Love does cause pain

Don't worry about it

🐱 Catwoman's p.o.v 🐱

All the commotion in the kitchen would normally put me into action mode, but holding this tiny baby in my arms it brought up so much.

"Selina?" My eyelids closed attempting to focus back on the present. Turning to Zatanna my eyes opened back up, smile naturally taking over my face. "What's going on kitten? What are you thinking about in that brain of yours?"

As she lent her head onto my shoulder I had to think about it. What was bothering me so much? Why couldn't I just be happy with something so pure I'm my arms.

"I just - I'm not sure I should be in charge of small things... I'm not very motherly... Actually just not very dependable at all." My body felt empty like everything I've done since I left her meant nothing. All of the energy I had started to fail and my arms started to fall.

"Selina..." Her voice so close to my ears grounded me, my body was mine and I could feel the weight in my arms once more. "I thought. What about your... Don't you have any siblings?"

My shoulders lifted causing Zatanna to rise and nuzzle her head back into the crook of my neck. As that sigh left my body I couldn't quite place it, was that a sigh of relief or disappointment, either way she clearly didn't remember.

"Sister. Just one. I did my best and it wasn't enough." The weight in my arms was starting to become unbearable, shrugging Zatanna off I turned putting little baby black blanket into her cot. "Can you watch them I erm... I need to check on them."

"Selina what about Pa-" Her voice was begging for me to stop and talk to her, pleading with me to open up, to tell her how I felt. She just needed an excuse for me to stay... to not run away, but that's not me.

"It'll be fine don't worry about it." Stepping out into the hallway I pressed my back against the door, gently my hands rubbed over my face, up and down until all I could think about was the direction I had to move them in next. Palms finally resting over my eye sockets. I did what was best. Hands pushing up then dragging around and down untill finally they fell.

"Selina?!" My head jerked up smacking against the door. "What did she do?" Her hands clamped around my arms, shaking my entire body until I answered.

"Nothing." Blinking slowly the faces surrounding mine came into focus. "I was coming to ask you the same thing." Looking past Pamela and straight to Phoebe who's face was bright red.

"I ... it was an accident." Phoebe huffed and folded her arms against her chest.

"It was nofin don't worry about it. Red's just being dramatic." As Harley snaked her arms around Pam her hands dropped away from my body.

"Good I'm sick of babysittin-" Before I could finish the air from my lungs was taken, as I was thrown across the hall way.

"Ivy what the heck?!" Held up by Phoebe my mind slipped back to Arkham, I couldn't feel my legs, if Phoebe was holding me up before then now she was practically carrying me.

"She left that monster with the twins!" Phoebe hooked her arm under mine and I watched as Pam threw the door open, angrily storming through.

As the door smacked against the wall the door was thrown straight back into its frame, I couldn't see anything what was she going to do to Zatanna? Harley's gaze met mine shock written into her face.

"Harley? O- open the door. Now." As if she was slapped across the face her head span back round to the door.

As Harley struggled with the door, Phoebe moved us closer. As Harley pushed on the door, we all simultaneously saw the thin green ropes slowly slithering across the opening, everytime I blinked there was one more.

"H- Harley get a a knif-" Shifting her weight around Phoebe produced an old Swiss army knife from a back pocket, flipping the knife open revealed a relatively small blade. "Erm Phoebs I don't think-"

The blade took on a red glow, and Phoebe grew warm against me, my legs started to regain feeling as I once again remembered that Phoebe wasn't just an average kid. The blade glided through the vines and we pushed through to avoid being sealed out again. As the others focused on pushing through my eyes were the first to see what Pamela had done.

My chest compressed as I looked over the damage. A strange instinct took my eyes straight to where the twins were when I left. Gone were their cries and their cots, left in the there place were two huge flowers, closed in on themselves to keep the twins out of sight and hopefully keep them safe.

"you thought I'd just sit back and let you use your magic on the twins? Unlucky for you I'm not as clueless as the rest- are they even clueless?! Maybe you already did something to them-"

"Pamela!" Never in all my years in Gotham had I ever heard Harley yell Pam's name like that.

My eyes locked onto a familiar shade of blue, but it was all wrong. Her eyes alone had contorted into something i'd never seen before. It shaped into something even worse when she looked back into my eyes.

It wasn't terror. It wasnt even fear. It didn't look like her body was big enough to feel anything but scared.

She wriggled and thrashed around as a tear slid down her cheek and over the thick vine cutting off both of her airways before she wiggled.

Her hair was bunched up between the vines holding her as they turned around her growing tighter.

I watched as the vine slipped back over the bottom of Zatanna's nose. The vines held on tight as she tried to wriggle. She wasnt making any progress. Her movements grew frantic.

"Mo-" My voice was so little I couldn't even hear if I finished.
I was frozen, all the heat leaving my body. How could I do anything, the strongest woman in Gotham was right in front of me, struggling for her life.

Thanks for readinggggg! I literally can't even remember how I end these bad bois off to be honest it's been forever. Whenever anyone comments it makes me want to see this through to the end which is probably still a million years away but I'll try I've failed and quit a lot in my life but I always come back to writing and drawing *coughs* shameless plug @_jaw_draw_ is my art Instagram I've improved a lot from my close to 5-6ish years ago art for the chapter openings so if you wanna check it out that would be cool it's mostly OCs though not much Harley x Ivy specific stuff . I've done a semi resent redraw all of you're favourite character over there Phoebe wooooooooo!!! Anyways that's all from me I hope you enjoyed and that everyone is doing well!  Love u guys so much  🐱✨ ~Jw