Sweet dreams.
It was early in the morning when Jonathan woke up, he was back at the house, his house. But he was outside, underneath the scarecrow as it stared down at him and he stared up at it.
The crows were cawing as a signal that it was early morning, the sky was alight orange as the sun was almost at the peak of the hills just away, outlining Gotham's skyline.
Jonathan groaned and slowly sat up, he was covered in straw and the mask, it was still on his face, but it felt wet.
He frowned before shaking his head, it was probably just early morning due that was probably all it was, but how did he end up here?
He removed the mask and blinked to get the sleep out of his eyes before he looked down at the scarecrow mask and he felt his eyes widen.
It was stained red and it was still wet.
He swallowed before looking at his hands and saw they were also covered in a red stain, but there was a coppery smell to it.
Oh god no… no, no, no… what had he done?!
He stood up from the straw pile and looked down at himself, seeing blood coating his figure, the shirt the coat, everything.
His hands began to shake as the harsh reality set in, the scarecrow had gained so much control Jonathan had blacked out and didn't know what had happened, part of him wondered if he even wanted to know what had happened.
He looked at his shaking hands before he began to take a few uncertain steps backwards, tripping over something as he went.
He turned to see what it was and a scream, the first scream he'd let out in a long time came from his throat as he stared at the woman who was staring back at him with lifeless eyes, accusing eyes.
He scrambled away from her and got to his feet, his mind was racing what the hell had he done what happened who was the woman?
So many questions.
His phone buzzed and he quickly pulled it out of his pocket, opening it and swallowing as he took a deep breath to steady himself.
"H- hello?"
"Jonathan!"
It was Edward.
"Edward?"
"Oh thank god, I was so worried. You disappeared two days ago and no one saw you, Luna and Lui have been worried sick, even your shrink came and found me to ask if I knew where you'd go what happened?"
Two days.
Jonathan stared at the body with wide eyes.
He was out for two days, the Scarecrow had been in control for two days.
"Jonathan are you still there? Are you okay?"
"Y- yes," Jonathan whispered as he stared down at the mess in front of him. "I- I'm fine… Edward… didn't anything strange happen while I was missing?"
There was a pause. "Jonathan are you sure you're okay?"
"Just answer me!" he shouted before he calmed down. "Did something happen, is anybody missing?"
"Jonathan you're scaring me," Edward whispered over the phone.
Good, Scarecrow chuckled in his head. About time you scare somebody on your own Jonny boy, doing something like that without my help? I'm so proud of you.
"Shut up, shut up!" Jonathan hissed through his teeth, clutching his head at the same time before he shook his head and turned his attention back to the phone. "Edward, please just tell me!"
"There… have been a few people reported missing, some are still missing others have been found well… what ever was left of them."
He blanched before falling to his knees and staring into the distance as he tried to hold back the tidal wave of tears.
He never wanted to hurt anyone innocent, he only wanted to get revenge on those who had wronged him, not attack anyone else.
"Jonathan? Are you still there?"
"Edward…" Jonathan whispered as he swallowed and turned to look at the woman that was lying next to him. "I think I might have found one of your other missing victims."
A young boy was running through the streets, well he was hardly a boy much anymore, he was 16 finally and he was loving it. He never felt so free in his life.
As he took a sharp turn he came to an abrupt stop and smiled as he saw a group of men glaring daggers at him.
"Well, well, well," the boy chuckled before he swung a baseball bat that had been lying on the floor over his shoulder and grinned. "What do we have here?"
"Scram Dury!" one of the men shouted.
Dury shook his head and smirked. "My name's not Dury," he smiled and charged swinging the bat out at one of the men, catching him on the chin, before he swung out at another. "My name is Cameron Van Clear, but you can call me Killer Moth, because that's what I am!" he swung it one final time at the last man and knocked him out before he looked over at the group of younger boys, probably 13, 14 tops staring at him and he grinned. "That's what I am, a killer moth!"
"Killer Moth?" one of them squeaked as he backed away as Dury came over to him. "Yeah, but you can call me Cameron, do you want to help me out? Become someone big in this town? Someone big like what I'm gonna be?"
One of the boys nodded before another one and then the final nodded. "Yeah," the first one squeaked. "We'd like that."
"Good," Moth grinned as he stood up and swung the bat onto his back and beckoned for them to follow him. "Then that's what we'll be, the Killer Moth gang! An unstoppable force of nature!" then he turned to the boys and swung the back pack off his back and unzipped it. "I don't know if these will fit, but they should do," he pulled out a few hoodies he had found at the Flea, before he'd spray painted them purple, so they'd keep the colour he used spray paint to stain them, with little green stencilled moths on the backs.
"This way," he explained as he handed the boys each one. "Everyone will know you're part of the Killer Moth gang and then no one will bother you," he explained before he swung the rest onto his shoulder and grinned at the boys. "So come on now," he cried pulling up his own purple hoodie, but this one had a green hood where the rest had purple. It was to show he was the leader. "Let's head back to base and plan our next move!"
It wasn't rainy in the early morning, but Croc still wore the hood up, never taking it down until he was safely back in his home of the sewers, pulling it down and smirking as he wondered into the main room where Alice was sewing but Otis was no where to be seen.
"Yo, Alice?" Croc gestured around the room with a frown. "Where the hell it Otis?"
"Oh, Rat went out," Alice replied with a smile as she turned back to her sewing.
"Out? where to?"
"Oh… I think he was checking on Gar, you know… it's been almost a month since that happened and… there's been no sign of him recovering," she shook her head in sadness before she looked up at Waylon and frowned slightly. "Have you seen Dury at all? I mean, I think I saw a week ago at the Flea, around the same time Zsasz came and attacked."
Waylon shook his head. "I ain't heard anything about him, like the guy just disappeared, but there is a new guy on the streets, Cameron Van Clear. No one knows much about him."
"Ah I see," Alice looked back at her sewing before she missed a stich thanks to Otis as he came in shouting and yelling like it was the end of the world and running like he was being chased by the most dangerous person on the planet.
"Otis, you knucklehead!" Alice shouted as she stared down at her ruined stichwork.
"Oh, sorry Alice, but you guys gotta hear this!" he shouted.
"What has Gar woken up?" asked Croc and Otis shook his head.
"Worse!"
Croc frowned. "Otis… Gar waking up is a good thing…. ya do know that right?"
"Depends how you look at it," Otis whispered before he shook his head and waved his hands in the air. "Falcone was there!"
Alice and Waylon stared in shock at him before Croc shook his head in disbelieve. "Ya didn't hit your head on the way down here did ya?"
Otis narrowed his eyes at him and went to speak when Alice spoke up. "I was dropped on my head when I was a baby," she declared smiling at the two confused boys in front of her, before Croc nodded his head.
"That explains a lot, Alice," he mumbled before he turned back to Otis and glared right back at him. "Well, are you serious Falcone was with Gar?"
Otis nodded his head. "Yeah he was! He told the hospital staff to call him when he wakes up and he'd come and collect him from the hospital."
Croc shook his head. "That can only be a bad thing," he muttered under his breath before he turned to Otis and Alice. "You guys, we gonna need Cat and Ivy's help for this. You think you can find them?"
"I can get Ivy…" Otis shrugged at Croc's odd look. "Cat doesn't like me very much, I think it has something to do with rats and cats…"
"You guys take that way too seriously."
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do-."
"Just shut up, Otis!" Croc snapped at him, waving his hands in the air before he settled again and shook his head. "Go and find Ivy, me I'll find Cat, Alice you stay here okay?"
Alice frowned. "Shouldn't one of us try and find Dury?"
"The way I see it," Croc grunted as he began to walk away. "If Dury wanted us to find him we would of found him by now, he don't want to be mixed up with Gar again, quite frankly it's probably for the best."
The leaves battered against the road and they swirled in the air as he drove through them, the road to the crane house seemed a lot more daunting then it had done, then it had ever done.
As he got closer to the house, he saw Jonathan sitting on the front steps, he was hunched over, keeping his head down as he stared at the floor, the mask was held loosely in his hands.
He only looked up when Edward got out of the car and he could see tear stains on his dirty face, the tears had left little tracks along his mucky skin, clearly showing he had cried and mourned, which was a good thing.
Edward wondered over to him and sat next to him folding his hands in his lap as he stared out across the road towards the city.
"She's down at the bottom, I didn't have the heart to move her… not since I.." he trailed off and let a few more tears crawl down his face before he shook his head and threw the mask to the floor. "Why did he have to do it?"
"Have you tried asking him?" Edward questioned tilting his head slightly and observing the mask as it lay facing them.
"I have and all he does is laugh at me," Jonathan shook his head. "He just sees it as one big joke… Edward.. maybe…maybe I am crazy."
If this had been a different circumstance Edward would of said 'took you long enough' or 'really you only just realised?' but it did not call for that, not now.
"Jonathan… you're not the crazy one… that's him, that's Scarecrow."
"Normal people don't have voices in their heads, taking control of their bodies or telling them what to do."
Edward was silent for a moment before he smirked and nudged him slightly on the shoulder. "We live in Gotham, I think you may want to reconsider what is normal in this city, quite frankly, you're what I think anyone would consider a model citizen."
Jonathan laughed lightly before he looked up at him and frowned. "What about Penguin, are Luna and Lui safe?"
"They're fine," Edward smiled, "By the second day you were missing, we robbed the bank, it took their minds off of worrying about you and it helped them actually," he laughed slightly and shook his head. "They want to do it again, you should of seen their little faces, they were so excited by what they'd done, because no one got hurt."
Jonathan smiled and laughed lightly. "Of course," he chuckled and shook his head. "Where are they now?"
"They're at the Police station, I thought it was best to put them there were they could be safe, I told Detective Gordon and Bullock that you needed help with something and that it was a surprise present for Luna and Lui and that they couldn't be there, for obvious reasons."
"Did you come up with that or did Mist?"
"Mist, obviously came up with it," Edward laughed and smiled. "I'm not very good at social ques."
"Yes, drastically so," Jonathan laughed before he looked down at his hands and fiddled with a coat sleeve. "Will they be okay the police station?"
"They'll be fine," Edward smiled. "Now, lets try and sort this mess out and then I can get you back to your family, they've missed you a lot," he chuckled slightly. "But I have a feeling that at the moment they're having the time of their lives."
The police station like always was a war of order and chaos, both fighting for equal space in the GCPD, but neither ever really got full control.
Luna and Lucifer sat watching the chaos ensnare around the GCPD, Luna found it very interesting how everyone was acting, but Lui found it boring since he could always know what was going to happen with his power.
He sighed and turned to look around in the other direction to his sister but then his eyes caught sight of something and stared back at the twinkling jade green eyes and stared back at him.
Suddenly a young girl with goggles on her head poked her head round the desk. She looked to be about his age, maybe a year old he couldn't tell and she had the brightest pair of jade green eyes he'd ever seen in his life, her hair was slightly long it came to about her neck and it had a braid dangling from it, with a clubs gem at the end, the type of clubs you'd see on a pack of cards.
She blinked staring at him, before she made a silly face, making Lui giggle and then she disappeared behind the desk again.
Lui was still giggling when she poked her head round again, this time with the goggles on over her eyes and she was smiling before she began to bob like a fish and then she disappeared again.
Lucifer was still laughing, he found her funny and she didn't seem to be scared of him and… she was a very pretty girl.
She poked her round again, the goggles still over her eyes, holding a pair of pencils above the back of her head and she grinned at him before she laughed lightly and said in a questioning tone. "Buzz?"
Lui burst out laughing and he fell to the floor laughing so hard, he'd never laughed like this and then he looked back at the girl who was giggling with him before she disappeared around the desk again, but this time Lui was going to get her.
He ran over to the desk, his sister glanced at him before she shook her head and continued to watch everyone.
Lui jumped around the desk and found the girl had moved to the stairs and she was smiling at him, before she giggled and waved the pencils behind her ears. "Buzz, buzz, buzz!" she cried and then she was running again and Lui was close behind her.
He caught sight of her purple trousers and black boots she was wearing, they had straps so she obviously couldn't do laces up, and she was wearing a black flying jacket, obviously had been custom made. So whoever her parents were they were rich.
He chased after her as she began to blend in with the rest of the desks and people, before he was caught in the middle of the room with a frown, then he saw her at the top of the stairs heading towards Bullock.
She stared up at him with wide jade green eyes blinking behind the goggles before she grinned up at Bullock and giggled. "Buzz, buzz!"
Bullock raised an eyebrow before he smirked and pattered her head. "Sure thing kid."
Lui ran over to her and cautiously tapped her on the shoulder and she turned to face him, a blank look on her face.
Lucifer rubbed his arm nervously before he smiled at her with an air of cation surrounding him. "Buzz?" he questioned and no sooner had he said it then the girl grinned and pulled him into a hug. "Buzz!" she cried as she held him.
Lui went a deep grey, it was the only way he blushed, both he and his sister went a darker shade of grey when ever they would be blushing.
Suddenly she ran off again and Lui followed her, running as fast as he could because she was surprisingly fast.
Suddenly she stopped behind another little girl and tapped her on the shoulder before she hid and then Lui thought he was seeing double as the other girl looked exactly like the first one, but she had deep cold blue eyes. She also seemed to dress a lot neater and more sensible then the other one.
"Buzz, buzz!" the first girl cried to her and waved.
"I have my insect repellant with me Jessica," the first one growled at her, placing her hand in her bag she was carrying with her.
The first girl, Jessica, pouted and shook her head. "You're no fun, Sasha. All work and no play, it's bad for your brain."
Sasha scowled at her and hit her on the head. "I'll tell dad!"
"Yeah well, I'll tell dad you hit me!"
"You are so childish," Sasha said with a roll of her eyes. "No wonder I'm the oldest."
"We are twins!" Jessica cried and shook her head. "How are you the oldest!"
"I was born 16 seconds before you," Sasha stuck her tongue out at her. "That makes me older."
Jessica shook her head before she turned back to Lui and smiled, running up to him and hugging him, making Lui blush once again.
"What's your name?" she asked smiling brightly at him as she pulled him through the crowd of people at the GCPD.
"M- my name's Lucifer… but… but people call me Lui," he whispered as he stared at the bright and happy girl in front of him who was holding his hand and still hadn't screamed or shrank away in fear of him.
Jessica grinned. "Lui, Lui, Lui… Loopy Lui!" she giggled before she danced in a circle. "Me? I'm Jessica but call me Jess, everyone does."
Lui smiled, she was perfect, her name was perfect, and she was really pretty, the prettiest girl he'd ever seen in his life. "Do you want to know a secret?" he whispered to her and Jess grinned before nodding and leaning in whispering back to him.
"What's the secret?"
"I have powers."
"Super powers?"
"Yeah, super powers," Lui grinned and nodded his head happily and Jess giggled before clapped her hands.
"Oh, what are your powers?"
"I can hear people's thoughts," he smiled and closed his eyes trying to focus on hers but he frowned. They were all jumbled up, he couldn't make head of tale of it.
"You can?" Jess breathed before she leaned closer to him. "Can you hear mine?"
"I'm having trouble," Lui whispered before he shook his head. "There's too many people in the room to focus on just your thoughts."
Jess frowned before she was smiling again. "Never mind, I'm sure we can try again next time, maybe in a garden?"
"Garden?"
"Yeah, ya know a garden! They're really pretty, full of flowers and all of the flowers are bright colours!"
"Ohh!" Lui smiled and sat down with her on the floor. "What colours are there?"
"Well there's reds, blues, oranges.. oh purples are my favourites! And there is loads of green!"
"Wow," Lui breathed with a smile. "It sounds beautiful."
"Yeah they are! Oh and there are bumblebees! Black and white bumblebees!"
"I thought bumblebees were yellow and black."
"Oh they are," Jess nodded before she smiled. "But my faves are the black and white bumblebees, they are so cute! Oh and they're fluffy and have deely boppers!"
"Deely boppers?"
"Yeah, ya know," she waved her fingers behind her head. "Deely boppers!"
"Jessica we have to leave now!"
Jess and Lui looked over to see Sasha and a very tall man, with broad shoulders standing behind her, looking over at the two of them with stern expressions.
"Oh…" Jess moaned before she looked down at Lui and he quickly stood up with her. "Well, I gotta go.." she paused and smiled. "Hey do you want to know one of my secrets?"
Lui smiled and nodded before she leaned in and she whispered it in his ear grinning herself from ear to ear as she gave him one last hug and then she ran off to catch up with her sister and her father. Leaving Lui to watch the prettiest girl he'd ever seen disappear and he doubted he'd ever see her again.
Suddenly he felt someone tap him on the shoulder and he turned to see his sister. "What did she tell you?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
Lui shook his head. "I can't tell you, you know that! It's a secret."
"Lui, you're my brother," Luna sighed and shook her head. "Come on, you know I can keep secrets too!"
Lui nodded before he looked around to make sure no one else was listening. "She had another name."
"She did? What was it?"
Lui grinned at her and whispered again. "Jester."
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Note: Awww come on you knew my little Jester would pop in at some point :P Please could I have some reviews! Ya know I love em and it would be great to have some more! :D