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Things with isabella where going, great, smoothingly, this is how normal people who weren't sent to the an insane asylum have relationships……a bit too normal for eds likeness, Ed nygma has murdered four people, framed a cop (add a extra crime onto that for it being boy scout Gordon), hardbod and aided a known criminal, thecinally tourted bruce wayne….or at least bruce thought he was gonna die and the list gose on.
But now here he is, laying in bed with a women, of womb know about some of his crimes, reading a book like a domesticated…normal…not dangerous couple, heck he even started dressing in jeans or dress trousers, trains and jumpers/sweaters like he use to at the gcpd.
Ed thought this is what he wanted, at the very least, it should be what he wanted, it is the life he wanted with miss kringle, before the riddler personality.
He let out a breath through his nose before putting the book he was paying little attention too to the side, replacing it with his phone, he pressed some buttons and then put the phone to his ear.
After a few rings there was a small hello on the other side
“Hey Oswald, i just got your message whats wrong”, he felt isabella jump a little bit, his voice being the first noise any of them made in almost an hour, the man on the other side of the phone voice came through sounding kinda annoyed like he was being interrupted,
“what?, i didn't send a message”
“Oh no did something happen”
There was silence on both ends before oswald sighed into the phone
“Code pink” he asked, sounding disappointed
“Yep, i'm on my way”
“Wait ed-” Nygma cut off the penguin before he could finish, and turned to the women next to him.
“i'm so sorry i gotta go, something happened with the mayor and he needs my help” he pulled the covers off his legs as he climbed out of bed
“Well can't it wait until the morning, I mean it's too late for you to drive” the once blonde, now ginger, said, shutting her own book. “I know but it's really important plus i'm very awake” he said as he hopped on one leg trying to pull his jeans up.
Once they were on he picking up his jumper, shoving it on and turned around at the same time, “ed your constantly at his side does he have to call you in now” Isabella got out the bed, putting her dressing gown around her “isabella, i'm his chief of staff i get paid to be at his side, and i live there and i have been spending more and more time here then i do actually at work” Ed said as he toed his trainers on and reached for his glasses and made his way the door.
he grabbed his car keys off the hooks and opened the door, the man couldn’t look like he was trying to leave quicker if he tried, as he was about to step outside he heard his girlfriend shout “wait eddie, i’ve been meaning to talk to you about that” ed turned, his expression asking her to hurry up, “you spend so much time here, that i was thinking why don't you just move in” she showed him a kind, warm smile, a smile that Ed would have absolutely melted at a week or two ago.
“i’ll think about it”
As Ed pulled up the mansion he let out a deep breath he didn't realize he was holding, a sigh of relief almost. Why couldn't he enjoy a normal relationship? That one question had been running through his head for five minutes before he rested his head on the steering wheel.
I can answer that
Ed looked up, that voice, his voice but not at the same time, he saw him in rearview mirror, sitting there, the same smug look on his face
“What?”
“I know why you can't just be happy in a supposedly happy relationship”
The riddler let out his laugh that ed couldn't figure if liked or lotherd,
“I thought we were done, we haven't had a argument or a conflict and i haven't seen or heard from you since…kristin….unless you disguise yourself as kiristin and showed up in the mirror at isabellas”
“Nope that's all you crazy mind buddy”
Suddenly there was a knock on the window , ed jumped turning to look at who disturbed his conversation, it was some random man who he didnt recognize, he cranked the window down and just as he was about to ask what the man wanted the stranger spoke
“Are you my taxi?” Ed didn't answer, he was too confused. Did he pull up to the wrong place?He looked behind the man, definitely in the right place, “um no i live here…im sorry who are you?”
“Oh you must be ed, i'm no one important, trust me on that, i just came home with oswald for a little fun is all” ed didn't answer he just started at the man
Oswald brought a stranger around to have a erotixc evening that dosnt sound right, that wasn't oswalds style.
Just as ed was about to say something another car pulled up behind his “ah that's for me, it was nice to meet you ed” and then the man just walked off
What the fuck was that
Ed stayed in his car another few minutes trying to process what he just heard, oswald was having a one night stand, so did he leave because they were done or because oswald didn't want him to know, there were endless reasons, ed rubbed his eyes lifting his glasses, had he really been spending that much time with isabella?
“Yes you have been spending too much time with her for my liking, well that's the wrong wording cuse you know she separated me and you.”
Ed let out a groan, annoyed.
The man got out of the car slamming the door shut, not even bothering to lock the doors and walking up to the mansion,
“Okay so you just say ‘hey ozzie i just met your new boy toy i didn't know you did one nightstands’ '' ed spoke to himself, before letting another groan.
Edward opened the double doors, looking around a bit to make sure he didn't run into the kingpin, not sure what he would say to the smaller man, before going in once the cost was clear. “He made a beeline for the stairs when he heard the man he was avoiding in the sitting room.
“Hey Ed is that you” the raven haired man said, stopping the brownett in his track “um yer oswald, i thought you would be asleep” he lied hoping to end the conversation, there was no answer, Ed took the sign that this was a conversation they had to have face to face as oswald only doesn't answer when he can't see your expression ,so, with a sigh, he walked into the sitting room.
The fire was lit, the lights were off, oswald sat on one of the sofas, one of the Van dahl robes wrapped around him, “so edward another code pink?” the penguin asked turning to Ed, “um yer, i’ve perhaps been using it a bit to much recently”
ed agreed putting his keys from his pocket to one of the tables before going to sit down opposite Oswald, “if you don't want to spend the nights there why even stay down there for as long as you or even hear me out don’t go down their” he said, adding a eye roll for good measure, he sounded annoyed
“Okay i get it your annoyed i interpreted your little session with your boy toy but don't have to get so moody with me jeez”
The two men stared at each other, ed with a expression of ‘why the hell did i say that’ and oswald a look of ‘did you really just say that’
“What do u mean boy toy”
“I met the guy you had over for some fun, he thought i was his taxi”
‘Shut up ed you're just digging yourself a grave’
“Oh him, that's not my boy toy, that's just someone i’ve been seeing, his name is Tom”
Tom, the name sent anger through the man's veins, what is it with toms and taking the people he cared for
“Seeing him? So he's like your partner?”
“I guess, we aren't putting a label on it, however i didn't want to tell you seeing as you are having some relationship problems, five code pinks in a month, there's only 4 weeks in a month” ed scrunched his face up, a habit for when he has no words
“Okay, i get it i can admit i am in the wrong here, i just under the apparition that you weren't interested in a..relationships right now, you know with being mayor and kingpin”
“Well usually i wouldn't, i would just talk to you but you have been basically MIA so i started going out in the nights and we hit it off, me and Tom, i forgot how much i enjoyed just having someone around in the nights”
Ed couldn't wrap his head around the emotions he was feeling, he could recognize the anger and the jealousy but there was something else, and why was he feeling this, he shouldn't be. Nygma stood up “you right i have been distant lately, maybe i had an obsession with the feeling of high isabella gave me, however i don't think she will be around much longer.” Oswald just gave the man a closed lip smile and a nod “okay i'm going to bed then, um good night” Nygma excused himself, retreating up to his quarters.
Once the door where locked, ed stomped over to his mirror, “okay bucko you need to start talking” he said, wagging his finger at his reflection, however stopping when he realized that he was just talking to himself, “you were so chatty in the car, why you so quiet now, cat got your tongue”
“I know that i'm smarter and better then you in many, many, way but you seriously need me to figure this out”
Ed whipped around to see the riddler sitting on one of the chairs he had placed near the bed
“Listen you disappeared for months, you left me in arkham on my own, and now you come back along with emotions i don't understand, no, that's not radome”
At some point ed had started pacing back and forth, while the riddler just rolled their eyes
“Ed i am your personality that appears whenever you want to do something without realizing it, you said it yourself, ‘a projection of impulse, which is true in a way, i first appeared when you killed that officer dude, after you accepted that you liked and wanted to kill we became one, now you can't accept something and we split”
The riddler explained, like it was something Ed should have already known.
“So what is it that i can't accept, your not making sense, but since when have we ever made sense”
“Well lets start with that feeling you blamed me for. The jealousy you feel about some other man, touching oswald”
If looks could kill, the riddler would be dead by the way ed was looking at him,
“Oh yeah i know about that baby, your mad that someone, who was not you, took oswald to bed, that oswald had someone else’s name spilling out his mouth as he was tou-”
“SHUT UP”
Ed grabbed one of the nearest things to him, a book, and threw it at the other personality, but he was already gone, and retreated into Ed's head.
But that didn't stop ed from talking to the room
“I.am.not.jealous.”
more like he was telling himself then denying the statement.
Edward woke up the next morning at 12pm, thankful for it being a sunday. Usually ed wouldn't wake up this late but he was up late last night, riddlers word keeping awake
Jealous? Why would he be jealous of someone having sex with oswald, it wasnt the he was deprived of that kind of relation, him and isabella are just fine in that department…up until Ed was experiencing some difficulties, but that is nor here nor there, so why was he he feeling such intense emotions
“You need to stop denying that you don’t know”
Ed scrunched his face at the voice in his head, he was going to replay but instead decided to ignore it, instead getting to work on his next plan, ‘code breakup’