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Harley hummed happily as she skipped along beside Selina Kyle. As for Cat woman, she was wondering if she'd made the right choice by choosing to accept the psycho's help instead of Pamela's.
She desperately wished that Pam had chosen to come along instead.
"So, how ya been?" Harley asked.
Selina rolled her eyes.
"Good...you?" She asked awkwardly and then regretted it when the blonde decided to go into detail and tell her about everything that had happened from the time Joker had started abusing her to the time she'd started rooming with Pamela.
"So yeah, that's about it." Harley finished with a small sigh.
Selina wondered if she'd get a moment's peace while the blonde seemed a little down but no.
"I wish Pammy were here."
Selina's lip curled up in a sort of smirk.
"You miss her?"
Harley nodded, pouting as she put her head down and walked with a sort of slouch.
Selina stopped walking and folded her arms.
"Maybe there's a way to get her to come with us."
Harley's blue eyes widened and she looked excited.
"Ya think?! Well ok, Kitty, what do we do?!"
"First of all-" Selina slapped Harley upside the head- "stop calling me Kitty."
Harley winced and rubbed the spot that was starting to sting.
"And second, I think all it would take to get the plant lady back on our side is a nice, sincere apology...and maybe some light groping if that's what she's into."
Harley nodded.
"I can do that!"
"Good! So go do it!" Selina said with false enthusiasm and watched as Harley skipped off, humming loudly again.
Harley felt good as she skipped back to Pam's apartment. Thankfully, her and Selina hadn't walked very far when the Cat woman had suggested that the little blonde should go back and apologize.
She did miss Pammy, even if it only had been for about half an hour.
Harley and Pam had grown close. Really close and Harley didn't want that to end no matter what she said.
As she neared Pam's apartment, she started thinking of all the things that she would say to get Pam to join her and Selina in their takeover of Gotham.
She tried saying it out loud to see how it sounded;
"'Pam! I'm back and I got somethin' to say!' No, no not that... um, 'Pammy, Harley's back and she ain't leavin' without ya!' Could work."
"Well well, little Harley out at night all by herself?"
"Who said that?" Harley squeaked angrily, turning around but finding no one there.
"Just an old friend."
"I don't have any 'old' friends. only new ones."
"Oh I think you do and something tells me that you'll jump at the chance to meet them."
Harley sighed loudly.
"Just show yourself buddy, I'm gettin' bored."
"Not yet but I thought you would like to see a few of your other friends before we meet."
"I told ya I don't-"
A growl stopped Harley from finishing that sentence. It was joined by another growl.
Anyone else would be scared, start running for their lives but Harley knew those growls anywhere.
"Bud? Lou?"
From the darkness, her beloved Hyenas sprang at her and it was only when Bud had Harley pinned beneath him, that Harley realized they didn't see her as their mistress anymore.
They obeyed someone else's orders now.
Harley looked up as Lou started circling as well.
"Bud? Bud, come on boy. I raised ya! You know me!"
Bud just snarled, showing his teeth.
"Lou? Lou come on, you remember little ol' Harley don't cha?"
Lou growled back in response and Harley swallowed.
She never thought she'd be killed by her own pets. She assumed it would be in an explosion or bank job gone wrong or maybe even Mr J would finally shoot her like he'd be threatening to for years but never by Bud and Lou. Not her boys.
Bud opened his mouth, teeth dripping with saliva and Lou looking just as hungry behind him.
Harley licked her lips and shut her eyes.
This was it then.
Or so she thought; a hand wrapped around Harley's and dragged her from underneath the snarling Hyenas.
Harley opened her eyes and found that she was on top of the roof looking down on her pets.
"I can't leave you alone for a second, can I?"
Harley's blue eyes widened and she threw her arms around Pamela.
"You saved me!"
Pam bit back a grin and hugged her back.
"Well I couldn't let you be eaten by those monsters."
"Hey! They're still my boys!" Harley whined.
Pam gave Harley a look as she pulled back from the blonde.
"Harley look at them."
The blonde looked down as they barked up at her, clearly angry she'd gotten away.
"They're someone else's boys now."
"But...but I raised them." Harley said, her words turning into sobs.
Pam wiped away a tear that had fallen down the blonde's cheek and gave her a sympathetic look.
"I know, honey but-"
"Maybe there's a way to get them back!"
"I don't know, I mean-"
"But you could try, right? Please Pammy! Please help me get them back!"
Pamela sighed and looked into the blonde's blue eyes.
"I could give it a shot, sure."
Harley hugged her friend again and looked back down at her pets.
"We're gonna get you back boys! Don't you worry!"
And not for the first time since getting involved with Harley, Pamela wondered just what had she gotten herself into.
Harley and Pamela went back to her apartment as she made Harley some tea to help her calm down.
Pam put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Are you ok?"
Harley nodded.
"Yeah. A lot better thanks, Pammy. I just never thought Bud and Lou would turn on me like that. I mean I raised them and everythin'!"
Pamela nodded as she took a seat on the arm of the chair next to Harley.
"I know. That's what makes me think someone is controlling them."
Harley nodded as she sipped at her tea.
"It would make sense." She agreed after she'd swallowed the hot liquid.
Pam let a small frown appear on her face as a thought occurred to her.
"Why did you come back to Arkham?"
"Oh, well me and the cat lady didn't get very far anyways."
Pam smirked.
"You annoyed her that much?"
Harley gave Pam a light slap.
"Hey! I'm not that annoying!"
Pam rolled her eyes.
"You've clearly never heard yourself on tape."
Harley pouted as she put the tea down and folded her arms, looking like a sulking child.
"I'm only kidding, Harls. You know I like your voice."
She was lying.
It had grated on her a little more each day but she was in love with the lunatic so she took it and she had grown to love it when it had been the most irritating thing about her in the beginning.
Nevertheless, Harley grinned up at her.
"You were saying." Pam prompted her.
"Oh yeah! Well I said I missed ya and Kitty said to come back here and apologize and you'd come with us to Gotham after all!"
Pam frowned slightly as she stood up and looked down at the blonde.
"That's it? You think an apology is going to fix all this?"
Harley blinked.
"What are we fixing, Red? It's us! We can survive anything!"
"You're going back to Gotham to see Joker. We're supposed to be-"
"What?! What are we supposed to be Pammy?! Cos every time someone questions it, you clam right up! It's confusing!"
"I don't know what you want, Harley! You're not very vocal!"
Harley gasped in shock at the accusation.
"Yes I am! When you went down on me that time I was very vo-"
"Not that type of vocal!" Pam snapped angrily.
"Oh...well...when you say vocal, what do ya mean?"
"Tell me what you want from me! Are we something? Do we just sleep together? Is this worth me getting my heart drop-kicked again and again or what?"
Harley looked at the plant woman and smiled a little.
"Can't we just be as we are?"
"No! I need to know, Harley! You need to make a decision and tell me and you need to do it now!"
"I don't know! But... I do know that I need you, Pammy. We're a team...aren't we?"
Pamela put her head in her hands and turned her back on the blonde.
"I need time to think."
Harley nodded.
"Ok. I'm gonna go back and tell Cat lady that you're here thinkin' and then we'll give you...say an hour? Then if you don't show...we'll go to Gotham without you."
Pam nodded, keeping her back to Harley so that the blonde couldn't see the tears in her green eyes.
"So...hopefully see ya soon?" Harley pushed carefully.
"Maybe." Pamela answered, keeping her voice hard.
Harley let out a little sigh and then left Pam on her own to make her decision.