"Harley we need to get you to a hospital." Ivy says as she sits behind her friend.

"No! no hospitals." Harley moans in pain, she grabs Ivy's hands as the pain spread throughout her body.

"Harley, you need to be in a facility that can monitor you."

"Red, you don't understand…they'll take him away from me and I'll never see him again." Harley cries. Ivy looks past her friend's shoulder over to her swollen belly. Ivy had to admit she'd rather the child be taken away than to be raised around the Joker; but she also knew if the child was taken it'd break her best friend's heart.

"Okay Harls, I won't take you to a hospital, let me call someone." Ivy strokes her friend's hair.

"Who are you going to call?"

"Someone who will help." Ivy slips out from under her friend's head and walks to a corner, pulling out her phone. She stares at the number in front of her eyes and hesitantly hits the call button.

"Hello, how may I help you?" A male voice asks on the other end.

"Crane, it's Ivy."

"What can I do for you my dear?"

"I need you to come down to warehouse 13 by the river. No questions asked."

"I'll be there in a little while."

"I need you here immediately, it's an emergency. And Crane."

"Yes Miss Ivy?"

"If you ever call me 'my dear' again I will personally rip your balls off."

"Y-Yes Miss Ivy" He says, hanging up soon after. Ivy makes her way back over to Harley.

"Crane is on his way to help with the delivery." Ivy says, slipping back behind the blonde, who immediately rests her head between Ivy's breasts.

"Why is Johnny coming?" Harley asks.

"He's a doctor, he can help us out. As much as I hate to admit it." Ivy says, her voice sounding slightly resentful at the fact she had to call on a man for help.

"No, Ivy no one can know."

"Harl, you are refusing to go to the hospital and now refusing to get the help of a doctor. At this rate the child will stay in you forever, cause there is no way in hell I'm helping to bring more vermin into this beautiful world."

"Fine, Johnny can help." Harley sighs, her response is followed by a grunt; she grabs Ivy's hands tightly as another contraction passes through. It lasts between 50 to 70 seconds, and then Harley drops Ivy's hand as it ends and as if on cue Ivy hears movement in the storage room.

"It's probably Crane. I'll be right back." Ivy kisses her friend's sweaty forehead and slips from under the blonde. She cautiously moves to the door, she opens the door revealing the doctor.

"Miss Ivy why have you called me here at this ungodly hour?" He asks, slightly irritated at the redhead. Ivy steps aside to allow Crane access into the room. He steps through and stops immediately at the sight of a very pregnant Harley.

"Her concretions are about four minutes apart and last about 60 to 90 seconds." Ivy says in almost a whisper.

"You should have taken her to a hospital." Crane says, almost protectively. Sometimes Ivy could swear the ex-professer was sweet on the harlequin, he often would feel the need to protect her and he would always speak fondly of her.

"She wouldn't let me." Ivy responds.

"IVY!" Harley cries out, Ivy quickly moved to her friend.

"I'm here sweetie, you're doing great." Ivy says, slipping back behind Harley. Johnny approaches Harley, taking a place in front of her legs.

"Harley, my dear I'm going to take a look." Crane says, slowly lifting the blanket that draped over Harley's legs. "Everything looks good, just keep breathing." It wasn't long until Harley felt another contraction

"Only one minute apart." Ivy says, tracking her friend's contractions as they come.

"Okay Harley, I want you to push when your contraction starts up again." Crane instructs the young blonde. Harley nods and once she feels another contraction she begins to push. The blonde grabs Ivy's hands in her's and squeezes them, trying to get some reassurance.

"You're doing great dear." Crane unexpectedly urges as the contractions finish, "get ready to push again Harley."

Harley's breathing was steady and deep as Ivy coaches her best friend. This went on for awhile, to everyone it seemed like an eternity.

"Okay, one more big push." Crane says, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows and his once slicked back hair was now disheveled and unruly.

"Please…I can't" Harley says, her hairline soaked with sweat.

"You can do it baby." Ivy strokes her friend's wait. Despite her reluctance Harley gives one more big push and she feels a release.

Crying erupts throughout the room. Harley's ears perk up at the cries, a babies cries…her baby's cries.

"You have a boy." Crane smiles as he hands the baby over to the new mother. Harley looks over to her new baby, her heart soaring. Harley relaxes against Ivy, who looks at the new life.

"Ain't he pretty Red?"

"Sure Harl." She says, kissing her friend's head. Harley asked Crane to cut the cord and not very long after she pushed out the placenta. It was over, Harley brought the much expected visitor into the world.

She stared at her new born baby in her arms, for once she felt as if she could love someone more than she loved the Joker.

"Hello baby, welcome to the world." She whispers to her new found love. Ivy slips out to give Harley a private moment with the baby. Ivy walks over to Crane.

The baby yawns and slowly opens his eyes, Harley strokes her baby's head and kisses the black tuff of hair on his head. Her moment is ruined when all three adults hear footsteps on the roof. Harley looks over at Ivy and Crane in worry.

"The Bat." Crane's whisper carries through the room. Harley begins to panic as Ivy moves towards her.

"Red…he'll take my baby."

"No, he won't." Crane speaks up. "Miss Ivy you need to take Harley out through the back and i'll distract him."

"We don't need you to protect us Crane." Ivy snaps at the man.

"Woman! Right now your priority should be Harley and the baby; not your pride." Crane yells. Ivy respond, just just glares at him. Crane turns over to Harley.

"My dear do you think you can stand?" Crane asks, crouching next to Harley.

"I should be fine." She says, holding baby close to her chest. Ivy helps Harley up onto her feet carefully. Harley quickly wraps her son up in a wool blanket before the two women make their way to the back door as fast as Harley could move.

Ivy grabs Harley's hand as they leave the warehouse and the red head steps out of the building first, scoping the area to make sure the coast is clear.

"Okay Harls, come on." As Ivy steps out further she is immediately pounced on by a the boy wonder.

"Red!" Harley calls, feeling the urge to jump in and protect her friend.

"Harley don't! Get out of here." Ivy responds as she struggles with Robin. Harley sprints from the warehouse, hoping to god Nightwing or Batgirl wasn't waiting for her. But thankfully as she leaves the building she isn't tackled, so she runs past her best friend towards the river landing.

She stops running as she hits the river bank. She pulls the bundle away from her chest to make sure baby was fine.

"Don't worry I won't let the big bad bat get you." She kisses her baby's forehead. In the moonlight she makes out the small tuff of black hair on his head, but the one thing she noticed most about him was his eyes; he had her baby blue eyes.

"Alright Quinn." She hears a voice, breaking her out of her trance. "You're coming with me back to Arkham."

Harley laughs at his claim, she tightens the blanket back around the baby and shields him away from the Dark Knight.

"I don't think so Bat." She takes a step back from Batman.

"Either you come with me willingly or I'll drag you back kicking and screaming."

"You deaf or somthin' Bats? I said I ain't going with you." Harley says more confidently. She looks around for means of escape. She knows there's no chance of fighting Batman, she barely had the strength to run let alone fight the Dark Knight.

A small cry erupted from the bundle Harley held. Batman looked to the bundle and then back to the jester, processing the events that had transpired shortly before he arrived on the scene; the woman's screams, Scarecrow and Ivy on location together, and Harley running from him.

"There ain't no way I'm going back." She protectively holds baby.

"Harley if you come with me, you can get the help you need and give the baby a better chance at life."

"What better life could he have without his mother?"

"A life without the Joker. How do you think he'll react?" Batman asks. "You think he'll be happy to hear of this? He will kill the baby and then he will kill you."

"You're wrong! Mistah J will love him just as I do." Harley says, defending her lover.

"You've seen him kill other children before; you think just because he fathered your child he will spare it?"

"He'll be an amazing father."

"Harleen, hand me the child. I'll make sure it finds a good family, and you will go back to Arkham to get help."

"No, he ain't leaving me. You can beat me or lock me up, but if you take my baby I promise you Bats, I will break out of Arkham and hunt down the people who took him and I won't hesitate to slit their throats to get my baby back." Harley threatens. Batman sighs, tired of getting no where with the Harlequin.

"If you come with me I won't take your baby from you." He says trying to get her to come with him. Harley looks around again, trying a second time to find an escape. "I know you can't fight, and you don't have a way to escape."

"Fine." Harley sighs, she knows that as she puts up more of a fight the worse her situation will get. "But you will not touch me or him." Harley walks towards Batman, he places a hand on her shoulder; Harley immediately shoves it off.

She slowly gets into the Batmobile, sitting next to Ivy and Crane; both in handcuffs. As she sits she feels pain, as she had just given birth. She pulls the woollen blanket away from baby's face.

"I love you." She whispers to him, pressing a kiss to his forehead before Batman enters the car. She doesn't keep her eyes off of her baby, fearing it would be the last time she would have with her son.

As they roll up to Arkham, the Dark Knight takes Ivy and Crane out of the car and hands them to Arkham guards. Batman lingers to talks to Dr. Leland, he then approaches the bat mobile; Harley prepares to have her baby ripped away and dragged into the asylum. But instead Batman gets into the drivers seat and begins to drive.

"What are you doing?" She questions, hope rising in her hear that he was going to let her and baby go. But that feeling was lost when she realized he was bringing her to the back of the asylum. He stops the car and sighs.

"Dr. Leland will allow you to bring him in. I can't tell you what will follow but I have done all that I can." He says before leaving the car, he then goes to her side and lets her out of the car. At the back door Dr. Leland waited alone. Harley approaches her former co-worker, baby still at her breast.

"Joan…you can't let them take him." She says, tears forming in her eyes.

"Harley go inside, we'll get you in your cell and we'll discuss it." Joan says, putting a hand on her shoulder; ushering her in.

"Leland. That baby deserves a chance at a normal life, and you know that." Bats says before he disappears.

Joan is the only Asylum employee who escorts Harley to her cell. Joan opens the cell door, letting Harley step into the confinement.

"You've had a long night. Sleep and I'll see you tomorrow afternoon." She says before the steel door shuts.

Harley lays down on her side on the cot, the baby asleep in the crook of her elbow. She kisses his forehead once more before falling asleep.