Beautiful Chaos

Beautiful Chaos Chapter III

Chapter III: Everyone Needs Help Sometimes

"I am sorry, but I won't take no for an answer, now come on let me help you to your feet"

"I dunno if I c-can stand" he said weakly, followed by more random, but seemingly unwanted, laughter and painful coughing and retching. She could see the way he winced in pain as he coughed that he must have hurt his ribs too. Iris helped this, strange, injured man to his feet and was almost surprised at how light he was, but when she felt his wrist she felt nothing but bone. She helped him put his arm over her shoulder and heard him grunt and saw him try to suppress the pain in his face. She needed to help get him back to her apartment for safety. He could barely walk at all and she was getting worried about him.

She can try and help but she knew he should really be at a hospital which is just not an option for someone like him at this time. As she slowly walked him out of the alley, she noticed the police sirens were sounding closer and closer. She was beginning to panic a bit.

Just as she thought there was no safe way to her apartment she saw someone in their car come to a sudden stop and an old, well off looking man opened the door and ran out in a panic as a group of masked men chased him down. Iris only cared about one thing and that was whether this man had left his keys in the ignition. "Hold on ok? I'm gonna get you somewhere safe "

She walked him over to the car and opened the back door to gently get him in. "I don't feel so good" he mumbled, barely coherent.

Iris took her black hoodie off and draped it over him with the hood over his head so no one would see who he was. She made sure his seatbelt was on and said "Stay awake for me, okay? You might have a concussion or something, so please stay awake"

Joker gazed at her with glassy eyes as she smiled warmly at him. He had never seen anyone on earth ever look at him in such a way, unless it was fantasy and he was very thrilled it was her. He smiled slightly and said weakly, "You're really pretty" which was then followed by that same abnormal giggling he seemed to have trouble suppressing.

A normal person might have been offended, but he did not seem to even want to be laughing at all, which she had seen before, but she just shook that thought out of her head. It was as if he simply could not stop it and on top of that it made him wince in pain every time and it made his caughing much worse, so it just didn't add up.

Iris thanked him even though she almost wanted to gigle because he sounded like someone who had had too many gin and tonics at the bar, but she found herself thinking that it was endearing. She was now beginning to notice that she thought he was cute and she knew she had to suppress those feelings or at least not allow her thoughts take it any further.

Iris stared at him for a moment and began to think there was something very familiar about his face, but she didn't have time to think, she needed to move and move fast. She did get a strange case of deja vu when her eyes met his vibrant, green ones, but told herself it was nothing and continued with her irrational and reckless task at hand.

Joker looked down for a moment and she got afraid he was going to pass out so she gently lifted his head and propped him up correctly in the back seat.

He looked at her with that same drunken looking smile, smiling through the pain, and repeated "You're really pretty"

She tried not to laugh and said "Thank you, but I need you to try and lean back but please stay awake"

He had his head pressed against the seat and he slowly turned his head to look at her and said "I'm a-always awake..."