joker in the hall and Thomas coming out. Then a scuffle where the Joker hits him with the butt of a knife. Leading to the gash on his forehead. It also showed the joker shooting the door and breaking in. Then a few minutes later dragging Katie out too. And then Jessie a few seconds later before she ran back in. The rest was Jessie getting the phone.
"You figured out his pass code?" Batman asked, Jessie nodded.
"It was his badge number." She blushed when he nodded his head.
"Good work. " He complimented making Jessie giggle at the praise.
"You know you remind me of someone." Jessie told batman leaning closer to his face.
"Is that so?" He asked.
"Same jawline, you got a brother?" She asks to which he chuckled.
"No."
"We need to figure out where he took her." Gordon said, bringing them all back to the present.
"We can hit all his known hideouts." Batman suggested, Jessie looked between them both. They didn't know where he had taken her?! What kind of detectives were they?!
I mean sure, Batman cute. But where was his brains? They need to find Katie. Now.
Jessie just hoped her friend was ok and still alive. And that they would find her soon.
Who knows what's happening to her?
***Authors note***
Hey guys, hope you enjoyed it. Sorry if the spacing is weird? Something fucked up on my computer and I was having a hard time trying to fix it.
If it's really bad i'll just re-type it out and re-upload so let me know.
As always, love you guys x