Falling for Insanity ⇒ Joker

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"Your what!" I yell sitting up from the chair.

"Katie the only way the joker will stop killing innocent people is if I reveal myself." Dad said standing up as well. I look down at my hands. I sighed.

"When?"

"At the press conference today." He stated. I nodded. I walked over and hugged him.
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I've been laying here staring at the ceiling for an hour. Just thinking about well...everything!

Okay let's say Jack is my ex but how? The police said he was dead I mean Jim told me himself that he was dead!

If he was the Jack I knew then he's been alive all this time. It would explain why they look so alike because they're the same person but....

I turned and screamed in my pillow in frustration.

How did I not see it before???

You did you were just in denial because you didn't want to get hurt!

My conscious screamed.

A tear fell down my cheek. Then another and more after. I sobbed into my pillow.

Jack....
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The press conference didn't start for another 3 hours so I decided to visit Gotham cemetery.

I walked passed all the old tombstones until I finally found the one I was looking for.

Angela Wayne

1968-2001

Loving wife, mother and friend.

I set the rose down on her grave and a couple tombstones away I saw the one I haven't visited since last year.

Jack Napier
1986- 2003

I walked over to his grave and kicked it.

After all of this time he's been alive! I kicked it again despite the stinging in my foot.

I growled and frustration and dropped to the ground at his grave.

"Why now!" I yelled pushing his tombstone tilting it back some as tears fell down my face.
"Why, after all this time did he decide to face me?" I whispered to myself as tears fell down my face.

Seven years I thought he was dead! I mourned for him every year after his 'death'.

I stood up wiping away the tears from my eyes and left the cemetery.
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Once I got back I fell asleep as I was consumed with memories.

Dream/ Flashback

18 years ago. (5 years old)

I laughed as daddy pushed me on the swings.

"Higher daddy, higher!" I yelled giggling. I heard daddy laugh.

"Okay sweetheart." He said pushing me higher. I got into a fit of giggles. I looked at the view around the park. I saw the kids playing tag and laughing and smiling. Except for one. I saw him sitting alone on a park bench. He looked sad.

"Daddy, I want to get off." He slowed me down enough for me to hop off. I ran to the boy on the bench.

"Hi!" I said. The boy jumped when I started talking to him.

"H-hello." He said shyly.

"Do you want to play with me?" He looked surprised at me.

"A-are you sure?" He asked. I smiled at him and nodded. I took his hand and pulled to the playground. I turned to him.

"I'm Katie. Katie Wayne. What's your name?" I ask him.