"The silenced, are damned. The body count is on your head."

The police interviewed me and I tried to answer the questions as beat as I could but certain questions I couldn't being myself to answer, I couldn't bring up how we knew eachother or that he was a kid from the same orphanage.

I couldn't understand why, I didn't agree with what he was doing.

"Thank you, Y/N." They said before leaving.

The hospital were preparing my files to let me go home but the only problem was where I was going to go, I only recently found out about Bruce's house being exploded.

That place was full of memories, it hurt to think of how many places I lost due to that explosion.

"Someone's here you pick you up, Y/N." The nurse spoke.

I turned to see..

Oh fuck, it's Ed.

Ed walked over to me with a smile on his face as if happy to see me again, the nurse got him to sign a few documents and he showed a police badge?

He worked for the GCPD? Oh shot, this just gets worst by the second.

The nurse spoke and then left the room which Ed responded to grabbing me and pulling me up to stand on my feet, it made me snap back to reality as I was too busy drowning in my thoughts.

"I'm going to show you something, then you'll understand. Okay?" Ed whispers.

I slowly nodded my head as I had little choice now as he already signed the documents and I doubted they would let me resist, even if I screamed about how he was riddler I doubt they would listen.

Riddler grinned and let go of me and started walking out of the room so I quickly scribbled a note and left, Riddler kept a tight grip on my arm as we walked through the hospital.

We were about to reach Alfred's room so I lifted my head up and he looked confused, he clearly didn't know who Ed was and I didn't blame him or expect him to know.

I open my mouth to try and warn Alfred for Riddler to pull me close to him, he was trying to be subtle by pretending that it was a hug.

We returned to his apartment for him to place a folder infront of me, it was full of pictures of us at the orphanage and ramblings over them.

There were notes too about the trauma we went through as kids and how it built us to be what they wanted, the kids in the orphanage apparently wanted this according to his rambles but also my hallucinations.

"Don't you remember what the Wayne's did to you, y/n? What Gotham did to you."

Where did he gey these photos? Holy shit.

Not only did Riddler expose Thomas Wayne's hit on a news paper in hopes of hiding Martha's history of mental illness, but in the video was also and expose on what they did to my family.

Photos of them intentionally buying shares to try and overule the company they owned which they succeeded with, but also the fact that the Wayne's also stole the idea of the orphanage for my parents.

The evidence was all there but then was the worst part was yet to happen.

"Remember their close connections to the Wayne's?" Riddlers voice spoke.

You couldn't see us as it was an audio recording.

"The Wayne's sold information about us to Falcone, I know." I sigh.

Riddler had his infamous crazed laugh kick in, whilst I was holding back tears knowing Bruce was nothing like this.

"And what happened? He got them murdered!" He laughed whilst screaming.

I hated this, but I was starting to see Riddlers point of view.

Riddler had somehow managed to sneak my clothes into his apartment and let me sleep on the couch, it weren't as luxurious as I was used to but it was better than sleeping on a wooden chair.

I changed into a casual outfit and stepped outfit then took a deep breath, recalling the plan one more time as my tears started rolling down my face.

I knocked slightly weakly on the iceberg lounge door and let tears flow, they opened the door and I sniffled as I wrapped my arms tighter around myself as my clothes were hanging off me due to being oversized.

"I need to speak to Falcone, I'm sorry-" I stammered.

The boys looked at eachother then nodded and let me inside, heads turned to look at me with either pity or empathy as I walked towards the lift.

People's eyes followed every step and breath I took and it felt wrong but I tried to ignore it, I pushed on and stepped inside the lift.

The doors closed and the feelings of eyes vanished until the hands of the orphans reached for me again, I was adjusted to it almost so I just inhaled sharply.

The lift makes a ping noise and I step out to see Falcone and he smiles softly when he sees me, I know this man was nothing more than bullshit and lies but I didn't care.

Falcone got me a hot drink and offered me a seat so I accepted, the lift soon made a ping noise again and I turn to see Bruce step out the lift.

He was in a worse state than before.

My heart sank.

Falcone seemed to notice my reaction to Bruce, he invited Bruce who turned to look at me.

"Why were you in that video? Why are you out the hospital? Alfred said he saw you with some-" Bruce spoke, panicked.

I jumped to his arms and gave him a hug now that I weren't attached to some bullshit machine, I knew how Riddler would want me to act so I'll try to kill two birds with one stones.

"The hospital discharged me, I'm okay.  The recording is old, I can barely remember it." I half-lie.

Bruce took a deep breath and hugged me back, it was clearer than day that we both deeply cared for eachother but never express it verbally.

"I'm sorry about what happened to your family, I never knew-" Bruce apologies.

I smiled weakly and shook my head to him, he seemed confused by my reaction.

"It wasn't your doing, why apologise? You can't change anything, Bruce." I speak honestly.

I didn't hate him, I just hated his parents.

He deserved the world.