I closed my eyes for what seemed like a second and when I opened them again I had a blanket over me, as curious as I was about exactly how the blanket had ended up here I was just glad for it's warmth.I looked around for a clue as to who this mystery person was and my eyes fell upon a small note.

You looked cold Miss Arkham,

take care.

It wasn't signed and seemed to be written in the same handwriting as the note I had received in the hospital with my rose. So whoever had sent the note was in Arkham City. It was infuriating not knowing, especially since whoever this was seemed to be keeping a pretty close eye on me. I gathered the blanket around me and tucked the note into the pocket watch I always kept with me these days, it didn't work but it had been my father's, and besides it was good for storing things. I should get back to Harley, she had said that her and Joker were in the steel mill so that was where I needed to go.

On my way over I heard a ringing sound coming from down an alley to my right, I took out my knife and headed towards the noise. Very much to my surprise I discovered that it was coming from a ringing pay phone.

"How come these things are still working?" I asked myself as I stepped up to the receiver. "Who's there?" I asked.

"Your salvation." came a soft voice from the other end.

"What the fuck are you talking about?" I really wasn't in the mood for this "You know what screw you. I've got places to be." I was just about to hang up when he said in a suddenly much more threatening voice.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you Miss Arkham." I froze.

"How did you know it was me?"

"I'm watching you right now." I looked around frantically trying to work out where he could be.

"Who are you?"

"I told you, i'm your salvation."

"I meant your name."

"My name is Victor Zsasz and Miss Arkham you are the one." my blood ran cold, I knew of Zsasz and I knew that now he'd chosen me he wouldn't give up until he had me.

"Don't you dare. I'm not just some unsuspecting victim you freak. I know people much scarier than you."

"I know who you know, and I also know that you're much more scared of me than any of them. So Miss Arkham, you can run as fast as you want but you'll be mine in the end. You hear that? Run." I dropped the phone and sprinted, my heart felt like it would burst through my chest, there were too many people in here out to get me and I needed my friends. My paranoia was intense, this year it had been reaching peak levels anyway and now I could feel it choking me. Everywhere I went I could hear footsteps following me and when I looked behind no one was there, mocking laughter echoed around my head piercing every corner of my mind. I heard a whispering from behind me and looked around, in my distraction I tripped and fell backwards. I scurried backwards into a corner,I was hysterical, I got out my knife.

"Stay back Zsasz. I'll kill you if I see you, don't think I won't." I saw a black shape out of the corner of my eye and jumped at it, I had the figure against a wall with a knife to their throat before I even saw who it was.

"Catwoman." I took the knife away from her neck and stepped back to give her more space.

"The one and only. Though I presume I wasn't who you were expecting?"

"I thought you were Zsasz."

"Ahhh so you've been unfortunate enough to be picked as "His one"" the contempt for his was clear in her voice.

"So it seems."

"You can call me Selina since you seem like you're decent company. Thanks for not using that knife on me by the way. She stuck her hand out for a handshake.

"Genevieve Arkham, and I suspect you could have dealt with me had I posed any real threat." she smiled as I took her hand.

"Lucky you didn't need to find out Genevieve, I've heard about you, Ivy and Harley are quite taken with you, Eddie too. Though him and Harley are easy to win over, Ivy though takes someone a bit more special, if she trusts you so do I; until you give me reason not to."

"I'll try not to give you reason then."

"Where were you headed before Zsasz sent you running scared then?"

"The steel mill to meet Harley and Joker"

"Tell you what, If you help me take out the group of two face's men around the corner i'll see if I can help you with your little Zsasz problem. Sound like a deal?"

"Sounds lovely." she gave me a grin and used her whip to disappear somewhere above us, I turned to walk around the corner. There were about 10 blackgate prisoners, two of them with knives. I walked out into the middle of the road and cleared my throat loudly.

"Excuse me, I don't suppose any of you could help me out?" I had my knife hidden behind my back and had put on my innocent voice.

"Sure thing honey, i'll help you out alright." One said walking towards me

"Oh thank you so much, I can't tell you how grateful I am!" I stalled until he was looming right in front of me and quickly brought my knee up to his crotch doubling him over in pain I then slit his throat open, getting sprayed in blood in the process, and kicked him backwards onto the floor.

"He was thinking of doing something other than helping me!" I told the stunned looking thugs in a mocking explanation.

"You shouldn't have come alone bitch, you're way too outnumbered." they started to advance and I braced myself for a fight.

"Except she didn't come alone." Selina swung down from a nearby lamp post and launched into one of the guys at the back. "She has me." the group split in two and ran at us. I feinted to one side before going the other way and breaking a guy's jaw, while his friend tried to sneak up up on me. Just as he was about to lash out I slammed my elbow backwards into his nose which made a crunch and spurted blood, a third guy charged me but I flipped over him and swung my knife around into his back, severing his spinal chord. The first guy was back up and running at me then I blocked his punch and kicked him in the stomach sending him staggering backwards I was too slow turning around though and the man whose nose I had broken had grabbed a metal pipe and brought it down on my head leaving me dazed. The street shook as he advanced on me. He grabbed my hair and pulled me up to face him, but before he could do anything I smashed my knife into the side of his head as hard as I could, he jerked violently and went still, I pulled the knife out and as it came out my face got sprayed with blood. The first guy saw what I had done to his friend and let out a yell before running at me, but it wasn't well thought out and I lifted my foot up to kick him as he got close, knocking him to the floor I went over to him and stamped on his hand which was reaching out for the pipe. As I brought my foot down I felt several of his fingers break and he let out a scream of pain.

"You'll pay for this whore." I turned around to see one of the men with knives walking towards me. I got my own knife at the ready and ducked one of his swings, lashing out to cut his side as I came under his arm and out behind him. He turned too slow and I kicked him forwards into the wall. I walked towards him to finish him off, but he threw one of his knives at me, it was badly aimed but left a deep gash along the top of my left arm. I hissed in pain and threw my own knife into the back of his head. I turned to finish the guy on the floor but he had disappeared, I saw him running off into the distance and was about to follow when I felt Selina put a hand on my shoulder to stop me.

"Let him run, he won't be bothering anyone any time soon." I nodded and walked over to where my knife was still imbedded in the man's skull and pulled it out. I turned him over and started to work carving kisses into the foreheads of the men i'd killed. Selina watched me with mild interest.

"I like your style, Genevieve."

"Thank you, you're not so bad yourself." She laughed, as I finished the last one I turned to face her. "This was fun, we should do it again sometime."

"Yes, I think we make a pretty good team Wraith." I smiled at her use of my professional name. "I'll follow through on my promise and try and deal with Zsasz, in the meantime please try not to die, it would be rather a shame, especially since we've been getting along so well."

"I'll do my best." I laughed, at least Selina wasn't out to kill me.

After we parted ways I continued on towards the steel mill, several of Joker's men saw me as I got closer but didn't stop me. I walked up to the gate leading into the yard in front of the main entrance and the two men guarding it looked at me then at each other.

"Should we kill her?"

"Nah that's the Wraith, we're not allowed to kill her. Bosses orders." That was comforting if a little surprising, I was glad I wouldn't have to watch out for any of Joker's people. They moved out of the way to let me pass and I walked across the courtyard and up to to the main entrance where one of the men on the door opened it for me. I paused to look at him.

"Where's Joker?" He gave me directions and I entered the building. I followed what the man had said and soon reached the room he had told me Joker was in. I saw him sitting or rather slumped in a chair, he looked up when he saw me enter.

"Ahh Genevieve dear, how kind of you to join us." I was shocked by his appearance, his skin seemed raw and like it was peeling and his eyes seemed so tired.

"You look awful."

"Dying does that to you. Besides you're hardly a picture yourself, have you looked in the mirror recently?" He gestured to a full length mirror in the corner of the room and I looked at my reflection. He was right, I was still deathly pale from my encounter with Penguin and my makeup had smudged down my face making me look like a walking corpse, something that was only enhanced by my still wet attire and the fact I was covered in blood which stood out bright red against my pale skin. I was covered in bruises and small scrapes while the knife wound on my left arm was still bleeding quite heavily.

"Had a bit of trouble on the way over did we?"

"You could say that." he let out a wheezing laugh which dissolved into a coughing fit.

"There's a first aid kit over in the corner, help yourself to bandages, go crazy! Though rumour has it you already have." more painful sounding laughter. I went over to the first aid kit and started to clean the knife wound. "I don't know if i'm going to make it you know? Sure i've got Batsy on the case and i'm sure as hell going out with a bang, one that Gotham won't forget anytime soon, but this could actually be it."

"Don't be so melodramatic, you won't die."

"See that's what I like about you Arkham, you're as blunt as a rolling pin. Anyway why do you even care, you may not hate me but you're certainly not my number one fan. It's not for protection, you can take care of yourself these days and besides you have plenty of other friends. So what is it?"

"I need you to live for Harley's sake."

"Ahhh my Harley, she's been taking tests you know?"

"Tests?"

"Pregnancy tests, I would have put my foot down but if i'm really on the way out I don't see the harm in leaving a little something behind." I was shocked.

"Wait. So Harley's pregnant?"

"Well she seems to think so. You can go see for yourself over in the office." I hadn't seen Harley here so far and had assumed she was out.

"I didn't think she was here..."

"Oh she isn't" he interrupted."She's out running errands. I meant the tests are in there." I walked through into the office and there it was clear as day, a box labeled fruitful endeavors pregnancy tests and lying next to it was a positive test. Harley Quinn was pregnant.