*J* (the continuation)

Part Forty-Seven: Chapter 366: Standoff

Julia sat straight up on the gurney in recovery with a gasp. Her brain is alive and somewhat stuck in overdrive. She doesn't even seem to notice her wrists are restrained. "Why didn't the cops investigate my gun?!" She pants, her eyes wide.

It takes her a moment to regain her barrens and realize where she's at. When she realizes she's in Arkham she quickly looks beside her and sees Jester unconscious and drooling on a gurney next to her. "Jester! Baby can you hear me?! Jester!!" She pulls at her wrists trying to make the rails of the gurney make noise to help wake him. "Please wake up!!"

But Jester didn't even flinch. Julia got very quiet and very still so she could see if his chest was rising and falling. Thankfully it was, making Julia sigh in relief. He wasn't dead. But what if he was a vegetable? What if his mind was permanently broken?

"Jester, please wake up," she says as she can feel tears building up in her eyes. What had that son of a bitch done to him? "Jester!!" This time Julia can see his leg twitch, so maybe he could hear her. "Jester, baby...please wake up!!"

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"Sir," Frost approaches Jason as he, Harley, and Lucy are eating dinner, "I apologize for the interruption," he stares.

"Well what is it?" Jason rolls his eyes and takes a bite of his food.

"Well sir, I just received a call from our man in Arkham," Frost swallows.

Now he seemed to have Jason's undivided attention. "And?"

"And Miss Julia and your brother attempted to escape but were caught. They were given shocks," Frost tells him.

"Intriguing," Jason thoughtlessly mutters as he stares at Frost.

"Well we gotta go bust 'em out, right?" Harley looks over at her paramore.

"Clearly," Jason sighs, "I figured he could get himself out of there. Then I thought Julia would. But apparently they're incompetent morons when it comes to escape, so it looks like this must be a job for the Joker," he says and carefully cuts up his meat.

"Well whut 'er we waitin' for?" Harley shrugs as she watches Jason.

"May I finish my dinner first sweety?" He asks placing another bite of meat into his mouth. He then stabs a piece on Lucy's plate and brings it up to her mouth.

"Begging your pardon sir," Frost clears his throat, "but time really is of the essence. Mr. Jester and Miss Paradise are currently not in their cells but in the ECT recovery area," he explains.

Jason rolls his eyes and gives Frost a dead panned expression. "And?"

"And sir, it would be easier to break them out from there," Frost swallows.

"Easier?" He raises a shaved brow in a Joker expression. "I'm the fucking Joker. And wild cards make everything easier."

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Julia could hear talking in the hallway outside the recovery room where she and Jester were still strapped to gurney's. She knew that if they saw her awake that they'd take her back to her cell. She didn't want to leave Jester yet. She had to know that he was ok after the shock therapy. so she quickly presses her eyes shut and pretends to still be asleep.

Soon she can hear the door opening and someone coming in. She feels fingers raising her eyelid and a pen light is soon shining in it. She does everything she can not to blink.  "Pupils responsive doctor," she hears the nurse says and she releases her eyelid.  She then goes over to Jester and does the same to him. "Pupils are..." but before the nurse can finish her sentence Jester's legs wrap around her neck like a flash.