If I Just Lay Here, Will this City Stop Existing?

The night before when the power outage seemed to have been about as bad as Abby's life could get but today had definitely been worse. It was so bad she might actually commit herself and call it a day.

After calling Devon and asking about how he was doing (Fine, thank you Abby, for checking, just a bit shaken…) Abby had gone to work where nothing happened, at all. It was a perfectly uneventful day and the owner, Donnie decided to close early and have everybody clean the restaurant top to bottom. Finally, work ended and Abby's fridge was starting to look bare (Translation; had money, not going to eat another bowl of apple-cinnamon oatmeal for dinner again.) so she took a trip to the grocers.

Abby had gotten the usual assortment of food and was going to the check out. There, by chance, Abby caught sight of the angriest person in the world and when they turned around Abby recognized that face from a newscast, Poison Ivy. Like an idiot Abby gawked in both fear and fascination and then Poison Ivy started to walk inside. All hell broke loose and the furious woman started to move to where Abby and the cashier were. For two minutes Abby was ready to curl up in a fucking corner and die. She had seen her stare, she was going to come for her and-

But, instead of wrapping the vines which covered the store interior around Abby, Poison Ivy sent them at the cashier and in that moment Abby actually let out a quiet sigh of relief. The cashier heard it though and he looked at her with such shocked hurt that Abby could feel her legs wobbling. She should have done something, said something but instead kept her mouth shut and feet planted in place, hands clenched tightly at her side.

Like everyone else, Abby watched in horror as Poison Ivy whipped the poor man in her vine's grips out the broken windows and disappeared. A smirk adorned her almost-perfect face and all Abby could hear was the man's pleas for mercy, for help. The police arrived almost immediately, swarming the place like flies and Abby remembered a paramedic checking her over before shouting "OK," to another and moving on. The manager came out from under a table full of cookie boxes and started to talk to her employees, shaken.

Now, Abby is standing around with a basket of groceries and a coupon to the store. A bus arrives and Abby feels like she's living in a make believe world as she steps on and pays the fare. Home that is the only place Abby wants to go, not the apartment where the power is still out and the people above her don't care for their little girl and the guy downstairs still tries pinching her butt.

Home is very far from Gotham though and Abby's a big girl. She's the one who made the choice to live there and there is no way she can afford moving.

So, Abby gets off the bus and ignores the guy in apartment 4A when he tells her that he's gonna tap her ass one day. She ignores the couple above her stomping up the stairs, drunk, and steps over one of their legs when one slumps down on a step and laughs. Abby also ignores the phone ringing in her living room and instead puts her groceries away, kicks off her shoes and buries herself under the covers of her small bed. It is only 3:50pm and Abby has had enough.

AUTHORS NOTE: I have not published anything new and for that I am sorry, no excuses. Anyways, depressing chapter I know, I think it's the music I'm listening to right now. The next few chapters should be better and if this isn't terribly good I am sorry, trying to get back into the swing of things. I do like what I did in this chapter though and I'm trying to introduce more characters as I go.

Well, same as always, review, like and what have you. I appreciate the tips, reviews and ideas I have gotten so far and it helps in revising what I have written. As always, if I missed something or made a mistake feel free to point them out.