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

Chapter 15

"What do you mean you're surprised?" Jerome says laughing."You were the only thing I had left, and you just suddenly disappeared, leaving all your stuff behind. We shared a trailer! Of course, I noticed."

"Strange, I always thought you and your brother hated me," I say, sitting down on the bed next to him.

"Hated you? No, I could never hate you and neither could my brother. He may have acted like he hated you, but I could tell he only did that to try and stop me from paying attention to you. He knew that if he showed that he liked you, then I would have become interested and in his mind, that meant that I would kill you to hurt him. And I just acted like I hated you because I didn't know what else to do, it's not like I understood what I felt at the time towards you... " He looks into my eyes." But you left me, I would have stayed sane if you had stayed, sure, now I know that you didn't want to or mean to leave, but you still left, and there's no going back now." He starts laughing. I get a slight sense of Deja Vu, listening to him blaming me for his loss of sanity. He leans over and he kisses me, but unlike in the dream, I let it happen. I wasn't scared of him, and I'd always felt something towards him. Someone bangs on the bars of the cell.

"Ok, my shift is about to end, you have to leave now, I think you've had enough time together anyway." The guard says, keeping his eyes to the ground. He opens the door and I calmly walkout.

"I'll see you again tomorrow J," I say, and I walk away.

Jerome's pov:

What the hell just happened? Why did I do that? Sure, I love them but... I haven't seen them in 3 years, they left me, I hated them for those 3 years, for abandoning me, for giving up on me. But seeing them again... brought back everything I used to feel about them. I told myself I wouldn't feel like that again, they left like my brother did, left me all alone, stole everything that ever meant anything to me. So why? Why did I just...? And why did I tell them that my brother likes them? What if they like him more than me? Will he steal them from me too?

Ash's pov:

I continue to visit him for the next few weeks. Until one day when I visit him and he's talking to someone else, a new girl. I walk near to him and listen to their conversation. He was talking about being able to get things into the asylum for her. Another man gets thrown into the area, shouting or preaching about something. He falls onto the table, and blue gas starts to escape from his mouth. I try not to breathe in, but I couldn't hold my breath for long and as soon as I breathed it in, I passed out.

I wake up in a room with 5 of the other inmates, the only one I knew out of them all was Jerome. A man and woman walk in, and the man introduces himself as Theo Galavan. I'd heard that name before, I knew I had. It had been in the dream, he was the one who stabbed... Who killed... He'd become mayor for saving everyone from the psychos who had escaped from Arkham Asylum. All the events were lining up, Galavan had broken Jerome and the rest out for a publicity stunt, just so he could become mayor, although, from what I remembered, he wasn't a mayor for long, I couldn't remember what had happened to remove him as mayor, the dream hadn't shown that to me.

"Now, who are you?" Galavan asked, walking towards me. "All of these are psychopaths who were arrested either recently or a few years ago, but I don't remember seeing you among any of the reports, so, what crimes have you committed? Why were you in Arkham?"

"I have committed no crimes and before you say it, I wasn't visiting anyone, I've been living in Arkham since I was young."

"Oh, so are you a relative of Dr Strange?"

"No, why does everyone think I'm related to that psycho. If you think these five are psychos then you ain't seen nothing yet!"

"But Hugo Strange is one of the psychiatrists at Arkham..."

"And he's also the most psychotic among us all! If you knew the reason I was in Arkham, then you'd realise just how messed up Gotham truly is!"

"Hey, Jerome, you seem to have a connection with this person in some way, and don't lie, I saw you staring at her for the first few minutes you got here. Do you have any idea why she was in Arkham?"

"Oh, they told me it all, they aren't a psychopath, they're telling the truth, their name is Ash, and if you want to have any clue of who they are, try searching them up, or be nice and just ask them," Jerome replies, smiling at me.

"Why won't any of you give me a straight answer, oh yes, of course, you're all insane. Now, we only have 4 rooms available since we were only planning on taking 5 people and expected at least one of them to try and leave, so Jerome, would Ash be able to stay in your room?"

"Yes, but Galavan, why did you break us out, you still haven't explained to us what you need us all for... "

"I want to become mayor of Gotham, and I need all of you to help me do it, I'll explain it all in more detail later, for now just go and get used to the house, you'll be staying here for a while."