Thankfully my beautiful son spent the night with his grandma and so I was able to sit and write this chapter in 6 hours.
Any comic fans that have been awaiting action… here you go!
WARNING! Drug Use, Violence and Language!
November 6th 2016
Frostbite Nightclub
Damien froze. He'd been caught. "Relax baby, I'm not gonna out you. But I think my friend and I deserve a nice big tip for my keeping your secret."
"How much do you want?" He asked through gritted teeth.
"I'm not so interested in money as I am in favors. I need a passport. Think you can do that for me?" She kissed just below his ear.
"I think I can manage that." A few keystrokes in the cave and he could produce an entire documented history for someone.
"Also, You're gonna follow through on your every weekend deal. With Jen and I. You don't wanna risk someone else discovering your secret do you?"
Damien was surprisingly not furious by her terms. They actually worked out great for him. He'd have a beautiful dealer with connections to Crow who knew he wasn't really using and she aparently knew how to fight. Maybe she could be an asset in the future but first things first.
"No I don't. You have yourself a deal. But I want something too."
"You aren't really in a position to make demands GQ"
"You might like this one. I want you to be my girl. You're street smart, tough, and have a great connection to the party scene. You'll find I'm a very generous boyfriend."
"I don't think so. I'm kind of wanted. Any shots of me end up in the papers or social media and I'm done for."
"What did you do? Rob a bank?"
"Not that it's any of your business but no."
"I'm Damien Wayne baby, so long as your past doesn't include global terrorism the cops will stay away from you. Do we have a deal?"
"We might, but I have one more term, no sex."
Contrary to his reputation Damien had never been with a girl, so her final term was no problem for him. He may have been cool and confident lady's man on the outside and he understood the mechanics of the act but none of the bimbos he had met thus far did anything for him in that department. "Deal," He said and held out his right hand.
Anna looked down at his hand and took it in her own, "Deal"
Damien smiled seductively, she said no sex, but other physical acts were still on the table so he went with it. His left hand snaked around the back of her head and pulled her down to him in a toe-curling kiss.
November 6th 2016
Outside Frostbite Nightclub
2:30AM
The 4-some exited the club. Jen exclaimed her relief as the cool night air hit them. It was getting close to 3 and the girls needed to get to the 59th street Bridge to meet with Crow. "Want us to come with you?" Damien asked
Jen answered him before Anna could. "That's sweet of you but he'd kind of have out heads if he brought strangers."
"Ya, I'll just see you later" Anna said stepping out of Damien's arm. Before she was out of reach, he grabbed her hand and pulled her back. "Shouldn't I get your number or something?"
"Um, I don't have a phone at the moment but why don't you give me yours?"
"Will you use it?" he asked cocking an eyebrow.
Anna laughed, "You look like a cheesy superhero when you make that face."
"Eh, not tonight. So?"
"Yes, I will call you tomorrow."
A cool breeze that carried the stench on BO wafted in their direction. They turned to see a homeless man walking their way. "Excuse me but do you have some change?"
Anna reached into her pocket and pulled out a twenty. Before she could give it to the man Oz spoke "Sorry dude, we got nothing." He ushered Jen a few steps away. Damien went to do the same with Anna but she shrugged out of his reach and walked up to the man handing him her bill. "Here," She said. The man looked at the money "Thank you so much Miss, you have a blessed day."
She strolled back to Damien pleased with her good deed. He put his arm around her shoulders "That was nice of you."
"Eh, I know how it feels to be cold and hungry." She was slipping back into being Anna not Ninja. She straightened and held Damien's waist. "Jesus, is they an ounce of fat anywhere on you?" she asked as they turned into a darkened street.
He shrugged, "My ass?"
Anna was about to make a snappy reply when someone grabbed her from behind and pulled her against them. She felt something cold and sharp press against her throat, I knife. "Ok lover boy, gimmie your cash and the lady wont get cut."
"Take it easy, man. You can have whatever you want." Damien said holding one hand up to clam Anna's attacker and reaching for his wallet with the other.
Anna felt the darkness wash over her. She tried to stop it but couldn't. She just prayed that whatever she did next wouldn't get her friends killed. A voice she didn't recognize left her throat. "He's not going to give you a fucking dime."
"Ninja, it's ok." Damien said but something strange caught his attention. Did her eyes just change colors? He thought, seeing a flash of white gloss over her eyes then disappear.
Anna braced one foot behind her attacker's boot then grabbed the blade with her bare left hand. She started to turn into his arm successfully undoing his hold not even flinching as the blade cut into her flesh. In one movement she struck his chest with her right palm and swept her foot causing her attacker to loose his balance and hit the ground. She was still holding his knife hand as she swung her legs over his body and dropped to the ground putting him in an arm-bar. She thrust her hips up effectively breaking his arm; he dropped the knife.
Damien was more than impressed. He kicked the knife away and pulled Anna to her feet she grabbed his face and kissed him hard. He was so consumed by her lips he backed her to the closest wall and pressed her against it. When he finally broke the kiss for some air he asked, "What the fuck was that?"
Anna recovered from her mini black out still with Damien pressing her against the wall. She didn't know what happened but she guessed the guy groaning on the floor was her doing. "Um, Master Nun?" She said a little breathlessly.
Damien laughed and shook his head looking down at her bleeding hand. "Shit, let me see." He took her hand and examined it. "It's not that deep, you won't need stiches." He puled a while handkerchief from his pocket and started wrapping it around her cut. "You are quickly becoming the coolest girl I have ever met." They stepped away from the wall and went to rejoin their friends. Oz and Jen look at the two of them shocked. "Ok, what the fuck just happened?" Jen asked.
They were walking away when they heard someone running in their direction. Anna and Damien glanced back and saw the attacker from before running at them with his knife in his non-injured hand. Anna could feel herself going dark again. Damien let go of Anna's shoulder as his reflexes kicked in and he threw a perfectly timed sliding sidekick that landed right in the guys chin. The attacker flew from the impact into a piled up stack of garbage bags. He was still breathing but he didn't get back up.
"Wow!" Anna said as the darkness retreated. "So, I see you train?"
Damien smiled at his chance of a comeback, "Ya Master Mind." Please fall for it, please fall for it! He prayed.
"Who?" She asked
Yes! She fell for it! He though as he finished his retort, "Master Mind-Ya Fucking Business" he finished his witticism by sticking his tongue at her.
Anna squinted her eyes and playfully punched him in the ribs.
November 6th 2016
59th Street Bridge
2:55PM
The girls saw Crow's limo was already there waiting for them. The driver opened the door and the girls got in.
"A whole 5 Minutes early. I hope that doesn't mean you are coming to me lacking."
"Not at all, we come in style! The mark paid extra as a show of good faith. He wants us to party with him every weekend."
Crow looked vaguely impressed "Well done ladies." He counted out the money and handed the girls $1,000 each. "Will it be back to the hostel for you Jenny dear?"
"Well…" Anna cut her off.
"Actually we were thinking of doing a little celebrating given how prosperous we were tonight." Anna looked at Jen who smiled in response. "Maybe you'd like to join us Sir?" Anna asked Crow.
"Very sweet of you Ninja dear, but I don't fraternize publicly with my staff. However, you should both attend my little gathering in a few weeks. I always throw a Thanksgiving celebration for the best my team. I have a thing for the Autumn holidays."
"We would love to go!" Jen answered.
"Excellent and if your new boy toys are still in the picture do bring them as well. It's black tie so make sure to make your selves pretty-er."
"We will do that, thank you."
Crow nodded, "Please allow me to drop you girls off back in midtown."
The limo pulled away from under the bridge and brought the girls back to the party scene.
November 6th
Midtown
3:30am
Damien and Oz strolled down Broadway chatting.
"That Jen chick was so fucking hot! I think I'm in love!" Oz said.
"Oz, you fall in love at least twice a week."
"This one's different D. She's the kind of girl that you have the kind of insane sex that makes your left side go numb but at the same time she could possible kill you in your sleep. I'm telling you bro, I think I just met the first future ex Mrs. Cobbelpot."
"Whatever dude, you have some earnestly questionable taste in women."
"What about you and Ninja? You guys were all over each other and you gave her your number and you both totally kicked ass in that ally."
"She sure is different…" Damien became distracted as the familiar purr of a V10 engine advanced towards them from a few blocks away. A black dodge Viper zoomed from around the corner and came to a halt next to where Damien and Oz were standing. The driver rolled down the window.
Dick Grayson, Damien's adopted brother, stuck a leather-clad arm out the window and waved. "Hey, ass hat. Get in the car. Your dad wants you home."
"Fuck my life, did he say why?" Damien asked.
"Why do you think?"
Damien sighed. He knew exactly why his father would send Dick to come get him like this and it wasn't to go home. "I'll see you latter Oz." He slapped his friend's shoulder and walked to the car.
"See you D, and bye Dick. Thanks for saying hello Dick, I've only been D's friend for 4 whole years Dick" Oz add extra flare every time he said Dick's name. Damien closed the door to the Viper and they sped off.
"So what's up?" Damien asked.
Dick shrugged out of his leather jacket revealing his Nightwing uniform. "It's the clown, his little girlfriend held up Kleinfeld's this morning there's been a pattern of robberies and today that all sound like he's planning a wedding or something. Plus he found traffic footage of Joker's lambo coming into Gotham from Metropolis the night of the Thurman murders."
"What's Kleinfeld's?"
"You know, the big wedding dress store?
"Never heard of it."
"How can you not have heard of it? Its on all those celebrity wedding shows."
"Because I have never seen a celebrity wedding show in my life. How many have you seen Dicky?"
"I have a girlfriend who's been dropping hints lately so… a lot."
Damien started laughing almost hysterically. Dick shook his head at his little brother's lack of sensitivity. "Very funny douche bag. Your gear is under your seat, do us both a favor, suit up and shut up. Alfred air dropped our bikes on the roof of the parking garage on 30th."
"Camera's?"
"Temporarily disabled."
"Ah, good old Alfred."
November 6th 2016
Midtown
4:00AM
Jen and Anna were on the adrenalin rush of a lifetime. Jen revealed she'd held back a baggie of coke from Oz. The found a late night bar on 40th street and ran into the bathroom where they snorted lines off the wash counter. Anna had never felt so uninhibited. The bar was having their karaoke night and the girls sang a terrible off key duet of Good Charlotte's the Anthem.
When they left the bar they were still singing. Walking through the back ally's of Gotham, Anna and Jen smoked a blunt and giggled incessantly. As they approached the parking garage of a very upscale high rise their laughter was ceased. A very flashy purple Lamborghini exited the garage. The driver got out and cursed.
"Fucking Donny! Where's the CD the boss gave you to leave in here? He's gonna kill me if it's not playing when he and Mrs. J come down!" the driver ran back into the garage leaving the Lamborghini unattended and running.
"Who the fuck still listens to CD's?" Anna asked.
"Holy shit Ninja! That's the boss's car!"
"Like Crow boss or boss boss?"
"Boss boss. the Joker boss." Anna was giddy and ran to the car. "Ninja? Ninja! What are you doing?"
"This is the sexiest car I have ever seen."
"It will be the last car you ever see if you touch it."
"Jen, do you believe in fate?"
"No, I don't. Not when it comes to anything belonging to the Joker." Jen did not like the look in Anna's eye. "Ninja, the hamster behind the wheel of your brain needs to die like right now."
"Oh I think he deserves a treat actually. Get in!"
"You're cracked! No!"
"Jen,"
"No"
"Jen,"
"No!"
"Jen!"
"What?"
"Get in the fucking car!" Anna commanded her friend with a look of joyous mania that vaguely reminded Jen of the Joker himself.
"If you get me killed, our friendship is fucking over."
They sat in the car and took in the surroundings. "These seats are like butter!" Anna exclaimed.
"Ok, Ninja, you had your fun. Now lets get out of here before tubby comes back… Fuck." Jen looked out the window and saw the chunky driver waddling back, a CD case in his hand. Through the tinted windows he saw two people sitting in the car and started called out to them "Hey! Get out of the fucking car!"
"Time to go!" Anna said and hit the gas. She sped through the streets shouting from the adrenalin. "This is the best night of my life!"
"This is the last night of your life!" Jen screamed back.
"Relax, with the money the Joker's got I'll bet he has like 6 of these."
"I don't think so, I heard he shed out a small fortune repairing this baby after he crashed it in the east river the night his lady got nabbed. I'll bet he loves this car more than he loves her!"
"Ok then we'll just take if for a little joy ride and leave it somewhere in the Narrows.
No one will ever know we took it. Why don't you find us a soundtrack?"
Jen looked around for an mp3 player but only came up with a giant book of CD's. "Seriously?" Anna asked. Jen shrugged and opened the CD book. As she browsed, Jen read the titles out lowed.
"NWA, Slipknot, Meggadeath, Slim Thug… Kesha?"
"That's random."
"Ooo! Perfect song to listen to before we die!" Jen put a disk in the stereo.
A second later the opening notes of Icona Pop's I Don't Care, blasted through the speakers. Anna actually hated the song but tonight it was the perfect tune to score the nights events. Anna pumped up the volume to a deafening level and the girls shouted out the lyrics.
November 6th 2016
The Joker's Penthouse
4:05 AM
After posing for pictures, eating cake, drinking an obscene amount of champagne, sharing their first dance to Metallica's Nothing Else Matters, hearing speeches from Ivy and Frost and consummating their marriage it was a wonder where the time went. But it was time for Joker's surprise wedding gift for Harley, a lavish week in Paris. Sure he was anxious to find his daughter but he trusted Frost and his men could continue the search for a few days utill they got back and if his team was lucky enough to find Anna before the trip was done they'd come right back home.
Freshly dressed in black leather pants and red button down shirt he called to Frost.
"Johnny boy! Is the car out front?"
"It should be boss, I'll call down and make sure."
"And make sure Fat Frankie remembered the CD I made for Harley."
"I don't understand why you don't just get an mp3 player."
"It's very simple Frost. CD's are the last true form of musical art. A physical device that comes equipped with poetry, insight into the musician's mind and the artwork that coincided with the music. Mp3's are just empty vessels of noise."
"Ok boss,"
"Besides that, they can very easily be broken in half and used to stab the throats on any dumb pigs that dare try and give me a traffic ticket."
"Now that I can relate too," Frost said as he made a call to their men down stairs.
The Joker took Harley in his arms and swung her around "I love you Mr. J!
"Oh baby, wait till to find out what I've got planned for us next."
"Um boss?" Frost's face turned white. The Joker put Harley back on her feet, the thrill fleeting from him as he took in Frost's expression. "We have a problem,"
November 6th 2016
The Narrows
4:15AM
Anna and Jen were enjoying their own little private party in the Joker's lambo while looking for a place to dump it when they felt a bump.
"What the fuck? Did I hit something?" Anna asked.
"I didn't see anything." Jen looked out the back window and froze.
"Fuck me sideways." Jen said scared out of her wits.
"What? What's the matter?"
"Ninja, there's a big black car following us."
It was Anna's turn to freeze. "Like Hummer big?"
"Like tank big."
"Shit." Only one person in the world drove a tank sized black car and he happened to live in Gotham city. No sooner than they realized they were being pursued by the Batman did 2 very fast motorcycles pull up on the sides of the lambo.
"We are so dead!" Jen panicked "Maybe you should just pull over?"
"Are you nuts? He's Batman! He'll send me back."
"What the fuck are you talking about?"
"It's not my problem that you chose a friend who's wanted alright?"
"So what do we do?"
"I don't know! Look around! There's gotta be something we can use!"
Outside the lambo Damien and Dick synchronized their movements with Damien on his custom red Vyrus 987 along the passenger side, Dick on his black and chrome Confederate B120 on the driver side and Bruce in the Batmobile o the car's tail.
Bruce spoke to the boys through their communication system in their helmets. "Watch out if he tries to swipe you. If one of you gets hit, the other goes to his aid and back to the cave."
"Confirmed Batman, we got them." Dick said.
Inside the lambo Jen was looking through a bag she found that had nothing helpful at all. "Ball gag, fuzzy hand cuffs, whips, creepy white mask I don't even want to know what this bullet looking thing is for, AH!" Jen screamed.
"What?!" Anna panicked hearing her friend so alarmed.
"It started vibrating!"
"Did you check the glove box?"
"Ya, there's a gun."
"Is it loaded?"
Jen checked the mag. "Yes."
"Ok, ok, ok take the wheel." Anna told her friend feeling herself go dark.
"What?"
"I said take the fucking wheel!" Jen did. Anna tied her hair back with the hair tie she always kept in her wrist and took the white mask putting it on. Then she grabbed the gun and pulled out all the slack on the seatbelt. Reaching the end of the slack she wrapped her left hand in the end of the belt.
"Keep it steady, I'm gonna try something." She pressed the button to open the suicide door then leaned out of the car. It would be pointless shooting at the Batmobile but she saw that Nightwing's tires were not totally out of range and started shooting. He dodged her first few shots but then lucky #7 hit his tire and sent both him and his bike spinning.
Bruce couldn't believe what he was seeing. Whoever pulled that shot off wasn't the Joker. It was some thug of his in a white mask. "Robin fall back! Nightwing's down and is going to need medical attention. The Joker isn't in the car."
"What about you?" Damien asked his father.
"I'll be fine, whoever's driving that car knows where the clown is."
Damien turned his bike around and went after Dick.
Anna sat back and closed the door. "2 down, 1 to go."
"Holy shit! What was amazing! Fucking mental but amazing!"
Anna thought for a moment. There was no way to escape the Batman. The only thing she could do know was something even more ridiculous.
"Hey Jen? Can you swim?"
"Why?" Jen asked really not liking what her friend was hinting.
"Because I'm considering taking a page out of the boss's playbook. Take off your shoes."
"I fucking hate you right now!" Jen shouted unzipping her boots, Anna did as well. They sped closer to the river.
"I'm gonna open the doors. When we're in the air jump out and swim under the dock. I'll find you, you got it."
"This is so fucking wrong!"
"Do you got it?"
"Yes."
"I promise I will get us out of this. Hold on!"
The lambo went off the road onto the boardwalk then through the air towards the water. Anna jumped out of the car and into the freezing water. She saw Jen swimming for the beams under the docks and swam after her. They had just reached the cover on the dock when they saw a black figure jump in the water.
"Hurry, lets get out of here before he comes back up."
They reached the street and ran. Shivering and shoeless they held each other ducking into the closest ally. Anna found a dirty wool blanket and wrapped it around them both. Jen was silent. "It'll be ok, we aren't far from home. We'll go take hot showers and it'll all be ok."
"You actually got us out of there."
Anna smiled sadly not totally remembering what just happened. "I understand if you don't wanna be my friend anymore after this." Anna said.
"Are you kidding? I think you're stuck with me for life after this!"
They both laughed and started walking towards the hostel. They were only 2 blocks away when Anna felt something hard hit the back of her head. Then the world faded away.
November 6th 2016
The Joker's Penthouse
12:00 Noon
The Joker looked up and down at the 2 girls who had stolen his car and crashed it into the same river he had crashed it into a few months earlier. His men that brought them in had the girls tied to chairs with bags over their heads. One of them was crying. On any other day he would have burned them alive by now. But it was his honeymoon and their act of youthful stupidity had led the Bat on a wild goose chase. One of them even managed to fuck up the night-thing. For that he'd give them the benefit of the doubt and actually ask them what the hell they thought they were doing. Then he's but a bullet in each of their heads.
"Ladies, welcome! Now I'm all for youthful exuberance and mischief but the tow of you just so happed to ruin what was supposed to be a romantic getaway with my wife. However I hear one of you had enough skill to take out Nightwing, possibly for good. Only time will tell. For now I want to know who's idea it was to do something that fucking stupid."
"Ee!" one of the girls said. "E-as-ee!"
"You know, I really hate it when people mumble." The Joker said walking over to the girl in the gold shorts and ripped fishnet stockings. He pulled the bag over her head and was dumbfounded at what he saw. He pulled down the bandana that had been tied around her mouth.
"It was me! I was the driver. She had nothing to do with it! She was trying to convince me no to. Please let her go?"
I pictured the photo from the file Frost had brought to him. It was her, it has to be. He looked into his own blue eyes as they stared back at him in his daughter's face.
"Anna?"
So I promised the Joker and Anna would meet but not that they would get to know each other just yet!
I will update ASAP. So far I have no end game for this story, just a bunch of possible twists and turns so, I'm just going to keep writing and see where it takes its self.
Thank you for reading and please tell me what you think! Your reviews really do help me continue!