The Freaks Of Gotham (Jeremiah Valeska x OC x Jerome Valeska) (Gotham Fanfic)

Chapter 10

Partway through the maze, me and Jeremiah become separated from Gordon and Bullock. We turn a corner to find Ecco. Jeremiah walks up to her and she instantly slams him into the wall. I try to tell her to stop but she drags him away. I run after them and end up near the end of the maze. Jerome was talking to Jeremiah, but I couldn't hear what they were saying. The mad hatter and scarecrow run past, saying something about Gordon coming. The two detectives appear around the corner and Jerome quickly grabbed Jeremiah and held a knife to his throat. I knew I had to do something, I couldn't let him take Jeremiah away.

"Jerome" I yell, he looks over at me. "Leave Jeremiah alone, take me instead" He looks over at me and a psychotic smile appears on his face.

"Well, I was planning on leaving him alone anyway, but if you insist..." He says, slowly walking towards me, still using Jeremiah as a shield. He quickly let go of Jeremiah and grabbed me. He held me, but he didn't put the knife to my throat. He quickly walked out of the maze and got in the car with Scarecrow and the mad hatter, bringing me with him. He hugged me and played with my hair.
The car pulled up to some form of mansion. We got out, and inside was a bunch of other villains. There was penguin, Mr freeze and firefly. I couldn't tell if there were any others. Jerome quickly led me to a bedroom.

"This is my room, you will be staying in here." He says, gently kissing my forehead then leaving me in the room. I missed Jeremiah...
I decide the best thing to do is have a look around the place, see if I could find anything useful. I quickly check my pockets and realise that my phone is still in there, but I decide not to use it until I find out their plans. I carefully leave the room and head back to where all the villains are. I carefully look into the room to find that they had a businessman in there. He was pleading for them to let him go, but scarecrow sprayed something into his face. He started laughing madly and his face seemed to become twisted. Jerome seemed happy about the result, saying something about turning all of Gotham mad. I quickly head back to the room that Jerome told me to stay in. I pulled out my phone and texted Jeremiah.

"Jerome is planning on gassing everyone in Gotham. It's not a poisonous gas though, the gas just makes them crazy." I quickly put my phone away after sending it as I could hear footsteps outside. Jerome walked in, grabbed me, and pulled me over to the bed. He forced me to lie down, then he lay down next to me. He wrapped his arm around me and started playing with my hair.

"Soon, the Gotham you know will become an asylum, all of it. Everyone will go mad, no one will be sane, not after what I've got planned. And you're going to have a front-row seat to the madness." He says, looking up at the ceiling.

"Why J, why are you doing this, what caused you to become the psychopath that you are now, the J I know and love doesn't hurt people, sure he'd hurt animals from time to time but I was trying to stop him from doing that, you've gone too far J, you can't go back... You'll never be the J that I loved, never again." I say, sitting up so I could look him in the eyes. He starts laughing slightly.

"But I still am the J that you love, I know I am, I've known since you came running to me when my brother failed you, I could see it in your eyes. You would have come with me if he hadn't deceived you, I would never hurt you, Ash, sure, I accidentally hurt you from time to time when we were younger, but I didn't mean to, you were the one trying to stop me hurting the mice, really though, those mice were going to die anyway, they were the mice that we fed to my mother's snake, I wouldn't have hurt it if it wasn't going to die, well, that was before you left, after you left, I had nothing, my brother had finally taken everything from me, and all because of that stupid argument we had about me harming animals, I tried to tell you that they were the mice that I fed to the snake, but you refused to listen, and after you left my whole world just crumbled, the one thing allowing me to be sane was gone..." He forces me to lie down again and kisses me on the head. "The question is, why are you trying to deny that you love me because I know you do."

"No, I don't love you, I love Jeremiah, not you," I say. He pulls out a knife from the bedside table and sits up.

"Stop denying the truth, you're annoying me." He says, carefully pressing the blade against my arm. The steel was cold against my skin.

"J, I thought you said you'd never harm me..." I say, staring down at the knife. He looks up at me and smiles.

"Accidents happen" He presses the blade into my skin, cutting into my arm slightly. I quickly move away from him, searching the room for something to use to cover the wound. I notice some bandages on the other side of Jerome and quickly use my ability to make them fly over to me. I quickly wrap them around the wound.

"Now, the question is, why haven't you been using your ability before, I mean, you could have used to move the knife away from my brother's neck or to move the knife away from your arm." He asks, licking the blood off of the knife.

"I-I promised Jeremiah that I'd try not to use it too much, we don't know the effects of overusing it and we also don't want other people finding out, since I'm one of Strange's creations..."

"Ok, I guess that makes sense... But you don't need to follow that rule anymore, you can use your ability as much as you want here, firefly and Mr freeze are both creations of Hugo Strange anyway, you're safe here, you can be free."