Gregori is killed attempting to rescue Abby, but Anton resurrects him as the Patchwork Man, a member of his Un-Men.In the 1970s, Abigail meets American government agent Matthew Cable.

Abby soon begins her friendship with him, swaying Cable's suspicions of her possible involvement in her uncle's abduction of the fugitive Swamp Thing.

The next day, Abby expresses interest in emigrating to the United States and working with Cable in his search for Swamp Thing.

Swamp Thing destroys the werewolf with a silver chandelier and saves Cable and Abby yet again, allowing them to safely depart for America.

Matt's employers send him on another mission, however, but as fate would have it, Swamp Thing's travels bring him to the same location: Bürgess Town, Vermont.

Matt and Abby are taken hostage by The Conclave, the same criminal organization that created the Swamp Thing by the act of sabotage that took Alec Holland's life and caused the transformation of his corpse into a supernatural elemental form.

Swamp Thing succeeds in rescuing Matt and Abby from their captors' sadistic torture of them in Gotham City, and exacts revenge on his enemies, even confronting the Batman.

During the Swamp Thing's confinement, Matt learns the shocking truth: that the creature in fact believes himself to be Alec Holland.

Owing Alec their lives, Abby and Matt manage to fake the Swamp Thing's death with explosives, but only with the reluctant assistance of Bolt.

The search takes them to the dangerous island of Kala Pago, where they confront the head of the Conclave for the last time, Nathan Ellery.

Abby has an unpleasant experience in Sloan's Diner, as the owner's bigoted feelings about Indians invade her thoughts and force her to run outside to seek relief.

To conceal this, they have Cable electroshocked, making him a terrible burden on his young new wife, as he is driven to drink due to his resulting loss of his mental faculties.

By the end of 1983, 28-year-old Abby is working at the New Moon Motel Diner in West Virginia to support herself and Matt, for his drinking has only become worse.

Swimming to shore, Abby leaves Alec and returns home to Matt, who swears he will stop drinking.

Meanwhile, Dennis and Liz escape a similar explosive death trap back at the motel, while the Swamp Thing is shot down and declared dead by the National Guard, while all of his surviving friends all go into hiding.

Abby spends more time with Swamp Thing, returning to the simple outdoor pleasures she enjoyed in her childhood.

While relaxing after swimming at a lake, Abby informs him she is now working at Elysium Lawns, a home for troubled autistic children.

Later that evening, she goes to Baton Rouge to buy supplies, but witnesses an accident while John Constantine spies on her unnoticed in the crowd.

That night, Abby senses the coming supernatural danger at Elysium Lawns and rushes there with Swamp Thing, where they confront the demons Monkey King and Etrigan.

Swamp Thing journeys into the afterlife to save Abby's soul himself, helped by Deadman, the Phantom Stranger, the Spectre, and Etrigan.

True to his word, the Swamp Thing lives again, in a tiny plant that Abby psychically locates and helps to nurture, while Alec regrows himself.

One day, the unique couple is visited by the mystic occultist John Constantine, who begins to manipulate Swamp Thing in exchange for valuable information about his elemental powers.

Eventually, Alec's travels bring him home on a mission in Louisiana, dealing with a cursed plantation plagued by 19th-century ghosts and zombies.

During the course of her relationship with Alec, Abby learns to accept his bizarre abilities and strange habits, such as ingesting dead or dying animals into his body, or unexpectedly growing himself out of her bathroom sink to visit her.