The chapter you have all been waiting for, THE LAST! Hahahahah just fuckin with you, you can't get off that easy. Anyway I'm all good and ready for this chapter to be posted. I got about an hour and a half to pull a chapter out of my ass so here you go!
Flying-pencils: You know I think he is to.
Everyone else expect for Sam-I-am must hate me but that's okay.
Chapter 6
Damian was fast asleep when someone drug him out of his bed by his foot and into the living room. Dammit I'm probably going to be murdered and tomorrows payday! He was shoved against and chair and tied down and the lights came on. The first thing he saw was Artemis tied down on a chair just across from him. Second he saw the Joker walk over from the light switch.
Damian about wet his pants. What was going on, he had no idea, but he wasn't to keen on finding out. By the looks of it, he was going to find out weather he wanted to or not. Joker walked over with his knife pulled out and looked Damian strait in the face. They stood with just 10 inches between them. It really freaked him out.
"Now," said the Joker, "you should really, uh, be careful about having friends. Their, uh, weapons and they can really get in the way."
"You're nuts," hissed Damian. The Joker just shrugged and walked over to Artemis, determined to prove Damian wrong, and looked as if he was examining a black eye he gave her. Artemis hawk eyed him but showed no fear. If she was afraid Damian couldn't tell. She had a determined look on her face like she was ready for anything he had to dish out. It really scared Damian, she seemed to have no regard for her own personal health, she wasn't even teary eyed even though this man had almost beat her to death.
"Wow, doll, that really looks like it hurts," he said with concern in his voice, "looks like you can't, uh, see." He ran his blade along the bruise slowly. Artemis only hissed in pain. Damian was growing anxious, what was he going to do to Artemis and where was Joey right now?
"Like I was saying," said the Joker walking towards Damian now, "friends are weapons. You gotta distance yourself from people." Damian just shook his head. He didn't want to believe that. The Joker walked over to Artemis again and drug his knife slowly across her belly. Artemis gasped in pain but still made no reaction. She had sworn to herself she would never again beg the Joker; she would die before she humiliated herself like that again.
Damian made a move to attack the Joker but it was kind of hard sense his hands were tied to the chair. The Joker kicked Artemis over as a response. "What do you want," asked Damian.
"Don't give this bastard anything," argued Artemis, "don't give him shit! What the fuck do we owe him!?" The Joker cut her across the arm and Artemis flinched a bit but still showed no move to beg for herself. Damian looked at her as she shook her head mouthing the word 'no'. He looked over at the Joker who looked back at Artemis then at him.
"What do you want," he whispered slowly.
"Simply for you to understand that friends are dangerous," said the Joker walking back to him. Damian tensed as he neared him. Damian could see he was right. The Joker was using Artemis to make him see that. The fact that he had already beat her pretty bad just made it a bonus for him. The Joker looked at Damian intently and walked back over to Artemis who just lay on the floor watching with her hair in her face.
"You see, sweetheart, you are a weapon. Just like he is a weapon that I can use against you. He would rather do what someone else tells him then to cause harm to you. But if I where to put this knife against your neck, like so, we can find out who he cares for more. You or himself." Joker pulled a gun out and pointed at Damian. "So, what will it be, Damian. You or Artemis? Hmm?" Damian shook his head. How could anyone put that kind of decision on him? He looked at Artemis who just laid there. Her drugs had worn off and she was in so much pain she looked like a dying deer. She didn't make any move other then to breath shallow breaths.
The Joker plowed his foot in her gun causing her to moan. All Damian could do was watch. As if right on cue, Joey walked in the room. He looked around curiously. "Oh," he said, "sorry." He was about to leave but Joker got up and walked near him. Joey slowly side stepped away. He turned around and saw the sink directly behind him had water in it. He felt shivers go down his spine. The Joker made a quick move and Joey panicked and quickly ran toward Damian and Artemis.
Damian was left wonder which choice he would have made, unfortunately so was Artemis.
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The next day was extremely awkward. Joey sat in his usual spot and ate his cereal thinking to himself. Damian drifted in his own thoughts sitting at the table with an empty coffee cup in front of him and he just stared at the wall. Artemis was brought back to the hospital after the Joker left.
Gordon was called again and Artemis had to tell him what happened. Damian was still really shookin up. She lay in her hospital bed thinking to herself. Who almost died last night? She heard the door open but didn't need to look to know who it was. That creepy feeling came over her and she knew who it was.
"What do you want," she asked quietly.
"Just to talk," said the Joker. They sat in silence for a long moment. The Joker wanted to hear what was on her mind. He had to work extra hard on her, she was hard to peg, but he wanted to see if he got her yet. Her head turned from the window to him and she had a blank face.
"He wasn't going to choose me," she said. The Joker shook his head with a concerned look.
"Uh, no, he wouldn't," he replied.
"It's human nature not insanity," she said. She had figured out the Joker's game a long before he walked into her life.
"I, uh, wanted you to see what people where really like. They only think of themselves."
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Short chapter but next one they meet Harleen Quinnzel!
