Gotham oneshots

Jerome Valeska ~ Laughing (Part 1)

She sat in darkness ripping out her hair as she broke out into uncontrolled laughter as she sobbed.
Everything was taken from her.
Her parents, her siblings, her boyfriend, her unborn child and her sanity.
It was burning as she choked on her own emotions.
She let out a piercing scream as she hugged her knees as she begged to stop laughing.
She clawed at her throat but the skin wouldn't tear.
The guards watched her laughing as she begged for death.
She fell to the floor and sobbed on the cold concrete.
She had never felt a pain such as this and what made her skin crawl is that it would never stop.

She sat in her cell after months of refusing to eat or drink.
She hoped taking her meds without food or water would kill her but it only made her sick.
She looked around in complete darkness as her door opened showing a guard as she shielded her eyes.
She looked at her as he grabbed her.
"Where are you taking me?" she said gathering enough strength to walk by herself.
"To the reck room, your therapist recommended you talk to others that aren't the voices in your head," he said with venom laced in his voice.
"Wait what?
No, please can I go back to my cell" said Prim.
The officer didn't respond as he dragged her into the reck room.
She looked at him with hate in her eyes before looking at the inmates.
She walked to a table and sat down before laying her head on her arms falling asleep slightly.
She wasn't protected but she had a history of killing inmates that annoyed her or made her go into a laughing fit which caused the inmates to back off except one.
"Move, this is my table bitch" said Barbra the new inmate.
"It's a table, technically it's the governments," said Prim in a soft voice.
"Do you know who I am?" said Barbra.
She looked at him "Go to the guys eyeing you like your a piece of meat and leave me alone" said Prim.
"No, im just going to sit here and you are going to move," said Barbra sitting down.
"Why?
What would you do to make me?" said Prim.
"I killed my parents what have you done?" said Barbra trying to threaten her.
"I've killed 100 people in three years, please leave me alone," she said coughing as she felt a laughing fit in her lungs.
Barbara looked at her in shock "Your lying" said Barbra getting up.
"Maybe?
Do you feel lucky enough to guess?" said Prim holding her throat.
Suddenly Barbra slapped her causing the whole room to look at them as she started laughing.
Barbara looked at her as she started crying.
"Wow, cool act.
Are you two related or something?" said Barbra looking at Jerome.
Suddenly guards ran to them restraining Barbra as a guard went at Prim with a needle.
"P-Please nn-no" stuttered Prim as she struggled to talk as the laughing got worse.
Suddenly the needle went into her back as the guard help her head against the table.
Prim cried out as she suddenly faded into a shell of a perfect as she laid there frozen.
Barbra looked at her as she was let go.

Days passed as the Maniax lived in Theo's penthouse.
Theo sat on his bed as he watched Prim sleep from heavy sedatives he injected into her body after she was brought to his penthouse.
The laughing fits she had caused her so much pain.
It chipped parts of her until only her bones remained.
Suddenly Jerome came in after Tabitha told him Theo needed a word with him.
"You wanted me boss," said Jerome smiling in the doorway.
"This girl, I want you to be her friend through this.
She lost her entire family and keeps having these horrific laughing fits that trigger randomly or with violence" said Theo.
"Yes sir," said Jerome saluting.
"I will need to give her pills she was on in Arkham and I know she hated taking them so I need you to help her build a tolerance until she is back to normal.
You will also be eating together as she has a building eating disorder" said Theo.
"Yes sir," said Jerome.
"Thank you Jerome" said Theo.
This was the beginning of their crazy story.