Chapter 6

"Raven, why do you hang out with him?" Edward asked me, he stopped me in line at dinner. I looked to Jack, he was sitting at our normal table with his back to me.

"Who, Edward?"

"Who know who. That freak." He pushed, who was he to call Jack a freak? She'd read about him when he made his headline in the news. He won a puzzle contest at school when he was younger, and continued to cheat people out of their money at a carnival. He worked for Wayne at one point. Made some brainwashing machine that was rejected and went a little crazy.

"Edward, don't call him that." I said, getting seriously agitated.

"You don't know what he's like. You don't know how he acted before you got here. The man's not right." He said, grabbing my arm.

"Like you're any better off? You're in the same place, and the same wing of an insane asylum. Talk about calling the kettle black." I told him trying wiggle out of his iron grasp. "Let me go. Now."

"I can't keep letting you associate with him and pretend like it doesn't bother me." He told me, backing me up out of the line. I was afraid f what he as going to do next, but I couldn't do anything. He was most definitely stronger than me.

"Edward, I said let me go!" I yelled. I'm pissed now. I dropped my food and slapped him with my free hand hard. He grabbed my other arm after dropping his own food in shock and slammed me into the nearest wall, I smacked the back of head onto the concrete and I felt slightly woozy. When I recollected what was happening, I could see his hand poised and ready to backhand me, and he followed through.

"He isn't worthy of your time. Why should he get to spend every waking hours with you while I'm sitting here wondering if you'll even talk to me at all." He yelled to me, okay, what is this dude's problem?

"I don't know. You can come talk to me if you want to, I'm not a taboo subject now that I hang out with the Joker." I still addressed him as such, because I knew he wouldn't want me to call him by 'Jack'. I was long fed up with being held up at the wall, I'd had enough stress for today, having my mother been here and all. "Now get OFF." I kneed him in the groin, and when he let go of my arms tackled him to the ground punching him repeatedly in the face. I don't know what happened, I saw red. It just brought up bad memories of all the shitty relationships I've been in.

Finally, two orderlies hauled me off of him, both of them were ones I had not seen before in my stay here. I looked around the room to see that everyone was watching the scene, but Jack was nowhere to be found. I was escorted, more like dragged, over to Dr. Collins' office, I'm guessing so we cold have a little 'chat' about my behavior. Whatever.

"I hope you know why you're here." She finally addressed me after I had been sitting in her uncomfortable, cheap, armchair for five minutes without a word. "I've already heard Mr. Nigma's side of the story. Let's hear yours." Some side of the story, I'm sure.

"I was going through the dinner line, and Edward asks me why I've been spending so much time with the Joker. He called him a freak. I got angry. Edward started calling him names like crazy and I told him he's no better off. I told him he was calling the kettle black, and he grabbed me." She looked skeptical of my story. I have the bruises on my arms, and welts on my face. "I told him to let me go and he started backing me up out of the line." Some officers had dropped my food on the desk in front of me. I pushed it away, completely losing my appetite. "I repeated to him to let me go and I smacked him. He slammed me into the wall and slapped me back. He told me shit like he isn't worthy of my time and that he couldn't let me hang out with him and not be bothered. I told him again to let me go, and he didn't so I kneed him in the crotch and tackled him and the orderlies came in."

"Is that all?"

"Yes."

"Edward seems to recall you saying something about him never being good enough for you, and that you don't want to see him, and that he's taboo." She eyed me as if expecting me to panic and admit the truth.

"Bullshit."

"So you never said this?"

"No, I like Edward, I just have been preoccupied."

"With the Joker?"

"Sure."

"And what do you two do during this said 'preoccupation' together?" Oh god, she was accusing me of sleeping with the joker during rec time? She's lost her marbles almost as bad as me.

"We talk."

"Okay." She said, again, skeptically. "We haven't been able to reveal anything since being checked in here. Why do you think you're all the sudden able to connect with him like this?"

"This is beside the point. What's been said between us is none of your business. Can I go now?"

"Sure. Officer Dawson, put Raven here in isolation for starting a fight and for suspicious behavior." That bitch. A large officer, about Steele's height and weight, came in and dragged me away. He led me through the hallway in my wing, after cable tying my hands, to be mocked. The only person I looked to was Jack and he looked at the officer then to Edward who was comfy and smug in his stupid little cell, and Jack's look was chilling. He was glaring so hard I thought Edward would suffer from combustion on the spot. then he looked to me as if to say 'We'll talk tomorrow' and I nodded.

Isolation was terrible. Even more so than my normal cell. The room was padded with not one item in it, save for a bare mattress on the floor. It was dark and it was dreary. I had not one idea of what was happening in the real world, or what time it was for that matter.

"That fucking bitch. I'll kill her. With my own hands too. And I'll enjoy it. More so than chopping off my husband's penis." I chanted as I paced the room. I was restless, and I wanted out. I continued to pace, even when the door was being unlocked and a figure stepped in.

"Whoa, calm yourself there." Steele said, raising his hands in mock surrender.

"What time is it?" I asked darkly, I needed to know.

"Almost three a.m. Listen, I'm the guard on duty for you since you're the only one in isolation and I'm here to put you back where you belong. I know you didn't start that fight, nor say any of those things." He said, cutting my cable ties. "You have to cooperate though, and you can't speak until I come and get you out for breakfast." I nodded in approval and hugged him tight when he cut the ties.

"Something tells me you're going to get into a lot of trouble for this." I told him as he looked around for other officers.

"Nah, I'll just show Dr. Quacky Collins the surveillance tape." He led me down the hallway, signaling it was my time to be silent.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, Steele?" That bitch's voice yelled out as we were about to enter my ward. Damn.

"Taking her back where she belongs. She isn't a science experiment. You can't lock her up like this for nothing. If you didn't want her hanging around the Joker you shouldn't have put her in the same ward as him. Sure, I don't like them together either but I'm not her father just as you're not her mother. She didn't say any of that shit to Nigma, he's a liar." Steele said, continuing our trek down to my room.

"You're going to be fired for this if you even take one more step."

"Go to the damn surveillance room, that's all the proof you need. Dawson, why don't you escort our nice little doc down there."

"Thank you, Steele." I told him again when he put me in my cell again.

"Believe me babe, if I could get you out of here for good, I would." He told me before walking away.

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"So, what happened between you and the little riddler yesterday?" Jack asked me at rec time. I told him everything that I told Dr. Collins, then told him what Dr. Collins did to me. He chuckled and wrapped an arm around my shoulder.

"You don't have to defend me doll."

"And where were you when all this happened?"

"I went to the bathroom." He shrugged. His gaze was cold though, and I could tell he was pissed at the bruises Edward left on me. I insisted Jack sit next to me at therapy, much to his dismay, as to avoid sitting next to Edward, he didn't even look at me when he walked in, but it was okay because I changed from Dr. Quacky's group to a different one, and had to announce my story over again. "Don't worry about that pussy, Edward. He won't come near you now." I leaned more into his body and closed my eyes.

So much for not making any enemies while I'm here.

A/N: So, I got excited and updated early. I'm sure none of you are complaining. But don't count on it happening again.

I just felt that something intense needed to happen and we haven't heard from the Riddler in a while. lol

Kay, so, there may be some mistakes because I wrote this in like, a couple hours. lol

Good? Bad? Lemme know!