Insanely troubled- Jeremiah Valeska fanfic

Chapter twenty eight- turning into his true self part- two

           Jeremiah's Pov

Jeremiah looked into a mirror, shocked
by the sight in front of him. His appearance had completely changed. He looked like
a whole other person.

His ones red hair was now black as ash. His skin had turned the whitest of white, and
his green eyes had turned blue. He didn't
even seem to need his glasses anymore.

In a hurry he walked over to his sketches
of his generators, taking out a pen and
redesigned them to something quite different.

"Perfect" He breathed out to himself, staring at the paper blankly, a small smirk on his red lips.

Gotham, Gotham in flames.

It felt like his mind had opened up, like he could see everything so much clearer. It
was as if he was a changed man,
changed for the better.

He took up his phone, dialing a number
before putting it up to his ear. "Ecco, I need you to get up here. Yes. Immediately"

Jeremiah's head shot to the side as someone knocked on the door. It couldn't be Ecco, she wouldn't be there so quick. "Who's there?"

"It's just me, idiot" Everly's soft voice
said through the door. "Mind opening
up? The door is locked"

"No" He answered monotonously,
leaning his back on his desk. He didn't
want Everly to see him like that, not
yet. She would be against it.

"Alright?" She breathed out with
confusion. "Is everything fine?"

He let out an irritated huff. Couldn't she
just take a hint? Nevertheless, ignoring
his aggravation he put up a mask. "Yeah,
I'm just busy with something. Just
go to bed, Ev, I'll come soon"

He heard a silent "okay", before
it had gone silent again.

Awhile went past before he heard a second knock and judging by the voice coming
through the door this time, it wasn't Everly.

"Took you long enough" He stated as he opened the door for her, pushing her quickly inside before he locked the door again.

As she looked at him a perplexed expression took over her whole face "What in the
world has happened to you, Mr.Valeska?"

"The less you know the better" He answered carelessly. The details wasn't of any importance. "Has Everly gone to bed?"

"She did" She answered simply, annoyed
by the mention of her.

"Good" He sighed as he poured himself another glass of whiskey. "Now, I need you
to go to whatever stores, I don't care, and,
buy everything that can make me look
exactly like I did before. Got it?"

She looked at him with confusion but nevertheless, simply nodded before
making her way out.

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Gotham in flames. A new Gotham better than ever before. Generators. Explosions.

What? No.

For now it seemed like he had managed
to snap out of it, quickly realizing all the bad thoughts that made it's way into his mind.

He panicked, hitting himself in the head
over and over again with his hands, as if that would rid him of any bad thoughts that was swirling around in his head. It didn't work.

He wasn't that weak, he couldn't be that
weak? He couldn't let Jerome's insanity
spray take control of him.

But, then again, what if it wasn't the spray?
He may admit he had always had thoughts about all the things he could do, all
the potential he had. All he needed
was a little push.

"No, what are you thinking" He muttered aggressively to himself. He looked over at
the mirror yet again only to be meet with a stranger staring back at him.

This was him now, he couldn't do
anything about it, but to embrace it.

"No!" He yelled back at his thoughts before he took his glass of whiskey and downed all of it.

His eyes then fell on the diary laying on his desk, Jerome's diary. He had yet to look
into it. He sat himself down, ran his
fingers through his hair ruffly, before
he hesitantly opened the pages within.

Obsessively, all night, his eyes traveled
back and forth from page to page, studying
all the drawings and writing about different
ways his brother wanted to torture and
murder Bruce, Everly, and himself.

And as he looked through the diary one thought seemed to be burned into his
mind  —  What if he was back from the
dead? What if in this very moment he
was plotting to come for Everly and
him, to kill her, to kill him.

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