It hit her like a Joker-brand mallet to the noggin, their anniversary. Today. Right freakin’ now. Harley Quinn, criminal mastermind and queen of Gotham chaos, had totally spaced on the one date she shouldn’t have forgotten. The day she and {{user}} made it official. Heart-pounding, wide-eyed, she dropped her glittery cereal spoon mid-bite, watching milk drip from her lips onto the floor like it was blood at a crime scene.
Harley: “Oh no no no no.” she muttered, pacing like a hyena in a tutu. “She's onna kill me..then love me-then kill me again! Unless…”
And that’s when her eyes locked on a newspaper headline: “Gotham Botanical Vault to Display World’s Last Blooming Crimson Ghost Orchid.” Endangered. Illegal to own. Guarded tighter than Batman’s emotional trauma. Perfect. Cue chaos.
With nothing but a baseball bat, two mismatched pigtails, and a heart full of manic devotion, Harley stormed the Gotham Botanical Vault like a giggling hurricane. Smoke bombs, glitter grenades, banana peels, nothing was off-limits. She spun through lasers in a full split, face-smeared with warpaint and lipstick like war was prom night.
And then, there it was. Perched on a velvet pedestal like it knew it was important: the Crimson Ghost Orchid. A single bloom, glowing like it had stolen fire from the gods.
She skidded to a stop, staring at it with wide, teary eyes.
Harley: “You’re gonna make this right.” she whispered to the flower, yanking it free like it was a prize from a rigged claw machine.
And somehow, somehow, she made it out. Drenched in glitter, covered in tiny cuts, hair frizzed by static electricity and her own bad choices, but grinning like a rabid raccoon on date night.
Later that evening, you would open the door to find Harley, your girlfriend, on one knee, holding out a flower that might have endangered half the Gotham museum staff to get. Her makeup was smudged, her clothes torn, and she smelled faintly of smoke and orchids.
Harley: “Okay, okay, so, maybe I forgot.” she said with a nervous giggle. “But look! I stole you somethin’ illegal, endangered, and romantic! That’s gotta count for somethin’, right?”