It's taken some doing.  It's taken some digging.  It's taken some dubious promises and a hell of a lot of legwork.  But things are ready ( Read more... )

The Arkham Escape.

The old hideout.

Now comes the most important part.  Moving forward.

Two-Face hasn't spoken much in the intervening time.  Allowing Sonia to rest while he ponders the future.  How to end Rupert Thorne.

Finally, though, he approaches her with a sudden proposition.

"Harvey made you his partner." he says, evenly.  "This should not be a ( Read more... )

It's an old hideout.

Actually, it's an underground bunker in the county adjacent to Gotham City.  It's furnished, but it hasn't been touched in years.

The dust isn't pleasant, but it's a good place to lie low from the law after an asylum break.

"Pit Sweet Pit," comes the growl from Two-Face as he opens the door and activates the generator to bring ( Read more... )

Arkham Asylum
Ten minutes until midnight.Floyd left the car at the access road. Pulled it behind some scrub brush that the grounds crew still hadn't cleared out. Typical. The laziness of the Arkham employees was one of the main reasons that the place had a revolving door on it. Inmates danced in and out, seemingly at will ( Read more... )

Sonia has been back in town for a couple of days now, and is still feeling moderately refreshed. St. Roch was... a neat town. (Not Gotham. But nothing is Gotham.) And Roxy, as usual, ever the optimist - nice to be around, after spending so much time in her own head. She started missing it almost the instant she stepped on the plane back to The City ( Read more... )

Hallowthanksmas - The period of time starting in late October and ending on New Year's Eve, so named for the commercial tendency to put up Christmas displays before Halloween.

See also: Roxanne Ballantine's favorite time of year...Okay, she was a nut, and she did so very few girly things, but holidays. Come on! New boyfriend. New city....She ( Read more... )

Sonia is a person who enjoys quiet moments. Quiet and Sonia are friends - they co-exist comfortably. They understand each other ( Read more... )

When Sonia was a little kid, her parents used to take her to church. They were Catholics, sort of. They weren't fanatic about it - they didn't get up for the disturbingly early Mass, they didn't go to confession. They went to church maybe every other Sunday. Sonia didn't retain much from the sermons, except that if you were good (a vague, amorphous ( Read more... )

The man has come a long way ( Read more... )

Harvey Dent sits on the edge of his bed, inhaling a cigarette quietly in the light of the moon. His apartment actually looks... lived in for the first time since he's been here ( Read more... )