Crane sat in his cell as the guards slowly brought them all into their cell. They were still disarming the Joker when Sid was tossed into her cell, he noticed they had taken her shoes. She sat on her cot, still wearing her leather outfit, they had not processed them fully to change into the Arkham jumpsuit.
"Assholes' took my boots this time," she sighed as Nigma was being dragged in. "Guess they do learn from their mistakes."
"Sometimes," Crane replied as he leaned on the glass wall of his cell, giving the guards a smirk as the pass causing them to speed up. "They stay consistently the same most of the time."
"I can't believe we are locked back up," Nigma huffed before lying back on his cot.
"Seriously," Sid laughed. "We kidnaped the police commissioner's daughter, that's just advertising you want to be locked back up."
"You were supposed to get GREYSON!" Nigma roared as he jumped out of his cot and banged his fist against the glass wall. "You are the dim-wit that brought her instead of the boy."
"Awe are the two lovers quarreling," Joker laughed as he and Harley where brought in.
"Shut up clown," Nigma retorted and sat back on his cot. "I hate all of you."
"The feeling is mutual," Sid muttered as they came to start dragging them out one by one to change them into the orange jumpsuits.
The rest of the night went uneventful beside the random snide comment made by someone throughout the night. The next morning when they were being taken to breakfast, Nigma was giving both Crane and Sid the silent treatment and the Joker was laughing in Nigma's ear.
They made their way to the dining hall and Nigma sat at the table in the corner and Crane and Sid sat down with him. That move earned both of them a glare from Nigma and breakfast was finished in silence. Then they were taken to the rec room where the three of them all sat quietly in a corner together. Both Crane and Nigma had picked up a book and were reading, while Sid sat on the floor with her back to the wall and her pale ice blue eyes staring out unblinking, asleep.
Joker sat at a table in the middle of the room with Harley sitting on his lap, loudly making fun of Tetch. This only lasted a few minutes until Tetch broke down sobbing for his Alice and was dragged out.
"I'm bored Mr. J," Harley sighed as she snuggled against his chest. "Those mean orderlies took away our toy."
"Oh Harley there are many toys in here," he replied before standing up, letting Harley tumble to the floor.
"Mr. J," Harley pouted as she stood up.
"So which one of the two of you is she with or is she just banging both of you?" Joker asked as he walked over to the trio. Crane and Nigma ignored him, not looking up from their books, and the only movement Sid made was clenching her fist. "I bet the whore is sleeping with both of you, couldn't do any better! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Joker found himself hunched over after Sid slammed her fist into his stomach.
"You can't do that to my puddin'!" Harley roared before attacking Sid and they were tumbling on the floor trying to rip each other's hair out.
"You stupid bitch," Joker said darkly as he went to attack Sid but was stop by Crane who spun him around and punched him in the right eye. "Straw brains finally get some courage?"
"Break it up you four," Cash ordered as orderlies and guards flooded the room trying to separate the still brawling girls and removing the other inmates back to their cell. "Sedate them and get them back to their cells! Get a jacket on that one!"
Harley was the first to be sedated when Sid slammed her into two guards. Joker went right after the guards taking down Harley, managing to break a guard's nose before he was sedated and a straightjacket was put on him before being dragged back to his cell. Sid was struggling against two guards holding her down as an orderly tried to get a straightjacket on her. Kicking left and right they finally sedated her.
After much struggle they had got most of the inmates back to their cells without sedation, Crane was one of those who was not sedated and was back in his cell as they tossed everyone else in theirs. They did manage to get him into a straightjacket and he was currently trying to get out of when Warden Sharp walked down the hall with four guards.
"Take Joker, Quinn, Crane, and Doe to the isolation ward," he ordered before he left.
"Let's go Crane," the guard ordered as he forced him to his feet and dragged him out of the cell.
They dragged the four inmates down to the lower levels to a hallway where six cells sat, three on each side of the tiny hallway. They were lined up outside the steel doors of the cells Harley and Joker on one side, Crane and Sid on the other. Sharp walked into the hallway and stood in between the inmates and cleared his throat.
"With your numerous stays here at Arkham I would expect you three to know the rules and punishments for breaking those rules," he said as he looked in between them. "Ms. Doe as this is your second visit to the establishment I will refresh you to the rules you have broken. No fighting with the other patients. No assault on guards. You had been a problematic patient since you first arrived. Perhaps this will teach you a lesson. All four prisoners will have a month in isolation and dinner will not be delivered for the night, make it an oversight officer James."
"Back to cruel and unusual punishment there Quincy," Joker laughed as the cell doors where unlocked.
"I reassure you Mr. Joker you will be broken once more," Sharp said before he turned to look at Sid. "As for you Ms. Doe I sincerely hope a month in isolation will change your mind about your behavior. Lock them up."
Crane was shoved roughly into the cell and the door slammed closed plunging him into darkness. Sitting down on the small cot in the corner the cell wasn't much larger than the cot itself, offering little room to move around. He started working on loosening his straightjacket again. Hating being confined in the jacket when he was able to get it off he tossed it into the corner. Now he just need to figure out how to make this month fly by.
Thank you to my reviewers booklover1598, chronic sandman, zorobin589, and watergoddesskasey!
