Title: Duality
Author: gestalt1
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Two-Face/Joker
Word Count: 345
Written for: , prompt "dark knight bad guy love"
Harvey is order. There is no reason the Joker would want anything to do with him. But Two-Face... Two-Face is chaos, and there is nothing the man with the red smear of a grin likes better. Harvey despises the Joker, would flip the coin over and over until it came up scarred, because Gotham needs to be rid of a man like that, a man who has caused so much pain – and no, he will never forget Rachel, and while the main blame for her death lies with Gordon and his pet Bat, the Joker is not entirely innocent either. Two-Face, on the other twisted, skin-charred hand however, sees... something; a possibility for revenge, for the fairness of pure luck and the chaos the Joker is so very good at. He is as drawn to the Joker as the Joker is to him.
Harvey does not realise his other half has entered into a partnership with the lunatic until it is too late. He argues bitterly with himself, but Two-Face is unflinching. Think of the things we could do, he says. Think of revenge. Think of Rachel. He has a point, Harvey supposes. He doesn't have to like it, but he knows who he hates more. He will put up with Gotham's Clown Prince of Crime, if it means that Gordon and his men get to experience a little fairness.
But, true to form, things are not that simple. The Joker wants more, and Harvey is beginning to suspect from Two-Face's odd sense of satisfaction that he is getting it. The thought of his other self letting that mangy, lank-haired tramp touch him is repulsive, making his skin crawl. But for all his loathing, he cannot control Two-Face, not when his other half wants something to this degree. (But why would he, Harvey asks himself? How could he bare to fuck such a monster?) They are Order – of a sort – and Chaos, and they fit together like the two sides of his coin, and Harvey Dent is beginning to think he has no place here.