Edward sat in the small therapy room Dr. Leeland liked to use for her individual sessions. He was attempting to come up with new disturbing things with which to scare her with, he was particularly proud of what he had said a few sessions ago about babies. So far though he couldn't come up with anything that could top it, it was pretty hard to top legless babies. Edward shrugged he'd just have to wing it.

His thoughts wandered back to what had just occurred in the cafeteria. Elizabeth's behavior was odd to say the least. Why had she tried to stop the fight? He had been winning, so what if he had been hit in the stomach, he's endured worse at the hands of Batman and his little bat family. Her behavior was interesting. It was almost like she didn't want to see him get hurt. Maybe she wasn't just teasing him when she said she liked him.

Edward grinned. Of course she liked him, who could resist his infallible charm and wit not to mention his good looks. Now the question is what he would do with that nice tidbit of information. Nothing for now, he decided. He'd wait until he had gathered more information, once they had some alone time. Maybe once she was released he would escape and stalk her a bit like he had originally intended that would be amusing. He hadn't stalked anyone for a while. It could be fun.

The door opened. "Good Afternoon, Dr. Leeland," Edward said a malicious glint in his eyes.

"Afternoon Edward," she took out her tape recorder. "Session number 67. Patient Edward Nygma. So Edward, when you left our last session I heard you pick a fight with one of the guards and today you just had a fight with four inmates."

"Is there a question in there, doctor?"

"Yes. Why? You're usually not a physical person."

"I have my reasons. None of which concern you." Dr. Leeland had expected this response and she had planned for it.

"Miss Howard is an interesting person is she not?" Edward was slightly surprised at the change in conversation but he hid it so well that Dr. Leeland didn't notice.

"One could say that, she certainly has her quirks."

"One could also say you've taken an interest in her."

"A mere distraction from monotony of Arkham."

"I know she's more than a distraction, I saw the whole incident in the dining hall. You stood up for her, you're protective of her."

"I don't like other kids playing with my toys."

"You consider her a toy?"

"Yes."

"What kind of toy?"

"I would consider her to be a jigsaw puzzle to which I don't have the picture on the cover and I don't know how many pieces there are."

Dr. Leeland was silent for a few seconds. "So she's a challenge."

"I didn't say that."

"You implied it though." Edward didn't say anything he wasn't about to admit to the doctor that Elizabeth was a small challenge for him. Dr. Leeland took a few notes on her clip board. "Do you find her sexually attractive?" Edward started just enough for Dr. Leeland to notice. He was not expecting that question.

"Compared to Query and Echo, she's nothing."

"I didn't ask how she compared to your companions; I asked if you have looked at her sexually."

"Turning to Freudian methods, doctor, I thought you were better than that."

"Edward," she said in a reprimanding tone.

"Fine. Fine…she has her good points. Cute face, round breasts, nice butt."

"I want you to try and take this seriously."

"Why should I?"

"Because if you answer my questions, seriously, this session I will reinstate some of your recreation privileges." Edward mulled it over. There wasn't really any harm in telling her anything, he could always bend the truth; and with his recreation privileges he'd be able to observe Elizabeth more since she'd be transferred soon. He smirked.

"Okay, doctor, ask away."

The steel door opened and Alyssa MacKenna braced herself. She promised she wouldn't let herself cry. Elizabeth was sitting chains around her wrist her head down. The door creaked and she looked up, a cheeky smile split across her face, straining the stiches in her lower lip. Alyssa's breath shook as she sat as well. There was a large dent in the table on Elizabeth's side and the steel chairs were uncomfortably cool. They didn't say anything at first they just looked at each other. Alyssa had grown her red hair out long and had traded her usual brown glasses in for contacts; and Elizabeth looked odd without her brown wig and coloured lenses.

"I like your hair," they said at the same time. Both were grinning now and they chuckled.

"It looks good long, you should keep it like that."

"I like yours short but I think you've got a little grey in there."

"Too much stress." There was a short pause.

"Did the guards do that?" Alyssa asked gesturing to Elizabeth's face. Elizabeth didn't answer right away but turn her head towards the door, like she was listening to something. Finally she looked back up.

"Yep. The official story is that I fell down some stairs though."

"What was all that?"

"All what?"

"What you did with your head, like you were listening to something."

"I was listening to see if the guard outside was close enough to hear what we were saying, I don't think they expect me to stick with the official line but I'd rather not cause any extra trouble for myself."

"Oh…so you hearing has…"

"Gotten a shitload better. Yeah. My sense of smell too, I've been starting to identify human scents now, like you" she sniffed in deeply, "you smell like green apples. There's strength as well. The dent on the table is from me."

"Holy shit," Alyssa touched the dent. It was about it was only a few millimeters deep but the steel table was at least a centimeter thick.

"I also grew a tail!"

"What!?"

"Kidding! Hahaha!"

"Oh goddess! Don't scare me like that! Haha!" They laughed for a minute.

"I've missed you." Elizabeth said once they had fallen silent.

"I've missed you too." Tears pricked at Alyssa's eyes. "Batman came by your apartment, he was there when I arrived."

"Oh, really…"

"He said he was looking for evidence, not to convict you though, but…he was reading your journal." Elizabeth's expression froze. "When he left I-I looked at what page he was at…you had written 'They will pay' on it. All over."

Relief spread across Elizabeth's face. "Oh that page," she chuckled, "remember I went to that trauma therapist, it was something he told me to do. What was it he said…"To help get the negative feelings out and to reduce your stress." I wanted them to pay." Elizabeth shrugged. "It helped."

"Thank goodness! I thought you went off the deep end without me!"

"Well I did say I'd race you to the nut house!"

"And here I thought I'd win for sure." They were laughing again.

"So did you pick a topic for your thesis yet?" Elizabeth asked.

"No…I still have a few weeks to decide. It seems as if all the good topics have already been covered."

"Well what are do you want to write it on? Maybe I can think of something."

Alyssa near about cuffed Elizabeth on the back of the head. "You know what I want to write it on! I'm a criminal sociologist for goodness sakes. I want my thesis to be the next big insight into the formula that causes criminal behavior."

Elizabeth rolled her eyes, "how could I forget?" There was a short pause while Elizabeth was thinking. "Well…I can't make any promises but what if you did a case study…"

"On…?"

"On one of the Gotham Rogues. The Mad Hatter or the Riddler might be willing, I could talk to them. Maybe I could get them to tell you their stories." Alyssa's eyes went wide in excitement.

"That's brilliant! I love it! Would you!? Could you!?"

"Now I can't make any promises."

"I know. I know. But if you could try. Oh! I would owe you the biggest favour in the world!"

"I'll have to warm them up to the idea. It could take a few weeks, when do you need to have your topic in?"

"I don't need to present my topic until August."

"Good that will give us enough time." The couple talked for the next twenty minutes or so. They kept away from dark topics like the Rogues, Arkham, Batman, and anything else involving Elizabeth currently. The two talked liked only best friends could, squeezing into the little time they were allowed, everything yet nothing. Finally there was a knock on the door and the orderlies stepped in.

"Time's up come on." One said gruffly unlocking Elizabeth from the table and grabbing her shoulders.

"I know, I know…I guess we'll have to talk some other time Alyssa." Elizabeth stood and Alyssa's resolve not to cry was shaken when she saw the chains around Elizabeth's wrists extending down to wrap around her feet as well. That and her jumpsuit really did give the impression that she was in prison, in trouble, and there was nothing she could do to help, the worst thing possible for a best friend to feel.

"Yeah, see you later." Elizabeth stuck out her hand and she shook it. Earlier Elizabeth had mentioned that they better not do their usual long hug and kiss good bye, no matter how much they wanted to. Although she was a lot more sensitive than the other inmates and emotional she didn't want the orderlies, guards, doctor, or anyone really to know how soft she was when it came to her loved ones. It was killing them both inside not hugging and touching each other but you have to do what you have to do.

Finally they stopped shaking hands and the man escorting Elizabeth nudged her out the door. Alyssa looked at the remaining orderly that was there to escort her out. He was an ugly fellow with a large plump nose, beady eyes, and pock marks on his arms.

"Well let's go," she said exiting. She turned back to go down the hall that she came through when the man grabbed her arm.

"Hang on, sweetness, Dr. Gullenrow would like to chat with you."

"What?" The man didn't respond but simply began dragging her to down the opposite hall.

Dr. Gullenrow fiddle with the monitor, he was watching the security footage from today's lunch period. He knew that Elizabeth's sister would be here soon and he wanted to set the fight on loop, so she could watch it while they were talking. Hopefully it footage of her sister acting so violent would throw her off so she would reveal more to him. He pressed a couple buttons. There he got it and just in time, there was a knock on his door.

"Enter."

"The girl, doctor," the orderly said leading the redhead inside.

"Thank you, Jack, I'll call you when we're finished."

"So you're Miss Howard's sister…? You don't look much like her."

"Well there is more to being a sister than genetics." Alyssa said sitting down in the chair, glancing at the TV monitor behind the doctor's desk.

"So you're not her real sister?"

"You could say that, but we have more in common than her and her "real" sister." Alyssa's gaze flitted back to the screen. It was playing a black and white film of a cafeteria, she assumed it was some type of security tape; and if she wasn't mistaken that was Elizabeth sitting next to two men. Both looked familiar but she couldn't place them. They were probably Rogues from what she had gathered from Elizabeth.

"I see…"Dr. Gullenrow smirked as he watched Alyssa. The part where the first inmate approached the table was playing. Alyssa's expression remained neutral as she watched Edward snap the man's wrist.

"How did you and Miss Howard meet?"

"Boarding school, she was sent there junior year." Alyssa didn't stop watching the action to answer.

"I said how not where."

"Oh…well, long story short, she stopped me beating up a guy." Dr. Gullenrow blinked that was not what he was expecting.

"What?"

"She said it wasn't right for me to use my training to beat up kids and she was going to tell the school board. She always had such faith in institutions."

"And what did you do?"

"I tried to punch her lights out, but then she flipped me and knocked me out." Alyssa grinned. "Just like she did there." Dr. Gullenrow's mouth harden and he stopped the tape.

"So, Elizabeth has always had a violent streak?"

"No, she's just realized the best way to stop a vengeful Tae Kwon Do student was in a physical display of strength and skill." Dr. Gullenrow frowned and placed another tape into the VCR to play. "What's this now? I know you're trying to get information out of me about Elizabeth. Why not just ask me?" The doctor didn't say anything. He pressed play.

Elizabeth was lying down on a medical table with four people in lab coats surrounding her. Alyssa froze she knew what this was. She winced when she saw Elizabeth buckle in pain as four long needles shot their contents into her. Elizabeth sat up but then grabbed her arms, she was in pain. An Asian doctor grabbed her shoulder trying to push her on her back. Alyssa gasped. Elizabeth's hand shot out and wrapped around the man's throat she was squeezing tighter and tighter her finger nails piercing the skin. The man wrestled with Elizabeth's arm trying to pry it off him but she was too strong. In an unnatural display of strength she lifted him off his feet and threw him into the nearest wall.

Alyssa looked away as Elizabeth approached the man but Dr. Gullenrow turned on the sound. Growls, screams of pain, screams of terror, yelling, crunching, more growls the sounds were so horrible she couldn't look back. Suddenly the noise stopped. Cautiously she looked back up. The doctor had shut off the monitor.

"Now why don't you tell me about Elizabeth?"