The Queen of Gotham

Chapter Seven

When I got back to my apartment, I called Ed,

"Hey Ed," I said,

"Hey, Gwen. What's going on?" He asked,

"Do you want to come over? I need to talk to someone." I asked hesitant on hearing his answer,

"I would love to. Do you want me to pick up some food?" He asked,

"Ya, that would be nice." I said, my face heated up,

"How do you feel about Chinese?" He asked, I smiled,

"I love it." I said with a happy tone,

"Alright, it's a date." He said, he hung up the phone. When he said "date," my face turned red, 'does he think this is a date,' I asked myself. I started getting ready, I got out of my sweats and put on a nice white, low cut shirt with a nice pair of black skinny jeans. I put on some mascara and cleaned my house.

An hour went by before Ed got to my place, it was dark outside. I answered the door, Ed was wearing a nice white button up shirt with dark green slacks, we smiled at each other. I grabbed the Chinese food and sat it down on the table, Andromeda came out of my room to inspect Ed, she seemed to like him,

"Nice dog, is she a Great Dane?" I nodded at his question. He started petting Andromeda,

"Her name is Andromeda by the way." I said while I got the food set up, he sat down at the table,

"Thank you for inviting me over today, Gwen. It was sudden but I appreciate it." He said while picking out his onions out of his food,

"I don't like onions either." I giggled at him being very intense on picking out the onions, he snickered. He finished picking out his onions after a couple minutes,

"So, what did you need to talk about?" He asked while eating his food,

"I found out who put the hit out on my brother." I said getting up to grab a bottle of wine,

"Who?" Ed asked,

"My boss, Carmine Falcone." I poured myself a glass of wine, "Want some?" I asked pointing to the bottle in my hand, he nodded. I poured a glass for Ed, I sat back down at the table.

"Why would Falcone want Oswald dead?" Ed asked while sipping the wine,

"My brother was what you would call... a snitch. He told the MCU about the pearl necklace being planted in Mario Pepper's apartment by Fish Mooney and her goons." I said while taking a big sip of my wine, "I went out today to try to kill Falcone for killing Oswald." I said, Ed had a surprised look in his eyes,

"D-D-Did you succeed?" He asked with a nervous tone,

"No... my friend, Victor Zsasz, knocked me out before I could get the bastard." I said while clenching my fists under the table, my nails started to dig into my skin, "I would've gotten the shot on Falcone if Victor didn't hit me over the head." I rubbed the spot where Victor hit me. I went back to eating my food and so did he.

After a couple hours of talking and drinking, Ed and I got pretty close with each other, I was little wasted and Ed only had two drinks, we were sitting on the sofa,

"If you want, you can stay here for the night." I said, "You can take my bed and I'll take the sofa." He grabbed my hand,

"I couldn't ask you to do that for me." He said, "I'll just walk home."

"No, I insist you stay here, Eddie." I said, I looked into his brown eyes, I saw something in his eyes that I've never seen in anyone else's eyes,

"If you're sure, I'll stay." Ed said, I smiled at him, he smiled back. I leaned in closer to him, 'what am I doing,' I thought, but for some reason I couldn't stop. Our noses were almost touching,

"Gwen, I-" I cut him off,

"Shhh, just let this happen, Eddie." I said then I kissed him, I pulled away almost immediately, "Oh god... I'm so sorry." I stood up from the sofa then Ed grabbed my arm, he turned me around, I saw a confidence in his eyes that I've never seen. He looked into my blue eyes, grabbed my face and kissed me, I kissed back almost immediately. After a couple seconds, he pulled away,

"What are we doing?" I asked with a little giggle, he let out a light giggle,

"Something I should've done a while ago." He said, but he was different, he wasn't the nerdy, introverted guy I first met, he was more confident and I liked it. He kissed me again and that night was a night I will never forget.