Hey peeps sorry i haven't updated in awhile i have been preoccupied and had writers block. I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as i liked writing it. Happy reading!

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Chapter 14

The next day, Mara and Nicole woke up around 11. Last night after dinner, Bruce and the girls watched a Gray Ghost movie. He said it was his childhood hero, and even though it was an older movie, it was not that bad. After that they just kind of talked about stuff; nothing Joker related, just stuff about the girls' families. Although Nicole didn't have to explain a lot since her dad works for the guy. At about 10 o'clock Bruce had to go on patrol, so even though they were tucked in (which was getting kind of embarrassing for them) at quarter to 10, they stayed up until about 3 in the morning. Hey, they were teenagers. Now tired teenagers of course.

When they got downstairs, Alfred said he had to go to Wayne Industries for an important meeting and would be back shortly. They had awesome omelets and went in the living room, where there was a computer in it.

"What….how…?" Mara babbled. You couldn't blame her; this computer was newer and had a lot of cool features. It was heaven for a computer geek, or in this case, Mara.

"Master Bruce ordered it this morning." Alfred said as he walked in the room. "He said you mentioned it to him."

Nicole nodded while Mara just grinned towards the computer. Alfred saw the need of the girl's face and smiled. "Well I will leave you two to the computer. Call me if you need anything, young misses."

"We will." Nicole answered, and with that the butler left the room.

Mare instantly ran to the computer and sat down in the chair, Nicole grabbing a chair from a table and pulling it next to her friend. To them, it was play time.

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A couple hours later the girls were still on the computer. Shocker I know. They went on a lot of fun sites and played computer games and watched videos and were content with the newly acquired computer. As soon as they stopped watching a hilarious video that included a chicken and a paddle ball, Alfred came in the room.

"Ms. Travis, there is a man on the phone who says he is your father, do you want to answer?"

Nicole's face was a mix of confusion, shock, and happiness. She hadn't seen her father in what seemed like ages and wanted to talk to him badly. Even if it was against the rules.

"Yeah!" Nicole smiled happily. Alfred said the phone was right down the hall so she ran down towards the phone, Mara following. Alfred went back to the kitchen doing whatever he was doing in there before.

Nicole saw the phone and picked it up. "Dad? As much I appreciate you calling me, you know you are not supposed to call me."

"Oh, but I couldn't resist, kiddo."

Nicole almost dropped the phone. She felt a cold prickling down her spine. That voice…..it wasn't her father's. In fact, the humorous tone to it made it clear who it was. The Joker.

Mara saw her friend's expression. "Nicole, what's wrong?"

"It's……"

"Nicole?"

"You know it took me awhile to find you two, but now I did and I can't wait to see you both again."

"Nicole who is it?"

"It's him Mara." Mara knew exactly who she was talking about now, so her face mirrored Nicole's. She leaned forward toward the phone to listen to what he was saying.

"How did you know where we were?" Nicole asked in a soft voice.

"I have my resources. Now are you two gonna be good little girls and come to me, or do we have to do things the hard way?"

Mara yelled in the receiver. "We will never go with you! You have to be crazy to think we would!"

They heard the Joker laugh mockingly over the phone. "Well I am, but that is beside the point. You should do things the easy way and give yourselves up."

"What happens if we don't?" Nicole asked in a harsh tone.

The Joker giggled over the phone. "I was hoping you would ask that. See I have something important to you. Or should I say some people?"

"What are you talking about?" Mara asked. The girls were now sharing the receiver so they can both hear.

What the girls then heard made them gasp in fear and shock. "Nicole? Nicole!" "Mara where are you?" It was their parents, yelling out for them. That mad man had their parents!

"No! What are you doing to them?" Nicole demanded over the phone.

"I haven't done anything with them…yet. Unless you hand yourselves into me, your parents will go with a smile….understand?"

Both of the teens were speechless. They didn't want to turn themselves in to that psychopath's clutches, but he had their parents, and they couldn't let him hurt them….no matter what. Nicole looked at Mara and Mara nodded, agreeing with what they had to do.

Nicole spoke into the receiver. "Okay. You win, we'll turn ourselves in, just don't hurt them."

The Joker chuckled darkly. "Oh I knew you two would make the right choice! At 11:00 tonight, go to the abandoned warehouse by the docks. Understand?"

Nicole answered yes. "And remember; don't tell your hero Batsy, because if my boys see him at all, your parents are history. Capishe?"

"Yeah." The 14 year old agreed desolately.

"Good. See ya soon kiddos." With that the Joker hung up, leaving the teen still holding the receiver, slowly hanging it up.

" Should we tell Bruce? I mean he would know what to do." Mara asked.

"No. You heard what he said. If he sees Batman, he will kill our folks."

"But..."

"We can't risk it Mara, you know that. As much as I don't want to, we have to turn ourselves in to him…for them."

Mara sighed deeply. "You're right."

Just then Bruce walked in the room. "Hey girls, what's up?"

"Oh not much. Just being, well, teenagers." Nicole smiled even though she felt like she was going to break down, Mara the same.

Bruce smiled. "Well that's good. Alfred said dinner is ready. We are having pasta."

"Oh...yum." Mara said with half hearted excitement.

Bruce eyed them suspiciously. "Is everything alright?"

"Yeah! Yeah everything is fine, really." Nicole assured the billionaire/vigilante.

Bruce looked unsure, but let it go. "Well, alright. Let's go eat." Bruce said while heading out of the room.

"Okay." Both the girls said while walking to the dining room, trying to look as if nothing is wrong, even though something definitely was.

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A couple hours later, after Bruce put them to bed, Nicole and Mara got dressed. Nicole wore a dark blue hoodie, a gray shirt, blue jeans and converse shoes. Mara wore a black hoodie with a red shirt and dark grey pants with black sneakers. They opened the window in Nicole's room and climbed down the tree that was next to it. It took them awhile to get down because, let's face it, they were not squirrels.

As soon as they got down they ran from Wayne Manor to the nearest part of Gotham City, (Okay they didn't run all the way, because if they did they would be on the ground dead from heart attack. They were definitely not athletes.) As soon as they got to a city block, they called for a cab and gave the gab driver 18 bucks to drive to the docks. He was confused to think of why two young girls wanted to go to the docks, but didn't question it. It wasn't long before the taxi got to the docks. The girls paid the driver and walked toward an empty building.

"This must be the place." Mara said as the stopped in front of the building.

"Must be." Nicole pulled out her cell phone. It read 11:00. Just our luck to arrive on the dot, Nicole thought.

"Well," Nicole sighed. "Let's go."

Mara looked down at the ground. "This is scary dude."

"I know, man. But we are doing it for our parents, so let's just go in and and get through whatever he has planned for us."

"Okay."

Slowly, the girls approached the entrance of the old warehouse. Nicole opened the door and they went in. It was very dark inside so they could barely make out the things around them. Just old machine parts and boxes. They then heard a noise coming from what seemed like the other side of the big factory room.

"Nicole? Nicole?" "Mara where are you?"

"It's them!" Mara shouted. They then started sprinting toward where they heard the noise. They followed the voices of their parents until they turned a corner to be confronted with a TV on wheels. Confused, the teens walked toward it and turned it around, since it was facing backwards. The television seemed to be showing a big concert last year at the girl's school, in which they had to do against their will. They remembered hiding from total humiliation and the girl's mothers were worried sick because they couldn't find them. The TV showed it all, the mothers calling them with Nicole's dad recording and when they finally found the girls. But since this was an old video and not their parents, where were their folks?

"Quite the shy ones weren't you girls?" a voice rang from the shadows, giggles following after. The Joker emerged from the dark and put his elbow on the TV and leant on it. "I mean you almost gave your mothers a heart attack!"

"W-where are our parents?" Nicole stuttered.

"Yeah where are you keeping them?"

The Joker chuckled. "See about that…I lied! I never had your stupid parents; I just grabbed an old video from your house and played it for you two on the phone."

"But….why…?" Mara tried to get out, still paralyzed from shock.

"It's not like a guy like me is supposed to tell the truth or anything. That would ruin my image, heh heh."

"We came here for nothing you mean?" Nicole shouted. This was not good at all.

"Oh I wouldn't say nothing……CATCH!" The Joker through purple pellets at the girls, spraying green gas all around them. The girls started to cough, and then they felt light headed. It didn't take along before they fell to the ground. The last thing they heard was the Joker's mad cackling, triumphant of his two captured prisoners.

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