Mr. Gordon's Fears: A Narrative Fiction

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Fears

Gotham 's skies had grown dark, almost crepuscular as the rusty sky traced with black clouds full of horror reminded every citizen he had won. Will there ever be a blue sky again? Or a smile on a young child 's face? Will there ever be a look of happiness in the teenagers eyes that wasn 't traced with fright? Scarecrow doubted this and he smiled at the thought. Jonathan Crane wasn 't insane, he wasn 't a maniac unlike the doctors at Arkham thought, if they were doctors at all. He smirked. He was just evil. A pure evil ran through his veins, the scent of malice on his skin. Do you know what happens when a man refuses to be controlled by his fears? He must face them! And they did, every single one of them, and Jonathan watched as the minds of Gotham crippled into insanity, haunted by their fears. He witnessed them beg for mercy as the fear toxin attacked them and only when they were begging for death did he finally kill them. He never thought being
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What are you really afraid of?" At the end of the words, slim needles pressed into her skin, the muscles became numb which was replaced by a dull ache. Barbara 's veins swelled and became a green colour that glowed. At first Barbra thought the toxin hadn 't worked, she felt normal, but then Jonathan began to fade and all that surrounded her was darkness. The thick darkness engulfed her and she couldn 't escape out of it, her arms and legs were unable to move - she tried shouting but no words escaped her mouth only hot breath. Then in the distance a voice was mumbling to itself, she strained her ears to listen and found it wasn 't talking, but laughing. She heard it more clearly now and confirmed it was laughter, then the darkness took a form. Feet crept closer to her and the laughter developed into high pitch giggles, but wails were amongst them and she noticed she wasn 't lying in silence but screaming while standing up, only she was stricken with fear and could not

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