We are born of innocence, it's life that makes us sin.
She was bored. An easy feat for the hyper active ADHD, PTSD and slight paranoid child who was now sitting on the sofa, legs crossed as she watched the others around her.
The problem with being a child, well she wasn't aloud to be with the others, like Eddie, instead she was kept with her peers as they were called.
Currently she was in the child's rec-room as she watched the others around her, but that was boring and she was bored.
Luna was too her right, reading as perusal, Gecko was next to her glaring at the tv as Target was trying to find the remote and turning up empty with every place he looked.
"Dude, how hard can it be to find a remote?!" Gecko growled as he glared Target who was now on the floor looking under the sofa.
"Well, since it's bothering you the most, why don't you find it then?" the one armed boy growled as he stood up and glared at Gecko.
"You're hopeless at finding stuff!" Gecko snapped as he stood up and glared down at the shorter boy. "I don't even get why I bothered to ask you find it in the first place!"
"Well that's your problem ain't it!"
Jester huffed a piece of hair out of her face, before she turned to see Luna glaring over the top of her book at the two arguing boys.
"How am I supposed to watch my favourite program now?!" Gecko growled.
"Simple, you just get up and change the channel," Luna deadpanned as she slammed her book closed.
The others fell silent before Gecko glared at her. "Don't even joke like that."
"I wasn't joking."
"Good 'cause it wasn't funny!"
"This is all your fault!" Target huffed as Luna walked over to the other side of the room to read. "If you hadn't of had that argument with J'J non of this would of happened."
Jester giggled lightly. "No, he'd probably have half an argument with Ying and the other half with Yang."
"Stay out of this Jester!" the huge reptile boy snapped before he glared back at Target.
"Gee, Gecko yell a little louder, I can still hear myself think," Luna deadpanned from the corner of the room as she flicked through her book.
"Watch it Fright!"
"Ugh, mum, dad stop fighting," Jester moaned as she leaned over the sofa, feet on the head rest and head on the floor. "Why can't ya just listen ta the radio like a snake and do a shimmy dance?"
"Cause I ain't a freaking snake Jester!"
"Bet Snake Eyes would do it," she muttered under her breath before she looked up at Gecko and grinned. "Give the hips the old shimmy shammy!" she laughed as she shimmeyed her own almost falling off the sofa.
"You need your head looking at, cher."
"My appointment's at 2:00 today. I'll let ya know how the head checking goes…" she tapped her chin before she snapped her fingers. "It'll either be head checking or the electro time, a good old flossing of the brain might do it some good."
"I think you need a new brain, let alone flossing it!"
She grinned and shrugged slightly. "Ya probably right," with that she flipped up onto her feet and stood in a ta-da pose before smirking. "And handy there could do with a hand, but he ain't getting one is he?"
Target glared. "That wasn't very nice."
"Yeah, I know, but I'm having a bad day."
"Oh because you know what a bad day is like," Luna muttered she turned another page in her book.
"You've seen my skin colour, Luna," Jester bit out as she glared at the grey skinned girl with utter hatred at that mere moment in time. "Besides, you of all people should know what a bad day looks like, since to you everyday is a bad day, right?"
Luna raised an eyebrow at her before she went back to her book. "You know if you didn't have that smile on your face, I might've been scared of that or angry."
"You have no sense of humour, Luna!" Jester moaned as she flipped and stood in front of her. "In fact, ya look as bored as sin."
"Yes. I am," Luna agreed as she glanced up at Jester with a dull look on her face. "I'm bored of your voice."
"That's not a very nice thing to say to your future sister in-law!"
"You and Lui are not getting married."
"Maybe not now," Jester waved her hand around idly before she grinned and booped Luna on the nose. "But we could do. Don't worry you can be head bridesmaid! I'll let Alice make the dresses," Jester grinned, her voice verging on syrupy as she spoke up again. "You'd look so pretty in a bow!"
Luna narrowed her eyes before she went back to reading, flipping another page.
"Aww…" Jester moaned as she threw her hands up in the air. "The silent treatment," she frowned before she grinned. "I love the silent treatment!"
"If you even think about doing what J'J does you will regret it."
Jester giggled. "Why, what ya gonna do?"
The grey skinned girl in front of the clown girl slammed her book closed and glared at her.
Jester paled slightly, if that was possible and held her hands up in surrender. "I'll take that book slamming as a no go zone and back away."
"That would be a good idea."
The hunt for the remote was still going on behind her and Jester decided that staying out of it would be a good idea and sat back on the sofa watching the two boys as they crawled along the floor looking for that crafty remote which had disappeared, giving the only logical explanation being that it obviously grew legs and walked off somewhere just to spite them. Considering Arkham's history… it wouldn't be surprising if that actually ever happened.
Though one thing did happen again. Jester was once again bored.
"Guys?"
"If you say you're bored," Gecko hissed as he was still on the floor looking for the remote. "Then I will personally throw you out of this room."
"I was gonna say I'm a pieces seesh!" Jester rolled her eyes. "Going on the assumptive side aren't we there Gecko?"
He merely growled and Jester gulped slightly before she shuffled a bit and leaned over the edge of her sofa to stare at them. "Why don't ya just ask the guards what happened ta the remote?"
"Cause they aren't gonna tell us!"
"Yeah," Target agreed before he went back to searching, muttering under his breath. "Bet they're the ones who hid it in the first place and are just laughing at us behind our backs… wouldn't put it past them.
Jester rolled her eyes and Luna was giving him another one of her famous deadbeat looks. "As… logical as that sounds.. I think the guards have better things to do in life then hide your tv remote."
"How do you know?!" Target suddenly climbed over the edge of the sofa and pointed a finger at Luna's face. "How do you know they haven't done it?"
"Because hiding the remote is something childishly stupid remotely unfunny that it is something you would do and I respect the guards enough to believe that they are smarter then you."
"I'm gonna go out on a whim here and say that Luna thinks you're stupid," Jester supplied with a smile.
Target glared at her. "Thank you for that, but believe it or not I did understand!"
"Yeah… I don't believe that but hey… whateves!"
"Why am I friends with you people?!" Target threw his hands up in the air.
Gecko suddenly sat up and smirked slightly, his pointed teeth. "Funny, we ask ourselves that question a lot but usually it's about you."
Jester giggled and Luna even slightly smiled.
"I hate you."
"We love you too little buddy!" Jester giggled as she ruffled Target's hair.
"Hey cut it out! Do you know how hard it is to get this all styled up to profection with only one hand?!"
"No cause you never reach profection."
Target frowned and looked down at his hand with a frown.
"But that's okay kid," Jester piped up making Target look up at her in confusion. "Look around ya, do either of us reach the standards of profection or even perfection for that matter? Nope we don't!" Jester smirked slightly. "We may have started off innocent kid, but life gets in the way and mixes it all up. Ya see I learnt something a very long time ago… there's nothing more painful then memory, so why stick with one memory when you can make up hundreds to justify each sin you do. It all makes sense when you see the world how I see it.. as one big joke and once the jokes been on you and life has taken it's final laugh at you, once life has played it's final prank you can move on and then words like perfection and profection, they mean nothing in a life that is now meaningless!"
"So what you're saying is.."
"What I'm saying is why make yourself perfect when it's more fun to un-perfect! Besides, what is perfection? What is perfect?"
"Well… it's ya know.." Target shrugged slightly. "It's perfect."
"Exactly," Jester snapped her finger and pointed at him. "Ya can't even define what perfection is because nobody knows what it is… we have a general idea, but each idea of perfection is different, so why try being something that nobody can actually define? Look at Calendar girl," Jester shrugged slightly. "She spent her whole life trying to live up to someone else's idea of perfection that she actually lost what was already perfect about her. You can never meet someone's expectations of perfection because they're made out of false realities and unrealistic ideals that no one can live up to and the things that people tell you to change about yourself to make yourself perfect, is usually the stuff they want to change about themselves."
Everyone was silent and staring at Jester in slight shock.
"That was…" Luna trailed off before continuing. "Surprisingly deep."
"How'd ya figure all that out cher?"
"Oh…" Jester waved them off. "I just had one very bad day. Now," she got up and walked over to het tv smiling at her friends as she began to change the channel on the tv. "Who wants to watch some tv?"
THE END.
Note: Some surprisingly good advice from Jester there. Anyway here is another request and to celebrate the fact that we have now reached our tenth chapter, the next one will be a special one from my own head. After that there will be the requests again and if we get to twenty then that will be another special! Anyway... Hope you enjoy this one and keep up those requests! :D