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"Harvey I swear if I get any of this sewage on my new alligator skin shoes, I am going to be on top for a month." Eddy hopped off of the latter, tucking his hands underneath his armpits.

Harvey stood a few feet away scanning the underground sewage for his 'appointment'.

"You didn't have to follow me." Harvey craned his head back, giving his boyfriend an almost smug-like smile. Edward cocked his head conceitedly, squinting his eyes into a glare.

"I did not follow you. You just ran out of the house in a hurry and I was worried." Harvey shook his head. It was a nice gesture for Eddy to be worried about him, but its his fault if he gets dirty and in no way will Two-Face let Harvey be his so called 'bitch' for a month.

He frowned looking down the passageways and seeing nothing. He was sure he read the message right. Unless there is another villain that can talk rats into delivering messages, he was positive that he would be here.

The scarred man ignored the anger banter and irritated obscenities his other half was spewing out into his mind and looked down the passage way that lead to the other man hole. Unfortunately for the OCD of the two, it meant going through the filthy water.

He must have gotten lost in his thoughts, because his boyfriend had been complaining insufferably about something when he came to a decision.

"Edward." His growled voice interrupted the loquacious banter. He walked back to Edward looking him in the eyes so that he would have his undivided attention. He needed to make sure that Eddy knew what he was about to say was out of utter importance.

He lightly placed his hands on the sides of Eddy's forearm. "I need to head through there," Harvey stuck his thumb in the direction of the waste riddled water. "but I'll be back in ten minutes okay? Just stay here and don't move."

"What? Stay here? Alone? Who is this person anyway, what if he's dangerous?" Eddy balled his fists together and held them in front of his chest like a frightened child. Harvey smiled at the smaller man's cuteness.

"He's not dangerous. At least not anymore, listen I have to go. Just…play with that toy thing and I'll be back before your done with it."

Edward's hands went to his angled out hips. "It's a Dodecahedron, Harv." He pulled the advanced puzzle cube out of his pocket, shuffling the small cubes to start his game.

Harvey looked him up and down, giving a slight nod then running off in the opposite direction.

His tongue poked out of his lips in full concentration of the object in his hands. His mind was filled too much with algorithms and patterns that he failed to notice the soft sound of music.

The sweet high pitched melody of a flute.

"Damn it." He started switching the colors speedily in his hand after he had made a simple, but time wasting, mistake.

"Dodecahedron? That is a toy for a toddler." An unfamiliar voice echoed off the dripping walls.

Edward yelped, nearly throwing the puzzle in the air. He shoved it into his pocket, pulling out a pocketknife that Harvey, well it was Two-Face's idea, had given him as a gift.

He backed up into the wall looking in all directions, but the echo bounced off of every path, making it impossible to narrow down his search.

He heard a cheery, but mocking, laugh come from the left of him.

"Wow, you must have a whole Toys R Us in that tacky coat of yours."

He threw his hands down and stepped off the wall down the left, making sure to stay on the shoulder of the sewage system.

"My coat is not tacky!" He stomped even harder down the concrete, offended by the mimicking comment.

His feet skidded to a halt, catching a small flutter of movement in front of him.

"Do you even know who I am? I could have you killed before you could even speak one syllable of another cheesy and snarky insult!" Eddy shouted to the blackness directly across from him.

Again the same laugh ricocheted off the damp walls. "You could 'have' me killed? Are you that weak that you'll actually get your 'boyfriend' to do the dirty work? I may have cheesy lines, but at least they are mine and I needed no help with them."

Edward's mouth opened for another slicing retort. However he closed it with a short click of his teeth slamming together when the mysterious man stepped out from the shadows.

"I am Hartley, but you may call me Piper…if you wish that is." The green caped man held out his black-gloved hand for Edward to shake. He looked at the hand for merely a second, before looking back at the blazing blue eyes that were eerily similar to Harvey's.

Underneath the hood of the cape was a devilishly handsome man, red hair, sexy goatee, the whole package.

Edward huffed and crossed his arms. This man was one character.

Awkwardly, Hartley pulled his hand to his side again, but showed no infraction to the decline of his greeting.

"You are Harvey's little thing, no?" The man mirrored Edward's posture his eyes roaming the brunette's whole figure. Edward shifted oddly, not very comfortable by being scrutinized like this.

"Mhmm. And you're supposed to be meeting him! But because of your poor punctuality, he is now shin deep in this unruly water running around god knows where looking for you!"

Edward's fists were at his sides again, his anger turning up full blast.

Hartley smiled apologetically, curling his lips up, but drawing his eyebrows down. "Well I had to fix Cedric's broken leg." He spoke as if he expected Edward to know who this 'Cedric' was.

And of course seeing the small flash of confusion that enlightened the green suited man, he described his whole excuse in full detail. "One of my rats, Cedric, had gone outside this morning when a woman had nearly killed the little one with her idiotic heels."

Edward shivered; rats were filthy, disease-ridden rodents that he had no interest in.

"I can't seem to blame her, or anyone, for wanting to get rid of those horrid…things." Edward looked back to see if there was any sign of the blonde. Behind him, Piper pointed his eyes into the back of the brunette's head.

Hartley walked past him lightly patting his shoulder as he passed. "Don't worry 'Harvey's little thing', I am sure that the rats think the same of you."

Edward made an annoyed growl at the base of his throat. He followed the red head to the original spot that he had been told to wait at.

"And I would like to repeat my earlier statement, I do. Not. Have. A tacky. Jacket." His voice hissed out the last syllable of the last word.

Hartley's eyes crept down to his torso, huffing out a chuckle. "Cute, but you look like a Halloween decoration. The question marks overwhelm the eye and make it difficult to make out you non-existent stomach." Hartley spoke fluidly, as if he memorized the whole affront.

"Riddles! Riddles, its my talent, my calling card, my original front! What's yours? Cape man? Sorry to break it to you, but that's already been done." Edward smiled jubilantly, pleased with his little comment of wit.

"Actually, my 'calling card' as you put it, is my flute. I have technically altered hypnotic and sonic technology into my flute to make every living being follow my every whim. Your riddles may be original, but they are incredibly mundane." Hartley rested his back onto the wall that Edward had previously been lent on. He pulled out his instrument and started fiddling with it, Edward couldn't tell if he was trying to hintingly threaten him or just wanted to do something with his hands.

Choosing to go with the latter he scoffed and let his forest eyes roll to the ceiling in disbelief.

"And you say I play with toys." He adjusted his coat lapels casually.

Hartley smirked, bringing the lip plate to his mouth, sucking in enough air to create two bulges into his cheeks.

Just as he was about to blow into the hypnotic device Harvey's panicked voice roared across the passage way.

"Don't you dare think about it Piper!" The blond waves reflected off of the dim light flickering above their heads. He walked with his body stiff, preparing for a fight if needed.

Eddy's face just illuminated with joy when he saw the recognizable glint of azure several feet away from him.

"Ah, Mr. Dent. I was just about to show your object of affection how my skills are used in my line of work." Hartley took a step forward, only to be shoved by the rushing brunette.

Edward jumped into Harvey's arms, wrapping his arms around his neck. The scarred man's own wrapped themselves around his waist, his cleft chin resting on the smaller man's shoulder a blissful smile pasted on his face.

Harvey pushed Eddy behind him, keeping his hand flat on the boy's stomach.
"I'm sorry Hartley, but if we are to work together, Edward is off limits. Just like James is."

The red head visibly tensed up into a straight and serious poise reflecting his expression. He just simply shook his head in a vertical motion.

"My apologies Mr. Dent, we all have our loved ones and it was terribly rude of me to treat him like a play thing. Especially after the respect that you yourself had shown James and me." The smooth and imitating tone was absent from this… sincerely kind tinged voice.

"Its all right Piper, he can be a bit of a handful sometimes." The blonde added to lighten the thick mood. Edward playfully slapped the back of his arm, following it with a peck on his burnt cheek.

"Now shall we discuss what masked amateur vigilantly we are going to have the pleasure of killing?"