Goodbye Sanity, Hello Headlines

Chapter 21

Jerome's POV:

My hands shook violently as I clutched the photograph between my fingers. He was going to die, he was going to die a slow, painful death while Katerina and I watched. I was going to slice hundreds of patterns into his skin and carve a smile wider than the Cheshire Cat's see how funny he found that.

Her cheeks were stained with tears and dry blood and the question mark was oozing blood, how dare he lay a finger on her? He had been in the news, not for taking my girlfriend because apparently that mattered to no one, he was in there for terrorizing the GCPD. I hadn't paid any attention to his stupid escapades until Selina had forced me to watch a news article.

"We're reporting live from the GCPD where we've been told that two of Arkham's former inmates, Edward Nygma and Katerina Ferdine currently have Detective Harvey Bullock and GCPD cadets held hostage. We have yet to gather any other information at this point but stay tuned." My blood boiled and the two of us wordlessly left the apartment, Selina threw me the car keys and we sped to the building.

Apparently we'd come a second too late as the detective and cadets exited the building completely safe and there was no sign of either of them. They completely evacuated the building but Selina found a way for the two of us to get into the abandoned building, there was nothing to be seen or heard so the two of them had obviously left. I gripped my hair in frustration and threw the small desk that was to the right of me.

"They're gone! Now what huh? Did you see the scars that sick son of a bitch gave her? How did they get away so goddamned fast!" I exploded but Selina looked equally as frustrated.

"Yes I saw the scars! I'm just as worried as you are but we aren't getting anywhere with you throwing a tantrum, I'm going to go and see if Bruce has any information on what happened." She went to exit the way we came.

"Oh of course! Go and flirt with your stupid billionaire boy toy while Katerina is being tortured, real productive!" I shouted at her and she turned to me with pure anger flaring in her eyes.

"That 'Billionaire boy toy' is the closest thing we have to finding her and if you are too stupid to see that then you don't deserve to find her!" She screamed in return and my face darkened with fury.

"How dare you, you filthy little street rat, you knew her for what a couple of months? She only took you in cause she felt sorry for ya sweetheart open your eyes." I spat at her and she scoffed.

"You think she loves you? She only thinks she loves you cause you threatened her into it! What do you think Edward's doing right now huh? What do you think she's going to be like if we do get her back? You'll be nothing to her just like you should be." She retorted with venom lacing her words.

"You're wrong!" I lunged at her, my hands wrapping around her throat as she clawed at my hand for air. "She loves me!" I tightened my grip until I was punched in the throat, I took my hands from her throat and around my own in an attempt to catch my breath. She delivered a swift kick to my legs until I was on the floor with her combat boot square on my chest.

"You are lucky that you mean something to her." She kicks me hard in the rib cage and I cackle.

Kat's POV:

It had been a couple of days since the incident, the scar had began to heal but was still an alarming red colour and if I tilted my head too far to one side it would break the skin and make my neck feel like it was on fire. The hardest part was trying not to touch it, as it healed it got immensely itchy and I found myself wanting to claw the skin away myself. It had gotten to the point where Edward would handcuff my hands behind my back purely to prevent infection.