Wanna hear a joke?

Mist sighed as she flicked through the Gotham paper, legs swung up on top of her desk as she flicked through the various pages her face down cast and bored. Nothing had happened, well save for that circus murder, still no leads on that either and it wasn't exactly the most exciting thing to be reading about.

With another heavy sigh she flipped the paper down and frowned at the many other desks that littered the floor, of which she stuck out like a sore thumb.

"When did Gotham become so boring?" she mumbled to herself as her eyes scanned the room.

She hadn't had any contracts either, no one wanted anyone dead when did it become this dull?

Her phone startled her at it's sudden ringing and she turned towards it before picking it up.

"Hello?"

"Mist?"

"Edward?" she frowned slightly. The last time she'd spoken to him had been a week ago when the phobia killer was running around scaring people to death, but he was dead and now six feet under so no need to worry about that anymore, except for the son of course. "Can I help you with anything?"

"Come to the GCPD quickly!" his voice was practically giddy. "There's something I have to show you!"

"What is it?"

"It's a surprise, you'll see it when you get here, now come on!"

With that he hung up.

"Okay…" she trailed off before grabbing her things and leaving the offices, taking her car to the GCPD.

As soon as she stepped inside everything was a riot, there was chaos everywhere and people in big fancy costumes, the entire circus it seemed from where she was standing.

"Now… this is what I call a circus," she muttered to herself as the room was nothing but noise and insults, all of which she payed no mind to until a hand suddenly grabbed hers and yanked her through the crowd towards the back offices.

Mist raised an eyebrow at the back of Edward's head. It was very rare he ever grabbed anyones hand, let alone be this enthusiastic about it.

"Ed where are we going?"

"You'll see, come on!"

She followed him before stumbling to a halt outside his own office, of which he opened and suddenly pulled her inside.

"Eddie-?"

"Behold!"

Her eyes widened at the creature in the glass case.

"Is that a-?"

"Snake?" Edward chimed in, bouncing on the balls of his feet like a little kid, as he grinned at her. "Yes, yes it is!"

Mist gave the creature a disgruntled look. "Uh-huh…" she turned to him and pointed. "This would be the part where you explain the snake."

"Oh!" he snapped his fingers before grinning once more. "Our murder victim was a snake dancer, this was her snake, but of course she's dead and all that so I decided to take the snake."

"You decided to take the snake," Mist dead panned. "Of course you decided to take the snake."

"I love snakes!" he explained. "Do you remember when I had my pet one, my Dad wouldn't let me feed it mice remember?"

"Yeah," Mist screwed her face up. "I always hated that snake."

Edward looked offended. "Why on earth did you not like my snake?"

"Oh, no I never said I didn't like him," she wagged her finger at him. "I said I hated him, there's a total difference."

"But why?"

"Edward I find them gross and disgusting, and most of the people I work with are snakes so ya know…"

"But my snake was lovely."

"Yes until it turned out to be a python and ate several of the neighbourhood cats."

"It wasn't my fault Jerry grew."

"I'm surprised he grew at all considering all you fed him was peanut butter."

"He liked it!"

"If he liked it then why did he move on to cat-chow?"

"We all like to try something new, he was just exploring his food pallet."

"Edward he tried to eat my sphinx cat!"

Edward frowned. "That thing was not a cat."

"Yes she was and she was adorable!"

"She was inside out!"

"Am I interrupting something?"

They both stopped and turned to see Doctor Tompkins standing at the door smiling at the two of them.

"Doctor Tompkins! Hello!" Edward cried waving slightly from behind Mist who rolled her eyes slightly.

"Hello Ed, do you have the results yet?"

"Yes I do," he walked over to his desk and picked up a piece of paper before handing it to Doctor Tompkins. "Is there anything else I can do for you?"

"No thank you Ed, that's it," she turned around and was about to leave before stopping and looking back at the two of them. "It's a shame you two broke up," she spoke causing both heads to turn and stare at her for a moment. She shrugged. "You make a cute couple."

With that said she left the room leaving the two of them in silence simply staring at where she'd been.

Mist bit her lip glancing at Edward who had a small but faint blush across his cheeks as he continued to stare straight ahead.

"My cat may have been inside out but at least she didn't try to eat all the dogs in the neighbourhood," Mist muttered under her breath causing Edward to snap out of his blushing stupor and glare slightly.

"He didn't eat all the cats, yours survived!"

"It's the fact he went hunting anyway and you let him!"

"I was only going to let him eat the head cheerleaders cat, she was mean to me."

"Missi right?"

"Yeah Missi."

"Yeah, I hated that bitch."

"Mist!"

"I told you I'm fluent in 9 languages and gutter is one of them!"

Enigma sat quietly on her own in the day care. She wasn't old enough for school, not yet anyway and ever since her mummy had to go back to work she'd been put back in day care.

Edward couldn't take care of her now, not since the incident with the medical examiner, Mist said she didn't want him to use Enigma as an excuse to get rid of the people in the GCPD who he didn't like, so now Enigma was back in day care.

She didn't like day care, all the other children thought she was weird and she thought they were idiots, so she sat away in the corner, but she wasn't the only one.

Enigma turned her head slightly and stared at the set of twins across the room, hiding in the shadows, a boy and a girl sat together, wearing masks over their faces all covered up in long coats and gloves on their hands.

She found them intriguing, but no one would talk to them, they'd stare and make fun of them, but they'd never talk to them.

Enigma, however, decided that today would be the day she would talk to them, see who they were, after all her mummy had told her to try and make friends while she was here so why not start with them?

She wondered over quietly, no one seeming to notice all wrapped up in their imaginary worlds and games.

She stood in front of the twins, who cautiously stared up at her through the eye holes in the masks as she stared equally back at them.

"Hello," she greeted while waving at them. "I'm Enigma, what's your name?"

They were silent for a moment before the girl spoke up first. "Luna," she shuffled slightly pointed to her brother. "This is my brother Lui."

Lui gave a little wave and Enigma waved back.

"Would you like to play with me?" Enigma asked with a tilt of her head as she sat down cross legged in front of the twins.

"What would we be playing?"

Enigma was silent. she hadn't thought that far, she didn't think they'd actually talk to her.

"We could play 'i spy'?"

"What's that?"

She blinked. "You don't know what 'i spy' is?"

Both shook their heads.

"Well, basically you look around the room and pick something in your head and and then you say what letter it begins with and we have to guess what latter it is by asking questions about where it is or what colour is it."

"That sounds fun," Luna said, it even sounded like she was smiling but it was hard to tell.

"Okay!" Enigma grinned. "I'll go first!" she looked around the room and smiled. "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with… c!"

"Crayon."

She blinked before turning to Lui who was still hiding behind his sister, eyes blinking behind the mask as he stared at her.

"Yes…" Enigma trailed off. "Okay I'll go again, until you guys get the hang of the game."

"Okay!" Luna cried as she sat crosslegged herself, her posture relaxing but her brother was still nervous.

"I spy with my little eye something beginning with… t."

"Tractor."

She stared at Lui who was staring back at her equally.

"Lucky guess," Enigma shrugged it off. "Something beginning with c."

"Children."

"Beginning with b."

"Ball."

"D."

"Dog."

"R."

"Robot."

"R."

"Rabbit."

"M."

"Marble."

Enigma frowned at the brother. No one was that good at i spy, not even her Daddy when she used to play with him.

The twins stared back at her, she would admit that the masks were very scary and creeped her out a little with only their blinking eyes showing through the gaps.

"Something beginning with D."

"Dead body."

"Lui!" Luna hissed but Enigma only stared wide eyed.

"But… that's what I was thinking of…"

The twins looked slightly panicked, Luna quickly standing up and pulling her brother up with her. "We need to go."

"But-?"

"Our mummy and daddy are here to pick us up, we have to go!"

They both quickly ran past her towards the door where a smartly dressed woman and man stood, but Enigma noticed something different about their interactions. They didn't hug the twins, they just gave them cold looks, before the father side stepped to allow the twins to hurry through, heads down cast as if to hide themselves even more, before the father and mother followed behind them, keeping a very big distance away from them both.

That was… odd.

She waited patiently outside, the interview room as the others left, left the laughing boy inside the room all alone with no one around not even a guard.

Mist slipped in unnoticed, the boy, Jerome, his laughter stopped and he turned to where she was standing staring at him, but he tilted his head to the side, letting a crooked smile form across his face.

"Well hello beautiful," he grinned, some of his ginger hair slipping in front of his face. "What's a place like you doing in a girl like that?"

"Do you use that on all the girls?" she replied bluntly and his grin stretched even more.

"Only the intriguing ones."

"Right…" she slowly walked in front of him and sat down on the opposite side of the table studying him as he seemed to be equally studying her.

"So… what ya in for?" he questioned as he stretched out across the chair, before leaning against the table.

"Personal business," she replied. "Why did you kill your mother, Jerome?"

He shrugged. "Why'd you want to know?"

"You're not answering the question."

Jerome let out a sigh. "You know mothers…" he said flippantly, waving his hand slightly as if dismissing the very idea that it was a bad idea to kill your mother. "They just get in the way, they push and push, tell you what they want you to do all while they're banging clowns in the next room!"

Mist blinked slightly at his sudden shift in demeanour, but then he smiled at her.

"You're like me aren't you?"

That caught her off guard.

"What?"

Jerome grinned and leaned over the table slightly. "You're like me. You killed your mother too… oh I can see it in your eyes… it's a thrill isn't it… a rush!"

She remained silent before she leaned across the table closing the distance between them.

"You're right. It is a rush. But you still have one more person you need to kill."

"Oh…?" he smiled. "And who might that be?"

"Both your mother and father betrayed you, your mother was a drunken whore and your father lied to your face everyday of your life… I think that should tell you all you need to know."

"Hm," he leaned back and tapped at the table. "My father. Yes I suppose killing dear old daddy would be the next logical step but.. cmon sweetness, how am I supposed to do that when I'm locked up in here?"

"All good things come to those who wait," she explained with a simple shrug. "Bide your time. You'll get your chance."

"Well knowing these boring lot they'll send me off to cheery old Arkham," he waved it off. "I'll be cooped up with lunatics and idiots… then again those are my kind of people…" he looked back at her and raised an eyebrow. "But still doesn't solve the problem of my father being alive…"

"Act it out," she shrugged. "Pretend to be sane and then once you're released… strike."

"Ohh I've pretending for so long…" Jerome rolled his head back in a circle. "I just want to be me, ya know?"

"Then be you," she leaned across the table. "Be the man who laughs."

"Oh you darlin'? Where do you fit in with all this… other then the fact you killed your parents."

"Only my mother."

There was clatter at the door. Mist had been so engrossed with her conversation she hadn't seen Edward walk in and he simply stared at her in shock, a look of horror across his face.

She stared back at him for a moment. "Edward…?"

"You…" he took several steps back before turning and running down the corridor.

Jerome was silent before he looked back at Mist and smirked. "Looks like you've got your own problem to sort out."

Mist got up and began to leave.

"Before you do… why did you talk to me?"

"What?"

He shrugged. "You seem like the type of girl who wouldn't talk to anyone if it wasn't for a reason."

"There's something about you…" Mist trailed off. "I think you could really be something in this town, an insanity like your own is very rare… a diamond in the rough, also…" she leaned over and grabbed the door handle, slowly closing the door in process. "Gotham has been so dull recently…" she pulled it so only her face was visible through the crack. "It's about time someone came around and made it fun again."

The door clicked shut.

T.B.C:

Note: Guys I know it's been a really long time, and to catch up I'm going to finish off season 1 but miss out season 2, I know I messed up. I'll probably do a story set in season 2, but with a different character.

Still one extra long chapter just for you guys since I know I haven't posted in a while, I hope you enjoy it! :D