[center][sup][@Sep]||Ivy & Colossus Part 3[/sup]
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Ivy's eyes were completely focused on David. The way he stood with his gun screamed hesitant. Which probably made it her fault the metal man got shot. She felt her plant latch onto David. The man jerked the gun from Ivy's direction and fired at the other man. Ivy couldn't help but stare at the man as the smoke cleared. He reached over to the demolished car, ripped off a door and lobbed it at David.

[color=1a7b30][i]No.[/i][/color]

Ivy felt David lurch back. For it ripped her plant out of it's soil and all connection was lost. She forced life back into the plant and tried to guide it back to it's pot. But the trauma was too much for it to handle. It flickered out of her consciousness. Another mark against David. She might have cried aloud or not, she wasn't sure. But never the less she headed for the door. David was out of sight and she couldn't loose him. 

[quote=Metal Man][color=00a99d][b]"While I appreciate that you are looking for someone, I would recommend you wait outside the building. I am rather durable."[/b][/color][/quote]
Ivy turned her head to just in time to see the metal man rush past her and into the building. She cursed under her breath and followed him. She wasn't sure what his deal was, and she really didn't care. All she needed was Sarah. And if that was expedited by letting this metal man think she couldn't handle herself, then so be it. 

Ivy followed in the man's wake. It was like following a tornado. She slowed to a walk as she took a moment to look at the door ripped clear off it's hinges. Then she was back running up the stairs and through the apartment. She ignored the older woman, recognition danced on the edge of awareness, she wasn't important. She forced herself past the man as he finally stopped in what looked like a bedroom converted into a chapel. 

Ivy faltered at the sight of the dead body. Sarah. She could hear the man whisper something that sounded like a prayer. Or what could pass for it in another language. Still all her attention was on the body. Mutilated. With a shaking hand she reached out and brushed it's forehead. Cold. It only reaffirmed her fears. Dead. A small chocked sob escaped her lips as she wrapped the dead boy in a hug. 

Ivy buried her face in the body and didn't stop the tears that came. She was perversely relieved that it wasn't Sarah like she had feared. Instead a young boy. She couldn't even tell if the boy had been David's. The extent of the damage done made any familial markers unrecognizable. But that didn't assuage any of her guilt. Ivy [i]knew[/i] David was an abusive monster. She had saved Sarah all those years ago. She was sure Lily had had only the one child. But what if she was wrong? What if she left another soul in the hands of that monster?

Rage and sorrow combated until only an unnerving calm remained. She found herself pulling away from the body. "[color=1a7b30]I'm sorry.[/color]" She told the dead boy. "[color=1a7b30]I'll find him and make him pay.[/color]" Though she didn't let go of him completely. She left a hand on his shoulder as if somehow she could impart the dead soul comfort. 

As if in an out of body experience she turned to the metal man. She could see herself deliver the words. Hair slightly askew from her mad dash up the stairs, eyes red rimmed from crying, cheeks tear stained and exhaustion making her pale. She was a sight to behold. "[color=1a7b30]Are you apart of this?[/color]" Her voice was flat, but there was an edge to it.