Eddie didn't respond to Selina, instead taking a look at the room they were in. He staggered a bit, then brought his hand up to pinch the bridge of his nose. Selina didn't move towards him, deciding to let him find his bearing. "Do you remember what happened?" She asked him.

Eddie stopped to think, then slowly nodded. "I got a case from a woman about her daughter...Kimberly Bierko. Her mother gave me an address...it was..." Edward's eyes flashed open and he whirled to the tea table. Jervis had remained frozen to his spot since Selina had freed Eddie, eyes wide and face pale. Edward narrowed his eyes. "You."

Jervis seemed to come to life then, dropping the tea pot and making a dash around the table towards the door. Eddie quickly cut him off, his eyes glaring daggers into the smaller Rogue. He backed him against the wall. Jervis looked up at Eddie and held his hands up submissively. "Now, now, Edward-"

"You son of a bitch." Eddie hissed out. Selina couldn't recall the last time she'd seen him so furious. "How dare you."

Jervis slowly back away from Eddie. "I never meant you any harm, I swear it Dormouse-"

"Don't you call me that!" Eddie nearly screamed, grabbing Jervis by his lapels. He brought the man up to his eye level and shook him. "You have no right to call me that! Not after what you did to me!"

Jervis only whimpered in response. Eddie continued to glare at him, nostrils flaring. "How long?" he suddenly asked. "How long was I under his control?"

"You disappeared on Monday night," Selina answered. "It's Friday night-early Saturday morning now."

"Four days." He said. "Four days. What did you make me do?" He shook Jervis hard again. "What did you make me do!?"

"Nothing! I swear it Edward! I was only trying to help you!"

"Help me? Help me!? You took control of my mind! You violated me! If anyone at GCPD had seen-Do you have any idea what you almost did to me!?" Jervis whimpered out an incoherent plea. Eddie took a deep, shaky breath, calming himself somewhat. Selina continued to stand by and watch. She wouldn't let Eddie kill Jervis, but she didn't think a little bruising would go amiss. "What did I do to you?" She heard Eddie ask. She was struck by how quickly his tone had gone from hysterical anger to resignation. "What did I do to you?" Eddie asked Jervis again. "Did you just not want to give up the Bierko girl, or was this revenge for something I did when I was the Riddler? What was it?"

Jervis shook his head. "It wasn't like that at all Edward. I mean it, I was only trying to help you. I've followed you since you've reformed, do you know that? I've seen you on the news and every time I do, I realize just how unhappy you really are."

Eddie set Jervis down then. Selina couldn't see his facial expression, but she could guess that he was stunned. When he didn't formulate a response, Jervis continued. "You say that you're happy, but you were never a good liar Edward. You've lost your muchness. You used to have such a spark when you were still with me and March Hare and all the rest. We were all friends then, don't you remember? And you and March Hare were so close-"

"Don't." Eddie interrupted, his voice shaking. Selina realized with a start that he was close to tears. "Jervis, please."

A light seemed to go off in Jervis' brain. "You-wait. It's not a trick? You really don't remember?" The expression on his face turned from confused fear to pity. "Oh, Dormouse."

Eddie didn't respond, instead bringing up a hand to his face. Selina walked up to him, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Eddie are you-"

Eddie turned at her then and furiously wiped the back of his hand across his eyes. It was too late, for Selina had seen the tears. "Don't touch me," he hissed at her. "Wasn't Dr. Aesop enough for you? You wanted to see me completely debased too?"

Selina resisted the urge to slap Eddie. "Really Eddie? Is that the thanks I get for spending the last two days busting my ass to save you?"

"To save me," Eddie repeated, mocking her. "More like saving your favorite punching bag. What do you need this time? Did Ivy get buried under toxic fertilizer? Harley's gone back to the Joker? Some jewels at the museum happened to catch your eye?"

Selina looked Eddie straight in the eyes. "You know me Eddie. You know what kind of person I am. Do you really think I would've gone through all this trouble to find you if there wasn't a little part of me that cared about you?"

Eddie opened his mouth to retort, but no words came out. His shoulders slumped. "I thought I knew you," he said softly. "But that business with Aesop... You know, I expected nothing less from Ivy, and I was prepared for it from Harley. But you Selina? I thought the two of us were past all that." He shook his head. "I was just fooling myself. About you, about everything else. Maybe Jervis is right, maybe I'd be better off in whatever Wonderland he has in mind than where I am now."

Selina tensed. "Eddie," she said slowly. "What are you saying?"

Eddie ran a shaky hand through his hair, mussed though it already was. Selina realized what she was dealing with wasn't an angry Eddie, or a vengeful one as she might have expected, but an emotionally vulnerable one. The rarest and potentially the most dangerous Eddie of them all. "When I woke up from my coma," he started. "And I lost my memory and my 'compulsions' as the good doctor put it, everyone thought I'd been given some sort of Godsend." His face twisted into a bitter scowl. "A Godsend! My entire life was gone! Half of Gotham despised me and I couldn't even remember why! I still can't remember half of what I did as the Riddler, let alone everything else!"

"You were given a blank slate Ed," Selina said. "A chance to start over. Do you know how many people in our line of work would kill for that?"

"And what do I have to show for it?" Eddie asked her bitterly. "A life I can't remember, a police force counting down the days until I relapse, former colleagues and friends-" He spat the last word out at her "Betraying me left and right and the one person I needed the most, is, is..." Eddie's voice hitched and trailed off as he bit his lip in a vain attempt to keep composure. Selina watched this and her heart nearly broke for Eddie. This has been coming for a while, she thought. Jervis was just the final straw. Jervis watched from where he was still standing against the wall, his own eyes welling up. He didn't dare approach Eddie now though.

"I feel like I'm being haunted by my own ghost," Eddie said finally. "So you tell me Selina, would you kill for a life like that?"

"I know how hard this has been for you Eddie," Selina said gently. "And I know how much you lost. But I also know you've been reading into your past." Selina remembered the broken man Eddie had been before his coma and realized that although he'd come a long way in the past year, in many ways, he still was that man. "Can you really tell me that you want to go to who you used to be? And even if you do, I spoke to Harvey Dent while I was looking for you. He told me you have a target on your back. If you went back to Arkham, you wouldn't come out."

Eddie's eyes widened, then he darkly chuckled. "I shouldn't be surprised. At least Dent and his ilk are honest in how they feel about me. So I can't go forward and I can't go back. What am I supposed to do then?" He looked at her almost beseechingly. "Tell me Lina, what am I supposed to do?"

Selina said nothing. She reached out to him, her hand cupping his face. He flinched slightly at first, then leaned into the touch and clasped her hand with his own. "Why didn't you tell me you felt like this?" she asked him. "I know I hurt you Eddie. And I'm sorry for that and for the fact that I didn't apologize to you sooner. But Eddie, don't let me or Jervis be what derails you. You've come so far in the past year. Don't throw that away." Eddie said nothing in response, but looked down at his feet. She smiled at him, genuinely. "You know, you're a real piece of work Edward Nigma."

Eddie looked back up at her and had his mouth open to retort. Selina placed a finger on his lips. "Let me finish Eddie," she teased. "But you know the one thing I've always liked about you, even when I couldn't stand you? No matter what happened to you, or whatever setbacks you had, you always got back up again."

Eddie said nothing, but seemed to consider this. As he did, Selina realized that the noise from the fight downstairs had finally died down. "Sounds like Query and Echo finished up downstairs.

Eddie's eyes lit up briefly. "Nina and Deirdre are here?"

Selina grinned. "They came as soon as Ozzie told them you were in trouble. You have more friends than you think." Selina's face grew serious again. "Eddie," she said, getting his attention. "I'm serious about wanting to help you. Ozzie, Query and Echo are too. If that means helping you go back to being the Riddler, that's your decision and we'll respect it. It's up to you Eddie. What do you want?"

Eddie said nothing for a while, deep in thought. Selina held her breath. Finally, he spoke. "I want a lot of things," he said in a tired tone. "Most of which I'm not likely to get. Right now though, I want to get Tetch into custody, get Kimberly Bierko back to her mother, go home and sleep."

Selina let out a sigh of relief. She still had a lot of questions she wanted to ask him, but they could wait for now. She moved her hand from Eddie's face to pat him on the shoulder. "Good boy." Eddie rolled his eyes a bit and turned back to Tetch. He grabbed him by the shoulder and half dragged him towards the door. Eddie took a few steps towards the door, then froze. Selina turned behind to see what he was looking at and her eyes widened.

There, standing in the doorway, was Dr. Young. She said nothing to them, but from the look on her face, Selina could tell that she'd seen and heard everything. When and why had she come back?Eddie held her gaze, face pale, seemingly unable to move. Dr. Young stared back at him, as if seeing him for the first time. And in a way, Selina realized, she was. She had only ever seen him as the Riddler. She's never seen the man underneath that. There were only a handful of people who Eddie had ever let that close. Selina looked from Eddie to Dr. Young and back, not sure what she should say or do. Finally, a voice rang out from downstairs.

"Boss? Kyle? You alright up there?"

Query. At the sound of her voice, Eddie and Dr. Young seemed to break out of their trance. Dr. Young stepped forward, stopping only to pick up Eddie's hat from the floor. After pausing momentarily at the sight of Jervis Tetch, she handed the hat back to Eddie.

"Kimberly Bierko's called the GCPD and Ms. Vance and Ms. Damfino have cleared out Tetch's men. I'd suggest you make yourself presentable."

Eddie nodded, taking the hat from her. Satisfied, Dr. Young went back out through the door. Eddie pushed Jervis out behind her without a word. Selina followed wondering, not for the first time in the past day, exactly what had passed between the two.

An hour later, Selina stood in the fire escape of the building next door and watched the scene unfold. The formerly vacant street was filled with cop cars, Arkham personnel taking custody of Tetch and a news crew for good measure. Kimberly Bierko was giving her statement to a detective with Dr. Young beside her. Selina looked to the alleyway beneath her. Query and Echo were waiting, well out of sight of the GCPD and any trouble they might run into with their outstanding warrants. Eddie himself was next to Kimberly, giving a statement to Detective Bullock. Neither man looked thrilled to be in the prescence of the other. Selina's attention was then captured by the sight of a middle aged blonde woman making her way through the crowd in a rush to get to Kimberly. Her mother no doubt. Kimberly opened her arms as she saw her mother approached and the two women collapsed into sobs as they embraced. The woman then turned her attention to Eddie. Selina was too far away to make out the exact words, but the woman's heartfelt embrace of Eddie told her all that she needed to know. She soon turned her attention back to her daughter. Selina smirked a bit at Eddie's confused expression.

Another man however walked up to Eddie then. He was tall, bald and stood with an imposing presence. His white coat told Selina that he was probably an Arkham doctor. When Eddie saw him, he froze to his spot. Selina frowned. Time to get a closer look. She quietly jumped down to the ground and walked towards the edge of the building next to where Query and Echo stood. She now had the opportunity to listen in.

"Mr. Nigma," the doctor said, in a deep, accented voice. "It's been a while."

"Dr. Strange," Eddie answered in a clipped tone. "You're still sounding as ghoulish as ever."

Dr. Strange chuckled. "Charming. It seems you've once again successfully concluded a case. Well done." There was a pause and then Selina heard the doctor continue. "Are you quite alright, and. Nigma? You're not looking well."

"Well, it's grueling work, being a genius private investigator. You'd know that if you were either. Anyway, it's nothing a good night's sleep can't cure."

Dr. Strange laughed again. "Is that all? You truly are more resilient than people say, if you can shrug off being under the Mad Hatter's control that easily."

Selina froze. Eddie had only just told Bullock what had happened. How could this doctor have found out-no. Selina turned her head around the corner to look. Eddie's face as neutral, but it had lost color. Dr. Strange was looking over him now. Bullock had turned away to see to Tetch's men and the Bierko women were being seen to by a paramedic. The only person who was paying attention to Eddie and this Dr. Strange was Dr. Young and she was looking intently at them.

"I don't think you're well, Mr. Nigma. I think you would benefit from some...observation."

Eddie backed away from Strange, eyes blazing. "You really are a moron Strange, if you think I'm letting you get anywhere near me," he hissed, pointing a finger at him.

"You're becoming hysterical Mr. Nigma. Calm yourself."

"Don't you tell me what to do Strange!" Eddie shouted. This attracted Bullock's attention.

"What the Hell's going on here?" he asked, looking from Eddie to Strange.

"Mr. Nigma is unwell, detective Bullock. With your permission, I would like to take him to Arkham for observation."

Bullock glared at Eddie. Selina tensed. Behind her, she could hear Query and Echo pull out their firearms. Before Bullock could say anything, someone else intervened.

"That won't be necessary," Dr. Young said, stepping forward. "I've already conducted an examination of Mr. Nigma. In my medical opinion, he's merely exhausted. He doesn't need any additional medical treatment."

It was a lie. Dr. Young hadn't anywhere near Eddie since she'd returned his hat to him. Bullock seemed to buy it though. Dr. Strange however narrowed his gaze at her.

"Dr. Young," he ground out. "It's a pleasure to see you again. Given your...history with Arkham patients, how sound is your judgement?"

Dr. Young's face flushed, but she quickly recovered. "Tell me Dr. Strange, in what capacity are you here tonight?"

Dr. Strange raised an eyebrow. "I'm here to oversee Mr. Tetch's return to Arkham. That is well within my purview."

"Yes it is," Dr. Young agreed. "Is Mr. Nigma currently a patient at Arkham?"

Strange's face became impassive. "No," he said.

"And are you currently serving as Mr. Nigma's doctor in any capacity?"

Strange's eyes darkened at the tone in her voice. Eddie meanwhile, stared at the ensuing match over him, eyes as wide as saucers.

"I see," Dr. Young answered. "Well then, since we've established that Mr. Nigma is a private citizen and that he is in no way your patient, that would mean that you have absolutely no authority to force him to seek treatment. That's entirely Mr. Nigma's call. Isn't that right, Detective Bullock?"

Bullock looked disinterested at Eddie. "You heard the lady, Nigma. You want to go get your head examined?"

Eddie shook his head vehemently. "Absolutely not."

Bullock shrugged. "Whatever. Just keep Tetch locked up this time Strange." He stalked back towards his squad car.

Dr. Strange glared at Eddie and at Dr. Young both. "You won't be so lucky next time. Either of you." He then stormed off back to where Jervis was being held. Dr. Young let out a sigh of relief when he passed. Selina could kiss that woman.

Eddie for his part, just started questionably at her. "Why?" he asked. "Are you trying to pay me back for the memorial?"

Dr. Young shook her head. "You asked me once what it would take for people to give you the benefit of the doubt," she said to him in that cold, clinical voice of hers. "This is your benefit of the doubt. Don't waste it." She left then, going in the direction of the Bierko women. Eddie stared after her for a long while, rubbing his chin in thought. Finally, he turned and walked towards Selina, Query and Echo.

"Ready to go home boss?" Echo asked.

Eddie nodded. "God yes."

Query raised an eyebrow at him. "You gonna tell us what that was all about?" Selina wanted to know too.

Eddie winced. "Not now Deirdre, I've had a long week."

Query huffed. "Whatever." Echo said nothing, taking Eddie by the arm and leading him towards their car. Before the three of them could leave, Selina had just one more question to ask.

"Eddie," she said. "Are we good?"

Eddie didn't hesitate forming a response. "It's a start," he said. He, Query and Echo then walked further down the alley and disappeared into the dark Gotham early morning. The more things changed...

Selina shook her head fondly. "You're a prince Eddie. A real prince." She climbed back up the fire escape and began the long trek back home. She had one hell of a story to tell Harley and Ivy.