Stitches

Chapter 37 'Clues'

"A woman by the name of Elizabeth Colton escaped Arkham a year ago today," Edward explained, I nod and thought about anyone I could know with that name but no one came to mind.
"What was she in Arkham for?" I asked, he rustled through the papers he had placed on the dining table.
"Ah, here it is," he handed me the paper, "Local teen stabs multiple people on school grounds, five dead and three injured," I read, I handed the paper back to him.

"I don't know anyone by that name or how they tie back to Orchid," I said crossing my arms, "Well, she was well known for being obsessed with dolls in Arkham, she killed two cellmates and one guard, trying to mold their faces into getting doll like features using a fork and a homemade lighter," Edward said as he pushed up his glasses.

"How do you know all of this?" I asked,
"I found out before I was frozen, before Penguin and I—" he stopped and looked down, I could see the anger boiling up inside him. "Yeah... I know," I mumbled,
"There's just one problem, I went through some thugs, thieves, pathetic street folk and found out she's hiding out in an old warehouse in town," He said,
"Okay, so what's the problem?" I asked,
"The problem is, there's hundreds of warehouses in Gotham and I got frozen before I could find out which one she was in,"

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"It's been a week since Orchid went missing, so I don't care if I have to check every building in Gotham, I'm finding her," Jerome said,
"Now hold on, let's be smart about this," I said, following him as he went towards the office to get into the secret weapons room.
"Now's not the time to be smart!" He says, I rolled my eyes and walked faster, trying to get in front of him.

"Jerome!" I stood in front of him, blocking the entrance to the office.
"Listen to me." I commanded, he looked at me, eyes filled with rage, a dark rim surrounded his eyes.
"There's only three empty warehouses close to our home and the GCPD station, unless they stole that car from their officers, then they're probably hiding out in those houses," I explained, he nods and says, "So why are we not there creating chaos?"

I sighed as I crossed my arms, "Orchid is going into her next stage soon, and we better make sure it's with us. So we can't scare off the kidnapper, we have the element of surprise," I explained.
"We're going to check out one warehouse and I'll send Tabitha and Selina to check the others," He nods and goes upstairs to get ready.
I'm finally going to get my daughter back, and whoever did this will regret they ever messed with me.