Family ties(Replacing Harley Quinn sequel)(complete)

Chapter 11: Jo breaks through

Bruce sat on the sofa with me, I hadn't been this close to him in a while, and I missed the smell of his cologne, but it was no consolation for the news he was about to give me.

When I saw that look on his face, I prepared myself for the worst, Jo and I were waiting patiently, I was anxious and dreading what Bruce was going to say, but Jo was excited, she couldn't wait to hear something tragic.

It had become Obvious that Bruce didn't know how to give me the news, he took my hands in his and then stared at them, when I was desperate for him to look at me "Josie I... There's no easy to way... It's just that..."

Alfred came over and put his hand on Bruce's shoulder "sir?"

He sniffled and looked up to Alfred "I'm alright Alfred" then he turned back to our hands.

I put a hand under his chin and turned his head to look at me "Bruce, it's okay, just tell me" I spoke softly.

"It's Fredrick Josie, he... He's gone"

...

"No... No no no no" my heart broke. My eyes welled up with tears and there was a piercing pain in every part of my body, I dragged my hands from under Bruce's and cried into them, but as I cried my brain became fuzzy, and I began to laugh.

I looked up from behind my hands, I saw Bruce's shocked expression, Alfred's wasn't much different, but I just kept laughing, inside I was crying but outside Jo was making her first physical appearance, she had broken through while I was weak with grief, but I fought her.

I began to cry again, and then laugh, and then cry, and laugh, cry, laugh, until Bruce feared for me. But I couldn't help it, the thought of death made me feel so... Happy inside, I just kept laughing. When I regained control I held my head in my hands, my hair balled up in my fists, screaming at Jo to go away.

Bruce went to touch me but I smacked him away and went to a mirror "GO AWAY!" I screamed, but she laughed, and this time not as a reflection, this time she laughed through me, she was taking the reigns back "GO AWAY! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Then everything just stopped.

The pain went numb.

The hysteria was over.

The voices went away.

I was... Unfeeling.

"Tea anyone? I feel like some tea, I think I'll go make some" I said plainly.

But the two of them looked at me in utter shock, at the time I didn't understand why, I just stared blankly at them "Josie... What just... Happened?" He spoke through pauses so I knew he was confused, something Bruce Wayne wasn't very often.

"Nothing happened. My friend is dead and I feel sad about it. But that's over now. Tea?"

"No I don't want tea, I want you to sit down and tell me what that was just now"

I smiled sweetly and went to reply, but it was like I was being pushed out of my own body, apparently Jo wanted to talk to him, apparently the whole 'unfeeling' stage doesn't last long. I held my head in my hands and screamed at the throbbing pain, then I felt the evil look form on my face, but before she fully took hold, I found every strength I had left and fought her.

I fought her with everything I had until I was in control again "Bruce! Bruce you have to help me! She's stronger now and... And I'm afraid Bruce"

"I don't understand, who's stronger?"

"Jo! She's the Joker goon side of me, before he died, she's the criminal, and I've been suppressing her but she's... Ah!" I felt another pain as she was trying to push through "she's taking control, when she does, I won't be the girl you married, she will try to kill you, fight back! It's not me! Take her to the Batcave and sedate her, if you don't she will leave and it'll be my face causing trouble"

He nodded at my instructions and then I was no longer me, I was Jo, I screeched at the pain and I was gone, looking through her eyes, thinking her thoughts, it was like when I was with Joker again, only now I didn't have Josie's conscious.

JO'S P.O.V

"Bat Brain! I can't believe she's still with you! I would have left as soon as Joker came back if I had control, well now I do, so I can kill you and be on my merry way" I smiled wickedly and pounced on him, fully aware I had given away my biggest secret, Jo basically just told Batman the Joker is still alive. Oops.

Bless him, Bruce did everything he could to not hurt me too much, but I didn't have the same mercy, I threw heavy and sharp objects at him, I kicked him everywhere it would hurt, I used my acrobatic skills, taught to me by Harley of course, I punched, I scratched, I even bit him at one point.

Alfred ran off to the Batcave to get the sedatives ready, all Bruce had to do was get me down there, so he pretend that he was trying to stop me from going toward the Batcave, which would make Jo curious as to why "what's wrong Brucey? Don't want me playing with your toys? Little boys should learn to share!" I said as I swung my leg at him.

"No, I just don't want you to get into Jokers good graces, imagine how happy he would be if you showed up in the Batmobile with all of Batman's secrets in the trunk, I can't have that" a smile grew on my face and his plan worked, I kicked him hard and he fell down, his eyes were closed and I'm guessing he was pretending to be knocked out.

I skipped to the piano and played the code, the bookcase opened and I hopped through, it was too easy! When I got down to the cave I looked around at all the goodies, Joker would be so proud! Then I felt a prick in the back of my neck, I turned around and Bruce put something cylinder down on the metal table, I didn't see that it was a syringe as everything went dark.

How could I have fallen for it? But Josie got some pretty good information out of it, Jo and Josie are separate, when Josie told Bruce her plan Jo didn't hear it, if she did she wouldn't have fallen for his trick, so if I didn't want her to hear me, she didn't. Interesting.

BRUCES P.O.V

"What do we do now sir?"

"I don't know Alfred, she's my wife, I can't lock her up here and I can't let her go, if she escapes this... Jo will go on a rampage, then Josie will be dragged through the mud, and if she's taken to Arkham and Josie pushes back through, my wife will wake up in Arkham... Think of how scared she would be..." I pinched the bridge of my nose and held back the tears.

What could I do for her? How could I make this Jo person go away and get my Josie back, I didn't know what to do, I had never had to deal with this kind of thing before, I didn't even know she was having... Split personality problems.

"This is my fault"

"Sir..."

"No Alfred, it is, if we hadn't been in this stupid argument, she would have told me about this Jo problem, and I could have helped her, but now, it's too late" I stared at her wilted body on the metal table, I needed my Josie back.