To make up for my long absence, here's another - sadly shorter snippet.
Caring
One of Frost's men found themselves making their way to the afterlife after demanding why Joker had placed Harley's new pet as her long-needed body guard instead of someone more qualified.
While it was a fair question, one the Joker was happy to answer, he didn't like the guy's tone. The one where all he could hear was: 'I know better than you.'So, he shut it up, then proceeded to explain to the other men who knew better than to even spare a glance to their fallen comrades cooling corpse.
It was quite simple really; somewhere along the line, the kid actually came to care about Harley – which gave the Joker an excellent way to make sure his Queen stayed alive when they got in a messy situation and possibly give him a fool-proof way to get rid of the kid.
After all, with all the shit they got into, there was no way the kid would survive a month in his new position.
It's not that he hated the kid – hell, the Joker couldn't really care enough to muster up such emotion – but there was something about him that just rubbed him the wrong way. The kid had been with them for over a month
and sure, Harley had kind of gotten to the kid by making him care about her – but he wasn't broken, he wasn't on his knees.
It wasn't funny.
And while he knew Harley wouldn't be happy to have her newest toy taken away – she would get over it eventually by finding someone more interesting and more easily breakable. Because while the kid may have made the mistake of caring for Harley, the Joker was more than confident that his Queen didn't feel any similar emotions towards the green-eyed young man.
She was smarter than that.
Feedback, in the any form from questions, concerns to compliments, are much appreciated.