Gotham mlm and nblm one-shots

Opening up~ Jerome Valeska

Summary: after Jerome encounter with his uncle the at his dinner (before he goes and gets tetch and scarecrow) he comes to you and opens up about his childhood with his uncle
!TW! Mentions of abuse and violence read with safety
Pronouns: they/them  ( I'm gonna use boyfriend and partner because these are masculine x readers)

You knew right when you heard about the break out at Arkham that he would come and see you. So you waited. You knew that it might take awhile knowing by Jerome he always had some anarchy to do and then come and get you. It started to get late though and you were losing hope. You slowly drifted off to sleep in the chair you were sitting in. Then you hear the door open and see Jerome walking through. First thing you notice is that his once stapled on face was now stitched on and it honestly looked better then the staples.

"What no hug or kiss or anything?"

He said playfully. Holding his arms out. You leaped out of your chair and ran to him.

"Theirs my favorite boyfriend/partner!"

It felt so good to see him again and be able to hug him again. Then you pulled away and saw the stains on his shirt and light burns on his face. You stopped smiling and quickly and harshly stated,

"What happened and who did this to you"

He turned his face away from you for a moment.

"Oh you remember my uncle Zach who uhh wasn't very pleasant,"

I nodded remembering the time I met him and he said some very bad stuff about me and how Jerome was dating someone who was outside of the gender binary.

"Why did you go and see him again?!?"

Basically yelling at him,

" You know how horrible he is why would you even risk that? I mean I know you wanted to kill him and all and you defiantly did but why?!?"

He looked mad at me for a minute then put his head down slightly and look sad almost. I haven't seen him sad since when he lived with his mom in the circus and would come to me after his mom would beat him. I quickly put my hand on his shoulder and sighed.

"Why don't I get you cleaned up and we can talk about. Does that sound ok?"

I didn't want to make him talk about it if he didn't want to but I want to know what happened and how he was able to lose control of the situation and get hurt. We sat down and I cleaned up all the soup on his face and took his shirt and got a fresh one. We sat in silence after that. Then finally he broke it,

"He didn't do it as frequently as my mom but it was still bad,"

I put my hand on his hand to reassure him and make sure he knows that he's ok to tell me these things.

"I don't talk about it a lot because awhile after the incident with you he just left. I didn't know where until tonight and I didn't really care. I never wanted to see him again after what he did to me"

I took my hand of his hand that was in his lap and put my arm around his shoulder and he leaned into me.

"Thank you for telling me I know it's hard to open up but I will always listen and I'm always here for you no matter what,"

I took my arm of his shoulder a pull his face towards me and kissed his forehead. Even with his stitched one face he gave his big warm smile that he always would give me. After a couple hours of sitting on the couch holding each other and slowly drifting off to sleep he got a call that one of the people he was working with got captured and was heading back to Arkham.

"I'm sorry I have to go but I'll see you in the morning,"
He said with a smile.

"You promise to come back?"

I asked still worried that he would get hurt or get captured again.

"I promise,"

He gave me a smile leaned down and kissed me and walked out the door with a quick wave goodbye. I waved back sluggishly because of how tired I was and slowly walked myself to bed. The next morning I woke up with him curled up in my arms.