Disclaimer: See previous chapters.

NxS: This chapter only has the Scarecrow and Sally. We're also starting to move towards the plot, haha! Finally, right?

Chapter Five

It had been about a month or so since he had... changed. If anyone knew how easy it was to experiment on the inmates at Arkham, it was him. He was still adjusting to aftermath of the whole thing. He had begun to feel as close to normal as he ever got and decided to continue his research. It had taken them a week but they had finally caugh on.

"Idiots." Crane thought to himself. He'd been sneaking in and out of his cell for a week and they hadn't even batted an eyelash. He wondered vaguely how they'd finally managed to figure it out. Mentally shrugging to himself, he simply jotted a few more notes down before closing his notebook. Even with the whole place in an uproar searching for him it had been laughably easy to slip out of the Rec Room unnoticed.

He wandered for a little while, mentally debating with himself on where to go. He decided to take the stairs down to the basement and headed towards the filing rooms. He'd figured he would catch up on his research while they looked for him.

Sally glared at the guard questioning her. She hadn't wanted to bring Crane's escape to anyon'e notice. (She isn't quite sure what she had planned to do...)

"So, you just so happened to notice the cell was empty?" the obnoxious guard asked with thinly veiled skepticism.

"Like I said the first six times," Sally began again, irritatedly, "I thought it was odd that the cell was so quiet. Most of the criminals in this wing make a lot of noise. So, I slid the slot back and peeked inside. I realized the cell was empty and rushed off to inform a guard. I bumped into the girl and got her safely to her chaperon on my way to find someone to warn. You overheard me talking to them. End. Of. Story." Sally was very ready to cheerfully beat the guard to death.

The guard seemed to give up and began to talk to another guard. (clearly they weren't doing their jobs properly anyway if Crane had been able to slip out of his cell unnoticed. sometimes she really couldn't stand this place...) It never once occurred to Sally to tell someone that she'd been seeing Crane in the Rec Room pretty much all week.

Sally unconciously turned towards the Joker's cell. He was leaning against a wall nearby, seemingly examining his nails. He started to hum something only loud enough for himself and Sally to hear. Her body began to sway in time with the tune of its own accord. She vaguely recognized the song.

"..and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true..." Sally sang softly to herself as she continued to absent-mindedly move in time with the song. (Sammy had loved the Wizard of Oz...)

Crane entered the office and stopped to examine the files scattered about the desk. He found an employee file labeled 'Sally Galeson' and had it safely tucked inside of his notebook before he even thought about it. Jonathan then looked at the various patient files she had on her desk, including his own. Curious, he opened his (clearly well read) file.

As he expected the fools didn't have anything resembling a proper file on him. They didn't understand him, or psychology for that matter, at all. Their notes on him were elementary and ridiculous. A second grader could have written a better psychological profile. Jonathan frowned at the file in his hands.

"You can get back to work now." A nicer guard said to Sally. She stilled instantly and ran a hand down her skirt (the Joker stopped humming). She kept her head up and her shoulders back as she left the maximum security wing. She'd nearly forgotten she still had files to deliver.

Sally passed by Gotham Police Officers on her way out and belatedly realized the police had been called. She pushed the thought away (along with the shiver of worry that had traveled down her spine) and began tracking down the now scattered (and gossiping) staff members. It was definitely going to be a long day.

Jonathan frowned as he read through the other files (Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Mr. Freeze) which were also unimpressive. He decided to write a few notes on the files for her. (He needed to pass the time somehow before he could officially escape.) To amuse himself (and Sally) he picked a different color pen for each file. (Purple for the Joker, green for the Riddler, black for the Penguin, blue for Mr. Freeze, and red for himself)

He hadn't expected it to be so... fun. Jonathan wished he could've seen her expression as she read each note. He impulsively decided to leave a little token for her. After he searched through the other empty offices he found the perfect thing to leave her.

Once she'd finished delivering the other files, Sally headed towards the elevator to return to her domain. She frowned when she realized she'd have to wait in line. Then it hit her that she would have (about a million) requests for the Scarecrow file. Sally sighed and headed towards the stairs instead.

She found herself humming a tune that she couldn't get out of her head. Sally passed by the empty offices of her co-workers and began to sing, "Birds fly over the rainbow, why, then, oh why can't I..." quietly to herself. She danced to the door of her office, still singing.

NxS: I know this chapter is very short, but it's mostly meant to set things up for later.

Sally: I wanna know what he left me and I want to read those notes. Hurry up and write chapter six already!

Scarecrow: I want to know what these 'changes' are going to entail. Who's been experimenting on me?

NxS: Calm down, we'll get to that later. You guys are so impatient. *rolls eyes* Anyways, please review! (Constructive criticism = of the good, flames = deleted)