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Friends, Love and Harley's Blood

I wake to a knocking on my bedroom door. I open it to find Harley standing there. She was covered in blood. Her eyes were puffy and her cheeks where damp as if she had been crying.

"Harley! Are you okay?" She looked at the floor trying to avoid eye contact with me.

"Don't act like you care, I just need a first aid kit."

"What happened?"

"Look have you got one or not?" She snapped

"Yeah, come in and I'll help you" she looked at me confused.

"Why would you help me after what I did to you?"

"You're not a bad person Harley. You're just in love, people do all kinds of things when there in love.... plus you saved Frost last night, I owe you "
She stands glaring at me. I watch her eyes soften. She nods her head and walks into my room.

"Take a seat on the bed, I'll get the first aid kit." She sits looking around the room.

I come back with the first aid kit a bowl of warm water and a cloth. I wet the cloth .

"This might hurt, if you want me to stop just tell me." I carefully wash away the blood. She had some cuts on the tops of her arms, bruises had already started to form and she had marks around her wrists. It was obvious J had done this.

"Do you really enjoy this Harley?" She squinted at the question.

"No."

"Then .." she cut me off.

"He does, I'd do anything for mister J. I love him but now you're here to take him from me."

She glared at me as her sadness seemed to turn to anger

"No Harley. I wouldn't do that. I don't love him In the same way you do. I love him as a friend. Being here has given me closure. He was taken from me so soon that I didn't have chance to figure out my feelings. Now I know that friend love and actual love are different things."

Harley's face softens again

"Do you still want to be friends with him?" She asks.

"I was friends with Jack, not the Joker. Two completely different people. Right now I'm treating the situation as though Jack's dead. I'm grieving for him.... I don't want to be your enemy Harley"

"I suppose we can try to get along."

I smile at her. She hesitated but smiled back.

"Do you think he loves me back Jessie?"

"Yes, I do. He's so happy when he's with you. When he got you out of Arkham he was over the moon having you home with him."

"If he loves me then why does he do this to me?" She looks down at her cuts.

"I don't know."

I finish bandaging her wounds.

"There, all done."

"Thank you" she says , flashing me a small smile.

"Why do you think he keeps you here?" she asks.

"He's confused. I think there's a tiny part of him still holding onto Jack and having me here is helping him do that.

"He doesn't want to be bad, Harley."

"Neither do I. I want to get married and have a family with him. I don't want to live like this but all of the sacrifice and the hurt is worth it as long as I'm with him."

"He's lucky to have you" .

There's another knock at the door. It opens slightly and Frost pokes his head in.

"Hey sorry, am I interrupting something"

"No Frosty, she's all yours." Harley says as she walks past Frost patting him on the shoulder. She stops glancing back at me

"Thanks again Jessie," she says before disappearing down the hall. Frost walks in closing the door behind him.

"What was all that about? It was only the other day she was kicking your butt and now she's thanking you?"

"We sorted out our differences and she was only kicking my butt because I let her," I say as I pack away the first aid kit.

"Haha sure Jessie. I forgot, you're an amazing fighter. So amazing in fact that you need me to teach you!"

Frost laughs to himself sarcastically.

"Don't make me replace you!" I try to impersonate J.

"Impressive!" Frost chuckled.

"You ready for your first lesson beautiful?"

Did he just call me beautiful, my cheeks turn pink as I blush at his words.

"I'm ready "