Ivy sat at her desk, scribbling little notes into her notebook before looking back up at the dying plant in front of her.
She touched the plant, brining it back to life. She wrote down more notes in her book before grabbing another plant, no one took care of her greenhouse while she was gone so a lot of the plants were dead. She wasn't mad or anything, they didn't know how to take care of them but it did give her a lot of work.
The door to the greenhouse opened and the shut. She turned to see Harley walking over to her, Ivy smiled and held her hand out. Harley took her hand and looked at the plants on the table.
"Are you feeling okay?" Harley asked pressing a kiss on the side of her head, Ivy nodded and closed her note book. She looked up at Harley and then down at her hands.
"What's wrong?" Harley asked cupping her face, Ivy held Harley's wrists and sighed, leaning forward and connecting their foreheads together.
"My mom, what happened to her?" Ivy asked, Harley sighed and pulled away to look at her. She grabbed Ivy's hands and held them in her own.
"It's a long story."
"Tell me, I can take it." Ivy said staring up at Harley, Harley let go of Ivy's hands and buried her face in her hands for a moment.
"All right." Harley said pulling a stool out from under the table, she sat down and grabbed Ivy's hands again.
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It was storming outside, the rain fell so hard when it hit her it felt like tiny knifes stabbing into her skin, she stared down at the gravestone.
Harley wiped her eyes and sniffled and kneeled down on the ground, she ran her hand over the engraving on the stone.
"Harley, it's pouring come inside, please." Kate said walking up to her with a rose in her hand, Harley stayed silent but looked up at Kate. She watched as Kate kneeled down and placed the rose on the stone, Kate wrapped her arm around Harley's shoulder and gave her a small squeeze.
"I should've went with you two, I could have helped her. Saved her from bane." Harley said looking down at the ring on her finger, she took the ring off of her finger and closed it in her fist, pressing it against her chest.
"Well this is a nice sight."
Harley and Kate turned quickly at the voice, it was Shara, Ivy's mother. Standing there with a cigarette in her hand and her other hand on her hip.
Harley stood up quickly and stormed to her. Kate got up quickly grabbing her arm and stopping her.
"Calm down Quinn." Kate said keeping her hold on Harley's shoulder tightly.
"What do you want?" Kate asked, Shara chuckled and walked towards the grave. She stared down at it with angry eyes.
"I've waited years for this, though I'm sad I didn't kill her im glad she's dead. I just wanted to see for myself." She said throwing the cigarette on the grave, Harley pushed Kate away and lunged at Shara, tackling her onto the ground. Kate moved quickly, grabbing handcuffs out of her belt and pushing Harley away from Shara. She slapped handcuffs on the girl, Harley stood up and stared down at Shara with tears welling in her eyes.
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"So is she still here?" Ivy asked, Harley nodded and stood up, she held her hand out.
"Do you want to see her?" Harley asked, Ivy hesitated for a moment, she looked up at Harley and took her hand. Ivy nodded and stood up from the stool. Harley grabbed her bat and smiled at Ivy
"Come on, let's go." Harley said, she led Ivy into the small jail across the street from the green house.
Harley hit her bat on the bars, waking the sleeping woman. She groaned and rubbed her eyes waking up.
"What do you want clown slut?" She said stretching her arms, her eyes met Ivy and her jaw dropped. She walked closer to the bars and grabbed them.
"Pamela."
"Mother." Ivy said looking down at her hands, picking at the skin around her nails. Harley put a hand on her shoulder giving it a light squeeze.
"I thought you were dead." She said squeezing the bars so tight her knuckles begun to turn white. anxiety ripped through Ivy's chest, a lump forming in her throat.
"So? What do you want you little freak?" Shara asked letting the bars go. Harley chuckled, rolling her eyes as she stepped forward. Ivy grabbed her arm and pulled her back, looping her arm around Harley's. She squeezed her arm, letting her know she was fine.
"I wanted to know why, why you wanted me dead. You can spin it all you want mother but you hated me before my father died." Ivy asked, Harley frowned and rubbed her back. Shara sighed and rolled her eyes for what felt like the thousandth time.
"Before you were turned into this toxic freak me and your father worked for an organization, to wipe all freaks like you out of existence, we wanted to cleanse the world of all the evil." She said, Harley punched the bridge of her nose as Shara spoke, it was an outdated way of thinking that Harley found very irritating.
"Are we talking about like lesbians or meta humans?" Harley asked growing curious, it honestly could go either way. Or both ways with this entitled bitch in front of Harley. Shara cackled, leaning over and holding one of the bars. Harley and Ivy looked at each other as she laughed.
"Ok enough." Harley said, Shara wiped her eyes and nodded standing up straight.
"Pamela be serious, lesbians are still human beings you idiot, what we wanted to rid the world of are meta humans, shouldn't even have humans in the name y'all are monsters." She said waving her hand, still trying to contain her laughter. Harley scoffed, earning a stare from Ivy before she looked back at her mother urging her to go on.
"Anyway, after your idiot brother knocked all of those chemicals on you turning you into this, your father and siblings wanted to stop doing that, dear they immediately had a change of heart when you turned green." She said walking over to her cot and sitting down, Ivy took a sharp breath in and stormed over to the bars, gripping the rusty metal.
"So, Jackie and Tony? They love me?"
Shara let out another sign, and another eye roll. She nodded slowly standing back up and walking towards the bars.
"Yes, they do. I made them act that way to you." Shara said before grabbing the front of Ivy's dress and banging jerking her forward. Ivy's head banged into the bars, she winced and stumbled back into Harley.
"When I get out of here I will kill you." She said turning away from them, Ivy held her head and looked at Harley giving her a nod, telling her she was ready to leave, Harley nodded back at her and wrapped her arm around Ivy waist
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"Want a sip kid?"
Ivy looked up at the woman who spoke, a little short with blonde hair and a flask in her hand. Ivy was sat on the steps of the greenhouse thinking about what her mother had told her. Harley had left her alone so she could think.
"I probably shouldn't offer you this I am practically your step mommy." She said going to put the flask in her pocket, she stopped and handed it to Ivy.
"Nah, I'll be the cool mom." She said, Ivy raised an eyebrow at the woman as she took it right back out of her reach and into her pocket, she chuckled as she sat down next to Ivy.
"What's wrong? You look very unhappy at the moment." She said bumping Ivy's shoulder. Ivy shrugged but stayed silent, telling strangers her issues wasn't something she did.
"I've been looking forward to meeting you. Kate talks about you a lot, she actually won't shut the fuck up about you." She said chuckling again. It hit ivy, this woman was Maggie, she finally arrived. Ivy cocked her head to the side and pointed at her.
"Maggie?"
"Yep, that's me." She said, Ivy smiled and stuck her hand out for her to shake, Maggie scoffed and slapped her hand away before brining her into a tight hug.
"No formalities kiddo." She said, Ivy smiled and let Maggie hug her. When Maggie pulled away she stood up and held her hand out for Ivy to take.
"Come on kid, I wanna see Kate." She said, Ivy took her hand and let herself stand up. Maggie gave her hand a gently squeeze before leading her into the temporary apartment building.
