Something Wicked This Way Comes (DC)

Emerald

Anastasia was greeted by her feline familar, Hades upon ariving home. while he seemed happy to see her, he was oddly skitish. after eating some dinner, Ana found him pasing back and forth infront of her window.

"what is it little one? what are you sencing?" she reached down to scratch behind his ears. Hades' sudden odd behavior, combined with Tetch's babling, and Nygma's ominus riddle today, began to worry her. she could normaly sence any dangerious or negitive energy. there was always a build up of it after that Batman would drag another patient into Arkham. he did realize that Arkham was an asylum, not a prison. 

Ana sighed. it had been a long and draining day and she needed some sleep. before going to bed, she ran herself a bath. she lit some candles, and aranged some of her favorite crystals around the tub, before sinking in. as she lay in the water, her mind began wandering. 

Tetch was mad. that is true, but in his madness there is an element of psychic ability. he has senced and predicted danger before. Hades is well conected to the spirit relm and can sence danger as well. however, it was Nygma that didn't add up. Ana chuckled to herself. Nygma, what an enigma he truely was. he never failed to suprise her. 

after her bath, Ana got ready for bed. 

Anastasia's black heels clicked along the marble floor. her long lace gothic dress contored to her feminine fram in all the right ways, while still leaving just enough to the imagination. her long raven hair fell just enough in front of her jade eyes to leave the air of mistery she adorded. 

the place was relatively empty. only a few old buisness men in there expensive suits lay around sipping whisky. her eyes scaned the Iceberg Lounge, till they landed upon an emerald bowler hat seated in the far corner. she dragged her long black nails along the back of the booth before sliding in across from the young man. 

he sat with his head down, face hidden by his green hat. he wore a suit in a matching emerald to his hat. even the frams of his glasses matched perfectaly. if the all green and tell tail bowler hat wern't enough to recognise him, his cufflinks were in the shape of little question marks. 

"well, well, it's been to long, Doctor Wicked." his voice sounded vagely amused. 

"come now Edward, surely you and i are on a first name basis after all that has happened." her voice was a soft purr. she spoke so diffrently to him now then she had as his psychiatrist, but of corse, there relationship and situation had change quite a bit since then.

"it is good to see you, Anastasia." he lifted his head enough that she caught a glimps of his murky eyes. he reached his empty hand across the table to her, asking her to place her hand in his. with little hesitation she complied. he held her long thin fingers in his soft and gentle ones, running his thumb across her nuckles once before bringing the back of her hand to his lips. he kissed her hand softly before speaking again. 

"now my dear, we truely have much to discuss."

Ana awoke when Hades stepped on her face. she glared at the black haired feline, who simply staired back at her, before walking to the foot of the bed and facing his back to her. she rubbed her eyes, mentally cursing herself as the dream she had just had began fading away. she couldn't remember much, other then the man in the green suit with the bowler hat and cufflinks. 

she blinked as her phone began ringing.

"hello?" she asked, voice slightly grogy.

"Doctor Wicked, we need all staff at Arkham immediately. this is an emergency. there was an accident with the Batman and Red Tornado. please arive as quickly as possable." the voice quickly hung up. 

sometimes Ana wished she didn't live in a world with these so called 'super heros' as they always seemed to cause more damage then they prevented it. 

however, it seemed Tetch had been corect. a cyclone had struck Arkham.