Whoah! I am sooooo sorry for the loooong wait! Goodness...yell at me next time I do that. Finally, Chapter 5 is here!

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'What was I thinking? Did I really except his offer? Am I stupid? Or just crazy?',Raven staggered down the stairs with a million thoughts buzzing in her head like angry bees and the smallest speck of sanity was still in her head. She felt like those cartoons where a guy has a devil on one shoulder telling him one thing and the little angel on the other trying to fight off that devil. In her case, the sane part of her mind was the angel and The Riddler was the devil on the other shoulder. She kept hearing his voice repeating,"Join me. Join me." Raven tried to shake it off and just ignore it but it was like a parasite, no matter how hard she tried to scratch that little tick off, it was still stuck in there. Raven decided that the best thing to do at that moment was to just sit down and think about things. She headed to her office and pulled out her favorite deck of cards and began to shuffle them. As she watched the cards fold on top of each other, she began to think about all of her possibilities. She weighed them all against each other. What would happen if she went with the Riddler? What would happen if she continued her daily life? Which one would she regret more?

"What does one do in a situation like this?" She asked herself,"Do you go with your instinct? Or do you go by basic knowledge? Well, obviously if I went with the Riddler, there is a chance the both of us would get caught. Sure, he's a little more aquainted to the villainous life than I am but, not by much. He's probably been at it for what? Hmm. Maybe I should have asked him that. He escaped three months ago and from what I've heard he had just turned into the Riddler no more than about a few weeks, give or take, before that. Its something else to ponder about. Oh well, I have other to stuff to think about at the moment. Lets see now, lets think logically. If I kept doing what I always do, thats obviously more safe. I dont risk going to jail or, even being thrown in here myself. Well, that would be the easier way to go but, what if he escaped again? And he came after me? That wouldn't be good. I don't really know how dangerous this guy is. Well, a few of the other inmates have given me som----" She was cut off by the sound of her office door opening. Raven looked up from her cards and saw Ellen standing in front of her desk.

"I heard you mumbling in here. I just stepped in to see if you were okay. So, how did your session go?" Ellen asked.

"Thats what im mumbling about." Raven replied, her eyes had dropped back down to the deck of cards.

"Well, anything you wanna tell me?"

"No, not really. There is something I wanna ask you though."

Ellen nodded,"Okay, shoot."

Raven looked Ellen straight in the eyes,"Have you ever had to choose between doing the right thing and wrong thing but, the wrong thing seems like the right thing?"

Ellen pondered the question for a minute,"You know, Im really not sure, Raven. Nothing really comes to mind. Why do you ask that?"

Raven waved her hand, as if dismissing the question,"No reason really, just curious."

"You sure about that? Does the Riddler have anything to do with that question?" Ellen watched Raven shuffle the cards. She knew her colleague was nervous about something. Raven looked up with a slightly startled expression on her face but gained her composure quickly,"What does the Riddler have to do with anything?"

Ellen sat down in the chair opposite of Raven,"I have been working here for a few years and I know that some of these inmates have ways of getting in to some of the workers heads. I don't think the Riddler is any different. You have been working with him so, I figured he might be up to something that involved you."

Raven snorted,"If he was trying to get me to do something I would have told you." Ellen nodded in agreement,"Yeah, you seem like the kind that would tattletale on the inmates." Raven grinned and started flipping through the deck, pondering on what she should do. Ellen got up and walked to the office door,"Well, I guess I'll talk to you later, Raven. See ya."

"Bye,"Raven put the deck of cards back in their pack and shoved it back into her desk drawer. She laid her head down on the top of her desk and let out a low growl. She was becoming frustrated with all the thoughts in her head, and just wanted to shoot them all. They were eating away at her mind, causing her to go insane at a slow, agonizing pace. The more she thought about it, the better the Riddler's offer sounded. She got up from her desk and started pacing the room.

"What do I do?! Do I go with the Riddler or do I stay here. Go. Stay here. Go. Stay here. Augh!" Raven clutched her head in frustration. The last bits of her fragile mind were disappearing as the stress of the situation continued to build. She plopped down on the floor and stared at her ceiling,"Why me?" She laughed,"Why did it have to be me? Hahaha!" All of sudden, Raven burst out into a maniacal laughter. The Riddler had succeeded. Her mind had finally given in to the insane virus the Riddler had planted in her head. Raven got up from the floor and started digging through her desk drawers. She found the pistol she was looking for and shoved it into her pockets.

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Oooo, Cliffhanger. What will happen next? Only I know. Sorry if it's kinda short.