Chapter 4 - Alice In Underland

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   'More tea Alice?' Jarvis asked as he sat across from a young girl with beautiful blue eyes and long blonde hair in the Gotham Botanical Gardens. She wore a blue button down shirt and blue jeans with what looked like a playing card behind her right ear. 'Of course Jarvis' she said in almost a robotic voice as she held out her cup to him. 'Here you are my dear' he said with a slight giggle as he pored more tea into her cup.  Jarvis was a short man about 5'9 no older then 30 years old with a large nose ,yellowish teeth stained from tea and matted brown hair from the humidity in the botanical gardens were he spent a lot of his time having tea with Alice. He wore a purple trench coat with dirty black and white checkered pants and a top hat hit a green stripe around it, also with a card reading 5/8.
'I just love our little tea party's! Don't you Alice?' He said with a smile on his face looking at her.
'Of course. I do to!' She said still sounding very robotic.
'It's so great knowing that Poison Ivy won't be kicking us out of our favorite party spot!' he said giggling, not noticing Crane enter the gardens. 'My Alice... Your out of tea alre...' He started to say 'Mind if I join you?' Jonathan asked interrupting Jervis, as he walked down the path that winds through the gardens towards them.
'Well if it isn't Jonathan Crane' the hatter said , standing up from the picnic blanket on the ground 'Come to join our unbirthday party have you?' He asked with a giggle.
Jonathan continued to walk towards Jervis 'Would love to, if we can talk about you lending some assistance for some of my ummmm' he paused looking at Alice 'tests' he finished, reaching out to shake the hatters hand.
They both sat down on the picnic blanket again. 'So what kind of tests do you mean Johnny boy?' He asked handing him a cup of tea.
'Hey! Only I can call him that!'
'Shut up.' He muttered to himself.
'Pardon me?' The hatter asked hesitantly.
'Nothing Jervis' he said fixing his glasses. He cleared his throat, 'I can't say right now because of security reasons he said' gesturing at Alice.
'Ah come on Jonathan! My Alice is no security risk to your plans I can assure you that!' He said with a smile on his face.
'I'm sorry Jervis' Crane said taking off his glasses 'I'm not risking it' he said firmly asserting his position on the topic.
'Then how the hell am I supposed to help you?' He said with an irritated look on his face.
Crane opened his briefcase and pulled out a file labeled 'The Box' and held it out towards Jervis. The Hatter quickly snatched it out of his hand and began reading it.
He began muttering things for the file 'Curiouser and curiouser....two way intercepter.... x-ray......100,000,000 Watts,' looking up slightly at Crane then back down at the file. 'I think I can be of service to you Jonathan' he said with a smirk as he handed the file back to Crane.
'I'm glad we see I to eye Jervis' he said putting the file back in his briefcase with a smile on his face. 'Meet me at Avenue X on the 7th at 11:00 pm, so we can discuss this more' he said as he started to get up. He shook the hatters hand again and headed back to the Asylum. 'Well Alice' the Hatter said drinking his cup of tea, 'I believe we've found a new party guest!' He said excitedly.

Crane walked out of the gardens back towards his black 83' Cadillac as he whistled the Alice in wonderland theme. 'Now phase 3'

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