Chapter 1 - 'station' - Outside world - ledger joker fanfic
Everything was so bright yet so dark. I looked outside the window amazed at what I saw. Buildings, dark starry night sky. New sounds, new things to see, new things to smell and take in. Wow, the nurses weren't kidding about the outside world, it is truely different to four identical white walls. Apparently we're staying in what's commonly known as a hotel room? In a place called Gotham city? As I continue to take in the world outside the massive window I hear a gasp behind me.
"mija aléjate de ahí!" The nurse lady spoke as she quickly closed the curtains attached to the window. (Translation: mija, get away from there!)
"debes tener más cuidado, mija. Tienen ojos y oídos en todas partes, mija. No es seguro." She spoke again, telling me off. (TRANSLATION: you must be careful, mija. They have eyes and ears everwhere, mija. It is not safe.)
Just as I go to talk suddenly there's a knock at the door of the hotel room and we both freeze for a moment and turn our heads to look at the door before looking at each other. The nurse held a finger over her mouth signalling for me to remain silent as she approached the door. I got up and hid behind the wall just at the opening of the small hallway to the door. I heard the door open and there was a moment's silence before a male voice spoke. "Hi there, ma'am, I'm gonna have to ask you to come with us." The male spoke. "Wait! no please, I can get the money I just need a little more time" My nurse spoke, her accent weighing heavy in her speech.
"I'm sorry, Ma'am but the desk clerk needs the room back." The male spoke. "please don't make this any harder then it has to be ma'am, please do this willingly and not make a scene here." The male spoke calmly but was interrupted by a snappy female voice. "Well, hurry up and get that bitch outta the room, and that little brat of her's too that she came in with." The female voice spoke venomously.
"Uh, ma'am is there someone else here with you?" The calm male voice spoke again. "uh, si. Mija come on out honey. The policemen are here." The nurse called out for me and so I walked around the corner slowly. I saw the door was wide open and two males stood just outside the door. They were dressed in rather dark clothing and bullet proof vests with police written on the front. I could see gun's strapped to the hips and other weapons which made my sense of caution shoot through the roof. "She's my daughter, she goes where ever I go." The nurse spoke while the policemen looked skeptical of me.
"Ok, well you both can come down to the station then, this way please ma'am" One of the male's spoke beginning to guide the nurse to where we have to go apparently. And so She looks back at me before looking at the policemen. Then she moved out side of the room. And so I turn around and grab my back pack which was layed out on the bed in the 'hotel room' before following my nurse out of the room.
We walk down the hallway, the policemen following close behind me as we walked exited the hotel and walked what I assumed was their vehicle. One walked a head of us and opened the car door for us to get in. The nurse thanked him but I remained silent as we got into the back of the car while the two policemen sat in the front of the car. They quickly started the car and began to drive away from the hotel and to what I assumed was the 'station'.
I look out the window watching all the buildings flash by. 'Well what a funny new world this is.' I thought as it doesn't seem to take the policemen long to arrive at the destination being the 'station'. They both get out, one opening the passenger door for me and the nurse lady to get out while the other walks up to some building, opening and holding the door open for us.
"Right this way Ma'am." one of the males said as we got out of the car and walked up to the building. We entered and the place was swarming with many other males and females dressed in the same attire as the to policemen. "This way please." The male said as he walked towards a door which he opened and held for us again. Upon entering the very loud room I saw that in the centre of the room was 3 big metal cages with several men locked inside them. Though as I'm looking at the first cage I see there's one male sitting there, completely silent, with some sort of paint on his face and his hair would appear to be a mix of light brown and green. He was dressed in purple and green and was sitting with his back completely straight. His eyes were dark almost black and seemed to blend in with black paint that was surrounding his eyes. He had scars around his mouth that made him seem like he was smiling. There would appear to be red paint on those scares and on his mouth too. He was about the only person in the cage that was dressed in more colourful tones.
He was looking straight ahead though his gaze quickly shifted to the nurse and then to me. And it would appear that his gaze lingered on me for quite awhile, I however looked away almost as soon as he looked at me. His gaze felt chilling almost dangerous. Well I mean it would be if you were stuck in some metal cage like an animal, I should know I've been in way more myself then I could count.
"Stand away! All of you!" Suddenly a male voice yelled as a man with glasses walked in followed by a women and a man. "I don't want anything for his mob lawyer to use, you understand?" The man yelled as he pointed to the man in purple that was behind bars. "Sir, we got Miss Brenna like you asked." One of the male's that was with the nurse spoke up grabbing the man with the glasses attention. "good, put her in a holding cell." He spoke and that immediately got my attention. 'Wait a damn minute.' I thought.
"But sir what about the daughter?" The male asked him again and it seemed then was finally when he noticed I was there. "Daughter? There wasn't anything in Miss Brenna's file that said she had a daughter." the man with the glasses suddenly got confused. "Hey, hang on a damn minute, sir she's wanted, they both are." The women who came in with the man in the glasses said as she to a piece of paper out of her pocket unfolding it and showing it to the man.
"No! no, y-you can't tell them we're here please!" The nurse suddenly lunged for the piece of paper in the women's hands before being caught and restrained by the two males that brought us here. The man with the glasses looked from the piece of paper to me then back down to the piece of paper again. He sighed before he spoke again. "Take em'. both of em'." He said and the nurse was roughly pulled and shoved away from me and towards the cage. As soon as i heard her wince in pain and her facial expression turn to one of utter pain I immediately lunged for the three of them.
I grab the first one by the collar and pulled him back which of course, thanks to my enhanced strength sent him flying backwards all the way across the room. I pulled the other policemen off of the nurse and dragged him back right into one of the tables. I held him by the throat while I raised my fist up, lining it up to his face. He squeezed his eyes shut expecting a blow but boy was he wrong. I felt the piercing pain in my knuckles as my very sharp metal claws extended. At that point he was terrified and damn right he should be.
Out of the corner of my eye I see all the policemen in the room take out there guns and hold them up directly pointed at me. "Put the blades down and raise your hands in the air, now!" One of them said completely missing that these 'blades' are apart of me and I can't exactly drop em'. But of course I don't listen to what they said, no, I don't listen nor respect many people nowadays. Only a select few.
"She won't listen to you and believe me when I tell you she will kill him without a second thought if she's provoked any further." I heard the nurse speak presumable to the policemen in the room. "Ok, fine call her off" One of the policemen spoke.
"I'll call her off if you let us go and don't call special police taskforce in Mexico." The nurse spoke again trying to strike a deal. "And why would we do that? Your both wanted fugitive's and it seems dangerous ones at that." A female voice suddenly spoke. "Because they'll kill us both the second they get there hands on us." The nurse pleaded. "Fine, tell her to back off and we'll consider it." A male voice spoke again. "No I need your word that you'll let us go." the nurse refused and remained stubborn. and then silence hit for a moment before the male caved. "Fine, fine, you have my word. Now tell her to back off." The male spoke desperately and so I looked over my shoulder to the nurse and so she nodded and I let the policeman go before raising my hands in the air.
And the shock on everyone's faces when they realised the blades were in fact attached to me or well inside of me really. I retracted my claws and they slowly sank back into my skin. "What the hell! those things are a part of you?!?!" the women from before spoke completely shocked she slowly lowered her gun out of hesitation while the others remained raised. "What the hell is she?" The man with the glasses spoke this time as he pointed his gun directly at my face.
"You said you would let us go if she backed off. she has now let us go!" the nurse spoke but I could see it in the man with glasses eyes, he lied. "Put her in the holding cell and take Miss Brenna to an interrogation room." He said as he put his gun away and turned around. "You lying bastard, your not just going to get us killed now, no, now we're all dead." My nurse yelled out of anger as two more policemen came towards her and began to drag her away.
But of course I go to follow her only for one of the policemen to stand in my way. I clench my fist and he seems to shutter slightly and step back out of fear. good. I can see behind him that other policemen are clearing out the cell in the middle. 'unbelievable the things I do for that nurse.' I thought as I gritted my teeth but stayed calm and silent nonetheless considering I could easily break through the cage if I wanted to anyway with my claws.
And so I went in silently without being asked, willingly if you will. As soon as the cell door is closed I immediately start getting irritated and restless. I hate being in a fucking cage. As I sit on one of the benches in the cell I realise they didn't take my bag. good, they can't have what's in it anyway. It seems normal, natural order takes over the 'station' again as if nothing ever happened and the men in the cell behind me start up a ruckus again.
And after a while some other guy gets brought in and thrown in the cell in front of mine looking very sick. "Look at these ugly bastards." I male said as he walked around the cells while the guy that was brought in has one hand on his stomach while the other is on the bars steadying himself. "I don't feel good." He states but it seems no one is going to help. "You're a cop killer. You're lucky to be feeling anything below the neck." The male walking around the cage spat as he got up real close. The guy that was brought in lunged and yelled "Please!".
"Step away from the bars!" Another policemen that was monitoring the cells yelled. "My insides hurt." The man that was brought in stated before backing up wrapping both his arms around his stomach as his back hits the bars connected to my cell. He leaned up against the bars still in deep pain. Why wouldn't they help him? So what? he killed a 'cop' whatever that means, Fuck if they knew how many people I've killed when I was in the lab then believe me they'd be running scared right about now. I got up from the bench as I see most of the policemen aren't paying attention at all and so.
I slowly, silently walk up behind him before placing my hand on his shoulder and slowly absorbing his pain, taking it and relieving him of it. Almost as soon as I started taking his pain he immediately noticed. As I continue to take his pain I peek inside his mind and all his memories come to my mind in flashes and with the memories come the emotions. All the emotions ranging from happy to sad to angry. I could see in his memories the best moments to the worst moments in his life. I can see the moment where his daughter is born to his wife leaving him with said daughter after he robbed some store again.
To see what he has seen really fascinates me in every way possible. All the things he's seen, done and experienced in his life, things I could never experience like most could as for pretty much my entire life I have lived in a room with four identical white walls. I remember the nurses would tell us about the world outside those four walls, how the outside world was forever changing and finding new ways to many different things like technology and such. But of course most of the nurses thought I wasn't listening to them considering I rarely ever talk to anyone, they thought my silence meant that I didn't care. When in all reality I was curious about the world and had so many questions to ask but lacked how to actually ask such questions.
That's where Nurse Brenna came in, she's probably one of the only people that I have actually talked to and held a conversation with. I mean I remember in the lab she'd tell me things about her life and she'd let me see inside her mind, shuffle through the memories. She said she had two kids and a husband which she was apparently on the outs with after a fight. She said that after this was all over that she'd bring me home with her if we couldn't get in contact with the others.
