"Your parents are rich?" "They were." "So where's the money now?"

Jerome Valeska, light of my life, the fire in my heart, my best friend and my first love.. It's funny how I ended up betraying him. Was it betrayal really? No it wasn't. It probably wasn't. He became a monster. He became a person I didn't know even existed. I ended up choosing my ethics over my love. A story of unrequited love, passion and betrayal. A story of innocent friendship gone sour. And, a story of redemption and descent into madness. My name is Erin Samuels and I met Jerome Valeska at a circus. And that's when my life changed completely. Jerome Valeska x Erin Samuels (Original Character) (Set in all seasons of Gotham)

You find a lonely circus boy in your summertime travels, but as the years of friendship and romance drag on, you find out more about this mysterious circus boy and you find who he truly is: A maniac. (Sort of will follow Gotham plotline, but with more spice)

"Oh and Jim, Jim Gordon?" Jerome peered into the camera as if to yell out to an audience: "I have Rory here," he turned the camera towards Jim's daughter and revealed to the audience a girl that had been beaten and tormented, she was gagged and her eyes didn't look at the camera but above the lens; at Jerome who was holding the camera. "Say hi to Daddy, doll face," he jeered from behind the camera. She looked down the lens and shook her head as if to tell Jim not to try. The camera went back to Jerome. "She's a beauty isn't she, Jimbo," Jerome smirked into the camera, his laughter becoming harsh and wild: "and she's all mine, you try anything, and I mean anything, I kill her. She's my prisoner, my reward, and you're not taking her away from me Jimmy boy, on no, not this time" his words were spoken through waves of laughter. *** Rory Gordan is the stepdaughter of Jim Gordon. Her mother moved a lot so Rory was born in Gotham City but raised in England and from the age of 10 she had been bouncing from one country to another with her mother. However, when she turned 17 she had grown tired of the constant change of moving and decided to move to America. It was when she was visiting her long term boyfriend when her life got flipped upside down, not only did she meet one of the craziest boys on the planet, but she discovered that she had a gift that would curse her forever. This story is a collection of scenes rather than a flowing plot, so its chronological but it skips scenes and jumps back and forth between different perspectives. The story is under editing, so it'll get more cohesive over time. ••• I do not own any characters or plot lines from the TV show. However, original characters like Rory do belong to me. Total Word Count [46,156]