Twisted •Jerome Valeska

•Chapter 20•

We drove for hours down the unfamiliar roads of Gotham. I think we were in Gotham anyway? It's was pitch black and the only way we could see ahead of us was from the headlights on the car. There wasn't much surrounding us, only trees.

We didn't really talk that much. When we did talk it was about how much I'm going to love the surprise and yada yada yada.

I groaned and shrunk down in my seat. The songs that were playing on the radio were shit and I forgot to take my phone that Theo had given me.

"Are we almost there yet?" I moaned. "Almost" he replies. I roll my eyes and look back out the window.

It was a nice night out. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and you could see the moon.

We finally pulled up to a warehouse. I looked over to Jerome and he grinned and motioned for me to get out.

I walked over to him. "What is this place?". He grinned and handed me a blindfold. I held it in my hand and gave him a confused look. "Put it on" he laughed. I did as he said and slipped it on my head and over my eyes.

He took my hand and lead me inside. "Okay, when I count to three take it off!" He said excitedly. "Uh, okay?" I say.

"One. Two. Three!". I take the blind fold off.

There's a woman tied to a chair with take over her mouth This is his big surprise? I look over at him. "Who is this?" I question. "Take a guess" he grins. "Harley?" I say sarcastically and roll my eyes. He laughs and shakes his head. The woman's eyes are wide. She's sobbing uncontrollably.

I go over to her and go to take the tape off her mouth. She head buts me. "What the fuck!" I snap holding my now bruised head. "Get away from me!" She screams. I look over to Jerome who's trying to hold back his laugh. "Jerome...." I narrow my eyes. "Hm?" He grins. "Why is she here?". "I told you I'd help you kill your mom". My eyes widen. I looks back at the woman and all the memories of that night comes back.

I remember Everything.

The morning she killed my dad and I got them blame.

When I met Sophie and Jerome in Arkham

. When Theo broke us out.

When we threw those people off the Gotham Gazette.

When I kidnapped Harley from the school bus.

And when James Gordon left me in that room.

Hot tears streamed down my face.
"I remember" I whisper. I look back over at Jerome. He grins "How great am I". I laugh and run over to him then jump on top making him fall and him embrace him in a hug.

I let go of him and and stand back up. I walk back over to her. "Hello moth-, actually no wait I'm not even going to call you mom. Hello Laura" I grin. She sobs. "Nothing to say?" I bend down. "I should've killed you that night!" She spat. I put my hand at my heart "ouch, that hit me right in the feels" I wiped and fake tear.

Jerome comes over. In one hand he has a gun and in the other he has a knife. I take the knife of course. It's more fun!

He laughs and backs away to his previous stop behind her.

I play with the knife in my hand. "So" I smile. She stares at me. She gave up trying to get free. She knew there was no escaping.

"What do you want with me!?" She growls. "I just want to know why you killed dad?". She laughs and shrugs. "No answer?". She shakes her head. "Alrighty then" I stab her in the leg and she screams out in pain. I hear Jerome laugh which makes me laugh, his laugh is so contagious.

I take the blade out and huff. "You ready to answer my question now?". f-fuck you!" She screams. "Okey" I stab her again, this time in the stomach. She screams out louder this time. "What that hurt! I though you would of been used to getting stabbed in the stomach" I grin. She spits in my face. I laugh and dig the knife deeper into her stomach, she screams. "how pleasant" I wipe the spit from my face.

"Hm okay, I know you and Megan talk, so I want to know why she killed her mom". She shrugged. "Jesus Christ!" I groan and take the knife out then stabbing her in the other leg. She again and her head starts to fall as she's going in and out of a conscious state. she keep trying to lift it up.

"Laaaast question" I sing. "When is my birthday?". "tomor-" she didn't get to finish her sentence before she finally bled out.

I clapped my hands and turned to Jerome. "Eventful night" I smile. "Out of all of the questions you could of asked, why did you ask that one?" He raised an eyebrow. "She always used to make a big deal about birthdays" I smile. He nodded and pulled me in for a hug.

"Why are you hugging me?" I laugh.

"Because I love you".