Tales from Gotham

Eddy, Barbara and JEROME

So Barbara arrives at the house with Jerome. Jerome is wearing a long purple suit, purple pants, a pink flower and orange button up underneath with a red tie. over the orange shirt is a purple vest. He walks in behind Barbara. "Hello everyone"! Barbara says. Eddy turns his head slightly. He is sitting on the couch without shoes, in a green button up, and tan brown pants. He smiles "Hello" he says. He is sitting in front of the tv and science channel is on. 

Jerome comes and sits down next to Eddy on the left hand corner and and Barbara sits on the right end of Ed. "So, what you watching Eddy"? Jerome says. "Science channel" Edward says. "Really? what this one about"? he asks. "Nuclear physics, Stephan Hawkings" Ed says. "What other stuff do you watch"? Jerome asks. "I also like science fiction, and superheros, and sitcoms like Big bang thoery" Eddy says with a smile. "So, how about some cartoon"? He says. "Sure" Eddy says. 

Jerome turns on cartoon network and Tom and Jerry is on. "So, what happened to the others"? Jerome asks. "Oh, Penguin is dealing with Mayor stuff and he took Victor with him" he says. "Really? Does he ever take you"? Jerome asks. "Well, he does on Occasion" he says. "Generally, he either take me or Jerome, if he wants to talk just to me he will usually send Jerome, or Barbara off to do something" He explains. "So, whats your relationship with him"? Jerome asks. "Well, hes a freind, he got me out of the asylum. I had found him in the woods when I still worked at the GCPD, I had accidently murdered a few people and I was hiding bodies. He was in an old trailer and he came out and fell to the ground and begged me to help him. Had it been anyone else I probably would have killed him, but since I knew Mister Penguin, I decided to save his life instead" He says. 

There was a bottle of Whiskey on the table in front of them. "So, you guys drink a lot in this house"? Jerome asks. "Well, I drink on occasion, Victor and Penguin drink more often, Penguin drinks very heavily. I honestly surprised considering his size, how much he is able to tolerate" Edward says. "You can have some if you like, I know you are not of age, but its not like we are going to tell anybody, and I not part of the police department anymore" Ed says. "Nah, that stuff might ruin my perfect figure" Jerome says with a smile. "Suit yourself" Ed says as he pours himself a glass and pours some in and gulps it down. 

"So, do you like board games"? Jerome asks raising a brow. "Yes! Very much so" Ed says with a smirk. "Would you like to play something? I have all sorts of games, Card, Checkers, chess, parcheezi, twister anything!" he says. "How about Chess"? Jerome says. "Ill be right back" Ed says hurrying off to his room. "Ah, making freinds already, knew you two would get along" Barbara says with a smile. "Im a people person" Jerome says looking over at Barbara. A minute later Ed gets back and puts down a chess board down on the table and moves the tv over some and pulls up the bench they used to play Poker that one night. "So, white or black, White always goes first" Ed says. "I think ill be black" Jerome says. Ed sets up all the pieces, and then they start playing. They play about 9 matches, and Jerome wins 3 times out of 6, and Eddy wins about 6 times. Eddy smiles. "Im suprised, I didnt expect you to be good at this" he says. Jerome says "Chess isnt a very difficult game" he replys.

After that they play another game and then Ed make a new suggestion. "Do you know what 21 questions is"? Ed asks. "Yes" Jerome says. "Lets play that next!" he suggests. "Alright, how will this work"? Jerome says. "Oh, one minute" Ed says as he goes to his room and pulls out a notebook and writes something on a piece of paper. Ed turns the paper over. "Kay, so you have to ask 21 questions and then guess what it is, if you make a guess before you finished the 21 it counts as a question" Ed says. "I see" Jerome says. Jerome plays this 12 times and guesses right 9 times. The other times he ran out of questions and got the wrong guess. Eddy smiles. "Okay, my turn" Jerome says and write something on a piece of paper. Jerome does this 15 times and Ed guesses in 15 questions each time. "You are very good at this" Jerome says. "of course I am" Eddy says with a grin. "You know, I think you might like hanging out at the circus" Jerome says. "You two should come work for me" Jerome says. "but we all are working for Mister Penguin" Edward says. "Or I could just borrow you from time to time, if thats okay with your boss" Jerome asks. "I dont know if Mister Penguin would be okay with that" Ed says. "Why not ask him, clearly you enjoy my company" Jerome says. "You can ask when he gets home" Edward says. 

When Penguin and Victor arrive home Penguin sees Barbara and Jerome and Edward sitting around the table with cards taped to thier heads. "What on earth are you three doing"? Penguin questions. "Playing a game" Edward says. "Would you like to Join Mister Penguin"? Edward asks. "Thats.. Alright Ed" Penguin says. Jerome takes his card off and puts it down for a second. "Hey, Mister Penguin, your a business man right" Jerome says. "Yes" Penguin says raising a brow. "Lets talk business" Jerome says putting his hand on Penguins shoulder and leading him outside opening the door. "Boss"? Victor asks. "Play with Barbara and Ed Victor" Penguin says. "Yes Boss" Victor sits down and puts on Jeromes card. "Whos turn is it"? Victor asks. "Mine!" Barbara says. "Am I a tree"? She asks. "No" Victor says. "Darn"! She says. 

Jerome has a discussion with Penguin about taking Barbara and Ed and Penguin agrees but says that he still needs Ed to work for him. He also says he needs Ed for Wensday. Jerome agrees and they come in an hour later. Penguin sits next to Ed and says "Wensday" and Ed nods "Yes Mister Penguin". "Boss?" Victor asks. "We were just discussing business" Penguin says. Jerome sits down next to Barbara on the Bench. "He said sure, but you still have to work for him when he needs you, and you have something going on Wensday" Jerome says. "Oh, yes Penguin did say he needed me Wensday" Edward says.