It was a month until the performance officially and Jackie felt like she was losing her mind as she walked off the stage and to her dressing room when Mary rushed to her side.

"Hey, so I was wondering if you wanted to grab a bite to eat…or drink...or something." Mary asked, following Jackie a little too close.

Jackie smiled "I can't! I have to get home and sleep." She said.

Mary lost her smile "Is everything okay? You have been looking pretty tired lately." She said as they both walked into Jackie's dressing room.

Jackie nodded "Yeah, I just…I think my schizophrenia has been acting up lately." She said.

Mary covered her mouth gently "Oh no, what's going on?" she asked.

"Like—I keep seeing my husband, y'know? I see him around the corner, I see his shadow walking away, I see him watching me practice on stage. And my doctor has already upped my dosage for my anti-psychotics, and she won't do it again." Jackie said, turning to Mary.

Mary nodded "Let me ask you, when was the last time you went out and had a good time, and it was just you? Not your sons, or Bruce Wayne, or…anybody in your immediate family." She asked.

Jackie shrugged her shoulders "Not in a really long time." She admitted.

Mary chuckled "Exactly! We should go have a girls night!" she said.

Jackie laughed "Uhm…to be honest, I don't know that many girls." She said, looking herself over in the mirror.

"Well, I do. So how about instead of going home and crashing, why don't you just change and come out with us?" Mary asked, smiling brightly.

Jackie thought for a moment, looking at Mary whose look did not let up; she sighed "Okay, fine." She said, giving in.


Mary had managed to get Jackie onto the dance floor after dinner with a few girls from the dance company; Jackie was shy as the girls danced around her to the techno music.

Jackie closed her eyes, still seeing the strobe lights as she felt the heat of the people around her as she threw her hands up in the air and spun around with them.

Mary grabbed Jackie's arms and pulled her close "Hey, how about a beer?" she asked with a smile on her face.

Jackie opened her eyes, nodding to her friend "Yeah, I beer sounds good!" she said, now following Mary to the bar.

"Are you having fun?" Mary asked.

Jackie ordered a beer and nodded "I am now!" she said with a laugh.

Mary squealed with excitement "Lets not leave until 2!" Mary said.

Jackie thought for a moment as she shook her head "I don't know, we still have to go to work tomorrow, remember?" she said with a chuckle.

Mary pouted as she grabbed her beer and began to chug it "Yeah, I'm so anxious! Are you? I know you are! You're the Swan Queen!" Mary yelled through the music.

Jackie nodded "Yeah, but I get to be the Swan Queen! I'm so excited!" she said, jumping up and down before grabbing her beer and taking a swig of her beer.

"Hey guys!" Anna yelled, walking to the bar.

Anna, who had already had her fill of alcoholic beverages, was already beginning to slur her speech and swerving as she moved.

Jackie smiled as Anna got to the bar and smiled at both of them "So, what are you girls talking about?" she asked, holding onto the bar for dear life.

"We're talking about the Ballet." Mary said enthusiastically.

Anna nodded, Jackie and Mary both could smell alcohol on her breathe as they glanced at each other for a moment before Mary cleared her throat.

"Hey, you're looking pretty tired; why don't we get you a cab?" Mary asked, smiling to Anna.

Anna shook her head "I know what you're doing!" she said coyly.

Mary and Jackie cocked an eye brow "Oh yeah?" Mary asked.

Anna nodded "You don't want me here anymore! Because I'm drunk!" she said.

Mary nodded "You're a bit worse for wear." She admitted.

Jackie sighed "Hey, why don't I go get the cab and Mary, you can go get her coat?" she said with a smile, making her way out onto the sidewalk where she could retrieve a cab for their drunk co-worker.


After they sent Anna on their way, the ballerinas continued to dance while continuing to drink fruity cocktails and grinding up against each other.

Jackie, as she danced, stretched out along the dance floor, gently grabbing a strangers' neck and began to dance against the body; she didn't care who it was.

The strangers' hands wrapped around her body as they moved with her, Jackie turned around to face the stranger who was only a silhouette of a man.

Jackie smiled as she danced with the stranger, their hands all over each others' bodies before Jackie leaned in and whispered "You wanna get out of here?" she asked him.

He, whoever he was, did not respond as he took Jackie's hand and pulled her along through the crowd of people and out into the streets of Gotham.

Jackie, who was slightly buzzed, only saw the man's shadow as he guided her to his car that was parked in a parking garage across the street.

The man helped her in his car before he turned on the ignition and drove out of the parking lot; Jackie rested against her seatbelt as she muttered the instructions back to her house.

The drive was silent as she felt the engine of the car pulse through her body, and before she knew it he was pulling into her driveway; Jackie giggled as she unbuckled her seatbelt "You're really good at directions." She slurred.

The man assisted Jackie as she got out of the car and guided the both of them towards the front door; the man offered his help with the keys as he unlocked the door and whisked Jackie into the house.

Jackie pulled the man in for a kiss as she guided them again into the bedroom that was still slightly a mess as she attempted to make her way to the bed with the stranger.

She sat down on the bed and looked up at the man and his shadow and mysteriousness as she sighed.

"You remind me of my husband." She said, beginning a drunken rant as she played with his shirt "He died. He was a career villain, but he had a good heart, he took care of me." She said.

Jackie sighed "I miss him, a lot." She went on to say.

It was quiet in the bedroom as the mysterious stranger laid her on the bed, her head to the pillow as he took her heels off and tossed them aside.

"Sounds like he was an amazing man all things considered." The man whispered as he tucked her into bed.

Jackie nodded as she began to dose off "Yeah, he was." She said; Jackie dozed off as the stranger walked out of the bedroom and out the front door.