Done.
Note: I'm going to be busy soon so, I'm trying to get these chapters out for you guys, don't worry it's not the end :)
She was freaked out. It was now official, Jester was freaked out.
How was such a feat possible? Well, when you have the Warden sneaking round halls at god nows what hour watching you, it's bound to freak you out a little.
Jester fiddled with a piece of loose orange thread of her jumpsuit. She was waiting for her second interview with Mist, it was time to start the hints, she knew Eddie was already dropping hints to her about his identity and what ever Strange and Warden were up to, yeah that's right, Hugo Strange had arrived.
She waited and watched the guards walk by and finally they came and grabbed her, taking her through the Asylum to the mansion and to her second interview.
She would admit, Mist looked very tired and slightly jumpy, but hey, she was dealing with Eddie, that was expected.
"Good morning Jester, how are you today."
"I'm good, just… I don't know it's a strange day," Jester commented, but she notice the Doctor's eyes suddenly flashed with something Jester didn't recognise.
"Strange day? As in… and this is strictly off the record, Hugo Strange?" Mist asked.
Jester grinned before giggling. "Has Eddie been speaking with ya'?"
"… Yes…. but that's besides the point, what is everyone so scared of?"
"War."
"War?"
"Gang war. Eddie has an idea ya' see and… can we make this strictly off the record," Jester stated pointing to the recorder.
Mist paused before clicking the tape off. "So, what can you tell me?"
"Eddie reckons Strange has something over the Warden, something he's using to control him with."
"Like a secret medical condition?" Mist whispered, remembering what Harley had told her about Quincy Sharp.
"I guess. But Eddie thinks Strange is the man in charge, Sharp is just his puppet."
Mist seemed to nod her head in agreement before snapping her fingers as a revolution hit her.
"He's already warned you about that 'asn't he?"
Mist gave a slow nod.
"Of course he has," Jester muttered before glaring at nothing. "He tells me to do this weird thing with you, giving ya' clues and he's already told ya'. Typical Eddie," she grunts.
Mist pauses before frowning. "Why do you stay with him?"
"He's my big brother R! I have to stay with him plus… we have a common denominator."
"And what's that?" asked Mist, staring intently.
"Both of our mommies have bitten the dust, so to speak."
Mist pauses, there's an awful moment for Jester when she thinks she's given the game away but instead the Doctor nods and writes something down before standing up.
"I think that will be all for today, goodbye Jessica."
"See ya' Doc' Terry," Jester mutters as the Guards come and take her away again.
She knows Eddie's up to something, she just doesn't know what. The game he's playing with Doctor Terry is both exciting and stupid, not to mention dangerous and recently, Jester has been caring for others more, like she has actual empathy for them. It's strange, she hasn't felt such a feeling in such a long time that it is foreign and unnatural, but she likes it in a weird way, something new and exciting.
There is one frightful moment when she suddenly realises something, the bitter truth of it all was… she was becoming sane. Doctor Terry really was helping, there was also that little factor that, if Jester didn't get out, she could end up as one of Strange's failed experiments.
Jester shivered slightly. If there was one thing she didn't want, it was certainly that.
"Jester!"
Jester turns and smiles when she sees Eddie, he's her best friend, the closest thing to family she now has. Slightly sad in a way, especially when her sister is just a few cells away from her.
"Hey Eddie!" she calls happily, smiling that same smile like always, but there is a hint of sanity mixed in it, a hint of normality.
And Edward notices it.
"I take it you will not be around here much longer?"
"What makes you say that Eddie?"
"That fact your smile no longer holds that insane gleam to it. Jester, I wouldn't be surprised if Mist had you realised soon, you have been oddly, very good lately."
Jester frowns. "Just being myself Eddie, nothing more I can assure you."
Edward nods but they both know what's coming. "When?"
"Don't know, Doc' hasn't decided yet."
"I see. I will try and get her to hurry up with making up her mind."
"Ya' trying to get rid of me or something?" snapped Jester.
"You and I both know that things are going to get dangerous. A gang war will be commencing soon and a battle field is no place for a child, no matter how deranged they might be."
Jester pouts and folds her arms, glaring at the docks and freedom, but she knows that he's right.
"She's worked it out ya' know. Doc' Terry is keeping an eye out for anything suspicious."
"Good. I told you Mist would be fine," Edward said with a laugh.
"But you and I both know this is only the start of the game," Jester mutters. "The start is always easy, but as you go on, the levels get harder and harder. Ya' playing a game here Eddie, a game of life and death, but you're forgetting one key thing."
Edward raises and eyebrow, to be quite honest he is shocked that the girl even knows or realises any of this. "And what, pray tell, is that?"
"The fact that in this game, they're ain't no extra lives!" Jester shouts. She's had it with games and insanity, she wants a live an actual live. She doesn't want to spend the rest of her days hiding riddles and glowing green question marks. She doesn't want to live in the ever blue and black shadow of her sister. She wants to be free. She wants to be herself and this isn't it and she knows this and she's always known it, it was simply easier to accept insanity and forget everything, Jester is done taking it easy, she's done playing the fool, she's going to show them, show all of them, exactly what it is she is capable of. She will show all of them who Jessica Turner really is, because, that's who she is right now. She is Jessica Turner.
"Jester-,"
"It ain't 'Jester' Eddie, not anymore!" Jester shouts, her fist are clenched, she sees Mist walking out of the mansion and she meets her gaze. Mist is staring at her in shock, but she watches and stops the guards from intervening, because she needs to hear the words that Jester wants to say, she needs to hear them for herself.
Jester takes a deep breath. She will show all of them. "It isn't 'Jester', I'm not hiding not anymore. My name, is… is Jessica Turner, but you can call me Jess for short."
Edward stares at her in shock. He can not believe it, he isn't sure if he's happy or sad, but he doesn't care. He's in too much shock to care.
"I'm sorry Edward," Jessica continues. "But I don't want to spend the rest of my life hiding behind a clown and a riddle. I don't want to live in constant fear of the bat, I don't want to live in his shadow. I want… I want to walk in the sun, to see actual sun light, since it seems to take a vacation when ever it's meant to be here. I want to… to be me."
"You're leaving?"
"I will be. Thank you for helping me Edward," Jessica mutters, before she turns to leave.
"Why did you go?"
"Pardon?"
"Why did you go insane?"
Simple question, odd it's coming from the man of riddles himself, but it's a simple question and simple questions deserve simple answers.
"You know me Edward," Jester shrugs before smiling. "Sometimes I just take things… way too far. See ya'," she waves at him before walking past the group of staring guards. "Gentleman," she says with a nod in their direction before she walks past them all and the staring crowd.
As if on cue, it starts to rain and for the most part, Jessica is happy. It hides her tears. She is sad, simply because she will miss Edward, but that is the only reason. The rest of the place can go to the dogs for all she cares. She's done.
No more Jester.
No more crazy.
She's done with it.
She's Jessica Turner.
No more crimes.
No more murder.
She's done.
It's time for her to leave. Mist had signed her papers, she was officially sane and ready to leave. Her bag was packed and she was out of the itchy jump suit she hated.
She tied the lace of her trainers, before grabbing her black and white striped bag, containing money, identification cards, the address she would be staying at as well as one singular photo she had managed to find of Edward. True, it was a mugshot, but he was smirking his 'I'm right, you're wrong' smirk and it was her favourite, so she took that with her.
Mist was standing at the door smiling at her, she still seemed to be tired.
"I'm so proud of you Jess, you've come so far and now you can be realised into society."
"Thank you Doctor Terry," Jessica says, with a small smile.
"You can call me Mist," she assures, before giving the girl a hug.
As Jester pulls away, she can't help but smile, she's free and she knows it.
Then she sees him. Edward.
He looks her way and there is a moment of stillness as they stare at each other, now playing on opposite sides of the playing field, it felt strange.
She doesn't break eye contact with him until he is forced to look the other way.
Mist places a hand on her shoulder and smiles. "I'll take care of him."
"Thank you," Jessica whispered before turning around and walking out of the doors.
She watches as the guards smile and let her walk free, but then she hears it, a singular sound that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
Laughter.
She turns to the Asylum and gives it one last look before turning her back and walking away and as she does, laughter of hundreds of mad and insane men and women, follow her.
But there is only one thing she can think right now.
She is free.
T.B.C:
Note: My poor baby Jester is officially sane and she has Vendetta after her and she doesn't know it! What will happen? To be honest I'm slightly intrigued to find out myself :) Hope you guys like it and don't worry, for those of you wanting to meet Enigma Terry, she is coming very soon in this story as is the identity of Jester's dad and my god, that is not going to go down well :P
Take a guess who you think her dad is and for those of you who know, yes I'm looking at you Double S, don't go spilling any beans :P