Mad Love

Chapter 7 pt. 1

The escape route joker took was pretty clever and super obvious to me since I watched a lot of crime shows and junk. We took the ventilation shafts out, they all led outside of the building so it was easy to get out. Once out we dashed to the nearest car.
"Got a bobby pin on ya?" I handed one over and joker picked the lock till hearing the satisfying click of the car door being unlocked.
"Any idea on how to Hotwire a car to make it start up?" He asked, giving a half smile.
"Are you serious right now?! We just broke out of an Asylum!" I was panicking, did he really not know what he was doing and expected me to get us out of here?
"Do I look serious to you?"
"No, not really." I muttered.
"Relax, I know what I'm doing." He then got under the steering wheel and I could hear a panel box being opened and suddenly the car started up. I could hear gunshot in the distance so I knew we had to hurry.
"Step on it!" I yelled.
"Just a sec." Joker jumped into the trunk of the car and rummaged around for a while until he found what he was looking for, a small hand gun.
"Any good at driving a car at a high speed while getting shot at by other cars?" He asked, loading up the gun.
"Where the heck did you find that thing?!" I was getting more and more nervous by the minute.
"All of the security and staff here get one, luckily this person forgot theirs! You must be new here since you clearly don't have one. Now can you drive the car or not?!"
"Yeah, I guess I can drive."
"Great 'cuz it's really hard to drive and shoot at the same time." I climbed into the drivers seat and gunned it, lurching us forward and speeding us out of the parking lot. I could hear more gunshots behind me and screamed as a bullet smashed into one of the rearview mirrors. I heard the joker roll down his window and shoot at whoever was trying to kill us. It didn't seem to be working as the firing of bullets didn't seem to cease.
"Where are we even going?!" I yelled as it was hard to hear much of anything.
"One sec!" The joker rolled back up the window and sat back in his seat.
"Cellphone?" He asked, holding out his hand. I took one hand from the steering wheel and reached into one of my coat pockets pulling out my cellphone. I handed it to him and he began furiously typing on it, he then held it up to his ear and we both sat there in silence, flashing lights and more gunshots were all that we could hear. The joker silently cursed as the person he was calling wouldn't pick up and immediately redialed. Finally whomever he wanted to get a hold of picked up. The sound of a deep mans voice could be heard coming out of the phone.
"Nick? Yeah it's me. Yes, immediately! Just shut up and get the hell over here!" Who the heck was joker calling?!