Go with Penny

Penny rushed into the ladies room. After a few minutes of time in a stall and wiping her still moist eyes she began to feel foolish. What was she doing?! These emotions were still overpowering her at unexpected moments and not to mention how she just ran away from Walt. What must he be thinking?

Leaving the stall to was up she hears a voice ask, "Penny are you in here?"

"Yes, I am here."

Penny watched as Diana entered followed the flower lady from before. "Hello, I'm sorry. I'm not sure I caught your name before. I'm Penny. Are you friends with Diana?"

Pamela almost laughed but seeing the distraught young woman she surprised Diana by shrugging and saying, "We're acquitances. I'm Pamela."

"Hello, Pamela. I'm sorry if I'm causing you both trouble." Penny twisted her hands in skirt, nervously.

Diana and Pamela both shared a look and slowly approached the distraught young woman. "Not at all, Penny," said Diana in as calming a voice as possible.

"SHH SOP is to have two members try to help out any matters that need resolution together. I'm sure two others have approached your...", Pamela paused before shrugging and decided to to just be honest."... your owner?"

Penny nodded. Diana gently touched Penny's shoulder. "Is that the problem, Penny? That you're still getting used to the idea that you're 'owned'?"

Penny sighed. "Yes, I'm sure that's it." *hiccup* Her eyes got wide as she stared. In the mirror. "I'm not used to being a thing."*hiccup* "It can't be." *hiccup* she started to cry again.

"Penny. I'm not very good at dealing with people. I prefer plants generally. But I had a friend, one friend who specialized in people. And even though she was bat-shit crazy, she knew people pretty well and..." Pamela sighed and looked at Diana who encouraged her to go on. "If you want to talk to us, we can listen. It might not fix your problems but it might help you to understand them a little better yourself."

Penny nodded. "I'm sorry. I'm a liar! I literally used to be as close to 'thing' but still have a soul as as one could get. I used to be a machine!" Just starting to say her deepest fears started a snowball effect for the young woman and soon she spilled her guts nearly completely. About how she'd died twice. Lost her few friends. Now she was a "thing" again. How she'd only beer truly alive for a short while. How all her new feelings and sensations were still confusing to her. How her emotions had begun to spiral out of her control. How her machine error of hiccuping when she lied had begun to resurface which had reinforced her feeling like a "thing" again.

When it was over the three of them were sitting together side by side on sink counter. Penny had cried herself out.

Pamela passed her another tissue while Diana held her hand. "Penny, have you cried like this since all of these things happened to you?"

Penny shook her head. "No."

Pamela nodded. "Like I said I'm not expert, but one of my friends was...is. Anyway she used to say people were a lot like bombs. If they held too much stuff in they could explode. I think that maybe you've just been holding too much stuff in, hit your limit and... and..."

Diana and Penny just looked at her and Pamela sighed,"you're really going to make me say it? Fine...BOOM!"

Diana and Penny both giggled. "Oh, great now you're laughing at me!"

"It's not that we're laughing at you, Pamela but..." Penny trailed of and looked at Diana.

Diana shrugged are smiled saying,"that was unexpectedly Cute, Pamela."

"Cute? Cute! I am Poison Ivy the villainous! I'm not "cute"!"

"It was very cute, Pamela. Thank you for all your help," said Penny and she gave her a hug.

"What? No! I... I..." Pamela sighed blushing and relenting hugged her back. "You're very welcome, Penny. I'm glad I could help some."

"As was I," said Diana joining in the hugging.

"We're really doing this? Group hugging in the restroom?" Ivy surrendered again with a roll of her eyes but also a slight smile. "Fine."

As they pulled themselves together again. "Ivy said I'm going to recommend some channels for you to watch with that friend I told you about.. well one of her. You should also get her books and other things. Maybe write her some emails with your questions. Watch the shows with your owner or watch them by yourself but they'll really be a big help for you. Oh and you need to work on being open and honest with your feelings and not bottle them up inside."

"I'll do that. Thank you both so much."

"It was our pleasure Penny. Warrior sisters unite!", said Diana sticking out her arm.

"Warrior sisters unite!" Said Penny clasping Diana's wrist with her outstreched arm. They both turned to Pamela with expectant smiles.

"Really? Fineee... Player three buying in." Pamela stuck out her arm to clasp Penny's wrist while Diana's hand clasped her wrist completing a triangle. "Warrior sisters unite!"

As the started to head towards the door. Pamela said, "seriously Penny. Watch those videos and be more open with your feelings especially around your owner. He seems alright and you definitely like him."

Penny nodded. "I promise I will and you're right. Walt is a very good friend." *Hiccup* Penny froze and started to turn red.

Diana and Pamela both looked at each other and turned to Penny. "Seriously?"