Twisted •Jerome Valeska

•Chapter 25•

•2 Years later•

I spring up from the surface I was lying on. I blink my eyes a few times to adjust to the light. I look around the room, I'm in the GCPD infirmary?

I put my legs over the table and get up. I'm still in my dress from the gala and my now blood stained hair was stuck to my face.

Memories came flashing of Theo plunging the knife into my neck.

"Don't you ever touch me again" I heard murmuring from outside the door.

Before I got a chance to hide Lee came in. She turned around and her mouth dropped.

We just stared at each other for a few minutes.

I seen her slowly go for the door handle. "Lee" my voice comes out dry and groggy. I slowly walked over to her. "Get..away" she growled. I roll my eyes. "I'm not gonna hurt ya" I say sincerely.

I know I should kill her and escape, but I actually did always like lee. When Jim and that doctor were torturing me in Arkham, she spoke up.

"I just wanna talk".

She sighs and sits on the table that I had previously woke up on. I smile and stand in front of her. "So, what's happened since I was gone?" I ask.

"Woah where do I start uh, remember Harleen Quinzel the girl you kidnapped?". "

"Rings a bell" I nod.

"She became a psychiatrist at an Asylum, which I'm not going to say for safety purposes".

"She said she always wanted to be a psychiatrist" I smile.

"What about Jerome?" I ask. "He hasn't been seen since that night at the gala".

"Oh" I frown. "How come I'm here?" I look around the room.

"Well this guy, Dwight, he's the leader of a cult, that loves you...anyway they took your body from Indian Hill, they brought you back to life, of course the GCPD found you and brought you back here before you woke up, they still don't know you're alive, they think Dwight failed".

I have a cult that loves me...that's new.

"They sound cool" I laugh. "They're a bunch of brainless idiots" she snorts. "Brainless and idiots my kin-" I went into a caught fit midway through sentence. "nd of people" I finish. She rolls her eyes.

I grab her neck suddenly rendering what I was about to do before I died. "What about that Megan?" I say real close to her ear. "She moved out of Gotham, i-i don't know where though" she says shakily. "Bitch" I mumble.

"Listen Kat-" Lee starts and gets interrupted by Jim walking in. "lee I'm- Katie!" He pulls out his gun. "Woah, calm down dude" I put my hands up.

"How" he says, shocked.

"Uh some guy called Dwight according to Lee".

Jim looks at lee then quickly looks away when she turns to him. "Jim, what were you going to say" she says angrily. He puts his head down and stays quiet.

"Hm, I'm sensing tension" I say quoting Oswald. "Before I died, you two were all over each other. What happened?" I ask.

None of them say anything.

I roll my eyes. "Jim, what did you do..." I narrow my eyes. "Nothing!" He raises his voice a little. Lee laughs. "He killed my husband...on our wedding day" lee looked down, tears filled her eyes. "Woah Jimbo, I always knew you dark side, but this, woah" I giggle.

"Lee he was infected with the Alice Tech virus! He was going to kill you, I seen the knife in his hand!" Jim pleas.

"I'm sorry Jim, but I don't believe you" lee whispers then storms out.

"Well then I'll just be going, nice seeing you again Jimbo, but I have people I need to kill" I smile and happily go to the door.

"I don't think so Katie, you still killed all those people" Jim pulls me back and handcuffs me. "what if I can tell you who broke us out" I coo.

He let's go of my arms and turns me around to face him.

"Who was it?" He asks. "Take a wild guess" I grin. He thinks for a minute, then shakes his head. "Theo Galavan" I laugh psychotically.

"Why would Galavan break you out?" He raises his eyebrows. "To do jobs for him, like throw the people off the Gotham Gazette and burn the the school bus....and the GCPD massacre then he killed me to be the hero and make all of Gotham love him, it was all him!" I stop laughing and stomp my foot in anger.

"This is great information Katie, thank you" Jim says and walks me out the door. "Yeah no problem Jimbo, now can you uh get these things off me" I shakes my hands that were behind my back.

"No can do kiddo, you're going to Arkham" he pushes me towards the main room. "But you sai-" "I didn't say anything" he says.

I go to shove him but he grabs me and pushes me through the door where everyone is.

Everyone started mumbling.

How is she alive? Dwight did succeed? Who else did he bring back?She was dead a half hour ago.

I smile and put my head up high.

Jim comes up behind me and continues to push me all the way outside, where there's a police car waiting.

He pushes me inside and slams the door shut. He tapped the roof of the car and the officer started driving.