Hi all, this is the last chapter. Thank you to everyone who has been supportive and followed my story. I hope you come back for more. (Got a few new ideas)

xoxo mads

Harley could see… but her vision was blurry and everything looked distorted. What once had been Dr. Cranes face now twisted into a black mask. It resembled that of batman's mask, but its eyes glew red and the bulk of him was about three times bigger than the original Batman. The brute raised its arm, and revealed it was holding the head of The Joker. In the giant's fist, J's head looked to be the size of a tennis ball. The purple clad body of the joker swung limply in the iron fist of the black giant, and blood poured from the cracking skull, and poured like crimson rain onto the white tile. She was strapped to something… No! No! Something was eating her arms! Two white snakes glared up at her with their black pits for eyes as her arms disappeared into their thick bodies. She felt their muscles slowly crush the bones in her hands and forearms. The Bat brute was laughing in a deep gurgle while he swung J around like a puppet by his bleeding head. Harley ceased her shrieking when she realized her lovers mouth was moving in attempt to speak. She tried to get free and so she could go to him… listen to him… But the snakes were all the way up to her shoulders now, her arms were just shattered bone wrapped in weak muscle.

"PLEASE LET ME HEAR HIM!" Her voice cracked in pain when the bones in her shoulders broke. She sobbed, and turned her head upwards, unable to look at the dying man in the brutes hand. Above her was a black shape, crawling across the sky…ceiling? It's many legs reached to her.

"KILL ME!" Was it her screaming?

The spider swooped down on her and its pinchers clicked together just inches from her face, as she squirmed. Harley wished it would take out her eyes so she could stop witnessing the love of her life dying. Then she heard it. Bat Brute was holding the puppet inches from her face. J choked out: "Would you…" Before his eyes rolled back into his head and with a sickening sound the fingers of the Bat forced his skull to cave in on itself.

"-LIVE FOR ME! LIVE FOR ME!" Harley finished J's silenced sentence.

The black shape had ahold of her hair and was pulling her up out of the snakes mouths. Harley felt herself lifted. And she swung like a puppet. Just like he had.

…

"Yeow!" Shrieked Catwoman, when Harley, in her delusional state, bit the arm that was hauling her up into the vent. "Jesus, Harley." She hissed, and yanked her up quickly with her other arm. "You won't eat me too Mrs. Spider!" Cried a limp and blubbery Harley. Cat rolled her eyes and hollered to Ivy. "Would you mind hurrying it up? You're girlfriend is hard to wrangle!"

Ivy was in the middle of surrounding the infamous Doctor Crane in thick black thorns. "You think it's fun to torture poor little creatures do you?" She jeered as Crow tried to reach his hand (bloodying it) out through the wall of thorns that were slowly closing in on him. "Well how do you like it, huh?" She asked, circling him, the thorns now so thick and tightly knit that he was struggling to breathe. "How about we see what this fear medicine does to someone who is already a coward." She said, casually as she picked up the shot that had been knocked to the floor in their struggle. The liquid looked like thick puss, with a slight purple glaze on top. Ivy flicked the small cylinder and few drops of the stuff oozed and dripped off the unusually large needle. "I've always wanted to do that, you always see nurses and docs do that on television." She chuckled.

"IVY C'MON!" Shouted Cat, her face contorting in pain as she tried to keep Harley tucked up in the vent, with her back pressed against the hole in the ceiling. Her clawed hands twisted upwards to hold herself in place.

"This might hurt a bit, Nurse Ratchet." Snarled Ivy, as she gripped the screaming and writhing mans arm that stuck out, and stabbed the needle into his flesh, successfully emptying the fear serum into its creator.

"NOT THE WHOLE THING WOMAN ARE YOU CRAZY?!" A muffled voice hollered from within the thorns as Ivy disappeared into the vents with her girls.

...

"OOOooo ha! Hahahaha… oo.." The clown looked up and smiled wanly at his tormentor. The real Bat. His cop uniform was tattered and mostly missing. This fight had been a doozy, as it usually was when Joker was running out of tricks to pull out from under his sleeve.

"Give up yet?" Asked Bats.

"Go? Now? But we're having so much fun!" Answered J as he tried to get to his feet. His knees wobbled and gave out. All his men had scattered after the real GOPD showed up. It was just The Joker and Batman, as The Joker would usually prefer (when the main goal was to harass Batman)... until it wasn't.

"Stop them!" Came a shout from behind the two brawling men. A guard was standing in the gateway and pointing after two (three?) fleeing shapes. One, Batman noticed immediately as Selena Kyle. The other was Ivy, who he didn't recognize right away because she wasn't in her usual (rather revealing) garb. She was moving quite a bit slower than than Cat because she was dragging a mid-tantrum Harley Quinn.

"Stop! I don't want to go anywhere with you, you plant goblin!" Harley tried to chomp on Ivy's hand, but Ivy, knowing Harley, saw it coming and pulled it away.

"Goblin? What the fuck. You are having one baaaad trip, flower."

Harley tried to crawl away on her hands and knees. Ivy dove after her. "Ohhh no you don't!"

Catwoman proceeded to hang from her whip and swing on the rickety gate. As it swung wide, and passed Batman she whispered, "How's it hangin' B-man?"

"Nice one." Joker chuckled. Batman looked at the still kneeling Joker in surprise. "Get it? Cause she was hanging…" Batman swung at him and J leaned so far back in dodging it that he looked like he was recovering from a rock concert power-slide. "OOOOooo! Always taking shots from people that just don't get the joke." "tisked" the Joker, recovering himself and slicking his hair back habitually. He was eyeing the weird Harley situation from a distance. He wanted to run to her and get her… but she didn't seem to be seeing who her friends were properly.

"I get the joke, I just didn't find it funny." Grummbled Bats, who was watching his own woman as she lowered herself gracefully from the gate.

"Excuse me, Batman?" Came a mega-phoned voice from the direction of the cop cars. All heads turned to the stunned cop spectators. "What are your orders?" The nervous donut eater asked.

"Stand down. I'll handle the escapees from here." Said Batman, looking like an annoyed father as he pulled his cuffs off his belt. Car doors were heard slamming in the distance as the cops departed. Batman swiped at one of J's hands, trying to cuff it and of course Joker had pulled it away too quickly, saying, "Too slow." A genuine smile stretched across his face and he chuckled.

"Bats haven't you had enough fun for one night?" Asked Selena, who had wound herself between the kneeling clown and the tall shadow.

"Yeah, haven't you?-" Asked J, but was kicked in the throat absent mindedly by Cat. Her hand touched his masked cheek. Batman stiffened at her touch but did not pull away. "Joker's been keeping me up for weeks, Selena." His brow furrowed. "I need to put him behind bars. I'm sick of him." He almost whined.

"Awww, baby, you know that isn't about you." She purred. "He's just tyna get back with his puddin'." She booped her finger on his nose. "I'm sure he will be a good little circus freak once he is with her. Won't you, Buster?" She didn't look back at the clown, she was having a staring contest of sorts with Bruce.

But J nodded, a little pout on his face. "I suppose… Even villians need a vacation."

The ruckus between the girls had escalated quickly. Harls was perched on Ivys shoulders, pulling at her voluptuous curls and screaming "GIVE ME BACK MY POODLE HE ISN'T A WIG!" Ivy winced in pain and roller her eyes in annoyance. "YOU'RE HAVING A BAD TRIP, KID!" She said, yanking Harley's hands off her hair and effectively pulling her over her messy fiery hair and body checking her to the street in front of them.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, BITCH?" Shouted a now livid Joker. He marched forwards after regaining his balance. Shock and fear flashed across Ivy's face as she realized what she had done. Both Ivy and J knelt to the ground and reached for Harley, who stared at them in terror as if she was watching nothingness closing in on her, threatening to swallow her whole. Her eyes welled with tears, and she hugged her knees. Ivy stopped before fully extending her arm to Harley. She didn't want to be like J who got her to comply by frightening her. She waited.

"Don't hurt me anymore… I only blew ya so you'd help me with my statistics class..." Blubbered Harley, her tears wetting the orange fabric of her pants where her cheeks pressed. "Tell your jock friends this is a mistake Steve please…" she looked from Ivy to J. J was also frozen, confusion plain on his face. Harley was obviously reliving some predatory memory.

"Poor baby has always been hurt by men… like most beautiful things." Murmured Ivy, emotion thick in her voice.

"She's not one of your plants, you know." Hissed Joker, his glance at her actually apologetic. He knew how easy it was to love this woman, and he didn't blame her for it… how was it his fault she always got hurt anyway? She always had asked him for pain… "I'm not like the boys in her frat or her daddy's golf buddies you have taken her for granted." Hissed J, insulted by Iveys implications.

"No." Growled Ivy. "You're worse."

Ivy felt her heart break as she realized the truth.

"She loves you."

J touched Harley's knee with his hand gently, unable to meet Ivy's charged gaze.

"Harls…" He pleaded.

Ivy recoiled her own hand. She knew she was beaten.

"You won't ever deserve this angel." Her words stung him like acid. The sting swam deep through his rough exterior because he knew in his fucked up heart that it was true.

"You're going to rot in hell for what you've done to her… for what you continue to do to her."

A tear rolled down the clown princes cheek. The first to escape his eyes in many years.

Harley didn't flinch when his hand remained on her knee.

Ivy leaned in and kissed Harley's head, which was bobbing as she weakly sobbed.

"I love you, flower." Whispered Ivey, her voice cracking slightly. "I'll catch you the next time he pushes you off a building." She added, lightly. Ivy stood up and walked past the two dark shadows who had been watching the interaction so quietly all had forgotten they had been standing there.

"Goodbye Steve..." Sobbed Harley,waving at Ivy. J wiped his tear and pulled her into his arms. She looked up at him in sheer wonder and touched his face.

"Are you the devil?"

He almost shed another tear, but blinked it back. He stood up with her cradled to his chest. He dared Bats with his eyes to tell him no. Bruce and him exchanged a silent truce to excuse each other from rivalry for the sake of their women.

Selena locked her fingers with Bruce's, falling more in love with him in the moment of graciousness.

J walked with Harley in his arms as Bats and Cat mooned over each other. The beauty in his arms stirred, startled by the movement of him lifting her.

"C'mon baby." He said, tucking a pink tipped strand of hair.

"Let's go home."