GothamsAssassin's Present

Merry Christmas !!!

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“Kate!” Joker called as he looked around his warehouse for his lost girl. “Where’d you go!?” He whined, on the verge of getting worried.

“In here!” Kate answered, her voice accompanied by the small clatter of metal. He trotted over and halted by the doorway of his storage room.

“What on Earth… are you doing?” Joker leaned in and looked at the brunette sitting on the floor, throwing random things over her shoulder as she dug through a big shipping box in front of her. More boxes like the first were surrounding her, all cleaned out and empty from her search. Behind her was a huge pile of scrap metal, wood planks, empty gun clips and random articles of clothing that were half eaten by moths.

“I’m looking for something!” She said innocently, still searching determinedly as she tossed scrap metal over her shoulder.

“In my junk boxes?” He laughed, finding his way over to her, curious and humored.

She found an old, dusty, water damaged book and flipped through it. It was a makeshift phonebook/address book with some sketchy maps and routes mixed in. Kate smiled at Joker’s scratchy handwriting and the bloodstains on the corners of the stale pages.

Joker recognized it instantly. “Hey I was looking for that! …A few months ago.” She handed it up to him and he checked how updated it was. It had been a year since he’d written in it. He put it on a closed box behind him, reminding himself that he needed to update it again one of these days.

Kate kept searching, reaching the bottom of the box and letting out a frustrated sigh. She pushed the box away from her, making room. She was starting to get claustrophobic with all this clutter she’d caused. Kate ran her hand through her hair and looked around. She had checked every freaking box and there was no sign of the thing she was looking for.

She brought her hands up to touch Joker’s arms as they wrapped around her. “What’cha looking for?” He asked softly, resting his head on hers as he hugged her from behind.

“Nothing…” She sighed again, stroking his arms deeply in thought. She suddenly noticed his sleeves were red. She moved away from him and gasped as she turned and actually looked at what he was wearing.

“Like it?” He grinned, spreading his arms. He had either dyed his blue shirt, or somehow acquired a new red one that looked exactly like it. His vest was still green and his pants were still purple, but his shirt was absolutely glowing. It was clean and new and so…so… good looking!!!

Kate laughed, joyfully mesmerized. “What got YOU into the Christmas spirit?!”

“I could say the same to you!” Joker shrugged, smiled, and gestured at her own shirt.

Embarrassed, she looked down at her black long-sleeved shirt. It had a Santa Claus in the middle with HO HO HO underneath his cheesy comical beard. “Oh this!? It’s… it’s...” She was so embarrassed, she didn’t know what to say.

“It’s adorable.” He finished for her, leaning over and getting on his hands and knees so he could kiss her. She giggled and nuzzled him, their hair mingling. He kissed her again before asking, “What were you looking for?”

Kate knew he didn’t mean to make her sad again, but thinking about what she lost made her hurt inside. “…Your Christmas present.” She shook her head at herself and closed her eyes, bringing her hand up to rub her fingers against his soft new red shirt. “…I think the hyenas ran off with it.” She admitted in defeat.

Joker smiled at the funny thought of the boys playing with it and tearing it up or eating it, not knowing who it was meant to be for. Kate leaned her head on his shoulder, on the verge of tears.

“No they didn’t. Its right here.” Joker slid his arms around her again and lifted her up. She grinned and held onto him as Joker carried her and held her close to him.

Harley was spending the holiday with Ivy. She left after a fight that SHE had caused. Yes, Harley caused the fight, not him. Kate didn’t have anyone other than him. They were both glad they weren’t going to be alone on Christmas.