A Storm Rising

Chapter 11

Oswald

I continued on with my daily life, putting on my act of loyal member to the mob to its face. When I was on my own, I would still slowly kill off members of both Falcone and Maroni's family and continue to make it look like someone from the opposing family.

After killing Tony, something was lit inside of me and let’s just say, my umbrella was locked and loaded whenever I was out and about. I quite enjoyed killing. It gave me a rush, leaving my subtle clues for Nygma.

While I waited to hear from Nygma as to when The Plague would be ready, I kept running over my plan to make sure it's fool proof, no loose ends, nothing to link back to me, and nothing to flag suspicion before all were infected with The Plague.

So far, I had decided Maroni would be the easiest to go after if it was just me working alone. Fish and Falcone would take quite a bit more work. I'll talk out plans with Nygma. He always is one step ahead of my which is hard for anyone to do I might say.

I flipped open my phone, "Hey Neg. are you able to meet up later this evening, at the usual place?"

Nygma

"Of course," I responded just sitting in my office at my desk.

I had answered my phone when it started to vibrate in my pocket.

"See you after work," I added as I saw Jim Gordon and Harvey approaching my office said good bye quickly and hung up.

That evening, I headed to the clinic to speak with Oswald and check up on my poison.

Oswald

Upon entering the warehouse, immediately found Nygma sitting at his lab table examining a sample under a microscope. I came up behind him and gave his shoulders a small massage.

"How are are you today, Neggy dear?" I pecked him on the cheek.

Nygma

I smiled as I felt his hands on my shoulders. "I am doing well, you?"

I looked to him as he kissed my cheek and leaned up kissing his forehead.

"How is The Plague that we wish to release on Gotham coming? How do we go about human testing before I go for the final takeover? And if we do human tests will that raise suspicions before we are able to administer the Plague to those that I want effectively?"

He paused, "Sorry Nygma, now that I have my way of obtaining Gotham on a silver platter due to you, I don't want to risk losing that platter..."

"Since you tend to work one step ahead of me, do you have any suggestions?"

I smiled at him as the questions rolled off his tongue. I chuckled, "It's okay. "

"It is just there, I can feel it. We could use it on the homeless of Gotham, no one would miss them."

"Have you thought about how you going to get it to Maroni?" I asked looking up to him.

"Well if we are going to use your idea of lacing the wine with this little beauty," he held up a vial,"I could easily pour him a glass or two at dinner. I think dropping off bottles of wine to Fish especially would seem suspicious if it was coming from me. Falcone I know needs to go last, but we can't let time elapse too much before people may get suspicious at the sudden deadly stomach flu."

Oswald turned to me,"Obviously you'll be able to cover it up using your position at GCPD. I just hated putting you in such compromising situations. Are you still okay going through with this, Neg? Seeing it through til the end no matter what happens?"