Arkham Asylum:

"Tell me she's going to be ok!" the voice snarled.

"You just sit back and relax, ok? Worry about if you'll be ok when my boot lands in your face if you don't shut the hell up!"

Dee's eyes opened slowly. As things came into focus, she saw the reinforced metal walls around her and felt the sway of a moving vehicle. She tried to move and found her hands uncomfortably pinned behind her back. Her head hurt and the world felt like it was spinning. Carefully she sat up in the dimly lit and cold vehicle.

"Look at that, Riddler. Seems your girlfriend has decided to come around," sneered Dee's guard.

Blinking, she looked across from her and saw Eddie. He looked worried. His hands were also restrained behind his back. The split lip he had gotten the night before was now worse and he had a bad black eye. The suit he wore was disheveled and torn at the sleeve, his mask hanging out of his breast pocket.

"Q? Q, you ok?" he asked, leaning closer to her.

"I said shut up!" the first guard shouted, slamming his gun across the Riddler's chest and pushing him roughly against the wall of the van.

"I'll be ok, Eddie," she said softly.

They rode for a few minutes in silence. Dee had no idea where they were going. Never before had she been caught at any of her other jobs. That she had been caught now was a bit numbing to her. She remembered little of the fight after seeing Eddie go down. Her thigh hurt though. When the vehicle made a sharp turn and hit a bump, the Riddler was knocked from his seat and against Dee. He gave her a quick wink before roughly kissing her. The shock of his tongue filling her mouth and probing around kept her still.

"Hey! You can't be doing that, you freak!" Eddie's guard said, throwing him back into his seat. "Move once more before I tell you to and you will find yourself licking the floor of this wagon, understand?!"

Nodding, the Riddler kept his eyes on Dee as she kept watching him. It took her a moment to closer her mouth all the way after he kissed her. Even if it had been rough and unlike his other kisses, she was happy to receive it. Licking her lips she felt something slide in her gums. Pressing her lips closed, she leaned back against the cold metal and gently poked her tongue into her left cheek. There was now a very thin piece of flexible plastic tucked between her cheek and gums: a lock pick. Dee couldn't help but give him a pleased smile, wishing she could kiss him back for the gift he had just given her.

"Here we are," Dee's guard said, pulling her up by the arm as the doors were opened from the outside. "Arkham Asylum, your happy home."

Dee stepped out into the cold night air and looked up at the gloomy building looming in front of her. The sight made her feel small and would have worried her had a known body not pressed up behind her. Tilting her head back, she saw Eddie smiling gently down at her. He said not a word in the brief moment before he kissed her again, softly this time. As the guards pulled them apart and in separate directions, Eddie and Dee kept their eyes locked on each other. He smiled and kept singing, "Seagulls screaming...!"

"A new one? Just what we need at this time of night," a doctor grumbled. One of the guards passed him a note from Commissioner Gordon. "Oh, fabulous. Alright, bring her this way, we'll see what we can get out of her."

Just before he disappeared around a corner, Edward gave Dee an encouraging wink and smile. That was good enough for her. Straightening her spin, she shook the rough grip of the guard off her shoulder and pulled herself together.

"Hey, do I get cable in my room?" she asked, flashing a bright smile at the doctors who stopped and looked up. "What about those fuzzy robes and slippers? Are those complimentary, or do I need to call down to the front desk for those? And who do I talk to if I wanna request a mountain view?"
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