Chapter 9
I dreamt about my mom and sister that night. My mom had the same gift I did. She always told me to never be ashamed of it. So I wasn't. My sister resented me for having that connection with our mom.
"Luna! Lori! You'll be late for school!" my mom yelled from our apartment kitchen. I grabbed my backpack and followed my big sister Lori to the kitchen. Our apartment was tiny but that's what you got in Gotham when you were poor. Mom didn't want any help from our Dad. So this is what we were stuck with. Mom handed Lori and I granola bars and put our coats on for us.
"Now listen, Luna. Keep your gloves ON. Do you hear me?" My mom said sternly.
"Yes mom but the teacher always tells me to take them off." I said.
"I had a talk with your teacher. I told her these make you feel safe. So she won't say anything." My mom said smiling.
"She won't say anything because she knows you're a freak." Lori said smirking. Lori was in 8th grade and I was in 6th. So she stuck up for me against bullies but she still picked on me.
"Hey. Knock it off Lori. Help your sister get to school, it's slick out there." My mom said. Lori nodded and led me to the door.
"You girls have a good day at school! I love you!" My mom said as we left. We waived and said our love you's. We got into the Gotham middle school and tried to shake off the rain. As Lori and I walked to our lockers, I saw Diana Prince and her followers standing in the hallway. Diana sneered at me and laughed.
"Oh look, it's Luna the lunatic!" Diana yelled as we walked past. Lori turned around and walked up to Diana.
"You wanna say that again Prince?" Lori said. Diana's smile immediately faded and she shut up.
"That's what I thought." Lori said. I smiled and followed Lori. The day went by fast and the final bell rang for us to leave school. Lori met me at the front and we walked home that was only a few blocks away. When we walked up the stairs of the apartment building, Lori stopped me with her hand.
"Stay here." She said. Our apartment door was cracked open. Of course I didn't listen and I followed. There was blood everywhere. When we walked into our moms bedroom, the walls were stained and her lifeless body was lying face down on her bed. We couldn't even recognize her face. She had been cut into pieces and blood there wasn't even a speck of white from her sheets. I screamed and Lori stood there in shock. Our lives changed in that moment. We didn't know it, but our souls died that day. We didn't know that our humanity was lost after we left that room. We didn't know that our mother's death was our ticket to hell.
I woke up to someone to stroking my neck down to my chest. I grabbed the white arm and was about to flip my intruder over. But then I saw his green hair and silver smile in the dark.
"Miss me?" He said smiling. I could only see a few colors and his silhouette. I sat up and had to fight the urge to knock him to the ground with an embrace.
"What happened with the Bat?" I asked.
"Eh, he got a few lucky hits. But I gave him quite a mark." He said as he held up his hand on which he was sporting brass knuckles. I smiled. I fought it back.
"You're mad." He said smiling. I knew he liked it when I was pissed off.
"Of course I am mad. We're supposed to be partners in this. I deserved to be in that fight just as much as you did." I said gritting my teeth. He smiled even wider.
"What did you think doll? We'd kill the Bat together and ride off into the sunset?" He said sarcastically. I drew back my fist and punched him in the nose. He yelped and held onto his nose and got up off of my bed. I got out of bed getting ready to fight. Instead of attacking he wiped the blood off of his nose and stared me down.
"Nice." He said simply while flashing his grin. I rolled my eyes and folded my arms. "Now listen peaches, I can do whatever the hell I want. This wasn't your game, it's mine. You are just the help. You're dispensable. Just like Quinn was." He said. Which made me wonder then what Frost meant when he said he was under specific instructions to keep me safe. Anger filled my body and I bolted towards him and tackled him. I landed on him and punched him repeatedly in the face while he laughed uncontrollably in between each blow. Before I could land another punch, he pulled me down and locked his lips with mine. I resisted at first but after struggling, but his roaming hands made me give in. He sat up and pushed me backward so I was straddling him as he sat up. I bit his bottom lip hard and I could taste the blood I had drawn. I knew he was using me. In a way, I was using him. My constant need for violence and mayhem was hard to fulfill when I was still technically a rookie, in spite of my family name. With him by my side, I could do whatever I wanted. I could kill whoever I wanted. I would rule Gotham with him. I felt something for him sure. The constant extreme lust I felt when I looked at him was pretty intense.
He wrapped his hands around my back and to my neck. He rustled my hair into his fingers and moaned into my mouth. Then I realized what he was doing. Distracting me.
I pushed myself off of him and moved my hair out of my face with my fingertips. I could see my red fingers make a trail of red orange on my scalp through my hair in the mirror. He sat up and sighed.
"Oh come on doll. You know the score. I don't believe in relationships. I believe in ownership." He said grinning. Okay, so he just said he owned me. Harley may have been okay with that disclaimer but I wasn't. I flung my first in the air and he caught it. He swung me around and grabbed my throat. He pushed me back onto the wall next to my window and punched me in the stomach with his free hand. I doubled over and he ran his hands through his hair. Then I looked behind him and saw Handsome creeping up. I smiled and J noticed. He looked behind him and before he could say anything Handsome pinned him on the ground and growled.
"You have a damn tiger as a house pet?!" He yelled. I laughed.
"Yeah I do. Isn't he sweet?" I said. He scoffed and Handsome roared in his ear. "Handsome, yamemasu." I said. Handsome got off J and walked up beside me. I pet his giant head and he purred. I stopped petting him and pointed to the hall. How he learned to open his habitat door was beyond me. He couldn't do that a year ago. "Handsome rūmu." I said. Handsome proceeded out of my room. J sat up and watched him leave.
"He would make a great throw rug." He said smiling.
"Touch him, you lose all of your limbs." I said as I felt my ribs where he punched me. "You know my dad will have you chopped into bits if he finds out you're in my apartment." I said.
"Eh, his boys think I am with my guys on our floor." He said as he snaked towards me. I rolled my eyes.
"Great, now get out." I said as I nodded towards the door.
"Oh come on dollface, you know I didn't mean it. You shouldn't push my buttons, you know how mad I can get." He said as he slowly started to wrap his arms around my waist. "Can't we just kiss and makeup already?" He said as he wrapped a finger into my bra strap and slowly pulled it down. He nipped at my neck and shoulder. I wanted to let him continue, but I was stubborn. I turned around.
"No." I said as I walked into the kitchen to get a drink. I poured myself a glass of red wine and he followed me.
"Come on sugar. What do I have to do to get ya to forgive me? Do you want me to kill someone for you? Name em and I will do it." He said as he put his hands together as a pleading gesture.
"Can't think of anyone right now." I said as I smiled into my wine glass. He eyed me suspiciously. He knew at this point that I was testing him. I leaned against the countertop and saw him work his way around the center island. He lifted me onto the countertop and nestled in between my legs. I could feel him all over me. It seemed as though time started to speed up. Our lips were bruising each other as our tongues fought each other. I could definitely see how Harley says The Joker is like a drug. He gripped the back of my neck and pulled me in even further. I pulled his silver suit jacket down his shoulders and he threw it to the ground. I laced my fingers in his green hair and moaned into this mouth. He smiled at this and started to tug at my black lace boy shorts. Just as things were getting good, his phone started buzzing. He growled and rested his forehead on mine. He answered his phone clearly irritated.
"I'm kinda busy Frost, what is it?" He asked. Frost started babbling and J looked at me with a worried look. "Okay. We'll be down in a minute." He said. He ended the call and pulled my bra up. He grabbed his jacket off of the kitchen floor.
"What's going on?" I asked as I hopped off the counter. He hesitated.
"Do you want the good news or bad news first?" He asked.
"Good news." I said cautiously.
"The good news is that the Super Squad has a new mission that doesn't involve ruining our master plan." He said grinning. I rolled my eyes and motioned for him to keep talking. "The bad news is I had a few of my boys do a little recon after the Arkham party. They checked out Waller's office." He said.
"Why would that be bad news?" I asked confused.
"Well, I don't know yet. Frost said he got a lot of dirt. But he thinks we should both be there for the run down." He said. I nodded and headed to my room. He followed and straightened his gold chain. I pulled on my red plaid mini skirt and my black button up collar long sleeve shirt. I pulled on my knee high black stiletto boots. J leaned in the doorway of the master bedroom and started shaking his head.
"How am I supposed to concentrate with you looking like that?" He said chuckling. I smiled and bent over to buckle the buckles on my boots. He growled at the view and I straightened. I walked past him and patted him on the shoulder.
"I'm sure you'll find a way Mr. Joker." I said smiling. He growled again and smacked my ass as hard as he could. We worked our way down to The Joker's new headquarters in my Dad's building. We exited the elevator into the main room and saw beer bottles and pizza boxes everywhere.
"Well, no one ever said they weren't messy." I said looking around in disgust. Johnny emerged from the main office.
"Boss. Ms. Cee. You might want to take a look at this." Frost said as he motioned for us to follow him into the office. "We pulled Waller's hard drive and confidential files. Looks like she has been doing dirty dealings since 1995." Frost said as he pulled up surveillance videos of Waller's doctors performing experiments on patients.
"Well the broad is creative, I'll give her that." J said.
"That's not all we found. She kept records of people she had hits on. Every single one." Frost said as he handed the huge file to J. J started to flip through.
"Damn. I knew some of these guys. Why these people though? Why are they worth spending millions for a off the books government job?" J asked.
"Well I researched it a bit. Every single person in this file knew somehow about Waller's hands being dirty. I don't know the connection yet. But however and whatever they knew, got em' killed. Waller hired some of the most well known killers in Gotham to do the jobs. I guess she figured if she got a serial killer to do the deed, it would look like a typical random murder." Frost said.
"So why did you need both of us for this? I don't give a shit about this." I said folding my arms.
"Ms. Cee. Waller ordered the hit on your mom and sister." Frost said. J looked down and growled. My blood boiled.
"No. That can't be it. My sister was killed by Batman during a bank heist she was in on. My mom was robbed and murdered. Doesn't sound like government to me." I said trying to rationalize it. Frost opened the file and my mother and sister were staring back at me. The documents were showing that my mom and sister somehow knew about the government's involvement with this experiments on the criminally insane at Arkham. I was leaning my weight by my knuckles on the desk as I continued to read. My leather gloves were heating up quick. Amanda Waller and her team had hired a well known serial killer (who the Gotham PD could never capture somehow) to murder my mother and make it look like a robbery gone bad. He chopped my mom into bits because she knew too much. I read on to my sister's file. Amanda Waller hired a well known vigilante in Gotham so it looked like a needed killing. My sister was killed by Bruce Wayne? I shook my head.
"No my sister was killed by Batman during a bank heist." I said sounding in denial. J and Frost looked at each other and then me. I put two and two together. Without thinking, I punched my hand through the oak desk. J and Frost stepped back.
"Now doll, before you go and do something stupid…" J said. I looked at him and flashed an evil grin. I could tell it took him back. The shocked look on his face was new, I could tell by how Frost looked when he saw his longtime boss look worried. I turned on my heel and headed towards the main room. I couldn't even really hear J when he was trying to calm me down. Sounds were blurred out if that was possible. I headed to the armory and shoved one of J's guys out of my way. I grabbed a sawed off shotgun and closed the armory.
"Now listen love, I understand that you're upset but we really can't go off killing people right now. As much as I would love to, Amanda Waller is untouchable right now." He said trying to sound overly nice.
"Yeah." I said as I loaded and cocked the shotgun. "But Bruce Wayne isn't." I said. "Now you can either help me or get out of my way." I said in a low tone.
"Oh well, Bruce Wayne is a different story. Let's do it." He said cackling. He followed me into the elevator and got on his phone. I wasn't sure what he was doing but I didn't care. All I could focus on was killing Bruce Wayne, aka Batman. I had to admit, I didn't see that one coming.
"Give me the keys." I demanded. J started laughing his signature laugh.
"We're being bossy now huh?" He laughed. He saw my serious expression and handed me the keys. We got in and I burned rubber. J held on to the sides of the car and laughed. I couldn't find anything funny right now. I was out for blood.