Please Don't Go

Chapter 4

"Hey, red?" Harley creaked open the door that lead to Ivy's greenhouse. She poked her head in, looking around, squinting her bright blue eyes to see through the rich canopy of leaves and plants to try and find Ivy among them. She knew that the redhead preffered to be surrounded by the green to cool down after a heated argument, but Harley really needed to apologise for what she said. If Ivy stayed mad at her forever then she would die! There was no reply so Harley walked inside, even though she knew she wasn't allowed to. There was once a time where Ivy went to harass a bunch of teenagers for carving their initials into neighbouring trees and Harley had accidentally left the door to her greenhouse open. To say the least, Bud and Lou were banned from entering Ivy's apartment and Harley wasn't even allowed to step a single foot in the greenhouse. Ivy hsd mourned her dead babies for weeks, but who could blame her?

"Oh noooo! I'm inside... I'm surrounded by the green~ Who's gonna kick ma ass for that?" Harley called out in a singsong voice, hoping to attract Ivy's attention, but still, there was no reply.

With a small huff, the blonde walked further into the greenhouse and looked at all the pretty variations of the vegetation surrounding her. Colourful flowers, pretty ferns, man-eating carnivorous plants... Ooh! What was this? She stopped by what seemed like a pretty little fern, but as she drew closer, she noticed that the roots buried in the soil were actually glowing. Harley reached out to touch the plant, but before she could, she heard a stern voice behind her.

"Don't touch her, she bites." Harley whipped around to see Ivy standing there, looking all perfect and well collected, as if completely unbothered of their recent fight. She wore a long, white lab coat, her fiery red hair tied back in a loose pigtail that was thrown over her shoulder, her arms crossed over her chest.

Harley looked back down at the plant. "It's a she?"

"Karen, and she doesn't like it when people bother her."

Harley frowned. "Ah, sorry Karen, didn' mean to bother ya!" She then looked at Ivy for some sense of approval but the woman held her gaze with a hard stare.

"Right... So... I've uh, I know ya told me to not ever, ever step a foot in your precious greenhouse 'n' stuff but I really — really had to make sure ya were okay because... I'm really sorry, red. I... I know what ya said was the truth. I really am just a sad clown, ain't i?" Harley bowed her head in shame.

Ivy raised one perfectly manicured eyebrow at her, urging her to carry on, which she did, "I suck, red. I dunno when to keep ma mouth shut. Heh, mistah J would always say that-" She stopped when Ivy's expression hardened. "...Ah, what the heck. I'm sorry, i hope you can forgive me for bein' such a dumbass." She shrugged. Damn, that apology sounded much more better in her head, but now that she said it out loud — it was fucking stupid.

"They're not stupid you know," Ivy mumbled after a moment's pause.

"Hm?" Harley looked up.

"My plants — they're not stupid."

Harley let out a small sigh and smiled, walking over to the green-skinned woman and rubbing her arms. "I know, red. I jus' said that to upset you, I'm sorry for that too... All forgiven?" She asked hopefully.

With a little shake of her head, the redhead gestured to the plants with her gloved hand. "It's them you should be apologising to."

After a long pause and the two women staring at eachother in pure silence, Harley turned around with a dramatic sigh, apologising to each plant for calling them stupid. This was silly, but it made Ivy smile so Harley went along with it. After saying sorry to every plant in the greenhouse, Harley looked at Ivy, who was checking out vial of liquid, her face deeply concentrated on what she was doing. "All done, pammy! Can you tell me wha' your babies think of mah lil speech?" The woman puffed out her chest in pride.