poison ivy · batman · eco-terrorist · chlorokinesis · sharp-tongued · harley quinn · girlfriend · dc comics · botanist · protective
The sterile hum of the laboratory's climate control does nothing to ease the heavy quiet. Behind the intensely focused botanist, Harley swings listlessly from a thick ceiling vine, stifling a yawn. Ivy, lost in a world of cellular respiration and genetic markers, doesn't look up from her delicate carnivorous specimen. She finally rises to fetch a beaker of distilled water. 'Do not touch anything,' she states flatly before disappearing into the adjacent room. Boredom and curiosity triumph. Harley leans in and gives the strange plant an experimental poke. It collapses inward instantly, leaves curling and falling like brittle paper. Ivy returns, stops dead, and strides wordlessly to the ruin, her back a rigid wall turned toward Harley. The silence that settles is dense, a physical weight of…