All I felt was pain coursing through my body. My entire body was covered in cuts, my uniform was torn and at some point I lost my left glove, leaving my hand bare and scraped. I had no idea where the Team was, but I knew Robin was battling the Joker.

I yelled out as a vine picked me up and threw me down on the ground, hard. The pavement around me cracked from the impact and I was suddenly very glad that my uniform had padding on the arms. I pushed myself up, glaring at Poison Ivy as she stood, smiling triumphantly, on one of her larger vines.

"Come on little Ivy. Can you not handle me?" She yelled out.

I growled and pushed myself all the way up. My legs shook under my weight and my entire body ached as I used my arm to manipulate some vines. I grew them so that I was standing level with Poison Ivy.

"I'm a not a little girl. I'm stronger than you." With those words I lunged at her, figuring if I could keep her distracted from using her plants then it would help Robin. Which would ultimately help me.

Robin and I had confirmed with each other that without the Jokers machine, Poison Ivy's plants weren't this powerful and vice versa. If one of us could out our enemy then we could gang up on the last one together, but it was proving rather difficult. At least for me it was, I wasn't sure how the boy wonder was doing.

Poison Ivy had unfortunately dodged my attack, she retaliated and swung her fist, aiming for my stomach. I smirked and wrapped my own hand around her clenched fist. Her face twisted into a look of surprise as I was able to flip her over my shoulder. She rolled once and landed on her stomach.

I smirked as she struggled to push herself up, but frowned when I felt something wrapping around my ankle. My head snapped down and I saw a thick vine wrapping its way up my calf. It pulled me up so that I was hanging upside down. Poison Ivy sauntered towards me, completely recovered from my attack. She red lips were pulled back in a smirk.

"Looks like little Rosie isn't as strong as she thought."

I gave her a smirk that matched hers. "I think you need to re evaluate your baby sister."

She raised an eyebrow at me and missed that action of my arms flying out and crossing in front of my body. A vine came and wrapped around her torso and lifted her in the air. I held my hand up and used my other to get my ankle free. I flipped down and landed swiftly, copying Poison Ivy's earlier actions as I strolled towards her.

"Sorry big sis, but I need this fight to end. I have a test tomorrow in government," I stated as I threw my arm out, causing the vine to shoot Poison Ivy towards the ground.

She landed with a crash on the pavement. Her limp body lay in a small indent that was created when she hit. I knew she wasn't dead, and just to be sure I climbed down the vines and place two fingers against her wrist, breathing out a small - very small- breath of relief.

When I knew she was fine, I turned and used my powers to build vines that I could climb up to where Robin and the Joker were battling. I landed behind Robin as the Joker's eyes widened when he saw the vines growing weak.

"No! How dare you destroy these plants!"

I sighed and stood next to Robin. "A bit over dramatic if you ask me."

"Agreed, now let's take him down."

"Way ahead of you." Robin gave me a confused look as I did exactly what I did with Poison Ivy. I threw him off the vine we were on where he landed a few feet away from my first victim.

"Nice work Ivy," Robin praised as we climbed down to the pavement.

"Thanks boy wonder."

We strolled over to where the rest of the Team had gathered and they congratulated us on our small victories. Kid Flash glanced over his shoulder at the villains, both still unconscious.

"What are we going to do with them?" He asked, his thumb pointing at the two for emphasis.

"We are going to send them back to Belle Reve, where they will be put under maximum security," Aqualad announced, going into his Team leader mode.

I slowly walked away from the group, they were chatting quietly, probably to kill time since we had to wait for Batman to arrive. My eyes wandered towards Poison Ivy as she lay, still unconscious, on the ground. I blinked quickly behind my mask, trying to hold back tears that wanted to fall without my consent.

As I stared at her motionless body I remembered all the time we used to spend together as kids. We used to play together all the time, we were as close as sister could be. How did it all change?

"Pamela, where are you going?" I heard mom yell from the hallway.

I jumped off my bed and peeked through the crack in my door. Mom was standing in Pamela's doorway, hands limp at her sides. Her shoulders shook and I could faintly see light reflecting off tears, both dry and fresh, that were on her face.

"I'm sorry mom, but I have to do this. You and dad are holding me back. I need to reach my full potential, and I can't do that with you two restricting me all the time." Pamela sounded angry and sad as she brushed past my mom and came down the hallway towards my room.

I shrunk away from door thinking she was coming to me, but returned when I saw her step into the bathroom. She had a duffel bag slung over her shoulder and she was wearing all black with her hair pulled into a ponytail.

"Pamela you cannot leave, I am your mother and I am telling you that you are not going to leave this house."

Over my moms shoulder I could see Pamela frown. "I'm sorry, but you're not going to stop me. Nobody is."

"What about Rose?"

With those words Pamela froze. She looked over moms shoulder, staring right at my bedroom door. I still wasn't sure if she knew I was watching but I shrunk back a bit just in case. "She'll be fine," Pamela finally decided.

She pushed past mom again and went downstairs. I heard her and mom yelling at each other for a while longer before the front door opened and slammed shut. The entire house was quiet except for moms sobs. I closed my door quietly and sat on my bed, my legs crossed and my hands sitting lifelessly in my lap. At some point everything became quiet and I fell back against my pile of pillows, eventually letting sleep take me into a world of dreams.

Aa

I woke up a few hours later - according to the clock on my bedside table - to the sound of something hitting my window. I pushed myself out of bed and used a small stool to open the window. On the ledge sat Pamela, still dressed in black.

"Pamy!" I yelled excitedly.

She shushed me and jumped swiftly through the window landing next to me. She hugged me tightly and pulled me to sit on my bed with her. "Rose, did you hear what mom and I were talking about?" I put my head down and nodded, not sure if she was mad at me. "I'm sorry you had to hear that, I didn't want you to know."

"But you're here now, that means you're coming home to stay."

She gave me a sad smile and hugged me tightly again. "Rosie, I can't stay. I only came to say goodbye, but I'm still leaving," she said into my hair.

"Why do you have to go?" I asked quietly, my voice cracking. I tightened my grip around her, not wanting to let her go.

"Because, I know I can do amazing things, but not with mom and dad telling me what I can and can't do. I'm sorry Rose, I love you." She kissed my forehead and stood up. She jumped onto my window sill and gave me one last smile before she jumped out.

I stared at the open window, tears now streaming down my cheeks. Soon I started sobbing, which grew louder and louder. My mom and dad came into my room at some point in my fit and wrapped their arms around me, knowing the exact reason I was crying all of a sudden. But they didn't truly get it, nobody every would.

"I didn't know this was what you would call amazing things," I whispered quietly. I wasn't sure if was saying it to myself or to Poison Ivy.

"Ivy look out!" M'gann's voice yelled. I looked up to see a vine falling towards me.

I tried to move but my feet were frozen. I knew if I didn't move then I'd end up crushed, but I just couldn't forced myself to leave my spot, even as I watched the monstrous vine get larger and larger. I was surprised when I was suddenly pushed out of the way. I fell back on the ground, the vine cracked the pavement and landed a few yards from where I landed. The person next to me was trying to catch their breath and turned to thank them, assuming it was one of my teammates.

My eyes widened as I saw Poison Ivy on her hands and knees next to me. "Pamela?"

She turned her head to me and smirked. "I may beat the crap out of you, but we're sisters. I don't want you to die." The smile that formed on my face broke into a frown as I saw my Team a few feet away, all gaping at what they had just heard.

"Sisters?" Artemis asked, a glare set on her face.

I looked away from them, ashamed that they had found out the one secret I had wanted to keep from them. I heard as Poison Ivy was taken away by the police but still refused to look away from the ground.

"Ivy." I flinched at Robin's voice. I had never heard it so hard and angry. It wasn't the voice I liked from him.

"Why didn't you tell us?" This time it was Superboy who spoke, and his voice was worse than Robin's. Full of fury and rage.

"I couldn't," I breathed out. They wouldn't have understood if I told them, they would have acted like they were now.

"Ivy, we're your team, you can tell us anything." Miss Martian's voice hurt me the most. Hers was so soft and I could hear that she was hurt.

"None of you would have understood."

I stood up and walked away from them. I wasn't sure how far I went, but I knew that it was far enough to leave the sounds of police sirens and camera flashes behind me. I turned into an alley and sat on the ground, my knees pulled tightly to my chest. I slipped my mask off and let tears fall, they landed on my tights, turning the forest green even darker.

The Team and I had become so close in the few months I had been with them, but now everything was ruined. I lied to them and that broke the trust we had with each other. I knew it wasn't going to be easy to repair this, it could even be impossible. But I needed to try, they were some of my closest friends, the only friends who knew of my job as a hero, and I wasn't going to lose them. Not now. Not because of her.


A/N: Major conflict! Will Ivy be able to regain the trust of her team? What you all think? I hope I did the fight scene 'justice' (haha, get what I did there? No? Okay.) I honestly suck at actions scenes that's why I don't write them often.

P.S. There MAY or MAY NOT be a new character coming in within the next few chapters. If you want to meet the character you can go to my profile and go to my website to read about the new addition. It's pretty easy to know which one he/she is.

Fun Fact: Rose secretly sleeps with a stuffed elephant that Pamela won her when she was four. It's the one reminder she has of when Pamela was still around.