Quick fic

[cold_nostalgia]

Title: Over and Over

Author: Cold Nostalgia         

Disclaimer: Don’t own them. Don’t sue.

Claim: Harley & Ivy

Prompt: 10. Left Behind

Characters: Harley, mentions of others

Word Count: 334

Genre: Slight angst

Universe: General

Summary: Harley found it strange that it hurt more when Ivy did it to her.

 

 

 

Harley found it strange that it hurt more when Ivy did it to her. Not that it didn’t hurt when Mistah J did it to her, when he left her behind it was a punch to the stomach every time; leaving her breathless and stunned, unable to figure out what had just happened or even notice that the bat cuffs were all ready on her.

 

But it still hurt more when Ivy did it.

 

Harley couldn’t really figure out why. She loved Joker more than Ivy and that was the absolute truth of the matter. She knew it, Mistah J knew it, Ivy knew it; everybody goddamn well knew it.

 

So why then did Ivy’s constant abandonment hurt her more? Leaving her feeling worthless and despondent, so much so, that the gloom that immediately descended down upon her would only began to lift after a few weeks. When Joker left her to the tender mercies of the law, she’d be right back to her old self within a couple hours; laughing, smiling, cracking jokes with grim, unresponsive guards.

 

Surely it should’ve been the other way around.

 

The scenario was interchangeable: she, Ivy or Mistah J would be in the middle of something, Batman would show up, Harley would take him on and inevitably get her ass handed to her – she wasn’t half the fighter that Batsy was, she could admit that much – and while this was happening, Ivy or Joker decided to get the hell out of dodge.

 

It was weird…

 

But as Harley sat in her dim cell pondering over it, it finally came to her.

 

At least when Joker ran for it he always looked back. Ivy never did. No pity, no sorrow, no guilt, no regret; no acknowledgement of Harley’s existence or that she had even figured into the plan - or had even meant anything to her.

 

Ivy never looked back…

 

But Joker did…even if it was only to laugh at her.

 

And in Harley’s mind, that counted for something at least.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

Totally. Poor dense Harley, one day she very well catch a clue:)