Joker and the Irish Mob. 

Joker had been with the five points gang for three years.  Johnny Torrio was now in Chicago and Joe the Boss used the gang as part of his minor league recruitment team.  There was an Irish mob that was operating in Brooklyn and on Staten Island.  Joe had dealings with the Mulligans and their gang of mobsters.  Peter Mulligan was the boss and his son Tommy was trying to show he was ready but each time he did something it went south and Peter had to fix the issue or wipe out everyone involved.  Joker had made a few new friends, an older guy named Leg Diamond and this kid that worked under him who kept changing his name every two months.  Arthur Simon Flegenheimer was his real name but it didn’t strike fear in anyone.  Arthur was a tough kid who ran more off his emotions, which meant he would fly off the handle when given news he didn’t like.  Unlike the Joker he would just shoot without having a plan.  Joker loved to plan and carry out his diabolical ideas.  

Joe was ready to bring on some talent from the minors to the big time.  They were told to get this right and they would be making more money then they ever made in their lives.  Each year would bring them more money if they worked hard and did what was needed.  The three of them met in Joe’s favorite restaurant.  They ate as Joe told them what he wanted them to do which was simple however they had a week to get it done.  Joe laid out Peter's daily routine for the week.  Peter was so arrogant that he never changed up his schedule.  Joker smiled and said he was in and then Legs and Arthur.  Joker said Friday will be the day to complete the Job.  He knew the street and already saw the plan in his head.  Legs being the oldest said he would make the plan.  Joker laughed and said trust him, his plan would be easier than anything Legs could come up with and then he laid it all out for them as he saw it in his head.  Arthur agreed he liked the plan and so did Joe.  Legs reluctantly agreed and was a bit pissed that the youngster was so confident and persuasive that he got everyone to agree so fast.  

Peter had one driver and on Fridays he would be at his own bar until 3 or 4 am depending on how many customers were in the joint drinking.  Across the street was a hotel that Legs and Arthur could watch from the window over seeing the street.  Peter had six men watching his back, seven if you count the driver.  The driver would always get in the car ten to fifteen minutes before Peter would leave to make sure the car was safe and running.  The car was a blue Cadillac with a white rooftop.  The car was normally parked out front a cross the street of the bar and watched by the driver from inside the bar.  

The street was a short block on either end you could only go east or west and on one end was a storefront that had a pool hall in the basement that you walked down to in front of the store where the Joker would be.  He could stand there and shoot as Legs and Arthur shot from the upstairs room that they rented.  They could sweep the street as Peter and his men would be the only guys on the street.  Joker would wait for the driver to goto the car and kill him.  He would make sure the driver was sitting behind the steering wheel looking like he was ready to go.  Joker would make sure that the car doors were all locked.  Peter and the men with him wouldn’t be able to get in.  He would use an ice pick and stick the man in the ear with less blood visible showing no one would suspect that anything was wrong.  Joker said he would stick some cotton balls in the man’s ear so he looked like he was waiting.   Peter locks up the bar, then they walk to the car and Legs, Arthur and Joker will open fire on them.   The car would be across the street anyway to avoid police giving them a ticket for parking on the wrong side of the street.  

The plan went perfectly.  However, as they opened up on the men with Peter Joker would walk up to Peter who just stood by the car watching his men fall.  Joker stood a few feet away pointing his thompson at him.  Peter looked at the Joker and said your just a kid.  Joker replied 

You don’t remember me do you, I came to you first looking for work and you told me to go home and eat and have some fucking milk and cookies.  That was three years ago.  I had my milk and cookies and now I’m taking your fucking milk and cookies.  Oh yeah Joe the Boss said to say hi to you.  

Joker fired several rounds into Peter.  Joker began to laugh as Peter’s body seemed to be doing a shimmy as each bullet hit him. Legs and Arthur were now outside and getting into the car which was the plan Arthur yelled get the fuck in dude.  Joker, nodding, jumped into the back seat and closed the door as they drove off.  

Uncharacteristic 

Joker was sitting in the park in Gotham reading his newspaper; when a toddler just learning to walk grabbed his pants leg.  He looked down to see what was happening when he saw this baby smiling up at him.   For some strange reason he found himself smiling back at her.  Her mother ran up to them and apologized because the little toddler got his pants dirty from her holding on with dirty hands.  Joker told her it was okay that he had a friend that owned a few dry cleaners.  The mother thanked him for being so kind and understanding.  She said her daughter's name was Irene.  

Each Saturday that Joker was in the park Irene would come to him grabbing onto his pants leg and smiling at him.  Even in the winter she would waddle over to him.  Soon Joker would be there waiting for her to come over. He would have a treat for her or a small stuffed animal for her. This happened for a year and a half.  Joker even bought the girl birthday presents and some days she would climb up on the bench with a little help from him and she would talk with him.  Joker would listen hard to make out what words she was saying and even when he couldn’t understand her gibberish he would act like he did and reply back to her.  

Another year went by and now he could make out what she was telling him.  She changed subjects like bumble bees changing their directions when flying.  Then one Saturday she came to him but looked thinner and needed a little help to climb up onto the bench.  She talked a little less and at times looked like she needed help breathing.  Several months went by and Joker noticed that she wasn’t coming every Saturday.  The next time he saw her she was in a stroller and her mother looked so sad.  Joker walked over to them and asked what was the scoop; he knew she was sick but thought she was improving.  Her mother said no it was the opposite and that she needed to see a specialist, her husband had been working two full time jobs one to support the family the other to cover Irene medical bills. 

Joker asked when Irene was going to see the Specialist and then she broke down sobbing uncontrollably.  After a few minutes she got it out that they couldn’t afford to and no one would give them a loan.  Joker asked how much was it she said too much four thousand dollars more than a year's salary.  Joker reached into his pocket and gave her five thousand and his card.  He told her to keep him in the know and not to worry about cost.  She didn’t know what to say. She thanked him and promised she would and before she could say somehow they would pay him back Joker told her not to worry about it.  Joker told her to call him when they have an appointment for the new doctor and to set up whatever she needed that Irene has managed to pull on his heart strings when she first tugged on his pants leg with her dirty hands.  They laughed then he walked away.

Several weeks went by then he got the call on when and where.  Joker was there on that date but he saw that the mother and father were in the hallway crying.  He walked over to them and she stood up and said they got there too late that the doctor said there was nothing that he could do for her.  He asked them to wait he would speak to the doctor.  He n]knocked on the doctor's door and he was asked to enter.  Joker walked at first the doctor refused to speak with him then after some persuasion he told the Joker everything and why.  The Joker understood the chances were slim but to set it up anyway.  He assured them he would have the money there in the morning.  The bills were to come to him and she was to be given everything needed and more.  If she lives then he would get a bonus.  The doctor took offense to the bonus comment and the Joker looked at him and smiled asking him why was he so serious to just say no to the bonus.  Irene lived another seven years after the surgery.  She died along with her parents when a drunk driver hit their car while on a summer vacation trip.

Joker Unleashed

Joker had friends because of his start with the Five Points Gang.  He made money for his partners and was never one to be greedy or let foolish money get the better of him.  Word had reached The Joker that Mike Trailio and James Luca were again looking for the Joker's whereabouts.  So was FlatHead and Mannie (The Hammer) Ceto, Henry Sacks and Joe Peppers.  These men were opium and morphine dealers that thought they were big time since they combined their operations into one roof.  They dealt with small craps and card games.  They even started a numbers racket but it wasn’t getting much traction.  They also got into the protection and shy rackets but not at the level that the Joker was dealing with.  Joker was into Coke, heroin and marijuana for his drug trade.  He also had a large numbers game and shylock in Philly and Vegas to include Reno. Joker had a partnership with Big Moe and his family.  

The men searching for The Joker had tried to approach him once before and not he was told they were hunting him to take over his rackets.  They were having a meeting in a joint that the Joker owned but it was unknown to them.  They sat at the table talking before they went out to eat dinner.  Then without notice or warning men rushed into the room and then the Joker appeared with a golf club in his hand followed by Doc who was holding a golfer's bag and clubs. He smiled as he greeted James Luca swinging the seven iron golf club hitting Luca on the left side of his face breaking Luca’s Jaw.  Then hitting Luca in the back until the golf club bent so badly that it was worthless at hitting anything.  Joker tosses it into a corner and reaches for another.  Then pulled Luca off the table and took the seat at the head of the table where Luca once sat.  Holding the new seven iron up looking at it he then laid it gently on the table and began talking to the rest of the men seated at the table with him.

Now let me get this right, you were looking for me?  Well you found me.  Excuse the theatrics but that man met me once and I told him and his brother to stay the fuck away from me.  He didn’t listen.  You guys will also need to hire a few new bodyguards. Good thing I relieved you of those dead beats you had a few minutes ago.  Good help is so hard to find.  You can thank me later.  Word on the streets, you great businessmen wanted to do business with me or get rid of me and take what I built.  Now that wasn’t too pleasing to me, know what I mean jelly bean?  Imagine the Joker doing business with men that can even manage to get what they already got built up to a standard where they can hold their own heads up in public.  So you wanted to take little on me and my shit.  Money, money leads to greed.  You always want more.  You can never have enough and that's where people make their mistakes.  You son of bitches talked too much and the streets told me what you told them.  I call that stupid, did you hear anything about me coming here to find you all?  Nope not a fucking peep.  See I’ve been watching you all grow and some of you did some impressive shit others of you are just lucky.    

Nails give these gentlemen now my partners their satchels.  Gentleman please open them once you receive that briefcase with your name on it.  Go ahead and open them, they're safe.  Now you see pictures of your loved ones, notice on the back you see their current addresses.  They move from there and they die.  You cheat me and they die, you rat on me and they will die horrible deaths.  Then I will take you to a place where you will be butt naked bent over a table and spanked with a fat leather belt, then with a wooden paddle and then I will shove firecrackers up your butts and ram them in with a pool stick and when there in there tight I will lite the fuse and trust me it will hurt as you know I am blowing your asses up.  My doctor will patch you back up and then after you start to heal up I will think of some other med-evil shit to do to you. Now you should open up the envelope that the amount you will pay me monthly on the first day of each month.  Luca you're paid up but that doesn’t matter to you now.  Mike Trailio 25% of six hundred thousand is one hundred and fifty to me which is twenty five percent of your business profits.  FlatHead you lucky son of a gun one hundred thousand a month, my guys will come to help you increase your earning so you can grow your rackets but you will pay for that service also twenty thousand to my guy.  Mannie (The Hammer) Ceto,  Two hundred thousand and Henry Sacks and Joe Peppers Two hundred thousand also I’ll send a guy to help you reach her full potential.  Gentleman you are already two weeks behind on payment for this current month.

Now let's go get dinner together. I've worked up a furious appetite and I’m feeling good for getting so much done today.    Oh any fucking questions?  No good.  Doc, have the waitress bring up the steaks I ordered.  It's all on me guys afterall, we're partners and I am so glad we came to this understanding.