
Ivy gleefully takes the walkie-talkie from Beck. She watches him throw his scrawny limbs over the rope.
"What's up, Blondie," Ivy casually says into the walkie-talkie. Apparently, the rope could handle Beck's weight - lovely. He's alive. Didn't get eaten by snakes. Pfjoe! Ivy neglects telling Sam this. Another person needs to go, and Isaac suddenly comes forward and suggests that Reese goes first? That's... peculiar. And by the looks of it, Reese thinks it's weird too. But what's Isaac going to do? Bore Ivy to death with his trademark dullness? So Reese starts climbing the rope in a far more gracious manner than Beck had done, leaving Ivy and Isaac behind.
To only make matters stranger, Isaac sits down on the boulder next to her. Ivy raises an eyebrow and shuffles a couple of inches away from him. And
then, he starts to talk. As his speech continues, Ivy's face stays as neutral as possible. Her thoughts, however, are racing. Wait - so Isaac The Idiot wants to join forces with her, Reese, and Beck? Isaac has some good points regarding the other group - Zé
is a cripple by now; Blondie
is basically a kid; Gabriel
is weird and Dahsi, well. So Isaac wants their Relatively Cool Group to continue on without the Loser Group. He calls Ivy a bitch in the process (
hah, did nobody teach him how to win an ally?), and sort of implies that she and Reese are bound together~.
"I don't get along well with Reese," she contradicts him.
"I tolerate her, because contrary to most of the people here, she seems like she could actually be of use." She leaves out the part about trusting Reese and that, frankly, she
does really like her.
But Isaac's not done! He decides to end his monologue with some old-fashioned blackmail. Ivy squints at him. Is he serious? "Oh so sweet Isaac who comes over so amazingly gentle"? Is he not aware of the incompetent, ridiculous aura lingering around him? Is he not aware of how little Ivy thinks of him? He is not a threat. He should be in the Loser Group, because that's where losers are supposed to go. Ivy can't take him seriously - not really.
He gets his ass off the boulder and says something about foster care, causing every muscle in Ivy's face to strain. She feels kind of pissed off, at this point. He's insulted her, blackmailed her, and now he's decided to belittle her? Yeah. Okay. She takes a couple of seconds, in which she takes a breath. She looks up at Isaac. He would be the most horrible ally to have. Ever. He's stupid, incapable and mindlessly arrogant. She couldn't trust him even if she wanted to. Plus, she kind of feels the urge to strangle him.
So that alliance is off the table. But what to do, then? Her eyes flit to Beck and Reese on the other end. She looks back at Isaac.
"You know what, you have a point," she says. She gets up, too, and gives him a long, hard look.
"I think you're right. I don't think that we should split off though - we'll get more done when we're with more people. But if the four of us are allies... Hell, even the three of us... We could eliminate the rest. We could win, and divide the price." Honestly? Ivy can't wait to stab Isaac in the back, and twist the knife around. That'll teach the bastard.