A/N: Hey babies! How is everyone?! Well let me get to the bit where I explain this idea yeah? Well basically it's that I've been reading a few Joker/OC and Joker/Reader stories and I decided to try my hand at it! I really hope you guys will read and review so I know if it's worth continuing since it's my first Joker/OC. With that out of the way please enjoy and let me know what you think.
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"1 and 2 and 3, and turn. Bend your knees a bit more Victoria, good!"
Audrina smiled at the row of little girls in their fluffy pink tutus, colorful rompers, and little ballet shoes watching carefully as they did their positions on her count to the best of their abilities. Her blue eyes moved down the line stopping on the smallest of her class, a little girl with black pigtails struggling.
"Let's take a break girls, Lillian come here please."
All the other girls moved away from the railed mirrors and scattered about the room in their little groups talking in quiet voices some taking off their shoes and rubbing their feet. Audrina kneeled down as Lillian walked over to her head down hands folded behind her back.
"I'm sorry Miss Prince."
Audrina placed a finger under the child's chin making her look up her brown eyes watery.
"Sorry? Whatever in the world for darling?"
Lillian sniffles wiping her eyes.
"I can't dance as good as the rest."
Audrina chuckled softly.
"You don't need to apologize for that darling, everybody learns in their own time even the best of dancers struggled sometimes."
The girl raised her chocolate eyes to meet Audrina's crystal blue ones.
"Even you Miss Prince?"
Audrina smiled and nodded.
"Yes Lillian, even me. When I was your age I had to work extra hard to get the hang of things and with just a little more practice you can be an amazing dancer I know it!"
Lillian smiled brightly nodding excitedly.
"I'm gonna be the best dancer ever! Just you wait Miss Prince!"
Audrina chuckled getting to her feet again.
"I know you will Lillian, just keep that dream clear in your head and practice then before you know it it'll have come true."
The girl giggled excitedly and went back to the failed mirror and started practicing the moves they had been doing. Looking at the clock Audrina sighed before clapping her hands.
"Okay girl's gather around."
The girl's all got up and hurried over standing in front of her making her smile.
"Now as you all know your first recital is next week, you all have your outfits yes?"
All the girls nodded smiled crossing their mouths and excitement glittering in their eyes.
"Good, now where do you all have your parents drop you off?"
"The theater!"
Audrina smiled as they all answered in a loud choirs.
"Very good! And what time are you to be there?"
"Six o'clock not a moment later!"
Another chorus answered her making her chuckle and nod.
"Excellent girls! Okay now go ahead and take off your shoes and put them away for the day, your parents should be here any moment."
The girl's all departed giggling and talking excitedly leaving Audrina to shake her head but turn back to the mirrors seeing Lillian still practicing.
"Lillian, it's time to go home darling."
The girl looked up at her with a pouty look.
"Just a bit longer please Miss Prince?"
Audrina smiled at the girl's determination and walked up to stand behind her at the rail.
"Alright, we'll practice together. Ready?"
The child nodded excitedly taking her position.
"1 and 2 and 3, now turn. Again 1 and 2 and 3, bend those knees Lillian, good!"
Their little session went on for another 15 minutes before Lillian's mother arrived, at first the girl was too busy asking questions to notice as they took off their shoes.
"How come your shoes are red Miss Prince?"
Audrina smiled at her shoes as she slipped them off.
"Because they are very special Lillian, they were from when I used to be a very popular dancer."
Lillian's smile widened.
"You were a star Miss Prince?"
Audrina nodded glancing up as Lillian's mom entered the room holding the girl's coat.
"Yes I did darling, a very bright star."
Lillian's smile fell as her little brows knitted together.
"What happened? Did you get hurt?"
Audrina shook her head getting to her feet then helping Lillian up.
"No not at all, I quit. I quit dancing and being a star so that I could share what I learned with brilliant little girls like you. Now run along your mother has been waiting so patiently for you."
Lillian smiled again before hurrying off to her mother then leaving the school. Audrina sighed lightly crossing her arms and shaking her head as she walked back to her dressing room that doubled at her office in the small building, carrying her silky red ballet shoes in her hand. As she entered the room she set the shoes off to the side before sitting in front of the small table in the corner that held a mirror and a few makeup items, she took her bright red hair out of the tight bun she'd had it pinned in and sighed contentedly as it cascaded down over her shoulders in soft waves.
"Much better."
She ran her fingers through her locks before moving on to remove the little makeup she had on but paused as something in the corner of the mirror caught her eye. Turning around she got to her feet and slowly walked to her desk looking down at what was placed on the top of a stack of papers. Sitting there innocently was a pure white rose with a lush royal purple bow tied gently around its dark green stem. Brows knitting together she tentatively lifted the flower as if it were a snake waiting to strike as she ran her fingers over the bow, memories flashed back into her mind making her sit down in her chair eyes locked on the flower.
It was her very last performance in Gotham City Theater of the Arts, and her last performance anywhere, and it seemed all the city's elite was there, hell maybe even all of Gotham, to see her dance. At the very end of the show when she returned to her dressing room with a bouquet of flowers, courtesy of one Mr. Bruce Wayne, in her arms and the sound of the crowd behind her she bumped into a man dressed in a suit and fancy leather shoes, she couldn't see his face because he wore a hat that cast shadow over his features but she caught a whiff of cologne. He growled an 'excuse me' before continuing to walk briskly down the hall.
She'd shaken her head and passed it off as one of the husbands of the other female dancers in the show and continued to her dressing room. As she entered she set the flowers down on the little love seat by the door and walked to her vanity table letting her hair down. It was then she seen it, tucked neatly into the lower corner of the mirror, a snowy white rose with a lush royal purple ribbon bow tied around its dark stem. That was the first time the blossom had appeared and when she'd asked anyone else about it no one had any clue, even the security guards that made sure no one got back to the dressing rooms that wasn't supposed be there was there.
Audrina was pulled from the memory as the sound of her cell phone going off made her jump. She set the rose down and grabbed her phone from the little purse hanging on the edge of the desk quickly opening the message, it was from one of the girl's she'd been friends with during her career, Elizabeth, that lived not far from the studio.
'Going out for drinks tonight, you game Rina?'
Audrina chuckled to herself shaking her head.
'I can't tonight Lizzy, I have to get ready for the recital and I have class tomorrow.'
She sent the message setting her phone down then looked at the rose, it'd nagged her endlessly since the first rose that she could never figure out who kept leaving them. She picked up the flower once more and carefully brought it to her nose letting her eyes flutter closed as she inhaled its sweet aroma a soft smile forming on her lips as her fingers stroked the ribbon on it. Opening her eyes she looked up at the white washed ceiling gently twirling the flower in her fingers under her nose.
"Who sent you little bloom? My own theater phantom?"
She giggled to herself.
"A phantom of the Ballet, that sounds silly."
She sighed softly inhaling the light floral scent once more still twirling the flower before jumping and gasping as a sharp pain came over her index finger making her drop the rose and look at her finger. As she looked at it a small bead of blood pooled on the pad of her finger contrasting with her light skin like a ruby on a sheet of white marble. She placed the wound to her lips and gently licked the blood away to get a better look at the cut before looking down at the rose in her lap a single thorn hidden just below the bow.
"How poetic, it's always the beautiful things that have thorns and sometimes even the innocent can be deadly."
Audrina jumped again at the sound of another voice in the room her heart hammering against her ribs but she kept it hidden as she looked around the room searching for a source to the voice.
"Who's there?"
Her voice held steady as her eyes swept the room again before landing on a corner of the room cast into shadow by the setting sun outside the window as a figure separated from the shadows making itself known. She felt her heart freeze up for a moment then start up again faster making up for the missed beats as standing not 10 feet from her was none other than Joker, his neon green hair neatly slicked back, his smiling lips painted bloody crimson a bit of silver glinting behind them, he was wearing a suit that looked eerily familiar, holding a cane in one hand and fancy leather shoes. Audrina locked eyes with him, crystal blue meeting steely blue as realization washed over her, his voice, the suit and the shoes, it was him that night when the first rose appeared, the man you bumped in the hall.
"Do you like the present Little Dancer?"