❝ you are really pretty ! ❞ eyes flutter with admiration, edges of lips stretch to their limit. funny how things turn out, ain’t it ? this morning she was found stealing keys from clumsy guards, now they willingly are letting her breathe fresh air. now, from all the seats she could have picked, the little shy girl, the new kid in class, decides to sit down next to regina george. ❝ i got a feeling you’ll be reeeaaal popular. ❞
let’s see: cannibal crocodile man, tattooed from head to toes pyromaniac, a ninja, guy with boomerang kink, a rope magician, a man with more hair in the face than in the head, and a clown. what’s the catch with this one ?
❝ jus’ be careful. we’re talkin’ about true evil here, after all. ❞ leans in, just enough, and whispers: ❝ that guy ? ❞ points at waylon; the poor man distracted and lost in his own dizziness. ❝ anger issues. lost his family and blames himself. a cannibal. ❞
❝ but, don’t worry. ❞ pulls away immediately. the vivid picture of innocence and dishonesty——- what a combination ! ❝ i’m here t’ protect ya now that we’re gal-pals, all right ? ❞ push, push, push— now you ought to tell me the truth ! this one seems like an independent one. easy to trigger, she knows the type. here comes the “i don’t need anyone’s assistance because of how powerful and dangerous i actually am; you fools are not deserving of my presence” speech. wait for it—- wait for it !
GIVEN ANY OTHER SCENARIO, then certainly, as the young politician’s daughter, Eve often managed to fit nice and pretty among an admirable crowd, but as for the current situation, doubtful, or so should be apparent in due time. she’s still more or less NEW to the group, though they’re already familiar with her having met on enemy lines as Chimera, later introduced as their woman on the inside, NIGHTSHADE, and she with them through small blips of information from Waller. that was plenty much for the majority put together with their EXPERIENCE as a team, but not for this one. of course not. there’s still something left to chew on in this bubblegum brain of hers! all Quinn and her ever gnawing SWEET TOOTH know is that in the delectable irony of it all, little Chimera Nightshade was not truly one of them despite the threads that TETHERED her back and limbs to Waller’s collective grasp—that she wasn’t exactly bound by duty or threat. why, then? is the burning question. well, then WHY NOT begin by puling on the obvious strings?
shields unknowingly go up as her mind suddenly TWISTS, betraying its own exhaustion. the clown’s voice crawls into her ear, singing endearingly yet biting with mockery, something that only came by CRAFT. sinister of its own kind, yet head-achingly similar to the too many JESTERS Eve had an odd tendency to find herself in COMPANY of. it almost forcibly recalls her encounters of such a duo that were not so long ago ( but almost seemed like a lifetime ), Jewelee and Punch. looney and tricky all the same, but not terribly harmful: only common THIEVES who happened upon some peculiar loot determined to catch eyes, their rise to glory as much as it was their downfall. inevitably, it was taken within government CLUTCHES, and them with it until perhaps useful. only now that she was finally honored to an audience with the Queen of Gotham does her CURIOSITY over the absence of the pair in this bizarre lineup resolve: there simply wasn’t enough room for so many LIABILITIES. Harley Quinn herself was already two times crazy—two times clever.
even if she weren’t so beat, she couldn’t really portray much INTEREST in her words anyhow, but perhaps she should. she knows their REPUTATIONS, their skills, but little else. skeleton is draped loosely against the seat, elbow making way to the opposite rest to cradle her WEARY head. little EFFORT is given to invite or distance any farther ( though really, they couldn’t be much closer ) and she simply observes for the moment. then, some little SMILE appears. it lacks, surely, but it conveys as mush as anything. the thought doesn’t appeal to her in any manner, of course, but better to accept how things will turn in the end and try not to make enemies. like it or not, that’s how this thing works, right? TOGETHER.
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