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Tainted Minds	By : Madame_Anarchy Category: DC Verse Movies > The Dark Knight Views: 3671 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don't own Batman's Universe or any of it's characters. I'm not writing this story for money.

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"Hi, J is that you?" Bruce said from the other side of the phone. He couldn't say "Joker" in case anyone decided to spy on him.
"Hello Brucey, yeah, just little old me. What is it?" Joker asked
"I don't know, to be honest, I didn't think I would make it this far" Bruce answered
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"You know, me calling, you actually picking up the phone. What a time to be alive"
"You're a terrible liar, come on, what is it?" Joker asked impatiently, he hated talking on the phone.
"I'm going to enter into one of those 'no cell phone allowed' places in a factory and will just be back at night. Can you order some pizza for us?"
"You? The protein freak guy wants pizza for dinner?" Joker said in disbelief
"I swear that if I eat chicken and eggs for dinner tonight I might as well kill myself" Bruce answered half joking and half meaning it because sometimes he was just sick and tired of eating the way he did to maintain his body.
"Alright, I'll ask for some pizza to prevent this tragedy. Any specific place or flavor?"
"I have a place I like to order, but you can choose whatever flavor you want, I don't have anything in mind right now. The number is…"
"Wait! Wait! Let me get a pen!" Joker said searching for a paper and a pen in his bedroom but didn't find anything.
"J, go to my room, I have some pens and papers on the desk. But fast, I have to go in like, one minute"
"Alright, alright"
Joker got there and found some blank sheets on the desk but no pens.
"Bruce, can I open the drawer? I think you might have put them there"
They were very respectful of each other's privacy, neither felt the need to lock doors and drawers and conceal personal notes because they knew it wasn't necessary. They had their secrets and things they didn't want to share with anyone, just like any human being on earth, so they never sneaked into each other's things.
"That's ok" Bruce answered
"Found one! Ok, tell me the number"
Bruce said the number quickly and hang up right after it, he was kind of late. Joker was about to leave the pen back in the drawer when he looked at something that made him stop what he was doing. It was a big black folder and had a label named "Joker" in the top of it. Looked like a police record somehow. He couldn't resist, he wanted to know what was written there. Could it be his file from Gotham's police? From Arkham? They never let the patients look their own records. Or even a journal from Bruce! That last one made him feel uneasy, didn't feel right, but he just couldn't leave without reading it now.
He opened and the first thing he saw was a picture of him taken by a security camera. It had a date, 17th of July 2008, the day he robbed the bank, when it all started. There were some other pictures included, all from security cameras and some from the video he made to threat killing people in case Batman didn't reveal his identity.
He found a calendar in the folder. The pages were folded, probably because Bruce had it on the wall before. It had notes written in green on dates he committed a crime. Many until the end of 2008 and even more until they suddenly stopped appearing in the middle of 2009. On the 16th of July 2009, there was a black mark. Joker never stopped to think when that first night occurred, but now he knew. Looking at it made him feel really bad, he was so anxious his pulse accelerated. The calendar pages went on with more and more black marks, he looked at them knowing way too well what they meant. He was about to close the folder and leave the Mansion for weeks when he saw a different mark on the 6th of December 2009.
It was a blue mark and Joker realized there were other things in the folder marked with a blue sticker. He looked up and they were results from blood tests, lists of medical things like needles and names of medication, lists of symptoms he remembers describing to Batman and looking back to the calendar, Batman had it all documented. Every day on the beginning when he couldn't eat and threw up his food and the day Batman removed his stitches, on the 20th of December.
It calmed him down to see Batman had serious intentions to help him recover from the first moment he arrived. But what concerned him on the blue marked documents was a name Batman circled. It was written in black with other possible diagnoses, but that one was circled in red. Sepsis. He knew what that was. Blood poisoning. That's lethal. Once he heard a guy in Arkham was being treated for sepsis because someone stabbed him and he didn't clean the wound. It got infected and spread in his blood. He died fast because people didn't know what was happening to him. It was uncommon diagnose, but Batman had it on the top of the list. It was on the first blood test he made, with the name of the bacteria causing the infection coming in the result. For the first time, he had no doubt it was not a "you could have died" situation. He would have definitely died.
He was already breathing heavily but what made his knees feel weak was when he saw a note written in red on the 24th of December 2009. It was the first time the used this color.
"I think he liked the gift, he let me sit close to him, I'm really happy"
"Oh my God Bruce, how could I not like it?" Joker asked out loud to an imaginary Bruce, remembering that warm feeling he felt that day.
He found more notes that made him smile slightly while reading. Mostly everyday things that he never imagined Bruce gave importance. He even blushed a little under his makeup when he read a note saying he looks cute when he sleeps. He would normally hate being called "cute" by anyone, but it was so sincere that made him feel fuzzy and enjoyably embarrassed.
Next note in red was on the 4th of February 2009.
"We kissed and I slept in his bed. Felt like a dream."
"Oh man…" He said placing his free hand over his mouth instinctively by the surprise. It was hard for him to process this kind of emotion since he wasn't used to them with such intensity.
He continued reading and felt more confident about his appearance with what he read. Vanity wasn't his thing, but he knew he was looking awful when he got here and it was painful to look at himself like that. And later, being attracted to Batman, it made him feel insecure to look so sick and weak close to Batman's perfect body. Bruce hardly said anything about the way he looked but reading his notes he learned Bruce did find him attractive. And that was good to know.
"He has dark brown eyes. Never noticed before, but I like the color"
That note was strange, he thought. Usually people like bright colors for eyes like blue and green.
On the 9th of April, he found notes he clearly wrote at different times of the day.
"I'll invite him to move upstairs, I'm afraid he'll leave, I hope he stays"
And just below them, it read "He said yes! And today was our first time! What a day"
Somehow it felt great to know Bruce considered that day at the gym as their first time because he also did. They were being patient to start sex with penetration since Joker found it to be triggering, but yes, that was the first time they were more intimate in a sexual way, definitely counts after all they've been through. Also, the Joker always wondered if Bruce was waiting for them to be intimate before inviting him to move upstairs, but according to the sequence of the notes, he was already going to invite him that day.
A solitary blue note was on the 13th of May.
"Relapse, but the cuts were shallow"
That was the day Bruce got angry at him for disappearing. And now it was the 20th of May 2009. It was surprising to get to see the whole picture like this. Joker was never attached to records and dates, but this gave him some perspective of time he didn't have before. Some parts seemed faster to him in his head and some others way slower.
Batman abused him for about five months. It felt like a lifetime to him. He stayed on the Batcave from December to April. If Batman told him he had been there for two months or two years he would have believed it either way, time was strange down there. And now he was on the Wayne Manor for something like two months. That was finally easy to track down since he wasn't sick and having mental breakdowns all the time and could see the day outside.
Giving it a thought, exactly one year ago, none of this had happened. Things were the way they used to be before the 16th of July.
He would never be grateful or thank for the horrible things that happened, it nearly got him killed. The amount of physical pain and emotional distress was too high even if he had two lifetimes to cope with it. He felt bitter for the ugly parts, some of them he never forgot Bruce for and he is sure Bruce didn't forgive every single thing he did wrong. He wasn't grateful for the path they had at first even if it leads them to where they are now. They loved the way things were now, but it could have been different, it could have been less destructive and damaging.
But right at this moment, Joker was pleased to see their story didn't have black marks anymore. It was mostly written in red, with some occasional blue. And that was a good reason to be grateful.
Author's Note: Hello dear readers! I'm sorry for taking so long to update. I'm no longer on vacation now but I'll keep writing and publishing whenever I can. I have some ideas I would like to write about all I need is to find some time.
Thank you all for reading! Tell me what you think, was this timing the one you were expecting? Did you think it was faster, longer? Dying to know your opinion!
Next chapter is almost ready and will have some slash so, you know… don't disappear ^.~ See you!
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