Evie gasped as she was dropped to the ground roughly by the Bat. She backed away from the caped crusader until she hit a wall.
"You're safe now, Evelyn," He said.
"Where's-" She started to ask.
"He's where he can't hurt you. Not anymore. You're safe," He told her. Evie held her head in her hands and started to cry.
"Where am I?" She sniffled.
"Gotham Memorial Hospital." And with that, the man who'd just ruined her life was gone.
A nurse rushed out of the hospital and started fussing over her.
And then everything just faded away.
She vaguely remembered feeling cold.
She remembered being jostled into a wheelchair and wheeled into a hospital.
She remembered being tested on.
When she finally asked about her baby, the staff around her froze, as if they didn't know the baby had existed.
One doctor, Jackson Kerry, smiled at her and said they'd run some additional tests to check on the baby and see if it was okay.
She remembered nodding stiffly and letting them run the tests.
Oh God, she remembered being so scared.
But other than that, she couldn't remember anything of the procedure.
Victor was roughly handled into a police car before being brought to the Gotham City Police Department.
No Police Department in the Metropolis area was willing to hold him.
When he finally arrived at GCPD, he was tossed into a holding cell to wait for an interrogation. The police wanted to know what had happened since he first met Evelyn Lennox.
He had to correct them again. Evelyn Byrd-Lennox. Mostly Evie, sometimes Byrdie, but never Evelyn. Unless it was with him.
Finally he was pulled into an interrogation room where Harvey Bullock was waiting for him.
Hank Lewis-Lennox was woken up by the sound of his cell phone ringing. The woman laying beside him groaned and turned over.
Fuck. Don't let it be Julianne calling. He'd told her he had a fire to be at.
He checked the caller ID.
It wasn't his girlfriend.
It was a phone number he didn't know. He declined the call and rolled over to the blonde in his bed.
"Whatcha doin', baby?" The woman asked. She'd woken up while the phone had rung.
"Nothin' hun," He said, smiling at her. She sat up and pushed him down against the bed before straddling him.
"Was it your girl callin' ya?" She asked, leaning down to nibble on his neck, something that drove Hank wild. Her hands snuck down under him and groped his ass.
"No, just some fuckin' unknown number," Hank mumbled. His hands moved to rest on the blonde's hips and his eyes rolled back slightly.
God.
Why the fuck was he still with Julianne when this blonde bitch could give him all she did and more? Fuck, this girl didn't even want kids and that was all Julianne would talk about.
Growin' old, gettin' married, raisin' a couple of snot-nosed brats.
He never fuckin' wanted that.
All he wanted was a good-
Ring! Ring!
Fuck.
"We've tried contacting your brother to alert him of your condition, but he hasn't been answering his phone," A nurse said. Evie looked up.
"He could be out in the city," She said numbly. "He's a firefighter, there could've been a fire."
"We've received no notification that there's a fire," The nurse said. "The hospital's around here are usually notified, due to the fact that we're almost always busy and we need to make room for any injured that could come through."
"Oh."
"Why so touchy, Bullock?" Victor asked. The two men in the room knew he had the upper hand, but the officer wouldn't back down. "Every time I bring up my Evelyn, my Zombie, you start to look very angry. Not as angry as you'd look when you'd find out," Victor trailed off. "Of course, you must already know by now. Half of Gotham already assumes it."
"Know what?" Bullock demanded.
"Surely you didn't think Evelyn and I never had sex, officer?" Victor asked. Bullock's face went red with anger. Victor chuckled. "Oh, you hoped that we hadn't. You wanted her for yourself. You wanted to be the one to take my Zombie."
"Shut up, you freak!" Bullock snapped. Victor shook his head.
"Would you like to know what it was like, Bullock?" Victor asked. He leaned forward and rested his elbows on the table. "How she felt? How she clung to me like I was her only tie to the world? Like she would die without my touch?"
Bullock was shaking with anger.
"Would you like to know what noises she would make? How she'd scream my name? Or, rather, the name she thought was mine," Victor asked. "Even after we left Gotham we were intimate. Although, she stopped calling out for Harrison every time we fucked. Would you like to know what name fell from her lips when we made love? Victor. She'd call me Victor. Sometimes Zsasz," He said. "She loved me. I'm willing to bet she still does." Bullock pulled his arm back and his fist collided with Victor's face, a loud crunch reverberating through the area as Victor's nose broke. "It eats you up inside, doesn't it? Knowing she'd rather fuck a psycho, as you call me, rather than you, a good upstanding man in the eyes of society."
"You sick fuck!" Bullock yelled.
"It most definitely eats you up inside that she's pregnant, doesn't it?" Victor asked. The door burst open and two officers hauled Victor to his feet.
"Get him to Medical," Bullock growled.
"Yes, sir," The younger, more nervous officer said.
Bullock slumped down in one of the chairs and rested his head in his hands.
Evie waited on the hospital bed as, she was told, the doctor was looking over the many tests they had done. There was a chance, they'd said, after learning she'd been pregnant when she'd been brought in by the Batman. There was a chance that she'd lost the baby. Her sweet little baby. And it was all because Batman had decided to come after them. Batman had decided to attack Victor and she'd gotten knocked around in the process.
She could have lost her baby.
Her doctor, Jackson Kerry, came back in the room. His visage was grim. "I'm sorry, Ms. Byrd-Lennox. The baby-" Evie cut him off.
"Don't," She said shakily. "I can't. I can't-"
Hank listened quietly to the voicemails left on his phone. He was in the bathroom so as not to disturb the woman in her bed.
His eyes opened wide and he almost dropped his phone when he heard the message.
Fuck.
He rushed out of the bathroom and quickly started to gather up his clothes to put them on.
"Whatcha doin'?" The blonde asked. God. Why couldn't he remember her name?
Cindy? Carrie? No, that was the last one. This one was...Nina!
"Sorry, Nina," He said. "I just got a call. My sister's in the hospital, I gotta go see her. It's urgent."
"Aww," The blonde pouted. She rested on her haunches and lightly traced over his chest with one of her fingers. "I was hopin' we could have some more fun." Oh, God, that sounded tempting.
But he couldn't. Evie needed him.
"Sorry, Babe. My sister needs me."
Batman watched as the woman received the news of the state of her child. After the Doctor left, she started to break down. He could see her visibly crumble under the news, as if she didn't want the doctor to see her in such a way.
Her body shook with sobs that he could barely hear through the glass of the hospital's window. A man, most likely her brother, walked into the room. He had a bouquet of some sort of flowers. Batman looked closely. Yellow roses. Upon seeing the young woman in her state, the man rushed to her side and pulled her into his arms. She cried into his chest and the man held her closer, rubbing her back to sooth her.
She'd lost that killer's child.
Two guards quickly walked towards Victor's cell and unlocked it before heaving him to his feet. It was time for his interview session with Dr. Sarah Cassidy. After he was captured, he had been quickly transferred back to the Asylum to begin therapy. Again.
He was brought into an interview room where the doctor was already waiting for him. The guards slammed him down in a chair.
"Taped patient evaluation number one," Dr. Cassidy said. "Patient name is Victor Zsasz, previously diagnosed clinically insane after the murder of at least fifty people in the Gotham area, all left," The doctor paused. "All left posed. Hello, Victor," She said. Victor glared over at her. "My name is Doctor Sarah Cassidy. Seeing as this is our first session, let's spend some time getting to know each other."
"I don't need to know you, Miss Cassidy," Victor said. He sighed and slumped in his chair. He missed his Zombie. "Everything is meaningless."
"Don't you think that's a very negative outlook on life, Victor?" She asked.
"You've no doubt read my file."
"Yes. Yes I have. It says you come from a wealthy family. That your parents died. How you lost all the money gambling."
"And none of it matters."
"Why do you keep saying that Victor?" Dr. Cassidy asked. Victor sighed yet again.
Because his Zombie wasn't with him. Because he wouldn't be able to see her grow larger as their baby grew. Because he most likely wouldn't break out in time to be there when she gave birth.
"Because. The only thing that does matter is the mark," He said. And Evelyn and the baby. "Have you seen my work, Miss Cassidy?" He asked.
"If you're referring to the marks on your-"
"Of course I mean my tally marks," Victor said. "And I have a space for yours. Do you want to see where?" Oh yes, he had a spot for her alright. A spot where he'd put her because the bitch wouldn't shut up. It was right next to the one that commemorated the thug that attacked his precious Zombie.
"Victor, it says here that you stayed with a woman for quite some time. An Evelyn Lennox?"
"Byrd-Lennox. Evelyn Byrd-Lennox," He said. What the fuck did the woman want to know about his Zombie?
"I've been told to give you some information about her condition. You do know that she suffered from a fall and that she got pushed around quite a bit during a scuffle with Batman, yes?" Cassidy asked. Victor nodded.
"What's wrong with Evelyn? Is she okay? What about the baby?" Victor demanded. He knew he shouldn't alert them to his feelings about Evelyn, but he needed to know if his Zombie was okay. And if their baby was okay. "Tell me!"
Dr. Cassidy sighed. "She'll be okay. It'll take more of an emotional toll on her than anything," She said.
"What happened?" Victor demanded.
"Evelyn Lennox miscarried. The Doctor said her body went through so much mental and physical stress at one time that the baby couldn't handle it." His hands tightened around the edge of the table so intensely that his knuckles turned white.
"I want to go back to my cell, Dr. Cassidy," He said quietly. She looked up at him.
"I'm sorry, Victor, but we're not done here," She said.
"I want to go back to my cell, now!" Victor yelled. He leaped out of his seat and rushed towards Doctor Cassidy. The guards restrained him before Dr. Cassidy left the room.
He wished he was back with Evelyn.
He wanted to see her. He wanted to hold her. To soothe her. He wanted to grieve with her over their loss.
He wanted her.
A/N: Well, there we go...
!SNEAK-PEAK!
"Don't care. Don't care 'bout nothin'," Evie said.
"Because of the baby?" Bullock asked. Evie glared at him.
"'s'all meaningless," Evie told him. Bullock glanced over at her.
"Why is it meaningless, Evie?" He asked.
"My baby's gone," Evie told him. "Loved it so much, and it's gone. And it's 'cause that stupid Bat." The woman sniffled. Aw, shit. "And they say 'm crazy," She said. "'Cause I fucked a serial killer. An' 'cause 'm sad 'bout losin' the baby. Losin' his baby," She looked over at him. "'m I crazy, Bullock?"
He had no answer for that.
So, it's a little short, but there we go...
Anyway, replies!
DevilToBeLoved:
Your new OTP? I'm Honored! Anyway, thank you for the review and I'm locing the compliments. Hope you liked this chapter, as well as the next!
Erik-is-my-angel1234:
I'm a little too lazy to translate, so it's gonna be in English right now. I'm really happy that you enjoyed the chapter and the sneak peak. I also hope you enjoyed this chapter and hope yo like the next one as well!
SectumSemprae:
In this story, Leslie Thompkins doesn't exist. Plus, there is an investigation going on, a high profile one at that, and he can't exactly kidnap her and bring her somewhere against her will, seeing as he doesn't even know if she's done anything. He'll let the police do all the heavy lifting with her.
Beth Butt:
:P
That's all I'm gonna say, sister.
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