January Friday 7:00 P.M.
Wayne Manor…
Alfred and Bruce were dumb struck they didn't know to really talk to Jim he seemed just lost in a state of confusion at least they hoped it was confusion "Detective Gordon is everything alright? You seem distraught." Alfred asked breaking the strange and awkward silence.
"I screwed up guys." Jim spoke bluntly not sugar coating the truth "I didn't mean for it to get so our of hand. It started with one lie and it just kept building."
"What do you mean you screwed up? Did you kill someone?" Bruce started to get worried.
"Master Bruce, I'm sure Jim hasn't done anything like that." Alfred stopped then turned his attention to Gordon "Well maybe."
"Don't worry nothing like that happened Bruce. I did something I thought I'd never do. I screwed up and I don't know how to fix it. I mean I don't know what happened I just gave in I guess. Now I can't believe I'm saying this but I'd give anything to make it right with her."
"Gave in how?" Alfred worried the conversation was about to take a more mature turn and he started to think he should send Bruce off to finish his studies and get to the bottom of things himself.
"I did something I thought I'd never do and I think I might actually have liked it. I just-" Jim stopped for a moment still in shock and Alfred couldn't wrap his head around what Jim may or may not have done "I couldn't control myself I just gave in it was hard to explain what I felt in that moment or what I started to feel. I just was so tired of being alone and I think she was to."
"Jim what did you do?"
"Alfred have you ever done something so questionable that… it made you rethink everything you believed in?" Jim asked just starring off into space "I mean I never thought I'd be happy again let alone with her. Have you ever made a choice you really regret but at the same time you don't?"
"I guess I was in the military I know what it's like to make difficult decisions. I'm going to be honest Jim you're not making any bloody sense. Still like I said I know what it means to make tough choices."
Jim nodded he knew he wasn't making much sense, but his thoughts were all over the place "Yeah but I didn't have to make this one but even so I crossed a line and I'm not sure if I can or should have to make it right."
"What are you talking about?"
"Alfred a while ago I guess you could say I made a very stupid decision." Jim shook his head "I didn't mean for it to happen. I just lost control and I gave in."
"Okay Gordon it's hard to understand what you are saying so I need you to start from the beginning." Alfred spoke calmly trying to understand what Gordon was saying.
"Alright I'll tell you but I can't guarantee you'll like me by the end. I had received a new promotion to Captain of the GCPD. Around the same time I became Captain of the GCPD, I bought a house in a nice neighborhood. Then I was kidnapped by a gang of up and coming robbers who didn't get the memo that I was no longer engaged to Barbara Kean. They also apparently didn't know who Barbara was because they kidnapped the wrong woman."
"Okay Gordon so let me get this straight. You and some woman mistaken for Barbara were kidnapped and I'm guessing you started a relationship with her of some kind. What is the problem?" Alfred asked growing concerned.
"Well the woman she um…" Jim stopped trying to avoid the question "she had lost her memory due to a head trauma and for reasons unknown she believed she was Barbara and I made a really dumb mistake. She believed she was Barbara and after those idiots kidnapped both of us thinking I was still engaged to Barbara the whole thing may have caused this woman to make the assumption that we were engaged, and I just never corrected her, and it was a very impulsive decision on my part because I may or may not have needed a wife at the time."
"Okay hold Jim." Bruce finally spoke up "Why did you need a wife?"
"Okay look when the Court of Owls was destroyed, and all the members were killed all their assets and properties were well- let's just say I have come into a lot of money as the sole survivor of the Court. However-" Jim stopped hesitant to continue "The Court was very old fashioned, and I had to meet certain criteria to inherit certain assets. I'm not even sure why any of that was part of the criteria it was stupid, but the gist is I needed a wife to inherit everything. The Court probably wanted someone traditional to inherit all their assets a lot of them were old money anyway."
"Who was this woman who thought she was Ms. Kean?"
"That's kicker Alfred." Jim smirked not because he was happy but because he was nervous and ashamed "Turns out of all the women to get amnesia and take Barbara's identity by mistake it had to be the one that-" BOOM! A bullet fired through the living room window. Bruce, Alfred, and Jim dived for cover.
"Who the bloody hell is shooting at us Jim?"
"My wife!" Jim answered.
"Who the hell did you marry Jim?" Bruce screamed keeping his head down.
"Well I think she may have calm down a lot since last time I saw her so that's good!" Jim yelled.
"How can you be so sure?" Alfred asked while sticking to the ground."
"I've been giving her lessons! She's significantly a lot better at shooting then she used to be! I think that she's just angry!" Jim yelled as the bullets just kept coming "Look at it this way things cannot get any worse!"
Fifteen Minutes Later…
Fifteen minutes that was how long it took for things to go from bad to total shit storm. The mansion was now a war zone with Jim running from his wife screaming "Will you please just listen to me!" All the while Penguin was tied up in the kitchen stuffed in a lower cabinet, Zasz was so high on cocaine that he was running around the manor butt naked chasing Grundy who was also high on cocaine but unlike Zasz who thought he had achieved nirvana or some shit like that Grundy was having a very bad trip and thought that spiders with Ed Nygma's head were crawling all over him.
While all this was going on Selina and Bruce were in the middle of yet another lover's spat while poor Alfred was in pain after he got shot in the foot by Jim who was trying to stop Alfred from shooting his wife. Meanwhile Lee and Barbara were having a weird slap fight outside the manor. All this was happening while Harvey decided to just take a moment to calmly drink from his flask and watch the chaos from the safety of his car.
Believe it or not this is all happening because Jim Gordon made a single decision that unleashed a chain of events that would fuck everyone up in Gotham. Trust me this will all eventually make sense.
