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[39] - A Strange Reflection

[agoodname]

[another month or so goes by. Oswald gets better and stronger. He can walk on his own now, though he still gets tired from time to time, he's doing better. He's contacted Gabe insofar, and starting to regather some of cash he's stashed away. It's not much, but it's at least something.

However, there is one morning where, when he picks up the paper and is about to start on his coffee, that he almost pinches himself, wondering if he's sleeping.

So, Edward will get a phone picture with a headline about, of all things, The Riddler and his interruption of a GCPD function]

For a moment there I thought I had jumped dimensions. Either that or I'd fallen and hit my head.

[enigmaster]

[Edward reads that. And blinks. And reads it again.] what the hell

[agoodname]

I have no idea. Apparently Ed's decided to go on a crime spree for whatever reason. Allegedly, there were other things he did that they attributed to a separate person, but now they've figured out it was him the whole time.

[enigmaster]

he's stealing my thing he can't just oswald the riddler is MY thing!

[agoodname]

Edward, though I will reiterate that cannot personally see you and Ed as the same person in my head, he is, in fact, my Gotham's version of you.

It's not that surprising; it was more a matter of when.

[enigmaster]

even so!

[OSWALD IT'S UNFAIR OKAY]

ugh

well get him to stop it

[agoodname]

I have no idea if I can. He seems to be enjoying himself.

Well, it certainly does ix-nay the whole Chief of Staff thing. Not that there haven't been Chief of Staff who are criminals, but usually they aren't so public about it.

[enigmaster]

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but hadn't he already committed several murders when he last was your chief of staff

[agoodname]

Yes, but he had gotten a certificate from Arkham that said he was sane. This flies in the face of that.

[enigmaster]

what, is that all people need

[agoodname]

Actually, yes. That's what made it possible for me to even have a shot at mayor in the first place. A piece of paper can do wonders.

[enigmaster]

unbelievable

one piece of paper and he gets to be chief of staff

and here I am, still officially on the run

[agoodname]

A piece of paper from the fine people at Arkham Asylum apparently was enough, yes. Well, so is he, now. The GCPD is looking for him after that whole show there.

[enigmaster]

so...

what are you going to do

[agoodname]

For now, I'm going to gather what and who I can before I publicly reenter the world. I'll probably have to go find him and talk to him, as well. It's not as though he knows I'm alive.


[...to be honest, part of him is afraid it won't actually matter. To Ed. Which would...sting. A lot.]

[enigmaster]

I'm sure that'll be quite the surprise for him, hm what are you going to say to him

[agoodname]

I'm not really sure. [because it still just hurts that Ed didn't believe him. That he didn't listen. They were friends. Oswald had considered him his best friend, even. And yet all it had taken was a suspiciously pretty face to flush that down the drain. He doesn't want to kill Ed, exactly...but he doesn't think he can ever really trust him again. And that pulls at him a bit, like an ache.]

[enigmaster]

might I suggest "I told you so"

[agoodname]

Rather tempting. And not wrong.

[enigmaster]

very not wrong i'd say you've earned that

[agoodname]

True enough. [he's....bitter about this, yes, but really, he feels more sad. Which is painful. He kind of hates this. He doesn't want to feel that way.]

[enigmaster]

before anything else I'd say you should let him know how you feel let him think about THAT

[agoodname]

I suppose so. [...he's not sure he trusts Ed with that any more, though. That's...far too vulnerable. He's not being a good conversationalist and he knows it--and he knows he should be as indignant as Edward is. As angry as Edward is. But for some reason, he can't work up the bluster]

[enigmaster]

do you not want to? [you okay there, Oswald?]

[agoodname]

I don't know whether I want him to know that he hurt me.