Dialogue only fic between Harvey Dent and Two-Face, the two personalities struggling to maintain control during their therapy session. Based off canon from the comics and Batman animated series that I am aware of, if I got some details wrong, I apologise. Appreciate any feedback.
TWO FACES, TWO MINDS
"I know what you're thinking, Doctor Bell. Locked away in Arkham, the place where only the criminally insane get sectioned. Murderers and fantasists. How could one of Gotham's most ambitious and high-rising lawyers end up in here? True, Quinn and Crane were psychiatrists, 'helping' the mentally ill, but they ended up here. What I'm trying to say is… I'm not a bad man."
"Bullshit! Don't listen to him, he always rabbits on about us being 'good'. We were never good. Dashing good looks, charm offensive and sniper-quick thinking tactics he may have possessed, but our fate was sealed the day we stepped into that courtroom."
"I'll admit I had problems b-before… My father was abusive throughout my entire childhood and at school, I had a brief experience with a bully in the second grade, but I grew up to become a damn good DA. I beat Maroni, didn't I? Got him charged, put on trial and locked him up… Well, I would have done if the bastard hadn't thrown…
"Problems? You talking about 'me'? We're a package deal, Harv. That day in the courtroom was only the beginning. The beginning of our rise to power."
"It was the beginning of the end. I lost everything. Gilda. The DA role. My entire career. All those years at Law school wasted. Everything gone."
"Fuck all that! We changed Gotham for the better! Look at us now, we got money, reputation, girls. They live in fear of us, Harv. Remember that."
"I don't need to listen to you."
"What you gonna do? Crawl back to that bitch who left you as soon as our face got half melted off? No, she left cause you couldn't provide for her anymore. Shows how much she loved us…"
"Me! She loved me!"
"You're sounding insane, Harvey. What's the doctor gonna think?"
"I hate you! Get out of my head!"
"Nah. Can't do that. We're stuck together, like glue. No matter how many times you lock me away in your mind, I'll always come back. Face it, Harvey, they don't call us 'Two-Face' just cause half our face got burned off with acid."
"You've got to help me, Doctor. He's driving me crazy and I can't be locked up here in the Asylum… they take away my coin sometimes… and I need it. I need it to make decisions and to keep him quiet."
"No-one's keeping our coin, you idiot! If they try to keep it and don't give it back after the session, we'll gouge their eyes out…
"We'll be behind bars, how can we touch the guards? And how would we gouge their eyes out?"
"We have our ways."
"Doctor, please can we… I go? Can't take much more of this."
"You gonna weep and wail in our cell again, Harv? Penguin thinks we're pathetic, crying over some whore who don't give two shits about us and ran out when she no longer had the dashing White Knight to sleep with. We need to show Birdman that we're the best damn Crime Lord Gotham has ever seen."
"There could still be redemption, right, Doctor?"
"What a tragic tale. The rise and fall of Harvey Dent. The man who was Gotham's very own Jekyll and Hyde. People think that day, a monster was created. They were wrong. We were born a monster."
"Doc, my medication, could you up it please? It's not….. Don't listen to Harv, Doc! Half our brain got melted away with the acid, he rambles on, don't know what he goes on about! You listen to me. We don't want no more sessions, we don't want no more meds. You know what we want?"
"FOR GOTHAM TO PAY!"
"FOR BATMAN TO DIE!"
"FOR OUR COIN TO BE GIVEN BACK! FUCKING GIVE IT BACK NOW OR WE'LL GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT!"
"J-Just do as he s-says…"