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A/N: People are actually liking something I've written. That's a pleasant surprise. Never have I gotten 17 follows and 15 favorites - and this is only day two! Even A Sci-Fi Fan's Adventure or Life (Not) at the Frankenstein Place weren't this popular. Perhaps Suicide Squad fics are just being read by everyone currently.

Thank you all so much for favoriting, following, reviewing, reading...

Also, the ex-doctor Dr. Quinzel speaks to on the phone is based on Professor Plum from the film version of Clue.

Soon after that strange meeting Dr. Quinzel decided to actually read through the Joker's file. Yes, she should've looked over it earlier. But she hadn't seen a serious need to study his record. She liked to personally assess something before reading another person's ideas on it. Though now she'd met him and spoken to him for a while. Time to read his records.

Apparently, he had been brought to Arkham nine years previously at the age of twenty-six. That made him much older than he seemed. Something about that man seemed disturbingly childlike…

At some point they'd decided he was both a sociopath and had Schizoaffective Disorder (not Schizophrenia, like he'd said). Now, she wasn't so sure about the sociopath thing – he had the 'boldness', but seemed more restrained and his file gave her the impression he had good long-term planning skills – but he didn't seem like someone with. There weren't any delusions and going by his focused behavior he didn't have any disorganized thinking. Yes, his speech patterns were odd… but only because he liked referencing popular culture too much and she apparently hadn't been exposed to enough of it.

Had they really been that inaccurate with his diagnosis? Dr. Quinzel decided she needed to talk to his previous doctors about it. The files listed a few phone numbers. First was a Dr. C. L. Plum. He'd apparently been fired for unspecified reasons only a few months after taking the Joker on as one of his many patients. His only male patient, oddly.

Dr. Quinzel quickly called him on her office phone (her actual office, not the office she'd see the Joker in). He picked up soon enough. Though it was hard to hear, the male voice on the other line had some sort of standard American accent.

"Hello?"

"Hi. This is Dr. Quinzel, from Arkham Asylum. I've just been assigned as primary physiatrist to the Joker. According to his records you diagnosed him with sociopathy and Schizoaffective Disorder. Now, I don't know your reasoning for th-"

"I know, those diagnosis aren't reasonable. That man isn't mentally ill by the standards of, say, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But if he were something out of a movie he'd be the 'crazy' bad guy. He's got a few symptoms of sociopathy, mostly the fact that he's antisocial, though he has at least some level of empathy and isn't really that impulsive. He's like a chessmaster that's behind the main story arc of a Buffy season, the Emperor from Star Wars - as he said himself. The Schizoaffective diagnosis was just because of his obsession with popular culture can be mistaken for delusions of some sort. The ranting about pop culture can seem like a thought disorder if you don't know what he's talking about, or if you don't pay enough attention. Though he is aware of what's going on and of the fact that he appears strange by normal social standards."

"Is this why you were fired?"

"No. I was asked to think of a likely-sounding diagnosis for him. They needed an excuse to keep him in a mental hospital because normal prisons couldn't handle him."

"Why were you fired, if I may ask?"

"Er, that was a different matter entirely… relating to what female patients who weren't rooted in reality would do if I asked."

Disgusted by what that man was saying, Dr. Quinzel hung up the phone without another word.

Of course this news made her pity the Joker. Though it also made her somewhat angry. What was the world coming to? A doctor abusing his female patients and inventing a 'likely-seeming' diagnosis for someone? It was unprofessional. Dr. Quinzel vowed to set things right in the case of the Joker. To help save him from all this! Dr. Quinzel was the sort of person who saw the good in everyone. That was her fatal flaw. Only now would she learn how terrible indeed that flaw was.

A/N: Chapters for this story are going to be shorter than my usual 1k chapters so I can post as often as possible. I'm trying to also work on my various Rocky Horror stories at the same time.

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