joan_of_bark: (pam: walking in the woods)
Dr. Pamela Isley ([personal profile] joan_of_bark) wrote2024-10-24 08:34 am

A Chemical Plant Near the Chesapeake Bay, Thursday Evening

Unmakings took time.

She knew that. Had always known that. Poison Ivy had spent weeks feeding spores into the systems that supplied a place just like this, not even a year ago, letting them spread into the bodies and bones of those inside. Letting them pull together, however unwittingly, into a colony, into something she could mold.

Unmake.

(But then there had been a young blonde woman on the floor, so achingly resembling--)

(Why... why do you want to hurt me?)

But she had made Janet a promise, of sorts. To be a monster, but only to those who deserved it. Not to the little ants running around inside that hulking cage of metal and acrid smoke, with their little lives that harmed little in the space of all things. To embrace some humanity (sentimentality), for once.

(She knew herself better than that. Knew that it wasn't about the promise to Janet, but the promise to herself, to grow, to rise, to genuinely improve what could be improved, instead of lashing out.)

So out in the marshes, she waited. An access pass sat snugly within a pocket on her overalls, stolen from some poor sap in a bar who couldn't believe his luck. (He was alive, too.) Should she wait for that dark-haired woman with her dangerous hands?

Probably not. She always worked best alone, and the vegetation here stood tall, vulnerable to deadly fingers. So Ivy righted herself, and let the vegetation move with her as she walked the last half-mile into the belly of the beast.

Not an unmaking, but a precision strike.

It was a place to start.

[[ nfb due to distance. open for interaction only to those aware of the situation, if they wish ]]
okteiviakom: ([neu] hope)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-24 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
Octavia raised her eyebrows - barely.

"That seems handy."
okteiviakom: ([neu] tribe leader)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-24 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Octavia wasn't going to ask either way. Not in the middle of things, anyway.

She moved after Ivy. Much quieter and more careful than some might have expected her to. It definitely wasn't her first time sneaking into places.

She was scanning her surroundings for anything worth noticing or knowing about, too. Unfamiliar territory, better to be safe than sorry if shit hit the fan worse than expected.
okteiviakom: ([neu blodreina] regal)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-24 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a 'sha' ready and poised on Octavia's tongue, for some reason.

But that wouldn't mean anything here.

"Yes."
okteiviakom: ([neu] standing tall)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-24 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Upon entering the corridor right on Ivy's heels, Octavia found herself thinking about the bunker.

And the Ark.

Nothing new there, really. She'd been thinking about both lately whether she wanted to or not. She shook it off. "Control room on this level, or below?"
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okteiviakom: ([neu] stop your shenanigans)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-24 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Always underground, Octavia had time to think, and then they were moving again.

And there was... that.

"Wasn't going to," she promised, eyeing the growth. "Are we expecting a lot of cameras along the way? I'm assuming yes since what these places want to protect is themselves."
okteiviakom: ([neu] locked lips)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-24 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"So you'll have to keep walking point," Octavia said with one of her very tiny nods, following Ivy but also peering past her down the stairs.

Not a challenge. Agreement.

"I'll watch our backs."
okteiviakom: ([neu] considering)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-24 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
When the noise came, Octavia didn't stop to listen, but slowed down so that her footfalls were even softer than they had already been.

The building was in clear need of repair. The odds that it was just that were great.

But she wasn't an idiot.
okteiviakom: ([neu] tribe leader)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-25 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
It was the smart thing to do. If there was anything smart about having come here in the first place. Octavia watched Ivy use her... power, and thought idly about just how little she knew about the woman.

And thought, even more idly, even more faintly, about how much Duke and Lucifer would likely have disagreed with her choice to come here.

Which was why they didn't know.

Keep walking.
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okteiviakom: ([neu] lead the charge)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-25 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
An arm was all Octavia needed.

Instinct took over as she grabbed him. The sound of a scuffle was minimal, and then the man was unconscious on the floor.

Which would buy them time, but there was definitely a clock ticking now. "Are we close?"
okteiviakom: ([neu] at least it's quiet)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-25 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia glanced back at where the man remained on the floor, no particular expression on her face.

(Even from just this distance, he looked very still. More so than he actually was.)

And then back at Ivy. "Good news for us. Cameras?"
okteiviakom: ([neu] and just think murder)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-25 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia followed her, but not before a cursory glance of her own to make sure she wasn't about to step right into anything Pam had missed.

"Guessing your... plant friends can't be used to find things."
okteiviakom: ([neu] stop your shenanigans)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-25 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia lingered by the doorway. It doubled for listening to any possible sounds from the corridor.

"To your left," she said, after a brief moment of looking up, herself. "Is that it?"
okteiviakom: ([neu] withering look)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-10-25 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia moved further into the room once the camera was fully covered, looking around, trying to make sense of the systems in question.

This was not a part that she held any delusions about being very helpful with.

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