The Pepper Girl (Gotham, Ivy/Selina, #624)
Title: The Pepper Girl
Fandom: Gotham
Challenge: #624 Pepper
Pairings: Ivy/Selina
Rating: G
Words: 306
Timeline: Set during Season One's Rogues' Gallery
Warnings: Contains a mention of the canonical suicide of a minor character
They whisper about her. Ivy hears them, always hears them.
“That’s the Pepper girl,” they say. “Her dad killed the Waynes. Her mum killed herself. That’s the Pepper girl.”
Ivy always hears them.
Sometimes she writes their names in a book that only exists in her mind. Sometimes she stares at them with wide blank eyes until they look away, uncomfortable.
They’re scared of her. Maybe they should be. She’s the Pepper girl, after all.
Selina’s scared of her, too. But Selina’s brave, maybe the bravest person Ivy’s ever met. So she looks Ivy right in the eye, no matter how much Ivy stares. She even takes Ivy’s hand, and looks out for her.
Selina’s scared, because she’s smart, and Ivy’s probably a person everyone should be scared of. One day all that anger inside of her will find a way out, and the ones that whisper, that call her the Pepper girl, they’ll be caught in the blast.
But for now, Selina stays by her side. Selina’s a friend, a real one, because being scared doesn’t mean Selina’ll back down from doing what she wants. And what she wants, apparently, is to stay with Ivy. To find them a place to live, to steal medicine from the drugstore that makes Ivy’s shivers stop. To get her food, proper vegetables and tofu, even though Ivy knows Selina hates the stuff.
And that does something to Ivy. It doesn’t extinguish the anger inside of her, she doesn’t think anything will ever be able to do that. But when she’s with Selina, the anger isn’t all she is.
And when Selina takes Ivy’s hand, it makes Ivy feel like a real person again. Not just another one of Gotham’s victims, another one of its rejects.
When she’s with Selina, Ivy isn’t just the Pepper girl.
She’s something better.
Fandom: Gotham
Challenge: #624 Pepper
Pairings: Ivy/Selina
Rating: G
Words: 306
Timeline: Set during Season One's Rogues' Gallery
Warnings: Contains a mention of the canonical suicide of a minor character
They whisper about her. Ivy hears them, always hears them.
“That’s the Pepper girl,” they say. “Her dad killed the Waynes. Her mum killed herself. That’s the Pepper girl.”
Ivy always hears them.
Sometimes she writes their names in a book that only exists in her mind. Sometimes she stares at them with wide blank eyes until they look away, uncomfortable.
They’re scared of her. Maybe they should be. She’s the Pepper girl, after all.
Selina’s scared of her, too. But Selina’s brave, maybe the bravest person Ivy’s ever met. So she looks Ivy right in the eye, no matter how much Ivy stares. She even takes Ivy’s hand, and looks out for her.
Selina’s scared, because she’s smart, and Ivy’s probably a person everyone should be scared of. One day all that anger inside of her will find a way out, and the ones that whisper, that call her the Pepper girl, they’ll be caught in the blast.
But for now, Selina stays by her side. Selina’s a friend, a real one, because being scared doesn’t mean Selina’ll back down from doing what she wants. And what she wants, apparently, is to stay with Ivy. To find them a place to live, to steal medicine from the drugstore that makes Ivy’s shivers stop. To get her food, proper vegetables and tofu, even though Ivy knows Selina hates the stuff.
And that does something to Ivy. It doesn’t extinguish the anger inside of her, she doesn’t think anything will ever be able to do that. But when she’s with Selina, the anger isn’t all she is.
And when Selina takes Ivy’s hand, it makes Ivy feel like a real person again. Not just another one of Gotham’s victims, another one of its rejects.
When she’s with Selina, Ivy isn’t just the Pepper girl.
She’s something better.