What if.

Missing

((//AN//)) i gave you guys a fluffy chapter, now back to the angst!!!

the day went pretty well, the case Ed was assigned alongside Bullock and Gordon was quite interesting, a man had been using an odd sort of poison that spread faster than any they'd seen, however the man injecting it wasn't that good at covering his tracks and was caught quiet easily. At the end of the day Ed got his coat, said goodbye to Kristin, they had a date planned in a few days and Ed was looking forward to it.

-3 days later-

Ed walked down the the street after a day's work ready to get home into his pajamas and get ready for his date with Kristin. He got home and kicked off his shoes as he usually did when he heard a knock at the door, he approached the door, he didn't think it was Kristin she wasn't supposed to show up for another hour or so, he opened the door, Ed felt his heart drop into his stomach "hey Eddie" the man stepped forward towards the shell shocked Ed all that Ed could muster up was a weak "dad?"

Ed couldn't move, he didn't think that the man he had once considered a father would ever find him again and he was terrified at the prospect of what his dad would do to him, Ed finally managed to take several stumbled steps backwards "Hey Eddie, don' be scared. Don't you wanna know what your old man is doing here?" his father said walking towards him again "No i don't, get out of my house!" Ed shouted at him, in his scramble to get away from his father Ed had knocked over a cup, the loud nose was enough to make Ed flinch and look over at the cup, it gave his father the time he needed to jump at Ed, knocking him to the ground and winding him, he felt a sharp pain in in his head and something sticky on the back of his head, it was blood. His father wrapped his hands around Ed's throat cutting of his airway, Ed gasped for air, witch proved to be ineffective "i'm gonna enjoy this you know, after all those times you annoyed me or got in my way" Ed quickly came to realize what his father had meant "He's going to kill me. I'm going to die" Ed blacked out, and remembered nothing after that.

Kristin walked down the street to Ed's apartment building, he had invited her over to watch a movie and she was excited to see what he had picked, Kristin walked into the building and up the stairs to Ed's apartment, she knocked...no answer, she knocked again...nothing, she tried again and when there was silence once again she called out "Ed! are you there?" maybe He'd fallen asleep it had been a long day at work "Ed, i'm coming inside, just a heads up!" she said hoping it would wake him up, she walked inside, she couldn't bite back the gasp she let out upon seeing the apartment, it was a mess, several things were knocked over and there was a broken cup on the ground, and...blood "oh god, is that Ed's?" she thought, she hoped it wasn't, but at the same time she hoped it was for worry of what it could be from if it wasn't his. She walked further into the apartment and saw a note beside a video tape that said "My Will" she didn't touch anything and called the GCPD and as she waited for them to arrive, she prayed to god that Ed was alright, even though she knew he probably wasn't.

Ed woke up in an unfamiliar and odd room, he felt pain, lots of it, but he also felt confused "Am i dead?" he thought, he couldn't be, he hoped he wasn't, but maybe it would be better if he was. He jumped when he heard a voice from the corner of the room  "oh good, you finally awake" it was his dad, Ed looked down at his hands realizing they were tied, he wanted to shout to scream cry do anything but his throat hurt to much from being strangled, so instead he tugged against the restraints, but it did nothing "why are you doing this?" just talking hurt his throat "well thanks to your little tape, i got arrested for child abuse, i finally got out last year and spent that time finding you, and look! i found you! i feel lie torture is too nice a word for what i'm gonna do to you." he said, he picked up a knife, it was a boning knife from what Ed could tell, the way it glinted in the small light hanging from the ceiling sent a chill down Ed's spine "oh, and before you think about screaming for help..." he started "sound proof walls" he finished, gesturing to the padded walls around him, he walked over to Ed with a menacing smile on his face, and calmly pressed the knife to Ed's forearm and with a flick of his wrist he slashed a cut into Ed's arm causing him to cry out, he did it again and again, by the third time Ed was crying "please, please stop, i'm sorry!" he shouted between sobs, his father sighed "Sorry Eddie, wish i could but, i need to do this, it's for your own good, i'm doing this because i love you" it was reminiscent of his days as a child when his father would tell him he'd hit him because he loved him "fuck you" Ed spat at him, he wasn't going to let his father get to him and make him think he cared about him, his father tutted "oh Ed, i never thought you to be the rebellious type" Slash with another cut Ed lost his bite "i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry" he said it over and over again praying it was enough to make the pain stop.

James walked up to Kristin who was standing beside Lee, they were back at the station now he though it better they got Kristin away from the scene "we just need you to answer a few questions you how this goes" Kristin nodded, James never thought he'd be asking these questions about a friend, but here he was "can you think of anyone who would want to hurt Ed?" he asked, but he already knew what she was going to say "Doughtery, is the only person i can think f but he left a while ago and i don't think he plans on coming back anytime soon" she said, but James could tell he was thinking of someone else as well "and maybe-" but she was cut off by Harvey "hey, you might want to check this out!" he called from across the room "thank you Kristin" he said before walking over to the commissioners office where Harvey was standing next to Barnes "hey do you guys have anything?" James asked, Harvey and Barnes looked at each other "yeah we did, you might want see this" he showed him the note they had found it read "hello, chances are if you're reading this you're either a cop or some body who made the mistake of dating or befriending my son, good luck finding him before he bites the dust" James read the letter and looked up at the two "son? do you think it could be his father?" he said "that's not all we found this to" said Barnes, he put the tape they found at the scene in the VHS player and pressed play:

the boy in the Video was scrawny, he wore glasses that are to big for his head, and a green sweater, he had brown eyes and hair and was very lanky, he looked uncannily like Ed "Ahem, hi, my name is Edward Nygma, i'm 13, but, i don't think i'm going to make it to 14. My death will probably look like an accident i'm sure my dad will try and cover it up. Don't believe him. The reason i'm making this is because if i die i want the police to investigate my dad, because, i think he's going to kill me today. He's always hated me, but, if i can somehow make sure someone sees this video, maybe he'll end up in jail, where he belongs. If i do die, i just wanna say i'd like to leave everything to my cat Nyla, and my only friend Nick. I hope he finds this and knows how much i care about him, i don't exactly have a lot to give except my friendship...and my books, also i want Nick to take care of Nyla for me because i know my dad won't. Either way if i die, and the police see this i hope they'll investigate it, please look out for a man named Ethan Nygma/Nashton and put him where he belongs, goodb-" Ed was cut off by a man walking inside "what the hell are you doing." the man said, looking at Ed, he walked over and grabbed him by his hair pulling him off the ground and throwing him to the floor again, the young Ed yelled out as he hit the ground the man walked over to Ed and raised his fist before hitting Ed, and again and again, until he saw the camera and walked over to turn it off--

James turned off the tape "Damn" Harvey said "i had no idea about all that" he finished Barnes looked at James "did you know?" James shook his head "it would explain an awful lot about how he's always so skittish and odd" he said, Harvey nodded "Come on, we should go talk to Kristin some more, and finish up those questions"