For those of you who care to read these, I want to apologize for the very long wait. My grandmother had been struggling with heart failure for quite sometime when she finally passed away a few weeks ago. We were very close I was the only one taking care of her, I lived with this woman for almost five years. She was struggling with bad dementia as well during this time and to see this woman progress each year was horrible. It was so hard to see the woman that just a year ago always wanting to go out and do something now never want to leave the house. Listening to her say that she was just ready to go. The little moments I would get with the woman I knew and loved were very precious to me, she was a horrible flirt and when she would tease her doctors or male nurses I would laugh so hard but also cry. That was the woman I wanted to remember. Not this shell of a woman who was more often times mean than she was loving. But as she got nearer to the end she was more affectionate than I had seen in years and this gave me hope. It was a shock to me that this woman died. Waking up to that message was one of the worst things. She was getting better! She was getting stronger!
Well I just wasn't too motivated to write anything and I hope that this chapter is okay. I know it isn't very long but I struggled with this one. I really just wanted to get you guys something to read and to let you know I hadn't abandoned this story. I'm already working on the next chapter.
So read on and let me know your thoughts please...
Bella giggled as she skipped out of Mr J's club, the sound of screams in her ears. She got bored waiting for Mr J to be done so she decided to go out and explore the city some more, Harley getting permission from The Joker for her and going to join in on the torture herself, no one made her Baby cry and got away with it. The Joker gave permission only if she took Frost with her and did not leave him anywhere. Bella didn't see anything wrong with that so she happily agreed. She went upstairs to quickly change into something more presentable and skipped back down to find Frost.
As she skipped out of the building she looked behind at frost and asked, "Where should we go first Frosty?"
Frost sighed but otherwise ignored the nickname. "Well we should go and get the rest of your things from wherever you're staying since you won't be going back. Then we can go wherever your heart desires."
Bella gave a dreamy grin at the man. "Yeah, I guess I don't need the hotel room anymore."
Frost shook his head and gave a small hidden smile. The girl was so unlike any other he had met and she seemed to be good for his boss, she was a little weird and different but compared to the people that he was usually around she was a nice breath of fresh air. A limo pulled around to the front of the club and Frost opened the rear door. "Miss, you'll be riding in this today. Boss's orders."
Bella just grinned and skipped over to the door. "Mr J sure knows how to treat me right! I've never been in a limo before!" She slid in then leaned back out. "Are you gonna sit back here with me, Frosty?"
Frost sighed. "Yes, I'll be in the back with you."
Bella gave a dreamy smiled and said, "All right get in so I can pick up the rest of my stuff."
The ride to Bella's motel wasn't very long and it was spent with Bella staring out the window humming. Her visions were being rather quiet today and she didn't know if she liked it or not. She liked being able to see what was going to happen. She liked being in her own world, oftentimes it was way better than what was in front of her. "I want to see." She muttered quietly. Frost looked over at the girl in confusion but didn't say anything, it wasn't his place to say or judge. She wasn't talking to him anyway.
Bella closed her eyes tight and tried to see something, thinking that she just needed a little jump start. Images of her walking into her motel, the woman behind the counter staring at Frost and walking into a door in her haste to help him popped into her head. It sent her spiraling into giggles and improved her mood drastically.
Pulling up outside of the motel Frost made her wait to get out until he checked to see if it was safe. Deeming it safe for the girl he escorted her inside the building, having a subtle sneer for his surroundings. Good thing the Boss was too busy to get her stuff, he'd probably blow the place up just because his girl was staying there.
Walking inside wasn't really any better, it was dingy and kind of dirty, not anywhere he'd want any female he knew staying. "Is this where you've really been staying?"
Bella nodded absently. "Yeah, not that I've been here too long." Bella smiled at the exact moment the lady behind the counter noticed them, or rather Frost. She pulled her shirt lower and flipped her hair and started walking out of the enclosure behind the counter... right into a door! Bella couldn't keep her giggles to herself, especially when she looked at the man beside her and seen his sneer across his face for the world to see. "Oh wow even better in person!" and another wave of giggles came out of her.
The woman on the other hand flushed bright red in embarrassment and anger. "Well at least I didn't trip on my own feet, right Miss Swan?" trying to make Bella embarrassed.
"Well I have also never run into a door so I'm not sure which one would hurt more." Bella just smiled. "Anyway I'm here to get my things and check out."
"Whatever, you also have a message on your phone in the room so be sure to check that before you leave, I don't want to have to go up there and clear it myself." Bella just skipped her way down to her room, eager to get packed and back to her day out.
When they got to her room Bella went over to check her messages and Frost sighed and took the initiative to start packing for the girl. Bella walked over to the phone and hit the button to hear the message. Bella, you never called me today so if you could just call me back so I know you're okay. Love you dad. She sighed as she sat on the bed, she forgot about her dad! When was the last time she called him? He was going to be so worried. Another message came on, Bella, you still haven't called me and I'm starting to get really worried. If I don't hear back from you by tomorrow I'm driving down there and finding you myself! Bella quickly picked up the phone and dialed her dad's number. It rang twice before it was picked up. "Bells!"
Bella sighed. "Hey dad. I'm sorry I didn't call you, I kinda got caught up in something."
Bella heard him sigh in relief, "Are you okay?"
She nodded even though he couldn't see her. "Yeah, I've been getting along just fine. This is the place I need to be."
"I'm glad that you seem happier." Charlie proceeded to tell her what was happening in his life right now, including a new lady friend of his, which Bella was very excited to hear about.
All was going well until Frost opened the last drawer of Bella's. "I can't pack your undergarments for you." Frost said to her with an embarrassed look on his face.
Bella laughed. "I never told you to pack any of my things let alone my panties!"
Charlie cleared his throat. "Um, is that a man in there with you? Do you have someone for me to talk too?"
Bella covered the speaker and giggled, "Frosty, my dad thinks we're together! Frosty and Bella sitting in a tree!"
Frost covered her mouth before she could continue. "You keep on saying stuff like that, it'll get back to the boss and he'll kill me."
"Bella! What kind of people are you with! Kill, boss? Are you involved with the mob there? Are you in trouble?" Charlie sounded more and more panicked.
Bella sighed. "No I'm not involved with the mob, I'm not in trouble either. Frosty was just kidding about his boss. I've met someone and I think he could really be good for me, but it's not something I want to talk about right now, dad. It's new and I'm not sure how to talk about it, but I'm fine." For once Bella's voice sounded completely serious, knowing that she needed to reassure her father before he ended up down in Gotham, probably getting himself killed. What a depressing thought for her.
They chatted for a bit longer before Bella promised to call him in a week or so and letting him know that she wouldn't be staying in the motel any longer.
Getting all of Bella's stuff in the car wasn't hard to do, pulling Bella out of her own head on the other hand was very difficult. "Let's go somewhere busy." Bella said very softly in answer to Frost repeatedly asking her what she wanted to do. "I want to walk."
Frost stared at his boss' girl, she had a little smile on her face, that was kind of creepy, as she sat and pet the door of the car. Every once in awhile she would giggle and when he leaned forward to get her attention she looked at him with her big eyes, glazed over and kind of milky and just stared at him. He sat back and tried to avoid her gaze. "I'm quite sorry."
Frost frowned. "For what?" but no answer was given to him.
Getting out of the car Bella decided she just wanted to walk around. "I just want to get a feel for the city." Bella glided down the sidewalk staring almost unseeingly at all the sites and people around her. Images flying through her mind at an almost incomprehensible speed. Something was going on with her visions, they were changing and she wasn't sure if she liked it. She just wanted to walk around and try to get them back under some balance of control. The more she tried to slow the visions the more she got more confused and panicked. Her breathing started to speed and she started to tug on her hair in frustration.
"Miss Bella?" Frost was getting more and more concerned with his charge. She looked like she was on the break of a panic attack, and the fact that she just kept walking and walking with no sense of where she was going.
"It won't stop!" She whispered as she crouched down on the ground. Bella started rocking back and forth. "Stop please!"
Frost didn't know what to do, he didn't know how to help her, he didn't even know what was going on. "Come here, let's get you back home." He lifted her back up and tried to ignore the flinch she gave.
"It hurts." She whimpered.
It was all too much, to many images in her mind, the touch of Frost made it worse. Her head was killing her, she felt so sick. Something was wrong and she didn't know what it was or how to stop it. "Just relax. I'll get you to the car soon and then I'll get you home as fast as I can."
Suddenly a crystal clear image came to Bella's mind. Frost getting shot and Bella being shoved into a van. "Frost wait!"
Frost turned to look at the girl in surprise. "What is it?"
Bella squeezed her eyes shut then opened them up wide, "Something..." She was trying to get the words out but the pain was so intense that she felt like she was going to pass out. "Frost, you need.." Then there was no time, a shot rang out and Bella flung Frost away from her as fast as she could. The screams were overwhelming and Frost's grunt of pain told Bella that she didn't get him out of the way as she thought. However, before she could check on him she was thrown into a vehicle, smashing her head and passing out right away.
When she came too, Bella was chained to a chair in the middle of a warehouse, the pain in her head was still there making everything slightly blurry. She rapidly blinked to clear the blurriness away and looked around. It looked like she was alone for now, so she took the opportunity to try and escape. Squeezing her eyes together she concentrated on the chains, trying to break them or at least loosen them enough for her to slip out. A sharp pain in her head made her gasp out and brought tears to her eyes. She couldn't use her powers! "No, no, no, no!" Her breathing sped up, the only thing that she was good, at the only thing that could save her and she couldn't even use it. "Please, please! Of all the days!" Whatever was messing with her visions must have been messing with her telekinesis as well.
There was laughter from behind her. "Try all you want, little girl. You'll never get out of here."
"Just watch me Bitch!" Bella spat out trying once more to loosen the chains, as well as wiggling around.
The man came around to stand in front of Bella. "What a stubborn little thing you are." he grinned at her.
Bella didn't recognize the man at all. He was of average height, average build, looks all in all he was completely average. Someone she would never look twice at. "Why am I here?"
"You know why you're here." is what he answered. "You're going to make me a very rich man and we're going to play a game while you do it."
"What?" Bella asked shocked.
"I seen you today. In your limo, walking around with one body guard. That was stupid of you, no one to protect you from people like me. I left that man for dead, is he important to you? He's probably dead by now. Does that make you sad? Are you going to cry?"
Tears formed in Bella's eyes. "Jackass!" She yelled and spat in his face.
The man reared back in shock. "Cunt!" He yelled as he slapped her across the face. The blow was hard enough to daze Bella. The man walked behind Bella and grabbed some duct tape from a table he had set up and tapped her mouth shut. "Now all you have to do is sit tight for right now. I'm just gonna see where we are at with the coverage of your kidnapping and then we can go from there."
As his footsteps faded away Bella allowed her tears to spill over. Frost was probably dead because of her, lying dead with no one to help him. If only she had warned him sooner, she seen it! She could have said something, she could have pushed him away harder! There was so many things she could have done differently. Then there was Mr J and Harley! She probably disappointed them so much with her weakness, and she would probably never see them again! Bella dropped her head and cried quietly.
Frost stumbled into the Boss' club, spotting the Boss and Miss Harley seated in one of the booths looking something over. "Boss!" Frost gasped out before he collapsed to the ground.
"Puddin'! Baby's not with him!" Harley screamed out rushing over to the man. "Where is she! What happened?" She shook him hoping for an answer. "Puddin'!" She screamed again.
The Joker rushed over and pushed Harley out of the way shouting for doctors. Seeing the blood coming from Frost's stomach. "You will not die! If you die before I find out what happened to Baby and if I find out you abandoned her to help yourself, I will kill you. I will keep you chained up for weeks, and I will torture you until you no longer have the will to even breathe!" Frost was a good right hand man so he better not have anything to do with what happened. Hell would rain down on whoever had his Baby!
Back in the warehouse Bella was rudely awoken by another slap to the face. "Wake up Bitch!" Bella blinked her eyes opened and slowly focused on the man in front of her. He was grinning and had a camera in his hand. "Well Baby, you're famous! Every news outlet in Gotham is playing your story. But no details have been released on you." Bella wanted to throw up when the word Baby came out of his mouth. He was not allowed to call her that! Only her lovers were allowed! "Come on Baby look at the camera and give me a smile!" A flash went off blinding Bella. "That's the money shot! This should get things rolling, but don't worry, the show is just beginning."
Once again Bella was left alone. She closed her eyes and tried focusing again, and instead of moving anything something else happened. A flash of the man that kidnapped her, it was earlier in the day and he was watching her and Frost following them around then another of him in a room with a T.V. and a computer. Bella opened her eyes and blinked in shock. That wasn't what she was used too. Whatever she would think more on it later, right now she needed to focus on getting out of there.
The Joker walked into the room that Frost was in. He had just barely pulled through, but he was alive. Now the Joker needed to determine if he would stay that way. He seen that Frost was conscious, barely but he was awake. "What happened?" He growled out.
Frost gave a hard blink. "I'm not entirely sure. Miss Bella was acting real strange after we started walking around Gotham. She wanted to explore but she kept muttering about not stopping and she was panicking pretty badly. I got her to start back towards the car when she stopped and looked at me. She was trying to warn me about something but she couldn't get it out. She was acting like she was hurt pretty badly and whatever was wrong was messing her up big time. I think she was trying to warn me about what happened. If she hadn't pushed me when she did, I would be dead. Next thing I know I'm lying on the ground bleeding and Miss Bella was tossed into a van. I followed for as long as I could and got a plate down. When I lost the van I knew I had to come straight back. Whatever you need I will help. Miss Bella saved my life. Let me help return the favor."
The Joker stared down at him with narrow eyes, before deciding that Frost did what he could do. He got back to him to warn right away. And while he would be punished when all this was over he would definitely live.
"Puddin'!" Harley yelled out from the room away. "Baby..." She trailed off.
The Joker ran to where Harley was frozen in front of the television. Their Baby's face was plastered across the screen. "While we don't know who she is the Gotham City Police are out searching for this woman. They think it has something to do with the shooting that happened today. We are told that the kidnapper released this picture to us himself with the caption, The Game has just begun. Whoever this woman is I know that we all pray for a fast recovery of her."
The Joker shook in rage. The picture of Bella was something he never wanted to happen. Her mouth was taped shut, one side of her face looked swollen and bruised and he could see the tears in her eyes. "I'm coming for you Baby." The Joker promised with a low growl.
On the other side of Gotham a man known as Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, was watching the news with narrowed eyes. It would only take so long before the men on the police force gave up and the trail would go cold. This man was taunting everyone and Bruce would not stand to see that young woman die. He would not read about her death in the papers. He quickly got up from his desk and went to go research and prepare. The criminal wouldn't know what his him.
Bella had no idea how long she had been chained up in the warehouse. All she knew is none of her powers were working right. Her visions were going wrong, she couldn't even get her telekinesis to work. She might as well had been normal. The footsteps that were becoming a notable part of her life sounded once again. "It's been a few days. I think the next step is ready, how about you? Are you ready for your loved ones to see you again?" Bella knew that whatever happened next was not going to be good for her but maybe the man had to unchain her for it maybe she could surprise him. He knelt down in front of Bella and chuckled at the look in her eyes. "Don't get too excited Sweet Cheeks! I don't even have to unchain you for this next part. It's going to be so fun. Everyone is going to be so shocked!" He chuckled at something and walked behind Bella to collect the things he needed for the next part of the game.
Bella was trying not to panic whatever he was setting up was getting this man excited. She heard rattling on her chains and looked down to see something being attached to them. "I'm going to set up a little show for everyone. After this no one will stop looking for you, they won't be able to stop."
He walked around in front of Bella to set up a tripod and a camera. "Once I turn this on everyone will be in on our game." The man pulled up a hood to hide his face and only his mouth was visible.
Bella had never been so scared in her life, she didn't know what was going to happen next, she was essentially blind. This man didn't even know who she was, he thought she was some rich socialite with a family that would be desperate to get her back, willing to pay anything. She wasn't and when the man finally figured it out Bella would be dead. She didn't want to die yet, she had finally found people worth living for. People that made her feel whole and worth something, people that fit perfectly with her, she didn't want to die. The man finished setting everything up and stood in front of her. "Are you ready to start?" He asked as he pushed a button on the remote. Bella saw a light on the camera turn on and knew that time was running out for her.
Bella gasped in pain as he ripped the tape off her face. "Please, you don't know what you're doing. I'm no one."
"You can't sweet talk me out of this one." He turned to face the camera. "Ladies and gentleman, thank you for tuning into our little game. You guys are in for quite a show. The fun is just about to start. If you want this girl to live then someone better get this all over the news."
He turned back to Bella and leaned down to whisper in her ear. "I wonder, will you live?" he walked back to the table and said loudly. "Get ready everyone, we're starting."
He pushed a button and the worst pain Bella had ever felt was running through her body. She screamed long and hard as each shock wave rolled through her. She was being electrocuted. The pain was white hot, she felt like she was burning from the inside hot. She was screaming so badly that noise was hardly even coming out. Then just as sudden as it started it stopped. Bella slumped in her chair and gasped for air. "Please! I'm no one! I'm no one! I have no family here! I don't have money! I was just with a friend today! Please don't, stop!" Bella begged and pleaded. She would have said anything for him not to do it again.
"Not what I want to hear. Screams are so much better!" And he pushed the button again.
The Joker stared at the television in seething anger while Harley cried in the background. Someone was torturing his Baby! Someone was making her scream. That person will die a thousand deaths before The Joker would end him permanently. The Joker spun around and smacked Harley. "Pull yourself together! I don't need you falling apart on me. We will find her and hell will rain down on them!"
Harley blinked at him before wiping her eyes in determination. "Puddin' hell won't be painful enough to describe what's coming to him!"
"That's my girl, now let's find our Baby." The Joker spun around and ordered. "I want to see this at all times. No matter where I go I will not lose this video. It's live I will know what's happening to her at all times!" Then he strode down where he kept all his weapons and other things yelling out orders the whole time. He would find his Baby and soon.
Batman growled as he searched for the young woman. She was now being tortured and everyone could watch it live! She had no one to look for her, no one to care that she was missing. He would put in his all where others were slacking.
Back to Bella, she was on the verge of consciousness, everything was tingling and on fire. It felt like her whole body was burnt. However, she could also feel power building inside of her, trying to get out. On the next wave of electrocution it suddenly burst from her. She screamed and things around her went flying. The man with her was slammed into the wall and he slid down with a grunt. "Look at this! Seems like I have a very special girl with me! I wonder will anyone come for you, now that they know you're a freak?"
"I'm not a freak!" She yelled out hoarsely feeling quite winded but giddy at the same time. The power she felt was giving her confidence, no longer did she feel quite as helpless. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the man again and sent him flying through the air again. He slammed into the wall even harder this time.
"Don't test me Bitch!" He spat out. He quickly got up and turned the electrocution back on.
The pain was indescribable, there was nothing that could compare. Bella didn't think was could last much longer. She couldn't concentrate on the chains with all this pain in her body. Clenching her hands as hard as she could another strange thing happened to her. A flash of Mr J and Harley went through her mind. A picture of them clear as day. Riding in the back of what looked like a van. "Be ready." Mr J murmured. Harley nodded. Find me, hurry, Bella shouted in her mind. Mr J jerked like he heard her. "Baby?" Please! I can't last... His eyes went wide. Bella was communicating with him. "Baby, keep talking to me. Baby? Baby!"
The vision faded from Bella's mind along with the power from her body. She didn't know what just happened but she talked to Mr J. Bella lifted her head up as high as she could and looked directly into the camera. "Find me."
Once again I apologize with making you wait, it's just been hard. Please drop a review tell me if you liked it what you didn't like and what you would like to see...