John Doe.


It had been about two years since that night, since that one halloween where everything had changed and everyone had watched in awe and horror at the sight of Batman, Bruce Wayne blowing up and drying apparently in the blast.

Then this newbie showed up, the Red Hood… he looked like the Arkham Knight and then that's when everyone realised something.

"We never knew who he was did we?" Edward spoke as he sat across one of the sofa seats, legs hanging over the edge with his fingers steepled.

"Who who was?" Harley spoke up in confusion.

"The Arkham Knight."

The room fell silent and all eyes turned to him and stared for a long time before they shared looks with each other.

"Ya got a point," Gar muttered as he leaned back on his place on the sofa. "We never asked."

"We just payed up and left him to it," Edward continued and Two Face grunted.

"Yeah and dear god how did we regret that decision, didn't we Crane?"

Everyone turned to the man in question who sat reading, but his hands had tightened around the book he was holding, his knuckles were white.

"Oh yeah," Edward grinned. "What was it you kept saying? Oh yeah, that was it 'the cloudburst is my work of art Dark Knight,'" the others began to giggle.

"Yeah, yeah…" Garfield laughed. " 'The Cloudburst is my instrument of fear, you can not defeat it!'"

Everyone began to laugh in hysterics and Jonathan merely sighed through his teeth, as he slowly closed his book and gave them all pointed looks.

"If you are all done," he managed to grit out calmly, "But need I remind you… that you all lost that night, and we all lost something."

Everyone fell silent as he re-opened the book and folded the page he was on before closing the book again, standing up.

"But there is one thing I was able to walk away with one thing above all of you," he let himself smirk. "I knew who the Knight was."

"What?!"

Jonathan smirked brightly. "Yes… so may I ask now, who is the fool? I made arrangements with him and I knew exactly who he was, all of you," he gestured around the room. "Payed your money without giving the identity a second thought. So, who is the real fool here?"

They stared with gritted at the straw man.

"Crane," Croc growled and the Jonathan looked at him with a dull and uninterested face. "You're treading on thin ice right now," the reptile man growled out. "With everyone. I suggest, you tread carefully because… lets be honest, no one would miss you if you were gone."

Jonathan stared before he laughed. "Oh please," he mumbled out. "I face you and I lived, do you really think I have anything left to fear? I faced death and lived. What else is there?"

"Who was he, Crane?" Two Face snarled.

"Why… we all knew who he was."

"Humour us," Edward hissed.

"He was a rare bird…. who matured into a soldier… who now hides behind a hood."

"What?"

Jonathan smirked. "Like I said," he turned on his heel and began to leave. "Who's the fool?"

THE END.


Note: Sorry if this one's not up to scratch guys, got hit with a really bad cold and it's all in my head, making it very hard to concentrate, but I did promise you a story for Monday and here it is :)

Also, since some of you have been taking an interest in my OCs, check out my new group of one shots called 'Gotham's Most Wanted' , it's based in Arkham Knight and it will be side missions of my OCs, the first one up is actually character I haven't used in this set of stories yet, in fact it was kinda my first time writing him properly. I'll also be showing interview tapes of my OCs for Arkham Asylum, City and Knight, maybe a few will even be for Origins.
Hope you guys enjoyed this episode and stay tuned for the next one! :D