Once home, Mr Gold offered her to stay at his place, but she refused. She laid on her bed upset over her father's comment. Suddenly she heard a tap on her bedroom window. It was Joker. He was wearing a hoodie and a clown mask so no one would see him. She ran to the window and opened it for him to climb in.

"Hey, I just wanted to check you were okay. You seemed pretty quiet on the drive back, but I guess you've had a stressful day."

"...," she looked down as she shut the window. She then pulled him into a hug and broke down.

"It's okay. Let it all out. I know it must be very emotional for you," he said gently as he hugged her back.

"You can't tell them you're Joker...my dad would try to kill you if he sees you like this with me! Even if you are nice and caring towards me. He won't get over what happened with Rudy I guess."

"......that's okay. Your dad doesn't ever have to see me or meet me, Sarah. I understand why he'd have a problem. I'm a clown and a killer.... of course his daughter deserves better than that."

"...no," she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Even though...you're a villain...I still like you...you're my best friend."

He smiled slightly, "you're my best friend too, well female friend, Jackson is probably— okay I'll shut up now. The thing is, I like you too, and there's no harm us being friends in secret I don't think."

"...even if...we do become a couple...we can keep it as a secret too. I mean I know a couple that is a hero and villain...well she is an Anti-hero technically."

".....can I ask you a question? Why would an attractive young woman like you, be so hung up on a guy like me? Sarah, you could date anybody..."

"...you're anybody."

He then laughed because that was a good joke. By then noticed she wasn't laughing, "oh you're serious."

"...well...I like to know you more. You're sweet, kind, selfish...and...well...cute," takes his mask off, "you're cute without the make up...and with the makeup...I'm not afraid...some reason...I feel safe...and makes me braver than before. You make me feel brave whenever I see The Joker...I haven't had a nightmare not once since I met you of him."

"I just wanted her to like flirt you and flatter you. I really didn't know she was gonna advise you to date me. I swear!"

Joker was in shock now. That was a different Harley? Not his? He believed Sarah. It was probably just a harmless prank. Sarah probably had a different plan and Harley chose a different route to prank him.

"Well...she's a pretty good kisser, I will say that. Harleen never has kissed me like that. And don't worry. I believe you. But that was kinda strange for her to tell me to date you and not do what you had planned."

"That's Harley. I guess she saw you cute and saw the news of us fighting and decided to hook us up together. I didn't think Jackson would go along with it too."

"Oh poor Jackie, and I thought my girl ran off with him. But it was just your friend. Well, I appreciate you telling me." Joker smiled, "how about I get rid of this and I treat you some ice cream?"

"A date?"

"No...I-I am saying that because of the stress you went through today. I thought we can hang out again...as friends."

"Alright," Sarah blushed.

"I know a secret place...someone knows me and can keep a secret."

"Okay, great. Hopefully no one will recognize the two of us together if we go someplace on the outskirts of town"

"Oh really. That's intriguing. Where is this secret place?"

"Come on, I will take you."

Once he got his makeup off and wore regular clothes, they went to a quiet part of Gotham to an ice cream stand and Horace was there. He was a nice old man and good friends with Bruce and Sarah.

"Hang on a second..." Arthur frowned and began walking towards them, until he was storming up to them "HARLEY!!" he screamed, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"

Harleen jumped seeing him, "oh hi, Cuttlefish."

She only called him that when she was guilty and he hated that name.

"Don't you cuttlefish me! What the f*ck are you doing smooching with some other guy?!" Arthur then grabbed the guy by his jacket "who the f*ck do you think you're messing with?! That's my girl!"

"Your girl? Babe who is this punk?"

"No one, Terrance. He's my...cousin."

"Oh I could see the resemblance." Terrance smirked, and grabbed Arthur by his shirt collar lifting him form the ground. He was more stronger than him.

Oh no, Sarah gasped and ran over, "hey hey hey, you don't want to hurt him!"

"No..." Arthur then pulled out his gun and pointed it in the man's face "you really don't want to do that. It won't end well for you!"

"What do you mean, your man! You said he was your cousin!" Terrance dropped Arthur, and was looking annoyed with Harley now.

"Let her go!" Joker grabbed Harley's wrist and forced her to let Sarah go "you started this! Now you're coming with me someplace where we can talk things over!"

Harleen frowned and kicked him hard which he fell onto the pavement. "Was, Terrance! Listen, Mr J, it was fun, but I found someone stronger and better. You're just a scared little whimp."

Arthur growled as he stood up "I'll show you what a scared little wimp I am!! You better not come crawling back to me, Harley. Oh and FYI, the other Harley is A BETTER KISSER!"

"...what!? Other?! WHO THE HE** KISSED YOU!?" She screamed. She then punched him in the face breaking his nose.

"Arthur!" Sarah ran to him, "you better leave now, or I will call the cops!"

Harleen grabbed her by her neck, "oh yeah? Why even bother, little sl*t? If I see you with this punk, I will give you to The Joker~"

Sarah shivered hearing that name.

"Yeah, that's right, I know you are, The Joker's f*ck toy." She then threw her down and Sarah roamed in pain.

"Harleen..." as Harleen turned around Arthur slapped her hard across the face "if you act like a little b*tch then I'm going to treat you like one!" he then helped Sarah to stand "you better stay the hell away from us, or you'll be sorry!"

"Awe, such an ugly couple. But she needs an uglier man with her. You know who." She frowned at Arthur and left with Terrance. Terrance even frowned at them and they left.

Sarah turned to Arthur seeing large amounts of blood dripping from his nose, "Artie...come on, I will take you back to my place and fix you up...I'm sorry..."

Once at her apartment George made some tea for them while Sarah tended Arthur's broken nose.

"Ouch!" Arthur flinched with pain even as Sarah very gently wiped the blood away "I should've broken her nose too! Made her even more ugly" he growled.

"...," Sarah sighed and as she tended his nose, suddenly her hand glowed like her body did when she healed herself. She then slowly rested on Arthur and his nose was healed. "...ok, so I can heal myself...and heal others..., you ok?"

Arthur was in shock. He carefully felt his nose. He then got up and looked in the mirror "oh wow. That's impressive! Thank you, Sarah."

"...you're welcome. Dang that's the first I ever healed anyone. If I can heal myself...and others, what is my talent?" She seemed excited to know more of her true powers since she never gotten them until now.

George sensed he knew, but he didn't want to tell, besides he was learning to know Arthur. He usually talked if there was only two people in the room, but more than that, he was quiet, probably he was shy around a crowd.

The little chimp came and handed them two mugs of herbal tea.

"This also should help you," Sarah blushed.

Arthur took a sip of the tea. It was very good. He was surprised that a monkey could make great tea. "It's delicious. He did an amazing job."

George smiled and blushed, "ah!" He then giggled.

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"So did you teach him to make tea like this?" Arthur asked her, "I know monkeys are super intelligent....even if they are....monkey- looking," he joked.

"He learned it on his own," she smiled. "He knows how to fight though, as you saw the other night."

"How did your uncle get him?"

"Oh...he was an orphan. My uncle, Bruce Wayne, went to Africa and there they met, George then followed him, but once in Gotham he was caught by zookeepers. Bruce recognized him and decided to buy him. George then was given to me and he instantly fell for me like I was an older sister to him. I consider him also as a little brother."

Arthur smiled. He also was surprised her uncle was Bruce Wayne. "Wait...does that mean Bruce Wayne is..."

"Uhhh..."

"I won't tell," he smiled.

"If you see or around him, please don't act like you know who he really is, he will get mad at me."

"I get that and I won't. Besides, I think Batsy doesn't like me that much."

"No...he doesn't sadly."

"I figured," Arthur sighed. She was now cleaning the blood off his face now, "I'm not the likeable kind of guy."

"...I like you." Sarah smiled.

"You do, because you're my best friend." Arthur smiled.

"...because you're sweet, kind, brave, loving, selfish, caring, and you put others first before yourself," Sarah smiled, "I think a lot more girls would like you for that."

Arthur dropped his head and shook his head, "they don't..."

"Well...," she pulled his chin up to face her. "I do. And I don't care if you're a villain and I am a hero, I would love to...date you."

Arthur sighed. She was so kind, and she always says those words of what she thought of him. Why? Why did she kept saying those things? No one seemed to noticed. Well...maybe she was telling the truth about him. He wanted someone for so long to tell him those things. And hearing her say it made his heart thump, as if it hadn't for a long time, like he was dead forever and was just brought back to life, and that never happened do him, ".....you're so sweet and kind to me. And I need to know....how much do you know about me? I mean, you're the first person to see the hood in me, but I also have to be honest about all of the bad, because I want to be completely honest with you. I'm more than just a gangster, I've done worse things. You should know that. I don't want to hide anything from you."

"I do know you're Joker. You must've had a bad past to have come out like this, but yet stay a good Arthur. I like to know a lot more about you. Even how short we met, I know a lot of the good about you."  She then kissed his cheek making him blush at her. Usually she was shy to kiss him, but she felt she was in a spell.

"I've killed people," he admitted, "my own adoptive mother, a bad co worker, even....i was responsible for the death of your uncles' parents. I killed my idol, a talk show host, and bullies who beat me on a train....then a therapist in Arkham..." he took a deep breath, "I have a lot of darkness in me. But the good is still in there, fighting to come out. It means a lot that you see the good in me."

She smiled, "as long as you know what you have done is wrong, that's a start of fixing your life back on track. All that is the past. And from what I heard from my mom, her parents weren't the greatest before Max and Reberta adopted her and her sisters and one of her brothers. Alfred thought it was the best they separated and forget their past life." Holds his face and soon he tears up. "It's ok."

Arthur blinked his tears away and nodded "I know I've done a lot of wrong. But some of it I don't regret. There's a lot of anger in me, suppressed from my childhood and how I was treated my entire life. Joker was freedom. I could fight back and I wasn't afraid anymore."

Sarah pulled him into a hug.

Arthur was surprised. He was expecting her to stop being his friend, but she stuck with him. She then brushed his tears away. He then kissed his forehead, "I know a better freedom than Joker, but...I won't push you to go there, I know people don't like to be forced. I will just show you. For what it made me better and stronger person." She wrapped her arms around his neck and held him in a comforting way. "By being your best friend. And who's knows after that."

Arthur hugged her back and gripped on her. She was so kind towards him.

"Do you want to spend the night here, or call
your folks? Or...?"

"Or what?"

"Call Jackson to take you back to your hideout?" Sarah asked.

He then shook his head. "...maybe I can...stay here...I will sleep on the couch."

"You don't want to go to your folks?"

"I don't want to be a bother." Arthur sighed, "maybe I am being a bother here. How about I get a hotel."

"Oh no no no. It's ok. Whatever you are comfortable with, I am good whatever you are ok with. You want me to call Jackson to get you extra clothes?"

Arthur nodded, "could you?"

Sarah grabbed her phone, "of course." She kissed his cheek and grabbed her phone. She then blushed realizing what she just did. He then blushed at her as well.

He then opened her window and leaned out to smoke a cigarette while she made the call to Jackson.

"Tell him to bring my lounge pants and a t.shirt for me to sleep in," he said, "oh and clean underwear and socks of course."

"...you got that?...ok." She then hang up, "he is on his way. Would you like anything?"

"I'm good thank you. Seriously I don't want to impose on you. Except for maybe...could I take a shower once Jackson drops off my stuff?"

"...not at all. You can use my shampoo and stuff," she offered.

"So my hair can also smell of vanilla with a hint of lavender and peach," his smile then dropped slighty when he realized she might wonder why or how he was so specific over the smell of her hair.

"...what?" She giggled, "is my scent that strong?" She couldn't help, but laugh, "I do use a lot."

"....it's not actually all that strong. I just have a keen nose for scents. And I have on occasion....maybe.... accidentally smelled your hair," he admitted.

"...do you like the smell?" She giggled. She was kinda weirded out, but also not, because he wasn't a perv or some old man. He was just some sweetheart.

"Yeah it's nice. I think... the first time I smelled it was when we faked the fight and you had me pinned, and your hair was kinda in my face," he chuckled.

"...," she giggled, but softly this time, she bit her lip and looked down shyly, "well...thank you..."

"You're welcome," he smiled as he finished his cigarette and tossed it away, "your lips tasted of raspberries. Do you use some kind of lip balm?" he blurted.

"...no?" Sarah blushed more, "I don't use...makeup. I feel like no guy would like for me. So I don't like using makeup."

"Oh, I thought maybe you had like a chapstick on or something. Not so much makeup. Maybe you just ate or drank something raspberry flavored that day," he blushed, "you don't need to wear makeup. You have a natural beauty already."

"..thank you...you're the only person that has said that to me...besides your dad," she giggled.

"It figures my dad would say it, he's very honest man. It's only the truth. You are pretty, Sarah."

"...thank you, Arthur," she looked like she was about to tear up. Maybe because she never heard enough of it from anyone, but her family. And his.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. It's just something you need to hear I think."

just then he saw through the window that Jackson arrived
"I can go, you don't have to," he smiled, he then climbed out of the window and headed down the fire escape.

"I did... I just never hear it from anyone else besides my family or your folks say it. No guy even ones I liked never said it...except...Reed. Rudy never said it...or Dr Crane..."

"Why would Dr Crane be talking...," Arthur looked at her surprised, "did you both...date?"

"We were seeing each other, but weren't boyfriend and girlfriend...and I ended the relationship..."

".....right" he felt awkward now, going quiet. He was glad when Jackson arrived and he went to collect his things from him.

"Jackie, are you coming inside for a bit? The monkey makes pretty good tea. It tasted like perfume but I kind of liked it in a weird way."

Jackson chuckled and nodded coming in, "hey, Georgie, I like a cup of that tea!"

George smiled and poured him a mug of herbal tea. Arthur took the bag with his clothes in and figured he'd have his shower while Jackson was there to keep Sarah company.

"So...." Jackson said with a slight smile, "...he's staying again."

"...yeah. He doesn't want to stay with his folks and he almost freaked out to go to the hideout. I guess...because of...Harleen..."

"Harleen won't come back there if she knows what's good for her. I heard she busted his nose after he caught her cheating again. Did he hit her?"

"...he punched her because she put it all on me and threatened me to stay away from him or she would...take me to...The Joker," she shivered.

Jackson grimaced, "as evil as that was for her to say, he shouldn't retaliate like that. They've cheated on each other before and he shouldn't slap her around. He should just walk away once and for all and let it rest, but no. His pride gets in the way."

"...she even called me...The Joker's f*ck toy...and I guess he wanted to protect me."

"I don't doubt it, but his behavior is toxic whenever he's around her. I know you always want to see the best in your crush, but don't let your feelings cloud your judgement. I think you'd be good for him, but you'd have to be stern with him, Sarah."

"....," she then nodded, "thank you. I want what's best for him too, otherwise he may go back to her and loose his family all over again."

Jackson nodded, "if he goes back to her they'd end up killing each other I think. Neither of them let the other go for long. Even when they're seeing other people. We need to keep them apart somehow."

She nods. Suddenly Arthur came out in his pajamas and drying his hair with a towel. Sarah ran to him and hugged him tightly.

Arthur jumped slightly, "....is....everything okay? Did you miss me that much?" he chuckled.

Jackson smirked as he drank his tea.

She nodded. She didn't want to speak. "You can also stay as long as you want here," she whispered still hugging into him.

"....oh. Thank you," he smiled shyly, "....thats very kind of you but I wouldn't want to be a bother. I can stay with Jackie if i don't go back to the hideout."

"Oh you don't want to...since Harley trashed the place, so it will take a long time to clean," Jackson almost spat his tea so he had to make up an excuse.

"Harley trashed the place?!" Arthur frowned "that b*tch! Just wait until I set eyes on her again!" he growled and went to grab his phone to call her.

"Uh, I'll get your phone boss" Jackson said, stalling. When he found his phone in his jacket pocket he switched a couple of digits in her number around.

"Thanks" Arthur snatched the phone from him when Jackson handed it to him. He then went into the other room to call her.

"I changed the number" Jackson whispered to Sarah, "in the meantime....you could drug him and when he wakes up pretend you two slept together. Then tell him you're pregnant. He wouldn't go back to her then."

"W-what!? My parents would kill me!"

"Just trust me." Jackson whispered.

Sarah sighed. She then grabbed some stuff with Jackson and placed it in Arthur's tea and George poured more.

"Can't believe I'm doing this," she sighed.

Soon he came out and once he did, Jackson took his phone and put it in his pocket.

"Well, time for me to hit the old dusty old trail. Night, ladies," he teased and left through the window....by the way....you'll have to make sure it's believable when he wakes up, so be sure to remove some of his clothes, maybe just leave him in his underwear," he then quickly left before Sarah could argue with him.

Arthur was now drinking the tea, "it's funny, I think Harley must've changed her number," he huffed, "sooner or later she'll call me, then they'll be hell to pay. Nobody trashes my hideout and—," he then paused and did a slow blink, "funny, my head feels a little woozy."

"Maybe you should lie down...," Sarah suggested.

"Good idea!" He smiled drunkly like, but then he falls face down to the carpet. She jumped didn't expect this. She then turned to George. "Maybe you should stay with Gold and Belle for the night?"

George looked at her concerned.

"I will be fine. I mean I've seen...men's...bodies...well body before."

He knew who she was talking about, so he saluted and left the door, waving goodbye. Sarah sighed and tried to drag Arthur into her bedroom. "079–"

"No." He spoke from the Omnitrix.

"Please?"

He sighed and came out. He then picked up Arthur like he was nothing and laid him the bed. "The rest is on you, not me!" He then got inside her Omnitrix. She then sighed.