Stitches

Chapter 49 'Goodbye killer II'

"So what's this big thing you have to show us? Jerome and I have to get home soon," I asked Jervis. He was assembling some time of device, a green gas tumbled inside.

In the middle of the room was a man tied to a chair, probably hypnotized to not struggle.
"All in good time, my darling," Jervis said, giving me a flirtatious wink. Jerome caught that and furrowed his eyebrows, looking at me in suspicion. I gave him an awkward smile and looked at the wall, avoiding his eyes.
We watched as Jervis took a strange device with the gas inside, he walked towards the man, blowing the gas in his face, the man's face stretched and morphed. His face went pale and the skin around his mouth stretched into a long, creepy smile.

He looked almost like Jerome... Almost.
The man laughed maniacally, I was scared to know what was rattling around in his head.
The boys smiled at their achievement while I stood there in fear.
"This could ruin Gotham," I said, the three men looked at me with confusion in their eyes.
"Um, June, that's the point," Jerome said, I rolled my eyes and retorted, "No, dumbass, that's NOT the point, when you planned this with me you never told me you would do this."

He sighed and said, "It's just temporary,"
I rolled my eyes once more and turned around to walk away, "Temporary my ass," I mumbled, making sure they would hear it.

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I sat on the freezing cold truck, Jerome was trying to convince the mayor to join his... Legion? Fangroup? Whatever he wants to call it. Orgy.

"Dr. Valleta, please. Don't do this, I-I can give you a fresh start...new name, money, safe passage out of Gotham, please," he begged, "She's not for sale," Jerome said, wrapping an arm around my waist and pulling me close. I wonder how long before my eyes pop out from rolling them at these assbutts.

"See this is what's wrong, nobody knows how to have fun anymore," I rolled my eyes in disgust, what's worse than being forced into something? Being forced into something that goes out of plan and is completely and utterly stupid. Can we skip to the part where he dies?

I hid behind Jerome as Jonathan sprayed a woman with his fear gas. The lady started to burst into laughter, her face turning pale and her smile stretching wide just like the man's.
I looked around and I could tell Penguin was afraid, the rest of the group seemed unfazed. I tried to hide my fear as best as I could, but inside I was shitting myself.

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"Ladies and gentleman we are the Arkham Asylum lunatics and we came here to blow some minds!" Jerome yelled into the microphone, I face palmed in embarrassment; whoever the fuck is up there listening, please, smite me.

"Sorry to interrupt your little show but you are gonna love this next one" He said, he started introducing everyone, once he mentioned the mayor that was my cue to bring him up. "I'm sorry Mister Mayor," I whispered to him.

"Its okay, we've all been in love at some point," He said in a sad tone, one of Jerome's cultists had to put some type of explosive collar around his neck, no one told me there would be explosives.

A few minutes passed of terrible, agonizing music and Jim showed up, he kept trying to negotiate with Jerome; that ended up with the commissioner's head being blown off. His head exploded into chunks and small blood droplets stained my grey suit, I sighed and mumbled, "For fuck's sake," I tried getting the blood off but to no avail.

Jerome watched me from the corner of his eye, mumbling an I'm sorry my way as he saw my death glare. Jim went to get the hostages, as Jerome kept talking into the camera,
"Don't you know its rude to keep someone waiting?" He said.

"Eenee meenee mineee mo one of this people have got to go," Next thing I knew, one of the hostage's heads were blown off, this time a chunk of brain matter splattered onto me. I am mortified right now.

Then Jerome started playing guitar, something he clearly doesn't know how to do. I sighed in annoyance and disappointment; a few minutes later and guess who Jim showed up with... Bruce and Jeremiah, the party is complete.
"Well look who decided to show up; we were starting to get nervous, especially the mayor" Jerome said.

"Ladies, take your seats, c'mon, don't be shy," He said. Next thing I knew, Jerome called the order to take out the GCPD, snipers. Snipers taking out snipers, isn't THAT ironic.
"Nice try, I had my guys take out the best vantage points last night; they've been watching your little SWAT team, all day," He explained.

"Val, the knife, please," Jerome said to me, I nodded and took out the knife hidden in my back pocket. Jerome gave Jeremiah the knife and said, "Give me your best shot."

Jeremiah yelled out and tried to stab Jerome but Jerome punched him. Jeremiah fell to the ground and then all hell broke loose, Jim shot Jerome in the shoulder.
"Jerome! What the hell!" I cried out, almost forgetting to keep up my disguise, I tried helping him but he pushed me off and said, "Go, now." He ran away from me, I ran back stage, making sure no one saw me. Then I ran out the back, going towards Bruce without my appearance being altered, I helped him get untied.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, "My ex is on the loose, whaddaya think I'm doing here," I said, once untied he went to fight Firefly. And once again, I went to Jeremiah and helped him up; a nasty marked was starting to show up on his face.

"You alright?" I asked.
"Peachy," He replied.

I followed Jim into an old building, running up the endless stairs, I heard another shot.
I could see Jerome standing at the edge of the building, multiple bullet wounds stained his white suit.

I stood close, behind Jim, "Junie, my love. Finally, take the big guy out," Jerome pleaded, taking out my gun from my holster, I looked at Jim.

"Juniper, don't," Jim said. I stood next to him and pointed the gun at Jerome. "I should've dealt with you a long time ago," I said.
"Baby-" I shot him in the leg, "Don't baby, me," I said.
"You've been a pain in my ass ever since you came back," I said, I could see that he began to lose his footing. "Goodbye, killer," I shot him one more time. "Funny." He started to lose his balance, and he fell back.

Jim and I ran to the edge of the building and saw Jerome hanging on to a tube. He tried convincing Jim to rescue him, Jim stuck his hand out to get him. "Jim, what the hell are you doing," I said.

"You never w-were the best shot June," Jerome said, my eyes widened and I said, "Get the hell back and let him fall."
Jerome let go of the tube and fell to his death, landing on top of a car with an eerie smile on his face.