Chapter 3: Up Against Your Will

~Fate

Up Against Your Will

Through the thick and thin~

~The Killing Moon, Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain~

Zara suddenly felt cold water being splashed in her face as she woke up on the ground. "Wake up." A voice said. She shook her head and then looked up to see The Joker looming over her, and Harley Quinn watching from the door. "Have you read this kid?" He said as he dropped the piece of paper on her face. She sat up and read the file into the extra points. It read

{• DNA samples have proven she is indeed the daughter of The Joker and Harley Quinn

{• Closest Relative to Zara Ace is Rainee Napier

She better stop there. She couldn't read any further. This was all the proof she could get. Her eyes widened as she dropped the paper to her feet. She was now thinking over what she liked and everything made sense how she was related to them. She love danger and adventure and action. She was rebellious and she always enjoyed causing chaos. Actually considering that she was related to them. "Do you believe this?" Zara asked sounding confident. The Joker looked at her and approached Zara and looked down at her. Zara looked straight back up to him, not breaking eye contact. "I don't know, do you?" He says suspiciously. Zara hesitated and thought about it for a second. Did make more sense, but there was still something that was stopping her from believing it all. "Why don't we ask her things Puddin'? I mean she could be." Harley suggested. The Joker thought about it then actually considered it. "Okay, let's do it." He said with a mischievous smirk on his face. Harley skipped towards them as they all knelt to the floor.

"Ooh! Me first!" Exclaimed Harley excitedly. "First question. What's your name and do you like causing chaos?" She asked. "If you didn't read my file, my name is Zara Ace, i'm 15 years old and causing chaos, depends which kind." She answered honestly. Something about answering them was a very easy task, that didn't even make Zara tremble in fear.

After a 'heartfelt' Q & A, The Joker seemed, a little skeptic about this, leaving the situation 'unfinished'. While Harley on the other hand, was totally excited and really liked Zara. Zara didn't mind, but was growing to like her too. Harley lead her to the living room and Zara settled down there; looking down at her hands, a bit shy as she waited for some consent by the criminal couple.

"So Puddin' ya like her? I do, and you should too! She seems nice! And she's so grown up now! They also kept the name you gave her!" Harley whispers excitedly. "Harls, she's doesn't seem like 'us' anymore. We should just be done with her now." He points out, as he looms over her. "Then let's take her back. She's was originally us!" She said with an mischievous smirk. Then The Joker got an idea. Create her like how he created Harley. Well, it is HIS kid. Harley knew the exact plan and the pair walked out of the other room.

"Okay kid, you want to be part of the family?" The Joker asked her as he knelt down to her level. "Wait, i'm actually part of the family? You guys are really my parents?" She asked looking confused at both of them. "She's in!" Harley interrupted in happy claps. "Then I can't wait to show you my toys." The Joker said as he slapped her in the face with every word. She winced a little bit in pain, but thought 'Being a foster kid, having parents is a dream come true. And she wasn't going to miss out on this opportunity.'

Later, The Joker and Harley had lead Zara to a room with a thin wooden door. As she entered, she thought she wasn't innocent but looking at all the items in the room, she could never be wrong. Torture weapons, blades, guns surrounded the room and a surgery table in the center, hugging the light from above.

Regrets started to boil up inside Zara as she saw the room. Harley gestured her to lay on the surgery table. As she did what she was told out of fear, she saw The Joker grab out something from a stand with glowing magenta electricity. Harley posing with a large cherry smile, and The Joker adjust the light to be directly below Zara's eyes. She started to breath heavily and her eyes started to water as panic fills her body; knowing what's going to happen next. "Are you gonna kill me?" Zara asked, her voice shaky with fear. "Oh, you scared?" He said with a fake caring tone. She also heard Harley laughing beside him as she ties her limbs and waist to the table with belts. "Wanna be part of the family?" She asked as she tightened the last belt on her waist. Zara flinched in pain, feeling the leather belt dig into her skin. "Oh don't worry, i'm not gonna kill ya. I'm just gonna hurt ya, really, really, bad." He said with an evil smile as he slammed the two objects at the temples of Zara's head. A bolt of electricity felt like it stabbed through her brain as she screamed in pain. It felt like the longer he did it the more intense the stabbing feeling got, and her eyes became blurry with tears.

Suddenly, something had clicked into her mind. A memory.

-"I'm sorry." Was all Harley said in the memory. Her vision seemed small and squished, as she saw Harley running into a fancy car and left in the dark starry night that stared above her.-

The flashback ended and The Joker had lifted the objects from her head as she blinked a few times for her eyes to focus. "What the hell was that!?" She yelled. "Ooh i'm not finished yet Zara." The Joker said as he loomed over her. "No, please!" Was all she could say before he crashed the objects back on her head. Her screams scratching the back of her throat, and her head feeling like one thousand knifes had sliced her brain into millions of pieces. The pain kept going, and going, and going, that she felt herself blackout from the pain.