Living with Royston and Oswald at the same time was a bit more difficult than I thought it would be. Oswald was jealous of Royston who followed me around the house. Royston didn't really like that Oswald was even in the house, and I was conflicted because I didn't know what to wear to the Wayne's Charity Ball. Yes I was invited to the Charity Ball that's to my father. Being a few weeks from my due date I was feeling very swollen and everything hurt from my head all the way down to my swollen feet.
I had been looking through dresses for the Charity Ball with Royston for about two hours and so far everything was wrong. Yes that's right Royston was out on the town with me, and he was behaving very well. I mean considering he was always on my heels he was easy to keep an eye on, every now and again he would start to walk off until he realized he was too far away from me.
"Hey Royston I need your help, what color do you think would look better, black or red?" Royston said a few lines from Romeo and Juliet before pulling on the black dress. I smiled at him and quickly paid for my dress we were on our way. Oswald was so busy trying to have Falcone killed I only saw him when I woke up in the middle of the night.
Mama Cobblepot visits a lot more than I wanted her too but it was good, she made her world famous goulash and she was surprisingly great with Royston. Even though Royston was hard to understand they both understood each other very well. When I got back to the house Gertrude was there with a large frown on her face.
"Why you leave for so long? What if the babes decide to come and I am not there to help you, you need to stay home as much as possible. Sit, sit your feet need to be up so we can get the swelling down." Gertrude said grabbing my bag and pushing me down on the couch.
"Mama made more goulash for, I take some out for you. I know the babies love Oma's famous goulash." Oh boy, I was really not in the mood for this I have to pick out jewelry and shoes to match my dress for the ball tomorrow. "Mama Gertrude, can you help me with something, the bag you took from me has the dress I'm going to wear tomorrow for the ball and I still have to pick out shoes and accessories." She gave me the bowl of goulash before taking the gown out of the bag and gasping.
"It is beautiful, I will give you one of my necklaces to wear it will be perfect. You wear flat shoes, no heels they will hurt your feet more. I ask Oswald to go bring it for you, oh how beautiful you will look tomorrow." She started talking to herself and shook my head.
I pulled out my phone and dialed Oswald's number, he answered after the first ring, poor guy probably thinks I went into labor. "Have you found anything about my father yet?" I heard him sigh and I could picture him shaking his head. "I was planning on telling you this after the babies were born but your father isn't who he says he is, and he was working on something at that toxic waste dump Indiana Hill. I'm not quite sure what's going on over there but I know it's not good. I'll try and find more but for now this is all I'm telling you." I thanked him and passed the phone over to Gertrude.
I shook my head and slowly got up and made my way upstairs to my room. After my little stunt at the asylum I put in my two weeks notice and they were more than happy to get rid of me. That means I'll have to find another job in the future but I wasn't worried about looking for one. I had enough money to last for three generations and I had the twins to worry about. Speaking of the twins I was still having issues with names, Gertrude wants to name name the little boy Bartholomäus and the little girl Brünhild. Like what kind names are those my kids are going to be bullied with those names.
I guess I'll pick something out when they're actually born. I walked into my room and pulled out my mothers old briefcase from under my bed. Maybe there will be something here about my fathers involvement with this these mob bosses. All I could find was my birth certificate, a bunch of random papers and, hold on this looks promising.
I opened up the old coffee stained envelope and pulled out a bunch of office papers and documents. An old deed to Indian Hill, and Arkham Asylum, why would dad have these? What is happening at Indiana Hill, damn it I should have stayed at Arkham a little longer.
My door flew open and Oswald waddled into the room with his mother squawking behind him. "Mom, can you please give us a moment to talk." Gertrude frowned at him before stomping out of the room, Oswald sat down on the bed beside me looking at the mess in front of me.
"What are you doing here?" I handed him all the papers I had and friends. "What is Indian Hill and why is it so important? I thought Indian Hill was a toxic waste dump, obviously there's a lot more than than everyone thinks." Oswald smirks ad hands the papers back to me. "Oh my dear Penelope there is so much more you need to learn. You know what, I think you'd be a great criminal your sneaky and you kind of remind me of myself. After the twins are born I think I'm going to give you the 101 on being a criminal like me." He said chuckling.
"No thank you, if I take to many notes from you I'm going to end up dead. I'll figure out this criminal thing myself thank you very much. I have the money and the resources to be an awesome criminal." Oswald frowned at me and I have him a large smile. "Anyway did you bring that jewelry that your mother told you about, I have the Wayne's Charity Ball to go to and I need something to go with my dress. Your mother said no heels, flats only and that's ok because no one is going to see my feet anyway I just don't want to walk around with no jewelry on." "I made sure to bring this gaudy necklace, I'm not sure if it will look good on you though." He disappeared downstairs and returned handing me a small box.
I opened the box and gasped, the necklace wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, it was beautiful. "Oswald this is gorgeous it will match perfectly, go get my dress I'll put everything together." I yelled pushing him out of the room. He returned with the dress and another little jewelry box. "I got this for you awhile ago and never gave it too you so I think you should wear them with you dress as well." I opened the tiny box which held a pair of diamond earrings that matched almost perfectly with the necklace. "They're beautiful, thank you. Now help me get this dress on I hope it fits I bought it kind of big so I would have room then I realized I'm not the same size I used to be."
After about 15 minutes are struggling to remove my clothes and put the black gown on I was dressed and looking fabulous. Oswald zipped up the back of my dress and I turned towards him doing a little spin. "Well how do I look?" He looked over me and Gertrude busted the door open, I was so used to her doing whatever she didn't even freak me out anymore. "Look at you, you look like Cinderella so beautiful all you need is glass slippers and to runaway at the ball. My sweet boy, you are going to with her? You must what if she has the babes and you are not there? You go I will go and iron your suit now." With that she took her leave and I couldn't help but laugh.
"Your not going are you?" He shook his head and put his hand on my belly. "I have business to attend to so unfortunately I will not be able accompany you to the ball." I shrugged and felt the babies move around a bit. "Looks like they're upset you won't be there either, it's fine that just means your going to have to take me out for dinner, someplace nice that serves a large steak. Ok, now get me out of this dress so I can go to bed I'm exhausted. Oh and tell Butch I said its ok to come by and visit every now and again, I miss seeing him." He nodded and help me out of the dress. "Sleep well my dear, I'll see you tomorrow after the ball."
