Chapter Nineteen

Two-Face

The lights were dimmed down, almost into darkness. She felt something against her cheek and her eyes opened. She caught sight of it out of the corner of her eye. It was a gun. She sat up but was pushed back down. The over head light turned on. She was face to face with a man who burnt all the way down his left side, while the other was very handsome. "What am I in, the Twilight Zone?" She thought.

"Harvey..Harvey Dent?" She asked, slightly taken aback, "But I thought...?"

"I was dead? Harvey is", the man replied, "But Two-Face isn't".

With his burnt to the bone left hand he fished out a coin, one side shiny, the other scarred.

"Let's see if you're luck is just as good as mine, hm?" Two-Face asked.

With that, he flipped the coin. It landed shiny side up in the palm of his hand.

Erin sighed with relief but she wasn't out of the woods yet. Not by a long shot. Two-Face grabbed her by the wrist and roughly pulled her to her feet. Erin knew not to struggle, you don't ever struggle when someone is holding a gun. He pulled her against him and put his hand over her mouth.

"Open the door, walk out and don't try anything", Two-Face replied.

Erin nodded and he let her go. She opened the hospital room door and walked out into the hallway. The officers standing out in the hallway turned and went to grab their guns but then lowered them when they saw her walk out. Erin just stood there, acting as though everything were normal. Two-Face walked out behind her.

"I want to see the Joker. Now", Two-Face exclaimed.

Two guards went into the room they were standing just outside. Gordon came around the corner a moment later, he saw two of his men bringing the Joker out of his hospital room. Gordon ran up to see what was going on. He stopped when he saw Erin and....Dent? Joker didn't seem so shocked upon seeing him.

"Harvey Dent, nice to see you're still up movin' around", Joker said smiling a little.

"Harvey's dead. It's just Two-Face now", He replied.

"Well...I'm glad I could be of some help. How have you been anyway?" Joker asked casually, "Cause you look good".

"You lied about Gordon killing Rachel. You killed Rachel", Two-Face exclaimed, "You took someone I loved. Now I'm taking someone you love".

"Now hold on, hold on. You aren't going to kill her, are you?" Joker asked.

Erin's eyes went wide with horror. Was this man, Two-Face, thinking of doing just that? She didn't want to die, not at anyone's hands anyway. She always thought she'd live a long life and then die from natural causes or something.

"Killing her would defeat my purpose. No, I have something else in mind. Something that would make you suffer", Two-Face replied gruffly, "Since you took Rachel from me, permanently. I think I'll keep Ms. Knightly here as a keepsake".

Two-Face turned away from the Joker, taking Erin with him. Gordon stepped forward now, hands out stretched, as though he were trying to reason with him.

"Dent, don't do this", Gordon begged.

Two-Face listened to the Commissioner but then started walking again. Gordon knew that letting his men go after Dent would endanger Erin in the process. Gordon looked sideways at the Joker. The clown's face looked ridged. Hatred and malice spread across his face. His eyes burned and something seemed to have made the Joker go back to his old destructive pattern. Joker's hands had balled themselves up and they were shaking. He was fuming and his mouth twitched. Gordon had never seen him like this. Two-Face had done his damage and the tables were now turned.

Erin was somewhat dragged out of the hospital and out into the streets of Gotham. A car was sitting just beside the curb, looking somewhat ominous in the dark. Two-Face pushed her towards it. Erin went to get into the passenger seat but he pulled her back.

"I want you to drive", He told her but something about his voice was off now that they weren't in the hospital anymore.

Erin walked around the other side and got into the driver's seat. Once he was in the seat beside her, she pulled the car away from the curb and drove down the road. She been used to driving a stick shift but this was a different kind of car, it felt different and moved differently too. Two-Face told her to take a couple of rights and then a left. They were soon in front of a ritzy apartment building. They got out of the car and went inside.

"Is this where you live?" She asked, feeling a little nervous about her sudden abduction.

"Used to", He replied.

He gave her a little push towards the elevator. When they got to the fifth floor, Two-Face walked over to one of the mats and lifted it up. He picked up a key and inserted it into the door knob that the mat was in front of. Erin went inside first, it look like an average apartment but with glamor benefits. Two-Face closed the door and locked it as he followed her inside. He nodded for her to sit down. Erin sat down on the couch and just put her hands in her lap. She was still wearing the hospital gown and her socks. Two-Face put his gun back into his coat pocket and started playing with his coin.

"How did you know my name?" Erin asked quietly.

"I read about you in the newspaper", He exclaimed, standing with his back to her.

"Just to set the record straight, Joker didn't kill Rachel. I did", Erin said.

He turned to look at her. The right side of his face still had human-male flesh, light blond hair and a blue eye. The other side, the burnt and scarred side, had a dark, almost red eye. Hair was burnt off here and there. His suit on that side was burnt with ash, making his suit on that side darker.

"You didn't kill her", He muttered finally.

"I drove her to the place where she did die, how is that different?" Erin asked.

"I just know that you didn't kill Rachel", He explained.

He looked at her. Beneath the make up and the cheap hair dye, she was a beautiful woman. Keeping her would make the Joker suffer for what he did. Turing her against the Joker, helping him instead, that would be interesting. It seemed that if the Joker could manipulate her, it would be much easier to manipulate her more human side. Two-Face just had to find what her more human side was. He walked over and sat down on the wooden coffee table. He put his hand beneath her chin.

"Do you have a bathroom I could use?" Erin asked feeling very uncomfortable.

"On the left", He replied, nodding with his head.

He let her up and she went into to the bathroom. He stood by the door, listening to the water in the sink run. The hot water and soap felt good on her skin. After the make up was off, she went over to the shower and turned that on. She had to wash out the cheap green hair dye. After about five minutes or so, her beautiful hair was back to it's normal dark red color. She found a blow-dryer beneath the sink. She blew-dry her hair until it was curly and dry. But unfortunately, she had cut her wonderful hair. Her hair was now shoulder length, oh well, it would grow again in the coming months. She got back into her socks and her hospital gown. When she came out of the bathroom, she found him waiting by the door. He was casually rolling his coin between this looked up as she came out of the bathroom. Something about him made her uneasy, she was glad that he was going to spare her but she wished she was back at the hospital, still asleep. How she was able to drag another man into her life was beyond her. The only man in her life had been the Joker and that seemed like enough. But Bruce Wayne and Commissioner Gordon and now, Two-Face were apart of this and she didn't know exactly how she was going to survive any of it. She just wanted to be with the Joker and wanted them to leave her there anything wrong with that?

Author's Note: How is Erin going to get out of this one? She just doesn't seem to catch a break. Don't worry there is no Dent/Erin. (Unless someone out there is twisted enough to think that would add some drama to this.) But otherwise I hope you are enjoying this. Sorry for this chapter being short. READ AND REVIEW! :)