Joker grabbed onto the support bars located on the ceiling of the helicopter and spoke caringly to Ivy, "Oh come on Pammy…"
"Look, I think it's great of you to be so kind to your family, but me? No thank you."
"But I insist!" He flew over to where she was and sat himself beside her, "Can't leave you hanging without attention that would be just plain rude."
Ivy kept her view on Harley, "Please control this thing next to me Harley, I feel like I'm going to be sick if it gets any closer."
Joker laughed and scooted closer to her and immediately Ivy covered her mouth. Joker jumped back, "Okay okay…"
He stood up and looked out of the helicopter. He noticed that they were hovering above Ivy's house, "Ivy…this is your stop!"
"Where are you going to land at? I don't see a bare spot anywhere." Ivy also stood up from her seat and peered out at the land below.
"You jump!" Joker jumped to emphasize his statement.
"What do you mean jump?"
He grabbed a parachute from the wall, "You put this on, and jump of course!"
Ivy narrowed her eyes at him, "I'm not jumping…"
He rolled his eyes in boredom, "Fine, always ruin my fun." He then skipped over to where the pilot sat, "How low can you get?"
He swayed his head side to side in thought, "In this area? I guess pretty close to the ground, within fifty feet of it at least."
Joker patted his back, "Make it happen." He returned to Ivy and smiled graciously, "We can get fifty feet to the ground and then we can lower you in the safety basket."
"Sounds good." She replied with brief sense of hastiness in her voice.
The helicopter slowly lowered over her house, and she walked over to Harley and gave her a hug, "Keep safe okay kid?"
"I will, thanks for your help Red." Harley released from the hug and gave her a quick nod.
Joker helped Ivy into the safety basket and she was lowered to her house with success. She got out of the basket and waved up at the three of them.
"Bye bye Ivy!" Danielle yelled out as Joker held her tightly in fear she might fall.
"Come here baby girl." Joker picked her up and sat her back in her seat.
The helicopter took off after they saw that Ivy had made it safely into her house, "Now we go home daddy?"
"No not yet DD." Joker looked over at Harley who smiled adoringly at him, "How about a vacation girls?"
Harley cocked her head, "I think that sounds great. We can't go home anyways right? Too dangerous now that you just escaped from Arkham, you need to hang low."
Joker sat down next to Danielle and pushed her into his side. He motioned for Harley to come over and sit as well, "Correct Harl, so why not spend our time hiding in style?"
Harley pushed into his side, "Where are we going to go?"
"Well…" He cleared his throat, "where would you like to go?"
Harley had a flash of images plummet into her mind and a small look of glee spread across her delicate face, "I don't know."
Joker leaned his head against her temple, "You don't know? With that little look of excitement, I think you know right where you want to go."
Harley blushed, "Can we go back to the beach front? I loved it there and we only got to stay for a few days."
Joker nuzzled his cheek against Harleys, "Of course pumpkin. We can go back there."
Danielle dozed off while they were talking and Joker had noticed, "Hey Danielle?" when there was no response from her he looked back to Harley with a little shimmer in his eye.
She giggled, "What?"
"Nothing…" he eyed her in an amorous matter, "Do you know how scrumptious you look?"
"Why are you so touchy feely?" she kissed his forehead and allowed him to run his hand against her abdomen.
He pressed his face into her neck, "I missed you."
"I missed you too Mistah J."
Joker pulled out of the fondness and stood up, "I'll be right back." He walked over to the pilot who became aware of his bosses arrival after a few short moments.
"Where to now Boss?"
Joker placed his hand on the back of the pilot's seat, "Location number nine." He turned to leave but stopped, "Oh and make sure to call in for someone to decorate the house up for Christmas and all that. Also tell them to bring our belongings over there, we won't be returning home for a while due to the break out. Don't forget Bud and Lou either." He walked away to return to Harley.
He crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against the helicopter wall as he realized that Harley had dozed off as well, "That's a fine how do you do."
Joker sat down in one of the seats that were across from them. His eyes were fixated as he watched them absorbedly, he knew they were his life.
A quiet humming noise made its way into Jokers hearing path, and he perked up his body in response to it. He went over to the opening in the helicopter and peered out, "Shit!"
Joker ran up to the pilot, "We've got company my friend!"
The pilot shot a look back towards where Joker stood, "What?"
"By the looks of it…Pengy." He added a deep and non hesitant hatred to the bird's name.
The pilot nodded his head and began to flick switches on and off, "How did they find us?"
Joker didn't wait around to chit chat with his pilot, he instead ran back to Harley and Danielle, "Wake up! Harley! Wake up!"
Her eyes were already glazed over, "What?"
"Give me your ring." Joker threw his hand out to hers and waited impatiently for her to give it to him.
Harley slipped the ring from her finger and pressed it into his palm, "What's going on?" she reached over to Danielle and picked her up, pressing her gently into her chest.
"Penguin somehow found our location." He searched with extreme pace through the lockers on the chopper.
She looked out and noticed a black and white helicopter approaching them, "I thought he was in jail."
"Obviously not." He found two parachutes and handed one to Harley, "Put this on." He started to apply one of the parachutes to himself.
"Are we going to jump?" Harley looked at him with great concern.
Joker shook his head, "No, but things could turn sour and I'd like to know that just in case one of us gets tossed out accidently, we have a reassuring bag on our backs to save us."
She sighed and slipped the parachute onto her, "Is life ever slow with you?"
"I told you that life will always be fun with me!" he smiled triumphantly as Penguins chopper came up to the side of them.
Penguin could be heard over a loud speaker, "Give me the diamond!"
Joker chuckled and grabbed the microphone for his speaker, "Not even a hello?" He laughed hard into the microphone, "You want it that bad huh? Well, I guess you can have it."
Harley looked over at Joker skeptically but did not permit herself to speak. Danielle had now awakened and watched the show excitedly.
Joker pulled a gun like object out from underneath the pilot's seat. He brought himself back into the view of Penguin and shot a line over to his enemy's chopper, it hooked cleanly onto the landing gear.
"What the hell are you doing?" Penguin yelled out to Joker, but he only laughed in answer to his fervor.
Joker now withdrew a small bag from one of the lockers. He tossed the ring into the bag and then grabbed a pair of hand cuffs from a large kit he had found earlier. Always prepared…
He hooked a cuff to one of the handles on the bag and then knelt down and wrapped the chain around the wire he had shot across to Penguins helicopter. He secured the other part of the cuff to the other handle on the bag and took his hands away from it watching the sack dangle carelessly on the wire alone.
Joker smiled and looked back at his pilot who had been waiting tolerantly for Jokers next command. Joker nodded instructively and the pilot instantly began to rise higher in the air so that they were slightly more elevated compared to Penguin.
The wire now created a downward slope to where Penguin stood and the sack slid smoothly over to his presence.
"There you are Pengy! Diamond's all yours, now leave me the hell alone would you? Someone might think you have a crush on me. I mean you always follow me around, and you won't leave me alone...you're like my very own stalker!" He chuckled and cut the line loose after Penguin took the diamond out of the bag.
He examined it and then placed it into a secure case, which upon he locked up with vast care, "Great doing business with you Joker!" as promised he ordered his own pilot to steer away from the clown.
Harley's mouth was agape, "You just gave him the diamond?" she looked at him as if he had just given away a billion dollars to a billionaire. "I thought you said you would never give up your belongings?"
Joker didn't pay her any attention and went straight to Danielle, "Well good morning! Did daddy wake you up baby princess?"
Danielle smiled out a yawn.
"Hello?" Harley tapped her foot on the floor.
Joker finally smiled at her and reached out for her hand. Once he had her hand in his own, he slid the ring back onto her finger, "No of course I wouldn't give him what belonged to me." He kissed her palm, "Stupid old bird probably won't figure out that the diamond I gave him is worthless for quite some time I suppose."
Harley pressed her hand against her forehead and let out a small grin, "You're somethin' else."
"That's what I hear…" he let his eyes travel around.
"Hey daddy?" Danielle spoke up quietly as she rubbed her eyes.
Joker looked at her with his full awareness, "Yes?"
"That man in the helicopter…he was the one who came into my room."
He smiled and combed her hair with his gloved fingers. So Penguin did act alone, he was right on the nose with his accusation. He let out a high pitched laugh and held his daughter soothingly, "His name is Penguin, but I want you to call him Oswald."
"Why do you want me to call him that?" her voice resembled Harleys although extremely underdeveloped, just the same Joker could notice the familiarity.
"I want you to call him that because it's such a funny name." he tapped her nose with compassion.
Danielle yawned again as Joker picked her up laughing low and soothingly this time. He rubbed her back through the small purple jacket she was so fond of, "Aw, are you tired my sweet mini jester?" Joker kissed her cheek and then stroked it with the back of his hand.
She squirmed to get comfortable in his arms and then gave a quick indication of 'yes' with a nod. Danielle burrowed into Jokers neck and talked quietly as she dozed off again, "I love you daddy."
He smiled warmly, "Daddy loves you too sweetheart." Joker rested his head against hers and hummed softly to the theme of Hush Little Baby.
Harley came up behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist and grinned as she remembered the day they had found out that she was pregnant with Danielle. The way Joker had knelt down and sang to her tummy, the way he cried in joy, it was everything Harley could have wanted. She didn't want anyone else besides him, couldn't want anyone besides him because he was the greatest father to Danielle and lover to her that she could have ever hoped for. She had no doubt about that.
"Hey daddy?" Danielle asked peacefully.
He ran his fingers through her ponytail and responded in his usual tone, "Yes?"
"That man, Oswald? I don't like him, he scares me."
"Oh Dannie girl, that silly old bird? You have nothing to be afraid of when it comes to him. As long as daddy is around, then you're as safe as can be. Trust daddy right?"
She pushed her head against his chest, "Trust daddy."
"Atta girl." He felt Harley reach up and kiss the back of his neck and he in chorus turned his head to the side and gave her a charming look.
Harley patted his tummy and whispered to him, "Cute."
"Didn't we have this discussion before Harl, the word is adorable not cute." He let out a chuckle and then turned around to face Harley, "You're the cute one anyways."
Harley opened her mouth and stuck her finger in it as if she was going to puke from the high level of sappiness.
"Well you are…" Joker turned back around.
She smiled and leaned in on his back, "What are you going to do when Penguin finds out that the diamond isn't the right one?"
"Don't worry about that pumpkin pie."
"What if he shows up at the house again?" Harley pointed this out and Danielle seemed to get upset.
"I don't want him to come back…" Her eyes filled with tears.
Joker wiped them away, "What did I tell you sweet stuff, trust daddy."
"Alright." She pushed her head back into its haven.
Harley turned Joker around and looked up at him, "How are you going to deal with him?"
Joker looked out of the helicopter and noticed that they were about to land at the beach front home. He laughed and the vibration shot through his body like an echo, convulsing to one end of his being to the other. He sang into Danielle's hair, in the Hush Little Baby beat, while he looked sinisterly at Harley.
"And if that stupid bird comes near…daddy will indisputably fill him with fear"