Ember watched the two interact, and a simple smile slid onto her lips. She was happy with him, clearly. But she dropped her smile quickly, as if not to show weakness. "You should introduce me to your boyfriend, I haven't met him before." She hummed bumping her elbow on Clem.
"Oh, right. Ember, this is Jason. Jason, this is Ember. She's Riddler's kid." Then Clem turned to look at the others. "That's Dick, Tim and Damian. And of course there's Bruce, but you already knew him."
"Pleasure to meet you," She nodded slightly, holding her hand out to shake Jason's. Leaning over to Clem, she smirked slightly. "He's cuter than you said he was."
Jason shook Ember's hand, and a very slight blush crept over his cheeks at her remark. Then Clem turned to Bruce.
"I do just want to thank you for helping. You didn't have to but you are."
Smirking, Ember turned around to face Bruce with a slight grimace. Her face looked annoyed, but she was trying so hard not to keep it that way. There had been some stiffness between the two, and she couldn't help not being cold to him.
"I'm doing it for Jason," Bruce said sternly, and a glare crossed Clem's face.
"Of course you are. God, if it wasn't for him you'd never even associate with me. All you see is the Joker's daughter. Never mind the fact that I've made a name for myself away from my dad. That my mother is a world-renowned scientist actually fucking reforming in Arkham for the sake of her daughter! The daughter who's gonna die at the hands of my father if you don't fucking do anything about it!"
That was the Joker side of Clem showing through. She hated it, and her 'Joker episodes' were what often led to an out pour of her magic. Jason took her hand and squeezed it, trying to help her calm down.
Ember turned to face her friend, pressing her shoulder to Clem's. "Look, I don't like him at all, and I know you're not too happy." She whispered, glancing over at Jason. "But we need you to relax, someone's going to get hurt if you don't chill." Ember said in a tone that was meant to be sincere. "For me, for Jason, and for Lucy."
Clem took deep breaths as her eyes glowed a soft purple, a sign of her calming herself down with her own magic. "Look, I don't care who you do this for. Me, Jason, Lucy: it doesn't matter. What matters is that you're helping me, whether it's your intention or not." Her eyes glowed a deeper purple - the shade that showed that she was using her powers on others. "Because at the end of the day, I can be so much worse than my father. He can fuck with your life but I can fuck with your mind. Even more so Crane. So you really do not want to fuck with me."
“Clem.” Ember said under her breath, rather firmly. “Come on, be the bigger person.” She whispered, taking her friend’s hand in her own.
"I am being the bigger person. You know why? Because the person I'm against is already low."
"Leave it alone, Clementine. Don't make me regret helping you."
"Those are fighting words, Brucey-Boy."
Ember gave her a look, and then glanced over to Jason. She wasn't sure what more she could do, and hoped he would be able to intervene in the conversation at hand. "Do something." She mouthed to him, glancing at Clem in between them.
Clem took a step closer to Bruce, who stayed in the same place. Even with her heels he was a good foot taller than her. "I get why everyone hates y-" She was cut short by Jason taking a step forward and picking her up. At first she was surprised, then gave into Jason. She held up her middle finger to Bruce, then crossed her arms as she stayed in Jason's arms.
Ember sighed, rubbing her face. "Why are you like this?" She groaned, rubbing her temple. Her head hurt, and she didn't know what to do with her friend. "What are we needing to do here?"
"What we need to do is calm down," Dick spoke up. "I understand that there is…tension between us. But right now we need to put that away and focus on helping Clem's sister. That's our job. We'd do it if it was some random kid, so it's no different just because it's Joker's kid."
'I thought we already established that.' Her thoughts muttered, and she resisted the urge to role her eyes. Crossing her arms over her chest instead, she kept a no-nonsense kind of expression on her face. "Then that's up to Bruce and Clem here, and I think that Clem already relaxed."
Clem continued to glare at Bruce, and Jason refused to let her go. Her eyes glowed a threatening dark purple, like she was daring Bruce to fuck with her. He stared back, eventually giving up. "Fine. Both of you are right. We need to help Clem's sister."
"Her name is Lucy."
(highkey think the other person is dead, ngl)
Ember had given up at this point, not bothering to help her friend. If Bruce kept acting like she was something the reckon with, she wasn't going to stop Clem in taking him down. When she was mad, there was no one she would listen to. "We need to sort out how we do this, so if you kids don't stop fighting, we'll never get Lucy back."
(I dunno what happened to them…)
The glow in Clem's eyes softened to a light purple, and she took deep breaths. She tapped Jason on the shoulder softly. "I'm fine now. You can put my down." He reluctantly did so, and Clem's feet were on the ground again. She grabbed her mallet and dragged it along the ground a little, before staying in one spot. She looked at Bruce directly in the eyes, saying nothing.
"Are we ready to plan?" She asked softly, looking between the group with a frown. "Because I don't want to be here all night." She mumbled, more annoyed than she had been with her first sentence.
"Don't do anything you'll regret, Quinzel," Clem heard, and turned to see Damian glaring at her. She smiled a little, though the smile was woven with venom.
"Oh, I never regret things, little Wayne. Besides, I know what we have to do. There's only one person who would have any idea where my dad is hiding. But she can't know he has Lucy."
"Please don't tell me…" She groaned, rubbing her temple. If her assumption was correct, this was very bad for Ember. Ember and Harley hadn't really… gotten along well, the first time they met. As Ember's nature was a little too sarcastic, and cold for anyone to end up liking her right away. But of course she had found the one person who did. Clementine Quinzel. "We're going to see your mom, aren't we?"
"She's the only one who knows everything about my dad. She's spent so much of her life with him - whether it was as Harleen Quinzel or Harley Quinn. She knows so much about him that I don't even know. She knows his real name, and I don't know that. She's the only person who will know where he is." She took a deep breath. "But she can't know that he has Lucy. She's spent months trying to reform that this would just…break her."
"Then I won't go. Tell her he took me instead. She may not like me, but she loves you." She offered, fiddling with the deck of playing cards she had. "Unless you need me there for emotional support. I'll go." Shrugging, she held out the deck of spread out cards to Jason.