#thedocks

My Sister told me one time.

“Aaliyah, I can totally see Addilyn and Julian dancing on the docs to Senorita by Shawn Mendes” and I was like- “DUDE- I GOTTA DO THAT”

This was written in the Gotham hiatus after 3x14, it contains no spoilers, and it is simply a mix of speculation and creative license. 

After Oswald has come back, (Reanimated by Dr Strange at the request of Fish) Fish manages to re-inspire his villainous soul. Telling Oswald to join her army so they can re-claim the crime empire of Gotham together.

Oswald sets out to kill anyone he spared in the first half of season three. Convinced that love made him weak and he has returned determined to correct any lives he spared, as part of his rebirth. Including Tabatha, then Jim, then Edward.

-     Oswald makes an attempt on Tabitha’s life. After threatening Tabitha, Butch wants Oswald dead. Edward says Oswald is his to kill and tells Butch that anyone who takes the pleasure of killing Oswald from him will pay dearly. Butch points out that he sounds like he is protecting him, Edward denies it. Butch says he will stop looking for Oswald, if Edward can promise to kill him when he finds him.

-           When Edward does find Oswald it is a huge action packed confrontation. Guns blazing. Edward and Fishes mutant army vs Edward and the sirens hired goons. At the end of the confrontation, the place is trashed, everyone else has either fled or died. In the end, Its just Edward Nygma and Oswald Cobblepot, both panting and disheveled, holding a gun to each other.

After Edward admits he can’t take the shot and re-live the grief of losing his best friend again. Oswald suspects he is trying to manipulate him. Oswald tells him “he would say anything to save his own life,” (Mirroring what Edward told him when he was tied to a car in 03x14)  Though, while Oswald doesn’t trust him, be begrudgingly admits… he won’t kill him either, but that doesn’t mean he forgives him for the docks. Its a start.

-           Oswald and Edward unite against a common enemy, the GYPD. They work really well together. Edward is the planning, Oswald is the action. Just like old times, albeit with some tension. Right before they are about to take down the common enemy, Edwards sends a riddle to the GYPD, and doesn’t tell Oswald.

-          Their plan all goes to hell. The police show up, Oswald asks how they found them and Edward admits their predicament is all his fault. He admits to leaving a clue and expects Oswald to be livid. Instead Oswald tells him that there is nowhere he would rather be, than in Gotham, having a shoot-out with the GYPD with his best friend. They are better together than alone.

-           Edward reminds Oswald that he would still “Do anything for him” and wants to sacrifice himself so that at least Oswald can get away. Oswald tells Edward if he manages to get out uncaught, to meet him at the the “safe house”.

-           Edward gets caught by the Police, GYPD says if he can tell them where Oswald Cobblepot is, they will send him to Backgate not Arkham Assylum. Though Ed hated his time in Arkham, he refuses. (Mirroring how Oswald wouldn’t give up Edward, in 03x14.)

-           Edward, defeated, gets in the van to take him to Arkham.

-           As the van travels, from the back of the transport van Ed feels the van almost topple over as it swerves and comes to a stop. He sees the driver get out and then hears a gunshot and a thud. A small explosive is detonated to get the locked van door off its hinges. Edward steps back, cautious that it could be Barbra or Butch with bad intentions. Only to see Oswald Copplepot emerge from the smoke. Edward delighted to see his friend and dizzy with the relief that is isn’t going back to Arkham. He embraces Oswald in a bone crushing hug. Oswald admits that he would do anything for him too.

(“I’d do anything for you” is basically their “I love you” at this point)

-           Intent on ruling Gotham side by side. They get into the getaway car and drive off into the sunset as the sound of GYPD police sirens wail in the background.

Galway, Ireland