Penguin's Majesty

26. Edward and Delusions

*Lusciana's POV*

I lay in the hospital bed completely bored out of my mind. Suddenly I hear a knock on the door. Then the person comes through the door.

It's Oswald coming in with another bouquet of flowers.

"Oh you're awake! How are you doing my dear?"

"I'm fine. Perfect in fact. I just want to go home."

"Home?" He raises his eyebrow.

"Yeah home. With you Ozzy. My home is with you now."

*3rd person POV*

A tear nearly trickled down his cheek at the though of her being comfortable with him, and calling him, her home.

He cleared his throat. "Very well. You are very welcome to call my home your home. Me casa es sue casa."

"Thank you Oswald. Has the doctor said when I can be released?" She asked

"Ah no. Not yet I'll go find your nurse."

"Wait! Don't leave yet. I can page her. See?" She said holding a remote attached to the bed.

She pressed the button.

And they hear frantic footsteps. The nurse runs in the door. "What's wrong Lucy? Is everything alright? Is this man bothering you?!"

"No no Harley. He's my friend. I just didn't want him to leave. And he wanted to speak with the doctor."

"Oh of course. My apologies." She held out her hand for Oswald to take. "Harleen Quinzel. Pleasure."

He took it. "Oswald Cobblepot and the pleasure is all mine."

"I'll go fetch the doctor. I'll be right back" said Harleen.

"Alright" Oswald said.

As soon as she headed out. Lucy Asked Oswald the question that had been on her mind.

"Who is that Edward Nygma guy to you? And what does he have against you?"

"It's a long story my dear. Perhaps for another time."

"Oswald. No. I need to know. I deserve to know. I took a bullet for you from him. Please. Please tell me."

"Fine. He... he was my friend. Before he became the riddler. He was a very socially awkward and somewhat shy young man. He was observant and calculated. He loves riddles. He fell in love with a woman named Kristin Kringle. She was dating a police officer named Tom Doughtery. He was abusing her. So Edward killed him. Wrote a note saying that Tom had left. And then Kristen went to him as a rebound. But when she found out what he had done. He tried to calm her down but instead he killed her. And something just snapped in him."

"I'd like to hear more. Know more about him."

"Why?"

"He seems intriguing."

"Oh...."

"What was he to you Oswald?"

"He was my apprentice, my friend. I loved him. I thought he loved me but he came to me and told me he had fallen in love with a girl named Isabella. She looked just like Kristen. And I'll admit I killed her out of jealousy. Right when things were beginning to get better, he fell in 'love'."

"Oh Oswald I'm sorry."

"No no it's okay. He found out it was I who had killed her. And he wanted revenge."

"Okay in a way I can see why he wanted revenge. But I can also see why you wanted her out of the way. What you did wasn't right, but two wrongs never make a right." She sighed.

"Of course. I must say that it's the way of survival here. In Gotham."

"I know how Gotham is. I know how the world works okay? Anyway what's the doctors name?"

"Doctor Range."

And with that name she was sucked into the world of delusions. It was like doctor strange was in front of her again. She didn't want to die a second time. She didn't want to go through that pain again of waking up. With no air in your lungs. And no way to recall what or were you were.

Her eyes went wide. And the doctor, as if being summoned, walked through the door. She began convulsing trying to get away.

"Get away! Get away! Get away from me! Don't touch me! Get away!" She yelled becoming increasingly more panicked.

Oswald tried to calm her but it was no use.

"Guard! Guard! Take me back! Take me back to my cell! I don't wanna be here! Take me back! Get me out of here!" She kept struggling.

"Please miss calm down! If you can't I'm going to have to sedate you." He said holding a syringe.

She screamed. "Guard please!"

Several nurses had come in to pin her down as the doc sedated her.

She felt into unconsciousness as she whispered. "I've died again?"