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"We have all of the files left on joker." He said setting a small packet on my desk. "This is all? Do you guys even have any theories on his psychological state?" I said flipping threw the packet.

"In our defense everything burned in the fire...I had taken a few files home to study them that night." Dr.Sams said as I nodded. "Have you guys considered what I had said about Batman?" I said setting the papers among the rest.

"Yes actually and it is a very logical theory. It is possible that he could have suffered a trauma and been in the asylum long ago. But we have had many patients in and out. Since we don't know his identity it is possible that it could have been one of the three files that was burned. No force entry was showed in the cameras or detectors. The only person that can get in there without prints is Batman."

I mentally smiled as the plan was unraveling well. "We should tell Gordon to keep a eye on him. Maybe get a few details from him if he can. I don't think it will take that much to make Batman a villain and I sure don't want that happening when he is in this city." I said and they all scribbled in their notepads.

"What about The Joker what do we do with him?" I heard. I flipped the pen threw my fingers as I slowly turned in my chair. "I know this isn't really my department but I strongly suggest we talk with a villain that is against him. I know penguin and bane are locked up but I think the plant and the cat are free." I said

"It could be really hard to talk or even catch them." A cop said and I stood up. "They might be villains but they haven't committed any crimes lately. We could make a peaceful deal with them. Im sure those ladies could come to an agreement with us." I said as they scribbled again.

"I recommend we go find Ivy...she is most likely to be against both Joker and Batman..." I said and they scribbled again. "Don't hesitate to call up BloodSyn okay guys. That is all." I said and they all filed out.

I sighed and rubbed my eyes. My head still hurt from Fridays little kidnap. I heard someone walk next to me and I opened my eyes to see two shiny black shoes next to mine.

"Do you need som-" I said and looked up at those whiskey eyes. "What the hell are you doing here?" I asked him as he cracked a grin and chuckled. "Just decided to see my girl at work." He said as I grabbed the papers on my desk.

"How do they not see the warpaint?" I asked a bit in awe as he smiled at me. "People are too busy trying not to loose their heads by getting distracted by little things." He said and I closed my eyes and took a breath. "I see you told them he was crazy." He said.

"See if I would have told 'em the same thing about uh, batman they wouldn't have listened." He said looking at a file. "Because they rather listen to a 'sane' woman that runs the city than a clown that literally runs threw the city causing chaos." I said and stood facing him.

"Speaking of Chaos how are my boys?" I asked and he rolled his eyes. "At home why?" He asked slightly annoyed as my eyes widened. "Alone? They might rip everything apart!" I said walking around the big table.

"What do ya expect from my dogs...that they behave? Ha" He said and laughed as I went threw the door and looked both ways. I stepped out and started walking towards my office.

"Do ya think Ivy will rat me out? She might know more than it looks like." He said following me behind. "I already talked with her. If she said as I told her I would get her some new pots and soil for her plants." I said and made a turn to a empty hall.

"So how has it been with old bruce ey?" He said and I sighed. "I don't think he will like it if He finds out a certain mayor convinced them that he is possibly as sane as you are." I said and opened a door.

I saw sarah and panicked for a second. "Sarah go to the downtown cafe and get me my usual now!" I said and her eyes widened as she sprang up and got her keys off the desk. "Yes Miss V." She said and scurried off.

"Excuse me sir-" She said walking by Joker not noticing his face paint. She closed the door and I heard her heels click away as I let go of a breath I had held. "See I told ya they are to busy trying to keep their heads." He said and snickered as I walked to the big oak double doors.

I opened it and walked in as he went in and whistled. "Nice place ya got here." He said and I closed the door and locked it. I dumped the papers on the table and walked to my desk. He sat down at my chair and spun in it.

I heard him start laughing and I looked up at him. "Why are you laughing?" I asked and he stopped as I leaned on the desk before him.

"Never thought I would be in the mayors office in good terms. Or even date one as a matter of fact." He said and chuckled again as I smiled.

"Your dating Victory not Victoria Corleone." I said and he smirked at me. "Same person..." He said and I frowned at him.

"No it isn't...Just like you...Jack and Joker aren't the same person." I said and his smirk dropped as I laughed.

"Come here, doll." He said lifting his arms up as I raised a eyebrow at him and walked towards him. "Of course they aren't the sane person..." He said and I smiled. "See just like me. Joker-Mr.V then J-V and finally Jack and Victory...we are equals...got it Joker." I said pointing at him.

He put on a playful smile and crossed his arms. "Whatever...the Mayor of Gotham is still sleeping with its greatest criminal." He said and I gasped at him. "Don't act offended doll ya love it." He said and pulled me into his lap.

"Let me go!" I said to him but he wrapped his arms around me and held me there. "No, you are my hostage...and a beautiful one at that." He said and I scoffed. "My Young Beauty..." He said and I looked at him.

"I remember you called Rachael that." I said and he shook his head. "I was just messing with her...she was to old for me anyways. Your My Young Beauty." He said and I rolled my eyes. "Sucking up to me will get you no were." I said to him and turned my head.

"Will it? It did last time." He said and I felt my cheeks warm up. "Let me go" i said again and he just pulled me in and kissed me on the cheek. "Don't get me mad Jack you wont like it." I said to him and he crushed me under his hold.

"I like it when your mad Doll." He said and forced his lips on mine as I laughed threw it. I kissed him back and ran my hands threw his hair as he loosened his grip up. Once his hands were down to my waist I jumped off him and laughed.

"Go I'm working." I said at him as he stood up and crossed his arms pouting at me. He looked at me and my heart melted as I looked away. "What do you want Jack?" I sighed and he walked over to me and hugged me from behind.

He nuzzled his face in the crook of my neck and said something. "What?" I muttered. "I want you to go play with me doll." He said and I laughed lightly.

"You wanna play cowboys again?" I asked and he chuckled. "No I want ya to go rob a bank with me." He said and I looked over at him as he rested his chin on my shoulder.

"But you have your boys to do that." I said and he grunted. "Nah just you and me Toots. Like uh..." He trailed off and I smiled. "Like a date? How dreamy and romantic it will be to go on one." I said sarcastically and started laughing.

"Yeah ill go. Im not really into cheesy romantic stuff anyways." I said and he let out a breath. "Thank god bescause neither am I. Were gonna have a real uh, blast V." He said and giggled to himself.

"Ill see ya tonight got it Angel?" He said and I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, and Ill try to not get kidnapped this time." I said and kissed him again.

I looked at the mirror beside me and sighed. "Its never clean with you isnt it?" I said looking at my red lips and he smiled stretching his scars out. "You cant have real fun unless you get dirty toots." He said and let me go.

I heard the knob jiggle and then a knock. "Miss V I got your usual." I heard sarah as I wiped the sides of my mouth and walked to the door and unlocked it.

I walked away and cleared my throat. "Come in" i said and the door opened and she passed by Jack without even noticing him.

"Here you go do you need anything else?" She said as I saw him slip away as he waved and left. "No thats all Sarah. Remember to lock up after you leave tonight yeah?" I said and she nodded and started walking away.

She looked at the spot were Jack was standing for a second then shook her head and walked away. Once the door closed I went back to my desk and plopped down.

I filled out some documents and some papers. I finally finished with the last of them and looked at the last packet. I reached over to it and flipped it open.

I chuckled as they didn't know his real name. I flipped through what was possibly the last report they had of him. It only had a few things of what he said. Like "laughter is The Best-" It only had a started sentence. It is possible that he distracted them to much to even finish what they started.

I must admit he really is smart. A level of clever ideas and thoughts like his cant be held by a sane mind.

I guess ways of thoughts like his and mine are to reasonable and to perfect to be considered sane so we are considered the opposite of that.

"Sarah I need you to make this file disappear." I spoke into the phone and a buzz was heard.

"Right away Miss V" I heard and she came in through the door. She took the stacks of papers on my desk and labeled the ones going to the Asylum.

She passed Joker's file through the shredder and put the acid thing on it. This acid ate cotton and wood so it would only eat the paper. "It got lost in the mail." She said and I nodded at her.

"Thanks for the help Sarah ill see you in a few days." I said and she nodded. After that I left the office and started driving. I rubbed my eyes as I stopped at a red light.

My Phone rang and I put it on speaker. "Hello?" I said driving as the light changed.

"V...we need to talk." I heard a growled out voice.

"Is that you Bruce?" I asked not sure since the sleep was getting to me.

"Yes...and we need to talk...now." He said and I blinked my eyes.

"Why whats this about?" I asked and I heard silence. "Its about our double lives...mostly yours. How can I meet you?" He asked. And I sighed.

"At the west alley by the old News Paper place in half an hour." I said and I heard silence again. I took me a while to realize he had hung up.

I wondered what the hell he wanted.

Once I got home I changed out of my stuff and into my Mr.V clothes. I drew the thick black line over my scar and let my hair loose.

I drew the rings around my eyes and loaded my gun from the auction in the car along with a few Knives. I left the dogs some food then drove off to the alley. I parked the car next to a old tree a few blocks away and took my gun just incase.

I waited by the alley and leaned on the damp wall.

I looked up at the sky as I saw the big white moon up.

All of a sudden I saw something jump from across the buildings and I reached for my gun.

I heard some gravel move slightly and I let loose of the grip on my gun. I looked up at the Moon again then down as I straightened up.

"What did you want to talk about?" I asked and I heard a sigh.

"There is no sneaking up on you is there?" I heard Batman say. I turned to the shadow that hid him. "Takes skill to sneak up on me." I said

He slowly walked up to me but never left the shadows. A small ray of moonlight separated us as he stared at me. "So what did you want to talk about?" I asked him as I saw him clench his fists.

"I caught some people doing a crime...and took them to GCPD. Gordon was really weird to me...asked to many questions. He wouldn't say anything but Then after as Bruce I asked him what was up and guess what he told me?" He said as I saw him clench his jaw.

"That a certain Mayor...was telling people that I was crazy." He said glaring at me. I wanted to smile but kept my face neutral as I locked eyes with him. "Explain" He said and I crossed my arms.

"What is there to explain...everything was simple and reasonable enough to believe..." I stated and he took a step forward.

"You cant be telling people that just so you get me on the peoples bad side." He growled at me. "This was all part of my deal...I had too." I said in my defense. He looked down and released his fist and took a breath in.

"Thats the Thing V...you shouldn't be working with The Joker...I know we have talked about this before. But you are so smart and bright and that could be perfect at good. You shouldn't be a criminal." He said and I looked straight at him.

"Look at me Bat Man." I said and he looked up at me with a soft glance. "I am good...just because I don't follow the rules doesn't mean its bad. I blur the lines and lead my way. You can see people like me that are wonderful people. They kill thousands of rapist and drug dealers only to open up soup kitchens for the homeless and build up cities and towns." I said remembering how I used drug money to rebuild the Police Station.

"You could do that without being a criminal V." He said in his normal voice. "Oh yeah? Show me then, punk. Just so you know, people like me do way more things than what the government does. People like me are different. Our ways of thoughts are to different from yours that they call us Lunatics or criminals. They think just because we dress up or do different things that we are bad and crazy." I said finally glaring at him.

"I want you to realize that you aren't as different as you are from the rest of us. You can see it only took Dent a bad day and realization to figure out what he was. You are this close to end up like The Joker or me or any other Villain in this city. I mean you don't see cops dressing up in costumes to fight. Why because they are considered sane and good in the peoples eyes. But just because the criminals dress up and aren't sane we are classified bad and well we accept it. I want you to accept it and that will help my deal with him." I said and he held his stare with me.

"You sound just like him." He growled clenching up his fist again.

"Who?" I asked a bit annoyed.

"You sound just like the joker. He wanted to prove to gotham that I am just like him. And Im not." He said and I raised a eyebrow at him. "Well you say you aren't like us and I say I am not like you guys...but you are like us...the only people that dress up are the lunatics..." I growled.

"You and him are so damn alike. If you were on the good side you could literally help us beat the joker and his ways of thought." He said and I took a step closer.

"It takes one to know one BatMan. I actually sound like him because we both went threw messed up things and thoughts. Something that no one in this damn city bothers to think about why we ended up hiding behind a mask." I said to him.

He stared at me for a long time and let go of a breath he was holding.

"I went threw stuff too V. But I didnt end up like a criminal." He said and I clenched my fist. "Oh really? What happened? you got the red car instead of the blue one for Christmas? We come from nothing and worked up to survive...you are rich." I spat and his glare hardened.

"I saw my parents get killed before me when I was a kid." He said and I backdown a bit feeling a bit bad. He crossed his arms like admitting that he won.

"Thats all?"

"It might have left a emotionally scar but it didn't leave a Physical one. One that you cant bare to see and cant get rid of. Don't you think that if for you it was hard that it was way worse for us?" I said to him and saw his eyes soften.

"Your parents were Im guessing great parents. My dad sent me to Colombia to get drugs for him. They used me as a human suitcase and there I got this." I said pointing at my face.

"And not even that when I come back nearly Dying! my mother starts yelling at what he did for his drugs and he stabs her. He locks me up and I never heard of her again. I grow up in the streets and fight so hard to finish school and feed myself by doing what I do know. To work so hard for what I am so happy I have right know just to have some guy rotting in money to tell me that thats not right?" I said laughing.

"You think you went threw bad things but we went threw the worst. You just need one bad day and realization to end up like him then you will understand. You will understand why it is that we smile and people think we are crazy." I said to him with a smile on my face remembering Jacks words.

"Why we Smile...because its easier than explaining what is killing you inside." I said to him as I saw him try to look away from my gaze but he couldn't. No one can look away from my gaze unless I break contact.

"Im sorry V..." He started and I scoffed. "Are you? How come you feel sorry for me...and what about Joker? Just because im a girl?" I asked and he slowly shook his head. "No its different with you-" he said and I laughed.

"How? We have both killed a lot of people in horrible ways. We both have been threw messed up stuff we both are asylum escapes and we both are criminals...why do you feel sorry for me?" I asked him and he took a few steps crossing the silver moonlight.

"Because there is good in you...not in him." He said and I glared at him. I remembered when I saw joker petting Chaos, when he would make his sick jokes or mess around. "Maybe not good in a sane way but in my way yes." I said and I saw him search my eyes.

"You like him don't you?" He said and I tensed up. I dont like anyone...not after what happened all those years ago. yeah right. Shut up. Admit it NO.

"Why are you asking me that?" I asked raising my eyebrow at him. "You ahould stay away from him...you don't want him treating you like he did with Harley." He said and I scoffed.

"Are you really going to compare me with a obsessed lightheaded blond that never stood up for herself to a clown? Please...I've fought with the joker many times and won most of them." I said as I saw him want to smile.

"It okay to smile Batman...it easier to hide stuff like that." I said smirking at him and looking up as the clouds cover up the moon. I look back at him and he shook his head. "How the hell do you do this to me, V?" He muttered and I laughed.

"Why the hell are you evil? It would be so much easier to like you if you weren't. Like when you were at the party." He said and I crossed my arms again.

"So you can let me fall to my death like last time?" I said and I saw the edge of his lip curve up a bit. "I wont ever let you fall again, V" He said and leaned in to me.

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