"Let's go." Maroni said as he suddenly stood up from his chair. Most of the men in the room were aggravated about the 'clown's disruption,' and decided to leave. Ellie watched Maroni walk over to Coletti and take the briefcase that Coletti had come in with. Ellie also got up, following Maroni as he went out of the room and left the building.

Seeing that Maroni was heading for his parked limousine, Ellie followed, but was stopped when two large hands grabbed her arms. The arms began to drag her in the opposite direction of where she had been going. "Hey! Let me go!" She yelled and looked to see that the hands belonged to a rather large man that she only recognized as one of the guys Coletti had came in with. Struggling a bit more, Ellie noticed that Maroni had looked back at her, with an indifferent expression on his face before getting into his limousine. What the hell??

Ellie tried kicking at the man, but he seemed unfazed as he continued to pull her. They made it to the other side of the building where another limo was parked. The man used his free hand to open the back limo door and shoved her inside.

Ellie landed roughly on the floor of the limo. She tried to get up, but was quickly pushed back down, and felt her hands being tied behind her back. She was then grabbed by the arm and tossed into one of the seats. Mumbling curses under her breath, Ellie looked over to see Coletti seating next to her with a gun resting in his hand. The other man, that had grabbed Ellie, backed out of the limo and shut the door.

She sat there uncomfortably, simply glaring straight ahead at nothing in particular. She heard the limo start up and they began moving. Coletti, by her side, spoke with some amusement in his voice, "And you actually thought a man like Sal Maroni would hire someone like you?"

Ellie continued to glare straight ahead, deciding to ignore his taunts for now. When she didn't say anything, Coletti continued, "No one would actually hire you. Well…no one except for that freak…But then again, he didn't take you back there. Why'd he leave you? Is it that he doesn't like damaged goods either?"

From side glance, Ellie saw Coletti turn to look at her. Again, she ignored him. She desperately wanted to punch him one in the face, but since her hands were bound, it stopped her from doing so.

"Just face it kid, you're not cut out for this type of work." He lifted the gun up slightly, eyeing it for a moment. Ellie noticed that her gaze also moved over towards the gun. "You try and run with the big dogs, you're gonna get bit." Coletti lifted the gun to the side of her neck, watching eagerly for a reaction that she wouldn't give him. "But we can fix that, can't we?"

A minute later, when Coletti realized he wasn't going to get the reaction that he wanted from her, he lowered the gun and eyed her curiously. "What's the matta? Did that freak cut out your tongue or somethin'?" Finally, Ellie turned to Coletti and then spat right at his face. Her cheek received a blow from him a second later, the force causing Ellie to fall from the seat to the floor.

Looking up, she saw that the gun was now pointing at her, Coletti's face contorted in anger. "You're just asking for a bullet in your head, ain't ya?"

"Go to hell" Ellie growled, never taking her eyes away from the man in front of her. "Looks like I'll be seeing ya there." Coletti said with a smile, his finger now reaching for the trigger.

The next moment several things happened at once. The sound of the gunshot filled the air, but was drowned out by a huge Crash. The limo was pushed forcefully to the side as both Ellie and Coletti were also thrown in that direction. Ellie groaned as she looked around in a slight daze to see what had happened. Realizing that the limo was completely stopped, she looked over at Coletti who seemed to be knocked out from hitting his head on the side window.

Seeing it as an opportunity to escape, Ellie shuffled on her knees to the door. She managed to maneuver her backside against the door so that her hands, still being bound behind her back, could reach the handle and open it.

Once opened, Ellie literally fell out of the limo, landing hard on the road pavement. With another groan escaping her lips, she saw that a large van had t-boned the front end of the limo. Smoke was emerging out from under both vehicles' hoods, and pebbles of glass littered the road.

Careful not to kneel on any of the glass, Ellie tried standing, only to fall back down on her knees. She was about to attempt standing once more, but was then forcefully pulled to her feet by her hair. Wincing, she looked to see a very familiar face standing behind her, "hey there sweetcheeks. Miss me?" His voice was full of childish amusement as he pulled her hair back a little more, making Ellie's body crash into his. She hated the fact that her hands were behind her back, them being a little too close to a certain area.

He bent down, close to her ear as he whispered, his hot breath making her cringe, "You wanna know who missed you?" With his free hand, a knife appeared in his hand and waved it in front of her face "He did. That's who." Any hint of the Joker's childish tone had dissipated as the knife moved dangerously close to Ellie's neck. A shiver ran down her body.

Ellie let out a nervous chuckle, "You know, uh, I wasn't…deliberately trying to hide from you…I only-" Her words slowly faded away as the knife grew tighter on her neck. "Looks like I'm going to have to keep a very short leash on you from now on. Wouldn't you say so?" Ellie's mouth grew dry at his words that were being whispered venomously into her ear. She didn't have time to answer, not like she wanted to anyways, because another van came flying down the road and suddenly stopped in front of the Joker and Ellie. The man in the driver's seat, who was wearing a clown mask, rolled down the window and stuck his head out to look at the Joker, "Hey Boss, sorry I'm a little late I-" He was cut off as a loud Bang filled the air and blood splattered on the side of the van.

The Joker had let go of Ellie's hair for that moment, replacing her hair with a gun. After basically blowing the clown driver's head off, Joker placed the gun back inside his coat pocket and began walking, the knife still tightly on Ellie's throat. This forced her to walk with Joker as he went to the back of the van, opened the door, and then tossed her inside. Before slamming the back doors, Joker gave a scowling glance at Ellie, his tongue flicking out and licking his bottom lip ever so slightly.

Joker then moved to the front of the van, opening the driver's door, he let the clown man's body slide out and land on the pavement before climbing in and starting up the van.

The ride was silent. And with the Joker, this was a really rare occasion. That could mean only one thing; he was furious.

A little while later, the van was quickly stopped from the Joker slamming on the breaks. 'We must be at the hideout…just great.'

Joker moved to the back of the van, where he kneeled down next to Ellie, making her really uncomfortable with how close he was to her. A second later, Joker raised his fist and it then collided with her head, knocking her out.

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Waking up a little while later, Ellie felt groggy and groaned slightly. She tried to move her hand to feel her aching head, but realized that she couldn't move it. Looking down, she saw that she was sitting in a chair, both hands and feet strapped down. The room was dark, with one light that hung above the chair. Just then, a high pitched laughter filled the room as Ellie, to her horror, realized that she was in the room…the Toy Room.

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