Long time no see.


His friend sat opposite staring at him, his eyes never leaving him at all, the bright turquoise shining with curiosity causing the one he was staring at to sigh.

"What is it, Conner?" Whisper growled slightly.

"I'm just trying to imagine you in that skin tight Nightwing outfit with red instead of blue?"

Whisper sighed and leaned back in the seat at the table the two were sitting at, giving his friend a look.

"It's not skin tight," Whisper mumbled before sighing again. "How have you been anyway?"

Target grinned. "I've been good thanks dude," he shrugged slightly. "I just weird you being back here and all, plus I don't even know why you're here. I thought you were being a hero now?"

"I still am, this is simply to cover my tracks."

"Oh so.. it's not staying like this then?"

"Sorry, Conner, guess you're going to have to survive without me."

Target shrugged. "It's fine dude, I think you'll find I can survive perfectly well without ya, it's just… there's this new guy."

"What about him?"

"He's called Arsenic. Well, Doctor Alec Woods. He creeps the hell out of me dude."

"Why?"

"He's a poisoner. Damn creepy… oh god."

"What is it?"

"It's him," Target nodded behind Whisper, who turned and followed his gaze to find a grey skinned boy with a red eye shining as his charcoal black hair covered his other eye.

"That's the guy," he whispered to Whisper. "That's him."

"Arsenic?"

"Yeah, Arsenic," Target shivered. "See what I mean he's creepy as hell."

Suddenly a white rabbit hopped up onto the table and Target jumped back yelping, but Whisper simply stared at it, seemed to be chewing part of a newspaper.

"Get away!" Target hissed as he shooed at the rabbit, only for it to then growl at him.

"It's just a rabbit," Whisper dead panned.

"No it's not!" Target hissed. "That's Alice's damn rabbit, Flopsy."

Whisper's eyes widened slightly and he backed away from the rabbit slightly, because everyone knew the reputation Alice's rabbit had, everyone was scared of it.

"How did you even get in here, Flopsy?" Target hissed at the rabbit which looked at him, the scar running down it's eye as it seemed to glare right into his soul and growled at him.

Whisper raised an eyebrow as he kept his distance from the psycho bunny.

Target shivered. "Damn, even the rabbits in Gotham are hard."

"Apparently so."

"Flopsy! There you are!"

The two boys turned at the sound of Alice as she came running over to Flopsy and picking the fluffy white rabbit up and cuddling him tightly. "Oh my Flopsy whopsy, I've been looking everywhere for you!"

Flopsy grumbled slightly as Alice smothered him in love.

"Alice…?" Target raised an eyebrow at her. "The rabbit? How'd you sneak it in?"

Alice grinned. "My Flopsy Whopsy came and found me," she looked back at Flopsy and rubbed her nose with his. "Didn't you my little white rabbit? Guess who's made you a brand new outfit, that's right, you have a new suit, yes you do, yes you do! Complete with pocket watch!"

Flopsy snorted and Alice giggled before she turned on her heel, continuing to talk to the rabbit as she walked away.

Target shuddered. "Seriously what's wrong with this city that even the rabbits growl?"

Whisper raised an eyebrow. "We know a giant alligator man, a plant lady, any number of psycho clowns and assassins that come back from the dead," he said ticking them all off his hand.

"Point taken."

Whisper glanced over behind Target's shoulder eyeing the new comer who was walking over to them, when the figure sat himself down at the table, Target almost blanched in fear.

"Hello," Alec greeted, the smallest of smirks forming on his face. "It's rather disappointing to see how far gone this establishment has become, wouldn't you agree?"

Now that he was closer, Whisper could see that if he didn't have the light grey, dead looking skin, or the glowing red eye with a psychotic gleam to it, the boy in front of him probably would've been considered handsome, probably had been at one point in his life, before he ended up here.

"I guess…" Target mumbled, seeming to shuffle away from the other.

"What's the food like here?" Alec questioned as he seemed oblivious to the others reactions around him.

"Bad," Whisper spoke before narrowing his eyes. "So you're a poisoner?"

Alec frowned slightly. "Poisoner is such an… ugly word. I prefer scientist or Doctor, of which I am you know."

"Yes, Conner told me."

"Don't take this the wrong way," Target mumbled as he narrowed his eyes at the other. "But do you mind eating away from us at lunch time."

Alec's frown only increased. "I'm not going to poison you," he growled out. "I wouldn't to resort to such cliche methods of poisoning, there's so many more interesting and fun ways to poison someone, people always think its in the food, it's not. Not for me at least," a smile slowly creeped onto his face. "My family found that out the hard way, you wouldn't believe how many things people invest and not think or realise it," he turned to Conner. "But I wouldn't need your food or drink to poison you, I can do it any number of ways," he leaned back, a smile still on his face. "The human body really is quite weak and fragile when you think about it. I mean, you can kill someone with a tiny piece of metal."

"Fire from a gun that causes it to travel 50 metres per second," Target deadpanned. "At least my kills are quick. Professional."

"Hmm," Alec tapped his chin, before he steepled his fingers together. "I can kill quick, but I can also kill slow, painfully slow… it all really depends on how I'm feeling at the time," he looked back at Target, glaring slightly. "And I am always professional."

At this Whisper butted in. "What would you know of professionalism?" he growled, before standing up. "All you are is a yellow bellied coward who hides behind his bottles and jars! There's nothing professional about you?"

At this, the one in question chuckled. "And how do you dispose of people? By slitting their throats?" he shook his head. "No. Too messy."

"You have no sense of honour."

"And what would you know of honour?" Alec challenged as he equally stood up to glare at Whisper. Alec was slim, more athletically built, Whisper was broad, muscles bound and clearly a fighter, Alec wouldn't stand a chance, in fact Whisper could probably snap him in half if he wanted to and Target knew Alec was no fool, the boy managed to get his doctarate and phd at the age of 17, he was a genius in every sense of the word, so why was he picking a fight with someone bigger then him?

"What, would a disgraced manager of the league of assassins know about honour?" Whisper looked slightly taken aback that Alec knew who he was and Alec took notice of this, only grinning wider. "You wouldn't know honour if it came up and slapped you in the face."

Target watched as Whisper seemed to be trying to control himself. Honour was very important to Whisper, always had been. So Alec was treading a very thin line and it seemed that he'd crossed it as he suddenly was lifted off the ground by Whisper.

"You have some nerve…!"

Alec only smirked. "I can poison you any number of ways," he purred. "I'm practically immune to all poisons and we are in a hospital, do you know how many poisons I can make… like poison absorbed by the skin?"

As if on cue, Whisper felt a burning sensation in his hands and he quickly let go of Alec who stumbled a little before straightening himself off, even brushing a hand down his front to straight his jump suit out.

"Like I said, I can poison you any number of ways, and what's better then soaking my jumpsuit in a poison that's absorbed by the skin, for just such an occasion when someone wants to lift me off the ground?" he picked at his nails slightly. "You're lucky you were only holding on for a few seconds, you may get a little bit ill, but you won't die, any longer then that and you most certainly would be dead."

Target glared. "Get out of here Woods!"

"Doctor Woods to you," Alec snarled.

"I don't give a damn, get!"

At this the poisoner smirked. "Just you wait little sharp shooter, I'll get you."

"Yeah? Just try it, I'll be keeping my eye on you."

"Oh… it won't be today, if won't even be tomorrow," Alec smirked as he walked up to Target, standing at a height of 6ft 1 he was taller then Target by miles, glaring down at him Alec merely whispered to him. "I'm a patient man, I can wait. As I said there are so many ways to poison someone, like my dear mother for example, I poisoned her gradually by putting the poison in her perfume bottle," he smiled, as if fond of the memory. "And besides," he whispered again before leaning down to Target's height. "Who says I haven't poisoned you already?" he deadpanned in a bored tone, making the others eyes widen as suddenly Alec's face brightened almost instantly. "I'll let you mull that one over," he turned on his heel and walked away from them as Target stared wide eyed and Whisper merely glared.

"You don't think…?"

"No. He's only trying to scare you."

"So… you missed Arkham?"

Whisper looked down at his hands then back at Target. "No."

"Yeah, me neither dude."

The room fell silent and all was quiet, as Target went to sit down before screaming at the top of his lungs followed by Whisper actually yelling in surprise, then the sound of running footsteps could be heard along with the mantra, 'Get it off me, get it off me!' and 'Target calm, Conner for godssake calm down and stop moving-!' and the guards outside gave each other funny looks before opening the door and watching with wide eyes Target go sprinting down the corridor screaming at the top of his lugs with something white and fluffy clinging to his heads.

The guards looked startled at the scene, as did a Jester and Enigma who were walking to the rec room as they watched Target dash past them.

Then much to their surprise Alice went running past the two girls shouting after Target. "Flopsy come here! Leave Target alone!"

Enigma and Jester stared with confused expressions on their faces before Jester and Enigma looked at each other, shrugged and continued to the rec room.

THE END.


Note: What did you all think of Arsenic? He was so much fun to write, a new character of mine, I hope you guys like him. :D

Next episode I will be introducing a whole bunch of new characters of my own creation, the children of Rasco, of which I'm sure you will enjoy XD

Also, I have a Tumblr account, just look up Bat-teen28 tumblr and you'll see all my designs for my OCs that are in these stories as well as ones I haven't even introduced you to yet. :)

See you in the next episode! :D