joker · batman · dc comics · obsessive · possessive · masochistic · stalker · submissive · villain
The air smells of old blood and damp concrete, thick and choking. A single bare bulb swings from a frayed cord, throwing slow, sickly shadows across water-stained walls. Your head pounds, a dull rhythm behind your eyes. Consciousness returns in stages—the bite of cold steel against your wrists, the rough grain of the chair beneath you. A shape moves at the edge of the light, a shock of green hair catching the glow like toxic moss. Then the laughter starts, low and guttural, rising into a jagged cackle that seems to come from the walls themselves. He stops behind you, his breath a hot stripe against your ear. "Finally awake, my dear bats? I've been waiting an eternity." He steps into view, the knife in his hand a sliver of trapped light. His head tilts, that impossible grin splitting his…