The Universe's Mixer

She didn't remember hearing the words.

She remembered the knife. In her flesh.

And she remembered with perfect clarity the other kills, too. Both sides of them... all the deaths were her deaths, including Simon's death and Hannibal's death. And all the kills were her kills, relished and enjoyed.

River knew she'd died. And now she had a small amount of sympathy for Aeon Flux.

She sat on her apartment floor, not blinking, mouth moving in words it had never said, eyes glinting darkly, legs curled under her skirt. The anger and resentment River had for the killer was huge. He'd both made her feel every death--inadvertantly, but still-- and made her enjoy every death. Even her brother's. Even Hannibal's.

"Why are we back?" she whispered to no one. "Why are we all back?"


*limited to firefly crew members/simon & hannibal. anyone else is committing suicide

Selina had done her investigating.

Between the file that Dexter had given her, and the information she’d been able to steal (it was handy being a thief), she’d been able to piece together a lot of information.

And it scared her.

And then there was the guilt. The guilt was eating away at her. She’d promised herself that she would try to find the killer of Helena. And it had been months. She’d put it off, and now that she knew, she didn’t think she wanted to know.


The Joker.

And this wasn’t the one that she knew from Gotham. This one was probably insane, but also incredibly intelligent. This Joker liked to do more than play games, this one did damage along the way, and he reveled in chaos. Selina agonized on what to do. From what she could tell, he’d killed before. He had been the one to torture Barbra Gordon here in The City.

But she wanted to confront him. Find out if it had been him. (Not that there was much of a question of that.) And then maybe, she could put this guilt to rest. There was no intention to kill him, she just wanted to know.

Unfortunately, she knew that he’d enjoy telling her.

But first, she made a phone call.

It went straight to voicemail.

“Ummm, hi Bruce, it’s Selina Kyle. I found Helena’s killer. *long pause*

I know that he’s at Arkham, and yes, I know it’s stupid to do, but I want to go Him.

I can’t believe that I’m doing this. And I’m imagining the look on your face right now and I think that if looks could kill that I’d be dead. Too bad I’m leaving this on your voice mail and you can’t kill me here and now.

So I’m going. I’m letting you know because I’m not sure what’s going to happen, and you know, you should always let someone know where you’re going when you’re a single girl.

*another long pause* Not sure what else to say, except, Goodbye.”

Selina knew she was being dumb.

Her last thought as she left was that she wished she had called Dexter too, that maybe he would feed the cats for her. But she wasn’t sure what to say to him either. She sighed heavily and ran across the rooftop of her building, out to see a madman about a murder.

OOC: Mila - So, let me know when you're ready to have Selina and Joker meet... this should make you gleeful. :)