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The Joker clicked his fingers and his huge henchmen started to make their way over to the two women clinging onto one another. "Time to toss out the weed boys!" He revelled in the cries that the two women let out.

It was no good, Harley couldn't get her body up off the floor, she couldn't save the woman she loved. What was the point?

Ivy was kicking and scratching, doing everything she could to get out of their grasp but to no avail.

At the Joker's instruction the men flung Ivy through the glass of a window like a piece of trash.

As the glass shattered around her she felt it pierce her skin but she didn't cry out, she knew Harley was hurting and wanted to help her but physically couldn't do it. Even though she was hurting too she couldn't let her pain hurt Harley any more than she already was. As she felt herself falling she closed her eyes, she tried to reach out to her babies but all she could see, feel and think about was Harley. The way her lips twitched at the corner before she was going to smile. The way her bright blue eyes twinkled whenever she was up to no good. Her infectious laugh that never failed to make Ivy laugh too. The chaos she caused when she was with her babies, even when she was doing something as mundane as housework. The way her lips tasted. How they made her own lips tingle with pleasure. The pure unbridled passion with which she had first kissed her. Ivy only had one regret, not spending that last night telling her how much she loved her. For running away like she always did.

Harley watched as they flung Red out of the window and she screamed so hard no sound came out. Her whole body wanted to get up, run, fly out of the window and catch her but she couldn't. She couldn't even sit up. She was pathetic. She hated herself more than ever at that moment. Her whole life had been leading up to this moment even if she didn't know it. She'd wasted so much time on the Joker and now when it truly mattered her love wasn't strong enough to save the woman she loved. Red didn't make a noise and Harley closed her eyes and prayed that she had already gone, she didn't want her to feel that amount of pain.

The Joker skipped over to Harley and pulled her up by her hair. He sneered right in her face "Aw poor Pumpkin! Seems everybody you loved is dead huh?" He sniggered at her and grabbed one bloodied cheek and pinched it patronisingly.

"Not yet."

The response caught him by surprise and he frowned at her "Wha-" his words were cut off by sudden pain. He looked down to see Harley's hand driving something into his chest. He looked up at her and laughed. The sound was distorted by a gurgle of blood that began to seep out of his mouth.

As he dropped to the floor, no longer held up, so did she. She had used her last bit of strength to do what she should have done long ago. She looked over at his spluttering body and closed her eyes. I don't ever want to think about him again. She instead focused and the beautiful green skinned goddess floated into her mind. She smiled as everything faded to black.

Ivy hit something hard and it took all her breath away. She waited for the pain but it never arrived. She opened her eyes and blinked in shock at the symbol staring her in the face. "Batman?"

Once he had ensured Selina was being cared for in intensive care at the Gotham General the Dark Knight had rushed back to the warehouse. As much as he wanted to stay with Selina he knew that Joker had something big up his sleeve. As he was about to grapple up he heard the smash of breaking glass and looked up to see Ivy free falling toward him.

Ivy felt dizzy and let her body be carried by the Dark Knight "S-Selina?"

"She'll be alright." I hope...

She opened her eyes and saw that he was taking her away she began fighting against his hold "No! No! Harley!"

He looked down at her and sighed sadly "Leave them Ivy. They deserve each other."

She didn't know where the strength came from but she pushed out of his grip and stood tall snarling at him "You don't know her."

He sighed exasperated "Don't I? So after you raised her back from the dead, she didn't go straight back to him then? Even after she realised he had abandoned her and you hadn't she didn't still try and call him when she had me and Selina captive? You don't think that even now they're probably laughing about it all?" He turned his back on the warehouse and continued walking.

"No. You don't know her. You know the mask she puts on. It's not her. It took a long time but she knows now. I know she does." She watched as he shook his head and kept walking. "Even if she hasn't I don't care." He scoffed. "Just like you don't care that Selina will never change."

His steps faltered and he turned to glare at her "Selina is nothing like her!" Anger flashed in his eyes.

Ivy smiled "Point proven." She crossed her arms and looked at him pointedly "You will love her no matter what, just as she will you, she'll never give up your identity no matter what anyone does to her. Because she loves you. And you will always have her back even if she crosses you again. Because you love her. And I will always patch Harley back up even if she runs back to him every time. Because I love her."

He closed the distance between them "Even if they're laughing and joking now?"

She gritted her teeth "Even if she threw me out the window herself." They both shook their heads at the absurdity and she laughed. It is ridiculous. It is all the things I have ever scolded Harley for in the past. But I know it's real. I can feel it even now.

She felt the strong arm wrap around her waist and she hooked an arm around his thick neck. He fired the grapple and they flew up to the window from which she had come.

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