"Will you guys be gone long?" Baby asked from the doorway of her parents bedroom, watching her mother check her handguns before putting them in the ratty suitcase.

"Maybe a couple of days" Harley said looking over to Baby "Will you be okay for that long? Do you want to come with us?"

"I'm sure" Baby nodded quickly "I can handle myself for a couple of days."

Harley gave her a smirk before closing the suitcase. Baby shifted a little against the doorway looking up at the carnival painted big house that was the Joker and Harley's room. She liked the Funhouse, but it sometimes gave her a headache looking at the bold patterns.

"Where's daddy?" she said nonchalantly.

"Out taking care of some last minute details" Harley answered back.

"Oh okay" she said "I'm going to take Topsy and the boys out, do I need to do anything before you guys leave?"

"No honey I don't think there is anything" Harley said as she made the bed "Just make sure not to go outside the park while we are gone. I know you are pretty good at keeping low but just to stay on the safe side you shouldn't leave."

"Okie dokie" she said shrugging as she headed out. She knew what the rules were, not that it would stop her from sneaking out to go see Jason. It was going to be perfect, she would get three whole days to be with Jason if the Batman decided to cooperate. Three whole days...

She was practically skipping out of the Funhouse when she whistled out for Bud and Lou to follow her outside. Topsy was waiting patiently by the entrance while the other hyena's followed close behind. Upon seeing Topsy, Bud and Lou began yipping and laughing, their tongues hanging out wide as they chased after the young female. Baby usually took them to the far side of the park to run around in the tall grass and hunt the small wildlife that got through the park's fences.

"Go on get!" she yelled at them joyfully as she threw a stick out into the over grown grass.

Topsy went for the stick, eager to please her mistress while Bud and Lou went out for a hunt, their wild laughter heard as they trudged through the grass. Topsy delivered the stick to Baby but quickly abandoned her to go hunt with the boys.

Baby dug her hands in her skirt pockets, her casual attire nice and comfy as her cotton T-shirt blew slightly in the breeze. She kicked a few rocks, her mind thinking hard about the conversation her and Jason had the other night. Would she really be able to go with him when they were older? Would she get to see the world outside of Gotham?

It seemed almost impossible, the city and the park were all she knew. She had never seen a cornfield or a mountain, just those images that played across the TV that seemed so far and out of reach.

But with Jason, it just seemed possible...

But her parents, how would they react? Surely they didn't expect her to remain under them her entire life? She was going to grow up to be an adult, they couldn't ground her anytime they saw fit when she would be in her twenties...

Baby sighed deeply, watching as Topsy caught a woodchuck that unfortunately ran into the hyena's path. Bud and Lou chased after her kill, wanting a piece of it as the female tried to keep her prize all to herself.

Baby decided it was best to think of these things when the time came, after all, she had plenty of time to plan her future with Jason.

Jason sat in his bedroom, his body spread out on the giant king sized four post bed. If someone had told him he would be living in a mansion with a room bigger than his apartment with a butler and a private bathroom all to himself, he probably would have thought they needed to be admitted to Arkham. But such was the case now, Jason always felt so small when he was in this room, but Alfred said it was actually one of the smaller ones the Wayne Mansion contained.

He felt his phone buzz on the bedside table and quickly retrieved it. His finger swiped right and he read the text that sent a smile across his face.

Feel up for some playtime? ;)

B, she always had to make it into a game...

"Where to?" he texted back.

Meet at the warehouse district, building 13C. Wear the Robin costume.

"The warehouse" he thought to himself "That seems strange..."

I wanna finish what we started the other night ;)

Well...if that didn't just make it hard to say no. Jason knew it was weird, but his teenage boy mind was thinking of one thing and one thing only...

"See u there ;)" he texted back, his mind racing that they would actually move to the next step.

Damn, the warehouse district was on the other side of Gotham, how was he gunna swing it with Bruce?

"Guess I'll just have to sneak out again" he thought with a sly grin "Good thing he's out with the Cat tonight..."

He liked Selina, liked her a lot more than most of Bruce's love interests. She could joke with the young Robin, hell she had even protected him on a couple of occasions. But Selina was a thief, and thieves couldn't be trusted in Bruce's eyes, even if he did love her. So Selina had gone her way and Bruce had gone the other, but Jason knew the two still loved on another no matter how much they tried to hide it. That's why the met on nights like this, just to see one another. It left a nice open window for Jason to take in getting out of the house without Alfred or Bruce snooping around.

He quickly got up and planned to shower, when he realized something also strange about the text from B.

Wear the Robin costume...

Why would she want him to wear the Robin suit?

Maybe it was to throw off anyone in case they got caught, who knows what could happen with the Joker's spies all over the city.

Jason shrugged and went for the bathroom, his lips whistling a tune he couldn't remember where he had heard it from.

Harley heard a couple of doors slam as she laced up her boots, thinking it was Babydoll letting the boys back into the Funhouse when she heard the bedroom door creak open and those tell tale footsteps echo across the floor.

"Hey Mistah J" she cooed at him as she stood upright to look at her mate.

"Change of plans" Joker growled as he fiddled with a knife, his boots scraping along the floor as his dark eyes wouldn't meet Harley's.

"What do you mean?" she said confused "We aren't leaving?"

"Oh we are gunna leave" he said "Just not right away. We've got a pit stop to make before we head out."

"Pit stop?" Harley said with a wicked grin "You mean we are gunna have some fun before going on vacation?"

"You could say that" he said looking up at her darkly "But uh, just don't let our little princess know. It's kind of a...surprise for her."

"A surprise?" Harley said getting excited "I hope it's a good one J, you know how hard she's been working on pleasing you lately."

"Oh I know" he said chuckling a little "This is going to be the best thing for her. In fact you could call it a …..graduation gift."

"I can't wait!" Harley said "Is there anything I can help with?"

"Just keep it our little secret" he said winking at his girl before disappearing through the door.

Jason stood waiting above one of the warehouses, his boots firmly planted on the steel rooftop as he looked down at the building where him and B were supposed to meet. He hadn't seen a soul this entire time, and he had been waiting up here for a good hour just to be sure she wouldn't be followed. But then again, he hadn't seen her either.

"Maybe she's waiting inside already" he thought to himself "She could have come earlier just to be safe.."

He figured she would do something like that, his mind made up as he flew off the rooftop and landed beside the warehouse. He checked the windows but found most of them blocked off, but he could see a dim light inside, just enough for two people to meet by.

"Man she really did plan this out" he said quietly to himself as he went to the entrance.

He carefully opened the door and walked in, the darkness enveloping him as he saw the dim light illuminated in the air as cargo boxes made it a maze to walk through.

"B?" he said quietly but got no response "Baby?" he said a little louder, hoping she would say something with him using her real name.

He walked around the cargo boxes, his footsteps growing louder as he came closer to the light source in the warehouse. He imagined her sitting there,waiting for him, ready to surprise him in some way like she usually did. She loved to play, that was for sure.

Jason walked around another stack of large cargo boxes when he suddenly came into the open area where the light was coming from.

There sitting by the light, was a figure, it's back to Jason as it sat looking at the camping light that glowed against the darkness, but it wasn't the figure that scared Jason. No, it was the thing across the area that scared him.

It looked like a big glass cylinder, but through many months of training with Bruce, he could see it was definitely something for lethal intentions as he looked at the many wires and circuit boards attached to it. It almost looked to Jason like a jumbo size pipe bomb, one that could contain a singular person if they wanted to...

"B?" he got out as his eyes detached from the machine to the figure who was still sitting near the light.

"Wrrrroooonnggg" the voice sang out as the figure turned and face the Robin with a wicked smile across his face.

"What the hell!?" Jason yelled out, his baton whipping out as he looked straight into the face of the Joker himself.

"What's wrong?" he said darkly "Expecting someone else?"

Jason could hear his heart hammering against his chest as he stared up into the dark holes the Joker had for eyes.

He knew...He knew about him and B...

"Where's B?" Jason said through gritted teeth.

"Oh" Joker said with a gritty laugh "She's safe and sound back home, where she belongs."

"You don't own her" Jason said harshly.

"She's my flesh and blood kid" Joker said losing the smile "And I'll do with her as I please. And I don't approve of you with the way you've been courting her."

Suddenly Jason saw the flash of something big in the Joker's hand, but before he could move the clown rushed forward, quick for his age as he slammed a crow bar right into Jason's side, sending him down to the ground with a gasp.

"You think you could take her away?" Joker said his voice dark and angry as he hovered over the Robin "You think you could promise her that? She was supposed to kill you eventually, she was never going to be with you."

Another blow, this time to Jason's back. He heard bones crack in his chest, knowing he needed to get up before the Joker could get him once more.

"I will!" he yelled out "I'll make sure she will get as far away from you as she can!"

Jason tried to get up but the Joker's foot caught him right in the ribs, sending him down once more gasping for air. He hit him across the face with the crow bar, instantly rocking his brain inside his skull as the Joker bent down close to his face, his breath hot on Jason's burning cheek.

"She's not going anywhere" he growled "Especially where your going."

And like that with another blow, Jason was out for the count.

Baby looked down at her phone, confused on why it had sent the text messages to Jason when she had no memory of even sending them. She decided to wear something moveable, her skirt short as her halter top let her midriff poke out a bit while her boots were laced up high. She carried her handgun in the pocket of her vest she dawned on just before heading out to the warehouse district. She looked up at the warehouse, the lights dim around the area as she boldly stepped forward through the doorway, meeting the massive cargo boxes that piled around inside the building.

She could hear voices arguing as she listened closely, knowing the pitch and tone of both voices like the back of her hand.

"Joker this is not what I was expecting!" her mother's voice rang out "You can't do this it will hurt her!"

"It needs to be done" her father said chilly, the emotion gone from his voice completely.

"He's just a kid!" she said "And the Bat's kid at that! What good would it do to kill him?"

"He's in the way, he needs to get out of it" Joker said.

Baby could hear her heart speed up as she moved around the boxes fast, knowing something was terribly wrong. And boy, was she ever right.

As she maneuvered around the boxes she came to the open area and gasped at the sight before her.

Her mother, standing there looking angry at her father who was adjusting something on this giant glass cylinder that had to be some type of bomb, and her boyfriend bloody and beat up inside of it. Jason looked lifeless as his body was strapped inside the glass cylinder, his head hanging loosely as blood dripped down from his mouth.

"What the fuck is this!?" Baby screeched at the top of her lungs.

Harley whipped around, her blue eyes big as she held out her hands to try and stop Baby, but the petite girl was already on a rampage as she bolted past her mother and right at her father who didn't respond when she started swatting at his back.

"What the fuck are you doing daddy?! What the fuck is this!? Get him out of there right now!" she shrieked at her father as her tiny fists batted at him.

"No" he growled "This needs to happen."

"NO!" she screamed making him face her.

"Don't you dare defy me" he said pointing a finger at her "You brought this on yourself, he needs to go."

"What are you even talking about?" Baby yelled as the tears began streaming down her face "He hasn't done anything to you! He hasn't done anything to me!"

"Yes. He. Has." her father said each word with fury "He's made you weak kid, he's made you doubt. You are none of those things."

"He loves me!" she yelled at him as her hands gripped his jacket, her arms trying to shake her rock steady father.

"He's a distraction" her father said coldly.

"No!" she yelled as her father produced a button and pushed it, sending gears and circuts moving on the cylinder.

"B" she heard ragged above her as her eyes looked up to the swollen eyes of Jason trying to look down at her.

"Jason!" she cried out pushing her father away and climbing up the cylinder to face him.

"B we need to go!" Harley said holding herself as she watched the exchange between father and daughter "There's nothing we can do now! The time is set, this place is going to blow!"

"NO!" Baby cried out, her voice raspy as she banged her fists against the glass. The Joker watched with unfeeling eyes as Baby pounded against the glass, her cries echoing out in the warehouse. She reached into her vest and drew out her gun, the rounds popping off loudly as they hit the bulletproof glass, the case not even splintering a little for Baby to beat through.

"B" she heard Jason's voice croak out from behind the glass.

Babydoll looked up and saw her love's face, his perfect features bruised and broken, his usual beige skin now purple and black along his cheeks and eyes. Her father had done this to him...had beaten him beyond recognition. If Baby didn't know his voice, she wouldn't have known it was him at all underneath all the damage.

"Jason" she said holding up her hand to the glass, her eyes glossy from the tears that just continued to pour down her face in heavy drops.

"You need to get out" he croaked "You need to go..."

"NO!" she yelled "Not without you, remember!?"

"Go B" he said weakly "Batman will come..."

"No! I love you! I won't leave you!" she screamed as her fists pounded harder against the glass.

"Get out...get out of here" he said as Baby heard her mother cry out that they needed to go, the gears and circuts growing louder beneath Baby as the bomb was almost set to go off.

"I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving!" she cried out her eyes shutting tight.

Suddenly a hand grasped the back of Babydoll's hair and slammed her face into the glass, the contact disorientating her enough that she felt herself being lifted away from the glass cylinder coffin that was no doubt going to blow any minute.

"Nooooo" she groaned trying to struggle out of her father's grip, but the Joker was done with this scene as Harley followed closely behind him.

She could hear the Gotham Bay as they walked outside, their footsteps hard against the concrete. Baby could feel her mind swimming and tried her best to struggle out of her father's grip. Finally he dropped her to the ground, her back hitting the boardwalk hard.

"You bastard!" Baby screamed at him with a slur "I'll never forgive you!"

"You'll thank me one day" he said darkly but Baby shoved past him fast, her feet pounding against the wood to try and make it back to Jason in time.

She heard the swoosh of a cape and knew that Batman had come, his dark figure heading towards Baby as she headed straight for him.

"NO!" she said waving her hands "Don't go after them! Get Jason! Get Jason! He's inside! SAVE HIM!"

Batman stopped dead in his tracks and headed in the same direction as Baby, but she felt arms wrap around her tightly as her father breathed deep into her hair.

"Leave him Babydoll" he said "They're both dead in the water."

Baby screamed and struggled, yelling at the Batman to save Jason. Her screams were loud but were soon deafened by the explosion that rocked both of them back towards the dock where Harley screamed as her hand clapped over her mouth.

Baby quickly got up, her eyes meeting the enormous fire that was now escalating by the second.

She could feel the scream come up from way down in her stomach as she ran for the building, her body giving way to the panic as the warehouse continued to burn down.

Then, there walking from the fire, was the Batman, his shoulders hunched as he stood in front of the burning building, the great Dark Knight looking so defeated in that moment.

"No" Baby whispered as she stopped and looked at him.

Batman turned to her, those eyes staring into hers with such remorse and regret.

"No it can't be" she said shaking her head, her voice barely audible over the raging fire "He said...he said you'd save him."

"I'm sorry" came the guttural voice of the Batman, the hitch in his voice evident he was about to lose control.

"HE SAID YOU WOULD SAVE HIM!" Babydoll screamed as she ran for the Batman, her fists hitting his chests as her sobs echoed out in the air "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SAVE HIM! NOW HE'S GONE!"

The sounds of sirens began blaring out from the city as the Batman held her arms away from him.

"I'm sorry" he said again before letting her go and disappearing into the night.

Baby stood stock still, her body and mind in shock that she had just lost the only person that had ever loved her. She felt her body drop to her knees, her mind raw and empty as the only thing that could come from her now was the earth shattering scream that seemed to earthquake all the way down from her bones as she cried towards the sky.

She didn't feel her mother grab her or her father's arms pick her up like she was weightless and made them disappear like ghosts in the fire, all she felt was the dark empty hole that had now filled the spot where her heart used to be. The heart that was now burning down with the building behind them, and with the boy within it.

A/N- PHEW! That was a hard one to write, and it broke my heart with every word. Yes, I did kill off Jason because in the original story line he does die by a bomb from the Joker, I just changed the circumstances to fit the storyline of my version. But don't worry! This is how he begins evolving into the Red Hood. Now, the next part is set ten years after this point, making Babydoll around 25-26. It will have a lot more DC villains involved in the story but will mainly focus on these two characters. Thank you to everyone that left a review, you guys made me have hope again that I'm not totally a crap writer! Keep an eye out for the next part of this story, it's going to be a doozy! And once again please review and let me know what you think/ hope will happen next!