Back at Gotham General Chase arrived a minute late spending the night with Bruce Wayne made her a little giddy thankfully her boss at the hospital didn't know

Chase walks in her office and to her surprise she had a patient in already

Chase: Please I'm sorry for the late arrival.

Oh no worries Doctor.

This patient surprisingly turns out to be Edward himself

Seems he had ways of getting in the hospital than just a Riddle Trophy

Edward: Gotham is a city for Night Owls.

Chase: I never been one Edward.

Chase sits in her desk with Edward sitting back gripping his own hands together

Chase: Now Edward last time we were talking about your childhood. And when we left things you were telling me about your relationship with your father.

Edward: I wouldn't call it a relationship really Dr. Meridian. My father was....an alcoholic drug edic. We never had much money but he claimed he made better than my mother did always working nights at the diner.

Chase: Was he abusive?

Edward: Occasionally. He always thought I wasn't smart enough to even solve tick tack toe. But one night I proved him wrong by always beating him! See he always went on three roes and so did I and always won and then my father....well he lost his temper and that's when he first hit me calling me a moron.

Chase: That's awful. I'm so sorry.

Edward: Don't be. It actually opened my eyes. I didn't see his colors till he actually slapped the sense into me. I was a naive child till I was six. And poor mother each time she defended me she got a fair share of hits from father too.

Chase: We all have complicated parts of our childhood Edward. I think the route of the relationship you had with your father was trauma issues.

Edward: That's one way of putting it. My father actually had an affair with our maid. Poor mother was horrified it drove her to drugs.... sadly it was her own undoing. Left me to suffer more under my father's abuse.

Chase: But when he was arrested for illegal gambling you were already starting college. Did you ever hear from him then?

Edward: All I heard was he was killed in a prison riot. Didn't mourn not like I had any real relationship with him. But yes..... I paid for my own college funds with the intelligent inturns I made at Gothcorp.

Chase: I understand it wasn't your best intentions after the psychological history with him but how have you adapt?

Edward: Lucky for you Doctor I have an answer for everything. See my trauma wasn't as highten as most people in Gotham. I had more brains than mentally. See I get my smarts from my grandfather he was from my mother's prospective the second Albert Instine. Made me inspired enough I became a boy genius at the age of 6 which drove my father to jealousy.

Chase: I see.

Edward: See from what mother told me he never passed anything in Highschool he was a drop out. But that's what started his interest in gambling. He gambled with politics and mobsters. That was in Vegas where he met mother. She was a stripper back then. But my father had a thing for them more than common men.

Chase: You seem to have a lot of detailed knowledge of your parents.

Edward: Well that's what happens when you build up a lot of smarts. See many use more brawns than brains. That's why Gotham is full of crime and corruption. They don't build up brilliant intelligence so they do the first thing that comes to mind. The easy way. And my father learned that the hard way.

Chase: I'm sure there are plenty of people who think the same thing Edward.

Edward: Care to introduce me to one?

Chase: You work at Wayne Enterprises right?

Edward: Yes. I work under their researches and development Mr. Fox provides.

Chase: Then can I assume you know Bruce Wayne?

Edward: Oh most definitely. His name was on my hiring slip.

Chase: Bruce definitely has intelligence himself. He may not have had it as bad as you but he had a traumatized childhood.

Edward: Yes Thomas and Martha Wayne's tragedy was a terrible loss. To have it happen in front of him....could make him into anything.

That's what gave Edward his own suspicion on Bruce Wayne making him pause in thought till Chase speaks to snap him out of it

Chase: Bruce has brilliant intelligence and he provides a lot under his science like as he describes like his father.

Edward: Bruce...? I didn't know you were on a first name base with him.

Chase wasn't careful on that given she slept with Bruce last night and wasn't sure yet if they were going steady yet given Bruce was a playboy

But if only she knew about Viki Vale and Selina Kyle

But either way Chase didn't think it was safe to go public with Bruce yet

Chase: I have appointments with him. The DA was his friend so he talks it over with me.

Edward could tell Chase wasn't fully truthful she left out enough details

Edward leans forward placing an elbow on the desk with a grin

Edward: Dr. Meridian....may I call you Chase? That is your full name isn't it?

Chase: Yes and you may?

Chase was getting a chilling feeling from Edward now

Edward: You seem like a very beautiful woman. In fact you remind me of my mother in a way.... before she got addicted to drugs. She was kind and understanding like you. Brave when she protected me from my father.

Chase was starting to get uncomfortable with him trying to keep her smile on

Chase: Thank you. That's sweet.

Edward: And Chase.... I have a friend who is into luck he always says fate has plans for all of us. If he's right perhaps....you took my case for a reason.

Chase: I'm sure....

Chase was getting more uncomfortable with him but to her relief their time was up

Chase: I think that's it for the day Edward.

Edward: Well then I hope to pick this up next week.

Chase gives a slightly nod as Edward stood up leaving for the door shouting:

Edward: I'LL MAKE IT UP TO YOU NEXT WEEK DOCTOR! I PROMISE!

Chase shouts back

Chase: YOU DON'T HAVE TO!

But Edward had already left the room leaving the door open

Chase didn't had a good feeling where Edward was going earlier when she brought up Bruce it's like he was trying to win her over

Chase started thinking if she should let someone else handle Edward's case

(Is Edward building an obsession with Chase? Coming soon....the next chapter....)