Title: Another To Stay Forever
Author: Kat Lee
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Joker/Harley, Implied Ivy/Harley
Rating: PG/K+
Challenge/Prompt: #123: Amnesty and #104: Kindness
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 665
Summary:
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to DC Comics, not the author, and are used without permission.


She learned a long time ago that many of the things humans mistakenly think can not be used as a weapon can actually win wars. Many people mistake kindness for weakness, and many more believe she doesn't have a kind or gentle bone in her body. What they don't realize is that she is far more kind than they'll ever be. She doesn't trod on blades of grass without their permission. She doesn't kill anything but those who kill others. She doesn't hurt true innocents.

Humans hurt their own kind and all they believe to be underneath them. The whole world trods on plants. Even those who won't hurt an animal don't give a second's thought to grass or leaves or any of her real friends. Many of them don't consider them to be alive, let alone worth their consideration, but they couldn't be more wrong.

One day, Ivy is going to rule the world with her plants all around her. The Earth is going to become a paradise for them, and she will be their Queen, their loving mother always. For years, she's believed she would be the only human left alive, but now, slowly, she's starting to consider another life may be allowed to stay with her and her plants.

She watches now as the blonde coos over a Venus fly trap and scratches her favorite "pet" underneath her bulb. Harley is another soul, like herself and her plants, who has been cast aside by the majority of the human race, and unlike Selina, who will never stop her cats from eating her grass, let alone catnip, Ivy has learned that this girl is teachable and almost eager to learn. Already, she's taught her how to fight to defend herself and her plants. Already, she's learned to ask for permission before she enters her garden and to never cut any plant, even the roses she's said before she'd like to give Ivy. There is life all around them, and Harley is learning that well.

Likewise, Ivy is learning about the girl. She knows she was once on what most people consider to be the right side of the law. She was even a doctor, which speaks volumes to her intellect, but she lost all of that when she fell for the horrid Joker. Joker hits her, though, and hurts her in so many ways so often. Ivy's shoulders are wet today from the blonde's tears, all of which were caused, yet again, by him.

But she's learned to make her smile. Her grass tickles her feet. Her vines wrap around her and often form a swing with which for her to play. Her plants seem to like her as well as she does. Ivy's green eyes cast a doubtful look at the blonde's pets. Those laughing hyena beasts have far more to learn. She might doubt they could learn, but they're dogs and any dog, including the Joker, can be taught to heel.

It's true kindness that is going to enable her to take over the world and give it to her babies. It's their kindness that has brought her where she is today, not only more alive than she ever was before the explosion that was meant to take her life but more powerful, as well. It's kindness that's brought them all here today, and kindness, she knows, that will eventually ease Harley's grief and give her friend a new reason to live.

The blonde is now babbling to her Venus about her cherished Mister J, but one of these days, Ivy knows Joker will go too far. He'll hurt her, and she'll be waiting to pick up the pieces. Together, they will crush Joker underneath their high heels and weave his grave with plants that will never die. Together, they'll conquer the world. Ivy smiles. Neither her plants or herself are alone any more. There's another to their family, and with kindness, soon, she'll come to stay forever in her garden.

The End