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The 4th Wheel Alternate Ending

Batman starred at Gotham City, it's nice to look at Gotham on a high building, the view is incredible. Gotham looked like a perfect city from up here, The wind blowing through his cape.

The sky is now clear as night, that rarely happens in Gotham, but he wishes that he could expirience this view with his greatest enemy. Who knows, maybe if he's here planning something, they could fight each other.

Speaking of Joker, he remembered that the man hasn't been seen for years, Batman tried to get contact to him.. Nothing. The last encounter that they did was, that Batman is still denying the fact that he hates him at a mansion full of TV's and now Joker is.. Gone. He always denied the fact that he hates him, was it selfishness? Or maybe batman was just insecure. But whatever it is, it's enough to make Joker begone and gave up his criminal act.

Shouldn't he be happy that the criminal acts are getting lower, but instead, Batman feels empty, he felt that nothing is going on, this isn't the same. He felt like he has no purpose in life anymore.

Besides, a new hero came up, named.. Jack. The red scarfed man that is now kind of friends with Batman, he doesn't have any powers, more like punching and using gadgets like Batman. at first, Batman doesn't trust him but.. He has grown into him now.

"Hey there, Batsy- I mean Batman" the man named Jack called onto him.

"Hey" his reply was cold, and empty, like he has no emotions anymore.

"You know, you seem down this month, what's the matter?"

"Nothing, I'm just.. Thinking"

"About what?"

"Him"

Jack knew what he was reffering to, he knows it very well. He knows it's about that green haired man "What about him?"

"I feel.. I don't know I feel something is wrong"

"But, Joker is gone for years, there's no way he could be back again" Jack asked the Bat. Both man are confused one doesn't understand on what he's feeling, one wants to understand the other.

"No, not that, I just feel.. Nothing." Batman replied, a soft silence rose up. The wind and their own breaths are the only thing that they could hear. Their legs dangling on the edge of insanity.

The scarfed man sighed "You loved him, didn't you?" Jack asked, at first, Batman didn't answer, did he fall for him? "I'm not sure, this feeling it always crushed me.."

"..Have you ever felt that way?" Batman asked to Jack.

Jack nodded answered not even looking at the bat "I have" Batman's reaction was a bit surprised an another silence followed as the sky gets cloudier by the minute then Jack then told his story "Once I was younger, I felt like I was nothing, I never have fear of death, if one day that happens I can always accept it.." Jack closed his eyes, trying to remember his life. He remembered when he was doing his own criminal act, he remembered the times when he killed those people because of boredom.

".. Until I met a certain person who changed my whole perspective on life, now the idea of death began to scare me, but.. I know that person will come and save me from drowning on the dark black ocean, and I never felt anything like that before" then he remembered the man who saved him from free falling from a tall building.

"I tried to hold on to it, but he doesn't felt the same way that I do" then he remembered when the man that Jack loved rejected him, just can't say those 3 words, as he began to believe that maybe, the man didn't love him "so I gave up and that's how I formed to a hero. The person of who I am today"

Batman was so surprised, he never heard of Jack's story before "And.. Where is he now?" Batman asked softly to Jack.

Jack breathed in and out as he turn to look on Batman, and he could remember the good ol' days, the fun moments "he.. Faded off somewhere"

Then the sky rumbles as thunder kicks in. "It's going to rain soon. Wanna come inside?"

"No, Not now, I'll catch on to you later" Batman replied.

Jack then left the rooftop, leaving Batman alone.

Truly, Batman feels alone. the rain will began to fall, but the area, it's so calm, he wonders what happens if Joker didn't gave up being a criminal, or maybe he wonders if he did actually say those 3 words. Or maybe he is dead, or is living a normal life.

So he stood.

He stared at Gotham city one more time, and now that he admits, that he is truly fallen for the Joker, and now he is never coming back.