Mystery of The Night

Ch. 6



It has been days since the incident with Isabella and it has been days since she has talked to anyone. Her wounds had finally healed, but her spirit was minutes from shattering, all she would do was lay in her bed and stare out at her window thinking over the recent events. It sort of scared her how close she has came to killing each and ever single one of them. Memories of her father were constantly flashing through her eyes and tears were constantly rolling down her cheeks.



She would hear her phone constantly ringing but refused to answer, she wanted to distance herself from the world, she wanted to hide until she could get over this situation. She would hear Ally constantly banging on her door and calling for her but she just refused to answer, she wanted to be alone. Her chest was still searing with pain where they stabbed the knife into her and her cuts and bruises were starting to finally disappear. She was now laying in her bed, wearing nothing but a thin tank top and a pair of shorts, her comforter completely covering her as she hugged her pillow.



Suddenly, she heard her door knob giggle, and knew someone was trying to get in, she ignored whoever it was and continued to stare out the window. Just then she heard someone manage to break into the apartment and slowly closed the door, whoever it is obviously had a good reason to break in. She heard their footsteps walking around her apartment obviously trying to look for something or her, she then heard them walking closer to her room, but she didn’t even bother to look up when that person opened the door to her room.



As soon as that person walked in she finally acknowledged their presence. "What are you doing here?" she asked softly, not even turning her head. The person sighed and slowly moved towards her. "I've been calling you for days and you refuse to answer your phone… I. I was worried." Isabella sighed. "You have nothing to worry about Jack please leave." Jack frowned as he moved closer, he was hoping that he was actually sounded sincere but he supposed that he didn’t if she was rejecting him already. "Izzy come on tell me what's going on." Isabella ignored him and just continued to stare out at the window. Jack was now becoming worried… what happened to his strong little viper? Why was she acting like this? Sure he knew what happened to her was traumatic but this is completely different, there was something that was truly getting to her and he was determined to know.



"Izzy please talk to me."



Isabella looked up at him and then slowly moved to the other side of the bed and pulled the covers back inviting him in. Jack was somewhat surprised but was glad that she felt comfortable enough around him. Jack then slipped his shoes off and then slipped in under the covers; Jack examined her wounds and noticed that they were healing quite nicely. He then gently placed her hair behind her ear and stared down at her. "Izzy what happened?" he whispered, Isabella looked up at him feeling that crazy odd connection to him and started to cry. Jack felt strangely odd, he didn’t know how to handle crying women, nor did he ever care, usually if a woman was crying around him it's because he was about to kill her or he'd just kill them for crying anyways.



But this was a different case, he knew that Isabella doesn’t usually cry and whatever it was that caused her to hide from the world is the reason why she was in tears. He then slowly wrapped his arms around her and hugged her to him as she cried into his chest; Jack was on the verge of comforting her and wanting to kill her right here, right now. He was getting way to soft this wasn’t how he planned this to be… he wanted her to suffer and wanted her to be in pain while he learned every intricate detail about her. But now… now he wanted to keep her close to him and allow her to cry out every tear until they were all gone, this so wasn’t right.



"I'm no better than my father."



She whispered, Jack then became confused. "…What?" Isabella then sighed. "I tried to kill a man and almost succeeded. I allowed to loose myself and let my creature have full reign… I'm nothing but a monster; you shouldn’t even want to be with me." Jack was a little shocked, he didn’t know how much this would affect her, he thought that since she killed her own father that maybe she wouldn’t have cared if she killed a worthless human being, he guessed he was wrong. "You killed your father Izzy why should this be any different?" Isabella then sighed. "My father was a vampire… these were human beings. I've… I've never killed a human being." It all made sense she had one rule.



The same as Batman's and she was very close to going against that one rule, he then pulled her tightly to him and placed a kiss on her forehead. "How did the dinner night go out?" he asked knowing full well how it went, Isabella then sighed. "It was alright… Bruce was sweet but it's just I click with him but I don’t." she then suddenly realized what she just said and stared up at Jack wide-eyed. Jack stared down at her and smirked.



"So he was you're date."



Isabella frowned and then softly hid her face into his chest. "Sorry…" Jack couldn’t help but chuckle. "It's ok Izzy." Isabella then looked up at him. "If it's any consolation I was taken by the Joker and was tortured to near death which is the reason for all the cuts and bruises by his henchmen, and almost killed them all." Jack then arched his brow, this is the first time she has ever mention The Joker to him.



Sure, it was odd since he was the Joker, and the main reason why he was here was because he was determined to find out what she was up to and trust me this was the least he expected. "What is the Joker like? Is he as crazy and psychotic as they say he is?" he couldn’t resist, Isabella then shrugged.



"I think what the world doesn’t realize that under all that makeup he's just a regular man. He's not this crazy psychotic freak that everyone seems to think he is, he's practically a genius, always ahead of the game and always four steps ahead… I think that's why people think what they think of him. But I also think that there's so much more to him than what he leads on."



Jack tried to resist the smirk that was morphing on his lips she admired him. "So it sounds like you have a thing for the Joker." He teased, Isabella then started to laugh. "No… he's just interesting, personally I'm starting to grow more interest in is you…" Jack then smirked at Isabella. "I'm not a good man Izzy." Isabella then shrugged. "That's the type I usually like." Jack's smirk then grew even wider as he leaned down and kissed her, Isabella smiled against his lips and then wrapped her arms around his neck to deepen it, Jack then wrapped his arms around her waist and started to move on top of her never breaking their passionate embrace.



The Kiss was starting to grow more and more intense as both of their hands started to wander all over each other. Isabella softly tugged on Jack's shirt and pulled it off of him grazing her fingertips against his chest feeling the scars that were placed on his body. Isabella instantly stopped and broke the kiss looking down at the scars. She gently placed her fingertips over the one near his heart and saw what looked like a bullet wound. She slowly stared up at Jack, frowning noticing that he was watching her very intently. She then leaned up and kissed the scar causing him to moan.



Isabella then softly moved him onto his back and then moved on top of him and started to kiss every mark that was placed on his body. She first started with the scars on his face, she gently placed soft kisses on his the jagged scars as his hands her gliding under her tank top, up her sides. She then slowly moved down to his neck, feeling his heart beating even faster, Isabella smirked at this and proceeded to move down further, her lips slowly moving down his abdomen and was mere inches from the top of his jeans. Jack gasped and quickly grabbed her and pulled her up giving her a very passionate kiss.



"I told you Izzy I'm not a good man!"



He growled against her lips as they continued to kiss.



"Mmm and I told you that is the type I prefer…"



Jack growled again giving her hot and heavy kisses; he was merely seconds away from pulling her tank top off until his cell phone started to ring. Jack groaned in frustration and decided he was going to ignore it and continued making out with her, Isabella gently broke away from his lips. "Should you get that?" she whispered breathlessly, Jack shook his head seeing her swollen lips and smirked as he continued to kiss her, the phone stopped ringing but then instantly started ringing again, Jack growled as he grazed his teeth on her bottom lip, biting it so hard that he broke the skin. Isabella moaned, as she tasted her own blood mixing along with their mouths. "Jack… maybe you should get that…" Jack sighed and quickly got off the bed and answered his phone.



"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT!?"



He yelled, he then heard one of his henchmen on the other line. "Boss we need you here quick, something's gone wrong!" Jack then sighed. "Can it fucking wait?" he growled as he looked back at Isabella laying in that very inviting bed. The Henchman spoke up. "Uh no sir, this is really important if we want to get to Batman." Jack gritted his teeth furious at this moment, how was it every time he was getting merely close with her they always had to interrupt. "Fine… I'll be there." He said dark and slammed his phone shut. He slowly looked over at Isabella who was now sitting up staring at him curiously.



"Sorry Izzy work calls."



He said begrudgingly, Isabella shrugged and then handed him his shirt. "It happens, I should know right?" Jack then nodded as he placed a kiss on her forehead. "I'll be back, unless you have another dinner date." Isabella softly smiled up at him. "Not tonight… So you're more than welcome to spend some time here with me." Jack smirked as he pulled on his shirt. "Sounds like a plan." He then started to walk out of her room but then quickly turned around to face her.



"I'll be back around midnight I promise you that."



Isabella nodded giving him a soft smile watching him leave the apartment.



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Hours went by since Jack had came, and Isabella had decided to go out and patrol the area. The sky was dark as she was slowly walking down the dark streets deep in thought. It confused her to no end on how she felt about Jack.



One moment she wanted nothing but to be with him while the other she had this insistent panging feeling like that there's something about him he's hiding. The scars on his body made her extremely curious as to what really happened to him, he said he wasn’t a good man then how come he was so good to her? Could he be using her? She didn’t know, she felt that what he said was true but at the same time it was like he was arguing with himself to be compassionate with her.



It just made no sense, her thoughts then drifted off to Bruce. Bruce was a good man from what she has seen, she knew his who snobbish routine was just an act to play off the others but what she wanted to know was what was he hiding? It seemed like the two men in her life had this huge secret and it confused her to no end. Bruce seemed like a genuine person, while Jack was very dark and mysterious which was a quality she liked in both men but her instincts were telling her to not fully trust either of them.



As her thoughts completely consumed her, she instantly felt someone push her off to the side onto the ground. Isabella was about to yell at them until she saw a truck speeding through. She looked at it incredulously and then looked back up at the person who saved her. "So do you always come out of no where?" Batman then arched his brow. "I save you're life and this is your way of thanking me?" Isabella shrugged. "Where were you when the Joker took me?" Batman then glared at her.



"I've been searching don't think that I haven’t."



He said in his usual low raspy voice, Isabella sighed as she took his hand to let him pull her up. "Thank you for the concern mate but I'm fine." Batman then tilted his head to the side. "From the cuts on your arms and chest it doesn’t look like you are ok." Isabella sighed. "I managed to get out alright, I'm fine and I'm alive." Batman then glared at her. "You're not! You keep playing with fire and are constantly getting burned when are you going to realize that one of these days you're going to loose yourself completely?" Isabella then glared at him.



"Look! All because you're this high and mighty vigilante…"



She then instantly stopped, staring at him completely wide-eyed. Batman looked at her curiously not understanding why she is looking at him so weirdly.



"What?"



Isabella's jaw dropped as she slowly walked up to him and stared at him directly into his eyes, how did she not see it? It made complete and utter sense now, all this time and it took her this long to realize who this person really was and now that she knows the only thing she could do is whisper his name.



"Bruce?"



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A/N: So what do you guys think of the chapter? Sorry it's so short, I know this chapter was kinda different, but I promise that it'll get better. Ok let's recap, (Jack) AKA: The Joker seems to be falling way over his head here. I know he's a little different in this chapter but in a way he knew that Isabella has been through a lot like himself and is extremely torn as to whether he wants to be with her or kill her, Bruce is very intrigued by her but what is going to happen that now she has found out his little secret. Reason being as to why she found out is because she could sense him and the main reason why she cant sense the Joker is because of the chemicals in his hair and make up with sets her off, she will figure it out eventually it may just take a couple more chapters... I want to get really in depth with both of the men's relationship regarding Isabella. So here's the huge question for all of you... Who should Isabella be with?? Bruce or The Joker??



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. :)