Chapter XIV: Pregnant Queen Symptoms

It was not a good day for the King of Gotham. Joker was talking furiously and excitedly with Johnny in his office gesturing with his hand as he walked around his large oak desk.

"How is it possible Frost?!... It's been almost two weeks and I still have no fucking idea where that damned Double S is!" he exclaimed excited wrathfully hitting with both hands the mahogany desk leaning over it exalted and with a look that could terrify anyone, but not his right hand.

"I'm also frustrated J, it had never been so difficult for me to find someone" Johnny answered sitting in one of the leather armchairs of his boss's office.

"I want every fucking man who is at my service looking for that son of a bitch, Frost!"

"I understood"

"Contract the best snake hunters that money can buy! I want you all looking for him!"

"There's no problem..." Johnny replied calmly knowing that his boss the least he cared about was the money

"I don't think Double S can be very far away..." he tried to calm J's spirits.

"Well... those every idiots look for the last fucking hole in this city... but don't forget that I want him alive" Joker supported his arms on the desk and looked at Johnny radiating hatred of his furious face "if there is something that I don't tolerate... is that they laugh at me, Johnny... but even worse... they threaten to kill my queen... FIND HIM!"

One month later… Johnny did not get the information that could give the whereabouts of Double S putting most of the time to Joker and Harley did not suspect a bit of her premature pregnancy, even less with the outlook that he had planned to make that night, that, if he managed to persuade his Puddin again. Although; this time it would be harder to get, since J's temperament was totally enraged at that moment.

King and queen were in a heated argument in the main room of the mansion. Any normal couple would argue for simple things, like visiting the parents in-law, jealousy of the ex's, for work and money or for the decoration of the kitchen, but not for the Kings of Gotham, they had another kind of discussion, discussion where he was becoming more and more aggressive as Harley continued to insist on her important request to get J's permisson.

"OH! PUDDIN!" Harley persisted.

"NO! IT'S OUT OF THE DISCUSSION!" Joker yelled angrily at Harley; who now had her "Property Joker" jacket, his thick gold Puddin necklace adorning her neck, her new "Hate/Love" gun and she wore the classic outfit she used in the mission of the Suicide Squad.

"YOU CANNOT OBLIGATE ME NOT TO GO! THEY ARE MY FRIENDS AND I HAVE TO HELP THEM!" Harley shouted, but she hated fighting with her Puddin... maybe that was not the best way to fix things "Puddin..." she approached him holding his shoulder, but Joker threw it away as like the hand of a doll it was and Harley hit her back against J's huge closet. He stood over her looking at her defiantly.

"I said... that you will not...

"I know you did not come with me... I only ask you to lend me some of your men and Johnny, of course... and nothing else..." Harley looked at him imploringly caught with J's body and the wardrobe.

"DON'T INSIST..." Joker roughly tightened her shoulders and threw her to the bed, to get away from him trying to contain all his anger that was evident in his eyes. She fell rudely to the bed. However, she rejoined quickly by sitting on the edge of it.

"Puddin... I talked to Johnny about this... and he, like me, we think it's a good idea to go rescue them from Waller's control... they could help us find Double S" Harley insisted on going to help her friends.

Joker took two fingers to his frown "I don't care a shit of what Johnny thinks... the decision is made

"But they are the best at what they do!"

"OH! WHAT WAS MISSING" Exclaimed looking to the ceiling J with irony in his words "you're insinuating that I have to ask your friends for help to find the idiot DOUBLE S!"

"They are very good at what they do... I know because I shared time with them! You have to trust me" She kept on persisting and J lost patience taking his face with both hands to shake him strongly.

"It's a trap Harls, you have to be blind to not see it" He let her go with the little self-control that was left at that moment.

"It's not a trap... I'll explain it to you one more time... Deadshot sent me a message" Harley began.

"Oh yeah…? How does that idiot have your number... baby?" Joker shot her a murderous look but she did not flinch.

"It doesn't matter... what really matters is that he told me that they are coming to a mission here... to Gotham... and they need me to help them" Harley continued looking at him pleadingly and then continued giving the information "oh! And apparently the idiot of Flag will also help us... he is bored of the odious Waller bitch" Harley got up from the bed approaching a furious Joker "nothing bad can happen Puddin..."

"That nothing bad can happen?" the wild joker said pursing his lips sarcastically and took both arms of Harley squeezing them with excessive strength "listen... if you go... and fall into that fucking hell again, Harls... I will not go for you this time"

"Oh... you will" Harley sang raising her eyebrows to try to lighten the situation. It was a terrible mistake, J's patience reached his limit.

"THIS IS NOT A GAME HARLS!" Joker pulled out his gun, giving her the strongest of his slaps with her and Harley fell to the floor.

"THEY ARE MY FRIENDS!" Harley yelled angrily from the floor with a hand on her cheek that burned like the fire that emanated from J. Joker's eyes came up to her and her body language, as well as the expression on her face with anger, he said it all, it seemed that he was going to beat Harley like in the past and she crossed her arms in front of her face to protect herself from what she thought was coming. J looked at her for a few seconds standing in front of her with her exaggerated breathing and she blocked herself completely by lowering the revolutions, feeling her whole body paralyze. It was the first time since he rescued her from Belle Reve that he was really furious with her, hitting her really hard with his gun and was about to put a hand on Harley again, but he couldn't... He just could not do it, since he got her out of that prison hell he was really aware of the love he felt for her, although he could not finally say it with exact words, but that was enough to prevent him from crossing that barrier that, without even knowing it, he was saving the life of his future son or daughter.

"I have to go..." Harley whispered and she got up from the floor taking her bat from the bed to run out the door with a J who was watching as she disobeyed his order going to rescue the idiots of her friends, but the most important, he stayed for the first time analyzing what he was about to do.

It was already night and the hours passed too slow for Joker, who had not left the mansion to go to supervise some of their clubs, because although he did not want to admit, he was worried about Harley's return while trying to uselessly distract his mind with one of his most pleasing hobbies and what he personally did; leave your favorite weapons / toys gleaming. Joker, sitting in a black leather chair in the room that used to be a weapons store in the mansion, kept his eyes lost on the weapon in his hands while polishing it with a dark purple cloth.

Next to him, on the floor, there was a whole pile of weapons piled with golden details that he had previously cleaned up to leave them completely gleaming... Yes, J was really immersed in worry, his mind crossed more than once to go to look for Harley, he even thought of helping her in her "fantastic" idea of rescuing her friends in order to make sure she was well and far from being locked up again in a hidden prison. However the Joker's pride was very great, he was not going to allow himself to be like a hero in front of everyone... that never. He only had the option of waiting for his girl's return, that... for his peace of mind and to mitigate some of his concern, he knew that she was a criminal expert with a mastery in the art of self-defense, surpassing even many of his known villains... not for nothing she was his queen.

Harley subtly opened the door of the weapons cellar leaning out and managing to distinguish the Joker's green hair with his back to her in the comfortable armchair.

Everything had gone well and fortunately for the Suicide Squad that with the help of Harley and some of the Joker's men under his right hand had managed to get rid of Waller's control, but Harley was not sure if she could get rid of the anger Of J... She knew perfectly well that she had disobeyed his order and she only had to try to apologize with him by going to look for him at the weapons cellar; she had no hesitation in going to look for her Puddin there; every time something bothered J... she knew he would be in his favorite room in the entire mansion.

"Puddin..." She called fearfully from the door catching his attention and he immediately got up walking towards her through that room that contained an infinity of all kinds of incredible weapons that any soldier already wanted to possess for a catastrophic war "I- I'm sorry, I feel like going away like that... the voices in my head, they told me I had to go... I listen to them... "Harley could not finish excusing his behavior; Joker took her by his arms scrutinizing her with his eyes and interrupting him with her words.

"Are you Ok?"

"Yes... I'm Ok" he said as she felt J's arms choke her in a hug "never again, Harls... never again disobey me" he said, followed by a rude kiss, that Harley take back with delight and surprise at not meeting a furious J. Clearly the concern for her well-being predominated over the anger her Puddin might feel... it was strange on his part, but she was delighted.

"I was a very very bad girl... Could you forgive me Puddin?"

"Oh... I forgive you... by the way... you have to do some merits for that..."

"Mmmm... I am at your complete disposal..."

Two weeks later… Harley still did not notice the absence of the "monthly visit" that every woman should have as a biological law. She continued to do all her "normal" activities that ranged from her daring adventures with Ivy in the city, continuing to attend every night without fail to the clubs of J; dancing especially for him in his golden cage, as well as continue with his favorite game that consisted of seducing the partners that J found unnecessary or unreliable or simply for the sheer pleasure of seeing them succumb to the beauty of his girl and then eliminate them implacably. Besides that, obviously she accompanied J in all his exploits in the city with the everlasting fun with the bat, that even if they ruined his nights, he was fascinated to see his Puddin laugh gloriously in every encounter with his "archenemy", including the unmissable persecutions throughout the city and that night, was no exception.

"OHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA" Joker laughed with his eccentric laugh as he drove full speed being chased by Batman more meters already at his best moment of fun; forgetting completely the annoying fact that, neither Johnny nor all his men could still give the location of the elusive snake.

"Oh! Bat still needs to be polished on the wheels!" Joker turned to Harley with a big, genuine smile that expressed all the adrenaline he felt at that moment.

"Oh Puddin!" Harley sang "Batsy has a lot to learn from you... obviously he needs driving lessons! Grrr" she barked playfully at Joker and blew her impeccable teeth in a sexy bite.

"I think so baby! HA HA HA HA" Joker turned his eyes to the front and dramatically turned the steering wheel to his right in a sharp corner followed by the Batmobile while listening to the sharp laughter of his girl with the noise made by the vehicles in pursuit. However, to J's misfortune, he stopped listening to Harley's laughter when she, with her eyes on the front, grabbed his right arm and shook it.

"STOP PUDDIN!" J looked at her surprised while continuing to step on the accelerator and saw that his girl's eyes were placed on a huge luminous sign several meters longer already. The sign read "ICE CREAM" with a large ice cream cone on the side and below it said "24 Hours a Day" which indicated that the ice cream shop served twenty-four hours a day without exception.

"Oh baby... It's not time to make breaks! Daddy is playing with Batsy now!" Joker crooned, unleashing the fury and tantrum of a Harley Quinn with his first whim. Even if neither of them knew...

"I SAID... STOP THE CAR PUDDIN!" She spoke exalted as best she could, but J ignored her, not that he had many options... Bat pursued him assiduously. However, nothing mattered with Harley, she just wanted a huge strawberry ice cream at that moment and was willing to do anything to get it.

"Ok you force me to do it Puddin!" she shouted and pulled the gear lever backward to everything that it was causing the powerful lamborghini finally stop and J turned furiously towards her. What the hell was Harley thinking if Bat went after them only a few meters from them? J's fury was undeniable on his face, but he did not have time to react or say anything, because Harley got out of the car as if possessed by a demon, took out her weapon and gave many accurate shots to the wheels of the Batmobile. There were so many shots that one of the big wheels of this one collapsed causing the bat vehicle to lose direction and crash quite close to them hitting another car parked in a loud noise.

Batman immediately got out of the vehicle, as did J, who walked furiously towards Harley who was walking to the ice cream shop in front of her as if he did not care at all to have stopped the dangerous persecution of the "archenemies". J came quickly to her and jerked her arm sharply, stopping her determined steps

"LET ME GO PUDDIN! YOU CAN GO WITH THE STUPID BAT! I AM GOING FOR MY ICE CREAM!"

The rage of Joker was such that he could not find the words to express his indignation at having cut off all the fun.

"ENOUGH!" Was the only thing that he could screamed at her before putting Harley on his left shoulder before the Batman approach to them quickly.

"HEY! LET ME GO! LET ME GO NOW PUDDIN!" Harley began to hit J's back with real force, even moving his legs, but it was impossible; J's grip was stronger.

At that moment Batman was a few meters away from them and spoke to J with his typical bitter and serious voice

"The Joker chase had ended, it's time for..." He was going to continue. However Harley's screams interrupted him.

"SHUT UP! DAMN BATSY! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" Harley was still shaking on top of J's shoulder "LET ME GO PUDDIN! I WANT TO GO FOR MY ICE CREAM NOW!"

"Bat... we have a little discussion here..." Joker gave a strong spanking on Harley's ass "we'll leave the game for later..."

Batman watched as J roughly put Harley inside the lamborghini while they kept kicking and demanding that he release her to go in search of an... ice cream? Batman did not doubt that she was really crazy, but that was no less dangerous and before she could react to go after the peculiar pair, the unmistakable car of her nemesis was moving away at maximum speed with the strong sound of the powerful engine escaping once again…

"And well Harley... Quinn... what was that?"

"Don't talk to me! I am mad at you! You and the damned one..."

"Well darling... you asked for it" J took the back of Harley's neck without stopping drive and with a quick movement he roughly lashed her forehead to the glove compartment of the car causing her to lose consciousness and finally all her complaints were kept silence.

The brilliant lamborghini parked arriving at the masion and J pulled Harley unconscious of the patented car carrying her in his arms and walking with her to the large rectangular pool. He threw it into the water without hesitation, she already knew how to swim. Harley immediately came out of his swoon, claiming the edge of the pool coughing in the water.

"We came home sweetheart..." J said from above "you ruined my fun with Bat, you owe me an explanation"

Harley looked at him with all the anger she felt at that moment asserting herself of the handrail of the metallic ladder to leave the pool.

"And you Puddin... you ruined my dress, not to mention... that you did not let me go for my ice cream! Oh! And you can ask Batsy for your damn explanation! I'm leaving here!" Harley took off her heels and threw them at the King of Gotham.

Joker grunted, his exasperated face moving as he entered the mansion, dripping water all the way. That entire situation was irritating him too much and he kicked hard on the wheel of his car... when she dared to throw things at him? And raise her voice like that?... "Oh... she's probably on her "special days"" J thought wrong, but that did not lessen his whimsical acting... and J was still furious at the outburst that Harley had. Joker entered on the mansion and followed the trail of water left by her up the stairs to the bedroom, the water in the pool telling her that she was in the bathroom, J was ready to enter and start a heated discussion that would surely end very badly while she took out her gray jacket, when suddenly she heard her cry like a muffin behind the door, it seems that the surprises still did not end for J that night... She walked towards the door listening more loudly to the cry of her girl and her anger began to fade slowly he never liked to hear Harley crying and if he thought about it, he could play with Bats again when he wanted... Besides, he knew Harley like the palm of his tattooed hand and knew that if he did not do something it was likely that and her crying in the bathroom will not let him sleep all night.

"Harls, when are you so intense?" He tried to open the bathroom door but it was locked.

"Leave me peace, I want to be alone!

"Leave the tantrum aside and open the door Harls!" J lost his patience and rudely struggled the door without being able to open it, I could bet that she was preventing with all her strength to enter "well, baby, listen... you are worrying Daddy again..." he tried to convince her to let him in. However the only response that Harley gave him was more crying forcing him to change his strategy "is there anything he can do for you baby? ..." he spoked softly, gutturally, as he knew he loved her and it worked.

"Ice cream..." he heard her say in a whisper.

"You want ice cream, baby? ..." he continued with that mystical guttural voice.

"Yeah ... strawberry, I want strawberry ice cream, Puddin-heard her now sob more calmly.

"Well ... Strawberry will be ... now opens the door Harls.

"I'm not stupid ... if I open it you'll hit me and you will not go for my ice cream ... ruin your fun with Batsy.

"Baby ... the only thing that matters to Daddy now is that you stop crying ... Can you do it? Can you stop crying?

"Only if you bring my ice cream ...

Joker raised the frame of his eyes growling angryly, it was impossible to reason with her at that moment. His harlequin was definitely on his "special days" and he cursed the hell, that he had to go get the strawberry ice cream he demanded or she was perfectly capable of staying forever in the bathroom.

"Great, baby... I'll go for the strawberry ice cream..."

"Do you promise to come back?"

"Yes" he answered before taking his gray coat again and leaving the bedroom to go in search of the fucking strawberry ice cream.

Two hours later… Harley Quinn dressed in her white two-piece satin pijama was spooning her third pot of strawberry ice cream lying face down on the bed as she watched an action movie on the huge television screen in front of her; turning his back on the Joker, who also had his baggy and dark sleeping pants and was little excited about the happy movie thinking that the chases with Bat were much more entertaining and more action than what the TV screen showed him. Then Joker bored, watched Harley take the spoon with some ice cream to his mouth... Why does everything he does have to look fucking sensual? It was what he thought, although he did not like Harley eating in bed, it was a bad habit that he had not been able to remove. Harley felt J's gaze on her

"What? I'll do a lot more cardio Puddin... it's just that I cann't stop eating it... it's delicious!"She said and she continued eating the ice cream rocking her flexed legs.

Joker turned his gaze to her long legs thinking that what she said was a complete stupidity... What? More cardio? Did not she see how thin she was?... Women...

Three weeks after Harley's tantrum for ice cream, on the Jacuzzi of the luxurious bathroom of the Gotham city kings bedroom. Harley, wrapped in a white towel and sitting on the edge of the Jacuzzi, fondly caressed the back of J who was in front of his submerged half of his tattooed torso in a sea of foam, foam, which his girl was responsible for provoking in that it could help him to calm his spirits that were not in the best possible mood. Not after continuing without news of Double S, it was as if the snake had been swallowed by the earth and J was starting to get impatient. Harley's warm hands slid slippery into the joker's neck and then began to gently press her shoulders into a pleasurable massage as she wrapped her legs around his torso.

"Puddin... you're very tense..." She was not an expert in massaging, but a purr from J indicated that she was doing well.

"I don't need to tell you why..." He said, hinting at how tense he was.

"Double S... I cannot believe it's totally gone "Harley kept massaging him now on his back" Puddin... if you let me talk with my friends... they could cooperate…"

Joker dropped his neck back into Harley's lap looking at her seriously.

"Harls... I have to tell you again...?" He was not willing to ask for help from the supposed "Suicide Squad" and Harley slid her hands down his shoulders until she got the two tattoos that covered part of his biceps exerting pressure on them causing another purr escaped from J's mouth and spoke softly

"No Puddin... it's okay... I'm sure it will soon appear..." Then Harley unexpectedly put a hand to her forehead and another to her mouth.

"What's wrong?"

"No... no, it's nothing... I felt a little dizzy, that's all."

"It's not the first time you tell me that; you should have to see a doctor, Harls."

"Puddin... you know very well that I don't like doctors..." Harley continued giving the pleasant massaging J "the only thing they know how to do is always give those medicines which they taste horrible!"

"Mmm I agree with you..." Joker replied, after all, he also abhorred the medications that forced him to take the doctors in Arkham.

"Why do I want a stupid doctor? Everything I need to feel good is here... right in front of me..." Harley kissed J's back tenderly and he turned and grabbed her waist making her fall into the foam with him. The next thing Harley felt was a passionate kiss from J.

It was almost two and a half months since the disappearance of Double S, at the same time that Harley's pregnancy was also going undetected, since she had a "slight visit" a few weeks ago dispelling the very small doubt that had begun to form in her, product of the delay of her menstrual period. Without giving much thought to the matter to not be disappointed, Harley did not give importance to that, although sometimes she felt a little dizzy attributing it finally to it's drastic change of life; from being captive in Belle Reve to all the action she had back in Gotham now. Just as sometimes she felt strangely tired and sleepy... Harley had fallen asleep on the golden sheets of her bed with her kitten F by her side; she was already dressed and ready to go to the club. However, she could not help falling asleep waiting for Joker and Johnny to finish discussing matters in the office. Apparently there were some rumors saying that Double S was seen in Gotham and when Joker ended the conversation with his right hand, he went in search of Harley to the bedroom finding that she was sleeping comfortably. Joker shook Harley ignoring the annoying cat that slept beside her, breaking the strict order he had given not wanting to see her on the bed.

"Wake up Harls! You don't want to miss a Friday night!"

"I'm sleepy Puddin... I want to sleep..." She said sleepily turning to the opposite side of J.

"Laziness is not an attractive attribute, honey... now get up!" He ordered, turning her back to him and she yawned.

"Christ Puddin... I don't want to go..."

"Harls, today I receive a new partner... and you know what that means, you can not fail me."

Harley smiled understanding what J meant, surely his Puddin was in the mood to play with the supposed "new partner" and only then she left the drowsy state to go in search of the fun that she loved and excited.

"All right! I woke up!" Harley stretched her arms excitedly "let's go! It's getting late" she said encouragingly, getting out of bed "something tells me we'll have a lot of fun tonight!"

Harley's good omen was far from being realized... Both she and Joker, much less Johnny, who waited on the first floor of the mansion, imagined what would happen that fateful night.