Fall (Jerome Valeska)- Gotham Fanfiction

Chapter Eleven: Russian Roulette

Chapter Eleven: Russian Roulette

*Alyssa*

Six years ago:

"This is madness, Craig!" I exclaim. He smiles sadistically at me and waves the object in front of my face and chuckles.

"It's the only way, Alyssa," he informs me. I shake my head and take a step back in fear. He's wrong, so wrong.

"You can't be serious?!" I question him frantically, he just again nods his head.

"This is the only way I know you are going to stay loyal to me," he tells me. I shake my head again and I scoff.

"What the hell are you talking about? I'm your blood!" I shout at him waving my hands in my air. Craig's smirk widens and he offers the object out to me. I just stare at him like he is a maniac.

"But that doesn't mean I can trust you," he deadpans. I look at him in pure shock. He cannot be serious. He cannot.

"What? Isn't that enough?! I'm your sister!" I exclaim, tears blurring my vision. My own brother doesn't trust me after everything we have been through. After the murder of our parents and us starting a new life, he still doesn't trust me. But why? What have I done to deserve this?

"If it was up to me Ally, you wouldn't have to do this, but Theo doesn't one hundred percent trust you and I want you to prove him wrong by doing this for me, for us," he says holding my hands I'm his own. I shake my head and a single tear rolls down my face.

"I can't believe you! You trust a man, a man we have just met, over me? This is insane Craig! Do you want to me die just like mom and dad?!" I shout frantically in a last hope to try and get through to my brother. He chuckles and wipes away the tear that falls down onto the floor.

"If you do this then I will never have to doubt your loyalty to me again," he tells me, making Hus words sound as though butter wouldn't melt. I took a few shaky breaths and stared at the marble floor.

"You just need to do this one little thing for me Ally, and everything will go back to normal, I promise," he manipulates. Being the naive girl I am, I accepted my fate and nodded my head.

"Okay, I'll do it," I whisper in a small weakened voice. Craig smiles at me and places his hand on my shoulder and pats it lightly, patronizing me for my decision. And the worse part is, I know he's getting pleasure from seeing me in my vulnerable state, he gets a kick off of being someone with higher power who can manipulate the weak minded and today that was me. I was the predator's prey.

"You made a wise decision Alyssa, I'm proud f you," he attempts to reassure me. I nod my head weakly and think to myself, it's not like I really had any choice.

Craig walks over to the table centered in the main room and pulls out a wooden box walking back with it in his hand. Craig looks at me and grabs my hand, there is a holy crucifix that is engraved on the lid and he makes me place my hand on it.

"I need you to swear an oath. You will do this without hesitation or second thoughts and you will not back out at the last minute. Call me stupid but I don't want you to back out when we are just getting started. So call this a policy for if you do back out, you are guaranteed to go to Hell," As I remember back to when this was happening, now in the present day I would have laughed and told Craig we were both going to Hell, but back then I was too afraid of him and what he could do.

I look at Craig and then nod my head softly and close my eyes keeping my hand on the box.

"I swear that I will not hesitate, have second thoughts, or back out. On everything that is Holy I swear down on my own life that I will proceed with what is about to happen and not be a coward," I would live to regret this but at the moment its the only thing I can do or think of.