Return to Gotham

Chapter 10

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Summary: Set two years after Worlds Collide. Hermione and the Joker are back in Gotham. And you'll just have too see what happens from there.

Okay, I know this is different from the original summary that I have posted on chapters 1-6 but now that I've begin to write it I think that it is appropriate to keep it like it was in Worlds Collide where Hermione only uses her magic when it's absolutely necessary. I tried to fit it in where she uses her magic for evil but I just can't see it so sorry for any confusion this might cause but hopefully it won't cause too much because she hasn't used her magic in the story yet.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters.

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Hermione had slept peacefully without the unpleasant waking of her nightmares. Now she was getting ready to go help the Joker cause chaos. She put on jeans, a purple tank top with a black jacket over it, and her black flats. Why not somewhat match the Joker tonight? She wasn't sure what he had planned for tonight; hell he might not even know yet. As usual soon enough they were driving toward some other part of Gotham.

"What are we doing tonight?"

"Tonight we're going to crash a party. I though it might be an appropriate thing to do for a "homecoming event" since that is how we first met."

"Who's the target tonight, since Harvey Dent is dead?"

"Nobody really, I just though we would go cause a little trouble, maybe plant a bomb before we leave."

Hermione rolled her eyes before she continued. "Who's party?"

"None other than your uncle's, Bruce Wayne's, it's his birthday today if you forgot."

"Oh I did forget, well this should be interesting."

"It should."

"At least you're in a suit; I'm going to be under-dressed."

"Well if it means that much to you, the dress you were wearing the night we met is in the back seat."

Hermione turned to find, just as the Joker had said, her dress lying elegantly across the backseat. "Did you get my shoes?"

"Yes I did."

"Thank you."

"You're quite welcome. I've been looking for an excuse to get you to wear that dress again anyway. You look ever so beautiful in it."

Hermione smiled and looked at the Joker with loving eyes. She was brought out of her gaze by the car stopping. She looked away from the Joker and out of the window expecting to find them stopped outside of her uncle's penthouse. Instead they were parked outside of a mansion.

"Oh did Wayne Mansion finally get rebuilt?"

"Yes."

"This should make things extra interesting then."

Hermione noticed that the mansion she saw was in the distance a bit. She then noticed that they had parked on a dirt road lined with trees on either side.

"Sorry, this is as close as I could get us without drawing attention." He said pretty much reading her mind.

"That's fine, and besides I would want to change right in front of the mansion."

The Joker chuckled. "Speaking of, go get changed so we can hurry up and join the party."

Hermione laughed. "No clown helpers tonight?" Hermione asked opening the backseat door and removing her dress carefully.

"They're waiting for us closer to the mansion."

"Should have figured." She added grabbing her shoes.

They both heard tires and saw a flash of headlights about to come around the turn in the road.

"Shit." The Joker said grabbing Hermione by the arm and pulling her back behind some trees to be out of sight.

It was a sports car that whirled past them at an extremely fast speed.

The Joker looked at Hermione with questioning eyes thinking she might know.

"They're rich drunk kids who are out to get themselves killed pretty much."

"You seem to know a lot on the subject yourself."

"Bruce used to complain about them all the time, and of course threaten me that if he ever caught me doing that the consequences would not be good."

The Joker laughed.

Hermione looked around. "I guess this is as good as a changing room as I'm going to get."

The Joker smiled and walked back to the road to wait for Hermione to change. Hermione quickly slipped into her dress trying to avoid getting it dirty. She put on her stilettos quickly and then continued to fixing her dress. The back of the dress had ribbons that laced and tied over the zipper. Hermione usually didn't have a problem with fixing this herself, but now she found that the zipper was stuck. She trudged out of the trees with an agitated look on her face. The Joker looked up to see her holding her dress up in the front and to see the agitated look on her face.

"Something wrong?"

"The stupid zipper is stuck, would you like to help me?"

"I don't know I think I'll let you try to fix it." The Joker said teasingly.

"Do you want to go crash a party or not?"

The Joker laughed. "Come here."

She walked over to him and turned around so her back would face him. He gently removed the ribbon that had been caught in the zipper. He slowly ran the zipper up the back of her dress, tracing a line up her back with his finger as he did so. It sent a delightful shiver up Hermione's spine and the Joker noticed and her reaction pleased him. After he had finished zipping her dress he laced up the ribbon and tied it in a neat bow. Hermione glanced over her shoulder to examine his work. The lacing and the bow was much neater than she would have given him credit for. Hermione started to walk back to the car but the Joker placed his hands on her bare shoulders and turned her to face him. Hermione smiled a soft smile as she looked up at him. One of his hands dropped to the small of her back and pressed her against him. The other hand wrapped through her long, curly hair bringing her head closer to his. His mouth met hers passionately and she went limp in his arms. He smiled at her reaction and supported her wait. His tongue brushed through her lips and traced the inside of her mouth. When he removed her tongue she did the same, tracing his scars where they met the corners of his mouth. Finally, the Joker pulled away. Hermione took several deep breaths regaining oxygen and clearing her spinning head.

"Let's go crash a party." The Joker said slightly breathless.

"You know that's really disappointing." Hermione said pouting.

"What?" The Joker asked though he already knew.

"Kissing me like that and then stopping to go crash a party."

"Oh but I thought you were excited about crashing your uncle's party." The Joker said teasingly.

"That's not funny."

He moved to pull her close to him but she backed away in protest. He tried again. This time he moved faster and caught her.

"Don't worry, I'll make it up to you later; I promise, but for now we both have to go and touch up our make-up, or war-paint, or whatever, because mine is smeared all over your face."

Hermione brought a finger up to her face and swiped it across her lips. Sure enough there was a generous amount of red that came off on her finger. They both smiled and went to the car to fix her make-up and his war-paint.

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First off, sorry about all the differences between make-up and war-paint but it just sound a little akward to have both of them fix their make-up, but maybe it was just me...lol. Anyways, I hope your enjoying the story. Please Review!!!

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