Authors Note:
Well, I wrote this chapter in about two hours and then realized that it was the longest one I had ever written.
I just think that's crazy, because this is about 6 pages in a word document.
Anyways, Please Review!
Chapter 18:
The rain beats softly outside Rachel's hospital room. She listens to the rhythmic patterns the rain makes, when it splashes against her window. Her head slowly turns to the window, and she looks down at her blue hospital uniform sadly. She sighs, softly realizing that the nurse was never going to let her leave because of him. Today was the first day in a long week that she had heard his voice, and it was quite surprising to her just how much she missed him. He made her smile, and well, laughter was always the best medicine.
Abruptly, to break the silence, Rachel heard the phone ringing. She smiles quickly to herself hoping it is either Bruce or the Joker. But the likeliness of it being one of them is beyond comprehension. She picks up the phone and places it to her ear while asking "Hello?" A voice on the other end responds, "Well…good evening beautiful? Enjoying the fan-tas-tic weather?"
Rachel's smile widens as she realizes that the Joker is now calling her. She clears her throat and says with a sly tone "Wow, second time today. I'm impressed." The Joker on the other end giggles his familiar giggle and then asks softly "Really? Well…. ugh…do me a favor, beautiful…hmmm?" It was not a question. Whatever the Joker wanted the Joker got; well, at least in most cases.
Rachel bites her bottom lip and replies, "Depends…what do I get in return?" The Joker voice deepens slightly as he answers her question "Oh, I promise you, Princess. You'll get more than you…ex-pec-t." Rachel smirks at this comment and before she is about to ask what he desires he starts to say "Well…Miss Dawes… this is what I need you to do. Walk your pretty little face over to the women's handicapped bathroom on your floor, and well….just go…in."
Rachel's eyebrows knit in surprise so she asks, "Jack, what's going on?" The Joker bites his bottom lip at the mention of the dead man and then he says quickly "No time for questions, beautiful. Just do it! Listen to Nike!" The line suddenly goes dead and Rachel sighs, closes the phone and pushes the button to call the nurse in. A few seconds later an elder nurse walks in and asks, "What is it you fancy, dear?" Rachel blushes and replies, "I need to use the restroom."
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A few minutes later, the Nurse opens the bathroom for her with her key and Rachel flips on the light switch and slams the door closed. Miss. Dawes turns around rapidly, but sees nothing but the closed bathroom stall in front of her. She turns slowly to her left, and sees a big window. She then looks to her right, and sees her reflection in the mirror above the sink. Rachel sighs, and takes a few steps towards the sink, opens the tap and bends down and splashes some water on her face.
A few seconds later, she turns off the tap and lifts her head to look in the mirror. Suddenly, she sees someone's reflection behind her. Before she starts to scream, the figure turns her around, clasps one hand on her mouth and says, "Missed me?" Rachel's eyes widen as she sees the make-up less Joker holding her tightly against him. He slowly let's his hand fall away from her mouth and Rachel stands watching in shock. She stutters the first thing to come into her mind. "Your…uh…your all wet." The Joker chuckles, and strikes his hand through his hair once before saying "We'll it is raining outside, beautiful."
Slowly, the Joker presses his body against Rachel's and she gasps from the coolness blending in through her hospital dress. The Joker smiles a real smile and says in a husky tone while his lips are approaching her own "I like a girl that…obeys." The Joker crashes his lips onto hers and Rachel responds back to the kiss because she is still in a state of shock.
Once the Joker stops kissing her Rachel asks "How the hell are you here? You're supposed to be in jail!" The Joker chuckles and kisses her again to silence her and once his lips hit hers once again, a police siren is heard from beyond the bathroom's window. The Joker pushes Rachel backwards and screams "Time for a little adventure, Princess."
Rachel watches as the Joker opens the window and pushes down the emergency ladder. The Joker puts out his hand and says coolly "Ladies first." Rachel grinds her teeth together as she approaches the window. The Joker laughs and asks, "Your not afraid of heights, are you?" Rachel places her hands on the window frame and replies while rolling her eyes "Yes! Ever since you dropped me at Harvey's Fundraiser!" The Joker giggles softly at this, wipes a fake tear away from his eye and responds "Ahhhh…. good times."
Rachel climbs over the edge and starts to climb down the ladder. The Joker climbs over the windows edge a few seconds later and starts climbing down as well. Once Rachel reaches the ground she breathes in relieved. The Joker jumps down from the fourth last step and mocks her with a curtsy. Rachel rolls her eyes but then laughs a few seconds later.
Suddenly, she places her hands overhead in the form of an umbrella to shield her from the heavy rain. The Joker takes out the car keys he stole from his guard and passes them to Rachel. He grabs her hands in his and says through the thick rain "Run to the black Jeep, open the doors, and get the engine started while I break down this ladder." Rachel nods and runs towards the first black Jeep she sees.
The Joker breaks down the ladder by breaking a lever that was holding it up and then he too runs towards the black Jeep. Rachel is sitting in the drivers seat so he runs into the passengers seat and slams the door closed while he yells loudly "Drive!" Rachel pushes on the gas pedal and drives into the night's darkness.
Once they get out of the parking lot the Joker laughs hysterically and after a few seconds he says happily "Ohhh…. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel. I wasn't expecting you to go along with my little…plan…oh so well." He yawns and places an arm around her shoulders while continuing "You know…. I like that about you…. you're so…unpredictable…unlike all these other 'normals'. Like take Bats for example, he's always going to be chasing after me…boring me about his personal issues…and well…"
Rachel stops his talking by screaming, "Take your arm off of me!" The Joker's eyebrows wrinkle in confusion so he says while giggling "Alright, alright. Don't get all jumpy on me, Princess." Rachel bites her bottom lip and screams "Don't get jumpy? Do you hear yourself speak? I'm a felon! I just broke out of the hospital…with you… a mad man! I'm never going to be Gotham's District Attorney now."
She continues to drive as the Joker twiddles his fingers together. He licks his bottom lip and then says, "Trust me, beautiful. You couldn't be Gotham's DA anyway." Rachel swallows and then asks angrily "Where do you want me to drive?" The Joker sighs and asks, "Oh, what's the matter Miss. Dawes? You upset you can't be some goody-too-shoo lawyer anymore? Well…I've freed you of that. You always wanted to be a singer…right? Well…now you can!"
The Joker takes a few strands of her hair in his hands and starts to play with it. Rachel sighs and asks once again "Where do I drive to? A suburb where no one knows who we are? Mexico perhaps? Do we have enough gas for that? 'Cuz if we don't then we are going to need money to pay for it." The Joker stops playing with her hair, takes out a knife from his pocket quickly and says happily "No, we don't money, pumpkin. I'd just kill the guy working the joint."
Rachel continues to drive with her hands nervously grasping the wheel tightly. She quickly peers at the knife and she asks softly "Please put that away. Your distracting me, Jack." The Joker throws the knife up once, and then catches it and says with controlled anger "You know… I let the name slide on the phone….bu-hh-tt….right now, I'm really thinking of how wonderful it would be if I cut off your precious little tongue."
He pauses, puts his knife back in his pocket and then mutters "Then maybe you'd shut up." Rachel sighs and then asks with an annoyed tone "Where do I drive to?" The Joker points forward and says "See that bridge in front of us…. drive to the left of the next sign, and then take another left. It's an abandoned parking lot, we'll park there, for now, anyway." Rachel follows his instructions but suddenly the Joker says with a clenched jaw "What the fuck is wrong? You're not going to be some snotty, pathetic, lawyer? Well, so what? Now you're free…don't you get it, beautiful?"
Rachel stops the car in the middle of the abandoned parking lot, turns to the Joker and says, "You don't get it. I'm…grateful…. that you got me out of that horrible place. But I'm not grateful of the way that you did it! You couldn't have waited a few more days? I was going to be let out! I talked to Gordon about getting you a trial, and the worst possible thing that could happen would have been you having to work for the cops as a criminal justice investigator! You could have been free!"
The Joker looks deep into her eyes, licks his bottom lip and whispers, "That is not freedom, pumpkin. Working for those weak minds…is not the freedom I want." Rachel places her head in her hands and asks "Well, what type of freedom do you want, Jack?" The Joker reaches into his pocket once again, grabs the knife, and places it to Rachel's throat while screaming "Don't fucking call me that! He's dead!"
Rachel eyes widen in terror, but she uses her left hand to open the door and she manages to slip away outside the car into the pouring rain. The Joker yells out "Get back in here!" Rachel squints to be able to see the man before her clearer. She gulps and yells out "You're a Jackass!" Then she slams the door and starts to walk away into the hard beating rain. The Joker mocks her in laughter, opens his door, steps outside and yells "Yeah…very original, Miss Dawes. It must have taken you days to figure that one out!"
Rachel keeps walking, tucking strands of loose hair behind her ears as she does so. The Joker slams his own door and asks loudly "You think you can live in this world without me? Hmm? You know what…honey… you can't. I'm the best of the best and I never get caught! You want to be caught…put in jail for fucking a freak? Well, then go ahead!"
Rachel turns around slowly and starts walking back to the Joker while shouting "We never fucked! And plus… when I get caught, all I have to do is tell them I was in denial. I mean, it won't be so hard! You wear make up to cover up those scars that don't scar anyone!" She finally reaches the Joker, and when she does the Joker walks around her, like he did when he first met her. Rachel takes a step backwards towards the car, gulps at the silence between the two of them.
The Joker suddenly stars laughing and he asks through his stifled giggles "They don't scare anyone?" He starts giggling again, but rapidly, he pushes her against the frame of the car and holds his body close to hers. Both their clothes are soaking wet and the Joker slides his hand around Rachel's waist while saying "I'll give you one chance, Miss. Dawes. Get back in the fucking car and live another day! Or…. of course the more fun one…. I'll cut you up into little pieces and eat you tomorrow morning for breakfast! Now…tell me, doll…which one is it? The first…or the…ugh…."
He stops to hold her firmly in place as he licks up her neck while whispering "Or the oh so tasty second?" Rachel gulps, reaches behind her back and opens the car door hitting the Joker in the stomach with the tip. The Joker falls on the floor in pain, and Rachel is about to walk away but something inside her stops her from doing so. She looks down at him, and he gets up laughing softly to himself.
The Joker licks his bottom lip, cracks his neck and then straightens his back while muttering "You've still got that fight in you." Rachel takes a step backwards towards the frame of the car while saying "I…. I'm sorry. I…didn't mean to hurt you." The Joker takes her head in her hands, bites at her bottom lip tightly until it starts to bleed heavily. Rachel screams out in pain and then the Joker lets her head go while spitting some of the blood onto the rain filed ground.
He licks some of the remaining blood off his bottom lip and mocks her angrily "I'm sorry…. I didn't mean to hurt you." Rachel wipes away the blood from her lip and says bitterly "You know… your wife did a good thing when she left you." The Joker's eyes widen and he asks in a very deep voice "What?" Rachel gulps heavily as the Joker grabs her and asks, screaming directly in her ear "Repeat it, Miss. Dawes!"
Rachel breathes heavily and then whispers softly "I'm not afraid of you." The Joker chuckles at this and then asks more softly in her ear "Whom are you trying to convince, Princess? Me or ugh…you?" The Joker pops his lips once as Rachel says, "I'm not afraid of you, Jack." The Joker takes her head in his hands, shakes it once and then mutters through pressed lips "Stop calling me that!"
Rachel shakes her head and mutters, "No! That is what your parents named you, isn't it?" The Joker takes his hand, moves it up her hospital dress, and rips open her underwear, the remaining shreds fall to the ground. Rachel gasps at the gesture. The Joker suddenly, takes out his knife, and holds it between her legs pointing up. Rachel paints heavily as the Joker mutters bitterly "If you call me that one more time you won't be able to fuck again!"
Rachel suddenly feels tears liquidate from her eyes, but the tears blend into the rain, but the heat from them do not. The Joker suddenly yells, "What's my name?" Rachel breathes in deeply once again and stays silent for a few seconds before saying, "Please…put the knife away." The Joker yells louder directly at her face "What…is… my…. name?" Rachel bites her bottom lip and responds nervously "It's Joker."
The Joker looks deep into her eyes as Rachel takes another breath and continues, "Please…let me go. I'll leave…I won't bother you again. Just please…don't." He lets go of the knife and it falls to the floor. The Joker keeps it away while saying "You know... I don't get you, Rachel. Your not terrified of me, but yet…your begging to stay alive."
Rachel sighs and responds "Don't you see, Joker? You're not the monster! Not you, your scars, or your clothes! Not your appearance! It's the terrible things you do! Don't you see that?" The Joker suddenly slams Rachel against the car door frame and says, "If I'm so terrible then why did you ever like me?" Rachel bites her bottom lip and whispers, "I don't know. I honestly don't. There's something about you…I…don't know how to explain it. I just like…something…about you?"
The Joker pins her hard against the door frame, moves his hands up her thighs and asks, "Is it this?" Rachel scowls at his sudden change of personality while saying "No, it's not!" The Joker's lips reach Rachel's ear slowly and then he asks softly "You don't think I'm the monster?" Rachel turns her head to look at him and she shakes her head in response while saying "No, your not."
She suddenly, wraps her arms around him tightly and the Joker asks baffled "Uhhhh..…what exact-ley are you doing?" Rachel sighs into the Jokers shoulder and mutters "Shh…." And the Joker slowly wraps his arms around her too, and she places her head on his shoulder while saying "I didn't mean what I said, I should have been more thankful to you, that you came to get me. It really shows me that you actually do care." The Joker suddenly pushes her away and says, "I care?"
Rachel smiles at this thinking it was a statement instead of a question. The Joker holds his head for a moment because his mind is starting to get dizzy. The Joker bites his bottom lip hard and tries to think of a way to over power her. He gulps, grabs her towards him and kisses her as passionately as he can. She moans into the deep kiss, and the Joker rips open the hospital dress. The Joker holds her body tightly, letting his hands touch all her curves. His tongue licks aggravatingly slowly down towards her chest and he whispers in a husky tone "All these curves…and…me, with no brakes."
Rachel starts to whimpers as his lips move down all the way to the inside of her left thigh. Rachel shakes her head and whispers "Joker…please…no." He giggles a short giggle and then says "You want me, beautiful. I can smell it." Rachel gasps at the comment, and rapidly the Joker opens the back door to the car, and pushes her onto the seats.
Rachel kisses the Joker once again but then stops and says "We can't do this here…. now!" The Joker licks his bottom lip and continues to kiss around her breasts. Rachel whimpers and says, "Joker, please. We can do anything else. What would you like to do?" The Joker nips at her skin slowly while replying "I'd like to kiss you passionately on the lips and then move up to your belly button."
Rachel whimpers for a second at the comment but before she can say anything else, the Joker moves himself on top of her and bites at her neck. Rachel moans at the gesture and before she can contemplate any other thought her hands start to unbutton the Joker's shirt. The Joker smiles and says in a seductive tone "Hmm.. Now that's more like it."
Authors Note:
So, sex scene or not?
I am still deciding whether or not they should consummate their 'relationship' yet.
I'll let you all decide.
Option One: Joker/Rachel sex
Option Two: They are not ready yet...and a different timing would be a better idea.
Please let me know in a review along with your thoughts on this chapter.
Thank you all!
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