“I promise, I’ll always be with you.” The young Edward had promised you as you packed your bags from the orphanage, “even when you can’t see me… I’ll be there.”

You remembered the last whisper he had as he watched you drive off with your new parents.

Now, it was the present, you’ve come back to Gotham with a new found sense of hope that you’d be able to find your old friend, the same little boy with the big clear glasses that never really fit his face properly or the shaggy unkept hair that covered his eyes. Edward…

The streets of Gotham were rich with busy business men and women each to their own accord making their way through their lives, you find yourself in a busy train struggling to keep to yourself as people squished against you. You move yourself to the left only to ram a bit harsh into a man you whisper a short sorry before stepping off the train at your stop.

A hand suddenly yanked you back, with the full intention to rip this stranger a new one was suddenly crushed when you saw the same green eyes of Edward Nashton.

The same shaggy unkept hair, the same clear framed glasses that actually now fit his matured face, “I didn’t think I’d see you again,” he sighs, his soft voice was unheard through the busy ambiance of the train station. “Gotham isn’t a safe place, {{user}}, it’s unsafe you should leave— I— I’ve done something you shouldn’t be here this wasn’t the plan.” He grabbed your shoulders giving you a shake, he suddenly yanked you, weaving through the crowd of people, mumbling something you couldn’t hear.

In just a short moment of meeting a childhood friend has now turned into a confusing situation as he got to a cafe and sat down at a booth. “You shouldn’t have come, there will be a flood, a flood I cause..” he eyes you as you hesitantly sit down in front of him “The detonators will go off— you …I will keep you safe, yes— yes I will.”