[ WP ] - Joker seeks vengeance for the death of Batman

He was my only friend. The only one who understood me. There were times where I thought I'd do it. Thought I'd gather up the courage to pull the trigger myself, but I could n't and he knew that. We've played this cat and mouse game for years now and it all came to an end just like that. 
 
 I shuddered when I thought what I had to do. There are people that need to see this. I never thought the day would come when I had to face Gordon again..not after what I've done to him. Hopefully he'll se 
 
 It feels oddly ironic being on the opposite side of things as I carry Batman in my arms through the strong looming doors of the police department, but as I did I felt the strength in my legs disappear and fell to my knees. 
 
 I sat there with him, the top part of his head barely clinging on to the rest. All the officers point their guns and yell the same generic nonsense to try and get me to stay still. As I raise my head a commanding voice screams, `` Joker, what is the meaning of this?'' 
 
 I ca n't help myself but to feel sad. All I offer in reply is, `` Why? Why did he have to go'', I try to place the top bit off his head back on, and stroke his head a bit, but it just falls to the ground, `` Did n't the city love him. Was n't he the hero they deserved. How could they discard him like a used napkin....They need him... **I** need him'' 
 
 Gordon yells in a manner befit him, he wants to be in control, `` **JOKER** I said **WHAT** is the meaning of this?'' 
 His words snap me back into my own little reality. 
 `` Meaning? Of this? I know only a little bit more than you. Some John Wilkes Booth type went up to the nearest Grassy Knoll and did what I never could. Though I may talk tough and act tough, and on occasion I do some things I should feel ashamed of to people who do n't truly deserve it, present company included, but I really mean no harm in the end.'' 
 
 `` **NO HARM?! ** If I believed that for one second maybe I would n't be so close to squeezing the trigger. Batman is dead, and my daughter is in the hospital.'' 
 
 `` I'm no longer her to make you believe anything, the time has passed. I will find out who did this, and he will pay.'' 
 
 With a puff of smoke I quickly escape. Not before saying, `` Oh, and Gordon. Be sure to inform Alfred. He'll want to know what happened'' 
 
 It takes a long while but the clues eventually lead me to a man. He dissappointed me. He was too normal. College man with a girlfriend, plans to settle down. Why did he do it. He called himself `` An Innocent Man'' and spouted on about how he'll have no problem living a normal life. He said that he tried a bit of evil and now he can feel better knowing that doing good is more pleasurable. I could n't help but laugh. This is a man like me, but hiding behind a veil of good. He believes that he can get away with being bad, as long as he does n't like it. In that case I might be a normal man behind a crazy mask, and maybe that means I can have my chance to be good for a change. 
 
 NAHHH, that's no fun. I threw him off a bridge. 
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 ^ ( do I get bonus points for referencing the killing joke and the other bolland story `` An innocent man'' put into the anniversary edition: P )
