New Age of Villains - A Gotham Fanfiction

Chapter 17- the nightmares begin

**FULL EXPLANATION**
Hello everyone! I'm Charlie, the writer of this fanfiction. The upcoming "dream scene" is not one that I made up. It was originally going to be in the last episode before fox (the creators of the show, not Lucius Fox) threw it out. I really wanted to include it without having to risk losing one of my favorite characters, so I'm writing it in the form of a dream Ellie has. Thank you for reading my fanfiction, and I hope you continue to enjoy it.
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Ellie looked around in shock and fear, where was she? This looked like one of the alleyways that opened up into one of the docks. The sky was dark and the ground was wet as if it had rained earlier that day. She heard the sound of shoes pounding on cement and turned around to see a very bedraggled Ed.

"Ed, what are you doing here, what happened to you?" She began to ask upon seeing that he was covered in scratches and dust. He looked frantically around, ignoring her. Of course, she thought, he can't see me, I'm in a dream. She turned her attention back to Ed and watched him.

"Oswald!" He shouted, looking around more. At last, something seemed to catch his eye, and he urgently ran a few yards away from the opening of the alleyway.

Ellie ran after him and gasped as she saw Ed quickly get on his knees, kneeling over a figure she couldn't see. She heard a gurgling cough and went around Ed's other side to see what he was looking at. With a small shriek, she realized it was Oswald who had made the sickening coughing noise.

He was laying on his back, covered in blood, as Ed propped Oswald's head up in his hand.

Blood was bubbling out of Oswald's mouth and Ellie sat beside him, watching with Horror.

"Oswald," Ed began angrily, "get the hell up Oswald!"

"Eddie..?" Oswald stammered, looking up with a hint of a smile on his pale face.

"What happened!?" Ed demanded as Oswald coughed up more blood, "you're going to be fine, just get up."

Oswald drew in a shaky breath and tried to explain, trailing off every now and then to cough, "Gordon shot me after.... After I killed some of the officers chasing us... Ellie got away unharmed at most... I led them away from her."

But I'm right here! Ellie wanted to scream, but she knew it was no use.

Ed looked down and gasped as stern anger on his face was overtaken by fear, "god... he shot you in the chest."

"I know... I know he did." Oswald sighed, then he desperately grasped Ed's free hand, "Edward, listen to me... get, get out of here, they found the hideout... you need to get out of Gotham."

Ellie saw Ed squeeze Oswald's hand with a sense of desperation, "you're insane! We'll worry about finding the others later, we're going to get you to a safe place!"

"Look at me Ed!" Oswald wheezed, coughing more, causing Ed to lower his head back onto the concrete of the dock and take Oswald's other hand. "I'm... not going to make it." He gasped.

"The hell you are." Ed said hurriedly, Ellie's heart shattered at the sound of panic mounting in his voice, "you're gonna make it, now get the hell up!"

"Eddie listen..." tears were starting to pour down Oswald's face, whether from pain or from heartbreak Ellie couldn't tell, but it was most likely a mix of both. "I... know you're not going to feel the same way... but I love you... and I want you to live... longer... than me..." his voice was softening, losing power, and Ellie found herself wishing she could look away, but unable to take her eyes off of her fathers.

"Oswald you idiot! You damn idiot just get up!" Ed shouted, putting his hands around Oswald's face.

Ellie watched as Ed gingerly leaned down, planting a kiss on Oswald's lips, Oswald was too weak to return it, and when Ed got up he rested his hand on the side of Ed's face.