In the morning, I woke up feeling the worst pain in my torso. I looked down at my chest to see the joker's arm slung over my chest. I moved his hand and got out of bed. I took a shower checked my phone and realized that i needed to get to work as soon as possible.
"Joker, I gotta go in early something is up with vipers guys."
"Huh."
"I just got a text that Vipere’s guys are having seizures for some reason I gotta go in early."
"Ok i'll drive you."
He got out of bed, pulled on some jeans and a black button down shirt, grabbed his wallet, keys, and gun and we were out the door. Joker went up to his office to continue to sleep while he went downstairs. When did all of them were fine? Still asleep and annoyed, I turned on the lights.
"What the fuck Quinn?"
"I got a text that you guys were having seizures."
"What no we were sleeping until you came along and turned on the lights."
"Well who texted me?"
"I did."
I turned around to see a viper standing at the door with his gun in his hand, he was wiping it down as if it was a trophy. I always knew this motherfucker was bad news, I backed up to my small drawer and took out my gun, I kept it behind me.
"What do you want?"
"You,I want you to work for me full time."
"What would i dump from one psycho to the other?"
"York life may depend on it."
He walked up to me and pointed the gun to my head,there was no joker to save me this time. I have to save myself.
"Get that away from me or-"
"What are you gonna cut me? I put away your little knives and shit. I didn't plan this ."
"A few of his men looked worried and confused one of them when I gave them stitches.
"Boss what are you doing, if you hurt Quinn your deals off with Mr.J he might just kill us."
"No he won't not with this gun at Quinn's head."
While Viper was busy talking with one of his men I put my gun to his shoulder.
"Oh so you think you have guts? Go ahead sh-"
*BANG!!
I blew out his right shoulder of the arm holding the gun, he fell back and kicked the gun out of his hand, joker's men started rushing down the step and soon enough joker himself. I noticed the gun had slid under one of the patient's beds and was about to go get it when a joke was pushing through the crowd.
"What the fuck happened here? Why did you shoot Viper?"
"He had-"
"Oh great he passed out."
"He was going."
"He wasn't even an armed Quinn."
I looked over at vipers men and they didn't say anything. Fucking assholes.
"Joker, he had his gun, it just slid under the bed minutes ago."
"SO when you shot him he wasn't armed?"
"No he was armed, he had his gun to my head and was talking to one of his men while he was distracted. I shot him in the shoulder."
"Is that true."
None of the vipers ' men said anything. They just looked off to the side. I don't wrong. At the end of the day thou have to go back to viper and standing up for me was certainly not a good idea.
"Look under the third bed."
One of his guys went under the third bed and grabbed the gun. Joker took it and looked at it, he checked the clip and looked at me quite pissed.
"It wasn't even loaded."
"How was I supposed to know? He had gin to my head. I assumed it was loaded. It's not like he is dead, you yourself shot him last time he pointed a gun you didn't know if it was loaded or not."
"SHUT UP."
The room went dead quiet. I could even see it on some of the guys faces that they knew the joker was going too far.
"Give me your gun."
"What?"
"GIVE ME YOUR GUN."
I handed him my gun, he took out the clip and put it in the back of his pants.
"Clearly you aren't responsible enough to own one since you just shot someone we had a treaty with. Take care of viper then up to my office."
HE left and so did everyone else. I just stood there.Fuck me for being worried about these peoples well being. I closed the door behind them and put down my bag. The least they could have done was put him on a bed. I went to the closet and pulled out all the things the viper put away. I grabbed an apron, washed my hands and tried to pick up the bastard.
"Quinn you need help."
It was the newbie standing at the door, I didn't even hear it open.
"No you'll get blood on you, I'm good, not the first body I had to pick up."
I finally managed to ease him into one of the beds and to cut open his t-shirt.
"How can I help you hunt?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to see if you were ok."
"I haven't been ok in years, no need to worry."
I cleaned the wound and grabbed my tweezers.
"I suggest you run now his parts are a little messy."
"Ok see you later."
"Aw-huh"
I extracted the bullet and began to stitch him up. When i was done I wiped the blood off of his skin, tossed out all the used supplies and cleaned myself up. Turns out i got blood on my shoes, yip fucking hee. I took off my apron and went upstairs to Joker's office. HE was sitting there twirling my gun on his table.
"That didn't take you too long."
"..."
"What gives me the silent treatment? Come here."
I walked towards the desk and he raised one eyebrow.
"You know what i mean." Honestly I can't deal with this man sometimes. I roll my eyes and go behind his desk where he pulls me onto his lap. He rested his forehead on my neck and whispered into my ear.
"When I told you to shut up I didn't dream forever. You'll get back your gun, but you'll have to work for it, if you can get rid of three of those me down there in a week u get it back and an assistant.Or you could do it the easy way."
"Which is?"
His hand reached down and began to undo my belt but I got up swiftly and bucked it. He wasn't happy about that.
"I think I chose the hard way thanks much."
I left his office and headed downstairs into my dungeon. I began patching up a few of them who were able to travel back to viper's territory, I did team with the damn bastard himself. Well i guess i'm dying of kidney and liver failure, no that i have accepted that it's time for a drink. I pray to god I don't turn into an alcoholic.......yet. I went upstairs and as soon I did, Bill just passed me a bottle of vodka. I looked at it for a moment and thought back, a few years ago I would have never accepted dying of liver or kidney failure. I would have never accepted eventually becoming an alcoholic. No, i need to stop this now......ok starting after having a pina colada, then no more drinking for a month to confirm i'm not an alcoholic, but no more chugging bottles.
I slid the bottles back and ordered a pina colada. I walked up to the roof and pulled out the old umbrella and chair I had up there, i set them up and took a seat with my drink. As i looked at the sun i remember when we first set up our little oasis as he called it. We would grab some drinks, come up here, set up the chair, he would plop down in it and pull me into his lap. Once he made me spill my drink and I punched him in the thigh, he used to laugh. I miss those days, just me and him against the world. I sipped my drink and sighed bitterly. As soon as I took my last sip my phone rang. It was Joker, what does he want?
I folded up the chair and packed away the umbrella. I went to hsi office to find him with Scarlet on his lap. Now I really miss the old days when I had the energy to tell the bitch where she could stick her tongue.
"Why didn't you just answer the call?"
"I was on the roof.'
"Why?"
"Old memories."
"We can make new ones."
"Go fuck the skank."
Scarlet flipped her hair an ignored my comment as if I care. He slapped her on the ass making her giggle as she got off his lap and left.
"Since your here come here Quinn"
"I'm fine right here."
"I remember when you liked sitting on my lap."
"I remembered when I was the only one sitting on your lap, now I feel more comfortable at a professional distance."
"Scarlett is just a leg warmer as far as i'm concerned."
"Good for her, what do you want?"
"Choose your new assistant."
He snapped his fingers and three people walked in, three men, joker slid over three sheets of paper across his desk, they were resumes, who knew they kept resumes. I quickly looked for them and decided which would give me less trouble.
"Tik tok Quinn or i pick."
"Aaron Bates."
"Good choice, Aaron meet Quinn, Quinn Aaron, now get to work show him the ropes of course."
Aaron was about my height and weight with short black hair, grey eyes and a scar on his lip. He seemed like a chill person followed me out of the room. WHen we got downstairs there were boxes at the door, I guess these were new supplies. Aaron helped me bring them in a pack teh content away. We only had about three guys with us and they were heavily sedated.
"SO Aaron tell me about yourself."
"Well Mr.J kidnapped me from Montefiore hospital and told me i'm gonna be an assistant."
"That sounds like him, so i'm guessing you got the scar on your lip from trying to escape."
"Yeah. Where do did kidnap you from."
"Well originally he didn't kidnap me.He showed up in the rehab center i worked at, we were allowed to kind of work as our own independent hospital. he got shot and came there, i patched him up and he never left me alone, we dated for a few years and i worked for him down here full time. SHit got too real for me and I saw the monster behind the mask. Ran away he found me and killed my only friend by using a kid. Later he found out that the kid was just as twisted as Joker and joker killed him. I'm back here forced to lie with him again and at the moment is running away from being an alcoholic."
"What the fuck."
"Yeah i haven't really talked to a human being in a while head to let that out."
"You have had it worse than me. Did you fall in love?"
"Y-Yes i did, too in love."
"When did you see the monster?"
"We were supposed to meet u at this restaurant but i got there early. A guy who was looking for an easy lay for a date tried to talk to me. I told him to beat it but he didn't listen. joker married and saw him, got jealous or angry i don't know which. Next day I patch up a guy and there is the same man beaten near the point of recognition. He made me shoot him, the guy didnt do anything, but he made me shoot him. It wasn't the first time I shot someone, normally it was guys that put some of my friends in here that I had to patch up or put out of their misery so I never seemed to mind. Back then he used to hold the gun with me. That time it was an innocent lonely man. He was so cold to me that day, he was never cold to me. After that I couldn't stay, what about the next guy and the guy after that that flirts with me. I ran. When i was brought back all the guys i knew here were gone. DOnt know what happened now there are these assholes and vodka, I drank a lot of vodka."
"Who wouldn't. I was in an abusive relationship a while back. I never told anyone but ended up killing my boyfriend. His name was Rex, he was a Rn and I was a NP. I met him when I was paged to a patient's room, he was supposed to take the woman off of life support but couldn't. They needed her spot for more promising patients. I had to go do it, he was so shaken we sent lunch talking about it making sure he was ok. It wasn't my frost rodeo with the newbies. I remember the first time I had to do that I didn't sleep for weeks. No one was there to comfort me. The woman was pregnant but the baby was so mutated it would survive in the world an hour."
"Damn, I remember the first time I had to take someone off for life support. It was a little girl she was only four, she had been on life support since she was 2 and her whole life was machines. She was there when I began working, it broke my heart, Her mother was outside of the door trying to get in when she died. I had already taken the set thing off of life support, the mother pulled on my clothes and weep."
"Yeah the worst part is when the families are there. SOme of them just arent ready."
"Anyways continue about Rex."
"After that we continued to have lunch together,then dinner, and one night he invited me back to his place, we fooled around and continued for a few months. On new years we went to time square and just as the ball was about to drop he asked me to be his boyfriend, i said yes, he was so hay he went into the new years with someone. I was so obsessed with him, we moved in together and got three little corgis together and a cat. Work was what broke him though. He couldn't stand it that i was higher up than he was, he wanted me to be an RN like him.
(RN-Registered nurse and a NO is a nurse practitioner, second to a doctor.)
I refused to work too damn hard to get where I was."
``Amen to that nursing school kicks your ass for life, I'm still paying off student loans."
"Right. Anyways when we got home it was tense and he decided to break it with his hands, he began beating me for weeks until I ran out of excuses why I had bruises and quite frankly couldn't take it anymore. Just as I was about to do it, I refused. WHen we went home I ran onto the roof and was ready to make the jump. I refused to let him have what he wanted."
"You were gonna jump."
"Yeah. HE pulled me down and started punching me, I had cracked ribs, a punctured lung and a broken nose, it was when I kicked him off he went flying over the edge,it was ruled as self defence. I never told anyone. A couple months after I healed this guy came in all fucked up gunshot it was a late shift."
"You patched him up because it was ghetto ass bronx but he came back and kidnapped you."
"Yeah i guess you know that happens from there."
"Been there done that."
"So who was that woman on Mr.J's lap, I thought they were in a relationship, they made dough for like an hour before he became you."
"i knew he was with that skank. She is from another cartel or something known each other a while. I'm pretty sure he has STDs but hey he never believes."
"York mean."
"Tanks."
We both started laughing until two of the patents groaned. HE checked on them while I ordered our dinner.
"SO Aaron where do you stay."
Upstairs in one of the rooms.'
"Oh, is it nice up there? I have neer been."
"Yeah it's better than the apartment Rex and I had.'
"What happened to your pets?"
"Oh they died. I got a different breed of food for them since rex used to make it and i don't know how, they all got food poisoning."
"Oh my god I don't know what I would do without milk."
"Milam?"
"My Yorkie."
"Aww."
"Yeah she can be a bitch at times but still i love her."
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