Soft Spot

Chapter 6

After that call with Jim I didn't bother calling him back and just let Barbara use the phone, not like there was anyone else out there to call. It's now a week later and me and the rest of my 'friends' were sat in the common area just talking. I use 'friends' lightly as I didn't necessarily like or trust any of these people on the table. Richard was just talking out his ass about another adventure he went on while I was focusing on Jerome's dramatic reactions to the story pretending like it wasn't the 10 millionth time we had heard it. I tried to contain my laughter with every 'ouuu' and 'ahhh' coming from his expressions. Me and Jerome have spoken a little bit more now as he is the only interesting person on this table obviously apart from my bestie Barbara. Suddenly all of are attention was taken away from Richard which really annoyed him to this screaming guy that was situated behind Jerome. I couldn't really grasp what he was saying too caught up in a bit of a mind bogle until he started to cough horribly. I scrunched up my nose and Richard cleared his throat before continuing. I noticed someone next to me and looked to my side to see myself. "Guess we are getting out of here." She said hitting my shoulder with a giggle. Me and my darker self have become quite the friends now, I know how weird it sounds, we have been making plans for how to get out and talking about our life while I'm in my cell. I give her a confused look before I smell something strange and snap my head forward.

There was this blue gas seemingly coming out of this guy. My eyes widened and everyone else seemed to notice and copied my expression. I started to cough violently and feel drowsy before I noticed Jerome reach for me. I saw worry in his face and that was the last thing I saw before passing out. Even though I was passed out I could still hear what was going on around me. There were guys talking about who to take and I heard my name which scared me a bit. Where were they taking me? I thought then my other self answered, "to our freedom!" Then I heard Jerome's name along with everyone else that was at our table. This should be interesting. I felt myself being lifted and taken somewhere before a car started and we headed off to our freedom. It seemed like forever I was knocked out for before I finally started to wake up. I seemed to be the first to wake so I decided to take in my surroundings. Whoever had taken us must have been rich, the room that we were in was huge! The decor was beautiful and it looked like they had a lot of antics and precious items on display. I was gobsmacked. I looked to my right to see Jerome starting to wake along with the others besides him. Richard was first to speak asking if anyone knew where we were. "Freedom." Is all I said before everyone looked at me weirdly. I mean I understood why they looked at me like this we were still restrained to something and in our uniforms but I just had a hunch.

We made some small talk with each other before someone finally cleared there throat and walked in. He was very well dressed matched with some sticky out ears which made him look a bit like an elf and followed by a female in a spandex suit. She was hot. Like smack me in the face and run me over hot. The man cleared his throat grabbing all of our attention, "Welcome everyone, my name in Theo Galivan." He gestures towards the woman, "This is my sister Tabitha." One of the others Greenwood started to growl lowly at Tabitha in a 'I want to eat you' way and she just gave him a dark look before he shut up instantly. Theo cleared his throat before continuing, "Now I know you must all be a confused, scared a bit groggy but please relax. Today will be a new start for all of you, if you want." There was a evil glint in his eyes which intrigued me and I grinned widely, looking to my right I see Jerome with a very similar expression to mine. "Who are you?" Barbara asked with a curious look on her face clearly not trusting this guy. "The real question is who are you guys? The world sees insane criminals." I decided to speak up, "And what do you see?" He smirks walking over towards me, he stares into my eyes with a sparkle, "I see hunger and ambition." He moves towards Jerome, "I see charisma." Jerome smiles manically before he moves past a couple of my 'friends' before stopping at Barbara, "Power, I see power." He and Barbara stare at each other intently.

Finally the staring contest is stopped by Jerome, "Yesssss, that is me down to a tee now I don't know about the others around here but your singing my song." He looks towards me with a analysing stare, "Maybe your right about Jess here too." He says quietly, I think it was meant for just him to hear but I heard and couldn't help but smile wildly at him winking at him in response. "Quiet Jerome! Continue." Richard snapped. Theo raised his eyebrows before continuing, "Imagine a group of brilliant outlaws. All working together each with there different attributes, imagine the synergy, chaos and control you would have over Gotham." I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face he just knew what to say, "I'm no brilliant outlaw, I just have... issues." Barbara interrupted with a sad look on her face as she spoke the end of her sentence. I sent her a reassuring smile which she kindly acknowledged with tight lipped smile. Theo walked to her and gently tilted her head up, "you have beauty, ferocity and desire and that is enough." Richard did not look happy at this and decided he wanted to leave with Barbara he tried to bribe Theo with money it looked like it was working he was untied and was heading towards Barbara when Theo stated, "Money wouldn't be an issue." Before giving Tabitha a look to which she took out her whip and took Richard down before getting on top of him and stabbing him to death. I smiled manically a dark chuckle coming from my lips which couldn't be heard over Jerome's manic loud laugh. "Does anyone else want to leave?" Theo said with a dark smile gracing his lips.