Mystery of The Night

CH. 14



As morning came, Isabella softly woke up to see that Bruce was no longer beside her.



Last night went amazingly beautiful, even though they didn’t make love it almost seemed that it wasn’t needed at that moment in time, they were just completely content in being within each other's arms and felt completely safe with him.



As she gently rose up from the bed she softly pulled the covers back to see a letter he had left on his pillow. Isabella gently opened the letter and smiled as she started to read it.



Dear Isabella,



I am most truly sorry that I am not there waking up next to you at this very moment. Unfortunately, some things came up with Wayne Enterprises that I had to attend to; I hate leaving you like this and didn’t want to wake you since you looked so beautiful and serene sleeping under my covers, I promise I'll make it up to you. However, as of right now I am not sure when I'll be home so you're more than welcome to stay here and just sit back and relax if you'd like. I was planning to scope the territory tonight and if you'd like to meet me at the Bat signal at 8pm I'll be waiting. I hope you have an amazing afternoon, and unfortunately they're having a funeral tomorrow for Commissioner Leob and I was also planning on scoping the territory just in case they have any unwelcomed visitors. I know Harvey and Rachel will be there so I was thinking that if it's possible you can escort them and make sure no one gets near them. I know this isn’t the best letter to wake up to but I know you of all people would understand. I hope you have a wonderful afternoon Izzy and I cannot wait to see you soon.



Yours forever and always,



Bruce Wayne.



Isabella softly smiled at the note and gently folded it back up and placed it on the night table. She then gently stretched her limbs and rose out of bed; she then softly walked towards the bathroom and looked at her reflection in the mirror.



Her hair was all tussled and her makeup was completely gone, she softly looked over at her features and noticed the bruises that the Joker placed on her were now officially gone.



Isabella also noticed that she still had on his t-shirt and could completely smell his scent all over her, she could also smell Bruce's scent as well since she was in such a close proximity to him but yet Jack's sent was much more stronger and she knew all the reasons why… Isabella allowed out a soft sigh as she gently shook her head, irritated that she kept thinking about him, she was extremely tired of him constantly swimming around her mind, she remembered the words he had spoken to her before she left and she refused to allow him to win.



He didn’t have any claim on her and she refused to allow him to corrupt her mind. Isabella softly groaned to herself as she walked out of the bathroom, she knew she had to head home and clean up since that is where all her things were so she wished Alfred a good morning, grabbed her purse and headed out the door.



As she walked out of the building, she hopped into the Lamborghini that she lifted and drove home. Once she made it back to her apartment, she then parked her car and hopped out, deliberately walking back to her place.



As Isabella walked up the stairs, she couldn’t help the chilling feeling she was getting as she grew closer and closer to her destination. Once she was officially in front of her door she then gently pulled out her keys and placed it in the knob and unlocked her door, she then slowly walked inside her dark apartment that mysterious dark feeling becoming even stronger as she walked further in looking around to see if anything was wrong… there wasn’t.



Her heart was hammering, just waiting for something to come at her that is until she felt an extremely sharp pain come across her head causing her to fall onto her knees and pass out her body falling onto the ground. Behind her, a figure stood closer examining her fallen form and smirked to themself as they kneeled down and lifted her up.



XXXXX



An hour later, Isabella sorely woke up to feel her arms tied in chains with a heavy-duty rope wrapped around her form as she sat in the chair. She tried to struggle to get out but wasn’t able to break out, she then suddenly heard a very chilling chuckle come out into the darkness. Isabella growled her fangs morphing out as she continued to fight out of her restraints



"Show yerself ya bloody coward!"



She yelled darkly, the figures laughter grew even more and that is when she realized that she recognized that laugh, he then slowly walked out of the shadows by lighting up some candles to show him more clearly. Isabella sneered at him as he casually swung his baseball bat like a pro as he smirked over at her. "Such harsh words Izzy, is that any way to talk to you're Lover?" Isabella allowed out an inhuman growl as she struggled some more.



"What the bloody hell do you want Jack!?"



The Joker's smirk then grew even wider as he walked over to her and crouched down to her eyelevel and grabbed her chin forcing her to look at him with his gloved hand. "Such anger, such animosity… Look at you! You're practically glowing! And I have to admit it makes you even more stunning when you're full of rage." Isabella jerked her face away from his grip and glared at him.



"Cut the crap Jack and tell me why you're here! And don't say it's because you missed me because we both know that your incapable of feeling any emotions that regards you're heart!"



The Joker then started to laugh as he tickingly licked his lips, and mockingly placed his hand on his heart looking as if she hurt his feelings. "Ouch Izzy now that hurts! And to think I was going to make you my princess to my chaos…" Isabella then scoffed.



"Please like I'd ever join your army of destruction and despair. I eat gits like you for breakfast!"



The Joker heard enough and roughly grabbed her chin as he now straddled her hips, his blade placed directly against her neck. "In case you have forgotten my dear, you have given yourself unto me… your everything belongs to me, you're mine to do with… my sweet little Delilah…" he then leaned up towards her and seductively kisses her forehead as he chuckled, his blade tracing down her chest.



"Oh how this reminds me of Othello and Desdemona… My by far favorite couple. Oh, wait, Desdemona wasn't in love with the other guy. So much for stand by your man. Then again, he probably liked you on your knees."



Isabella growled and tried to struggle out of his hold causing him to burst out into laughter. "Keep going mate, by the time I'm through with you, you won't have a single ounce of blood in your body." The Joker then sadistically chuckled.



"Oh. Provocative. Get me all riled up. You think that's what your boss would want?"



Isabella was furious and wanted to free her arms so badly so she could choke him. "Don't have a boss." The Joker then mischievously grinned.



"You might want to tell ole Batboy that. Ah, Izzy… You look so fresh and sweet, and I have to admit that I love hearing you at night in my room with me. The things you say… well lets just say when I'm alone while I'm lying there, imagining you're words, hands under the covers... I can't help myself. It's so... gripping."



Isabella heard enough and head butted him in the forehead causing him to fall of her. "You're a pig!" she growled as she finally was able to break out of her restraints, she then quickly jumped up to her feet as he quickly rose up, he went to go punch her but she quickly grabbed his fist and punched him.



The Joker started to burst out into laughter as he roughly backhands her causing her to fall down onto her feet due to her weakness since she hasn’t been able to have any blood the entire day. Isabella was weakly trying to rise up as the Joker smirked down at her and roughly kicked her abdomen.



"Come on, Izzy, you're not even trying. Or is that why you really always come back to me? Not enough to punish yourself since Daddy isn’t around? Is that it? Still looking for someone to help beat the bad out of you? You know what the funny part is, darling? I could beat you death, and it wouldn't make a difference. Nothing will ever change who you are, Izzy. You're a murderer, an animal, and you enjoy it. Just like me."



Isabella became enraged, she then quickly stands and goes after the Joker. She punches and kicks him until he's on the ground. Then she goes over to him, straddling him, and beats him in the face again and again as he continued to laugh. "No! You're wrong. I'm different now. I'm not like you." she yelled as she was about to punch him again but he then quickly grabbed her wrist and smirked up at her.



"You will be… I know the pattern Izzy. The seeming randomness of it, the chaos. There is a larger purpose behind every move. And you're move is coming very soon."



Isabella stared down at him furiously.



"What do you mean by that?"



The Joker then smirked up at her. "It's to have fun Izzy, you need the chaos to keep from losing yourself without it your just another freak that doesn’t belong to this world, you love the destruction, you love knowing that you have the world at your feet… that's where I come in baby, I told you we're soul mates we belong together in this world." Isabella then softly shook her head.



"No luv that is where you're wrong… you see you seek for destruction I fight it. There's a reason why I am the way I am Jack… there's a reason why I do the things I do… and I refuse to allow myself to give up everything I've done to be with you."



The Joker gritted his teeth and roughly turned onto her back and straddled her hips as he placed his hands on her neck ready to choke her as he leaned down his lips mere inches from her ear.



"You know why you're so intrigued by me Izzy? It's because of Darkness… it could mean many things… it could mean sorrow, anger, or fear… but what is it that we fear hm? What is it that makes us wake up in the morning? Is it because of the unknown? Yet even though we plan out each day of our lives we never know what’s really going to happen to us that day… one day you could wake up and the next day you could die… it’s fair yet it’s not fair nor easy but we have deal with it… it’s life… no grays in this situation… only black and white… but isn’t it interesting that the one thing we fear is the one thing that motivates us to live?"



He then slowly moved back to stare down at her as she stopped struggling and was staring up at him in pure interest. He then smirked down at her and moved a piece of hair away from her face.



"It’s inevitable we all know it’s going to happen… but that’s what makes us live… it motivates us to want to live out the best of our lives because we all know that life can be taken any minute… we all know that the first condition to immortality is death and we all know that Reality is not always probable, or likely… but it’s what makes us go on… it’s a mystery to us… and as Albert Einstein once said many years ago 'The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious…' That is why Izzy I am you're enigma your answer to the truth… we are more alike than you think doll and when you realize that things will go a lot easier."



Isabella stared up at him with complete curiosity, how could he switch to complete madness and then become completely vulnerable? It never made any sense to her how he constantly changed before her eyes… it just seemed that he was never one type of personality he was varied and it was literally chaotic.



"Tell me the truth Jack…"



She whispered softly, as she stared intently into his dark brown eyes. The Joker stared down at her inquisitively as he licked his lips. "What is it that you want to know?" Isabella sadly looked up at him as she gently rose her hand and softly traced his scars.



"Was everything you told me the truth… Everything you told me about your mother and father and about your wife was this all true or was it a lie to get me to trust you?"



The Joker didn’t know how to respond to that, he then gently leaned down and kissed her forehead. "Everything I've told you was the truth Izzy." Isabella allowed the tears to roll down her cheeks as she leaned up and softly kissed him, the Joker was taken by shock by her gentle demeanor.



Usually he would be furious with this sort of situation he'd kill the girl in an instant, mangle her body up, and purposely humiliate the dead form to the world but no… not his Izzy. She was something he believed that could rule this town with him; her heart yes was mostly pure but the darkness that continued to seethe through her was extremely entrancing.



He loved the way she would comply with him and let that creature come out of it's cage but he also had to admit he liked a bit of her kindness even though that is completely beyond his reasoning it was just… in a way she reminded him so much of his mother.



Maybe that is why he responds so well to her, he had an incredibly intense connection to this woman and wanted to keep her for himself. However, that is when he realized that she also belonged to someone else.



She had spent the night with another man and that was mainly his reasoning to being here he wanted to make it known to her who she really belongs to but now here he was kissing her as she consumes him once again… well that's not going to happen. He immediately breaks the kiss and roughly pins her arms above his head.



"What an interesting little whore you are Izzy… first you sleep with me countless of times and once you cant handle being with me anymore you throw yourself at some other guy how do you expect me to respond to that?"



Isabella then glared up at him. "If you're accusing me of having sex with Bruce you're wrong Jack plus even if we did it's none of you're concern I made it loud and clear that I do not belong to you." The Joker then arched his brow. "So you belong to Bruce Wayne then." Isabella then shook her head.



"I belong to no one but myself… it makes things less complicated."



The Joker then chuckled as he moved off of her and fully stood up seeing her stare up at him defiantly, her breathing still heavy. He then smirked down at her and then roughly grabbed her by the shirt and lifts her up and slammed her hard against the wall. "Then why did my boys see you stay his place last night hm?" Isabella then darkly smirked at him.



"Jealous it wasn’t you Jack?"



The Joker gritted his teeth, moved her away, and slammed her hard into the wall again. "How can a man feel jealousy when he feels no emotion at all?" Isabella clenched her teeth having enough with this man, he was nothing but a huge pain in her ass and the last thing she wanted right now was to have him here. She then roughly shoves him away from her, her eyes now glowing that iridescent blue.



"Get out of here Jack before I do something I may regret."



The Joker then allowed out his trademark laugh as he pinned her against the hard wall, his body clinging up against hers as he placed his elbows on the wall one on either side of her head. "If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me." he whispered seductively, Isabella's jaw dropped as the Joker smirked down at her and then passionately kisses her. Isabella was in shock at first from his brash action and then finally gave in…



The kiss they were both share was seeping with complete emotions of hate, of rage, of confusion and of pure sensibility. The Joker then quickly ripped his lips away from hers and snickered as she looked out the window in a forlorning matter.



"You see? You try to be with them. But you always end up in the dark. With me…"



Isabella's eyes then started to well up in tears as she watched the patrons of Gotham stroll the dark streets.



"What would they think of you? If they found out all the things you've done…"



He then places his hand on her shoulder and moves her to face the window as his hands glided up and down her sides, her back up against his chest.



"If they knew who you really were..."



He darkly whispered as he kissed her neck, his hands slowly roving over her waist, pushing the fabric up feeling the flesh of her abdomen. He then slowly glided his fingertips down to the waist of her sweatpants and glided further down feeling the flesh of her warm thighs, Isabella gasped as his fingertips slowly moved to her most intimate spot.



"Don’t…"



She whispered, The Joker then grimly chuckles against her neck.



"Stop me."



Isabella doesn't as the Joker softly slips his fingers inside of her causing Isabella to softly moan, the Joker's overcoat swings in, obscuring the action as he continued to swirl his fingers inside of her. Isabella's breathing quickens, she gasps as the Joker continues to kiss her neck completely consumed in the moment by loving to hear her like this.



Isabella closes her eyes and grips his arms, her knuckles white. The Joker then slowly looked up at her and noticed that she had her eyes tightly shut not wanting to look out into the world.



"No. Don't close your eyes."



Isabella slowly opens them as the Joker continues to move his fingers rhythmically inside her, his breath hot on her neck.



"Look at them. That's not your world. You belong in the shadows... with me. Look at these people... and tell me you don't love getting away with this right under their noses... being the dark little angel we all know you are."



Isabella gasped as his fingers moved further more causing her to climax, Isabella softly moaned as he fingers continued to move as he nipped her neck. Once the Joker knew she was finished he slowly moved his hand out of her and wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her tightly against him.



He rested his chin on her shoulder seeing in the corner of his eye tears rolling down her cheeks as she tried to regain her breath. "Oh the chaotic world we live in… huh Izzy? And tomorrow will be even more endearing." Isabella looked up and then slowly turned around to face him.



"What do you mean?"



The Joker grinned at her. "Not going to break the surprise Doll face… you're just going to have to wait and see." Isabella looked at him pleadingly as she grabbed the lapels of his jacket. "Jack please… please stop this, you don't have to keep doing this!" The Joker then rolled his eyes.



"Izzy, Izzy, Izzy… this is about sending a message and for the world to listen I have to make them realize who is really ruling this city."



Isabella stared at him defeatedly and sighed. "Don't you expect me to be apart of this Jack, I refuse to be any part of this." The Joker gritted his teeth and roughly grabbed her throat. "If you go against me Izzy I will make you're life a living hell." Isabella then started to chuckle as he started to squeeze her neck.



"You know what I'm doing now?"



He whispered darkly.



"I'm applying pressure to your windpipe. You'll pass out, and then I'll make my dramatic escape leaving you here to wake up by yourself."



Isabella then started to laugh even more. "Do you know what I'm doing now?" The Joker looked at her confused as she smirked up at him and whispered.



"Not using my windpipe..."



Isabella then grabs the Jokers forearm, and twists it around until Isabella is behind him, still twisting his arm. The Joker then gritted his teeth as he ripped himself away from her. "Damn Damphir." Isabella then smirked at him as she picked up the bat and started to swing it around.



"Capital 'D.' And there's something else you should know about me Jack."



She said condescendingly as she pushed the front of the bat up against his chest causing him to walk backwards towards her door.



"I have no problem spanking men… so I suggest if you don't get yer bloody arse out of here then you are going to have one hell of a time with me."



The Joker smirked up at her and rose his hands up defensively; Isabella took this as his surrender and relaxed. Once the Joker took notice of this, he then roughly grabbed the bat and forcefully yanked her towards him.



"I'll leave… but you will be seeing me soon Lover."



He snickered as he pushes her away from him and starts to burst out into laughter as he walked out of her apartment leaving her by herself.



Isabella felt her body tremble as she watched him leave, she knew something big was going to happen and what was scaring her even more was that even though she knew something was going to happen she knew she wasn't going to sell him out…



XXXXX



Later that night she met up with Bruce at the Bat Signal. Bruce was donned in his Bat Suit as she wore her black leather pants and black tank top her two Sias strapped on her legs. Bruce noticed Isabella's change of behavior and frowned. "Izzy is there something wrong?" Isabella softly shook her head.



"No I'm fine B."



She then sighed as she crossed her arms and allowed out a long sigh. "Just completely fine…" Bruce knew she was lying as he and she started to walk down the building towards his car. "Izzy if you're mad at me for this morning I want you to know that I really didn’t want to leave you, something came up…" Isabella immediately cuts him off as she kissed him on the lips.



Bruce was taken aback from her immediate action but gave into the kiss and pulled her against him. Isabella softly licked the bottom of his lip, Bruce willingly opened his mouth and felt her tongue fight dominance against his, the kiss started to grow more passionate until he saw a odd red mark on her neck. Bruce then gently broke the kiss and stared down at her neck.



"Izzy why do you have red paint on your neck?"



Isabella then sighed as she stared up at him, she was about to tell him the truth until his radio went off talking about a double murder down on 8th avenue. Bruce and Isabella then quickly looked at each other, jumped into his car, and zoomed towards the site. Once they got there, they met up with Gordon and stormed into the building.



As soon as they finally made it to the apartment, Isabella then kicked the door open and roamed inside the room, Gordon lowered his gun as he, Batman and Isabella took in the scene. As they all walked further in they saw two dead men laying on the kitchen table with Joker cards surrounding them. Isabella allowed out a soft sigh as she checked the name badges of the dead men and frowned once she realized what was going on. She then looked up at the cops and Batman giving them a serious look.



"Check the names."



Gordon slowly walks up to them and checks the name badges. "Patrick Harvey, Richard Dent…" Ramirez then looks at them worriedly. "Harvey Dent." Batman then looked over at Gordon. "Me and Izzy need ten minutes with the scene before you're men contaminate it." Ramirez looks at him incredulously.



"Us contaminate it? It's because of you that these guys are dead in the first place!"



Gordon then glared over at her. "Ramirez!" Ramirez then immediately stands down as Isabella and Batman move past the bodies to the walls.



Bruce finds an imbedded bullet in the plaster so he pulled out a sawing device from his belt and thrusts it into the wall and starts outing around the bullet. "That's brick… you're gonna try and take ballistics off a shattered bullet?" Isabella then shook her head. "No he's taking it for finger prints." Ramirez scoffed as she looked over at Gordon.



"Are they serious?"



Gordon sighed as he pointed over to them. "Whatever you're gonna do, do it fast. 'Cos we know who is next." Isabella and Batman looked at him curiously, as they saw him pull out a campaign poster that says RE-Elect Mayor Garcia. There was the Mayor's image with a maniac clown's grin and the words HA HA HA written around it. Isabella's body started to tremble as tears and rage swarmed through her.



She couldn’t stand in this room any longer and stormed out of the building, Batman quickly chased after her and realized that it started raining. Once he was out of the building, he quickly looked around and couldn’t find her, once he turned around again he saw her leaning up against the building with her arms crossed.



Bruce slowly walked up to her and placed his hand on her cheek. "Izzy what's going on?" Isabella slowly looked up at him, her eyes starting to glow. "It's nothing Bruce… just got a case of the nerves I guess." Bruce sighed, he had heard enough he knew after seeing that flyer that Isabella started to panic, he knew for a long time that she had connections to the Joker and when he saw that red paint on her neck, he started to wonder if maybe they were a little more involved than she had let on.



"Izzy tell me right now! I know you have connections to the Joker! I know that you have been involved with him! You have to tell me where he's at!"



He yelled, Isabella slowly stared up at him, her heart shattering into a million pieces. "I don't know where he is… he moves around so no one knows his exact location." Bruce gritted his teeth and roughly grabs her arms and slams her hard into the brick wall.



"You better not be lying to me Izzy! People are dying and if you're withholding information from me because you want to protect you're boyfriend then I'll have to do something I sincerely regret."



Isabella glared at him, then quickly rips out one of her sias, and slashes it against his arm causing him to move away from her and place his hand on his bleeding arm.



"He's not my boyfriend and I'm not hiding anything from you Bruce! He won't tell me everything! He tells me tidbits and that's it! I know about the same as you do!"



Bruce sighed and slowly shook his head. "Izzy… tell me. If you're scared that he's going to hurt you I promise I will protect you. If you know anything at all just please tell me." Isabella stared up at him and slowly walked up to him and hugged him, she knew she should tell him.



She didn’t know why she was protecting him but immediately thought of what kind of man he was before she found out who he was and for some damn unknown reason that is what was preventing her from telling Bruce the truth about the Joker's alter ego.



"I know nothing…"



Bruce sighed knowing that she was lying, but he then wrapped his arms around her and hugged her closer to him. Isabella started to burst out into tears as the rain continued to pour down on them ignoring the fact that the police were running all around the area. Bruce then gently tipped her head up with his fingertip, looked down at her tearstained face, and softly kissed her.



"I know I shouldn’t Izzy, I know that even though this is by far against my better judgment but I cannot help what I feel… what you do to me when we're together…"



Isabella stared up at him curiously, as Bruce allowed out a shallow and nervous sigh as he looked over at the swarming police officers and then back at her.



"I think I'm falling in love with you Izzy."



Isabella's eyes widened as she suddenly became speechless.



*****



Well things are starting to become more complicated... and it seems that Izzy's world is falling down in two how will things work out for her? You'll all will have to wait and see. :) Stay tuned next chapter is coming up very soon.



Who do you guys think she should be with?



- Jack (The Joker)



Or



- Bruce (The Batman)



Hope you all are enjoying the story it really is fun to write.



Reviews are greatly appreciated and help motivate me to continue writing. I cannot wait to hear from all of you soon, and if any of you have any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to ask. :)