It was a stormy night. She laid in her bed and listened to the rain as it poured down on her roof. Eventually though her drowsiness won out and she succumbed to unconsciousness. When she woke up she was still in a drowsy state, but she quickly became more alert when she looked around her and realized that she was no longer in her bedroom. The room was dimly lit by two bedside lamps.
She recognized the bedroom to be the kind that would be standard in a penthouse type of setting. She started to get up from the bed that she was in to investigate her new surroundings, but as she did she felt a pressure on her wrists and was immediately yanked back onto the bed. She looked up above her and saw that there were shackles around her wrists and that they were attached to the backboard of the bed.
"You're not going anywhere." She heard an odd, deep, raspy, kind of creepy voice say.
She looked to one side of her and saw that there was a man with his back turned to her, staring out the window, out into the city skyline. From what she could see of him he was wearing a purple trench coat, had wavy, dirty blonde hair with earthy green highlights that fell just past his chin and looked kind of oily.
He appeared to be 6 feet, 1 inch tall. He slowly turned around toward her. He was wearing what appeared to be clown makeup. His face was covered in a white, pasty powder, on his eyelids and all around his eyes he wore an excess of black eye shadow, and his lips and all the area around his mouth was covered in a red type of face paint that made him appear to be smiling, though he was not. It took her awhile to put the pieces of the puzzle together, but she eventually came to the conclusion that this man was in fact the Joker.
This startling conclusion should have made her blood run as cold as ice, it should have made her scream in blood curdling terror, it should have made her go into a wild, frenzied panic! She should have been frightened for her life! She knew this man's reputation quite well, just as everyone else in the city did. She knew that he was crazed, mad, insane; a psychotic, blood thirsty lunatic. She knew that taking other people's lives came easy to him, just like it was his second nature, but this knowledge that she had of him didn't do anything to frighten her, in the least. There was something in his aura, something that emanated from him that told her that he wasn't interested in causing her any particular
harm.
"You don't look frightened." He observed as he slowly made his way toward her.
"Strangely enough, I'm not." She admitted.
"Hmmm." He said more to himself than to her.
In an abrupt, swift motion he pulled out a switchblade and had the tip of the blade pressed ever so lightly to the side of her face.
"How about now?" He asked her.
"I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't more than a little concerned." She responded.
"Hmmm." He said once again, retracting the blade before dropping the switchblade back into the pocket of his purple denim jeans.
She looked over his face curiously, inquisitively.
"What?" He questioned.
"There's something about you." She said, her voice colored with intrigue.
"That deeply disturbs you?" He asked.
"No." She answered. "There's something about you that draws me in."
"Humph." He retorted.
"Do you mind unshackling my wrists?" She asked him.
"Why? So you can run for your life?" He questioned.