Joker stared at Harley angrily as he held his hands in fists.

"Are you just going to stand there." Harley snapped. "Do something, scream, yell, hit me, do something!"

"Do you want me to hit you!" Joker screamed as he charged at Harley.

"Yes! Do something!" Harley screamed angrily and Joker brought up his hand to hit her.

Normally Harley would have gotten the shit beaten out of her for talking to Joker in such a way. But with his hand held up he remembered when he had hut her causing her to run away.

Quickly Joker dropped his hand.

"I haven't gone soft, Harley, things are different than before. I almost lost you. I went absolutely insane when you were gone. And then when you came back, you didn't even recognize me. So it was like you were still missing. The last time I hit you, you ran away and almost died." Joker started.

"Jack, you gave up. Why didn't you put up a fight with Griggs?" Harley asked the harshness gone from her voice.

"I would have, you know me I would have fought until my last breath, but it wasn't just my life at stake. If I failed I would die, but more importantly, Griggs would have had you killed right in front of me. You are my queen and a king would do anything for his queen." Joker insisted.

Harley sighed tears in her eyes.

"Jack," She sighed. It was the most that she had ever used his real name.

"Please stop calling me that," Joker insisted as he sat on the edge of the bed. "I'm still the same man I was before, I've just realized how much I need you in my life and how I'm not going to take you for granted anymore."

Harley didn't say anything she just looked over at the window.

"And don't you worry about Batman, I am working on a plan to get away from him once this is all over. We won't be heading back to Arkham anytime soon. Not unless you want to go back to being Harleen Quinnzel." Joker laughed.

"No!" Harley screamed as she turned to look back at Joker but the minute she looked at him he leaned forward and kissed her.

As he pulled back he found Harley with tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry puddin'" She said as she pulled him in for a hug. "I shoulda believed in ya. You just had me worried."

"It's fine darlin' just don't question daddy again. I always am right." Joker said as he laughed pulling her gently into a kiss again.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and the Joker turned around hesitantly.

"I have the doctor here." Bruce said, and Joker took in his appearance. He had lost his Batman suit, instead he now was wearing a tee-shirt and sweat pants. Joker had never seen Bruce dressed so informally. "But you have to go." He said pointing to Joker.

"No, I'm not going anyone." Joker insisted.

"Please, I can't let people know you are here." Bruce begged.

"No one will know if you just kill the doctor after you are done with him." Joker insisted which earned him an evil glare.

"I could just forcibly remove you."

"No," Joker sighed as he kissed Harley. "I'll go."

Harley looked at him and smiled as he grabbed him by his coat collar pulling him into her for a long passionate kiss. "I'll see you soon." She smiled.

Joker quickly followed Bruce out into the hall before they darted into the room with the secret passageway, as Alfred and the Doctor walked towards the room.

"Why are we heading back to your bat cave?" Joker asked as he looked over his soldier to see Alfred shut the door as he walked by.

"We need to get ready for tonight. Plus we need to get you a disguise. I've told the doctor that Harley is my cousin Jane. People can't know that you are here, and furthermore they can't know that I helped you. So we need a disguise."

Joker growled as he rolled his eyes.

They made their way back to the bat cave the Joker thought about leaving Harley alone upstairs. For all he knew it wasn't really a doctor and he was just one of Griggs goons who Batman was conspiring with and Batman was actually going to take Joker to the middle of town and kill him.

"This wouldn't happen to be a trap would it," Joker asked looking around the tunnel for something he could use as a weapon.

"You just don't trust anyone do you." Bruce asked seriously as they continued their ways through the tunnel.

"Very few, that's why I've stuck around so long. A kingdom isn't run by trusting everyone you meet Brucey, maybe if you learned that you wouldn't also be 40 steps behind." Joker snickered.

"Kingdom," Bruce chuckled under his breath angrily. Everyone also referred to the Joker as the King of Gotham, which never made since to Bruce. "What about Falcone, doesn't he run Gotham?" Bruce asked seriously as they entered the cave.

Joker growled just thinking about the weasel. "Speaking of that piece of shit, after we are done with Griggs you want to go after him next. In fact you wanna just come work for me, I've got some people I could use help gettin' ride of." Joker laughed.

Bruce quickly turned around glaring at the Joker. "This is a one time deal, understood, and after this, you are going to Arkham, understood."

"Alright, don't get so touchy." Joker smiled. "Now what were you thinking in terms of disguise?" Joker asked afraid of the answer.

Bruce made his way over to a table where the Joker could see a black fabric was laying on.

"This is one of the old prototypes for my suit, it should work for you." Bruce started as he held out the suit in front of Joker.

It was a black suit that looked almost identical to Batman's, however it had blue accents all over it and a blue bird shaped thing on the chest. It also included a small mask.

"We are also going to need to give you a name so that way people don't get suspicious. I'm thinking something along the lines of Nightwing."

"Oh fuck no!" Joker screamed.