I stood up and continued to head towards the church, this place was grim. In the distance I could hear screaming and not too far away snippets of conversation which I listened to in the hope of gathering more information. From what I could work out there was some kind of three way struggle for dominance going on between Joker, Two Face and Penguin; I personally was backing Joker out of those three as he wouldn't kill me.

I reached the church and pushed open the heavy wooden doors, inside I could hear quite a commotion, what was going on? My question was soon answered, I walked in and saw a group of civilians surrounded by thugs with guns, they were being supervised by none other than Harley Quinn. She turned and saw me, a large grin spread across her face and she ran at me to pull me into a massive hug.

"Curly! I didn't think i'd be seein' you here!"

"Quincy had me dropped in."

"The don't ya worry Curly i'll keep ya safe!"

"So what's going on in here?"

"We were being dropped in here in small groups at a time over the past few days, an' now everyone wants ta be in charge. No one'll beat my Puddin' though. When did ya get dropped in?"

"About half an hour ago, who else is here then"

"Well you must be one of the last ones, pretty much all the gang is here! Eddie is gonna be using this place later but he said I could keep this lot here for now, and I think I heard some people saying they saw Red earlier."

"Ivy's here?"

"Yeah she was dropped in this afternoon." They must have taken her almost as soon as i'd left her cell.

"I heard some of two face's men saying they had Catwoman in the courthouse..."

"He has Kitty? That pig better not hurt her or i'll break all his limbs! Actually I could do with your help I need to set up a remote detonated explosive in the tower for when Batsy gets here.

"Batman's here?"

"Not yet but Mr-J seems to think he will be." I planned on staying out of the Bat's way as much as possible. "And another thing, what's with the get up Curly?"

"I was on a date when they took me."

"Ohhh what a shame, I hope you're not missing anything fun."

"Trust me Harley, this place is almost better."

"That bad huh?"

"The worst."

I went up to the bell tower and started work, I had a lot of spare time these days and had spent a large portion of it trying to improve any skills I thought would help me, including how to set up a bomb. Making it remote detonated was simple for me as i'd always been good with computers and I was finished pretty quickly I sat down and looked out of the tower, it was actually kind of a beautiful view in a weird kind of way. I heard Harley come up behind me.

"Ya know Mr-J told me we could make this whole place our paradise."

"Paradise?" It seemed a little bit too idealistic for me to believe.

"Yeah, granted it'll take a lot of work but we can do it." she was sad, I could tell because her accent was fading slightly.

"Harley, I overheard something about Joker." I turned to face her and saw her eyes were brimming with tears, it was true then. "Oh Harley." she collapsed into my arms and started to cry into my shoulder.

"What am I gonna do? I can't live without him Curly, I love him!" I stroked her hair and kissed her forehead.

"Shhh we'll find a way, we'll keep him alive, just you see." I had to try, for Harley's sake.

"But Freeze has disappeared, and he's making the cure for us! I can't lose him."

"If that happens, and it won't. You and I, we'll get revenge understand? We'll take care of each other and no one will be safe, no one." she looked up at me and looked like she was about to say something before she was interrupted by a loudspeaker bursting to life with the voice of Hugo Strange.

"Hello citizens of Arkham City, I am making a special announcement of the arrival of two new inmates. The first is already here and she is your namesake Miss Genevieve Arkham." There went my plan of staying out of the limelight. "The second is just about to enter, I give you Gotham's finest: Bruce Wayne!" Bruce was here? I had to help him, there was no way that guy could handle himself around here. It seemed like Harley had read my mind.

"Go help the rich kid, ya know you want to."

"But what about you?"

"I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself. Whenever you get a spare moment come over and see us, we're in the steel mill and I know Mr-J would love ta see you!" she patted me on the shoulder and led the way down from the bell tower. "I'll see ya soon. Kay Curly?"

"For sure."

It was surprisingly easy to find my way to the entrance, all I had to do was follow the large groups of thugs heading in that direction. When I got there the place was packed and Bruce was being attacked by several of the inmates, I ran to help him but I was too slow and saw him fall to the ground unconscious.

"Bruce!" I shouted stupidly, the group turned to look at me and I saw who was in charge of them. Cobblepot saw me and grinned a smarmy grin.

"Ahh Miss Arkham, I heard you were in 'ere but I must say I wasn't expectin' you to come and hand yourself over to me!" he had at least forty thugs with him , way more than I could take. I turned to run but I didn't get very far before a guy who looked to be about 6'4 grabbed me by the wrist and twisted me around to face the group. Before I could get away several more of them had hold of me and were binding my wrists and ankles. Cobblepot sauntered over to me and looked me right in the eye.

"Nighty night Miss Arkham, you better pray you don't wake up too soon." A bag was then shoved over my head and I felt a club come down over me, knocking me out swiftly.

When I woke up the bag was still over my throbbing head. I stank of sweat and left me with very little idea as to my location, all I could tell was that it was cold, very cold and I was wearing completely wrong clothing for these temperatures. I felt some rough hands and jerk me into an upright position and pull the bag off of my head. It took my eyes a few seconds to adjust to the light but when I did I was in for a shock, everywhere was covered in ice.

"Like what i've done with the place?"

"Not really to my taste."

"Shame that. Since you're gonna be getting very well acquainted with ice. You see I want you to suffer, slowly. Ice is great for that, it hurts quickly but takes awhile to do any real damage." The hand lifted me up and shoved me towards the center of the room where a large tub was positioned. As we neared I saw it was full of Ice and water.

"Is this your great plan Cobblepot? Kinda pathetic, you really think a little bit of ice will hurt me, that's adorable!" except I was freezing already.

"Let's see if you're still able to say that in an hours time." as soon as my skin made contact with the water I realised what he meant,it stung like hell. when my whole body apart from my head was submerged I felt like I was on fire. I jerked and tried to get out but hands held me down, then they brought a sheet of metal that covered the majority of the tub and strapped it down, I banged my hands against it.

"Let me out!"

"Not so adorable now is it? I hear you go by Wraith professionally, you should be pleased, this'll make you look more like a spook, eh Ghosty?"

"Wait until I get out of here. I'll skin you from head to toe." he turned towards some of his goons and shrugged at them.

"Ghosty 'ere seems to be under the impression she'll be getting out of there any time soon. I don't know if any of you gave her that idea 'cause I certainly didn't!" he looked back at me and grinned "Now if you'll excuse me I 'ave bloke to see about a gun." he gave me a wave and swaggered out of the room. The pain was excruciating and I quickly had to stop hitting the metal sheet as it made it worse, if felt my strength failing and my mind was clouded by the unbearable pain. I fell into a haze and soon was only able to make out the vague shapes and colours moving around me, well that and the burning of the ice. I was well on my way to becoming comatose when I noticed a disturbance around me, the shapes were running around and shouting I strained to tune into what they were saying.

"...near the suit..."

"...going crazy..."

"...you stay here we'll deal with it." that last one was followed by all the shapes but one leaving my line of sight. Then a miracle happened, the one remaining shape came over to me and lifted the metal from on top of me, I tried to reach out for him but I couldn't move, he reached in and lifted me slowly out of the tub. I looked into his face, confused.

"I'm an undercover cop, I needed to get you out of there or you would have died. I dunno who caused the chaos outside but whoever they are you owe them your life, and it wasn't one of us I can tell you that." I was numb all over and could barely move, but I tried anyway. I stumbled forward and the cop put a hand out to steady me, my vision was clearing, I could do this. I turned to him.

"Show me a way out." he nodded and led me to a small side door, hidden behind a bookcase.

"This is how we've been getting in and out, it beats crossing that lake out there every time anyway." we heard voices heading in out direction. "Quickly! Follow it and it'll lead you out onto the street."

"Thank you." but he was already turning from me to close the door. I turned and ran. From behind me I could hear voices shouting "Traitor!" and "He's a pig!" seems the guy had been discovered. I felt guilty but there was nothing I could do to help him now. I reached the end of a passage and burst out onto the street. I didn't stop running until I had left the museum far behind me. I broke into one of the apartments and curled up on the floor hugging myself, I was numb all over and soaking wet. I was ridiculously weakened by my experience and all I could do was lie there on the floor shivering. At least I was alive; for now.