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Olivia Walcott walked as quickly as she could in her three inch heels. She was two minutes away from being considered late for work.

"Finally." She panted to herself as she reached the steps of the GCPD. She sped past everyone while straightening her black pencil skirt. Her long brown hair was a loose mess whipping behind her. Eyes followed her the whole time. Most of the men in the building liked her but she found them all boring and average.

"You're still one minute late." A voice drawled towards her. Olivia closed the door to her shared office and went to put her satchel bag on her desk.

"Well it's obvious I didn't miss anything." She said catching her breath.

Olivia glanced over at the man at the desk opposite to hers. Edward Nygma was her co partner as heads of the GCPDs forensic department. Ever since she started here last month she knew he didn't like her. Her intuition was that he was jealous of her. The lanky man was seated at his desk and scribbling on his papers. Olivia put her hair into a high ponytail and slipped on her black rectangular glasses before approaching him, "can I please see the blood test from the child?"

He gave her a tight smile, "Of course Miss Walcott." He handed her the file but she knew he didn't want to.

After about an hour of reading it Olivia finally saw it, "I found it!" She practically yelled.

Edward looked up and pushed his glasses further up his nose, "found what exactly?"

"Mackey had a high level of ATP. How could we miss that?" She muttered the last part to herself.

"Can I check it myself?" She handed the file over to him and watched with a grin as he read it.

"You're right." He told her plainly.

Olivia felt like jumping for joy. She outsmarted him finally. Since she arrived it seemed like he was on a mission to prove he was more intelligent than her. Yet here she was finding something he missed.


A month later Edward somewhat warmed up to Olivia but they still bickered about everything. He was less reluctant when it came to case information but he still tried to prove himself smarter than her. Almost every time she managed to solve his riddles. It drove him mad that someone in this incompetent city could match his intelligence.

Olivia on the other hand enjoyed his tests. Every time she got the answer right a tiny bit of her confidence was boosted. She no longer felt ignorant or any less smarter than Edward.


It was now six months since Olivia accepted the job at the GCPD. Currently she was just about to finish up the paperwork on another Jane Doe murder and then she was free to leave. The sound of a cell phone beeping broke her out of her concentration. Olivia looked down as the screen read MOM. She bit her lip debating if she should answer.

"If you're not going to answer it at least turn it off." Edward's voice said from across the room.

Olivia went with her gut feeling as she flipped the phone open, "hello mom."

Edward looked up from his work. He watched as Olivia's face filled with embarrassment and nervousness.

"Uh yeah I could come visit next weekend.." her voice sounded uneasy.

Edward noticed as a blush spread across her face from whatever was being said.

"I'd need to c-check if .. if he could." She waited for a reply before saying okay and shutting the phone rapidly. Olivia buried her face in her hands. She was too busy and tired to have to deal with her family.

Edward couldn't help his curiosity to know what made her so upset, "what happened?"

"It's a long story." She said into her hands.

"So condense it" if she didn't tell him he would be wondering all weekend what it was.

"When I moved here my parents keep pestering me about how dangerous it was here and that I should move back home. So a few weeks later I told them I had a boyfriend that would be around to protect me. Now my mom wants me to bring him next weekend so they could meet him." Olivia recomposed herself to finish up her work.

"Everyone asks for me but yet everyone hates to face me, for someone I am agony for others I am relief! Who am I?"

Olivia almost instantly knew the answer, "the truth. I can't just tell them the truth now. I'll think of something."

She looked down at her papers, "I can get a sham boyfriend." She spoke almost to herself.

"Well I'm going to be off, good-" Edward was getting up to leave.

"Wait! Last time I checked you didn't have a girlfriend Mr. Nygma." Olivia told him with a sly smile.

"I'd love to help you but you see I'm quite busy."

Before he could open the door Olivia spoke, "it would be quite a shame for everyone to find out what really happened to Ms. Kringle."

Edward stopped dead in his tracks, "no-nothing happened to her… she r-ran away." He never stuttered anymore but out of nervousness it came back.

"Next time you're going to bury a body don't write it on a todo list and leave it in the open for your nosey partner."

"You've looked through my stuff?!" He asked her shocked.

"Of course I did! You just showed up to work paranoid of a fly all of a sudden!"

Edward stood at the door thinking. Olivia finished her paper work quickly and too was about to leave. Just as she was slipping her coat on Edward spoke, "I'll do it."

"Great! I'll work out the details and give them to you on Monday." She replied as they walked out together.

"I would have never guessed you would use blackmail Miss Walcott."

"It's Gotham, everyone's corrupt. See ya Monday." She said before leaving to walk home.