Suspension (JokerXHarleyQuinn)

Chapter 26

"For the last time. Where. Is. Harley?" He asked, pressing the barrel of his purple and golden embellished revolver further into her skull.

"I don't know! I don't know!" She shouted, with a burnt rasp voice. "She ran off!"

"You let her go on her own? Are you fucking stupid? She has no idea what's she's doing, what she's gotten herself into! AND YOU LET HER RUN OFF!" He bared his silver grill at her. "I swear to god Pamela Isley, when this is over I'm going to kill you. I'll let the street dogs rip you apart for this!" His finger twitched on the trigger, but he pulled his finger away at the last second.

"Which way did she go?" Frost asked. Still holding Selina back.

"She went that way." Selina flicked her eyes over towards the direction that Harley had ran to.

Joker swiveled on his feet and walked towards her. He grabbed Catwoman's face and brought it up to his. "You- I don't know how you got involved in this, and I don't care. But don't you think for one fucking second that your safe from me." He said gripping her jaw. "No one is safe from me."

He released Selina and turned around towards Pam, who was now standing on shaky legs. "One last thing.." He said quietly before raising his voice. "What the hell did you inject into Harley!? If I find her with a weird plant fetish and green skin.. Your going to wish that you'd never been born-"

Pam rolled her eyes. "More idle threats Joker?" She walked closer to him, she wasn't scared of him, she was just taken by surprise earlier. Well, that's what she kept on telling herself. "For your information Clown. That injection was to make her immune to all poisons including Jonathan Crane's fear toxin. It's a horrible way to die and I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone.. Well there is one person I can think of that I'd like to see tortured to death." She said, narrowing her eyes at him. She smirked when his fists began to shake. "So I think you owe me an apology."

"Oh you do, do you?" Joker threw his head back and laughed. "Alright Pam I'll apologise.. I'm sorry your a lonely, miserable, jealous, man hating, mutant freak that can't stand to see Harley happy. I bet you manipulated her from the beginning. Just so you could see my downfall. I warned you about taking revenge on me Pamela. My threats aren't idle... They're promises."

"Manipulation? Revenge? Stop making this about you Joker! Your girlfriend wanted to prove to you, to all of us-" Pam gestured to towards Selina and Jonny. "-That she wasn't just the sex slave, punching bag that you've made her out to be! She's a strong, independent woman who can do whatever the fuck she likes! I wouldn't jeopardize our friendship for some petty revenge on a wannabe gangsta clown!" She shouted. "Maybe you should of actually killed Crane like you where supposed to. Then you wouldn't be in this mess. She wouldn't be in this mess." Ivy spat, straightening her posture.

"What did you say?" He growled, pulling his revolver up towards her. Pam countered his threat and drew her gun, aiming at his skull.

"You heard me asshole. If you had just killed him, instead of making a big production out of murder, like you always do. He would be dead." She retorted. "And maybe, just maybe if you had showed Harley some attention, she wouldn't be trying to prove herself. I tried to talk her out of it, because quite frankly your life isn't worth protecting. But she was going to do it with or without me. I came along to look out for her, to protect her!"

"Don't you fucking dare lecture me on relationships Weed! The last one you had sent you cuckoo and turned your skin green!" His grip on his weapon tightened. "You can either help me find her and get shot later, or you get shot now... Your choice."

"Try." She said, her index finger flickering over the trigger.

Frost saw this whole situation spiraling out of control. "The longer we argue the less chance we have of finding her alive." He said calmly.

Joker looked at him, then back to Pam. "I will kill you, not now. But I will." He warned, putting his revolver back in his holster.

Jonny released Selina, she spun round instantly and kicked him in the groin. "Don't touch me again." She hissed.

"Fuck." He cried. Clutching his groin, he looked over at Joker. Who just smiled and shrugged.

"C'mon." J said as he stepped over a dead henchmen, and stormed towards the direction that Harley had disappeared to.

They all quickly followed.

Selina was walking next to Pam, with the Joker in front of her and Frost following closely behind. She whispered to Ivy. "Maybe I should call Bats.. Y'know maybe he could help?"

Pam's jaw dropped. "No, you can't! He'll lock us up."

"I said that I'd help you and Harls, not Joker and his-" She glanced behind her towards Jonny "-His bitch. Things are getting way out of our control."

"If you call Batman, I'll never forgive you." Ivy said, narrowing her eyes at her.

"Okay." Was all Selina responded with, it was neither confirming or denying that she was going to call her Ex- Bat boyfriend.

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Harley approached the second floor from the stairs, she had her Ivory handled revolver clutched in her hands, ready to fire if needed. Apart from the 5 henchmen and the one guy strapped to the chair that she had beaten the shit out of, she surprisingly hadn't had anymore confrontations with Crane's men. But she knew that her luck was going to run out soon.

She had to find Crane alone, Selina and Pam tagging along made it difficult, it meant that she had to look after two more lives as well as her own.

The clicking of her heels echoed down the moonlight hallway. But as Harley continued to walk she heard another set of footsteps fall into sync with hers.

She gasped. Clicking the safety catch off her gun she turned round to meet her follower. But the corridor was empty.

"Who's there? Pam? Sel?" She whispered, trying not to attract any attention form Henchmen that might be close by.

Harley shrugged it off, thinking it might all be in her head, she continued to walk. But the sound of footsteps reappeared.

Before she could turn around, a damp piece of material was shoved into her face. She instinctively held her breath, hoping that the she could hold out before knocking her attacker unconscious.

But her plans where scuttled when another figure approached. The man punched her in the gut, making her cry out, and as soon as she did, the musky sent of chloroform filled her lungs. Her vision grew black and hazy and she fell to the ground. Her baseball bat fell with her, only to roll away into the shadows.