poison ivy - the boys

twenty-one

SEASON THREE
EPISODE ONE

         It had been a year since she left Homelander and used her poison kiss. It had been one year of anger and impulse and...hiding away from the world.

             Currently, she was in a movie theatre with a hood over her head as she sat in the back row. She munched on popcorn while she watched Dawn of the Seven.

             The movie had finally came out and she wanted to see how they handled her absence. They had used some of what she filmed and the rest was CGI.

                The movie had her die early on by Stormfront played by Charlize Theron. She died in the arms of Homelander while she confessed her love to him.

                   She could hear her stupid, pathetic voice that said those words with such affection. She hated that the audience cried. She hated that her love was real.

                She walked out of the movie theatre early. She couldn't stomach seeing herself actually being in love with him (because it just reminded of how much she did love him and how much her heart broke because of it).

                  At that moment, John was also watching the premiere of the movie. In the movie, Ivy was the first to figure out Stormfront was a Nazi and took her on alone. He had been too late to save her.

"I don't want to die..." she said as he held her in his arms while she bled out. "...without telling you I love you."

"Ivy..." he confessed as he pressed his forehead to hers. "I've always loved you."

She smiled, one last time, before her face went still.

John remembered all of her I love you's. The way she said them and how she said them; even what she was wearing. And it felt like a knife pierced his chest as he thought of her last words: Now I fucking hate you.

He blamed Maeve for Jane leaving him and turning her against him. He wanted to kill Maeve but he didn't want to make Jane more angry. He just knew Jane would come around eventually and stop being pathetically mad.

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   Jane slipped into the car that Butcher was in. Frenchie and Kimiko were already inside the party. They were bringing down Termite tonight.

             "So what did the boss say?" she questioned.

               Hughie was their boss, technically, but she thought it was funny since he was the youngest.

                  Butcher remembered what Hughie said. Just surveillance and no Jane. She burns things or hurts the supes. I hate to say it but she's become the you of the group.

                 "You ain't allowed to go in there," Butcher answered.

              "Lame," she pouted as she crossed her arms.

               "Couldn't agree more, lovely," he smirked slightly.

             So they waited in silence until they saw on the video feed that Termite had exploded through a man. Frenchie had walked in on it and Termite was trying to kill him for being a witness.