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Chapter 13
Artemis was put back in her cell with a satisfied smile. Although she was still locked in the cell, every little victory counted, and tonight the score was Artemis 1 Batman nothing! Gordon went and pulled Damian out of his cell to take to the interrogation room. He may need to wait a little longer, batman looked shaken up.
When Gordon left the Joker and Joey started in on the questions she was not expecting.
"Was Batsyyy there," asked the Joker.
"What did they ask you," asked Joey.
"What did you tell them, doll?"
"Did they hurt you?"
"If they did I'll kill them!"
"Hey," said Gordon's partner, "keep it down!"
"Woop Woop," shouted Artemis.
"Dark Lotus till I'm dead in the ground," shouted Joey.
"Hey, ICP is not allowed! Knock it off or I will put you in the drunk tank!" (Isn't that shit gay!)
"Hey chicken you can't put me in that cell," taunted Artemis. Gordon's partner sighed in frustration and went back to his book. The three grew silent for a moment watching him. Gordon's partner felt uncomfortable.
Artemis sat on the floor with her back to the bars bouncing her leg in anticipation watching the gray wall in front of her. The Joker was sitting down with his feet out in front of him focused on the ground running his tongue along the scars inside his mouth in boredom. Joey was crashed out on the floor. The moments passed slowly and uneventfully.
Finally the Joker got up catching Artemis's attention. Nothing interesting, he was just pacing his cell. Artemis got up and looked at the bars in front of her. She checked a couple bars to see if they wiggled or not. She jumped up on the bar and started climbing for the roof. The Joker stopped to watch her with amusement.
Gordon's partner heard the Joker start to chuckle a bit and looked up to see Artemis climbing around in her cell like a monkey. He watched as she switched from one bar to the other careful to not fall. He got up and paced toward her quickly. "Hey," he shouted, "get down from there!" He hit her knee with a magazine he had rolled up in his hand and she jumped off.
"Police violence! Police violence! I been hit by the po-po! Injustice and rights infringement," shouted Artemis. The Joker started laughing and Joey got up looking around to see what all the commotion was about. She ran to the other side of her cell with a fake look of fear. "Please don't tazer me officer!" She started up laughing along with the Joker and Joey just looked really confused.
"What is wrong with you," shouted Gordon's partner. Artemis stopped laughing but gave him the biggest grin she could manage.
"I'm bored," she said. Gordon's partner growled a bit and walked back to his cell.
"Hey, officer, can I ask you something," asked Joey as he walked over. The officer looked up really annoyed.
"Well I got this friend named Cory and he recently had his hair done. He text me a picture but I couldn't remember what the hair style was called. So I texted the message to Artemis who forward it to Kayla. Kayla didn't know so she asked JC-"
"No," said Artemis, "Kayla asked Darrin who asked JC. Remember, cause JC was at that one starbucks with Jessica who asked him for a copy and she asked her sister Mary."
"Oh, yea, and Mary sent it to Taylor but she didn't know so she sent it to her dad Mr. Rainie and he sent it to that one mechanic guy Reed."
"Yea, Reed and Mr. Rainie have been friends sense forever. "
"Yea, what was that hair style called that Jamaican's have," asked Joey. The officer blinked a couple of times. He slowly turned around and shook his head in confusion. He had NO idea what Joey was talking about. "Hey, you didn't answer my question," said Joey in a hurt tone.
"I have no idea what the question is. I don't even know when you asked the question," he said. Joey took a deep breath.
"Okay," he said, "one more time. I got this friend named Cory-"
"SHUT UP," shouted the officer. It startled Joey, Artemis, and the Joker. They all flinched and started laughing at his distress. The officer looked up at God and asked 'Why me Lord?"
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Damian sat in the room for about ten minutes. He was getting tired of waiting when Gordon walked in. He sat down in the seat and studied Damian for a while.
"Why," he asked, "why are you siding with the Joker."
"I ask myself that question a lot," said Damian with a small smile.
"You seem to have it more all together then the others," said Gordon.
"Not really. I keep saying we should fight it but for some reason I keep letting myself slip into it and I wonder to myself 'why am I even trying to fight this? It's pointless, the worlds my playground when I do what I want so why won't I even enjoy it.' But you know, I ask myself that every time, then turn around and do it anyway."
"Please," said Gordon, "we can get you help for this but I need you to help me help you."
"You don't understand," groaned Damian, "I don't want the help. I can guarantee you that the other three don't want it either."
"We need to get rid of the Joker and make sure he doesn't get out or have any more leverage over him," pleaded Gordon, "please we need your help." Damian started laughing hysterically.
"See, this is your problem Gordon. You don't live you only exist. When was the last time you felt truly alive and free! You never give yourself up to experiencing. We aren't in this world very long so why not make what could be your final moments really count." Gordon nodded and got up. He left the room and shortly after Batman came in.
"Tell me what I want to know," said Batman.
"Okay, you need to cut back on smoking. 15 packs a day is bad for the voice," said Damian. He started laughing and Batman came closer to him in an intimidating way. "What, you are going to try and scare me? I got news for you. I have been to hell and back, it's going to take more than that to scare me. "
Batman walked over and kicked the chair out from under Damian causing him to fall. Batman picked him up and slammed him into a wall. "TELL ME!"
"Sorry, man, but I'm deaf. " Batman threw him to the floor and turned to leave. His last hope was Joey and it was looking bleak so far. He was growing frustrated, he didn't know how many more dead ends he could take, he was close to calling it a night.
Gordon went in after to get Damian and bring him back to his cell.
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"Wow," said Damian, "that was really special."
"Told you batman would be there," said Artemis.
"Oh hey, I get to meet batman," said Joey as Gordon drug him out of the cell.
"He isn't all that great," said Damian, "he is kind of an asshole. Hey make fun of his voice!"
"Dude, I'm totally going to," said Joey.
"Yea, man I told him to smoke less cigarettes," said Damian.
"Sweet! I'm so stealing that!" And another moment of boredom began. Everyone in their positions and Damian laying down staring at the roof.
"I wish they had those cheep ass roofs like what they did at school."
"Yea, with all the dots on the ceiling," said Artemis, "I use to count those panels and stare off into space."
"You had that old ass guy. Mr. Gibbles," said Damian laughing a bit. The Joker looked u in shock.
"Gullible Gibbles still teaches there," he asked.
"Oh, you know him," asked Artemis.
"Know him? Hahaha he was my, uh, English teacher. Never did learn much."
"Oh no way, he was our English teacher to," said Damian.
"Yea, Joey's English and Creative Writing teacher," said Artemis. Silence fell again. Obviously they were off their game for small talk. The Joker thought back to high school until it hit him, he was never this honest with ANYONE. Yet here he was talking about his high school days, it was really weird, he didn't like it much. He figured he had better stop or God knows what he might say next.
Artemis sighed and stood up again. "God, doesn't Joey normally have weed on him?"
"Normally," said Damian, "but they kind of took it from him."
"Sucks to be Joey…come to think of it, sucks to be us," she said.
"Hey, you're a poet and didn't even know it," said Damian.
"I bet I could write a song," she said dazing off.
'I bet you could if you put your mind to it," said Damian now covering his eyes with his arm.
"Sucks to be Joey, sucks to be us
This Jailbird party is a total bust
We got no weed
We got no drink
And we in the worst of company"
"That's the worst song I have ever heard," said Damian. The Joker stood up again and started pacing to think something up. He had his backup plan but that would require a phone call. He was very aware that they weren't going to give him one. If only he could get a hold of one of his henchmen he could get out of here.
"Hey," said the Joker to the officer, "mind if I, uh, make a quick phone call?"
"No way," said the officer, "and I'm not going to let you manipulate me into giving you one."
"I get a phone call and I want my phone call," he demanded. Artemis looked over in boredom, what could he possibly be planning?
"I'm not giving you shit," he growled. The Joker gave him a dark look. Artemis rolled her eyes and walked over to her cell door silently. She pulled a bobby pin out of her hair and kneeled down to the lock and pulled her arm around the bars to stick it in. The Joker saw what she was up to and kept his eyes on the officer still reading his book.
Artemis stuck the pin in and was just about to unlock it when the door opened and she stood up strait and the Joker moved away from his door quickly so the two didn't look suspicious. Damian was sitting watching in interest.
Gordon came in with Joey who seemed to be doing some weird break dance.
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Joey sat in the seat across from Gordon. "Now," said Gordon, "I need you to tell me the Jokers real name and what you know about the others."
"You know, they told me and it slipped my mind," said Joey.
"I need you to tell me everything you know, it's very important, think of all the innocent lives that are at stake."
"You need to think, man. If you couldn't get any information from my home girl and my brotha' from anotha' mutha' to tell you anything why would I?"
"I don't think you know how dangerous the Joker really is," pressed Gordon.
"Man, I don't know if you remember, but he used water torture on me."
"Yes, I do remember, I don't understand. You were all so willing to help and now you are all backing down and joining his side."
"I don't fully understand it either," said Joey with a grin. Gordon sighed and left the room. Joey pulled a Stop Smoking pamphlet out and put it on the table and waited for Batman to enter. When he did the first thing he noticed was the pamphlet. He gave a heavy sigh as Joey and Gordon held back giggles.
"I would just like to point out that I talk this way to mask my voice so you wont know who I am," said Batman.
"How the hell would we know," said Joey, "unless you are a famous billionair. Hey, Gordon, would you believe it if Bruce Wayne was the one in the bat costume." Gordon laughed a bit. "Oh, pound it," he said pulling out his fist. Gordon pounded his fist. Batman glared at him.
"Sorry," he said shuffling out. Joey gave a sigh of content.
"He's a good guy," said Joey, "got a lot of heart and soul. Even in the worst times he can still laugh at a good joke."
"I don't find it very funny," snarled Batman.
"That's okay," said Joey, "I still do."
Batman turned to leave, he had to take the rest of the night off or he was going to kill someone. "Hey," said Joey, "Smokers Anonymous is on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7pm. Free patches if you go!" Batman walked outside and pounded his fist through the wall and turned to leave.
"I'm done," he said to Gordon. Gordon nodded and took Joey back.
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"Joker is to be transported to Arkham Asylum in 10 minutes," said Gordon, "the teenagers will be put in Juvenile Hall first thing in the morning." The other police nodded and nervously walked toward the Jokers cell. The Joker stood waiting. When they finally got him in hand cuffs two officers had broken noses, one had her arm pulled out of joint, one had a few bruises, one had a bleeding head after being pounded in the wall, and the other had a sprained ankle.
They took him out but not without last words to Artemis. "You are not one of them and they will hate you for it," he said as they drug him out the door, "I'll see you kids soon, I'm a man of my word," he said laughing wickedly. Artemis was about in a panic. She walked right along side of him as he spoke to her and hung on the bars as they drug him out.
The Joker watched as his panicky daughter watched him being drug to Arkham. He had a feeling he wouldn't need an escape, but had a planned to back up on. You couldn't rely on people, they fail you, last thing you need is to have your chances riding on a slim plan. Artemis looked around the room, they had to get out.
Gordon and his partner were talking to each other and she paused to listen. "I'm going home," said Gordon, "before you leave make sure there is an officer here to watch them."
"Sure," said his partner, "I'm going to call up Ann and get her to take over."
"Alright, I will see you here tomorrow and hopefully we can end this."
"It's the Joker," said his partner, "it's never going to end."
"We can hope," said Gordon smiling.
"Well, hope isn't going to keep us alive, keeping our guard up, that just might."
Artemis felt a smile creep up on her face as an idea came to her. She walked over to Damian and Joey and they walked over to her. She whispered her idea to them. Gordon and his partner watched paranoid of what they could possibly be talking about.
"Just be careful," said Gordon. His partner nodded.
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Next time, Artemis's great escape plan, and the world finds out what she and her friends are like without a leash!
