Batjokes Poison in the Blood

Poison in the Blood Gotham AU

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"If it had been anyone but Gordon asking him to do this, and for anyone other than Jeremiah Valeska, Bruce would have bristled and told them that he wasn't a man to be ordered about. But this oddly timed and mysterious request certainly had his attention. With the unexplained distance Jeremiah had recently put between them, and Jim's urgent phone call, Bruce needed answers."

Bruce Wayne is asked by Captain James Gordon to visit Jeremiah Valeska at the man's fortified bunker. Gordon won't say why other than Gotham needs Bruce's help for urgent police business. Bruce can't imagine what Jeremiah and police business have to do with one another, and he's also harboring some hard feelings after his relationship with Jeremiah went from love-at-first-sight to near strangers in less than four days.

Visiting the bunker is the last thing Bruce wants to do.

So of course, he's going.

Goes AU at Episode 18 where Bruce and Jeremiah shake hands. I wrote the majority of this before episodes 20-22 aired, so many of the scenes from Gotham you may be familiar with are missing.