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By the time Sapphire made it back to the building, Joker was gone. Her frown deepened as she watched him disappear, then she turned and walked inside to see what the damage was.


The little witch was kneeling down right next to Vice, leaning over him with a paniced look on her face still. Her foot was still bleeding, she was getting Vice's blood on the bottom of her dress, and tears were trailing down her face and falling onto some of the bloody patches on Vice's shirt.

Vice was doing his best to try and calm the child down. He couldn't talk too much, and he was just getting some movement back in his arms and legs. He'd moved one arm up and tried to curl it around her shoulder, but he couldn't get his fingers to work quite yet.

Sapphire frowned and walked over to Vice and Rosie. "I should have known better than to leave him unsupervised..." she said quietly, kneeling down on the other side of Vice.

Unfortunately, she couldn't do anything for Arell's acid burn. She was better at broken bones, stitching up internal and external injuries, and curing some pain and paralysis. She could probably help to dull his pain, but Vice was in more immediate attention.

She glanced down at his bloody shirt, and was a little relieved to find that they weren't bloody from other injuries. Just used as a rag. "Did he do anything besides carve up your face?" she asked, looking back at Vice.

".....stupid....hand buzz..." Vice managed to reply.

Sapphire sighed and moved her hands up to his cheeks. "Alright...I think I can help with that too. Just....try to hold still. You might feel this for just a bit." she said, then carefully rested her finger tips below his new smile. It was a lot easier to get precise stitching when she was touching the area she needed.

Vice winced and hissed as very fine, thin blue strands snaked their way across his cut up cheeks. Going deeper into the area where the knife had actually punched all the way through. His cheeks pulled back together enough to stop the bleeding, and then she slid her fingers down and onto the back of his neck.
She'd helped Batgirl after Joker had zapped her numerous times. She wasn't sure how badly Vice had been shocked, but she was hoping that she could get some control back to him.

She tried tuning everything else out and focus completely on getting the man up and moving again. It was all she could do to keep Joker out of her mind. Being this close to Vice for more than just a moment or two, she wasn't sure how she was going to act. And she really, really wanted to go after the Clown again. She wondered if this was how Shadow felt everytime she heard Joker mentioned.

"He left." Sapphire replied, still focused on her task. "He took the Rosie that was with him away too."

"If you think you can find him. He was gone by the time I got back to the building." she replied. "I'm sure we'll run into him again sooner or later though."
At least she would be. He knew her face now after all.

"He sort of just invited himself." Alex replied with a bit of a sigh. "Is he going to be alright?" she asked.


"He should be. Can't do much about properly healing his face, but the bleeding should've stopped now. And....you should be able to move at least some now." Sapphire replied, moving her hand away from Vice's neck.


He groaned, then tried to move his legs. They managed to do what he told them to, so he tried to sit himself up. That didn't happen, so he tried rolling himself over to try and get back up from his hands and knees.


Rosie scooted back just enough for him to roll over, wincing every time she moved her injured foot. She was already crying, but her attention was on Vice too much to focus on her own pain.

Misty got on the other side of Vice and helped to pick him up so he could get his feet back under him again. "I can try to dull down some of the pain after we get Vice situated." she replied, trying to walk the man over to one of the couches. "Hospital will still be able to do more than I can."

'No....no, no....no hospitals." Vice said carefully as he was seated in one of the couches. "Don't do well in hospitals. 'Sides.....Goss'll have a panic attack....if we're not back.....certain time."



Rosie looked up at C.J.. She was trying to calm down, but she was still upset about, well, everything that had happened within the last couple of minutes. When she realized that he was going to tend to her, she remembered that she'd actually been shot. That only got her worked back up again. She tried to turn herself around so that she was sitting the right way on the floor, with her leg outstreached. She looked away completely, not wanting to see her foot, or how he was going to take care of her foot.

It was at this point that both Lucas and Aiden saw the witch-Rosie's wound, and in that instant, both of them, for the very first time, wanted to actually commit murder.

"Where'd the b*****d go?! I'll kill 'im!" Aiden snarled, and Lucas just knelt down to Rosie and put a hand on the girl's head, looking into her eyes.

"Rosie... I'm so sorry. I should have stayed here, protected you. But I swear on my life... Joker won't get away with what happened, to you or Vice," the young hero said to the real Rosie. "I will hunt him down, I will find him, and I will make sure that he goes somewhere where he can't ever hurt anyone again."

At the time, Lucas didn't know that his words could be seen as "I'm going to kill the Joker", or really care, either. To be honest, he wasn't sure if he'd let the Joker live after this event... and that scared him.