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Green Eyes Killer	By : Isabelle_Jennings Category: DC Verse Comics > Batman Views: 3964 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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PART 13: PARADISE ON EARTH
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--- SILVER (continued) ---
"...I didn't plan to do that." Lina offered, conflicting emotions playing over her expression.
"Do you plan to again?" Silver asked.
Lina just looked into her eyes a moment. "I'm... not sure." She admitted.
"I thought you were in love with M'gann?" Silver further questioned her, trying to be gentle.
"I am; it's crazy how much I am..." She admitted further, looking away.
"Then..."
"Then she doesn't want me, that's 'then'..." Lina answered softly. "Not as much as she wants Artemis; which I completely can't help but understand by the way. I know everything--absolutely every single solitary thing--about both of them after all... For M'gann, it's just... She belongs with Artemis, belongs -to- Artemis. It's... like, just a fact for her; I doubt I could get around it no matter what I tried to do."
"I can understand that." Silver answered.
"Good for you." Lina replied, meeting her eyes again, sadness apparent in her gaze.
"So, you've given up on her? And Ivy, she's... what?" Silver asked gently.
"I don't know what she is to me; a friend? Maybe more..." She looked down at the ground again. "But no, I haven't given up on having a chance with M'gann, not completely at least... What happened with Viv, with Ivy; it just... happened..."
"Why did it though?" Silver asked.
Lina sighed, meeting Silver's gaze again momentarily. "I don't know..." She met Silver's eyes in earnest now. "Maybe I was lonely? Maybe; maybe I just felt like it? Maybe... I love her... I'm not really sure, to be honest." She admitted, looking down at the floor again.
"And... How do you feel about me? I know we don't know each other very well; but, if I were to walk over to you right now and... kiss you, would you want that?" She asked.
Lina met her eyes, looking a little confused. "I... I don't know. Maybe..." She admitted.
"Do you want to try it and see?" Silver asked, a little of a smile on her lips as she got up and walked towards the other woman.
Lina just kept eye contact as she got closer, not moving. Silver took that as permission and moved in closer, touching her arm.
"Wait..." Lina protested, shrinking away a little. "Are you; if you kiss me, are you trying to do to me what you just did to Derick and Tim?" Lina asked, fear in her voice. "Because I don't--"
Silver touched Lina's lips with two fingers, silencing her, then shook her head 'no'. "That only works if I want it to; and no, I'm not trying to do that to you--I don't want to do that to you." She promised, caressing Lina's cheek. "I just... want to kiss you, that's all." She moved in and captured Lina's lips in a kiss that was at first tender, then--as she felt Lina accept the kiss, trust her--passionate. She pressed her body in closer and kissed her fully, without reservation, pressing her against the doorframe.
Lina's hands came, one to her hip, the other to her back, caressing her. Silver stopped the kiss, rested her forehead on Lina's forehead, and smiled. "I guess you did want me to kiss you after all..." She observed softly.
"...I guess so..." Lina admitted back, just as softly; very evidently caught in her eyes.
"We should talk, get to know each other a little better, don't you think?" She offered.
"Um, okay... Silver?" Lina asked as Silver stepped back and took her hand in hers.
"Yes?" Silver asked as she led Lina over to the bed.
"Why are you doing this? I mean, aren't you... upset? Mad at me for what I did?" She asked.
Silver shook her head a little. "No; well, maybe just a little at first. But only just a little, and the feeling passed quickly enough. Mostly, I'm curious, and... well, interested in finding out more about you."
"Why?" Lina asked, sitting down on the bed with Silver.
"Because Ivy--Viv--she loves you... I don't think she's ever stopped. Did you know, since I've been with her, I don't think I've ever once seen her even notice another woman--sexually, romantically--except for you... Well, and the M'gann thing; but I'm not sure any of us were in our right minds for that--oh, and Nina and Shelley that one time. But even that; she couldn't stand sharing me apparently. She still doesn't want to... but, for you... I think she just might be convinced to make an exception?"
"You mean... a threesome? You'd be okay with that?" Lina asked a little skeptically.
"Oh, more than okay, honestly." She smiled, moving forward to touch Lina's face flirtingly. "If we end up being compatible of course... I think I'd love it, in fact. You wouldn't know this, but... I've always been a bit of hedonist, I have to admit." She explained, moving forwards and kissing Lina again, before backing away just a little and smiling to her. "But that's for later. I'm in no rush, and you and Ivy both have a lot to figure out before it could get to that point, don't you think? I just... wanted to let you know... that I'd definitely be open to it, if it did happen... I love her Lina, and she loves you... She loves me too of course, intensely so, but I love her just as much, and that's more than enough to want her to be with both of the women she loves... If it's possible, of course..." She admitted. "You might end up with M'gann after all, right?"
"Right..." Lina smiled, looking a little lost, but also rather charmed too apparently--which pleased Silver allot.
"So... I was thinking, for now, we should just talk; get to know one another? Maybe... be friends?" She offered hopefully.
Lina smiled very genuinely at that; clearly touched. "I think I'd like that... A lot actually."
Silver smiled back and ran her hand though Lina's hair a little, looking into her eyes. "Officially friends then." She concluded, dropping her hand just a little self-consciously. Honestly, she'd been a little tempted to go for it and see if she could get Lina to go further with her for a moment there, but of course she knew that would have been a bad idea for a lot of reasons.
Lina smiled and moved in to kiss her. Silver was a little surprised, but went with it without missing a beat. "Friends, and... maybe more one day." Lina corrected with a little of a shy yet very charming smile.
"I like that." Silver smiled back, delighted and feeling happy; feeling like she'd definitely done the right thing to reach out to Lina like this. She was definitely starting to like her a lot, and they definitely seemed like they'd be compatible... And... also, she thought she was very definitely starting to see why Ivy had fallen so hard for her back then too... There was just something so -compelling- about her, wasn't there?
"Silver?" Lina asked.
"Yeah?" Silver asked.
"Just... um, thanks. For in the hall with Derick, and... um, for this too. I was... I was really dreading... I thought I might have really messed things up, you know? With Ivy... with you... with all of this. I don't know -what- M'gann will think when she finds out I did that... I don't... I don't think I've been handling it all that well. This helped. A lot I think..." She admitted with a grateful smile.
Silver smiled back, happy. "Of course. You know, actually... I think you kissing Ivy like that; I think it actually helped us too. I think Ivy... believes in me more now. Now that she knows... that I'm not ever going to leave her--not over anything." She smiled. "But especially not for falling in love with someone as amazing as you are."
Lina regarded her in a little bit of wonder for a moment, then smiled a little shyly. "You know, that's... actually very beautiful..." She admitted.
"I think so to..." Silver answered.
"Um, Silver, can I ask... Viv... Ivy I mean..." She started to say.
"No, you can call her Viv; I'm sure she wouldn't mind that at all..." Silver corrected.
"Yeah, okay... I guess, I just thought she probably changed her name like that to... make a statement, you know?" Lina asked.
"I'm sure she did... huh, maybe I should too, come to think of it. Do you think she'd like that?" She asked, feeling a little playful.
"Well, you could. What would you change it to though?" Lina asked.
"Mmm... Lily maybe? ...There are some on the property by the pool; Madonna lilies. White to match my hair. Ivy and I were out there together one day, and she told me they reminded her of me... I think she'd like that actually, you know?" Silver considered. She hadn't really thought she'd do it at first, but now she was thinking maybe she would...?
Lina smiled a little at that. "You're in love all right." She observed. "Um, anyway, what I was going to ask was... can you tell me about her? About Ivy? I mean... I knew Viv Isley really well, or I thought I did at least... but I really don't know as much as I'd like to about the woman she's become, you know?"
Silver smiled at that, hardly believing her good luck. "Huh. How about we make a deal then? I'll tell you about Ivy... if you tell me about Viv?"
Lina smiled at that. "Deal." She agreed.
Silver hummed a little, delighted to be able to talk about her favorite topic. "Good, I'll go first then... Mmm, Ivy... Well, she's... She's like my very own secret--one that no one else knows but me. But I guess it's always like that when you fall in love, isn't it?" She considered. "But it's true anyway, and it's more true the more in love you are, isn't it?" She realized she actually was finding it hard to think of this, to think about Ivy, in words somehow; when, for her, it seemed so much just about feelings and things that words just couldn't touch. "...So um, despite what she--what we do, with our crusade of conscience and everything... at heart, she's definitely a lover not a fighter I think... I know I've never been with anyone else who seemed to come so very alive when I'm with them... I see it in her eyes when I'm with her--that there's nowhere else she'd rather be, and nothing she'd rather be doing... She's so beautiful, you know--at heart, not just to look at or to touch... When we're together, when we make love... there are just no words to describe it." She sighed and felt hot inside, looking over into Lina's eyes and seeing her words were making them both feel it. She smiled. "Um, right, well, anyway... You probably already know how passionate and driven she is about our cause; about saving and protecting the green. It's heroic, and so is she... but she can also be cruel when she needs to be, or when she's hurt perhaps... I think maybe you know that too... But then, we can all be cruel when we're hurt, can't we?"
"Has she ever been cruel to you?" Lina asked.
"Mm? To me? Oh, I don't know..." Silver answered honestly. "In a way, perhaps a little... If she has though, I've never been hurt by it. And actually, if you want to know what my heart thinks on the subject, it's that's that she's always been... perfect to me. Or my definition of perfect anyway. I'm sure I would have fallen in love with her even if she hadn't made me hers like she had--but I don't regret it happening like that. The truth is... I liked it. I liked being hers that way, maybe more than I'd like to admit sometimes. And of course, in my heart where it counts, I still am hers. I'm hers and she's mine right back. And I think that's been true almost from the start too, honestly... When we met, when we danced, I think I started to fall in love for her even then. Something about the way our eyes met.. And then we kissed and I was hers, just hers. And I wanted her so much, but at first she was so closed off to me, you know? I could tell, she'd been hurt by love, that she had trouble opening up; had trouble trusting... She didn't want to be hurt like that again--and really, anyone who's ever had a broken heart can understand that, can't they? But when I won her over, she was... just perfect. So completely attentive and devoted as a lover, and as a friend. She always listened, made me feel so special and beautiful and loved... Being with her, it's like... paradise on Earth, really..."
Lina smiled softly at that. "Paradise on Earth, huh?" She ran a hand through her hair a little. "Sounds nice..."
"Mm. That's a loaded observation if I've ever heard one." Silver replied.
Lina smiled a little at that. "Very observant." She answered a little ruefully. "Somehow, I think you'd make a pretty decent attorney if you wanted to be."
Silver smiled. "Well, that's never going to happen." She replied playfully. "I am a serial killer and an eco-terrorist after all. Or at least that's how most legal systems in the world would see it. It'd kind of be a bad match, don't you think?"
"That's true." Lina agreed.
"So... 'loaded observation'?" Silver gently pressed.
Lina sighed. "It's just... I can remember feeling like that. Like paradise on Earth in a bed, making love... Only, they aren't my memories--aren't my feelings... Not originally at least."
"You've never had that feeling on your own then." Silver observed. "But you remember it, and you want it again... That must be very... Well, I suppose our lives have become slightly Shakespearean of late, haven't they? Not much in the way of the comedies, of course. Much more of the dramas. True love, hearts divided, hearts denied, tragedy, reversals... Even something of our own midsummer-nightâ€™s dream, now that I think about it."
"Well, I suppose that's true." Lina acceded.
"So... not with Derick then? I'd thought, well, weren't you in love once?" Silver asked delicately.
Lina shook her head. "I seriously didn't even know what love was, I think..." She admitted. "Not like this... I just... I liked him, liked being with him, liked how it made me feel... He... he could make me feel really special--like anything was possible... but the truth was, I didn't even know what could be possible at all." She smiled a little fondly. "We were friends with benefits, or not much more than that really. And I'm sure people make lives on less than what was there for us all the time. I mean, it was thrilling and good and I thought it was a dream come true. We made a difference for people--we changed people's lives--for the better. But when it came down to it, after Ivy kissed me... After... I would have killed him and not even felt bad about it. I know I would have. It makes me a little disgusted with myself to think about it, honestly..." She confessed. "No, I never loved him... Not the way you love Ivy at least. Not the way I feel... Not the way I feel now. Now, it's like... everything really could be perfect, if I could just have that with someone who loved me back... I don't have the words... Did you ever have anything like what you have with Ivy before you, um, before you met her?"
"I think I came close a few times. Enough to kind of drive me a little nuts sometimes, really... It never worked out in the end though, no matter how much I wanted it to. So I might know something of what you're going through, actually..." Silver smiled a little. "But no, I never truly had that feeling... Like everything was perfect--better than perfect even--even if it might not really be in a way you could rationally describe it... I never had that until Ivy. Not like it could really be for keeps. Not with anyone else. And, believe me, I enjoyed myself greatly looking..." She smiled. "But you're right, there's no comparing being fully in love to it's shadow, is there?" She spoke softly.
"No, there's really not..." Lina agreed, falling silent.
Silver regarded her silence for a few moments, then moved in and caressed then cupped her cheek, nudging her head up and over a little so their eyes met again. She smiled to her and Lina smiled a little back. "You'll find it. Maybe with M'gann... Maybe with me and Ivy... Maybe with someone else altogether--but it will happen. And until it does, I promise, I'll be there for you, okay?" She asked softly.
Lina smiled just a little and moved in to kiss her, just briefly. "For what it's worth... I don't think I'd have any trouble falling in love with you." She admitted it a little shyly, but with manifest sincerity.
Silver touched her own lips with two fingers and smiled. "Promises, promises." She replied playfully. "And what a promise." She joked. "No wonder Ivy fell so hard for you."
"Thanks... I think." Lina replied, absently tucking some of her hair behind an ear.
Silver smiled in a way she was sure was a little enigmatic, deciding it was time to move on. "So, Lina, new friend and possible future lover of mine... In college; you and Vivian Isley..." She gently pushed Lina down onto her back and lay beside her, snuggling up to her. "Tell me everything."

Lina sighed, putting her arms around Silver, apparently accepting this intimacy as Silver had been sure she would. Lina clearly needed someone to take the lead right now, make her feel safe, even if it was just for a little while. "Well, okay... I met her the first week, freshman year. I was crashing with a friend of my mother's--it was a ways from campus and she had three kids. It was cramped, so I was looking for a place to live near campus; something cheap, preferably. I met Viv getting espresso; well, she was getting tea. We talked--she needed a roommate to help her with the rent--I volunteered. And I guess, it just sort of happened; we were, like, instant best friends. We had a lot in common I guess..."
"Like what?" Silver asked curiously, paying rapt attention, though still fascinated with Lina's hair also.
"Well, we were both activists for one thing. I was all about social causes; justice, human rights. Viv, of course, was all about saving the planet. It wasn't a problem though; out of solidarity, we both went to each other's events. She was really easy going about it with me; the way she used to look at me..."
"She fell in love with you." Silver supplied, easily picturing Ivy like that somehow; hung up on a girl. It was such a darling image.
"Yeah... I guess so. I was... completely oblivious to it of course, up until she told me junior year. I mean, I knew she was gay of course--around one out of two people are they say--so it's not like... I guess I just never thought she felt that way about me." She confessed. "I did know -something- was up though. When I first moved in with her, she was dating, um, the normal amount I guess. She brought girls home with her sometimes--like that. Though it never seemed to last long. She wasn't really what you'd call a player or anything, just, I guess, she had trouble opening up to people, and I guess that just meant her relationships didn't last long. She got really frustrated about that sometimes, I remember. One time in fact she sort of poured her heart out about it to me, even though I could tell doing that was hard for her. But that whole year to that point, she never went out with anyone, and she seemed to want to spend as much time with me as possible. At first, I'd been fine with that--I'd been having boy troubles and I needed the distraction. But then I met a new boy, Brannon Marquez, and I fell for him, hard... The day after I told Viv about him, she took me to lunch and... told me how she felt about me."
"It went badly?" Silver asked.
"No, she was... She was really sad; heartbroken I guess... She'd kind of worked it up in her head that maybe I felt the same way somehow because of how close we'd gotten... but she didn't react badly or anything. She said she still wanted to be friends... and we tried; or, I guess if I'm honest, she tried more than I did. I just... didn't know what to... I guess, I felt guilty about hurting her like that. I didn't want to hurt her any more than that, and I kept imagining everything I did could be leading her on or something. Then she met Dr. Quinn, senior year--she was the new psychology professor, and Ivy fell for her in a major way."
"Dr. Quinn? I've never heard that name before. Well, besides the one Jane Seymour played of course. What happened?" Silver asked, trying to hide the urgency in her voice. It just stuck her again, how little she knew about Ivy. And she hated not knowing.
"Well, Viv started spending all of her time with her of course... I was involved with Brannon, and we sort of drifted apart. She moved out, start of second semester; moved in with Hailey."
"Hailey Quinn. Huh... Tell me about her." Silver prompted.
"Um, okay... Well, she was young; only a year or two older than us--an honest to goodness genius apparently. Graduated college the first time at fifteen. Had like, three different degrees. And on top of that she was completely hot; even I could've told you that much. Blonde, athletic looking, blue eyes, beautiful, and so much just... presence... I don't think Ivy even had a chance, you know? The way Hailey was, I'm not sure even I would have had a chance if she'd turned that focus of hers on me. When she talked in class, you just... paid attention, you know? She could draw you in, get you wrapped up in what she was saying so easily. I'm convinced she could have started a cult, no problems... I never really liked her though, to be honest. I was probably the only one. There was just something... kind of off about her."
"Maybe you were jealous?" Silver put forwards.
"Mm, maybe." Lina admitted.
"Is that what made you two lose touch? That you hated her new girlfriend?" Silver asked, smiling at the thought.
"Mm? Oh, no; I never told her I didn't like Hailey. I figured, you know, I just wanted her to be happy..."
Silver smiled a little fondly at that. "Thanks... for telling me those things." She offered softly.
She got up and sat back on her knees, offering Lina a hand up. Lina took it and moved forwards and hugged Silver, which was a pleasant surprise. "You know... I'm glad Viv met you. I'm glad you found each other, no matter how it happened."
Silver kissed Lina's forehead. "Me too. And I'm glad you kissed her... because now we're friends..." She ran a hand through Lina's hair fondly, secretly hoping things with her and M'gann didn't work out and Lina ended up with her and Ivy... Somehow, she really liked the idea of that a lot now. "So, come with me? We should go join the others. Hopefully... hopefully M'gann will be back soon with good news?"
Lina sat back on the bed and their eyes met again. Silver saw storm clouds there. "What's wrong?" Silver asked.
Lina smiled a little. "Nothing. It's just... I'm worried about her, and I love her. And it just... it hurts so much, you know? Not being with her, worrying about her out there... doing what she's doing. I want her so much... but I'll probably never have her." Lina explained. "But at the same time, I want so much for her to find love--find peace and joy again--even if it's not with me... It's... It's kind of hard to sort out everything I'm feeling these days, that's all. Sometimes I'm not even sure if what I'm feeling really are my feelings or not, or whether they're one of the other sets of feelings I have inside me... Oh, I know how to keep them separate if I want to... but sometimes it's just so tempting not to..."
"Well, I can't say I know what that's like, but I think I'm getting to know you pretty well, even if we've just known each other a very short time... I think you'll figure it out. I think, somehow... it'll turn out for the best. It will... you'll see. Because you'll make sure it will, and because you're not in this alone, alright?" She offered softly, giving her another hug.
She held her like that for a little while longer, then, once Lina was feeling in better sorts, they went to go join the others in the lawn.
Silver was intent on asking Ivy about her past now, particularly about Dr. Hailey Quinn. She also found herself feeling increasingly protective of Lina, and really wanting to make things better for her. Even though she wasn't sure how to do that. If Lina really did love M'gann as much as it seemed like she did, would even sharing her relationship with Ivy with her be enough? Maybe it wouldn't be to start out... but over time, it could be, right? ...If Lina even really wanted that. If Ivy did.
She knew from experience, keeping more than one lover at once wasn't easy, and it tended to get harder the longer it went on. Though she certainly did remember enjoying the challenge. Still, this was different. It was true love and everything. She wasn't completely sure she was even doing the right thing. If she was taking too much of a risk. She knew she hardly had a past full of gleaming examples of making responsible choices for herself when it came to her love life, or of thinking through the consequences on that front either. Ivy was probably the best example of that of all, come to think of it. But then, she figured, if Ivy didn't want her making her own decisions like this, she never should have freed her. And the idea of having both Ivy and Lina was just so tempting...
And it wasn't just because Lina was a part of Ivy's past that Silver wanted to get to know anymore, she also kind of... felt herself falling for Lina too... Wanting to be with her. It really was no mystery to her why Ivy had fallen in love with her. Once you saw her smile to you once, you couldn't really help wanting her to do it again. She was just that kind of person. You couldn't help caring about her, because she just got to you--stole into your heart without even trying.
--- IVY ---
When she'd gotten Silver's call, Ivy had been sitting with Shelley and Nina, helping Shelley, giving her what strength she could offer to bring her out of her regenerative sleep. A local public radio news program was playing in the background, covering the Luthor Corp 'act of domestic terrorism' so she'd hear if anything newsworthy happened relating to M'gann. Raul and Gustav were off watering and tending plants; which, normally, Shelley would do, sometimes with Nina. Talia and Lilhy were having a picnic lunch nearby, apparently utterly absorbed in one another. Ivy had been absently watching them, finding it soothing how in love they were. The idea that she actually... had friends again. Besides maybe her sister, Lina had been the only actual friend she'd ever had before now. But she and Talia, they really seemed to have hit it off. They both spoke the same language, believed very similar things, and wanted the same things in life. She found it so easy to talk with her, like she didn't have to be on her guard at all. She had that with Silver of course, but that was different, they were in love. Silver could talk about purple elephants colonizing the moon and Ivy was sure she'd find it the most interesting thing in the world just because Silver was the one saying it. Or, in other words, Ivy had very little objectivity where Silver was concerned. It was nice to just meet someone, no expectations or strings attached, and just strike up a friendship with them because you both just genuinely liked the other person.
Since Lina had rejected her, and then how things had gone with Hailey, Ivy had felt her world, at least as it pertained to human society, getting smaller and smaller, her mission becoming all important to her. Then she'd met Silver, and Silver had just slipped inside her heart and taken it like it had been hers all along, nothing Ivy had been able to do about it, nothing she'd wanted to do about it. And slowly, she'd felt her heart really start to come alive again, trust again. Believe she could have someone in her life, really in her life, again. She'd given Silver her choice and she'd chosen her. And now, she found herself with a... a circle of friends. Ones who chose to be with her, to be on her side, and help her fight the fight she knew she had to fight. She'd never had anything like that in her life before. It was going to take some getting used to, but... in a good way.
As she was thinking that, Derick Grayson walked out on the lawn and Ivy felt a little of a chill go through her. She hadn't been playing when she'd talked about killing him to Silver. She visualized him kicking Silver like he had and she was furious with him; wanted to beat him, savagely, then kill him. The fact that he was Silver's former lover also didn't help matters either. She'd told Silver she wouldn't hurt him; and Silver had been right, he might very well prove useful. Besides which, she considered, he was also Talia's friend too, wasn't he? She didn't want to risk losing that. She considered getting up and threatening him at least, telling him that if he even tried to hurt Silver again, she'd tear him apart with her bare hands... but then she realized she might do that anyway if she got that close to him right now; so, instead she decided to ignore him for now and focus on helping Shelley.
"Hi... you must be Vivian?" Derick questioned, crouching down next to her.
She looked into his eyes, and was a little surprised. Silver had been right; they were kind eyes, weren't they? She sighed. "Call me Ivy. Could you go, um, talk with Talia or something? I'm busy." She told him, looking back down at Shelley and Nina, doing her best to pretend he wasn't there.
"...Uh, alright, whatever you want." He replied agreeably, sounding a little confused.
She watched him walking over to Talia and Lilhy. She kind of hated him more now. Why did he have to be seemingly a genuinely nice person? If he'd been an ass, then she might have had an excuse to dispose of him. She looked away, back to Shelley and decided to just forget about it for now and focus on Shelley. She didn't really want to think about what Silver might be talking about with Lina. She'd been determinedly not thinking about it, actually. And especially not thinking about what it had felt like when Lina had... kissed her like that. She shivered a little as the sensory memory went through her again and she stubbornly tried to block out the feelings that came with it. She poured herself into helping Shelley. She was actually getting worried that she wasn't waking up yet, so she tried just that much more to reach her.
A teenage boy came out and walked over to Talia, Lilhy, and Derick. Robin, Timothy Drake, she considered without much interest, going back to her patient. Time and the world around her that her eyes and ears could see and hear just seemed to fade away as she allowed her mind to fall into the green. That place, that world inside the world, that meant so very much to her; in a way she could never really describe to anyone else. There, she felt Silver like a beacon. The only other one like her in the world (or at least the only one she got along with); the only other who could... really understand what she understood about this. Silver knew what she was doing with Shelley, Ivy could tell, and even from where she was inside the house, Silver gave her her support and help in this. And it was so comforting to have that, that tether. She'd always been a little scared of getting lost and not wanting to come back when she did this sort of thing. But with Silver there, she didn't worry anymore. Ivy dove down deep, deep into the heart of Shelley Lanning. She found her, as though wrapped in a bed of vines and roots and leaves and flowers. Sleeping, wounded, protecting herself. The green protecting her, fiercely too. Ivy smiled, and touched the cocoon, felt it recognize her again. She'd been here before, but had recognized that the cocoon was necessary and had left it in place. Now though, she sensed Shelley was stronger; strong enough to wake and thrive. She felt excitement at this. What would Shelley be? What had she become? Something new and wonderful, Ivy could tell. She caressed the cocoon and felt it's trust in her--the green's complete trust in her--love for her. She told the cocoon that it was time to let go, and it believed her without reservation. It sang to her as it unfurled itself as a flower in sunlight and reveled Shelley at its center. Ivy went to her, touched her, told her it was time to wake; that she would be here with her, and not let any harm come to her. Shelley too, believed her with no reservations. This was her power; her great and terrible responsibility. That something so... innocent and vulnerable and great and vast should love and trust her so completely, believe in her so much yet expect nothing of her in return; just so happy for her existence, her presence. And that was the thing of it--all the pressure she felt to save all this? She knew that was only her own, and not from the green itself. The green... didn't even consider reality in terms like that. That was why Ivy felt so completely compelled to protect it anyway, because love and trust like that deserved more than anything to be loved and protected fiercely in return.
Shelley hugged her and smiled to her and told her thank you and then... woke up. Ivy snapped back to the world of sights and sounds and opened her eyes and looked down and saw Shelley meeting her gaze, a smile on her newly formed face. She was green and growing; had flowers growing in her hair and smelled of moss and grass and flowers. "Ivy... Thank you..." She offered, as though learning to talk all over again.
"You're welcome..." Ivy swallowed, feeling emotional.
Lilhy came over, followed by Talia, Derick, and Timothy.
Shelley looked over at Nina, lying next to her, unconscious. "What... happened...?" She asked softly, caressing her lover's face. She shook her head in frustration and then met Ivy's eyes again with determination. "What... happened to her?" She asked again in a newly steady voice that sounded more like her own.
"...I'm not sure, exactly. It happened while you two were... making love, with M'gann... and Lina." Ivy explained. "M'gann; she lost control somehow, it seems." She told her softly.
"What about Lina and M'gann then? Are they...?" She looked over and saw Silver and Lina walking into the back yard. Silver saw her and smiled. Lina saw her and broke into a run, dropping onto the ground and hugging her.
"You're alright." Lina spoke softly, tears falling down her cheeks. "I'm so glad."
"Lina." Shelley replied softly, closing her eyes and hugging Lina happily.
Silver came over by Ivy and sat down next to her, laying her head on her shoulder. Ivy held her to her and kissed her gently, the two of them smiling at the scene in front of them.
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