Television Drama [Open]

[Pamela Isley - Poison Ivy]

To say that the asylum has gotten tediously boring would be an understatement. True, some of the residents who have been here longer might object and say that Poison Ivy hasn't been here long enough to understand the true meaning of the word 'boredom' but, though this is her first incarceration, she's been here for months now and she'd be quick to claim that she's familiar enough with the word to use it.

And as proof of that, she's currently on the couch in front of the television, wedged between two very large men, watching a soap opera because she's just that bored. She could even change the channel if she wanted, as she has the remote balanced on top of her knee, above her crossed legs. But she already checked and there's nothing better on.

Scoffing for the umpteenth time at the sheer ridiculousness of the storyline, she glances at the clock to see how much time she has before her rec time is over. Being in here is exhausting for her right now, having to keep up the appearance of not being as weak as she feels. She can't do anything about the extremely gray tone of her flesh or the dullness of her hair, but she can at least compose her features so that she looks just as alert and lively as ever, even though on the inside she'd just like to go back to her cell right now and take another nap.

But keeping up appearances in front of the other inmates is very important, especially if one of the other rogues come by - they can't be allowed to know how weak she's gotten right now. She's certainly not going to solve that problem by instead giving into the asylum staff and tell them which of her unique needs they're failing to meet, putting her into this condition in the first place. The less they know about her, the better!

Fortunately, watching television isn't very taxing, so she can pass the time with that. If she can stand this show, anyway. "I don't see why Jessica doesn't just kill Eric - it would solve all her problems!" she comments to the man on her right. But all she gets in response to that is a blank stare - which isn't surprising, since there's a good chance that Larry has been far too busy staring off into space to be paying any attention to the show anyway.

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He walked in with a sour face wearing the customary orange clothing they give you when you are processed, showered, powdered, and evaluated. He was at least glad it wasn't a dark grayish-blue, but it wasn't no purple either. He paused when he entered and saw 2 mammoth sized inmates sitting on the couch and one of the newer residents in town between them watching some droll thing on TV. He never cared for soap operas. He would rather create his own drama with a few gags and those on the television were seldom funny.

He walked over and stood in front of the most aware of the 2 large men and thumbed his hand to him.

"Get lost Tiny, that's my spot."

"Sez who?"

"Sez the razor blade that's going to "accidentally" appear in your cornbread next week, now MOVE!"

Tiny stood quickly and sauntered off to a corner plopping down and rocked back & forth crying to himself as Joker slunk into the seat and put his arm behind Ivy giving her a large friendly grin.

"Hello there. I like long walks off short piers, rainy days, Mondays. Raw oysters make me break out and I love to make people laugh. Scorpio. Aheehee!"

He wiggled his brows at her and smiled.

[Pamela Isley - Poison Ivy]

Fortunately for Poison Ivy, even though she too has to wear the hideous orange attire just like all the other patients, she has the figure for it. Actually, with curves like hers she has the figure for anything, so she can pull off everything, no matter what color it happens to be. So the last thing she has to be concerned about is her appearance - like always, she looks fabulous.

Which means she has no problem turning her full attention to just how displeased she is with the replacement of one of the men with her with a much less desirable tv-watching companion. "Ugh, it's the clown," she says to herself rather wearily, not bothering to say it quietly enough to avoid it being overheard. Why is it always her that has to bear the unbearable?

Turning to look at him and ignoring everything he said, she gives him a rather pouty and annoyed frown as she asks, "Since when is it okay for you to touch me?" She makes no effort to rectify that problem herself, though she gives the offending arm a displeased glance.

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"Wellll Pam....I know Harley....you know Harley....that makes us practically family & I came in & got a whiff of some posies and decided to come on over & tiptoe through the tulips."

He chuckled a little smiling to her smugly.

"I heard you've been rooted here for a while. Why not stretch out your branches and see what Gotham has to offer? I'm sure you could use a healthy dose of herbicide. What do they feed you here anyway? A few drops of water & some plant food?"

He looked around at the other residents and frowned. he hadn't seen Harley in quite a while. he hoped she didn't skip town. he'd hate to have to hunt her down to just wring her neck.

[Pamela Isley - Poison Ivy]

"Well, I don't like you," Poison Ivy states the obvious, just to get that out of the way, "And if you don't remove your arm, I will have it removed. And my name is 'Poison Ivy'!" Now, if only she was able to literally remove his arm... But seeing as they're at the asylum and the authorities have all her things, she'll have to make due with the next best thing if he refuses to listen. Luckily, she's very adaptable in such surroundings.

The rest of what he says prompts a scoff and she says, "There's no point in escaping if I'll just end up in here again. So I'm working on a plan that will keep me out of here forever, if you must know." Which she might as well say because it's not like she's kept that a secret. She's even told Dr. Arkham that's what she's doing. Nobody seems to believe that she'll actually pull it off, but that doesn't bother her. None of them know what she's truly capable of, so let them be skeptical - she'll show them!

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He frowned and narrowed his eyes not pleased with the downward spiral of this discussion.

"Fine then. Poison....IVY."

He withdrew his arm and crossed it with his other and looked at the TV quietly and sniffed. He furrowed his brow staring at the screen.

"I don't see why Eric doesn't just kill Jessica - it would solve all his problems!"

He grew quiet again and glanced over to Ivy then looked around a little then on occasion kept glancing her way. After a few moments, he cleared his throat then looked to see if any of the guards noticed. They didn't. He just sat there with his arms crossed watching the screen quietly. Then he finally spoke.

"You know I could help you."

[Pamela Isley - Poison Ivy]

When her threat causes him to comply, Poison Ivy's mood is quick to ease somewhat. She does love it when people do what she says! Though she can't say that she's pleased that he's still sitting next to her, but that's... tolerable.

Forcing her attention to go back to the television, the clown's next comment causes her to scoff. "Eric is the problem!" she declares, before trying to simply ignore the clown next to her. She really shouldn't pay any attention to his ridiculousness.

Though her attempt to ignore him fails when he speaks again, though she doesn't look at him when she replies, "Could? Maybe. Want? No. Need? Hah!"

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The Joker rolled his eyes at her comment about Eric & turned towards her after her second statement.

"Y'see, that's going to be your downfall. Too proud. I can break out of here almost at will anytime I please. I could walk out right now if I wished."

He said it loud enough for the guards to hear and they all shifted somewhat uncomfortably. One, a newer hiree unfastened his taser which made the Joker grin.

"I think your lack of the old Vit-D has stunted your rationalization. I mean let's face it as good as you look, you don't seem quite as green as the last time I saw you. You can stay potted in here or seize Gotham park and give your little sprouts the home they deserve."

He looked back to the TV and went quiet again after a while he finally spoke once more.

"Honestly, I think you're addicted to the soaps. They do pull you in don't they? Ick Clyde. I hate that guy. Is he still dating Heather?"

[Pamela Isley - Poison Ivy]

"So could I," Poison Ivy says quickly, casually. Though the guards don't react when she says it - unlike him, who has proved on multiple occasions that those words can't be taken as a bluff, she's never escaped before. And she's said that she can just leave on multiple occasions already without lifting a finger to do so at any point in time - if anything, she's been a model patient the whole time she's been here... with the exception of that doctor she killed on her first full day. "Getting out of here is child's play. It's staying out that's the problem," she continues, "A problem that's much easier to ponder when you're not busy playing cops and robbers."

Pausing for a moment, she can't help but add, "Also, gray is the new green this season. But you being clueless about fashion is nothing new." No, she doesn't want to talk about her current health status, so she'll punish him with insults.

Her attention goes back to the television for a moment, when the quiet is once again disturbed by the clown. "No, she broke up with him when Tiffany finally admitted that she wasn't sure if her baby was Leroy's, Clyde's, or Mark's. Heather's run back to Stacy now," she explains idly, before noting, "And, sadly, this is the best thing on right now - I checked."

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"Well.....PAMMY....."

He decided to counterattack her insult with the favorite thing he calls her that makes her skin crawl. He did it with a smug tone a brow raised and a smirk looking her way.

"I could stay out as long as I want, but things get boring, and I do have to make my periodical toy with Doc Arkham's brain visit on occasion. He's probably on the phone trying to get as many guards to come in on their days off as it is. heehee! But if I were you....i hear the swamp is a good place to start."

He ignored her jab at his fashion sense and as a commercial played for the live lingerie tv special it gave him an idea and he would show Ms Poison Ivy he had impeccable taste.

"Stacy's ALIVE???  Let me guess alien abduction and he's returned with a new face and personality but no one around him can tell any difference except Gertrude the senile old lady who's been on the show fifty years?"

[Pamela Isley - Poison Ivy]

Though Poison Ivy tries very hard to not react at all to the least favorite of her least favorite nicknames, she just can't help the tightening of her jaw and slight purse of her lips. He's such a horrible man! Though given the present circumstances, she decides to let it go for now and promises herself that she'll do something especially nasty to him later to make up for that. The list of things she could do is so very long, after all...

She also ignores his 'advice'. Her old hideout is still perfect fine, after all - it hasn't been found. In fact she's pretty sure that she'd not be here today if that whole thing with Nightwing had occurred there instead of a greenhouse full of plants that weren't hers. No, it's remaining uncaught even when she's outside of her fortress that's the real challenge.

But her eyebrow raises at his reaction to her little update on the soap opera happenings. "I think you may have your series crossed," she replies mildly, "Stacy is a woman." And that's certainly not the only thing that she thinks that he has crossed... "They put bis and lesbians in everything these days, you know," she comments, unsure if she'd call that a good thing or a bad thing. What she would like to see is more happily single, independent women who aren't always swooning over someone. But then, she supposes that wouldn't make for very interesting soap opera plots.

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Joker scoffed at her remark about Stacy giving it a dismissing wave.

"Yes, you should be an expert at that, Ivy. The stories Harley shares are really as shady gray as you are. heheeheeewha?"

The tv screen flickered in the middle of a very confrontational scene and went to footage of a gas attack at 2 GCPD precincts. The gas made everyone laugh uncontrollably stretching hideous grins on their faces. The Joker was laughing so hard his sides hurt and he suddenly stopped as footage of him playing golf with a councilman's head came on.

He clenched his fists as he stared at the screen a snarl came to his lips and his eyes bloodshot in an instant.

"Grrr.....that IDIOT! I told him not to.....um ahem..."

He looked over to Ivy and pretended to look at an imaginary wrist watch then looked around a slight relief came over his face as no one else had seen the TV as it flickered and the soap continued.

"Well now, look at the time. Lunch! I hear it's pizza day! YUM! I'll be off now. So nice to chat as always....Pa-er Ivy."

He glanced back to the TV & started to make his way out of the rec room. Whistling and in a fairly quick step to his walk.

[Pamela Isley - Poison Ivy]

The interruption in the program causes Poison Ivy to sigh, both at the television station for interrupting such boring crap with something that's no doubt even less interesting, and also the clown for his comment. Not even paying attention to the interrupting broadcast at first, she instead turns to him and comments, "I don't think that you want to want to get into a conversation with me about what Harley says to us about each other." Because she can guarantee that what she's been told about him is far more embarrassing than anything Harley has ever said about her. Well, anything relayed accurately, anyway.

Having said that, her attention goes more to the television. Though she watches the footage of the gassed people very dispassionately - it neither upsets nor amuses her. Frankly, it's about as interesting to her as watching someone sweep the floor. Though when she sees what's apparently the Joker on the screen, she can't help but turn to the one sitting next to her and simply raise an eyebrow at him. Still, she finds that she fails to care very much about that. Why should she care about whatever the Joker's plans are and whether or not he's fooling anyone? So long as it doesn't harm her or her plants, she has no reason at all.

In fact, when the soap opera comes back on and he vacates the seat next to her, Poison Ivy actually counts it as a positive that the footage seemed to concern him so much - now he isn't sitting by her and she can continue to watch television in peace.

[Heather Glass - VerMillion]

It's yet another boring day in the asylum for VerMillion. The routine has gotten so dull, even though her visits with Dr. Arkham are frequent and help her handle that. Still, the last one was yesterday, so now she has to wait two whole days. And Jon's being... himself. At least there's her rec time to look forward to - it's not much of an improvement on her cell, in her eyes, but at least it's sometimes interesting.

Heading into the rec room, she can't be sure if she wasn't paying enough attention as she entered, or if it was the man moving quickly that was at fault. Perhaps both? Either way, she knocks into him so hard that she falls backward onto her butt. "Hey, watch it, Bozo!" she says angrily, almost as a reflex. Looking at whoever it was, her expression doesn't change even when she sees that it's the Joker.

Which some may think is odd, considering the fact that while certain people, like Poison Ivy, feel that they can treat him however they want because they're someone to be reckoned with themselves. VerMillion, on the other hand, is just a former radio show host with no particular skills at doing anything else except whatever it is that makes Jon want to keep her around. No, her reason for not caring whether or not her words might upset a powerful rogue are completely different.

And not shared by her entire mind. Pushing herself back onto her feet, she's frowning to herself. "Yeah, I know it's the Joker - so?" she asks herself, and a bit of a one-sided conversation continues, "Yeah, so? ...What! No, I'm not going to apologize, it was his fault! ...Yes, I know it's the Joker - what's your point? ...Yeah, right, like he'd do that to us!" She rolls her eyes at herself - Heather is always so dramatic!