Penguin's Bird ~ A Gotham Fanfic

Chapter Thirty: Love Conquers All

Chapter Thirty: Love Conquers All

Dacey's POV:

My heart rate was accelerating in my chest. My breathing has become faster and I am finding it hard to process what is happening here.

"Brendan?" I question. A stray tear falls down from my eye and confusion is written all over my face. He smirks at me and waltzes into the limelight.

"But I thought you were-" I am cut off mid-sentence by him holding up his hand. He silences me and I stay quiet.

"Dead?" He asks me. I nod my head. My vision slowly starts to blur.

"Oh no no honey, I am not dead. Baby no." He shushes me and then walks over and places his hand on my cheek and runs his finger down the side of it.

"But... but I saw you. You were dying when I came home that day, you died in my arms." I state. He then shakes his head lightly.

"No... It was all staged baby since the minute you got that phone call." He tells me. I shake my head and tears fall out of my eyes. This can't be happening... This can't be happening...

"When you got that phone call that day I made sure some of my men would stage my death, I mean I am a good actor after all." He says and then smiles at me.

"But everything, you pulse had gone, there was no way that you survived," I state. He then brushes the new tears that drop from my eyes and slide down my cheeks.

"Simple, I got one of my men to make me something that would stop my pulse and make me seem dead... simple!" He cheers. Then he smiles and I shake my head furiously at him.

"You bastard..." I say and he chuckles. Brendan stands and then turns and walks over towards a window.

"I staged everything. In fact, you catching the Mockingbird and my men was not luck. And do you really think that meeting Tyler was a coincidence?" He chuckles darkly.

"You son of a bitch... YOU SON OF A BITCH!" I shout angrily and try my best to free myself. He then starts to laugh like a maniac and pulls out a gun. He places it against my head and says slowly.

"No honey I did this for you... FOR YOU! Everything that has happened has been for you. I wanted you to be proud of me and I wanted us to have a perfect life together so I devised the Mockingbird project up and decided to go around America killing every business man alive and you know what? I even faked my own death! FOR YOU!" He shouts. I scowl at him, I have no fear in my eyes and as I see in his own, madness reflects in it.

"You're insane!" I seethe. He then laughs like a maniac and nods his head.

"Oh Dacey, you will see soon, you will learn to love me again and there will be no mistakes." He says. He swings his hand with the gun and aims it for my head to knock me out when he stops.

"Boss someone else is in the building." One of Brendan's guards calls. Brendan stops and then looks at me. I raise my eyebrow in confusion and as if to say that I hadn't a clue which I didn't. He then silences everyone in the room and that was when I hear a distant call.

"DACEY!" I hear. That voice, it sounds so familiar. I look up at the door and then I feel Brendan free me but quickly afterward he grabs onto my arm and pulls me to him.

The door to the room opens and then I see a familiar face appear in the doorway.

"Oswald?" I question. He smiles at me and then holds a gun in his hand pointing at Brendan.

"Ahh, the Penguin." Brendan sarcastically.

"What are you doing here?" I question him. I smile and look into his eyes. Disbelief and affection are shown on my own.

"I came to find you." He stated and then cocks his gun in his hand.

"Now let her go." Oswald orders. Brendan then chuckles. He shakes his own head and smiles.

"So you really did travel all across Gotham just to save her... Too bad." Brendan says, I then feel something sharp pierce my arm. I feel my breathing get slow and I start to become breathless. I look down and see a needle in my arm with some bright purple liquid being pumped into my system.

"NOOO!!!" Oswald screamed as Brendan let go of me and I start to fall to the ground. Oswald immediately drops his gun and runs towards me. He catches me just before I fall to the ground and lowers to the floor.

"Dacey?" Oswald questions, I can see that there are tears in his eyes. He doesn't let them fall though. I find it hard to breathe all of a sudden and lift my hand up to clutch my throat. I look into his eyes and now he lets his tears fall. I shake my head and feel tears rush down my cheek.

Oswald holds tightly onto me and shakes his head frantically.

"Dacey, please.... Dacey don't!" He prays silently and then holds on my head. My eyes go wide and I am loosing more and more air every minute.

"I... I... I'm so sorry!" I say to him quietly. He looks down at me. He looks scared and frightened.

"Dacey?..." He whispers and that was when I felt all of the air go from my lungs and my eyes closed and darkness surrounded my vision.

Oswald's POV:

Dacey's eyes closed and more tears flooded my vision. Her pulse was gradually getting weaker until there was no pulse at all.

"Dacey?" I whisper her name and then rock her body slightly. I lean down and kiss her head.

"You killed her!" I say and place Dacey's body on the floor and stand up. Anger and sorrow are boiling within me and I am angered. Not a good thing.

"So they say love conquers all." The man remarks. I shake my head. He was going to pay with his life. I grabbed my gun off of the floor and then pointed it at the man. I was shaking with fury and pain because of Dacey's death. I didn't even get to say that I loved her one last time. I didn't get to say anything.

I cock my gun so that the bullet is ready to shoot. The man smirks at me and then says.

"You didn't deserve her. She was mine and you could never get her to love you. And when you did you ruined it just like you always do. At least now she does not have to see your pathetic little face again!" He mocks. I then chuckle darkly. I take a step forward. The gun is aimed perfectly and I am ready to kill.

"Oh no no no my good man, she was mine and still is! And you will pay with your life!" I say just as I am about to shout him a gun shot is heard and I see the man fall to the floor. What happened?