Madness.
She had been working at Arkham for weeks, almost a month and then, just as soon as things begin to get interesting with someone electrofiring the patients and dying their brains, Gordon sees her and tells everyone at Arkham who she really is. Cover blown, story lost and now?
Now she is sitting at the GCPD on the roof staring out across the city.
Apparently the man who had been giving the patients electrocution had escaped and he had already targeted somewhere.
She heard the door to the roof open and she turned seeing Edward walk over to her, a smile on his face.
"What's got you grinning?" she asked half heartedly. To be honest she wasn't in the mood to talk to Edward which was strange for her.
"Have you seen the paper?" he questioned as he stood just behind her, looking over the ledge as he stared at the city below.
"Obviously I haven't," Mist sighed. "Though I do know that the man who was electrifying the patients is out and about and now that son of half wit has taken my story and is writing it."
"Yeah, but have you seen what're they're calling him?" Edward held the paper in her face. "The Electrocutioner."
"Yes, Edward I can see, god also gave me the power of sight and I taught myself the ability to read," Mist mumbled as she stared at the picture of the man before frowning slightly. "He always did give me the creeps."
"Don't you think the name's catchy though?" Edward grinned down at her. "It's just perfect for him, I love the name. It's catchy ya know, has a sense of drama to it."
"Okay, Mister Riddler, whatever you say," she mumbled.
"Are you upset because you didn't get to write this story?"
"Ya know, sometimes I really wish," Mist stood up and looked directly in his eyes. "Sometimes I just wish you couldn't be you for five minutes, I wish you wouldn't be so different and just be normal."
Edward's grin fell and he turned away, walking towards the door before looking over at Mist who still stood staring at him. "When I was with you, I felt normal," Edward whispered before he looked away. "Now, I'm not so sure."
"Ed," Mist called and he turned to her with a raised eyebrow. "I never said that it was a bad thing," she smiled and walked up to him. "Just sometimes I wish.. I wish you could understand social ques just a little better, but hey, I guess it'll get better with time right?"
"I guess," he whispered before he shook his head. "Kristen didn't appreciate what I got her, I'm going to talk to her now."
Mist's smile fell as he wondered off, the smile forced on his ace and she simply stared where he had been.
Kristen. Kristen Kringle, the bane of her existence.
How? How had that woman captured Edward's heart and how could she just treat it like nothing?
It made her angry that he liked someone else but then it made her angry that she didn't like him.
She stormed downstairs about to leave when she caught sight o a face she didn't expect to see in the GCPD.
Mist stared at Oswald and smirked fell across her face.
"What are you doing here Waddles?" she mumbled to herself and no sooner had she done it when electricity flashed around the room, bouncing off the walls, trying to hit anyone and everyone.
Edward.
She ran ran as fast as she could, but the electricity followed down the corridor and then she found him he was staring at it with wide eyes, fascinated by it.
"Edward look out, it's the electrocutioner!"
He span and stared at her before he got shocked.
"Edward!"
She heard a zap and turned watching with wide eyes as electricity came towards her and she knew she would never dodge it.
It hit her and she flew back, smacking into the wall with full force before she fell unconscious next to Edward's body.
"Ouch, you know that hurts right?" Mist hissed at Edward as he lightly touched a damp cloth to her forehead.
Edward frowned. "It wouldn't so much if you didn't squirm."
"I am not squirming."
The Electrocutioner had been stopped, apparently it hadn't been a very impressive stop either.
Gordon simply chucked some water on his power supply and it was all over.
Now it was just the task of treating the injured and making sure there wasn't any lasting damage.
When she got hit, Mist had smacked into the wall and cut her forehead open and now Edward tending to it.
He'd already stitched it up and he was now just whipping a few remaining bits that was left and couldn't be stitched.
"I can't believe that happened and what a paffetic way to be beaten," she mumbled.
"I think the whole GCPD are happy it went easily," Edward whispered.
"I know," she sighed and shook her head. "But it doesn't exactly make for an interesting end to an interesting story, speaking of," she looked around the building at the rest of the cops. "Where's that agent fellow?"
"You mean the one you left me to deal with?" Edward mumbled as he glared ever so slightly.
"And did you deal with it?"
"Yes, obviously I did."
"So I don't see why you're complaining."
Edward pressed the cloth to one of her other injuries a little harder then necessary and Mist hissed before she smacked at his hand.
"Hey, watch it Riddle boy!"
"You haven't called me that in a while," he smiled at her and she giggled.
"Well that's because I haven't found an appropriate place to use it, now seemed good though."
He smiled that all too big smile, it creeped many people out, but Mist in her own way found it adorable.
Sphinx also found it adorable and was squealing inside her head with glee, making Mist want to role her eyes.
Honestly, sometimes Sphinx sounded like a 15 year old school girl with a very big nerdy crush, which thinking about probably wasn't too far from the truth.
"I hear Gordon's got his badge back."
"Yes," Edward grinned. "It's so good to have him back, the GCPD just hasn't been the same without him."
"Yes, no inner fights among cops and things like that, must of been so boring," Mist chuckled.
"He just seems to find trouble."
"Oh, because you don't find trouble," Mist smirked, remembering when she visited him a few weeks ago at his apartment.
Oh it was very funny.
She was going to need to pay him another visit, but… well…she could bide her time, besides she had a gapping big hole in her head at the moment, even Edward would notice that and then her cover would be blown.
She'd just have to wait to go and talk with her little nerd in a more… private setting… maybe like his bedroom?
A smirk formed across her smile as she could imagine his face if he came home and found her, as the Sphinx, draped across his bed in a very suggestive pose, smiling at him.
Oh now that would be funny.
"What are you smirking at?" he questioned and Mist shook her head before smiling at him.
"Oh nothing, just thinking?"
"About?"
She paused and pressed her lips together in a thin line, before she forced a smile on her face. "So how was your talk with Kristen?"
Edward's smile left his face. "She called me weird."
Mist frowned before a dark look crossed over her face.
That… that… stupid idiotic-.
"But that's okay," Edward smiled. "Like you said, being weird isn't a bad thing."
Mist looked up at his smile and she knew, she knew he wasn't smiling for real, he was forcing it, like he always did.
She smiled and patted his arm before she gave him a much deserved hug. "You're right Edward, there's nothing wrong with being special."
"Exactly," he smiled before he looked at his phone and frowned. "I have a case, I have to go."
"A case? already?"
"You do realise that what happened with the electrocutioner happened a week ago right?"
"Well, yes," Mist paused and ran her hand over her new stitch work.
"Try not to ruin this lot this time," Edward smirked at her making Mist frown.
It hadn't been her fault that she'd ripped the last lot of stitching, her other job had been a bit tougher then she thought and she ended up in a fight, hence the fact that some of her injuries were fresher then the others.
"I won't make any promises, mind if I come back later?" she questioned with a smile.
"Not at all, it'll be nice to have some company," Edward smiled before he left and she then left shortly afterwards.
She had an assassin she had to deal with but first she'd need to stop off at home and pick up her things, also make sure Enigma was okay.
She was pretty certain she would be, she always was and she had told her that if it was somebody Mummy didn't know then Enigma was not to go near them and hide somewhere in the apartment.
The drive wasn't too long like usual and then she was up the stairs unlocking the door, entering and then she froze.
The door was already unlocked and that was never a good sign.
She creeped in, gently shutting it as she silently walked down the hall and came into the living room to find Enigma and the very assassin she wanted to deal with, playing with her.
"Whisper what are you doing?" she snarled and boy jumped slightly getting to his feet and placing Enigma on the floor from the aeroplane they had been doing.
"I needed to speak with you, but you weren't in."
"So you decided to play with my daughter?"
"I came to tell you, I'm leaving Gotham."
she blinked before frowning. "You're leaving Gotham? Any reason you felt the need to come and tell me this?"
"I told you because I knew you would go looking for me," he walked up to her and smirked slightly, well it was more his lip twitched slightly upward before settling in his usual scowl. "And I know you well enough to know you'd search this city until you found me, so I thought I'd save you the trouble and tell you I'm leaving."
"Why? Has… your father arrived here?"
"No," He frowned. "But I know where he is and that is where I must be," he held his hand to her. "Until we meet again, if ever, Sphinx."
"If ever," she smirked and shook his hand. "And stay away from my family Whisper, especially my daughter."
"By all accounts, Enigma is your only family. Your father's dead and you killed your mother."
Her smirk fell before she grimaced and shook her head walking away from him. "Edward's family, speaking of," she looked at the time and smirked. "I can just get changed into some other clothes and then me and Enigma she visit her father."
"I'm going to see Daddy?" Enigma questioned with a smile as she stared up at Mist.
Mist smiled down at her and nodded. "Yes, sweetheart. Why don't you go and get ready hmm? Put that green dress on, you always looks so beautiful in that, then mummy will come through and do your hair, okay?"
"Yay!" Enigma squealed and ran off to her room making Mist smile and shake her head.
"So you see Whisper, Edward's family to me as much as Enigma is," she turned to find just an empty space and she frowned before a smirk fell across her face and she shook her head. "Ha, of course you wouldn't there, ninjas are awesome."
As she and Enigma wondered into the GCPD she saw that it was at a stand still, Gordon seemed to be preaching about Justice and how a certain detective had killed someone innocent.
She wandered over to where Edward was standing with a concentrated and serious look on his face before it turned into a grin as the fasle Detective Flass and his buddies got arrested by Captain Essen no doubt.
She'd had Enigma behind her the whole time as it carried on, before she pulled her along to chase after Edward as he walked away, probably back to his hiding place also known as the Forensic's department.
"Edward," Mist called as she and her daughter, well their daughter, chased after him.
He turned and smiled before he went wide eyed.
Mist was wearing a blue flowing top with tight white jeans and black high heels with a gold jewellery and she smiled at him, folding her black coat over her arm.
"Mist?" he blinked before remembering what she had said earlier and smiled. "It's good to see you, I'm sorry you had to see all of that, but now at least a very bad man is going to prison for what he's done."
Mist smiled. "That is true," she grinned and pulled Enigma out to the to stand in front of her. "But there's somebody else who came to see you."
Enigma looked over at Edward and grinned before she ran to him and tackled his legs in a hug, before she looked up at him with beaming eyes and a beaming smile shouting one word that made him almost faint because of the fact she knew and now he was faced with a whole new set of challenges.
"DADDY!"
A very new challenge indeed.
T.B.C:
Note: Well, I hope you liked it, I couldn't really see Mist at the Asylum for too long so that's why I didn't write about that bit, any way I hope you liked this chapter and we are now getting closer to in fact I do believe it's Scarecrow's story next on the list of episodes and then well.. we'll be entering the realms of joining my two Gotham stories, 'Ankh' and 'Foreshadowing the Future' but don't worry, Mist still has her own story line, it's just certain parts she's in both stories as is Edward and even Jonathan and few other Gotham characters that I've just added in there even though they haven't been in it yet so... yeah hope you like it! :D
And who here saw the 'Riddler' reference!? :D
Anyway, enjoy and I promise I shall make it up to you in the next chapter, prepare to meet Anonymous! :D
