❝ careful - you’re in very real danger of hurting my feelings. ❞ [for Joker!]
AND WHY NOT? SHE HAS DONE NOTHING BUT BE A PAIN TO HIM…
There had been countless chances over the years, too many to count where he could have had her head in his hands, BUT HE NEVER TOOK IT AND HE KNOWS SHE HAD THE SAME CHANCES TO TAKE HIM OUT. Was it the fact that she was in a way a part of him? Everyone still linked them together, when they saw her they thought of him straight away, IT WAS GOOD TO HAVE THE BRAND REPRESENTED HEHE.
Or was it something more? After all she was the only person who had ever genuinely wanted to help him, who had wanted to dig through all the pain and suffering and find who he truly was, how this happened to him and offer him a hand and pull him out of the darkness. WHATEVER THE REASON WAS.
He just could not bring himself to kill her.
“As much as I have tried, I cannot bring myself to kill you.” He rolled his eyes and tutted slightly, it was a pain that he could not do it himself. THAT AFTER ALL SHE HAS DONE TO RUIN HIS PLOTS AND HIS PLANS, he could not put the final nail in her coffin. EVEN NOW AFTER HER TWO BOTCHED ATTEMPTS TO END HIS LIFE, he could not plant this axe square into the back of her skull.
Killing came naturally to him, but killing her, she fell into the same category as batman, THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE HE COULD NOT KILL.
“Consider it your lucky day, I won’t even cripple you, so skip away and play hero elsewhere.”