Tangled love

Chapter 8: Making a clean slate

Several weeks after Joker's incarceration, Harley and Ivy walked into Joker's hideout hand in hand. The giant goons joker had hired glared at them as Ivy helped Harley up on stage and turned on the mic. "Okay boys, I'm sure you all want me dead either for unguided or actual personal reasons, or Mr. J put a price on my head, but let me ask you. How well did he actually treat you all?" Harley said as the men looked at each other realizing she had a good point. "Follow us boys." Harley said as Ivy helped her down.

The 2 of the led the goons to Joker's walk in safe. Harley typed in the code. As the doors opened the men were in shock at how much money was in there, realizing they had been lied to for so long. Harley and Ivy each took a few brief cases which was just a tiny portion of the money that was in there. Harley turned to the men. "Listen, I know you all don't like me. So I'm not going to mock any of you by asking you to work for me. However..." She pauses and motioned her head to the rest of the money in the safe "Y'all can have the rest of this and split it between yourselves if you let me off the hook." Harley finished.

All of the men smiled and nodded as all of them agreed. Each of the men emptied out the safe and thanked Harley. After each of the men left and went home, Harley walked to a smaller wall safe and opened it, pulling out two packets of papers, one being a contingency plan Joker had had in place for years in case he was arrested and couldn't make a quick get away, leaving everything he owned to Harley. The other packet was several titles to buildings. A man in a suit walked up to the desk.

"So are we doing it?" He asked in an excited curious voice. Harley smirked at him and replied. "Yes we are. I told that asshole his empire would crumble." The man went through the first packet signing each line with Harley following each signature. The man stamped the papers. "we still need copies of it." He said as Harley motioned to the copier in the corner. After making several copies the man shook Harley's hand and said. "Congratulations, you are now the rightful owner of Joker's empire.

As the man exited he passed by Batman at the door. "I hope all that is..." He said before Harley raised her hand stopping him as she smiled. "No need to worry B-man. That was just the money from his legal stuff, like the nightclubs and stuff, and the guy who just passed you was his lawyer, who coincidentally also hates his guts. Also this paper here makes it legally my money, so no laws were broken.

Batman smiled and looked at Harley in surprise as Harley handed him a slip of paper. "This is where his illegal money is." She said smiling at Batman who's eyes widened even more in shock. "What is the point of this if i may ask Harley?" Batman asked. Ivy giggled as Harley's smile widened. "She came up with a brilliant plan to wipe the slate clean and cripple Joker at the same time." Ivy said. "Yep, with the payoff i gave the boys, and realizing how Mr. J was cheating them, if he manages to break out, he won't have any crew to start, and also We're gonna use our portion of the money, and the deeds to clear up things with the other crews in Gotham." Harley explained.

That evening after spending all day patching things up with all but one of the other crews in the area Harley and Ivy stood outside the Iceberg Lounge. Ivy looked at Harley. "Are you sure about this? He really hates you." Ivy asked obviously concerned. Harley smiled at her beautiful goddess "I'm sure baby. He'll either kill us or forgive us, and I'm leaning more towards forgive. Especially once he sees what he's getting out of the deal." Harley replied.

Ivy and Harley made their way through the club and managed to sneak past security as they went to the penthouse. As soon as the elevator doors opened several men were pointing guns at them as Harley held up 2 brief cases and looked at Oswald Cobblepot behind a giant oak desk across the room.

He grimaced at Harley and said. "Give me one reason not to kill you both right now." He demanded. "I'm here to make peace Pengy" Harley said. Penguin motioned his hand making his men lower their guns and motioned for Harley and Ivy to come toward him. As they made their way to his desk, Harley opened the first briefcase revealing a crap load of cash. "This is more than enough to cover the cash I'm responsible for you losing. we'll call the rest interest" Harley said as Cobblepot laughed. "You got a deal." He said taking the cash.

Harley smiled as she opened the other briefcase and pulled out the deeds for several of Joker's nightclubs as she looked at Penguin. "Now that we're on good terms, let's talk business." She said making Oswald's smile grow wider. "what do you want for them?" He asked. Harley smiled at Ivy then looked back at Penguin. "You own the botanical gardens right?" Penguins jaw dropped. "That's all you want?" He asked as Ivy's eyes widened and she blushed and Harley replied "Mhm."

Penguin thought for several minutes. "I can't completely rip you off like that, I'll give you all 6 of the gardens and..." He said as Harley held out her hand "Deal, don't even add more." She said with a smile as Penguin shook her hand in shock. After exchanging deeds with Penguin Harley and Ivy made their way home.

Harley smiled as her and Ivy curled up on the couch together. "Baby, why did you trade those nightclubs for those gardens?" Ivy asked. Harley smiled at her and caressed her cheek. "Because I know how much you love plants baby, and we still have 4 nightclubs, and a good chunk of cash left to run them all even before the money starts coming in." She said giggling. "And now we have a clean slate, and Joker has nothing to work with if he ever gets out" Harley said smiling as she drifted to sleep in Ivy's arms. Ivy carried Harley to the bed and pulled the sheets over them holding her cute little psycho close as she drifted to sleep.