Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing related to Batman. Any and all one-shots in this collection of one-shots were inspired by Charlotte A. Cavatica's lovely ideas from her Waiting on the Shingle, chapter seven, unless otherwise stated. Anyway, thanks to Ms. Cavatica for making it possible for plot bunnies to attack me. Please enjoy.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed. –Ches.

#11

Completion

Ari came running up to Alice at the end of their shift, a paper clenched tight in her hand.

"Ari! What's the matter?" Alice questioned.

Ari handed her the paper. "They have a new treatment that they want to test on the Rogues. It's some sort of surgery where they shock the memory center of the brain and erase everything only to tell the person lies. And one of the people at the top of the list to test it on is Jervis."

"WHAT?!" Alice read through the paper. "No, they can't do this. That will take away everything he is, everything I fell in love with. We can't let them do this. It's not right!"

"It's not been approved yet, so we have a chance to stop it. Zeek brought it to my attention and he's already begun work to make sure it doesn't happen." Ari replied as they hurried towards the stairs.

Alice felt her blood boil. "They aren't getting their hands on my Hatter! They're messing with the wrong people."

Ari grinned in delight as Alice fumed, ranted, and raved. She knew bringing this to Alice's attention was going to be entertaining.

*~*~*~*

Jervis was curious as to why Alice would show up when she had just visited him the day before.

It had taken a year and a half, but Alice, Ari, and Zeek had finally managed to get the doctors to allow Alice to visit Jervis by herself and almost whenever she wanted; they had refused every day and agreed to every other day and on holidays.

He was even more surprised to find Ari, Zeek, and someone dressed like a lawyer there as well.

"Jervis!" Alice threw herself into his arms. "You're all right."

He drew back a little, not letting her out of his arms, but back enough to look at her. "Why wouldn't I be?"

Zeek spoke up. "Some stupid psychologist have come up with a ridiculous treatment they want to use in order to 'treat' the criminally insane."

Ari handed him the paper that explained it to him.

Jervis read through it. "Th…that's monstrous! Can they even do that legally?"

"Only if it gets approved, Mr. Tetch." the lawyer told him. "Which is why Mr. Redd, Miss Fields, and Miss Pleasance have retained me. We're here to make sure this doesn't get approved. They aren't the only ones against it."

Ari nodded. "We're not about to let anything happen to you."

The buzzer went off and a guard entered to take Jervis back to his cell.

Alice looked at him with tears in her eyes. "I love you, Jervis, and I'm not going to let anyone take you away from me."

The guard pulled him out of the room as Alice turned to the table and all the paperwork on it.

His shout of triumph went unnoticed by her, but only because she was hurriedly trying to save him from a fate worse than death. She was trying to save him from being forcibly lost to her and their shot at happily-ever-after.

*~*~*~*

Two weeks later Ari, Zeek, and Alice all sat in the crowd in the room where the debate and now final decision regarding the use of the new therapy at Arkham was happening.

It had been an uphill battle, but Alice was confident that it wouldn't be allowed.

She and many others had fought against all the support the idea had from Gotham and the results of their battle would be announced in just a few minutes.

The Chairman, Bruce Wayne himself, spoke up.

"In regards to whether or not the newest suggested therapy be used at Arkham Asylum, the Committee has decided to forbid the use of it on the grounds that it violates the basic human rights of those it was to be used upon." he stated.

Cheers went up from Alice's side of the room.

She and Ari hugged tightly, and Alice had to laugh as Ari drew Zeek in for a deep kiss that surprised the man for a few seconds at first.

Ari blushed slightly as she and Zeek separated.

Alice grinned.

"Just you wait, Alice. You're going to do exactly the same thing when Jervis gets released." Ari warned.

Alice blushed. She knew Ari was right.

What Ari didn't know was that Alice planned to do a little more than just kiss Jervis when he got released; she was going hang on to him and never let him go.