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"Why are you up so early Miss V?" Alfred asked me as I choked down the cookie in my mouth. "Its about 5:00 in the morning..." He said checking his watch.

"I uh...I like to rise with the sun...or beat it at least...we have a race every morning and I always win." I said smiling and getting another cookie. "The sun doesn't come up till 6:30" He said and I shrugged.

"I win by a long shot..." I said and he smiled and shook his head. "Are you staying for breakfast Miss V?" He asked and I gulped the cookie down and washed it down with the Glass of milk.

"No Alfred I ate some cookies...You can have some if you want. I need to go collect some payments." I said putting my jacket on. "And thanks for washing my clothes...bye." I said and waved as he popped a cookie in his mouth.

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I walked out of the property and went to the closest alley then to my maze. I finally ended up at my house and I winced as I opened the door.

I saw everything was spotless but I could smell that hint of gasoline and gunpowder anywhere. I heard a light snoring and followed it to the bar in the back.

I saw him sprawled across the counter with a bottle in his hand over his chest. I walked over to him as the smell of gasoline got stronger and realized he probably blew something up.

"Joker....Im home...." I said softly as I smile crept on my face. "JOKER!" I yelled and in less than two seconds our blades were against each others skin. Joker looked at me and sighed.

"Don't scare me like that doll...you could have uh, gotten hurt." He said licking his lips.

"Don't get scared like that...I could have hurt you." I said pressing the blade into his neck. "Well...uh, the only thing that they couldn't clean up was your garden..." He said letting me go and switching his blade closed.

"You were scared I would get mad huh?" I said and he sat up and stretched. "No...I don't get scared of anything doll." He said and looked at me. "What about right now?" I said crossing my arms.

"You uh, startled me." He said . "Uhm yeah okay." I said and turned around. "Were are your henchmen anyways? Did they pay me back?" I asked and he slid off the counter.

"They went to rob a bank to pay ya back...they sure are scared of you..." He said walking by me as the gasoline smell hit me again. "Why do you smell like Gasoline?" I asked and he sniffed his Jacket.

"I uh...told you about the second hand smoke?" He said scratching his head. "Yeah...what about it." I said walking closer to him.

"Well uh...I kind of uh..,got a pile of weed and lit it on fire..." He said looking away. My eyes widened and i slapped my forehead closing my eyes trying to fight back my natural instinct to choke the living hell out of him.

"With Gasoline? You idiot...have you ever heard of 'Death By Smoke Inhalation?" I asked him as he stuffed his hands in his pockets and looked at the ceiling. "What?" He said noticing my glare.

"Were did you burn it? What state were you to do it? How did you get in my house again?" I asked annoyed as hell as I put my hand on my hip.

"Basement, Drunk, I have my ways." He said and grinned at me.

"Im just going to let this one go...but don't do it again." I said and heard cars pull up. I heard stomping and doors being shut and then came in guys with bags into the room.

They stopped dead on there tracks as they saw me and froze with fear. They looked at each other then one stepped up. "Uh...we got the money we owe you Mr.V" one said and They all dropped the sacks of money on the floor.

"How much did you use?" I asked and they looked at the floor and shifted their weight. "Half of it..." I heard and I looked at joker.

"And you let them do this? This is why I don't want you touching my stuff!" I said tapping him on the shoulder. "You guys got the money so I wont make you scream in pain. But next time Joker inspires something like this to happen...dont do it." I said with a straight face.

They stood there like scolded children ashamed of what they did. "In our defense, Boss might kill us if we disobeyed." I heard and I looked at Joker again noticing he had a small smile.

"Well think about Who you are scared of more." I said glaring at them all. "Get the money and put it in the washers down stairs..." I said and left going up the stairs.

I chained into some white jeans and a shirt I found. I put my black leather belt and boots then my Jacket on and drew the dark line over my scar and around my eyes.

"Were you going to doll?" I heard and turned around to him standing by the door. "With Ivy to see if she can fix my garden." I said and he walked in front of me.

"My boys are really scared of you toots, almost as much as me. And thats saying something." He said licking his bottom lip. I looked at his eyes then down at his scars and adjusted my jacket to get distracted.

"Well...Im no side kick. They have all in their right mind to fear me...you know that thing I said with the cheese grater I had done before." I said and he raised a eyebrow at me.

"Sal use to tell me you had a tremendous uh, bloodlust and thats why you were feared." He said to me in a low voice.

"Well I guess...before I came to gotham I use to kill people almost everyday. There was always at least one idiot that didn't pay me and I was secretly glad." I said crossing my arms.

He looked at the mirror with a curious glance as I looked at him. He crossed his arms and stood up straight.

"How does it feel to have a BloodLust? Do you feel a need to masturbate with a pocket knife or something?" He asked and I almost laughed out loud of the stupid question.

"No you idiot. Its a Uncontrollable desire to kill or dismember others." I said to him and he nodded. "I think you thought of the word to literally." I said amused.

"Why do you like to uhm, dismember people." He said and I smiled and took my blade out. "Im a very crazy person...I was always fascinated my cutting...just the simple act of a blade pressed against the flesh and it would rip apart." I said putting the blade to his neck.

"And then the little shiver of pain that one gets its so weird...I never had the reaction others had. And I loved the fear they had in there eyes when they did have it." I said then stopped

I was pressed against the joker with the blade against his jaw. Im was surprised he didn't push me off. Instead he held me tight with his arm around my waist as I talked.

"You really are something ,V."He said looking down at me as I switched my gaze from the blade to him. "You say it like if it were the most logical and sanest thing ever, when its just madness like when I talk." He said and chuckled.

"Well we're all mad here...just some people get it more than others." I said slipping the blade from under his jaw. I left a small cut and saw it to drip with red as I put it down.

"See you get me...why doesn't everybody else?" He said as I slipped the blade in my Back pocket. "Because I'm crazy...and no offense you are to." I said.

"Not true...Crazy people say they aren't crazy...we know we are crazy therefore we are not crazy. Now isn't that crazy?" He said and I rolled my eyes.

"So we are basically the sanest people around? But it wasnt like that before? Until I met you at least...I feel so normal with you because the weird things I do are normal to you. Ugh...That sounded so cheesy." I said smiling leaning on the wall with both my hands beside his head.

"Well as sane as people like us get." He said and stared at me. I looked at the red streak of red going down his neck and back at him. "Your bleeding..." I said

"I dont care." He said and I smiled. "Doesnt it hurt that I cut you?" I said and he cracked a grin. "Yeah but I like it ." He said and I looked at him again. "You are a masochist..." I said and he smiled.

"Honestly it would be kind of weird if I wasn't...its more interesting anyways." He said and I bit my lip and looked at him. "Well thats a good thing considering I have a huge bloodlust no?" I asked

"I cant help it anymore doll." He said licking his lips. "What?" I asked and he just pushed against me crashing his lips against me. I smiled at the act as I leaned on the wall holding my self up.

I couldn't resist it as I felt the scar beneath his lip and bit it a bit. He pushed me off the wall and then looked at me. "Thats its theres no stopping now." He said and locked the door.

"You bite ill bite back."

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