Authors note: general disclaimer, I don't own any characters or anything to do with batman (I wish!)

Italics are character thoughts.

just a short one again as much as I could do on my breaks at work! please let me know what u think, I'm still unsure of a few things and would appreciate feedback be it good or bad!

Batman wandered through the corridors of the abandoned cat shelter and shook his head. What made them think that they could live together? I knew it was only a matter of time before they turned on one another. Selina won't be happy when she realises I let Harley go. Just what I need, another excuse for her to be pissed with me.

Ivy was in her makeshift greenhouse nurturing a particularly nasty breed of carnivorous creeper. She caressed it, whispered soft nothings and laid gentle kisses against it. It wiggled and swooned to her attentions. It was a new baby she had been working on, it was fiercely loyal, attention seeking and incredibly beautiful. When it flowered the blossoms were a fiery red with a dark centre. She had named it Harley II. She had taken particular care to keep this new obsession hidden away from prying eyes and had fallen in love a little more everyday. She would never admit to another living being some of the things she entrusted to her babies. Her feelings for Harley were complicated to say the least, she felt animalistic around the mischievous blonde and it was the most confusing feeling, on the one hand it made her feel more powerful than ever and yet it scared her, her human side was one of weakness, vanity and selfishness one she didn't want to rely on. As she pressed her lips to her love an angry tear rolled from her eye, she swiped at it and scowled. This was what being human was about, she hated it, she hated Harley for making her feel this way.

He watched as she loved a small plant that seemed to be growing by the second, every whisper, every touch and kiss seemed to make it swell and pulse. He was looking for Selina but couldn't resist finding out what Ivy was up to. He saw a tear roll down her face and saw the unbridled anger it brought with it. As he turned to leave he felt a vice grip on his ankle and he was swept off his feet and brought to kneel in front of the green skinned goddess, a vine slithering its grasp around his wrists.

As she wiped the offending liquid off her cheek Harley II had indicated they were not alone. Another reason for hating her human instincts, emotion always clouded the senses. As her faithful loves brought the Dark Knight to kneel before her she sniggered. Sometimes he just makes it too easy, prying little bat.

"Ivy."

"Batman." The greetings were cold and uninviting. "Doing a little snooping are we?" He didn't answer. "Like what you saw?" She smirked and raised him to stand with a slender finger under his strong jaw. He had his determined face set, which did nothing more than fuel her anger already raging inside. She ran her fingers over his lips and leant in licking her lips.

"Haven't you learned that doesn't work anymore?" He sniggered, they had fought so many times and she was still convinced her kiss of death would affect him?

She smiled cruelly at him as her fingers opened his mouth "Oh I know." And with that she grabbed his lip and yanked hard. Blood started to flow at the corner of his mouth and he hissed angrily. She brought her hand up to inspect the blood and turned.

He was getting fed up of these women and the trouble they constantly caused him, he struggled behind his back to reach into his utility belt to cut the vines holding his wrists, he was almost through when the redhead turned back to face him.

The plant queen was holding Harley II like a baby in her arms, she smiled sweetly at Batman as she held her bloodied hand to the plant which began wrapping itself around Ivy's arm, consuming the blood and growing rapidly. "I think she likes your taste." Once Harley II had absorbed all the blood it began pulsating and inching its way from the comfort of its mother's arms to its prey.

The Dark Knight was furiously still trying to untie his arms when Harley II proceeded to grow rapidly and wrap itself around his body like a python squeezing and digging into the suit, making it increasingly hard for him to breathe.

The green goddess stood back and watched her baby grow and begin to devour the tedious Dark Knight. She smiled sinisterly "Good work baby."