voice testing... /terrified faces go here

[commissioner]

...I get the feeling you're not planning to go easy on me.

[...]

That look really isn't helping, in case you were curious.

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AU Harley, or should I say Harleen?

[byebye_mistah_j]

Commissioner Gordon.

[What can she say when she aided in quite a few wrong doings to your family?]

I'm pleased to see you're here. Perhaps you can give the versions of Batman that are here some company.

aaaaahhhh harleeeeennnn, my heart, she beats aflutter... i'm sad he won't know her!!

[commissioner]

'Versions,' ma'm? [he looks perplexed; does she mean the fake Bats who had been popping up ever since the big man gained popularity?]

Aw!

[byebye_mistah_j]

It's a little hard to think about but despite us both being from Gotham city there are different universes we could be from. For instance I am from a version of Gotham where The Joker is dead.

nolanverse needed her... /single tear

[commissioner]

[dead? ...remind him later to shed a tear for that one.]

So, when you say there are different 'versions' of the Batman...

[aha. he gets it, now! there's recognition in his eyes, even if this is all a little hard to swallow. not as confusing as the prospect of being headed to a sentient magic castle, so he'll deal.]

It looks like I have some catching up to do.

[byebye_mistah_j]

Exactly. There is even a Batman from the future, basically a student of the one you and I know.

[She paused a second.]

Considering you don't recognize my face, I'm starting to wonder if there is a version of me in your world at all.

[commissioner]

[Batman with a student... that's something to think about. but she gets his attention with that--]

It's possible we haven't met if your theory is right. Are you associated with the GCPD?

[byebye_mistah_j]

In a manner of speaking. I am a reformed criminal who once went by the name of Harley Quinn.

[And now waiting for him to look at her with disapproval or going into flat-out rage. Which is pretty clear from her cringing after saying the name of her former alias.]

[commissioner]

[his brow might be arching a bit-- more in surprise than anything else, but none of the judgment is coming she might expect.]

It doesn't ring a bell... [but...]

Which I hope you won't take offense if I say might be a good thing. [it means if she's in his Gotham, either she hasn't become a criminal yet -- or she won't. if he hasn't heard the name then she hasn't been causing trouble.] Congratulations on your release. It's good to see you're making a better life for yourself.

[byebye_mistah_j]

Yes...a better life. Hopefully that will be true. I doubt Gotham will forgive and forget so easily.

[She sighs.]

You see the Joker is actually an intelligent individual that tricked a susceptible psychologist into loving him devotedly. His only failure was trying to kill me when he had no use for me, pulling the metaphorical rug out from under me. So I killed him to save my own life.

[commissioner]

[it's hard to hide the surprise on his face-- honestly, that confession stuns him and he doesn't miss the implications of what she's suggesting.

...he has a feeling he shouldn't be satisfied that the Joker met his end, in a roundabout way, through his own arrogance. but he did.

he gathers his wits; that sounds... terrible to endure.]

I'm sorry, and I wish you the best of luck getting your life together. You were put in a position no one deserves to be in.