The Demon's Girl
Harley runs with Vergil to the end of the dock. Vergil dives into the water and begins to swim to the burning boat. She dives into the icy cold black water as well. She feels her fingers immediately scream at her in pain from the shear cold the water provided her. She swam as best as her numbing body could, surfacing to look at Vergil still pulling further and further away until he finally arrived to the flames, he grabbed onto the side ladder and looked back seeing her struggle.
"Do you need my help?" His voice echos in the empty harbor as he shouts for her.
"No!" Harley struggled to say as the waters swelled and pushed her back to the dock, "I'll be fine." Vergil's eyes seemed to had lost their natural glow since arriving, but the full moon of the night provided enough light to help her see them as he nodded.
"I'll go ahead then." Vergil turned and pulled himself onto the deck of the boat. He listened through the deafening roar of the raging fire and heard a small voice. He looked to the dock and saw the exhausted Harley climbing back up and she lay in the moonlight. He headed down under the deck, kicking in doors. His foot collided with one door causing it to burst open and flames erupt from the room. "Fuck!" The heat started to become overbearing as he continued, "Who ever is still here please reveal yourself." Suddenly, a burst of pain from his back as a small beam fell and hit his back, tearing his layers to reach his shoulder bone. He bellowed in pain and continued his search.
Harley on the dock was finally able to draw the attention of the authorities by running off to find an officer, "Please help. Their is a ship in the harbor that is on fire."
The police she found laughed at her and began reaching for their guns, "We aren't some new rookies. I've helped Bats take you and your psycho boyfriend down too many times, bitch."
Harley laughed and nodded, "Yeah, I know who you are too. I beat your ass and you've tried to beat mine." She smiled and suddenly punched the officer in the nose, breaking it, instantly spraying blood out. "Shit, sorry." She chuckled nervously and she ran back towards the docks with the police following her through buildings, over fences and to the docks where she stopped and smiled, "I'm sorry about the punch but you needed to believe me." She got on her knees and put her hands on her head, "Just help them. The man I love is on that boat looking for people and needs our help."
Vergil saw a figure rush across the hall and he followed, feeling his skin drying and cracking. "Please wait."
"Just go away." The figure shouted, the voice was that of a woman.
Vergil caught the woman and turned her around, her hair was the same color as his mother's, only a little shorter. The facial structures were nearly identical save the thinner jaw and slightly higher cheekbones. "Miss, please come with me, who else is on this boat?"
"No." She refused, "I won't leave. Nobody else is here." She sat down, the intent of suicide in her eyes, Vergil refused to let an innocent woman die. Against her will he grabbed her and lifted her over his shoulder, the woman began to scream, kicking Vergil in the stomach and punching his back. "Let me die!"
"No!" Vergil began to rush out of the burning ship. Planks falling around him, tearing through the ceiling and blocking his path. Looking for his way out, Vergil spotted a window where he ran, narrowly missing another path blocking wreckage from above.
Harley watched as Gotham Harbor police boats began speeding over to the ship. "Any survivors signal your location and we will rescue you."
Harley watched as the small window opened and Vergil began forcing the woman out the window, yelling to the police to rescue them when suddenly the ship began to explode. Vergil climbed out the window and jumped but the ship's explosion launched a pipe at him knocking him into the water, where he did not surface. "NO!" Running towards the water the officers she was with began firing at her as she dove into the water again. This time no amount of freezing cold water slowed her down. She used the light from the fire to guide her as she found Vergil's body sinking to the bottom of the harbor. She grabbed his hand and began to swim upward as hard as she could. She surfaced and pulled him up high enough for the police to grab him. They proceeded to grab and handcuff Harley to a chair on the boat as they returned to the docks, Harley looking at the woman Vergil had saved, her hair was charred but was clearly pitch black, her big blue eyes were beautiful, and her pillowy lips made Harley nervous as to Vergil's reason behind saving her was entirely because she was innocent.
Vergil blinked his eye open and saw only the shapes of three people. Suddenly he was hugged and kissed by a woman, he felt her pillowy lips press against his and she plunged her tongue into his mouth, and they danced. Vergil's' vision began to come back and he saw only the fair skin and black hair of the woman he had saved. She pulled away from him and said in a lustful and thankful tone, "My name is Morgan and I just want to thank you." She smiled before pressing her lips forcefully against his again and plunging her tongue into his mouth, only for a moment before Vergil realized what had happened.
Harley looked at her with anger and at Vergil with disgust before turning to Batman, "He's OK, we can go now." She begins to walk away and the sound of metal can be heard as she walks with he feet and hands in shackles.
Batman nods and turns to Vergil, "Good job." His cold voice was less rough, but still stern. He turned and began to leave with Harley.
"H-Harley?" Vergil gasped as he tried to sit up and his heart monitor came off, calling a large nurse and a young female doctor to come in, rushing everyone out and forcing him back down. "N-No." He struggled against them, his vision and movements were blurred and uncoordinated, he turned and saw a bag of liquid on a hook. The tube leading from the back was needle ended and inserted in his arm. He was being drugged. "No. Let m-me up." His eyes teared for a moment as he saw that Harley was being arrested and the door slammed.
"You need your rest baby." The nurse said as she began to replenish the bag, now full of liquid.
"No...N-no drugs." He began tearing at the IV, "No hospital. Let me t-talk to Harley!" he began getting angry, he wanted to feel her touch, he was angry that the woman forced herself on him. "LET ME UP!" He demanded as his voice cracked from the scream.
"Sir, you need to rest, your wounds will only get worse." The doctor said as the orderlies came in to restrain him with thick leather straps.
"Wounds?" Vergil was in shock, he was wounded, and needed medical attention from a hospital for the first time.
"Your back was struck with a large piece of metal, you lost about four pounds off your right shoulder, and the piece had struck the base of your skull rendering you unconscious in a comatose for these past two weeks." The doctor spoke calmly as the orderlies left Vergil helpless arms, legs, neck, forehead, even stomach and chest received a strap.
"Two weeks." Vergil said with a more clear mind as his mind adjusted to the drugs.
"Those three were in here the entire time. You got yourself good friends." The Doctor smiled.
Harley was in the back of a swat van, surrounded by extremely over armed guards in riot gear, and Batman sitting in the center. She yawned and leaning to the right rested her head on the guard's shoulder. "So what more do you want to know B-man?" Harley was clearly in a state of either anger and depression.
"Who was the woman?" His voice was his usual coarse as sand and cool as ice.
"Don't know. She was on the boat, Vergil saved her and left those others to die. I don't know what to say other then that." She looked down as she moved into a more comfortable seat, "Sixteen men, women, and children, right?"
"Yes. You think she has a connection with Joker?" He moved to hand her a drink as she began licking her dry lips.
"Why you think that?" She grabbed the juice box and looked at it, "Can I get grape?" She smiled innocently.
Batman took the orange juice HI-C and handed her a grape instead, "We found canisters of Joker's gas with the corpses."
She looked up and thought for a moment, instinctively grabbing the drink, letting Batman push in the straw. "But why would she kiss and be all over Vergil?"
"Something having to do with you." He was sure sounding. "You and Joker have a load of history, and so far you are the only one of his assistants that survived his acid bath test." Harley had a flash of memory, the room of corpses, all in the same outfit, all dead, all Joker's doing. "Maybe he wants to know how you survived."
"But Vergil?" She sipped the grape juice, making a sour face as the warm juice touched her tongue.
"I don't know. Joker is never one for large complex schemes, usually just something quick and confusing." One of the guards chuckled, and Batman shot him a dark look before returning to Harley, "I don't know what Joker is thinking."
"So where am I heading?" Harley sat up and pressed her back against the steel of the wall.
"County, sorry." Batman made a gesture that gave the impression he truly was sorry, "I'll make recommendations to get you released asap, and with good behavior you could be out when Vergil is released in a few weeks."
"No." Harley looked Batman in his eyes, "Let me stay. I don't think I can trust him right now, and he should be out sooner then that."
"Harley, it was a mistake. I saw it in his eyes." Batman moved forward. "And he might not."
Harley moved close to Batman, "I saw him kissing her back. If he was who I believed him to be he would not have done that." She sat back and sighed, "How much further?"
"An hour."
"Damn." Harley buried her face into her hands.
Meanwhile, Vergil was still struggling to resist a sedative the nurse had given him, he felt the effects of the drug as he fell into a deep sleep.
"Harley!" Vergil was running through the demon world. "Harley!" He saw every foe they had killed together marching in the same direction. Above him he saw Joker slowly stripping from his purple suit in a bedroom, walking around a bed as a fair skinned Harley laid on the bed completely naked. "Harley!" He looked down and saw Harley screaming as Joker pushed her into acid. "No!" Suddenly Joker turned and vanished as the newly bleached Harley emerged completely naked in a black smoke. She walked up to Vergil and kissed him passionately before he felt a knife enter his back and plunge into his heart.
"Good bye you selfish ass." She pulled the knife out and he saw Harley and Joker begin kissing, Joker immediately stripping as his vision went black.
"Harley..." Vergil opened his eyes and Harley was riding him. She smiled and kissed him lovingly. Looking to the side he saw his own body slowly bleeding before he saw his skin was bleached and he realized he was Joker as the feeling of release compelled 'his' body to fill her with baby broth.
"What's wrong mistah J?" Vergil turned back. "I killed him, like you said I should. I mean he did kiss that whore." Vergil turned back and smiled out of his control. And with no actual control of his actions he pushed her off of him and began laughing horribly loud and horrifically terrifyingly.
"What's wrong is you betrayed me too, and now I have to finished what I started." His voice, not his own, Vergil spoke as Joker and watched as Harley's expression went from joy to fear. Appearing from the nothingness Morgan grabbed the poor Harley from behind. Vergil saw his hand grab a knife and slowly slid the blade into her heart letting her cry out in grief.
"NO!" Now in his own voice, in his own body, seeing Joker over Harley fully clothed but dying body in his the middle of his childhood bedroom, Dante stood next to him, four year old.
"Vergil. We have to help her." Dante said to him as he was now four years old as well. Dante turned back and Joker laughed, sliding his knife into Dante's chest before it extended into Yamato and flashing before him was himself and Joker as one.
"Sorry, but you will not ruin my plans!" Joker and the adult Vergil spoke in unison before vanishing leaving the four year old Vergil in a room his a dead four year old Dante and Harley.
"NO!" Vergil roared as he awoke. Tears running down his cheeks, again as it was his ritual every morning since first waking in the hospital three weeks prior.
Batman stood over him with his usual concerned scowl, "Same dream?"
"Yes." Vergil laid his head back down as the pain began to be to much.
"You are being released today." Batman said as a casual note.
"Tell me something new." Vergil pushed himself up and the large nurse entered with his usual order for breakfast. He smiled at the nurse as a thank you before nodding to the food to say grace. He opened his eyes and began with the sausages.
"Harley is being released under the commissioners orders." Batman sat down in a chair, his voice was warmer now, Vergil was just noticing.
Vergil's eyes lit up, "Really?" He offered a link to Batman to thank him for the news, slowly Batman took the sausage. "Its actually pretty good."
Batman slowly ate the sausage, "She doesn't know. Also she still believes you only saved the woman because she was beautiful."
"No. She lied to me and said she was the only one on the ship." Vergil remembered receiving the news of the others who died on the ship.
"Well Harley is in bad shape since she just got attacked by some old accomplices not to long ago, on top of finding out Joker is alive and looking for her." Batman stood up and walked to the foot of the bed.
"Well I'll keep him from her." Vergil was confidant in voice.
"And what if she wants to go to him?" Batman's question slashed through Vergil's confidence.
"I don't know." Batman nodded and turned to leave.
"I'll see you at the station at four pm." He left and Vergil was alone with his scrambled eggs and toast.
Hours flew and Vergil was on his way through the crowded city, nearly a block from the police station when he was suddenly hugged. "Vergil!" Morgan had appeared from the people and tackled him into an alley with a hug. "I missed you." She tried to kiss him but he pushed her off.
"Get away from me." Vergil's icy voice was returned to him. "You cost me months of trust I built with Harley in a single moment." He looked at her with complete distaste, "You lied to me and let me forsake dozens of innocent men, women and children." He walked a bit from her, "You are just trouble." He looked at her and she was emotionless.
Suddenly a smirk appeared on her face and she began laughing hysterically, from behind the trash cans four men attacked Vergil, specifically attacking his new wound. "Did you think it was real?" She walked over to the men attacking him and she crouched down, "Hello Joker saw me preform on stage once and was awestruck. And he was such a gentleman. Since then I've been helping him. The whole suicide thing was improve." She laughed, "And to think, you bought it." Suddenly she kicked him across the face and the goons dragged him away.
Harley was on the transport vehicle, alone this time. She sat and thought of what would happen when she sees Vergil the station. With no pretense the entire vehicle abruptly collapsed and Harley bashed her head on the wall. Darkness began to surround her and the sound of a clown car and machine gun fire could be heard. "No..." When she came to she was in a bed in a dark room, the only light above her bed. She saw in the corner three figures, a woman, a man and another man in a chair. "Hello?" her voice echoed and muffled cried could be heard from the corner.
"Hello my dear." the standing man said, the voice was shrill and colder then even Vergil's. "I'm sorry for what I had done. It was a complete ass move." Suddenly the horrific image of Joker's face literally carved off and stapled back on was seen. "I wanna make it up to you." Joker walked over in his best Joe's Garage uniform and began scooting close to her on the bed. "You seen I wanted to help you get back in the flow of things around here when I found out you weren't pushing up multicolored daisies." HE ran his hand through her red ponytail and a muffled protest was heard followed by a large hit. "Shut him up!" Joker turned to the others and roared. He waved his hands and the lights came on, "I want you to kill him." When Harley's eyes adjusted she saw the blue leather of Vergil's jacket and the white hair in a mess atop his head. He looked up at her with a bomb in his mouth. "since he's dead anyway." Joker erupted in laughter and pushed Harley onto the floor and she looked up a Vergil a knife at his feet.
"Come on you little coward." Harley's eyes lit up as she heard Morgan's voice. She looked up and saw Morgan now bleach white and sporting the same hair as her, her face even almost like hers.
"What?" Her eyes felt deceived and she was in shock. She stood up and Joker came from behind to grab her waist.
"Just kill him now and you are back in the team. I'll even give you, your Hyenas." Harley turned and he smile was bright.
"Promise?" She said with a slight hesitation, Vergil shouting in a muffled incoherent protest.
"Of course Harley my dear." He moved close to her, his hands exploring her body, one into her shorts, the other into her corset, "After all, I love you." Joker said softly in his most pleasant tone.
Harley moved towards Vergil, "I wanna see my babies." Minutes later Harley saw her Hyena's as they tackled her, licking her cheeks and yelping with excitement.
"Now kill him." he said in the pleasant tone.
Harley moved to the back of him, her hyenas following at her heels, she placed the knife on his neck and Vergil roared in protest. "OK Joker. Sweeties, it is time to clean up." She winced as she quickly pulled the knife up across Vergil's throat and slashed only the strap holding in the small bomb, she had slid her fingers on the other side and was able to quickly throw it aside as she threw the knife at Joker making him duck for cover behind the bed and the bomb exploded, rupturing a hole in the wall. "Vergil, run!" She grabbed his hand and ran towards the hole, Vergil steps behind her as her Hyenas raced ahead to clear the way of goons, tackling them down and tearing out their throats.
"You stupid bitch!" Joker laughed, "You are useless now!" He continued to laugh, the sound echoing through the building they were in. suddenly the doors burst open and Batman stood before them.
"Run. Now." He ordered to the four as he battled the guards chasing them.
Vergil gasped for air as he found himself sitting on the ground the hyenas on either side. He immediately began explaining everything he knew about Joker using her to find the female equivalent to his immunization to the acid. How Morgan was his new Harley and that she set the boat on fire in an attempt to kill him, and how everything that happened in the hospital.
"Right now Vergil, I just want to go back to hell." She forced a smile as she felt a bit of hope for Joker to change die. She grabbed her hyenas and watched as Vergil instead moved to her and hugged her tightly.
"I missed you." He was warm in voice and kind. "I'm sorry for not realizing it was Morgan sooner."
"Its fine." She kissed Vergil on the cheek, "We'll talk soon, for now, get us out of here."
"Yeah." Vergil began reciting the incantation and the red light surrounded him, Harley and the hyenas. Once lifted the party was at their usual spot of hell. "Let's head to the cave we stayed in last time. Harley nodded and whistled, the hyenas yelped and began to follow close behind their mother.
I hope you enjoyed the chapter, a little shorter then the previous and a bit confusing with the jumping around, if y'all want I can revise this chapter and make it a little longer with a bit more transition in between jumps like Vergil's dream. Any way, make sure to check out my profile for updates on my other stories, review, and for my readers who are guests please make an account it will give me a bit of clarification of how many people are actually reviewing and you'll be able to get email updates about when I post a new chapter. ^_^ Any whos, I'll be trying to get the next chapter out in a few days, maybe even same day, who knows. Have a good day all my lovely readers, I hope you had fun this round.