Chapter 9
Sidesie
I was woken by the sound of the speakers going off. Mommy Quinn was sending me a message to my room, where she knew I was sleeping.
"Sweetie, can you come and see me and your daddy now? It's important." She said sounding seconds away from crying. I quickly got out of bed and got dressed faster than I have ever had. I think I set a new world record for myself.
I climbed out of my hatch and ran across the funland to the Steel Mill.

When I finally reached Daddy J's office in the steel mill, I walked in to see Mommy Quinn sorting out blueprints, while Daddy J was looking horrible. He was hooked up to a life system with his heart metre running on the screen. Right now he was resting, I hope.

"Mommy Quinn?" I said in a shy voice as I took a few steps into the office.
She looked at me with her eye makeup smudged, she had been crying, and I notice that there was a smashed plant vase on the ground near her.

"Sideways, something horrible has come up." She said turning her attention to me.

"Uh huh..." I said, afaid of what was happening.

"We can't get the cure!" She began to cry again.

"WHAT?" I exclaimed and I ran up and hugged her.

"That stupid watching freezer has screwed Mister J over!" Mommy Quinn continued to cry.

I pulled away form her, more angrier than I have ever been in my life. "That's I'm off to kill him now!" I said as I began to storm out of the room.

"Just wait my dear, everything will fall into place." I heard a dying cough come from Daddy J. I turn towards him and I saw him stand up from the wheelchair he was in and walk over to us. "I have poisoned Batman, and all of Gotham. Soon enough, Batman will get the cure from the walking refrigerator and we will take it from him. In the mean time, we need someone to make it look like I'm not dying, so meet Clayface!"

Out of the combat room came, Daddy J? It was Clayface, taking the form of Daddy J, only the Clayface version looked healthier and less sick. I made me sad to see how Daddy J was supposed to look, but instead he looked like he was dying.

"Daddy J, are you sure everything will be okay?" I asked will a hope in my words.

"I'll be fine in the end, you will have to watch me get worse and worse everyday, but I'll be fine." He told me as he gave me a hug, he petted my head and returned to his wheelchair.

I nodded and left without another word. It was going to be a hard couple of days, watching my Daddy J get worse and worse until he is grasping for is last break before he finally gets cured. As I left the office, I would help but burst into tears.

I was really upset now. I felt like my soul was becoming more and more broken and mangled then it already was. I felt like I was going even more insane. What was after insanity? I had a clue in mind, nothing. I was turning into nothing. Losing the most important person in my life, he made me become this, and I am incredibly grateful. I sat in my room crying while Hector was comforting me.

When I left the Steel Mill, I told him and only him what was happening. He was trying to cheer me up, he even went to the measures of opening my window and shooting all around outside with a machine gun to scare everyone. But nothing cheered me up.

"Aw, come on Sideways. Harley is going to cure the Joker, I know it."

I pulled my hands out of my face and looked at him. "What about Batman? He is going to come in and mess everything up! Face it, nothing can ever make me happy until Daddy J is cured!" I began to cry again into my hands.

Where was a moment of just my cries, before Hector spoke up again.
"Not even The Werewolf? Aren't you supposed to be meeting him soon?"

I pulled my hands away again and looked at him. I gasped as I remembered Luke Lukess. He had totally slipped from my mind. With everything going on, I totally forgot about him. I rushed over to my broken mirror and looked at myself. I looked horrible. My eyeliner was way too smudged; there was mars where I have been crying. I was a complete wreck.

"Oh god! I need to fix myself!" I panicky grabbed all my makeup and started to fix myself up. Hector must of notice that I was stressing out and came to help.

"Whoa, you're too worked up. Here..." He took the makeup out of my hands and the cloth and began to fix my makeup for me.

"You know, you won't be able to protect the Steel Mill and go out will The Werewolf and keep this from the joker." He said.

"I know I can't but I need to do something!"

"Hmm, I got it! You definitely will not be able to do this by yourself. What will you do if Batman is at the Steel Mill when you are suppose to be? What if some of your guards have a hold on The Werewolf? What if Harley is around where you and The Werewolf are hanging out at?"

"I don't know..." I trailed off.

"Exactly, you need someone to alert you if something is going on, luckily, your awesome best friend is willing to do that." He smiled.

I smiled. "You would do that for me?" I asked as I hugged him.

"Of Course! It's better then what I will usually do." He chuckled.

"Great, but you will have to know his identity." I told him as he finished fixing my makeup. "So you're coming with me, then you're heading back to the Steel Mill to check if I am needed." I checked in the mirror about my makeup. Besides my bloodshot eyes which should clear up soon, I looked like me.

"Come on!" I grabbed him arm and pulled him onto my bed so we were both standing on it. I reached up and pushed open the trap door
and climbed up into the outside world.

I lead Hector to Amusement Mile, on one of the buildings not too far away from the funland was Werewolf standing there. I walked up to Lukess with Hector by my side.

"Wolfie, I need to tell you something. It's about Daddy J." I said probably looking as sad as I felt.

"You okay?" He asked concerned, as he walked up and took me in his arms.
I looked up at him as I hugged him. "Mr Freeze ahs screwed over Daddy J, meaning we have no cure." I told him, as I hugged him even tighter. I felt Lukess hug me back, ever tighter.

"Will the Joker be okay?" He asked.

"Apparently when Batman gets to cure to cure himself, we will be able to steal it from Batman. So this brings me to my point. Hector, my best friend, will being helping me take care of the funland, if anything comes up that can effect any of us, he will tell us, but he will need to know your real name." I told him.

Wolfie let go of me and turned his attention to Hector. Lukess took off his eye mask and his hat, revealing him as Lukess."I'm Lukess Dire. I was an inmate here, before I joined up with Catwoman. But don't worry, I and not involved in any of the stuff that has to do with this place, it's all up to her."

"Great, I better get back to the funland now. If Batman comes, you gotta' get back here right away."

I nodded towards Hector as he walked back to the funland.
As soon as Hector was out of site, me and Lukess kicked the night off by making out.