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The River Has Run Wild	By : SexyKitty0o Category: DC Verse Movies > The Dark Knight Views: 3284 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the batman universe i only own Kat, i am not making any profit on this story and it is purely a fictional story.

Chapter List
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Ok so sorry for the long wait, I promise to try and get the next chapter up much faster than this. Not too much action in this one more like more information. :P ok enjoy and thanks for the reviews.
Btw. I do not own the song used here, its I will not bow by breaking Benjamin, I don’t own it or make any money from it I just used it cause it seemed like something Kat would like to sing. :D
The feeling of the bed shifting beside her was what awoke Kat from her deep dreamless slumber. With a tired groan she fluttered her eyes open taking a few tries before she was able to bare the sun’s rays filling the room.
“What time is it?” she mumbled
When there was no answer she looked over to the other end of the bed, it was empty with the blanket tossed to the side. Frowning Kat looked around the room but saw no one causing her to feel even more confused. ‘I know I just felt the bed move’ she thought to herself as she pushed up off of the mattress that rested on the floor.
She shuffled through her bag again looking for a clean outfit, settling on a pair of dark jeans and a purple tank she pulled her hair up as usual leaving her bangs down. Kat made her way out into the kitchen to find it empty, walking into the living room next she finally saw Jonathan. He was sitting on the couch with his laptop up and running again, the morning news was on but the volume was low. He wore his usual button up dress shirt and tie, his jacket wasn’t on or his sweater vest and his legs were clad in a pair of dark pants.
“Morning” she said sleepily as she made her way to sit beside him.
“Good morning how was your sleep?” he replied.
Kat shrugged “I didn’t dream at all, I think it’s because I didn’t sleep at all” she joked as she saw the time displayed on the corner of the news report.
“I told you we have a busy day today so you should go take care of your gift we need to be gone by sundown today” Jonathan’s eyes were fixed on his laptop.
“Heard anything from her?” Kat nodded towards the grate.
“No, it’s been silent since I got up, she’s probably sleeping still”
“Oh goody its good she got her rest I don’t want her wimping out on me too soon, how long do you think she’ll last?” Kat inquired
“My guess would be not very long, her tolerance for pain is very low seeing from last night” his eyes still never left his work.
Kat agreed and stretched her body out before standing up, “Alright then I’ll be right back…” Kat joked in a creepy horror voice causing Jonathan to shake his head in amusement.
She grabbed the last bit of grapes from the fridge and popped one in her mouth as she made her way to the basement door and sighed. Putting the grape vine in her mouth she held it there as she used her two hands to pull the long wooden board up and out of the metal rungs that held the door securely shut. Dropping it onto the floor with a thud she took the fruit out of her mouth and popped another grape in. chewing as she unlocked the door handle she carefully opened it preparing for Nellie to jump out again with her shoe in hand. When she saw no one standing there she made her way down the stairs.
The lights were out and since she didn’t remember shutting them off last night she assumed Nellie must’ve done it herself. ‘who would want to sleep in the pitch blackness’ Kat wondered as she tried to adjust her eyes but it was too dark to see a thing so she just trusted her feet to find each step.
They were doing great until she hit the 5^th stair and her foot met nothing but air, with a quick scream and the feeling of falling Kat leaned her body forward and grasped with her arms trying to grab the rail she remembered being there. Her hands gripped nothing but air as well and she hit her left shin hard followed by her chest causing pain to shoot through her entire body. Kat felt herself slipping backwards as she held on as tight as she could, “JONATHAN!” she screamed but he was right there before she had even yelled for him.
“What the fuck!” He howled as he stepped down towards her
“Be careful there’s a missing stair and the rail is gone to, I’m slipping” she stated as she tried to pull herself up by her shaking arms.
Jonathan stepped down carefully and reached for Kat, gripping her under her arms, he wrapped his arms around her chest and heaved her backwards. Kat managed to push off of the stairs with her one foot and they both landed on the top stair with a grunt. Jonathan brought her back more into the sun light and looked her over.
There was a large gash on her left shin that was dripping a small amount of blood, there were some slivers in her legs and arms but besides her complaining about her front part of her chest aching like a bitch there was no serious damage.
“What happened Kat?” he asked
“I don’t know, the light was off so I just started walking down the stairs eating my grapes when all of a sudden there was no stair just a huge hole and I went down”
“I’ll go get the damn kit again” he growled while leaving her.
Kat glanced back down into the basement, ‘where is Nellie?’ she thought, Kat thought that she would at least try to make a break for it at this opportune moment or at least come check what the commotion was about but she didn’t see her or even hear her. With her curiosity raging Kat stood up flinching as she tried to put her weight on her left leg. Limping slightly she made her way carefully down the stairs, testing each step before putting her weight on it. Keeping her body against the wall she reached the missing step and leaned down, using her good leg she reached out to find that only two steps where gone and the third one seemed to hold up decently.
Once Kat was on the ground she made her way to the light switch and flicked it on. The lights came on like usual and looking over where the blankets and pillows were she saw it was empty. Glancing around Kat thought she somehow escaped through the walls like a ghost until she noticed the damage.
The fifth and sixth step were gone leaving a large gaping hole with half of the sixth stair dangling. Half of the railing was missing as well, limping over to the middle of the room Kat saw the blood before she saw the body; Nellie was sprawled out beside the stair case in a pool of her own blood. Her limbs looked oddly placed but not as bad as her head, she was staring in Kat’s direction with a look of pure terror and wide eyes frozen on her face. Her neck was bent at an un-natural angle with a white bone sticking clean out the side and pieces of wood were all around her as well as sticking under her.
Kat stared at the scene before her not able to take her eyes away, it was then she noticed something sticking out of Nellies gripped fist. Making her way towards the body Kat slipped slightly once her foot squished into the thick blood pool. Feeling the gooey liquid smoosh in between her bare toes she finally reached her target and bent down to pry her dead grip open. The body was ice cold and it took a bit of effort to pry her fingers one by one open. In her palm was a metal nail file and a bobby pin, Kat frowned but before she could think she heard a loud yell.
“KAT!”
Quickly making her way back to the stair landing she looked up to find Jonathan standing at the top. “What the hell are you doing!”
“Come down the first steps and look down” Kat stated as she stepped up the first two bottom stairs.
Jonathan followed her instructions and saw for himself the scene before him. Kat had reached the large gap and waited for him to help her, once he was done analyzing what he saw he turned and reached out his hand.
Kat took it and he helped her over the hole and back up to sit on the couch in the living room. Kat looked to the side to see the bloody footprints she left behind her reminding her of the institute when they would drag her away after she attacked someone.
“I found these in her hand, obviously she was trying to pick the lock and somehow the stair case must’ve given out and she fell” Kat whispered dropping the bloody items on the floor.
Jonathan was silent as he cleaned up her shin and started pulling out the slivers with a pair of tweezers. Kat didn’t whine or wince, she just sat there staring at her bloody feet. Tears filled her eyes and fell down her cheeks in silence, “Does something hurt?” He asked when he glanced up to see her crying thinking it was her ribs or something internal.
Kat shook her head no but stayed silent, “well why are you crying?”
Taking a moment she looked back at him while he finished cleaning her up, “My gift is ruined” she spoke softly.
At first he just sat there trying to process what she just said before he cracked up into laughter. Not his usual chuckle or scarecrow’s crazy crackling but a long light laughter that caused him to bend over slightly to hold his side. Kat was shocked at first and then furious “I’m glad you think my pain is hilarious!”
Jonathan tried to stop laughing but shocking to even him he couldn’t contain himself. “Kat” he started in between gasps, “I’m not laughing at you, it’s just, and don’t you see how that sounded in this situation. You’re upset that someone snapped their neck only because it stopped you from torturing her first”
“Of Course I am! She was supposed to pay! Fate just swopped down and stole my things again! AUGH! DO YOU HEAR ME! YOU WILL NOT RUIN ANYTHING AGAIN FOR ME I SWEAR ON ALL THE STARS AND MOONS IN THIS FUCKED UP UNIVERSE!” she screamed in the air while stomping away into the bedroom.
Kat slammed the bedroom door shut and letting out a frustrated scream started to smash every window in the room with the chair that sat in the corner. Once all the glass was on the ground she chucked the chair at the wall crumbling it into large pieces. She then started to shove all of her things into her bag and picking it up she stomped out of the room and down the hall out the front door. She tossed her bag into the backseat of the car that was unlocked since the thugs were piling their important stuff into it. After that she got into the passenger seat and slamming the door shut she sat there huffing and puffing.
About 5 minutes later pain started to crawl its way up her leg and through her body, she had forgotten about it in her anger and now with all her stomping and smashing it was throbbing with a vengeance. Letting out another sob she buckled up her seatbelt and crossed her arms around her chest cursing every second in her head and ignoring the constant whispers that echoed in her brain.
Jonathan walked outside to see Kat sulking in the car, walking over he opened the door and looked down inside, “Kat what are you doing?”
“I am waiting to leave, you said sundown well I aint got nothing to do now so I’m going to sit here and just wait” Kat muttered staring at the dashboard.
“Alright” he replied and shut her door again. Walking back inside it was about 10 minutes before he came back out with his bag in hand and tossed it in the backseat.
Getting into the driver seat he buckled up and started the car, without saying a word he pulled out and drove out to the street. He stopped in front of the goons shack and honked the horn. The man named bill came jogging out, “We’re leaving early, stick to the plan and don’t be fucking late. Got it?”
Bill nodded and Jonathan started to drive off, Kat stared out the window with dis-interest. They drove in silence still, neither saying a word with Jonathan staring directly ahead. It stayed that way for the entire drive until he pulled up into an area of Gotham Kat never saw before; the streets were filled with homeless people and regular people alike. Dumpster fires were located on almost every block for warmth and it looked like there were dead people lying in the alley’s; Kat would’ve thought they were just sleeping since it was not so cold today on Christmas eve but somehow she had known a few of them were not.
Almost every building looked run down and in shambles; a fight was going on in one block they drove past. If she had to guess it would be that this was the ghetto of Gotham if that’s what you would call it since she was just thinking about the movies she saw. When they pulled up to a tall average looking building with a blank black front Jonathan put the car in park and proceeded to get out.
Kat followed his lead and opened the back door to grab her bag, the air hit her nostrils and made her cringe slightly; it smelt of urine and garbage. It was an off putting smell that reminding her of a patient at the institute who always pissed himself that the nurses had given up changing him every hour. She got so sick of sitting in the main room smelling him that she stabbed a pencil she took off of a nurse right into his groin. He had lived and never pissed himself again; he also never stayed in the same room as Kat again too.
“Where are we?” she asked once they were walking side by side up the front stairs.
“At a safe house that was owned by Falcone before the family took off out of Gotham. It’s now mine”
Kat ignored that “No, what part of the city is this. I can’t imagine anyone willingly living here”
“No one with any other option would, this is the Narrows. The worst part of the city where the poor and desperate and depraved live”
“Well that fits us to a T” Kat mumbled and followed him in silence again.
Once they walked through the front door there was a foray again like his penthouse but far from it in comfort and style. There was a few big men standing around with guns of all sorts and they all looked up at her and Jonathan when they walked past. No one said anything to them they just went back to their conversations as Jonathan walked over to open a door that led to a staircase, they climbed in silence until they reached the fourth floor which was the top and pushed open the door. Walking down the quiet hallway he stopped when he reached a door with a broken 4 space 2 the faded mark in between the numbers told her that a 0 was missing from the plague.
Jonathan took a single key out of his pocket and unlocked the door knob and dead bolt above it. He looked back at Kat, “Stay right here for a moment” he stated and without waiting for her answer he put his bag down and walked into the apartment.
Kat stood right where she was listening very carefully but hearing nothing, sighing she looked out the window at the end of the hall and then back down the corridor. There were another 2 doors that she could see one had all the numbers on it while the other had just one. After another moment of waiting the door opened again and Jonathan picked up his bag. “Alright come on”
Kat followed him inside and looked around, it was cramped and smelled like old mildew but it was cleaner than the last hideout and at least had a working old kitchen. The windows were gated and locked up and there was the standard furniture you expected in a living area. Nothing was fancy but it was cozy enough, a couch, a television, a coffee table, in the bedroom there was a mattress with an actual bedframe not just thrown on the floor; a dresser and a small bathroom with just a tub and no shower, the room was attached to the bedroom and wasn’t accessible any other way.
Walking back into the living room where Jonathan had started to set up his laptop Kat stood by the one big window and looked down at the decaying scene before her. “So where is Joker? He hasn’t harassed us in quite a while, is he still taking care of Black Mask? And who is this Bl… you know what forget that question I have enough criminal profiles in my head to make a nursery book”
“I don’t know where the Joker is or what he is up to. I’ve been busy with planning something big” Jonathan answered as he turned on the news and started setting up.
Kat just stood there watching people go about their daily business after a few minutes she started to softly sing to herself.
Now the dark begins to rise
Save your breath, it's far from over
Leave the lost and dead behind
Now's your chance to run for cover
I don't want to change the world
I just wanna leave it colder
Light the fuse and burn it up
Take the path that leads to nowhere
Watch the end through dying eyes
Now the dark is taking over
Show me where forever dies
Take the fall and run to Heaven
All is lost again
But I'm not giving in
I will not bow
I will not break
I will shut the world away
I will not fall
I will not fade
I will take your breath away
And I'll survive, paranoid
I have lost the will to change
And I am not proud, cold-blooded fake
I will shut the world away
Kat didn’t realize Jonathan had stopped moving and was watching her intently with his arms sprawled across the back of the couch. She met his eyes and then looked down embarrassed, “Sorry” she murmured.
“Again embarrassed in front of me? How many times do I have to tell you to never be ashamed, ever. Not in front of anyone, you are as free as a bird so do whatever you want Kat.”
She shuffled her feet and shrugged, “I just don’t sing in front of people, only in the shower, and in my cell... well I mean room. I didn’t realize I was doing it”
“You have a beautiful voice, very sad and full of melancholy I like listening to you very much.” He stated in a matter of fact tone rather than sounding like a compliment.
Kat looked back out the window, “the sun is starting to come out from behind the clouds do you think it will snow tomorrow for Christmas?”
“We’ll check the weather later tonight on the news but first, are you still upset?”
Kat laughed softly and walked over to flop down on the couch, “No, I guess it wasn’t written in the stars for me to kill her. Maybe she really didn’t deserve what I was planning”
Jonathan brushed back a stray hair from her face, “I’ll get you someone else”
“No, you can’t just kill anyone you choose, I’d feel if it was right I don’t want to play anymore I want mass panic and pain.”
Jonathan had a smug grin on his face “Well then I have a great surprise for you. I thought we would throw an engagement party; well we’ll be crashing a party and making it our own. We’ll fill the air with my toxin and you can be free to do whatever whim takes you.”
“When?” Kat asked regarding him with a gleam in her eye.
“Boxing day, there’s a large gathering at the starry night observatory. I thought it would be fitting for you”
“Oh Jonathan you do know how to treat a girl” she replied in a happy yelp as she crashed into him with a hug.
“Yes well there is still a lot of work to be done, so if you can keep yourself busy for the rest of the day it would help. Oh and Kat, I believe you owe me something that I’ll be collecting tonight”
Kat smirked and stood up, “You’re the boss applesauce but I don’t think you’ll ever make me break from fear.”
“Oh and why’s that? You think you don’t feel fear anymore?”
“Oh no, everyone feels fear even you doctor, but as you always say there’s nothing to fear but fear itself and since you are fear well I just don’t fear you. Sorry.” Kat answered
“Who ever said I would be using my toxin on you? Oh no we’re going to play a different game. I’m going to break you Kat until all that’s left is what I say there is”
Kat stopped and turned around, “there goes your ego again do you ever get tired of listening to your own voice?” she stated in a normal calm voice as she felt her skin prickle with excitement.
“Are you trying to push our appointment to an earlier time because you don’t want me pissed off during it Kat” he warned while shutting his laptop.
Kat laughed lightly “You are pissed off almost every minute of the day besides what’s the worst you can do Hmm? Gas me, hurt me, fuck me, the only thing you haven’t been able to do is dissect my brain… wait, that’s it isn’t it? How badly does it irk you to have a mind you can’t break into”
Standing up as slow as snake getting ready to attack he stepped sideways to walk around the coffee table, “We may not be alone in this building but not one person will come to that door no matter what they hear”
“You’re threats have gotten pathetic Doctor, perhaps you should try some new material since I think I know you better than you know yourself”
“That’s where you’re wrong” Jonathan announced as he gripped her arm and twisted painfully almost to the point of dislocating it.
Kat let out a small squeak as she went down to her knees; the pain was liquid fire through her veins.
“Kat, Kat, Kat, what am I going to do with you. At times I feel like gassing you until there’s nothing left in that spas sic mind of yours. Other times I just can’t stand the thought of losing you. It is the most annoying thing I have ever experienced.”
“well that sounds just right for you, are you sure you do not have a split personality problem, I mean there is two complete opposite side’s to you”
He twisted again causing her to cry out and then laugh, “The next time I think I want to gas you since you’re now turning myself on me I’d think it would be only fair”
“Care to elaborate?”
“I am the reincarnation of pain in the flesh herself, it came to me on the wings of a butterfly while I sat in the car. Pain surrounds me; it fills me, it’s all I’ve known and all I can give. Perhaps you should remember that doctor, although I did promise to behave so unfortunately the idea of jabbing my elbow into your ribs will have to be put on hold” Jonathan let go of her arm causing Kat to fall forward slightly “So your plan is to what? Beat fear into me, yeah that doesn’t work.”
“I don’t care about your fear Kat; you’ve got it under control very well I’d have to admit. You don’t react the same way to fear because you fight, that has become your nature. I happen to know you more than you think, although not just the time I’ve been with you or your file is quite enough I want more. What I want is to get an answer from you that isn’t a cryptic mess, a clear insight to my curiosity about certain things, you’ve peeked my interest ever since that first night you were staring at my asylum”
“Well it’s not yours anymore is it” she egged him on.
She expected a backhand like he always went to but he took her by surprise when he brought his knee to her side, her ribs were slightly tender still from the stair fiasco so even though the blow wasn’t hard it caused her to fall forward onto her hands with a gust of air escaping her lips.
“Kat, if you think for one second that the fact I can’t stand when someone hurts you as a sign of my sympathy to you, you would be wrong, I simply will be the only one allowed to lay a finger on you in any way I see fit” he walked away from her for a moment and re-entered the living room.
“Well that’s just fine but I can’t promise to lay here and take it if you start to really piss me off, I do remember my time being more enjoyable by both parties”
“That’s quite alright Kat, fight all you want, it will make no difference. How about we just say this is me doing what I want, I’ll hold you to your end to our deal some other time now hold still” He gripped her hair and jabbed a needle into her neck. Kat didn’t listen this time and pushed to get away but his grip held fast until he pulled the needle out and released her hair.
Kat crawled away towards the windowed wall, before she could get much further an unbelievable thirst came over her and she turned to her left. Moving over to the coffee table she reached for a bottle of water that was there but when she went to wrap her fingers around it they grasped nothing but air. Groaning she fell onto her butt and turned around, “oh really Doctor, not your toxin, then why am I hallucinating, not my typical ones either”
“You hallucinate off of the medication? Have you hallucinated since I took you off of everything?”
Kat glared at him and then stopped, standing beside him was a ghost, or at least Kat’s brain registered it as a ghost how else was her sister standing there.
Jonathan saw her breathing become sharp and her pupils dilated to the point of dinner plates. She was staring intently at something right beside him even though he could see nothing.
“It’s a mild side effect, once the drug goes through your system fully it will stop. Don’t you dare give out on me yet” he growled.
Kat didn’t hear a word he said, he sounded so far away and muddled but the vision before her held all her attention tightly. Her sister still small and sweet standing there covered in blood, she reached up to grab Jonathan’s hand even though he didn’t look down at her and Kat was sure he couldn’t feel her.
‘You have to make them pay, I hurt kitkat, I hurt so much and they did it, they hurt me always. Make them bleed, make them burn keep my butterflies safe, sweet sis save me.’
Kat closed her eyes and took a breath, her sister’s voice echoed in her head. She felt someone shake her shoulders as a faded voice came through the loud ringing that deafened her to her surroundings, “I KNOW ALRIGHT I FAILED YOU THAT NIGHT BUT ILL MAKE THEM PAY! ALL OF THEM I SWEAR TO YOU SIS!” Kat flung open her eyes expecting her sister to be standing there still but she was gone and Jonathan was staring at her.
“Are you with me now?” he asked letting go of her shoulders and stepping back.
Kat felt better, her hearing was normal again, her mind silent and her breathing was becoming steady. She nodded once and pulled herself up onto the couch, “what was that?”
“That is a compound injection meant to work on your frontal and temporal lobes but unfortunately I have found it has a tenancy to also affect theoccipital lobe which is why it causes hallucinations”
“And what does it cause to my frontal and temporal lobes?”
“Think of it as a sort of truth serum in a way” He answered while taking a seat on a stool that was located at the small island separating the kitchen and living room.
“Truth? You know I never lie to you” Kat asked dumbfounded
“I said it’s like a truth serum what I’m hoping for in you is more of an enlightenment to my curiosity to things I think you’ve blocked from even yourself” He answered
Kat did not like where this was going at all, the familiar tingle of fear started at the back of her neck and traveled down her spine. “You really sure you want to do this? You may not like what you find; you know curiosity killed the cat”
“Why didn’t you see your sister on my fear toxin? It seemed this produced more fear in you” his hand was resting on his chin as if he was lost in thought.
“I don’t know, that’s your job to figure it out doctor” Kat retorted without a thought.
“You said you have hallucinations regularly. What of?”
With a shrug Kat stared at a crack in the wall, “lights, different colored lights all around. I see my parents, always standing at the end of my bed staring at me dripping blood onto my blankets. I see butterflies, fluttering on people’s shoulders telling me their deepest desires and secrets probably a lot of other things but to be honest I have given up trying to figure out what is real and not”
She felt like her mouth couldn’t stop moving, words kept tumbling out as they ran across her mind.
“Have you seen these things since you’ve been off the drugs?”
Kat nodded but her eyes still stayed on that crack, “Why don’t you fight me all the time? You are stubborn as hell yet you follow my every demand and then at times you decide not to.”
“I follow your orders because it’s what I do, I am yours, I only like to push you and see you crack I find it amusing”
“Amusing to push me to hurting you?”
Kat laughed and looked at him finally “you like it as much as I do, tell me doctor you poison yourself don’t you? I’ve never seen it but I know you must for the very same reason that I rejoice in pain. It’s a part of you and you crave it, at times putting it onto other people just doesn’t satisfy that deep dark itch under your skin. You try to make me think that you really don’t care about me beyond a superficial relationship but you do, you may hurt me to the point that even I would cry out but you will never hurt me to the point of breaking. You can’t, just like you can’t gas yourself to the point of no return because fear and pain have their limits”
“What did Dr. Griff do to you? The file said he was caught administrating improper drugs”
“Yes, it seems most doctors like to follow their own rules” she responded giving him a look that told him she was talking about Jonathan himself.
“I asked a question Kat” he growled keeping himself still and focused on the task at hand, Kat had a gift of changing the subject anyway she could, no drug would change that.
Kat tried to stay silent, she bit her bottom lip hard enough to draw blood she even held her breath but after a second she felt a pressure in her brain and chest she couldn’t fight and in a rush she responded. “I was the first one to be his lab rat; I was quiet and withdrawn into myself that I was barely even conscious of the world around me. I guess he thought that was perfect, at first he just started with drugging me telling me lies that it would help. After a while I figured out the truth when one time he tried injecting me with something and in an instant I felt…wrong too hot and sticky. My mind seemed too foggy and slow, he started taking me off of the prescribed pills that Dr. Shelton put me on and I felt myself become…something more. I started to fight, any chance I got I felt a renewed fire in my veins and I wanted to cause pain, I wanted to see the life pour from someone. At that time it was just Dr. Griff and Tim I wanted to hurt but when I knew I couldn’t reach them yet I turned to anyone who crossed my path. The patient I told you about who pissed himself constantly, the nurses that were careless and cruel, and the other men patients who thought they could grope a drugged up little girl the list went on. The more I became aggressive the easier it was for Dr. Griff to up his experiments. After one day I was in the yard enjoying the sound of the sparrows that nested in the forest beside us there was a female nurse who had to keep an eye on me, I was never allowed to be unwatched expect in my cell, well she was busy filing her nails with this small metal file and kept glancing at me. After I looked back at her, she said ‘you really could use some makeup to cover your disturbing face, I wonder if you got your ugly from your mothers or fathers side’ well I put that file to better use and into her eye. I made sure not to kill her though I just blinded her, well no one got to me for another 30 seconds so I had time to take care of both eyes. I considered it a lesson she’d never forget”
“What happened after that day?” Jonathan asked while staying completely silent the entire time without moving a muscle.
“I was deemed dangerous and problematic so of course the only answer, as you well know, is sedative protocol drugged into a lucid hell. I could barely walk on my own, I felt like I was lobotomised and that is when Tim came along…”
“You mentioned a patient named Kade, when did he happen?” Jonathan interrupted.
Kat turned away again she clasped her hand across her own mouth trying to keep everything in, Jonathan still didn’t move he just patiently waited until the pressure built again causing tears to fill her eyes and with a curse in her head she spilled her guts again.
“He happened the second week I ended up at the institute, I was sitting in the main room picking off petals from a flower. No one talked to me or wanted to play with me, I guess I really did look…odd since this was before all the fun started”
Jonathan remembered the photo of her admittance file, a too skinny 12 year old with sunken eyes and pale lips. Her wild wavy hair that was more of a deep strawberry blonde then the blood color it darkened to, was long past her shoulders and almost reached her butt.
“He came and sat beside me asking why I was destroying such a pretty flower, I thought he meant the flower in my hand but he smiled a small shy smile and took the half destroyed flower from my hand and placed it behind my ear. After that he just left, and then I saw him again the next time I was in the main room, he waved me over to where he was sitting hunched over at the wall. When I got there he showed me a daddy long legs that had gotten in and had built a web in the corner of the window. He said if something could get in then we could get out and be as free as the sparrows.”
“Did you ever know what he was there for?”
“No, I asked a nurse once why he was there, she just said he was sick like all of us but my guess would be he was some kind of schizophrenic he spoke in broken sentences and was paranoid all the time. It was also hard for anyone to keep his attention…expect for me but he was a genius in one aspect. I told you I was good with computers, well he taught me how. On my 13^th birthday we snuck into a doctor’s office to access the computer, he would be able to hack into it like that” she snapped her fingers “I was so mesmerized I begged him to teach me, so for a year he did. It was like he spoke the language of 1’s and 0’s I caught on quickly and that’s how we talked, in Morse code” she laughed softly.
“How did the sex begin?” Jonathan’s voice was tense now like he didn’t really want the answer.
Looking at him she blinked “How long until this wears off?” she asked
“Don’t worry Kat we have all night, now answer the question” he kept his face blank
Looking away to the window Kat sighed, “it was my 15^th birthday, they never celebrate any in the institute but Kade well he got a bunch of flowers from the yard and during our spare time we snuck away to an empty ward on the north side. It was down for repairs and since we were pro’s at sneaking away without anyone noticing it wasn’t too hard to do it again. You see I wasn’t a risk then, I was like a shadow on the wall, no one paid me attention and no one cared. Well he gave me a small box and I was about to shake it when he told me not to, opening it a small blue butterfly fluttered out and sat on the window beside us. I was on my medication from Dr. Shelton and he was loaded with antipsychotics but he leaned forward and kissed me. It was so soft I barely felt it when I asked him what was that for he said he loved me. That we would get better and they’d have to release us that Dr. Shelton told him we would be out soon if we kept up our great progress. We would get a small house and he’d marry me and we would plant all the flowers we wanted, a field full of lilies. I told him I can’t have kids and he said we would adopt a little girl who lost her family like me. I asked about his family but he said his parents abandoned him there and they were dead to him. Well it started with just taking off our clothes to see the difference between us, then it turned to touching and then we clumsily had sex. I believed everything he said, he was like me, alone and misunderstood. Sometimes I think…no I know it was Dr. Griff who caused him to die, you see Dr.Griff started his fun a couple of weeks before my 15^th birthday and after the first month Kade noticed something different about me. He kept telling the nurse and pushing me to tell someone but I thought it was just his paranoia I didn’t know then what Dr. Griff was really doing. About four weeks later they found him, lying in the boy’s room overdosed on some kind of medication with a needle in his arm that they said he stole from the night trolley but I knew that was a lie. He wasn’t a drug addict and he wasn’t suicidal nor was he stupid enough to do something like that but I had no prove and no one would listen to anything I said. It was a month when my changes started to excel and nine weeks after that I was put on sedatives is when Tim started visiting my cell at night. I never slept, well only during the day in the main room or out in the yard, I tried to fight but the more Dr. Griff kept injecting me the more vicious I became. Getting into solitary confinement I thought would save me, that even Tim couldn’t make an excuse to get to me and I was right. So I took the lesser of two evils and any chance I could I would let myself go, I would attack and break the rules any chance I could. Dr. Shelton tried to make a case that Kade was my only friend and he died as my family did and that’s what was setting me off.”
“When was it when you killed Tim?”
With a sigh Kat didn’t even try fighting, she just layed across the couch and closed her eyes.
“Ahh yes, well Dr. Griff now had to strapped me down and would put needles and IV’s into my arm, pump me full of new drugs he thought would control the patients and some other crap I never listened to; he liked to go on and on I just droned him out but the drugs along with the sedative had always made me like putty I could barely lift my arms at night and Tim had somehow known that. Again when I look back at it I think he was told by Dr. Griff, he seemed to think he owned me well I decided I would make a plan, to show him just what I thought of his little buddy”
Kat had stopped talking her eyes still closed she took a deep breath and a small smile lifted the corners of her mouth. “so the day of my 16^th birthday I had asked Dr. Shelton if I could go to the yard, I told her Kade used to take me to a special spot there every birthday and since it was true she managed to make an arrangement to get me an hour but since no nurse wanted to watch me anymore after the whole poking out someone’s eyes well she had agreed to watch me. I behaved all that day and when the time came they gave me the sedative pill and let me go out. Well Dr. Shelton still kept her distance and my back was turned to her, I pretended to start crying, well I actually made myself cry but at the same time I made myself throw up. By masking the body shakes and gags with my sobbing it looked like I was just crying Dr. Shelton didn’t approach me but afterwards to keep her complacent I told her thank you and that I appreciated the risk she took and blah blah blah, I gave her a sob story and she walked me back to my cell with lies and promises. I acted like my normal docile self, pretending not to be able to move and such and then I waited. I kept the spork in my hand hidden down by my side and just stared up at the ceiling without blinking. When the door opened hours later I knew immediately who it was and for the first time I felt the shrill excitement and adrenaline building slowly. I wanted to take my time; I knew obviously just how much time I had before the other night nurse came around to take over the walkabouts. So I waited patiently as he came forward and did his usual routine, touching my hair and sliding his hands down to grope my chest and then he bent down to pull my shirt up and place his mouth on my breast. Smiling I brought my hand up swiftly and silently and buried the spork end into his neck, he started to let out a yell but I was quick and waiting for this moment for so long I had everything down pat. I covered his mouth with my hand and with a knee to the groin he went down. Before he could get to the door or even open his mouth to make a sound again I opened his throat even wider with the plastic and stared into his eyes with a wide smile watching his eyes dim. The blood was everywhere, it covered my bed and me, the white walls were splattered like a Rorschach and I saw nothing but happiness. For once in my life I felt the pure feeling of joy, for 4 years I never felt anything like it. I felt bubbly and full of life as if his had drained into mine and I dipped my hands in his warm gooey blood and finger painted like I did as a child. The nurse checked through the window an hour later and then I heard the alarm, I knew the fun was over and that I would never get out but fate smiled down on me and Dr. Shelton went on with her mightier than thou act and I played along with her. I spilled everything, I showed them my wounds… although I made most of them myself you see Dr. Griff was very careful but I learned my own tricks and in a week I was out of there and Dr. Griff was arrested and awaiting trial since evidence started to pile up once they searched his home. Dr. Shelton transferred to a different place and took me with her. For 4 more months I changed again, I became the perfect patient to her. Of course I felt my mind slowly becoming numb, I felt like I was slowly leaving my body and watching someone else live a life I didn’t know. After that she pleaded with the courts that my progress shows that the person I became for over a year wasn’t me but the result of a malpractice doctor pumping drugs into me that put me in that state. She made a great case about my first 3 years at the institute, how I even made a best friend and that I never attacked her once. The courts agreed to let me out of the institute and into a care facility. I had freedom but I felt more caged then ever but I learned to deal, I would rather have that life than the one in a crazy house. So that’s my story, that’s everything to know.”
Kat opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling for a moment before looking at Jonathan. She sat up and looked at her hands, “Do you ever feel regret for anything you’ve done?” he asked in a soft voice.
Kat thought for a moment, it seemed like a hard question for her to answer she searched herself before she slowly shook her head. “No, I don’t. I never thought about it but no I don’t think I’ve ever felt regret in my life…not once, is that odd?” she looked back up at him.
He shrugged “No, I don’t have any regrets either. So from 16 to 21 what did you do?”
Kat sighed and crossed her arms, “I stayed in the care facility until I was 18 getting my high school diploma through personal studies and home teachers. After that I was able to get my own apartment and I had to keep my appointments with Dr. Shelton. I took my self defense and fighting classes; I took some art classes and got a job waitressing at a small diner. Then I decided I couldn’t stand where I was, I couldn’t take one more session with Dr. Shelton I felt if I didn’t get away I would choke and die, or become a perfect robot like everyone else in the world so I told her about my plans to move and when I did some research I came across an article online about Gotham City and somehow I felt it was where I should be and then you know the rest, nothing as exciting I’m afraid, are we done yet?”
“Depends, what happened to Dr. Griff?”
“He went to jail”
“Kat” he replied with a warning in his voice.
“He went to jail where I couldn’t touch him…or so he thought” she smiled slowly. “I couldn’t get him but I could turn the tables on him, I paid a man to make his life hell, I’m sure he knew how it felt to be in my position by the end of it. Raped, beaten and terrorized until the poor man lost his own mind and managed to hang himself”
“How did you pay someone without much money?”
“As you know money isn’t the only thing you can use to your advantage, I made a friend in the jail and in return for his ‘assistance’ I offered my own in exchange”
“Are you acting now, with me, like you did with Dr. Shelton?”
Kat turned slowly to look him in the eye, “is that what this is all about? I meant everything I say to you, I would kill for you, I would die for you, and I would endure hours of torture if it were to please you. I can’t stand a single finger on me but I crave your touch.” She went down to her knees and slowly crawled towards him “I can’t ever go back and if you ever decided to let me go I would beg for you to kill me because there is nothing this world can offer me, it never could, I was meant to come to this city, I was meant to be standing at that exact time at that exact location to run into you. We are fate intertwined and nothing can ever take back my heart from your grasp.”
She reached him and slid her hands up his legs, sitting back on her legs she looked up at him. “The world might never understand us and we may never understand ourselves but I understand you and you understand me and we are so much more together than we could ever be ourselves. Our love truly has no limits, most can only say that but I can prove it to you. Say anything and I would jump to do it for you”
“Stand up” was his only response.
Kat stood up instantly as her heart started to hammer in her chest, she always thought Jonathan was distant and stone cold but she had seen the truth, he like her was still trapped inside their past, their childhood. For him he still had insecurities and trust issues; opening up especially to love from a woman was hard since his teens were full of rejection and bullying. His past was an open book now since the city discovered who scarecrow was and Kat might’ve hacked into the Gotham Police files when she was home alone but she put two and two together and wanted nothing more than to show him that she wasn’t going anywhere.
“Give me your hand” he held out his
Kat placed her right hand into it and smiled, “Are you going to swat it like a bad child”
Jonathan pulled something out of his pocket and held it beside him out of sight, “You can never take this off, and if someone else tries I want you to kill them. You will wear this unless I say otherwise. Do you understand?”
Kat nodded and looked down intrigued when he reached up and clasped a metal bracelet around her wrist. With a sharp click it locked in place and fit perfectly without sliding around too much. It was a beautiful white gold band that had carvings etched into it and the words were stained black. It wasn’t English causing Kat to wonder what it was when Jonathan read her mind and answered.
“It’s Latin, it means, bound for eternity beyond death and life.”
Kat’s face lit up with a wide smile “Does that mean I passed the test?”
“Maybe you’re going to get very sleepy in…” he checked his watch, “Another 5 minutes come, you should sit on the couch”
Kat laughed and wrapped her arms around his waist; she was getting touchier every day, more so than even he was used to. “Is that another side effect? And you never answered my question about how long this lasts?”
“It depends on a few factors but it should wear off in four to five hours”
“How do you know that, and where did you get this and who did you te…” Jonathan cut her off by placing his mouth on hers for a second and slid his hands into her hair holding her head.
“It also keeps you saying almost anything you think so I suggest you just let yourself fall asleep before you sit here and talk for 4 hours straight which I would not enjoy since I have work to finish”
Kat laughed again and moved over to flop down on the couch, “hey, you distracted yourself and to be honest I do feel exhausted like I spilled my guts and went down a road I didn’t want to… which I will get you back for, you ass”
She closed her eyes and laid against the arm of the couch stretching out her legs. She was dozing off when she felt the couch sink beside her and his hands on her legs; she fell asleep as he massaged the arcs of her feet.
Jonathan watched as her mind slipped into sleep, he had a lot to take in and process after that.
‘Yeah, you can stop worrying yet again; focus on our work we need to get the tanks set up tomorrow not wondering about a woman’
‘Sometimes I wonder which one of us is in more denial but I see it’s you. Now shut up so I can get back to work’
‘I’m not the one who is going back to my pathetic childhood and worrying about a girl who was once our hostage has now developed Stockholm syndrome’
Jonathan ignored scarecrow’s rambling, he knew now it was not Stockholm and he knew it was not an act. Kat was truly his and nothing would change that. She was everything he thought she was and in a lot of ways was like him, it was corny but he did believe in what she said. He was meant to have her, fate or whatever she believed in had pushed her into his path and he attached her to him and he had finally accepted that it was this way forever.
Rubbing his face he shook off everything that happened and opened his laptop to get back to work, Kat mumbled once and awhile and shifted slightly but stayed asleep for hours as Jonathan worked away into the evening.
Dr. Griff stood there with his eyes glinting in the off light that shined onto his glasses, Tim stood beside him holding the Spork in his hands dripping blood, and Dr. Shelton stood on the other side holding the scalpel Kat sliced her to death with. They all glared at her with blank faces and haunted eyes, Kat fought as hard as she could but the restraints kept her seated in the chair. Looking down she saw it was hands, hands that held her down as the three of them moved forward towards her. She was ready to feel the familiar sting of the knife against her skin but instead they stopped and turned to someone to her left, turning her head she saw Jonathan sitting on the floor starring at her with his trademark smirk; her sister sat there on his lap waving at her with a big smile.
Kat opened her mouth to tell them to run but they didn’t; they just sat there and starring at her as they were sliced and stabbed. Their blood splattered her face and arms as she screamed and screamed but no sound came out.
“ENOUGH KAT WAKE UP NOW!! COME ON!!”
Kat opened her eyes to find Jonathan sitting in front of her but they were now on the floor. The coffee table was pushed to the television and her vision was blurred from tears.
“You were screaming my name again and thrashing like a wild cat, I could barely get you to wake up”
“My cheek hurts” she whimpered as the sobs wacked her body.
“I tried slapping you a few times but you still kept screaming bloody murder and wouldn’t wake up. You nearly gave me a heart attack, what were you dreaming of? Do you remember this time?”
Kat nodded, “Yes, they were there, they were there and they were killing you and her and you both just sat there staring at me, you wouldn’t move and your blood it was all over me and I tried I tried so hard but I failed again. I’ll always fail” Kat sobbed harder, her mind was reeling and her heart felt like it was pushed through a shredder.
Jonathan held her against his chest as she cried; he didn’t say anything just held her stroking her back and hair. Kat heard the steady strong beat of his heart and like always it comforted her.
“I’m crazy, I’m crazy, I’m crazy, I’m the one who flew over the coo coo’s nest. Never be normal, never be sane, never stop it never will don’t care; don’t wanna care, should I care? Help me, I’m lost, so lost, why care” Jonathan didn’t interrupt her chanting that went on and on against his chest until her eyes snapped up to his “Am I crazy doctor? Am I just like the patients at Arkham? Why do I see things? Why do I hear things I shouldn’t? Always the same, I shouldn’t be this way, no one should but I am, why why why why why why why...”
Jonathan placed his mouth against her softly as he stroked the tears from her cheek with his thumb. When he moved his head back slightly to look back into her eyes, he wiped more of her tears away. “You are not just anyone, you are pain reincarnated in the flesh” he answered her with a small grin her eyes were glossy and distant at first and then slowly she focused on his. She calmed down after a few more moments while Jonathan stayed silent ‘no more drugging her’ he swore to himself.
‘What’s wrong? Isn’t it the result you were always looking for? I like her fear very much’ scarecrow gloated.
‘It’s won’t last she will always come back and I will not risk her mind fracturing worse than it already has. This is enough’
“Kat? How are you feeling?”
She sniffled once and looked up at him, “Exhausted and my brain is all sluggish and weird”
“You’ll feel normal tomorrow, you need some food and more sleep. Come on lets go to the kitchen” he answered while helping her up. She almost managed to stand up but at the last second her legs gave out and she fell. Jonathan caught her easily and without much effort lifted her up and walked into the small kitchen. She was losing too much weight, her curves were starting to disappear from the lack of eating and she sure was used to eating a lot. He didn’t like that either along with other things since they were in the open.
He placed her onto the countertop letting her legs dangle over the edge, opening the fridge he ducked down for a moment before standing up right again. Walking over beside her he rinsed a handful of grapes under the tap and placed them into her hand. She looked at them for a moment before slowly placing one in her mouth. Jonathan leaned against the counter taking off his glasses and rubbing the bridge of his nose.
Kat noticed him for the first time since she woke up from her nightmare, his hair was a mess and falling into his eyes. His dress shirt was unbuttoned at the top; the bottom was pulled out from his pants and was a crinkled mess. She slowly ate the grapes, one by one as she looked at him, there were bags under his eyes and he looked more exhausted than she felt right now. When he was done he placed his glasses back on and went back to matching her stare.
Kat had just finished the grapes when he handed her a small package of almonds, “These too Kat” he spoke softly. She took them from him and ate them in the same manner as the grapes.
They stayed like that while she ate; the only sound was the crunch from her mouth as she bit into each almond. After the nuts were all gone Kat placed the empty package beside her and cleared her throat, “I’m thirsty” she rasped softly.
Jonathan opened the fridge again and handed her a small bottle of apple juice which Kat greedily gulped down. Just then there was a distant loud bang that caused her to jump slightly. Thinking it was just a gunshot Kat settled back down and placed the empty bottle in the sink, it wasn’t until she heard another bang followed by another one. Ducking down to see below the cabinets she saw lights behind the window curtain, in a second she jumped down from the counter and dashed to the window. She flung open the curtain and saw a show of green, white and red fireworks lighting up the sky.
“There from Wayne Manor, annual Christmas celebration that happens on Christmas eve. They do the fireworks every year at exactly midnight since Thomas Wayne started the tradition” Jonathan spoke as he sat down on the stool from earlier.
Kat didn’t respond or even turn her head she instead raised her left hand and placed it on the cold glass. Her eyes never left the display until a moment later when she looked down beside her.
“Aren’t they pretty?” she spoke so softly Jonathan barely could make out what she was saying. At first he thought it was directed to him but she kept her eyes downwards and then nodded her head.
“Yes, they think their money will keep them safe but we know. We know just what money does what people do for it and we’ll exploit that weakness we’ll shove it down their throats” Kat responded as she reached with her right hand and clasped it around the air.
Kat smiled as she held her sisters hand and watched the beautiful lights dance before her eyes. “No, he won’t hurt us we are all together, a part of Jonathan just like you are a part of me. We’ll never be alone, never again, just us four, for all eternity”
Jonathan watched the scene unravel before him as he tried to make sense of what was going on. It interested him more than anything ever had in his entire life or career but it somehow worried him too, he couldn’t pin this on anything and Kat seemed to forget he was here. The more time that lapsed between getting her clean and to herself the more wild and well, crazy she became.
“Kat? I need you to eat some more” he spoke up.
“After, we’re watching the fireworks” she responded without moving still.
‘At least she is responsive which means she isn’t having a complete psychotic break’ he thought to himself as he went into the kitchen and started to prepare something a little larger for her to eat.
The fireworks ended and Kat turned around to the kitchen, “She wants to say thank you” she announced as she leaned against the doorframe.
Jonathan raised an eyebrow and looked in her direction, “What for?”
“For bringing her back to me, for setting us free I never truly thanked you for that either. So... thank you” Kat was fiddling with her braclet, turning it around her wrist.
Jonathan picked up the plate of salad and a turkey sandwich and walked over to her. “Eat every bite of this, you might feel slightly nauseous but you won’t throw up and you need it all. Alright?”
Kat nodded and followed him back to the couch, she sat down and he placed the plate on her lap. While she bit into the bread he pulled the coffee table back towards the couch and turned up the television slightly.
“You look like you need sleep more than I do” Kat spoke softly in-between her salad.
“I’ll live, everything is ready for tomorrow”
“I thought we were going on Boxing Day?” she asked
“Kat, its 12.30 am you know what I meant” he responded warily.
Kat smiled softly, “sorry” after another bite she looked back up “Happy Christmas”
“It’s merry Christmas Kat”
“Not back home it aint” she muttered and tossed the half empty plate onto the coffee table.
“I said to finish that” he warned.
“I don’t want to eat anymore I’m full” she responded while stretching out her body.
Jonathan sighed, he was too exhausted to argue with her at the moment and he wasn’t in the mood to get her going with pushing his buttons. “Fine, if you don’t want to feel better I don’t care” was his answer.
Kat was staring at the corner again causing Jonathan to run his hands through his hair, “Kat, are you seeing your sister again?”
“What? Oh No sorry I was lost in thought” Kat looked back at him “Do I have to get another costume? Or are we just going in as we are? I mean were not hiding now, there’s no reason”
Having her back and present fully made him settle down from his high strung irritation; he didn’t like the feeling of not knowing what was going on with her. Not to mention he now knew her past from herself but it didn’t give him an inclination as to what was happening in her head, sure he got some valuable information on why she was this way, the butterflies and such were now explained but she was just so… bipolar was the only word that came to mind but it didn’t describe her at all more like supernatural.
“Wear whatever you like Kat”
“Can I wear nothing?” was her coy remark
He turned to glare at her with a warning on his face which caused Kat to burst out laughing, “Oh you’re too easy sometimes, it’s no fun” She rested her head on his shoulder while wrapping her arms around his waist.
He tugged on a large piece of her hair hard enough to cause a slight sting, she just smiled up at him “We should get to sleep, we’re only going to be here for another day” he spoke softly.
“And do we know where we are staying after our party?” Kat inquired as she bounced up to her feet.
“Not at the moment, it’s for the best to keep us on our toes since it will also keep the batman off of us” Jonathan had shut off the lights and television and then led her by the hand to the bedroom.
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