Chapter twenty-one. This one isn't gratuitously violent like the last one, though it is shorter than usual.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Dark Knight or the Joker, but Larry is mine.
Faye Slift was getting annoyed. The Joker was letting her down, he hadn't done anything in the last week since the massacre of the Scarecrow and his men and she was getting sick of reporting about the fact that the police were too stupid to figure out where he lived.
She looked at what she had to report about that night. Some stupid fat child has gotten himself stuck in a tyre, some random person believes that he has been abducted by an alien, some other random woman can sing, and there was something else about an ambulance being involved in a car accident.
As far as she was concerned, the news was lost without something big happening every week. Without some big event, she thought, the news would just turn into a gossip show. Not that she didn't mind gossip. She loved hearing about the stupid things some celebrities did or who's having an affair with who.
But still, she really wished that the Joker would do something soon. She felt he owed it to her.
...
Gordon waited on the roof for Batman. At the sound of footsteps he turned around and as always, saw Batman stepping out of the shadows.
"Have you found anything new?" Batman started in his raspy voice.
"No unfortunately," Gordon sighed, "what about you?"
"I know that Larry has been trafficking drugs, he also used to be a large drug lord in Japan as well as an arms dealer."
"So that's why the amount of drug use has increased lately."
"I can't find many clues about where he is but I believe that he is using a warehouse on the docks on the east side of the river."
"That's great," Gordon praised, "that means we'll be able to knock him out real soon."
"It may be harder than you think," Batman cautioned, "he knows the Joker is after him so he's not taking any chances."
"True," admitted Gordon, "we haven't found any clues on the Joker, I'm really starting to think that we will have to wait to catch him in the act again."
"Then let's try to get him before he commits the act," Batman said and left.
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Eileen Dover turned around the corner into her street. She decided to search for her keys which she hoped were somewhere in her bag. As she walked along she dug deeper and deeper but still couldn't find them. She began to get worried.
As she continued to search she failed to watch where she was going and subsequently ran into a pole, falling back on her ass in her surprise. Someone close by burst out into high pitched giggles and when she looked up to glare at the culprit, the blush of embarrassment on her face drained to a pale look of shock. For who should be standing there doubled over and giggling but the Joker!
He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a note which he dropped on the ground beside her and then strolled away in the direction from which she came.
After a few stunned moments Eileen quickly sprang up, snatched up the hundred dollar note and ran up to her apartment. She knocked hard on the door in the hope that her room mate would be in. She didn't want to be alone.
Her friend answered the door in a bath towel and she dashed inside, slamming the door behind her.
"Woah, what's wrong?" Isabell Ringing asked.
"You will never believe me but I just saw the Joker!" Eileen replied.
Her friend blinked in surprise a few times.
"I was just walking down our street trying to find my keys and I wasn't watching where I was going and I ran into a pole and then I saw the Joker laughing at me and he gave me this hundred dollar note and then walked off and then I ran home!" Eileen related, becoming out of breath.
"He didn't hurt you?" Isabell asked worried.
"No."
"Touch you?"
"No."
"Say anything to you?"
"No he just threw this on the ground next to me and walked off," she said and held up the hundred dollar note.
"Well then you'd better go down to the police station and hand it in," Isabell stated.
"Fine, but you're coming with me."
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