Post by fosforito on Jan 16, 2006 17:21:26 GMT -5
Hey girls!
Sorry for letting you waiting so long but currently med school is really demanding all my attention .. one exam is following after the other
But I´ll do my best to update soon again.
here´s chapter 32..
Hope you´ll like it
Sorry for letting you waiting so long but currently med school is really demanding all my attention .. one exam is following after the other
But I´ll do my best to update soon again.
here´s chapter 32..
Hope you´ll like it
Chapter 32 (Going out of Gotham!)
Jonathan had been awake very early already and had sneaked into the kitchen with his briefcase without making a noise to throw away the used syringe from last night and to check the other ones for the upcoming days.
Jonathan knew he had already passed over the recommended dose per injection but secretly he was hoping that another environment would withdraw the fertile soil from Scarecrow. All these years, when he had been to this place, it always had worked out good for him. Jonathan hoped it would work out this time again, if he would be there now with Alexandra.
Alexandra was still sleeping when Jonathan came out of the shower and put his clothes on. He stole a glance at his toxin-system which he kept it in a secret compartment of his closet.
`No, I won´t need that.´, Jonathan thought.`This here is mine. The time together with Alexandra is my time and not Scarecrow´s time.´
Jonathan locked the secret compartment again, pulled a big travelling bag out of the closet and started to pack it for their upcoming trip. First he didn´t notice that Alexandra had been awaken in the meantime and she was watching him without saying a word, supporting her head with her hand.
Jonathan was wearing dark blue jeans, a black sweatshirt and dark shoes made of smooth leather. He looked casual but also dressy in his own way and the dark colors of his clothing emphasized his piercing blue eyes even more. The fact that he was wearing his glasses didn´t make a difference.
Alexandra remembered their night in the cabin so many years ago, how beautiful he had been
- and how beautiful he still was.
"How beautiful you are, Jonathan Thomas Crane.", she said softly and he gazed over to her, startled lightly.
"Oh, I haven´t noticed you are awake.", Jonathan responded, walked over to Alexandra, squated down in front of the edge of the bed and kissed Alexandra softly. "I´m sorry, I didn´t want to wake you up."
"No worries, you didn´t at all.", she said in a low voice and her other hand ran through Jonathan’s thick black hair.
Jonathan had noticed how exhausted Alexandra had been last night and as badly as he wanted to get out of Gotham with her, he also wanted her to feel better. He realized that Alexandra have had a nervous breakdown last night and he could remember how bad he felt just days ago. But he also realized that his breakdown wasn´t comparable to Alexandra´s.
"What about breakfast?", Jonathan wanted to know and touched Alexandra´s cheek.
"No.", Alexandra replied. "Let´s get out of Gotham and have breakfast somewhere on the road, agreed?"
"Okay, agreed.", Jonathan said softly and he was glad, that she was saying that - because of some reason an inner anxiety suddenly spread inside him and in his mind, he could hear Scarecrow´s dark grudge again.
`No, it´s too early, I can´t take another injection again now.´, Jonathan thought.
"I´ll hurry up.", Alexandra said, got out of the bed and went into the bathroom and for a split second Jonathan was thinking that she could read his mind.
`Maybe Alexandra and I have the same idea.´, Jonathan thought and gazed after Alexandra. `Maybe she wants to get out of Gotham as fast as possible, too – and she doesn´t know what a favor she is doing to me with it.´
***
While Alexandra was taking a shower, Jonathan finished to pack his travelling bag and brought it and his briefcase down into the parking-garage to his car.
After he got to his car, Jonathan took the prepared syringes out of the briefcase and packed them into his bag. In doing so, he casted a glance at the mask – Scarecrow´s mask.
*"Do you think you can just ignore me?"*, he could hear Scarecrow whispering in a low voice.
"I can´t hear you, I can´t hear you.", Jonathan said aloud and his voice echoed through the parking-garage when he closed the zipper of his bag and stowed it away in the trunk of his Jaguar.
*"Do you really believe that some rediculous injections would stop me?!"*, Scarecrow hissed and laughed. *"What a slacker you are, Jonathan! You´re nothing else then a little mean freak! Making an idiot out of yourself and all this because of a woman! I´m ashamed of you! "*
„I´m ashamed of the fact that I had allowed you to control my life all over the years! I was so stupid, all those long years!", Jonathan hissed back. „But this will change now."
*"Stupidity! So you´re saying that everything I´ve done for you was just stupidity?!"*, Scarecrow yelled. *"This what you´re doing NOW is stupidity! Waisting your intellect and your genius! You´re so blind and so dull of love that you don´t see anymore what your genius is capable of, what power you could achieve! But instead, you prefer to put yourself up with something under your dignity and deny your true mission!"*
Even before Jonathan could say anything, Scarecrow´s strawy hand gripped the mask lying in the briefcase and held it up in front of Jonathan´s face.
*"THIS is your mission, Jonathan! THIS is what you are! I am you! So stop fighting me! I am your destiny. I am the way be meant for you and nobody will do anything about it!"*
„Oh no, no!", Jonathan shouted aloud and shook his head. „Somebody will do anything about it and this person will be me! And I know, Alexandra will help me getting through this! She will support me. I will tell her about you and I know she will understand me."
*"Oh no, don´t you dare to do this!"*, Scarecrow yelled, when Jonathan placed the mask back into the briefcase with shaking hands and locked it. *"You won´t tell anybody about me, did you hear me, Jonathan?! Nobody supports you as much as I do, your intelligence, your genius, your.."*
"Dammit! Shut up! Shut the f*ck up!", Jonathan yelled as loud as he could while slamming the trunk-door down."I´m sick and tired of your silly talk! Leave me alone for God´s sake and finally get out off my life!“
"Dr. Crane, is everything okay with you?", he suddenly could hear a dark female voice shouting and Jonathan whisked round.
He recognized Mrs. Williams, a stocky woman in her 50ties. Mrs. Williams was living on the 3rd floor and she was professor of mathematics at Gotham University. Jonathan didn´t know her well and most of the time he met her in the parking-garage, greeting her shortly.
"I apologize for my curse, Professor Williams.", Jonathan replied, blushing lightly and now he realized that Scarecrow was silent. "I fear I got very loud."
"Well, I was shocked.", Mrs. Williams said. "I never heard you talking like this before."
"I´m so sorry, it wasn´t my intention to scare you. I just have been very angry about something.", Jonathan interrupted her.
"Well, we are all just human, Dr. Crane.", Mrs. Williams responded while unlocking the door to her car. "But I wish you a nice day though."
"For you too, Professor Williams.", Jonathan said when the stocky woman got into the car and started the motor.
Scarecrow was about to say something but Jonathan hissed in a low voice "Don´t even think of saying a tone." when Mrs. Williams drove out of the parking-garage and Jonathan stepped into the elevator to get back to the penthouse.
Jonathan had been awake very early already and had sneaked into the kitchen with his briefcase without making a noise to throw away the used syringe from last night and to check the other ones for the upcoming days.
Jonathan knew he had already passed over the recommended dose per injection but secretly he was hoping that another environment would withdraw the fertile soil from Scarecrow. All these years, when he had been to this place, it always had worked out good for him. Jonathan hoped it would work out this time again, if he would be there now with Alexandra.
Alexandra was still sleeping when Jonathan came out of the shower and put his clothes on. He stole a glance at his toxin-system which he kept it in a secret compartment of his closet.
`No, I won´t need that.´, Jonathan thought.`This here is mine. The time together with Alexandra is my time and not Scarecrow´s time.´
Jonathan locked the secret compartment again, pulled a big travelling bag out of the closet and started to pack it for their upcoming trip. First he didn´t notice that Alexandra had been awaken in the meantime and she was watching him without saying a word, supporting her head with her hand.
Jonathan was wearing dark blue jeans, a black sweatshirt and dark shoes made of smooth leather. He looked casual but also dressy in his own way and the dark colors of his clothing emphasized his piercing blue eyes even more. The fact that he was wearing his glasses didn´t make a difference.
Alexandra remembered their night in the cabin so many years ago, how beautiful he had been
- and how beautiful he still was.
"How beautiful you are, Jonathan Thomas Crane.", she said softly and he gazed over to her, startled lightly.
"Oh, I haven´t noticed you are awake.", Jonathan responded, walked over to Alexandra, squated down in front of the edge of the bed and kissed Alexandra softly. "I´m sorry, I didn´t want to wake you up."
"No worries, you didn´t at all.", she said in a low voice and her other hand ran through Jonathan’s thick black hair.
Jonathan had noticed how exhausted Alexandra had been last night and as badly as he wanted to get out of Gotham with her, he also wanted her to feel better. He realized that Alexandra have had a nervous breakdown last night and he could remember how bad he felt just days ago. But he also realized that his breakdown wasn´t comparable to Alexandra´s.
"What about breakfast?", Jonathan wanted to know and touched Alexandra´s cheek.
"No.", Alexandra replied. "Let´s get out of Gotham and have breakfast somewhere on the road, agreed?"
"Okay, agreed.", Jonathan said softly and he was glad, that she was saying that - because of some reason an inner anxiety suddenly spread inside him and in his mind, he could hear Scarecrow´s dark grudge again.
`No, it´s too early, I can´t take another injection again now.´, Jonathan thought.
"I´ll hurry up.", Alexandra said, got out of the bed and went into the bathroom and for a split second Jonathan was thinking that she could read his mind.
`Maybe Alexandra and I have the same idea.´, Jonathan thought and gazed after Alexandra. `Maybe she wants to get out of Gotham as fast as possible, too – and she doesn´t know what a favor she is doing to me with it.´
***
While Alexandra was taking a shower, Jonathan finished to pack his travelling bag and brought it and his briefcase down into the parking-garage to his car.
After he got to his car, Jonathan took the prepared syringes out of the briefcase and packed them into his bag. In doing so, he casted a glance at the mask – Scarecrow´s mask.
*"Do you think you can just ignore me?"*, he could hear Scarecrow whispering in a low voice.
"I can´t hear you, I can´t hear you.", Jonathan said aloud and his voice echoed through the parking-garage when he closed the zipper of his bag and stowed it away in the trunk of his Jaguar.
*"Do you really believe that some rediculous injections would stop me?!"*, Scarecrow hissed and laughed. *"What a slacker you are, Jonathan! You´re nothing else then a little mean freak! Making an idiot out of yourself and all this because of a woman! I´m ashamed of you! "*
„I´m ashamed of the fact that I had allowed you to control my life all over the years! I was so stupid, all those long years!", Jonathan hissed back. „But this will change now."
*"Stupidity! So you´re saying that everything I´ve done for you was just stupidity?!"*, Scarecrow yelled. *"This what you´re doing NOW is stupidity! Waisting your intellect and your genius! You´re so blind and so dull of love that you don´t see anymore what your genius is capable of, what power you could achieve! But instead, you prefer to put yourself up with something under your dignity and deny your true mission!"*
Even before Jonathan could say anything, Scarecrow´s strawy hand gripped the mask lying in the briefcase and held it up in front of Jonathan´s face.
*"THIS is your mission, Jonathan! THIS is what you are! I am you! So stop fighting me! I am your destiny. I am the way be meant for you and nobody will do anything about it!"*
„Oh no, no!", Jonathan shouted aloud and shook his head. „Somebody will do anything about it and this person will be me! And I know, Alexandra will help me getting through this! She will support me. I will tell her about you and I know she will understand me."
*"Oh no, don´t you dare to do this!"*, Scarecrow yelled, when Jonathan placed the mask back into the briefcase with shaking hands and locked it. *"You won´t tell anybody about me, did you hear me, Jonathan?! Nobody supports you as much as I do, your intelligence, your genius, your.."*
"Dammit! Shut up! Shut the f*ck up!", Jonathan yelled as loud as he could while slamming the trunk-door down."I´m sick and tired of your silly talk! Leave me alone for God´s sake and finally get out off my life!“
"Dr. Crane, is everything okay with you?", he suddenly could hear a dark female voice shouting and Jonathan whisked round.
He recognized Mrs. Williams, a stocky woman in her 50ties. Mrs. Williams was living on the 3rd floor and she was professor of mathematics at Gotham University. Jonathan didn´t know her well and most of the time he met her in the parking-garage, greeting her shortly.
"I apologize for my curse, Professor Williams.", Jonathan replied, blushing lightly and now he realized that Scarecrow was silent. "I fear I got very loud."
"Well, I was shocked.", Mrs. Williams said. "I never heard you talking like this before."
"I´m so sorry, it wasn´t my intention to scare you. I just have been very angry about something.", Jonathan interrupted her.
"Well, we are all just human, Dr. Crane.", Mrs. Williams responded while unlocking the door to her car. "But I wish you a nice day though."
"For you too, Professor Williams.", Jonathan said when the stocky woman got into the car and started the motor.
Scarecrow was about to say something but Jonathan hissed in a low voice "Don´t even think of saying a tone." when Mrs. Williams drove out of the parking-garage and Jonathan stepped into the elevator to get back to the penthouse.
Anyways, it was great how you could see their uneasiness and fear slowly subsiding as they got further and further out of Gotham city. It's obvious they're leaving all their troubles behind them and you can't help but be happy for them. I also loved how Jon and Alex are not alike in every way, having different taste in music and how they are still learning things about eachother and teaching eachother new things. Oh and Jonathan singing was such a nice bonus! So cute! Now I'll be waiting eagerly to see what this "surprise" is! Or should I say, where!