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Hoax

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"Hoax" Taylor Swift, Folklore

Oswald POV

I walk into Ace Chemicals, looking around desperately for Edward, calling out his name.

"Ed!? Where are you?! Ed!?"

"I'm here, Oswald." He says calmly, stepping out of the shadows upon the catwalk. I run up to him, relief and adrenaline coursing through my veins.

"Edward!" I cry out, wrapping my arms around him. He wraps his arms around me almost awkwardly.

Ed POV

I wrap my arms around him, knowing full we'll this will be the last time I do so. Riddler is practically forcing me to do this. To kill my best friend. I don't have enough strength to save Oswald from Riddler's plan. I hold him weakly as long as I can. I hear Riddler in the back of my exhausted, confused mind.

You can't save his life, Edward...you never could... you'll just kill him... just like you did the other one...

Oswald POV

"I was so worried, that awful man said he was going to kill you if I tried to find you...who dared to think they could lay their hands on you?!" I sob, releasing him from my hold.

"Do you have anyone else here with you?" Ed says, looking at the two henchmen I brought with me.

"No. Why?" I ask, confused.

Suddenly, he shoots them both. The bodies fall to the ground with a sickening thud!

"Just wanted to know if I had to reload." Ed says darkly, pointing the gun at my head.

"Edward, honey...what are you doing?" I say quietly, horrified.

"You killed her...you had the love of my life killed." He growls.

"I-I-I...What is happening?" I say quietly, shocked and confused.

He slams me against the weak, rickety railing. I hear it creak and crack under my weight and the force of him slamming me against it.

"I should just dump you into it. Watch the tears spill from your pretty little eyes as you look at the face of the man who used to be your best friend in the entire world. But that would be too quick, too easy. So I'm going to tie you up in this abandoned, empty death trap and let you rot knowing that I don't love you." He growls, cuffing me to the stronger part of the railing.

The look in his eyes....

My Ed is still in there. I saw him, trying to fight this monster.

He's still in there...

"Edward... Please, I know you're in there." I plead as he walks away. Suddenly the railing I'm leaning against gives out as I scream in horror, falling backwards. The bottom bar of the railing is still attached to the rest of it. I'm dangling by my wrist, the metal cutting into me.

"Ed! Please! Help!" I cry out, desperate.

Suddenly he's there, trying to pull me up. He takes my cuffed hand, undoing the cuff as I hold onto his other hand with my free hand. He grabs my now freed hand and starts pulling me up.

After several moments, I'm pulled to safety, we're laying on the catwalk, him hovering over me. He's pinning me down, shaking and panting.

"Oswald." He says quietly. He sounds so scared...