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

Italics are character thoughts.

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As Ivy moved towards the cry the whole building shook as her babies ploughed through walls and floor, determined to support their green skinned mother and building themselves up to prepare for a fight; mommy was not happy. As the redheaded goddess rounded the corner she stopped abruptly as she saw a scene that she wasn't expecting to see.

The Dark Knight was almost through his ties when a body was slumped over his back. He immediately stopped cutting and froze, unfortunately it was too late and a hand grabbed his and tutted.

"Oh dear naughty boy!"

He gritted his teeth and growled as he was manhandled again and re-tied up with the body pressing into his back. He tried to turn but they were tied too tightly together he heard footsteps walking away and began struggling again. The floor began shaking and his panic grew, he managed to haul himself and the body tied to him up off the floor to a standing position. He turned to see half a wall crumbling away as a huge vine ripped through it and picked him up.

Ivy sauntered out and looked around, she looked up into Batman's eyes and smiled "Oh dear. The Bat and the Cat are in trouble...who's going to save them?" She watched in pleasure as his eyes grew wide and he began flailing wildly to try and free himself and save Catwoman. She considered all the fun and games she could finally have with these two pathetic meat sacks with their ridiculous feelings for one another but not being able to sort themselves out. Pathetic. A sob broke her out of the delicious plans she was concocting.

Harley was crumpled in the floor trying to put her phone back together, battered and bruised and mumbling to herself. "P-Puddin'? I got them, I got Kitty and B-man, both of them! I got them all wrapped up nice for you...Mistah J?" She was so distraught she couldn't get hold of him that she didn't feel the ground moving, didn't hear the chaos of falling brickwork, all she could focus on was him. It was the way it has always been ever since the day she met him. She couldn't see, hear, taste, smell or function without him, even if she was away from him she could feel him...apart from when she was with Red...she was the only person who could stop her brain being filled with him...whenever they were together Harley felt like she didn't have to keep fighting, she was at peace. Red...

Ivy was struggling as she watched the blonde flounder in her emotions. As much as she wanted to absorb all of her humanity away into her plant cells Harley was the one person who wouldn't let her. Whenever she went on a rampage like she was now, all it took was a smile from the cheeky harlequin to soften her resolve. There was no denying the hurt, however, the actual physical pain it caused her to hear Harley still begging for him. To hear that she did all of this for him...to know he was under her skin again despite everything that had happened over the last few days.

Suddenly Harley was swept off her feet and held in the air by one of Ivy's babies. She looked down to see the green skinned beauty fighting tears and her own eyes immediately filled and she watched as the redhead was raised by another vine to bring them almost nose to nose and they both gazed at each other with pain in their eyes. Harley went to speak when a groan sounded from the other side of the room where the other people were bound together.

Ivy was snapped out of her emotion puddle when Selina started to come round. I need to stop this. I need to not let her play me. She does this. Every time. She runs to me and then vanished back to him. Enough. I can't do this anymore. I will not let her distract me with my own feelings. She has just been using me again. This is not real.