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Jerome couldn't process the happiness that you were alive, for he was insanely angry that his brother kidnapped you.
"LET ME OUT OF HERE." Jerome shouted.
"Oh, so early?!" Jeremiah asked. "Why though?! Is not that I'll let her go back to you! Now that you're alive, I don't want her anymore. But I still want you to see how much she hates you. Before you kill her!"
"I'd never-" Jerome gasped. "Why would she hate me?"
"Oh sweet brother that I despise with all my soul. You'll pay for existing, you'll pay to annoy me ever since we were children. I made sure mother would never love a freak like you, and you killed her!!! Now you'll lose the only one thing you ever lov-"
Jerome let out a loud scream.
Jeremiah walked away from the door.
"IF YOU LAY A FINGER ON HER, I SWEAR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU. I'LL GUT YOU. FUCKING DISMEMBER YOU." Jerome roared as he watched Jeremiah walking away.
Jerome waited in anguish for something to happen, never letting go of your sight.
Jerome couldn't control his emotions.
The feeling he had for you was the strongest and probably the only genuine emotion he had ever really felt towards anything.
Believing you were dead killed a part of him. And now the anguish in his heart to see you alive and not being able to protect you was unbearable.
He couldn't stop hitting the door, even crumpling the steel material with his very injured hands and knees.
Jeremiah headed to your room and grabbed Ecco by her waist. He unlocked your door and entered with his back turned to you while he was kissing Ecco.
They kissed like you weren't there, you gulped with a knot in your throat, tears leaving your eyes.
The real Jerome saw that on the monitor, and noticed how hurt you were because his brother did wrong things to you, making you believe he was Jerome.
He never told you he had a twin of course you'd think it was him.
His fists clenched at the sight of your tears.
"That's not me!!!" Jerome shouted.
It was impossible for you to ever hear him from that distance.
Jeremiah stopped kissing Ecco and turned to you.
"Oh shit!" he exclaimed. "How mannerless of me! We were a thing in your head, right Y/N?"
You were speechless.
"I'm sorry! I totally forgot you were there. This is the room I use with my girls! Maybe Ecco and I will continue in the next room!" he smirked. "Don't take it personal, doll!"
Your words were stuck in your throat.
How could someone change his personality that much? Has anything he told you been true?
Watching him die was so painful to you… And now that he was alive… he wasn't the same.
He seemed so close to Ecco.
"Does it bother you though?!" he questioned, intrigued by your lack of expression.
You shook your head, trying to suppress your real feelings.
"Good!" he smiled. "Then we can do it right here!"
Inside the cell, Jerome was drooling in rage, staring at your desolated expression.
"You can't believe that's me, Y/N!" Jerome shouted. "I'd never hurt you…"
Jeremiah sat on the other bed that was inside that room.
Ecco climbed to his lap.
You watched as he kissed her neck.
You were horrified. Why couldn't you move from your spot? That was humiliating!
"You wanna join us?" Jeremiah grinned.
He took off her shirt.
"STOP IT, JEROME!!! How could you?" you screamed. "That's disgusting, even for you!"
You ran to the door and got out of the room.
That caught Jeremiah out of guard, he forgot to lock the door.
He threw Ecco to the bed and ran after you.
Jerome felt stressed when he saw you escaping the room from the monitor, he knew his brother was capable of doing scary things to you if he was angry.
"Y/N!!!!" he screamed.
You still couldn't hear him.
You were approaching his cell but you were lost in a maze.
Your wounds were hurting… you were terrified.
You heard Jeremiah approaching your spot.
He was furiously mad. He likes things to work following his plans. What a pity you disrespected him.
You were dangerously close to Jerome's cell, he was staring at the monitor not aware of your presence.
Jeremiah didn't appreciate the way things went down so precociously.
He pulled a tranquilizer gun out of his pocket and pointed it at you.
"Why you doing this to me, Jerome?" you screamed.
Jerome heard your voice outside the door and looked through the window. He saw you right in front of him and his heartbeat exploded.
"Y/N!!!!!!!!" he screamed. "I'm here!!!"
You heard Jerome's voice behind you. Wasn't he right in front of you?
What was happening?
That disturbed Jeremiah and before you could turn around he shot you with a tranquilizer dart in your neck.
He grabbed you before you hit the ground.
"Jerome…" you sighed before fainting.
"What a pity. I was starting to like you…" Jeremiah whispered in your ear.
Jerome saw you falling, not knowing his brother's gun wasn't lethal.
He screamed in the most scariest and angry tone someone could hear.
Ecco arrived at your place.
The sound coming from Jerome's room was aggressively dangerous.
Jeremiah pressed a button at Jerome's door, making a tranquilizer gas spread over the room.
Jerome held his breath for as long as he could but he gave in and fell on his knees.
Jeremiah opened the door and Jerome fell right in front of his feet.
Jerome noticed your bunny paw on the floor, and discreetly grabbed it.
"She's not dead!" Jeremiah grinned. "Yet!"
He passed out in agony.
"Ecco." Jeremiah called. "Go call those 2 bastards and get the van." he demanded.
She went to call for 2 men to take you and Jerome to the Van.
Jeremiah drove to the Docks of Gotham's river.
One of the men picked you in his arms while Ecco tied your hands behind your back and legs.
The other man took Jerome to a spot next to a container that was distanced from you, but from where he could see you.
Jeremiah covered his mouth with tape and used a metal chain to tie Jerome's arms to the container behind his back.
The man let go of Jerome's body and he fell on his knees with his chained arms holding his weight.
Then the man put a heavy ball and chain attached to Jerome's ankle.
Jeremiah threw cold water at Jerome's face to wake him up.
When Jerome saw his brother, he instinctively tried to attack him, but he was chained to the wall.
Jerome got up dizzy, he was strong but the tranquilizer was messing with his body chemistry.
"Welcome back brother!" Jeremiah greeted. "I see you're trying to attack me! That's not very clever of you!"
Jeremiah moved from Jerome's sight, letting him have a proper view of you from a far.
Jerome felt threatened and tried to break the chains, snarling under the tape in his mouth.
Jeremiah didn't like the insolence of his brother, he punched him so hard that some of the staples sustaining his face to his head became loose and his muscles were left showing.
"Are you really trying to challenge me?!" Jeremiah asked. "Well then I have no choice! You see… She thinks I am you, you fucking disgusting piece of shit. And I told you you'd be the one to kill her!"
Jerome's body was trembling from the adrenaline increasing, he was almost breaking his bones to be freed from the chains.
Jeremiah gave one earphone to the man next to Jerome, it was linked to a microphone under your shirt.
The man put the earphone on Jerome's ear and Jerome gave him a strong headbutt.
"I want you to hear her last words! I want you to feel her hate for you!! Then you'll die peacefully knowing no one will love your memory!" Jeremiah grinned.
Jerome observed in agony as Jeremiah walked towards you, his heartbeat was racing.
Ecco sprayed water in your face to wake you up.
The man holding you, put you on the floor right at the edge of the dock, you couldn't move cause your hands and legs were tied. One bad step and you'd fall on the river.
Jerome tried to call you with his roars but you couldn't hear it.
Jeremiah approached you and pointed a gun at you.
"Jerome? What are you doing??" you gasped. "Why you doing this?"
Jerome could hear your voice through the earphone.
"Cause you see… At first I wasn't going to save you. But when you killed Theo I decided to give you an opportunity. But then that fucker came back from the dead! He has annoyed me since we were kids, you know… mother used to like him more than me! So I started to do bad things and pretend to be him, mother started to hate him and beat him! And now he kills her??"
You were so confused at his words you thought you were in some weird parallel universe.
A bunch of thoughts came to your mind.
It seemed like a fake reality, like you died at the gala and you were in Hell.
Your anxiety was taking control of you.
You wanted your boring life back… you fell in love with the lies of a man that was about to kill you.
"I decided to keep you as a trophy for him to die in pain, jealousy, madness. I thought I took the opportunity for him to ever love or be loved." Jeremiah continued. "But you just kept missing him, and I simply can't accept someone to love him! How could you ever love someone like him?? How did he convince you??"
"What are you talking about?? Why do you speak as if you have a double personality??" you questioned. "I fell in love with who you were, even though you can't remember, I really believed you… or perhaps you were in a phase of your identity disorder that was real and you can't remember cause you don't have insight right now. I was there for you. You were there for me. I still believe half of you is trapped inside that new personality, it couldn't all be lies, I accept you like that!"
Jeremiah clenched his teeth.
"I'll still be here for you cause I know you're not completely mean! I promise I'll never abandon you like everyone did!" you shouted with your heart.
Jerome had tears in his eyes.
He was completely aware of his feelings for you. And to hear those words revived his broken heart.
"How dare you say that, when you have a gun pointed at you???" Jeremiah retorted.
"I know you'd never kill me!" you exclaimed. "I love you, Jerome!"
Jerome fell on his knees.
Jeremiah was disgusted at the thought his brother was able to have someone with pure emotions towards him.
He shot you in your chest by impulse.
You were taken by surprise, losing your balance and falling on the river.
Jerome groaned so loud it could kill.
To be continued...