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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 9: WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
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--- SILVER ---
A cell phone rang and disturbed their peaceful snuggling. Ivy got up and Silver reluctantly let her out of her arms, feeling the lack of her immediately and wishing she could have Ivy to herself always. "Mmnnn." She whined a little and sat up, her eyes focused on Ivy; every movement, she was fascinated.
"Yes?" Ivy answered the phone while sitting on the edge of the bed.
Silver got up and followed her lover, snuggling up to her back and holding her free hand.
"Good. Good job, Raul. You and your lover come home, or whatever; take the rest of the day together, okay?" She told their maid softly.
After waiting for Raul's response, Ivy hung up the phone and Silver started kissing her neck and shoulder.
"Mmm, do that as much as you want." Ivy asked, turning around in her arms and kissing her.
"It's done then? Marsy?" Silver asked after the kiss broke.
"Mm." Ivy pushed her back onto her back and was over her. "Yes. Nothing we can do now but wait and hope it goes well." Ivy kissed her again.
Silver responded, but felt a little conflicted.
"What is it?" Ivy asked, sensing something wasn't quite right.
"I..." Silver looked into Ivy's eyes.
"Tell me. Whatever it is, it's okay." She comforted.
"I just didn't know it would feel like this." She admitted. "Now that... now that it's real. We're really going to kill, murder, all those people." She told.
"We are." Ivy told her honestly. "How... how does that make you feel?" She asked.
"...Not great. Kind of... nervous... I'm not sure I'm cut out for this, to tell you the truth..." She admitted softly. "I want to be, for you, but..."
"I can guess..." Ivy answered softly, laying her head on Silver's shoulder and snuggling up to her. "I used to feel that way, or close to it, when I started all this, you know..." She related softly.
"...Not anymore?" Silver asked.
"No. No, not anymore." Ivy admitted. "I suppose... I suppose I've gotten used to it... It even feels... satisfying."
Silver played her hand through Ivy's hair, stroked her back, just loved the feel of her. "Do you think I'll start to feel that way?" She asked.
"Maybe." Ivy answered, kissing her neck. "Do you want to feel that way?"
"I just want to be in love with you, honestly. To have that though, I know I need to be with you, all the way... This is just the price..." Silver told. "I have to be a murderer."
"They're the murderers, Silver. I just stop them." Ivy answered that a little coldly.
"And I love you for it." Silver replied softly, kissing Ivy's head.
"Then why..." Ivy got up a little so she was looking into Silver's eyes with a fierce sort of emotion there. The look seemed to fade away though and Ivy sighed. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." Silver replied. "It was kind of sexy, actually."
Ivy laughed just a little or a sad laugh. "You know I won't ever stop." She told, looking at Silver seriously. "Not unless I win or I die, at least."
"I know." Silver answered.
"I thought you understood." Ivy looked at her; a look of hurt and betrayal coming to her face a little before she hid it.
"Believe me, I do. I really do..." Silver closed her eyes. "I hate them, all of them, but... I guess... I guess I just realized... that I'm scared. Scared for you, scared for me... scared of I'm not even sure what... Maybe I'm just not as strong as you." She admitted, opening her eyes and bringing a hand up to caress Ivy's face.
Ivy smiled softly down at her. "You don't need to be." She answered gently. "You don't have to be involved with that part of things anymore, not if you don't want to be. You... you don't even have to know about it... You can just be my lover, if... if that's what you want." Ivy offered.
"...What if I want to be your wife?" Silver asked softly.
Ivy just looked at her silently a moment, then bent in to kiss her. "Are you asking me to marry you?" Ivy asked her softly.
"I suppose I am, yes." Silver answered, looking into her lover's eyes, feeling such trust and belonging with this woman.
"Then... yeah. Yes, I'll marry you, of course I will." Ivy replied happily, a smile on her face.
"When?" Silver asked.
"When?" Ivy considered. "At the first opportunity?" She offered questioningly.
"Alright then." Silver was satisfied with that. She felt more secure in herself too somehow. She'd always wanted to marry, she just hadn't found her right person. Now she had. "Ivy?"
"Yes?" Ivy asked softly, having started kissing Silver's chin and neck again.
"I don't want to not be a part of any part of your life." She told softly.
"...What do you mean?" Ivy asked, looking into her eyes again.
"I mean, even if it... even if it scares me, even if it's hard to face, even if I have to feel like this for a while... I want to help you, with everything. I'll get used to it, right? You did, so... so I will too. I mean, you're right, and I can't stand how it feels--all the suffering and disease and death out there, in the green, and... and humans do that, cause that. I want it to stop; I want that so much I feel like I'd do almost -anything-, anything at all to... It's just... I'll... I'll get used to it, right? You'll help me?" She asked softly, feeling a lot better for having confessed her feelings out loud.
"Of course I will, love..." Ivy kissed her. "Of... of course I will." Ivy looked into her eyes meaningfully. "I'm proud of you." She told her softly. "I love you so much; I'm just... I'm so grateful... So grateful you love me back." Ivy spoke with raw honestly. "I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't..."
Silver moved up and kissed her, rolled her over so Ivy was under her and started kissing her. "You know we should probably go and check on M'gann, don't you?" She told her regretfully. "We... we can't leave that... What happened with her, we can't leave that in the air. It's... she's just too dangerous not to know where she stands."
Ivy sighed. "You're right, of course. You'd be alright with it? Us marrying her too?"
"Of course. I mean,... probably. I feel it feels kind of... what happened with her, it's not... Something's... off about it... but... yes, I'd be willing to. It makes sense, doesn't it?" She offered. "And it's not as though having someone that... intensely attractive sharing our bed would be a hardship, would it? We should just... see where we stand. You know she could be a huge help to us."
"That's probably putting it mildly." Ivy agreed. "When I think how much progress we could make with that kind of... power..."
Silver smiled softly. "We'd make a better world..." She told her, secretly just really happy that Ivy had used the word 'we' like that; like it was just a fact for her, that they were in this together.
"We'd do it much faster." Ivy agreed. "I just... I can't help it; I... hate... the idea of sharing you." Ivy looked up into her eyes, looking a little at a loss for what to say. "When it comes to you, I'm surprisingly possessive, I'm finding out."
Silver smiled. "I can tell that, yes... but, I actually like that you feel that way about me somehow." She admitted. "If it were someone else, I don't think I would, but with you..." She just smiled fondly.
"That's nice to know... Do you... feel that way in return?" Ivy asked hopefully.
"...Some." Silver told her honestly. "Probably not as much. I wouldn't mind us having other lovers, as long as I knew you were still mine."
"And... if I cheated on you with some other woman?" Ivy asked teasingly.
Silver closed her eyes, but didn't answer right away. "It would depend on the circumstance I guess, but ...I'd probably be hurt." She finally answered, opening her eyes and meeting Ivy's gaze. "But I don't believe you'd do that." She smiled. "I've gotten to know you pretty well, you know."
Ivy kissed her, pulling Silver down closer to her. "I do know. And you're right, I... I never want to hurt you; not even in a small way, let alone something like that... I'm glad you feel that way though..."
"...But you wish I felt even more, felt as intensely as you?" Silver ventured.
"Mm, I suppose I do." She admitted. "I'll just have to work on it."
"On me, you mean?" Silver teased.
"Something like that..." Ivy answered seductively, kissing her softly again.
Silver felt her heart flutter a little in her chest. "I very much want to have you right now..." She told Ivy.
"Mm, and I very much want you to have me, any time at all." Ivy told her. "...But you're right, we should go and check on M'gann..."
Silver just stared intently into Ivy's eyes some moments longer, then closed her eyes and sat up, offering Ivy a hand to help her up. "Let's go then." She offered softly, stroking Ivy's hair a little before getting up from the bed; Ivy following, them still holding hands.
They got dressed first, just in silk bed-wear, and went downstairs together, holding hands and smiling to one another. Silver was thinking about how to broach the idea of children with Ivy. She couldn't remember much from when M'gann bonded them for some reason, so she didn't really know how Ivy would feel about it. But she wanted to have them. It was probably too soon to bring it up though; and Silver, despite showing such confidence, still wasn't completely sure it was going to work with Ivy. She wanted it to, badly. She could hardly even imagine her life anymore without Ivy there next to her, and she was willing to do just about anything, she thought, to keep her. Whatever that said about her, whatever the consequences. She was in love, she couldn't make herself not be, nor did she want to. And she was behind Ivy's cause--felt it was her cause now too in fact; believed it was absolutely right. It was just... she had a bad feeling about it all for some reason. She just hoped she was imagining things.
And she really did hope Ivy wanted kids. She didn't think she could bring herself to leave Ivy over it if Ivy didn't want them, but... she did really want them. At some point. And since it was pretty apparent Ivy was it for her--her happily ever after hopefully--then it stood to reason if she was ever going to have them, it would be with Ivy.
They looked through the rooms, trying to find M'gann. In Shelley and Nina's room, they found... "Lina?" Ivy asked.
--- CATALINA ---
Lina looked up at them. "Oh... hi Viv. Silver..." She spoke, looking at them warily. She'd gotten Nina untangled from... what was left of Shelley. Covered the body with a blanket. She'd been just sitting there with Nina, stroking her hair and face and arms a little, trying to get her to wake up. Despite how it all happened, Lina found she cared a great deal about Nina, as she would for Shelley of course, if she were still alive. She thought someone should be there for her.
"What on Earth happened?" Silver asked, hurrying into the room and getting onto the bed to look at Nina.
Viv followed behind, coming up to the bed and sitting on the edge of it. She looked at the body on the bed, covered in a blanket. "Lina..." Viv started.
Lina looked over to where Shelley's body was. "Shelley. She's dead." Lina explained.
"Oh, no..." Silver started crying and Viv went to comfort her, taking her in her arms.
"What happened here?" Viv asked her, no judgments, just solemn... trusting, concern.
"She was... mind-drunk." She told them. "Derick, Tim, and the others came to find me. M'gann stopped them. She used her powers to make them stop. I killed Jean-Paul when he tried to kill M'gann... I killed him..." She hugged herself a little. "It felt so right; to protect her, protect you." She looked into Viv's eyes.
"You're free of me, aren't you?" Viv asked. "I can tell..." She assessed a little warily.
"Fuck right I am." Lina shot her an accusing look. "And for the record, I can't fucking -believe- you did that to me!"
Viv just kept looking into her eyes steadily and Lina couldn't read her, not like she used to in school. Silver was looking at her curiously now too. She sighed. "You don't have to worry though, I won't... try to put a stop to your evil, evil plans or anything. I probably wouldn't have tried to in the first place. Not that we're still friends or anything, because we're not, Viv. Not after this. If you'd have just talked to me... trusted me..."
A look of compassion came over Viv's features. "Oh, Lina... If that's true, then... then I'm sorry, for not trusting you... I just felt like I couldn't take chances. It was too important. It -is- too important."
"Ivy, who is this woman?" Silver asked. "What is it between you?"
"I know her from college. She's a vigilante named Tarantula; she was with Nightwing at the benefit, she tried to stop me." Viv told her. "I... she was my best friend, and my first love... Not that she returned my feelings the way I'd wished she would have." She admitted softly.
"Oh." Silver replied. "What happened to Nina and Shelley?" This directed at Lina.
Lina narrowed her eyes at Viv. "You told me to go find Shelley and 'fuck her until she can't talk coherently for you', right? Well, that was nice and all," She answered sarcastically "but it all sort of went downhill from there."
"And why'd you tell her to do that?" Silver asked, a little accusingly.
"...I was... angry, at Nina; because she... because you and she... I wanted to kill her, but I couldn't; I wouldn't do that, so... I guess I thought I'd pay her back by... I wasn't really thinking very clearly right then." She admitted.
Silver kissed Viv then and Lina couldn't help but feeling a little residual jealousy, but she quickly stomped that feeling out inside her. "Right. Well, like I said." Lina continued. "Derick and his friends came in, M'gann stopped them. I didn't know M'gann was here by the way, or what Derick was planning; otherwise, well, fanatical lesbian sex obsessed love-slave that I was, you know I would have told you about it."
"Why didn't you know?" Viv asked.
"Because, genius, I was stupid enough to believe in you. Trust you. Care about you. Even with the evidence they showed me, I couldn't believe you were a murderer; so I left and tried to prove them wrong." Lina told her.
"Nina and Shelley, Lina; what happened to Nina and Shelley." Silver interrupted impatiently.
"...A long story short? I came on to M'gann, she tried to do something in my mind, it didn't work, and she sort of... lost herself to me; to Nina and Shelley too. To our desires. Talia warned her, but M'gann didn't listen. We made love, the four of us... M'gann was... inside us--in our minds--no walls. I know, everything, absolutely everything about her now; about Nina and Shelley too. That's what happened to Nina. It was too much for her. She went into a coma; the only way her mind could save itself, by shutting down. I was a little tougher apparently, and M'gann talked me through it when we woke up; told me how to deal with it. I almost went the same way though..."
"And... Shelley?" Viv asked.
"...It was the green, Viv. You know, 'the green'? Big, huge, quasi-unified mind-scape that you're plugged into and apparently motivates most everything you do?" Lina started to explain. "The power of it, of you; M'gann was overwhelmed by it. She changed into, um, more plant than anything, and apparently, Shelley wanted that too, so..."
"So M'gann tried to give it to her..." Silver realized.
"Yeah. Obviously though, she didn't really know how and Shelley died because of it." Lina concluded, looking Viv in the eyes.
Viv sighed and closed her eyes, letting go of Silver and getting off the bed, going over to Shelley. "Let me see..." She spoke softly.
Lina looked at Silver.
"I can sympathize with what you're going through." Silver told her. "Ivy just let me go today."
"And you're... still with her?" Lina asked, just a little incredulously.
Silver sighed. "I'm in love with her; that my choices are all my own again doesn't change that apparently. I want to be with her... I did kind of want to smack her though." She admitted.
"I know, right?" Lina replied, watching as Viv looked over Shelley, focusing on that and apparently tuning them out.
"So, why did... um, why did you turn her down? Back in college?" Silver asked. "If you were best friends, I mean, she's got to be the most beautiful woman I've ever met... and the way... I would have fallen for her even if she hadn't made me hers first; I'm sure of it."
"I'm straight, Silver. At least until Viv did what she did to me." She answered quietly.
"Really? I'm bi-sexual. Or I was. It probably doesn't matter now. So, um, how did you like being a lesbian then?" Silver asked curiously, apparently fascinated.
"...A lot better than I thought I would, to tell you the truth." She admitted softly, thinking of M'gann.
"Really? You don't... have designs on her, do you?" Silver asked, her voice turning a little cold.
"Viv? No. I'm not even sure I want to be friends with her after what she did." Lina answered softly.
"Who then?" Silver asked.
"...M'gann..." Lina admitted.
"Oh... Where is she, by the way?" Silver asked.
"Talking with Talia about bringing the love of her life back from the dead, I'd imagine." Lina answered.
"...Back from the dead?" Silver asked, perplexed.
"Lazarus pits. They do that, or so I'm told." Lina told, a little bitterly.
"Um, okay... So, who's this Talia person?" Silver asked.
"Bruce Wayne's fiancÃ©. Or she was. She was here with Derick and the others, coming after Ivy for killing him. He was Batman, did you know?" Lina explained.
"Really?" Viv looked over at them. "Huh. You'd think someone who goes around in a cape and a mask trying to stop murders wouldn't have his company paving over wetlands and savagely murdering all of the flora and fauna that live there." She answered bitterly. "Fucking self-righteous bigots. Monsters, all of them." She muttered.
Silver smiled fondly at her and Lina just shook her head in dismay a little. "He was a good man, Viv. It's not his fault he didn't know any better."
"That's debatable." Viv muttered.
"What did you find out about Shelley?" Silver asked Viv.
"Oh, um, it's good. I think I can save her, in fact." Viv smiled to her lover.
"You can? But, she's dead right? She has to be dead. You can't being someone back from the dead, Viv... can you?" Lina asked.
"Normally? Of course not. But dead for a plant isn't the same thing as dead for a human." Viv explained. "Part of her, the human part, is dead, or it probably is; but the plant part is more... dormant. Confused. And malnourished. Can you get me some water for her?" She asked.
"Um, yeah, of course." Lina hurried to get up and fetch the water, eager to help if it was true. "If you're messing with me about this somehow, Viv, so help me..."
She came back with a pitcher of water and she and Silver watched as Viv poured it on Shelley's chest. Then Viv started caressing the roots and humming a melody to Shelley's body. Silver seemed to join in after a bit and Lina wondered about that, but didn't say anything for fear of messing them up.
Soon, miraculously, some new growth started to happen; eventually a flower. Viv and Silver smiled to each other. "It worked." Silver spoke, her face lit up in a smile.
"You were... amazing." Viv told her, reaching over and touching her lover face.
"...Thank you. I just, did what you were doing." Silver replied.
"What -were- you doing?" Lina asked, moving in to touch the green parts of Shelley in wonder. "Is she really; is she really alive though? Or, I mean, is this; is it really Shelley? Or, is it something; like the plant version of a... daughter, I don't know... that you grew out of her?" She asked Viv.
"She's perennial, not annual. She didn't seed herself." Viv smiled softly. "It's her. I can feel her, Lina."
"So can I." Silver concurred. "It's definitely Shelley, Lina. And she's... happy. She was scared before, wasting away, lost... but we found her. She's going to be alright." She informed happily.
Lina felt a weight taken off her. "That's... that's amazing... Thank you." She looked between both of them. "Both of you?"
"Does that mean... we might be friends again?" Viv asked.
Lina looked at her and sighed, smiling a little. "I guess I never could stay mad at you, could I?" She admitted. "Even... even over something like this, I guess." She looked down at her hands and reached over to take Shelley's limp hand in hers. She had to admit, once she looked past the feelings of hurt and betrayal and mistrust she had for Viv, there was... there was love there. A flicker of it at least. Not nearly her feelings for M'gann, but it was love all the same. That part of her wanted to be friends with this woman she'd known so well again... She'd wanted that for a long time; ever since what happened. Ever since she'd turned Viv down all those years ago and they'd drifted apart. She'd regretted that distance since; wishing many times she could have found a way to remain friends with her. Viv had been too hurt though, and she'd pushed her away, and Lina had let her because she didn't want to hurt her any more than she already had.
Viv smiled to her. "Thank you, Lina. I... I promise, you have my trust, okay?" She looked at her.
"Okay." Lina agreed softly. "What about Nina? M'gann said she can't help her; whatever happened last night, she went mind-blind from it. Her telepathy's gone. She said she could have helped her if she still had it, but..."
"I should go find her; M'gann. And this Talia. Can you two stay with Shelley? Take her out into the sun? Get her some more water?" Ivy asked.
"Of course I will." Silver agreed immediately.
"I... I'd rather come with you, to find M'gann. Maybe... maybe I can help?" Lina asked.
"...You're really in love with her?" Viv asked. "M'gann? What about Derick? ...Wait, what happened to him anyway? And the others in this group M'gann stopped?"
Lina closed her eyes and searched her heart. "Yes, I love her Viv. I... want to be with her. Even though I know she probably doesn't want to be with me. I just don't feel that way about Derick; not anymore at least, for whatever reason." She opened her eyes and looked from Silver back to Viv. "And M'gann said she put Derick and Tim to sleep in a room around here somewhere; that they wouldn't wake up until she woke them. She convinced Talia to... defect, I guess; went into her mind and showed her things--promised to help her be free of her father... be with the woman she loved." Lina smiled. "Lot of that going around I guess."
Silver smiled encouragingly to her.
"Lilhy, Jean-Paul's handler, Talia's best friend; she was here with them too. Talia and her; they'd carried on an affair, even though she was going to marry Bruce Wayne. She was scared of her father. They're in another guest room. M'gann got rid of Jean-Paul's body somewhere, I don't know where." She finished explaining.
"Wow." Viv shook her head. "I missed a lot, didn't I?" She concluded.
"Really." Silver repeated.
Viv got up and held her hand out to Lina. "Let's go then." She offered.
Lina smiled to her, a little unsure, and took her hand, getting up.
Silver scooped Shelley up into her arms effortlessly.
"How strong are you two?" Lina asked.
"About three times human." Viv supplied.
"Huh." Lina answered as she and Ivy left. "I guess you got tired of the other girls always beating you in those self-defense classes we took together back at school."
--- M'GANN ---
(A while before)
She floated down the hall, briefly checked in on Derick and Tim, relieved to see they were still (rather cutely) asleep in bed together. She had no idea how long they'd stay that way, what effect what happened last night might have had on them, or how she'd wake them up again. She might just be able to go over and shake them and they'd wake up, or they'd wake up on their own, or her telepathic lock was still in place and they wouldn't wake until she regained her telepathy and unlocked the lock, or they could even be catatonic like Nina. She shivered a little, thinking about what she'd let happen. But she'd have to worry about Derick and Tim later, she had to talk with Talia now.
Artemis was waiting for her.
Down the hall a little farther, she knocked softly on Talia and Lilhy's door.
No answer. It wasn't locked, so she opened the door and peeked in. It was dark inside but she could see perfectly through it of course and saw the couple in bed together. Talia moaned a little and sat up. "What is it? M'gann? Is that you?" Talia asked.
"It's me." M'gann replied. "We need to talk."
"Mm. Be right there." Talia answered. Lilhy was still fast asleep apparently, so Talia slipped out of bed quietly, slipped on a silk robe she'd found in the room, and went out into the hallway with her. "Why do you look like that?" Talia asked. "Like your dead lover?"
M'gann backed her against the wall and held her forearms. "Lazarus pits, Talia. I can bring her back, we can bring her back!" She told urgently. "You'll help me; you will."
"M'gann... Of course. You know I will." Talia answered soothingly. "Just... be at peace; you're hurting me a little."
M'gann, startled, let her go; holding her hands a little shakily to her chest and looking away. "I'm sorry; it's just..."
"Shh, I understand, sweet one." Talia held her in her arms and M'gann relaxed. "I understand."
"Of course you do." M'gann replied softly, backing away a little and touching Talia's face. "We're... we're friends." She smiled.
"Always." Talia answered, kissing her forehead. "...What time is it, anyway?" She asked.
"Nine seventeen." M'gann replied easily. Martians naturally kept perfect time.
"Mm. Something happened, didn't it?" She asked.
"...Understatement." M'gann answered. "Sufficed to say, you were very right last night; I wish I'd have been... I wish I'd have listened."
"Tell me." Talia asked.
"Love? Where are you?" Lilhy's voice came from the room.
Talia moved from the wall and went to the door. "Here." She called back.
Lilhy turned on the light next to the bed and Talia and M'gann walked into the room. Lilhy regarded M'gann warily. "Miss Martian..." She spoke.
"You can call me M'gann." M'gann offered, trying to appear as un-menacing as possible for Lilhy's benefit.
"Alright... M'gann." Lilhy answered as Talia got back into bed and went over and held her. M'gann sat on the side of the bed. "What do you want?"
"She wants my help." Talia supplied. "Her lover is dead. She wants to bring her back."
They talked a while longer, and then there was a knock on the door.
"Yes?" Lilhy asked.
Ivy poked her head in from the hallway. "Hi..." She greeted.
M'gann got up from the bed and went over to hug her, not really able to help herself. Ivy was just... Ivy. "Hi" M'gann greeted a little shyly.
"Hi." Lina greeted her, coming into the room too.
"...Hi Lina." M'gann regarded her a little uncertainly, then went over and hugged her too. Briefly.
"You must be Talia, and Lilhy?" Ivy asked.
"And you must be the infamous Green-Eyes Killer." Talia countered. "I didn't think you'd be... quite so beautiful." She admitted.
Lilhy looked at her a little bothered by this, and tilted her face around and kissed her possessively. "You're mine, remember?" She told her.
Ivy giggled at this. "I like them." She told M'gann approvingly.
"You are very beautiful." Lilhy admitted, her cheeks warming a little.
"Thank you, both." Ivy answered indulgently. (It was a very common reaction.) "But, I think we need to talk. All of us."
"You're right, we do." M'gann agreed, going over to the bed and taking a seat.
Ivy followed and sat so they were in a triangle, M'gann at one point, Ivy another, and Talia and Lilhy the third. Lina looked uncertainly at M'gann. M'gann was a little weary of her, honestly, and the feelings Lina had for her. Lina seemed to sense this though, and so went to sit with Ivy, who looked a little surprised, but happy, at the gesture.
"You two made up then?" She asked them.
"I guess so." Ivy answered, smiling softly to Lina.
Lina wouldn't meet M'gann's eyes. She looked kind of sad in fact, and M'gann felt bad for being the cause. She didn't know how to help though; to make it better. She couldn't change her own heart, obviously. She was for Artemis. She only hoped Lina would understand and be able to move on; to find someone else to love.
"I don't want to marry you, or Silver, Ivy." She told softly. "I was; I wasn't in my right mind when I said that, when we... I was just so lonely, I let myself... But I can bring her back now. I can have Artemis back. You, you understand, don't you? You'll help me?" M'gann insisted. "We, we can be friends, can't we?" She offered.
"Of course we can, and of course I'll help you if I can." Ivy told her. "I know what she means to you."
"What Silver means to you, I think." M'gann answered. "Did you...?" She was almost afraid to ask. She didn't want to hear it if Silver and Ivy had broken up after Ivy freed her from her influence. It would be a bad omen.
"We're still together; she still loves me. You were right. You helped us." Ivy told her. "I'll always be grateful."
M'gann relaxed. "Where is she then?" She asked.
"With Shelley." Lina spoke up. "She isn't dead after all; just... dormant. Viv and Silver were able to bring her back."
"She's still recovering. She needs water and sunlight and soil." Ivy allowed. "And Silver's help." She added fondly.
M'gann smiled brightly at that, laying back onto her back. "Thank goodness..." She spoke, relieved. "I didn't kill her." She closed her eyes and let the feeling wash over her. Nothing was as bad as she'd thought. Everything could be fixed. She could bring Artemis back. She still had friends, good friends--better friends even--and she hadn't killed one of them like she'd thought. She could make everything right. She could... be in love again. She hadn't been wrong to believe in things like that. Maybe... Maybe her people were right; that she had to protect those things more fiercely. But... love, friendship, kindness, gentleness, beauty, softness, a real family, everything she treasured about life--she could still have them. She just had to keep faith in it; be strong, not give up ever again. Even death wasn't the end; wasn't something she couldn't overcome. "Alright." She decided softly. "Alright." She sat back up and looked around at her friends. "So; Marsy, and Luthor, your plan?" M'gann asked.
"We should know by the afternoon." Ivy told her. "Luthor is dangerous though, M'gann. Even to someone like you potentially. We should make sure he's dead before we make any moves towards your and Talia's objectives." Ivy offered. "If he does survive, he will almost certainly retaliate viciously."
M'gann was frustrated by this, but she knew Ivy was right. Kara and Helena, and others she knew, they'd had run-ins with him; they all said he was very dangerous, even though he was only human. "Alright, fine." M'gann agreed resignedly. "But after that; we kill her father, take the pits--no delays." She insisted.
"Of course." Ivy agreed.
"We'll all help." Lina offered a little shyly.
M'gann looked away.
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