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The next day, Scarecrow and Deadshot sat down to an empty table with Two-Face, to make a plan for releasing Crock and Bane.
„What about the bribed guards and docs?" – Asked Floyd.
„They are corrupt, not insane." – said Harvey, looking at Deadshot like he was retarded. – „ Those beasts will tear them apart if they open their cages. I admit it, money does have power, but noone will throw their lives away just to get a couple o' extra bucks into their pockets."
„But besides them, noone can get close enough to unlock the cells, and we're dead without Weylon and Bane." – Scarecrow answered. – „They're the only ones, who are strong enough to break down the gates."
„What about Harley?" – Two-Face asked. – „She could climb in through the maintence sewers and release them. Bane won't hurt her, because she's a criminal too, and Crock developed some kind of friendship with her while she was taking sessions with him in her early years here." – Right then, Harley walked into the room along with several other inmates. She looked at Crane, smiled and waved her hand to him. He returned the gesture and motioned for her to come over to their table. She walked to the table and greeted all of them. Deadshot offered her his own chair and quickly started looking for another free one for himself. She sat down next to Scarecrow, and almost instantly kissed Crane's cheek.
„Thank's for the idea Johhny" – she giggled – „I told Mr. J. what you said and he said it was alright." – she put her arms around him in a friendly hug.
„EHEM!" – Two-Face grunted, annoyed. – „Can we get to the point please, I have a prison break to organise."
At the word prison break, Harley became super excited. – „Ooooooh! Can I join in?" – she asked like a little kid, asking if she could join the game her friends were playing.
„That's the reason we called you over here sweetheart." – said Floyd. – „But don't tell this to anyone. Only we, Jervis and Edward knows it. We need someone who can get into the cells of Bane and Crock through the sewers, and release them."
„That's all?" – Harley asked, almost sounding dissappointed by the fact that her work will be so easy. – „Sure. I can do it anytime. You get me out too right?" – she asked, a bit worried about how the breakout will end.
„Of course." – said Harvey smiling – „We're taking everyone out of this hellhole. We've planned it to Saturday, but we could do this anytime now with you in the team.
Harley giggled again, happy that she'll leave the asylum soon. She kissed Scarecrow's cheek again and blew a kiss to the others before getting up and walking away, in the direction of the solitary cells.
Johnathan was lost in his thoughts. He was overwhelmed with joy that she's in the team too. Maybe she'll even forget about her puddin' for a while. Although it was not to possible, but he hoped, that she will eventually realise what a twisted animal his sweet Mr. J. truly is.
After the team meeting, he went back to his regular afternoon activity: playing chess with Riddler. Although, we're not talking about simply playing chess parties here, since they've been playing a single chess match for six months before Crane escaped and they still couldn't overcome the other. Some inmates started placing bets on which one of them would win and how long would it take for him to do so. Even some of the guards became frequent audiences of the battle of these two chess masters. Their tactics were similar to the ones they used in their criminal life, with Nygma being arrogant, often setting up traps masked as wrong moves and Scarecrow using intimidation and swift minded, fast tactics against his foe. At some points, one of them seemed to be winning, when the other used a surprising trick, and turned the tides.
At 9 p.m. the bells rang again, and guards came in to escort the inmates back to their cells as always. Crane went back into his cell and quickly fallen asleep on his bed, thinking about Harley, and what a pleasure it will be to work with her again.