Authors Note:

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As some of you already know, I am 'CopiPan' at youtube, and well...I came up with a video idea for this story.

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Chapter 23:

"Ugh…. a little help." Rachel pleads with the Joker as he watches her wash the blood swept floors. The Joker rests his legs comfortably on the kitchen table as he says, "You know the deal…. I cleaned the bedroom, now

you, pumpkin, clean the kitchen." Rachel wrinkles her nose in response, and then places her hands around her throat as she feels like waste is retaining from it.

The Joker chuckles and asks "What? You gonna throw up because of the soap?" Rachel shakes her lightly, let's her throat go and whispers "No…I'm okay; now, anyway. It's probably this awful smell." The Joker licks his bottom lip as he asks in a concerned tone "How's your arm?" Rachel smiles, lifts up the cloth filled with soap while saying "As good as it can be."

The Joker nods and watches her body move across the floor as she washes the dirty blood off it. He clears his throat and asks, "Tell me why, again, why we had to get dressed? I mean, Adam and Eve cleaned in the nude, so why can't we?" Rachel chuckles at this joke but her laughter stops when a sudden jolt of pain forms around her wound.

She hisses at the ache in her arm and the Joker gets up and walks on the wet surface carefully while muttering, "Stop cleaning or else we might have to amputate that arm." Rachel drops the cloth as the Joker sits down beside her on the floor takes her hand in his and continues "…and we wouldn't want that now, would we beautiful?"

Rachel shakes her head as the Joker asks randomly "Do you think I'm funny?" Rachel knits her eyebrows in surprise as she asks in a baffled tone "Wh-what does that have to do with anything?" The Joker grunts and asks bitterly "Just answer the question! Do you think I'm funny?"

Rachel shrugs and replies honestly "Sometimes…it depends on the joke. Ugh…. if you blow up a bunch of pretty girls that look like dolls and blame the fact that they look like blow up dolls then, that's not funny."

The Joker chuckles at this and interrupts her by saying "Now that's one I haven't thought of." Rachel rolls her eyes in return and continues "Anyway, sometimes you are quite funny…when you don't try to hard to be." The Joker grunts at the answer, lets her hand go and says through gritted teeth "Sometimes? Just sometimes?" Rachel nods, kisses the tip of his nose, but the Joker pushes her backwards and says "Hey! No kissing the nose!"

Rachel scrunches her eyebrows at his reaction and then she asks through a giggle "Why?" The Joker bites his bottom lip and explains "Well it's too late for you to think I'm crazy…so I'll explain Miss. Dawes." He waits a second, licks his bottom lip quickly and continues on with his explanation "Years ago…when I tried out for the circus, these clowns thought they were better than me at trapeze, and well…"

Rachel stops him and asks, "Are you making this up?" The Joker's mouth remains open for a second and then he closes it and replies, "Can you tell?" Rachel chuckles and nods while saying "Oh, come on Jack. Straight from your mouth, and I quote…. don't be such a girl. Just tell me." The Joker smirks and says after a pause "How come you know me so well, Princess?" Rachel shrugs her shoulders and the Joker grabbing her head and kissing her catches her by surprise.

She moans into the kiss and before the Joker pulls away from her lips he mutters into them "Stay…" he kisses her lips once again and then whispers "right here." Rachel closes her eyes at the feeling of the Jokers lips softly piercing her own. Then his tongue slides down the side of her neck and up towards her ear. His warm breath fills the perimeter around them and Rachel gasps softly as the Joker mutters huskily into her ear "Don't do what my wife did."

Rachel's eyes suddenly open and the Joker takes Rachel's hand in his while asking gruffly "You wanna know what the first though that ran through my mind that night? That…" he licks his bottom lip, causing his tongue to linger on her earlobe. "…night at Harvey's Fundraiser?" Rachel whispers in return "Yes, tell me." The Joker gulps, kisses her neck once and whispers into it "I thought that…."

And before he could finish, a gun cocks directly on the Jokers side of the head and the voice says, "Let her go." The Joker's eyes widen in surprise as he turns around, and laughs as he sees the Commissioner holding the gun to his head. The Joker let's Rachel go and Rachel sees Jim Gordon and asks in a shocked tone "Jim? Wh-what? What are you doing?"

The Commissioner pulls the Joker up onto his feet and pushes him towards Officer James who holds him tightly along with another officer. The Joker rolls his eyes and says in his 'jack' voice "Obviously there has been some mistake. I just helped rescue her from the freak, that's all!"

Officer James spits out angrily "We know who you are Mr. Napier! Your going to jail for life, Joker!" The Joker's eyes widen and he giggles nervously while asking the Commissioner "How did you find us?" The Commissioner sighs as James answers the question "We will ask the questions!" Commissioner Gordon bites his bottom lip while yelling "Wrong! I ask the questions! Jack your coming with us…. and so are you Rachel."

Rachel gets up onto her feet, shakes her head and says while clenching her hands into fists "I won't let you take him!" The Commissioner grins at this and the Joker mutters with a filthy smile splashed across his face "What if I don't co-operate? What? You'll take me to Arkham where I will escape…then what happens…. we do this forever? What if I don't want that?"

Suddenly a very deep voice says from behind him "You don't want that?" The Batman circles them and the Joker chuckles while saying "Batsy, long time no see." The Batman sighs heavily and says, "Don't try to change the subject, Joker. Now tell me…what did you mean by that? You told me you wanted to do this cat mouse game…what? Two weeks ago? And now, you don't want to anymore?"

The Joker swallows hard, looks over at Rachel and replies, "Look, I'm not a hard man to please. All I want is gasoline, some dynamite, some knives…and Rachel." The Commissioner glances over at him and asks in awe "You really love her, don't you?" The Joker rolls his eyes and says in an irritated tone "What is with that word? Love? I didn't say that, did I?"

Rachel smiles and says, "You implied it." The Joker breathes in angrily and mutters, "Do you want me to un-imply it?" Rachel smile widens as she answers, "So you are implying that you implied it?" The Joker shakes his head, pops his lip and says again "No! I'm implying that you implied it that I didn't imply it!"

James then screams into the Jokers ear "Shut it! Both of you!" The Joker looks over his right shoulder at him and mutters through clenched teeth "Don't yell at her that way!" James scoffs at his answer and says harshly "I can do what I want!" Batman bites his bottom lip as the bickering continues and to stop it he yells furiously "Stop! You all are treating this as if it was a joke!"

The Commissioner chuckles and whispers in response "Life is a joke." The Joker's eyes widen and he peers towards the Commissioner and gives him a look of complete surprise. Gordon smiles and states, "It's something this really smart guy named Jack taught me." The Joker chuckles at this and Rachel does too and the Batman asks in a puzzled, deep tone "Am I the only one that doesn't get it?"

Gordon stops laughing and says to Rachel "Miss Dawes, this is the last time your going to be seeing him. Go make it worth it." Rachel nods and runs towards the Joker and kisses him. The Batman growls and removes Rachel away from him while saying "He said make it worth it, not make us want to throw up!"

Rachel sighs at this and the Joker giggles at and states "Sounds like someone is a tiny…bit…jealous." The Batman removes Rachel from his arms and as soon as he does she runs towards the Joker again and asks, "What did you first think that night at the fundraiser?" The Commissioner taps his foot while interrupting "Time's up. We have to go, I have about 100 cops outside…. and to be honest, they would probably all kill me if they knew what was going on in here."

The Joker sighs and whispers to Rachel "Come visit me." Rachel nods as the Joker starts to be pulled out the door. Once the Joker and the two cops leave the house, tears stream down Rachel's face. The Commissioner chews on his bottom lip while saying "I'm sorry, Rachel. I wish I didn't have to do that, I read the files…I know what he went through with his wife and well…. if that would have happened to Barbara, I would have been…well…there is only one way to put it… freakier."

Rachel smiles through her tears in return and the Batman states, "I'll take her home." Rachel shakes her head and whispers, "I don't have one." The Batman nods and whispers into her ear in his real, Bruce voice "Oh, yes you do." Just before the Commissioner is about to leave, Rachel asks, "Can we still review the court dates?"

Gordon chuckles, nods and replies back "I'll see what I can do." Rachel grins widely as Gordon leaves the room. Rachel runs towards the window to see the Joker being placed into a cop car. She wipes away her tears as Bruce asks her in his normal voice "Where is home?" Rachel keeps on looking outside the window while replying, "Where ever he is."

Authors Note:

I know this one was a bit short, but I needed it to be, so, I apologize about that.

More On Video:

I really, really, want this story to come to life. So, I want to make not a 'trailer' but a video to it.

But this is some stuff that I need to know:

1. Would you be interested to watch it?

2. If you answered yes to question one, please help with the following:

- I need a song that goes really really well with this story. The only one that I have in mind at the moment is "Be My Escape" by Reliant K.

Please message me with any other song choices.

That's really it.

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