"This proves your design works. She came back to life."

Rose had no idea who the stranger was before her. All she really knew what was this place was something she didn't want to be in a minute longer.

"It's time to get him." Dwight told this stranger.

"Get who?"

It was a stupid question. She didn't know why she asked it. The look on Dwight's face said it all.

He wanted Jerome.

While Dwight had gone to get the body, Rose was left behind at the building. She didn't dare to venture. She just sat on the ground and held herself. The girl could only hope that they were looking for her or planning some way to get her out of the hands of these lunatics.

She was startled when she heard doors opening. Nearly fainted at the sight of people caring in the dead body. Jerome's dead body.

"Once we're done here, you and Jerome will be together. Work together to rebuild Gotham." Dwight had told Rose before getting straight to work.

"I never wanted this," Rose told him, looking away when she saw him insert things into Jerome's body. "I wanted to leave with him, but he still wanted to make a mark."

"But you see little Flower," Dwight continued to do his work. "You won't need anyone to protect you anymore. For Jerome will be back, and that is all you will need."

Rose didn't have the strength to tell him the truth. How much Jerome had terrified her. How with the snap of a finger, he could go from an innocent teenage boy to the Jerome that Dwight idolized. A psychopath.

A small buzz filled the room. Rose turned to face Dwight, witnessing him pulling down levers and cackling.

"What are you doing?" She yelled before covering herself, fearing of possibly getting electrocuted by the devices.

***

After numerous attempts, Rose cowered away from Dwight and Jerome's body. Tears of fear streaming down her face, watching an anxious Dwight hurry around his station.

Jerome laid still on the metal bed. Not even a twitch of a finger.

"Wake up." Rose heard Dwight speak to Jerome.

"He's dead." Rose cried out. "I saw it with my own eyes, Jerome is dead. He isn't coming back."

It was her own way of keeping sanity in the room. All that has been happening, it isn't possible. There's no way that Jerome could actually come back to life.

Some relief filled Rose when the helper showed up.

"They know our location." It was like music to her ears. Soon, she would be rescued, go back to campus, and refuse to return back to Gotham. Gotham will forever remain in her past.

The two men bickered before Rose, practically giving out their entire year life story to her.

"They want to see his face."

Rose jumped when Dwight electrocuted the guy before him, sending the man flying backward and onto the ground.

"You know, he made an interesting point," Dwight told Rose while going for a scalpel. "They want to see his face."

"Don't do that, please!" Rose cried out before looking away. She couldn't bear to see the first incension made into Jerome's face.

'Jerome, please just wake up. Please.'

Faint noises of sirens filled the room, but that hardly made the situation any better. Rose was trapped with a lunatic, a dead psychopath, and a slight innocent man who was also dead. Part of her believed that she would be next on the list.

And for once since his death, Rose wished that Jerome was awake to end this whole situation.

***

"No awakening for this guy."

"Harvey!?" Rose called out, hoping that she was right and in safe hands.

"Rose?!" It shouldn't have been a surprise for her to hear Victor's voice.

Rose's legs were shaking while she got up on the ground. Footsteps against the metal got louder until she could see the three men in sight.

She practically collapsed in Victor's arms, hiding her face in his shoulder. She could bear the sight of faceless Jerome or even Jim. Rose just wanted to get out of there.

"Rose-"

"Stop right there Jim," Victor told him, shielding the girl away from him. "I wouldn't have even done this," he told the officer. "You'll be lucky if she even wants to talk with you again."

And with that, Victor helped Rose out of the building and into the car. That he knew of, there weren't any obvious signs of harm.

"Rose," he started. The girl didn't respond though. She was just staring off into space with tears staining her face. Something happened to her. The question is whether or not she would want to talk about it.

"Rosie,"

That brought Rose back to reality. Rosie. It was something that her parents always called her. Tabitha took over calling her that name when Rose went into the custody of Tabitha and Theo. But hearing that name slowly became rarer.

Until that moment.

Rose looked up to Victor with a blank look. It was honestly the only thing that she seemed to have process during that day. Something that didn't traumatize her.

"Is it alright that I said that?"

Rose only nodded her head before hugging herself tightly. She knew of psychotic things in her mind, but this one might've taken the lead.

"Why would they want him back?" She questioned before hugging herself tighter. "Don't they know anything about him?"

Victor wasn't sure how to answer that question. He sat down next to her in the car and looked in front of him. "People are crazy."

"You're crazy," Rose told him. "People in this city," she caught a glimpse of Jim and Harvey walking out of the building. "they're demented."

An officer had gotten into the driver's seat of the car, being told to take Rose to the police station.

Rose knew what would be going on. Answering questions about Dwight and their interaction. If she had any idea what he would be doing next. Why would Dwight take Jerome's face.

Some of them seemed easy to Rose, just straight forward questions. Even then, she still didn't understand why take Jerome's face or what he would be doing next. Dwight's whole plan was to bring Jerome back to life, and that failed. So the question was, what was Dwight doing?