"What are you doing?" Harri asked Adriana in a very tired voice. "And what time is it?"

"It's 6:30," Adriana said. "I'm playing this dress up game you have on your phone."

Harri sat up. Adriana was sitting beside her in the guest bed.

"You didn't spend all my shopping diamonds, did you?" Harri asked about the app game.

"Just 4,000 of them," Adriana said.

Harri snatched her phone from Adriana.

"You owe me," Adriana said to her sister.

"What?" Harri asked.

"You got me drunk last night so you could ask me questions," Adriana said.

"You sound like you're still drunk," Harri noticed.

"I am," Adriana said. "And I'll be hungover later. You owe me."

"Look, I wasn't trying to get you wasted okay? That was your doing. I just wanted you to loosen up a bit-" Harri said.

"I don't like what you did," Adriana said. "You really want know about Jack this bad?"

"Yes," Harri said.

"But why? Does it matter-" Adriana asked.

"Yes," Harri said. "I mean..last night you didn't tell me much but it only made me more curious."

"I don't understand why you're so curious, Harri," Adriana said.

"Because of all the secrecy," Harri said. "You and Bruce. Even when you were pregnant...and last night the way you talked about Jack.."

"What?" Adriana asked.

"I've never heard you talk about anyone like that," Harri said. "Not even Bruce."

Adriana closed her eyes for a second. "I was drunk, Harri."

"Tell me something," Harri said. "Was it really the best sex you ever had? With Jack?"

"I said that?" Adriana asked, not remembering,

"Well, something like that," Harri said.

"That's all you think about isn't it? From the moment you wake up-" Adriana said.

"Well, yeah," Harri said. "Sue me. So...was it?"

"Look, Harri," Adriana said. "Sex isn't everything."

"So that's a yes.." Harri said. "He was the best."

"Like I said, sex isn't everything," Adriana said.

"You need to tell me what's wrong with him," Harri said. "Aside from his amnesia and PTSD. He seems like a decent enough guy but I just get the feeling there's so much more. You won't tell me what he did for a living or-"

"I can't," Adriana said.

"He's my nephew's...biological father," Harri said. "And someone you clearly loved. It can't be that big of a deal, Adriana. It can't be that bad."

"Did you forget the part where I told you he's forgotten nearly his entire life? It can be that bad, Harri," Adriana said.

"It's not like it's not something he's overcome," Harri said. "You trust him with Arsenio. It's not like he's crazy or something is wrong with him-"

"Stop!" Adriana said, not able to take anymore. "Just stop."

Harri was quiet after the outburst.

"Jack was not a good person, Harri," Adriana said. "Just because I cared for him, and was with him and had his child...I know all of that makes it seem like it could not have been that bad but it was. It's something he's had to deal with. Something I've had to deal with. Something Bruce has had to deal with. And we are past it. And I don't think Jack would want me to-"

"Ask him," Harri said. "Ask Jack if you can tell me."

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"She won't stop asking questions," Adriana told the Joker that afternoon when they had a few minutes alone. Harri and Arsenio were in the theater room watching a film.

"Mmm.." the Joker said, listening.

"I mean, her curiosity is driving me nuts," Adriana said.

"So tell her," the Joker said, plainly.

Adriana couldn't tell if he was serious. She waited a few seconds.

"No...no way," Adriana said.

"You believe all of Bruce's stories about going back into time?" the Joker said. "He said that once upon a time he told her. She can handle it."

"This is different!" Adriana said. "This time...she knows you as Jack. This is the last thing she would expect."

"I think you just don't want to tell her," the Joker said.

"Can you blame me?" she asked.

"Not at all," he said.

"It's not exactly something I want to ever have to do," Adriana said. "Nothing about it sounds enjoyable. Especially not now. My head is throbbing."

"I'm sorry to hear that," he said to her.

"It's fine..I mean, your voice is-" Adriana started to say but then stopped herself.

"Making it worse," he said.

"No," Adriana said, but she could tell the Joker thought she was lying to avoid offending him. But truthfully, his voice seemed to soothe her aching head. She couldn't even feel the headache while he was speaking.

The Joker pressed his lips together.

"Jack," Adriana said. "Maybe we could come up with something to tell her."

"A lie," the Joker said.

"Why not?" Adriana asked, hearing in his voice that he didn't approve.

"Ya know..." he said. "I'm trying to do the right thing. All the time. And lying isn't exactly...virtuous."

"Well in this case, neither is the truth," Adriana said.

"We will tell her the truth or we will tell her nothing," the Joker said, firm in his decision to not be a liar.

Adriana swallowed.

"Will you tell her?" Adriana asked. "I...I just can't be there..when she finds out."

"Right then... you want me to tell her about all the people I've killed," he said. "Just me and her. Alone."

"No," Adriana said, seeing how that was also a bad idea. "You..definitely shouldn't tell her alone. Maybe it shouldn't come from you at all."

"I agree," he said. "So who will it be? Who will tell her?"

"Bruce?" Adriana suggested.

"He's not here," the Joker said. "You make it sound like she's hounding you for answers now."

"Alfred?" Adriana asked.

"Better," the Joker said.

"Although..since he works for us I don't want him to feel like he has to do this..." Adriana said.

"And then there were two," the Joker said.

"Lucius or Dr. Kapoor..." Adriana said.

"You know...the good Doc could explain it to her very well," the Joker said.

Adriana knew that the Joker had regular therapy sessions with Dr. Kapoor and the two of them had become very close. But Adriana wanted it to be Lucius.

"So could Lucius," Adriana said.

"Okay," the Joker said.

"I hate this..." Adriana said.

"So Lucius it is," the Joker said.

"I'll ask him." Adriana said. "I have to go see him tonight to pick up my new suit."

The Joker nodded. Adriana and the Joker looked at each other for a few moments.

"If it's worth anything to you," the Joker said. "I am sorry."

"It's not your fault," Adriana said.

"Oh it is," he said. "Entirely."

"Jack," Adriana said. "I had a choice. We both did. We got involved, we had a baby. I knew exactly who you were when all of that happened. I had a choice."

"You are the one that brought me into your sister's life," the Joker said. "I am the one who brought the crime and chaos. I'd say my doings were far worse. If I had been an upstanding and decent person we would not be here. Deciding how to tell your sister a horrific tale. If I were a good person back then."

"Yeah..we'd probably be married," Adriana said.

It had just slipped out. Adriana wondered it she could blame it on her headache, the alcohol from the night before, her exhaustion.

"I'm sorry," Adriana said.

"What for?" he asked in a voice that was the softest that she had ever heard from him.

"Just...I mean...we" she said, stammering. "It wasn't appropriate to say and...kind of self absorbed...I mean I shouldn't have assumed you'd even want to marry me or anything-"

The Joker's eyes squinted slightly, and she could tell he wanted to say something but held it in.

"I should go make my baby's lunch," Adriana said and walked around the Joker and disappearing down the hall.