Running. Note: yes the first chapter! :) Hope you guys enjoy this story! :)
Edward Nigma was used to running, he did it quite often, generally from police, the occasional hallucination of his father but he mostly ran away from the local wildlife.
Tonight, however, he was running away from cops in a squad car and he was very thankful that they're were so many narrow alley ways, other wise they would of caught him by now.
He was secretly praying that he wouldn't run into Selina. Recently they had a little difficulty when it came to a certain jewel and it hand't ended well for her and she wanted to get her own back.
Just as the thought entered his head, a bolero wrapped around his feet and he fell to the floor.
He glared up at the smiling Catwoman, who waved at him and walked off, leaving him to face the fate of being caught by the police.
They smirked and hauled him to his feet before shoving him in the back of the police car, but this time he was not alone, there was someone else sitting at the back.
She was smiling and it seemed to get even bigger when he was pushed in next to her, which was strange. Usually at the sight of a rogue, even to thugs, had them quivering in fear, but she didm;t seem to care.
What caught Edward more off guard was what she looked like: Black and white hair, one side white one side black, her costume followed that and she had purple eye make up on her face.
Edward guessed that her name began with 'J', because round her neck hung a choker with a silver 'J' pendant.
One of Joker's lot too it seemed, she looked like a clown, plus she had pure white skin.
"Well, as I live and breath, the Riddler! Never thought I'd ever meet you! You are, after all, the opposite of what my boss stands for," she laughed, sounding very childish.
Edward sighed and looked ahead as they began to drive off. "And your 'boss' stands for what exactly, other then idiocy?"
Despite what he said, the kid laughed, she laughed her head off. "Ha! Good one!"
Edward shook his head and looked out the window. She was irritating.
"So… mister cops, are we there yet?" the girl asked.
No response.
"Are we there yet?"
No response.
"Are we there yet?"
No response.
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we-?"
"Don't you think if we were there, the car would stop moving?" Edward yelled, giving her an icy glare.
She giggled at him and leaned close, before whispering. "Are we there yet?"
Edward moved his hands to get at her but he'd been shackled. "You're lucky I can't reach you!"
"You're lucky I can't reach you," she retorted, before smirking.
The rest of the car ride was like this, the GCPD was no better, the ride to the asylum was worse and now he was at the asylum, he was hoping, no, praying that he wouldn't have to see the kid ever again.
But since when was his prayers ever answered?
She was in the cell opposite him. Opposite him!
She looked across at his cell and smiled. "Riddly! It's good to see you again!"
Edward didn't reply, unless you count a death glare he sent her a reply.
"Knock, knock."
Edward groaned, of she wasn't going to tell jokes was she?
"Knock, knock."
If she did he might risk solitary, anything was better then this.
"Knock, knock!"
Oh shut up, shut up, shut up!
"Knock, knock!"
"What?!" Edward yelled grabbing the bars of the small window of his cell to glare at the set of mischievous jade green eyes that were looking back at him.
She giggled lightly. "You're meant to say 'who's there?'"
Edward narrowed his eyes and moved away from his cell door.
"Oh come on Riddly, I'm bored!"
"Well, boo hoo," Edward grit out as he sat with his back against the door.
There was a sigh from the other cell. "I just want a friend," she called over to him. "I've never been in a place like this."
"Well find somebody else!" Edward snapped.
"But I want to be friends with you!"
"Well I don't want to be friends with you!"
There was a pause and then Edward breathed a sigh of relief, finally she had stopped- wait what was that?
He looked into the other cell, the eyes had disappeared and he could hear crying.
Why was he gifted with the ability to make people cry? Especially kids.
He sighed, he would ignore it, he could ignore it.
"Eddie what did Ya' do?" asked Harley from the cell next to his. "She was only trying to get a friend, it's Humbugs first stint in a Asylum!"
"I must say Edward, your way with children is much to be desired," Jonathan called somewhere down the hall.
"This from the so called master of fear!" Edward bit back.
"I didn't make the child cry," Jonathan pointed out. "That was you."
"If you two cared so much, why didn't you talk to her hmm?" Edward snapped before leaving the door and sitting on his bed.
"We weren't the ones she was tryin' ta' be friends with," Harley scolded.
"She likes you, you should at least try to be polite Edward. She may surprise you. She may even be smart," Jonathan said as he walked back into the shadows of his cell.
The cell block became quiet, save for the crying.
Edward grit his teeth. Even if he was a heartless genius on occasions, he was still human and if a child cried, it was a natural reaction to want to try and stop it.
He sighed and got to his feet, leaning against the door. He didn't even know her name.
"Black and white clown," he called.
The crying stopped and the red rimmed jade green eyes appeared in the gap. "Yeah?" she sniffed.
"First time in an asylum?" he questioned.
He was given a nod.
"Scared?"
Another nod.
"You'll be fine. You were fine with me."
"But… the car was small, the asylum isn't. There was only you and me and here there is an entire island full of crazy people!" the girl protested. "And I'mma' including the Doctors in that category too!"
"Why are you including the doctors?" Edward questioned. Had she heard something from Joker about the Doctors here?
She giggled lightly, sniffing again. "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps."
Edward felt a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth, but he fought it away.
"So… what did you do?"
"What?"
"What did you do? To get put in here?"
"Ain't Ya' been watching the news?"
Truth be told, he hadn't. His puzzles had taken up too much time and everything else became non existent.
"Been other wise occupied," he explained.
"Well, I helped boss J' man blow city hall sky high!" she proclaimed proudly.
"Ah," something like that was always a one way ticket to Arkham.
"What about you?" she asked.
"Wrong place, wrong time."
"Oh," she giggled. "Aren't they always… I mean, if we weren't in certain places at certain times then we wouldn't find ourselves in this current predicament."
Edward blinked. He was surprised the child even knew the word 'predicament' let alone knew what it meant.
"Umm… yes I suppose," he muttered.
"YAY!" she squealed. "I got something right for a change! Oh and the name's Jester, you can probably see why," she said giggling at the last bit.
Edward nodded. "Edward," he siad.
"Well Eddie, this is going to be a start of a beautiful friendship!"
Edward glared and growled at her, "My name, is Edward."
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