Two Doctors Talking About Nothing and Everything

She was happy to meet her.

She truly was, she could see it in her face, in her voice, in her body language.

She was happy to meet her.

Don’t ask how she knew that, but it was true, maybe a remnant of what the pyramid did, or some secret ability from Harley Quinn… she was leaning towards the Pyramid really.

But what she couldn’t fathom is why she was happy to see her?

Harley just hoped that she wasn’t just inadvertently creating another Harley Quinn, with one of her there was just enough right now, thank you very much, but at least she wasn’t trying to be intrusive, just the usual questions.

Was she being treated well? As best as one could be treated in a mental asylum, although she understood why she was sent to Arkham, at least her bed was comfortable.

Had she been hurt the last time she escaped the institute? She was pretty sure that was a no… besides the fact that she was the only one that survived the activation of that strange pyramid, but beyond that, no, she was only tired, she only wanted to go back to sleep.

Was it true that she saved a woman’s life?

…

Excuse me?

Did she just?

Harley concentrated back into the world, not just answering back in automatic.

The walls of the office once more were real, and she focused her attention on the woman at the other side of the desk and the small smile on her face. Sandra Lin was a very beautiful woman, probably someone that wouldn’t have trouble getting a date anywhere she went, but she knew this type of women, after all, the previous host of this body had been like that once, but ended up being alone, ready to be manipulated by someone as worthless as the Joker.

She had ebony hair, so dark that it had blue highlights, which only made her look more beautiful, with big almond eyes of bright green showing the intelligence of the woman; the color probably a big sign of the mixture in her blood; but all and all, she was beautiful and she was smart, because she had shook her.

“I… I did.”

“Why did you do that Harley?”

“The name is Harleen… I won’t use Harley… never again,” the name was poisonous, too dark for her, it had too much weight that she was not going to waste time, she won’t be chained by that name and what it represented, so no, from now on, she was Harleen Quinze, better to take that name now that she looked like this.

“Alright Harleen, tell me, why did you save that woman?” This was important then.

“... because she didn’t deserve to die… because it wasn’t fair.”

“Is it fair then to help the Joker?” So that’s the reason why she wanted to do this interview.

“No it isn’t,” and for the first time, Harley saw surprise in the woman’s eyes.

“Well, that is new, usually you don’t see patients with codependency react so fast.”

“What can I say? Being almost killed by a magical artifact does have some weird side effects.”

“Just like being able to heal injuries?” Oh crap “it was not said openly, but the woman’s dress had a big blood stain; unless the blood came from the people that attacked her, then there are only two sources of where it came, and you already said you weren’t hurt,” well, this wasn’t good, so Harleen only sighed before looking at the Sandra and her maddening little smile, thinking that she was so smart, although she probably was.

“If you want to know how I did it then you know as much as I do,” Harley could already feel the gears turning up in that pretty head of the doctor, and she could also guess what would come next.

“Miss Harleen, you don’t understand, that kind of power that you have, it could do so much good in the world,” yeah right, more like make Sandra richer, or probably try to use it in some kind of scheme, why does everyone in this city have to be like that? Although, now that she thought about it, in this universe, something like that happened everywhere, is just that Gotham was always used as an example.

Just her luck, seeing that little smile on Sandra Lin turn from friendly, to fiendish; she probably thought that she was so smart, that she had her right where she wanted, and it wasn’t fair… none at all… for Sandra that is, because deep inside of Harley, she felt a ****, tugging at her, just like that moment several days ago, when she saved Renata.

She could see it in her mind, that pyramid, floating, spinning in an endless ballet on the gray void; in her mind it may be upside down, but she could see it… she could hear it.

And as she opened her eyes, Sandra Lin saw it too, from Harleen’s eyes, looking directly into her soul; the grin disappeared and she only had a moment, but she knew she had screwed up, because her ambitions, her loyalty, they were all then directed to the source of that light, to the master of the gray pyramid.

Next thing Harleen was aware of was a warm body straddling her on the chair and the loving lips of Sandra on her own.