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Helena's heart raced as she ran, she cursed herself for letting Dinah do a sweep by herself. Especially when there were rumors running around No Man's Land of a meta mugging other metas. It wasn't that Helena thought Dinah couldn't handle some minor thug but something about not being there made her stomach turn and her adrenaline pump faster.
"Do you see him?" Helena called over the com's. There was silence on the other end of the line and Helena heart almost stopped.
"No, I lost him a Lincoln and 10th." Dinah replied panting. Helena let out a relieved sigh. Please god let her be okay until I get there.
"I'll be there in 2." Just as Helena signed off Dinah saw a flash of movement to her left but before she could turn she was suddenly on the ground seeing double. Someone was standing over her and they seemed to be laughing though she couldn't be sure since her ears were ringing so loud. They raised something, a pipe she thought briefly as she raised her arm, over their head but before it could make contact was her attacker was thrown into the side of the alley. Helena landed right beside her crouching low in a protective stance, Dinah slowly pushed herself of the ground but cried out as sharp burn passed across her leg.
It was just a second, maybe less, but Helena turned her head in concern and missed the movement from across the alley. Suddenly Helena was pulled into the air with its tentacle like arm. Helena tried to pull the injector from her jacket and thrust it into the giant arm but she was slammed into the wall and Dinah saw the injector fall unused to the ground. Dinah tried to get up again but the burning in her leg only intensified. Helena cried out in pain as the meta continued to squeeze her, what happened next Dinah couldn't tell, she suddenly felt a burst of air pass around her and found that she had reached the injector and was hovering in the air beside Helena. Her lips had a tinge of blue and a look of both surprise and confusion on her face, as did the meta. Dinah decided what ever was happening didn't matter she had to save Helena and drove the injector into directly into the side of the meta's neck. He instantly released Helena, sending her sprawling to the ground and howled in pain.
Helena staggered a bit before gaining her bearings. Meanwhile the meta was down but not out. Dinah could hear a rumbling in it's chest as it prepared to utilize it's acid attack. Then it was suddenly on it's feet and charging at the still dazed Huntress.
"No!" Dinah screamed as Helena turned to face her attacker and the acid hit her directly in the eyes. Helena however didn't even flinch she continued her attack, one last kick and the meta was on the ground unconscious. Helena turned and nearly tripped over some of the rubble and trash.
"Dinah where are you?" Helena called out reaching her hand to real around for her.
"Up here, I can't get down." Helena reached both her hands up into the air searching for Dinah.
Dinah struggled for a moment but was eventually able to grab onto Helena's outstretched hand and pulled herself toward the ground. It ended with Helena flat on her back, arms rapped protectively around Dinah and Dinah's face mere centimeters from Helena's. Helena slid her arms tighter around Dinah's back and pulled her close.
"You okay kid?" She asked quietly, she knew she was okay but for some reason Helena needed to here Dinah say the words.
"I'm okay," she said quietly raising her hands to Helena's face attempting to examin the sticky substance.
"Don't!" Helena said, "We don't know what it does yet, lets head back to the tower." Dinah nodded before it occurred to her that Helena couldn't see her and replied.
"Okay hold onto my hand until we get home." Helena complied instantly and Dinah was suddenly very glad that Helena could not see how red spread from her neck throughout her cheeks. They made it less than a 100 feet before Helena stopped mid stride and turned her head. "What is it Hel?"
"Cops! Dinah we have to get off the street." Helena pulled her over into an alley just as a squad car raced by with syringes blaring. Dinah clumsily lead Helena to basement entranced where they crouched down and a moment later two more cars then a third stopped just short of their hiding spot, even Dinah could hear the car doors opening.
"Oh this is just perfect, Dinah we need to hide." Helena hissed in her ear.
"There's a grate right here but I can't tell where it goes."
"It'll have to do, hurry I can hear them coming this way." Once Dinah had opened the grate and climbed down she began to search for an outlet, with no luck, Helena quickly joined her after closing the grate however rather than her normal graceful landing she stumbled and landed with a thud. "Ow that was not my best landing," She sighed as Dinah helped her to her feet." So lead the way."
"Um slight problem I can't seem to find one." Helena sighed and slumped against the wall.
"Oracle are you there?"
"What's going on, did you guys get him?"
"We took care of him, he's NGPD's problem now but we have another problem on our hands, can you get a fix on our position and help us get out of here?"
"Hold on a second, are you both okay?"
"Helena got hit the acid in her eyes, she's having trouble seeing but I'm fine."
"I finished examining the substance her symptoms should do away in a few hours but be careful we don't know what complications may res…Damn okay I've got some good news and bad which do you want first?"
"Barbara just tell us how to get home." Helena replied gruffly.
"That's the bad new whatever system you guys crawled into doesn't connect to anything. On the bright side Reese is on the scene, I'll give him a call to see what he can do to get you guys out of there."
"So what are we suppose to do until then?" Helena whispered angrily.
"Just stay put and don't attract any attention, Oracle out."
"Shit!" Helena yelled as she slammed her fist against the wall behind her.
"Did you hear that," the sound of boots and other shouts came from the street above.
Before Dinah could even process what was happening she could feel Helena's body pushing her up against the wall as the beams of flashlights filled the sewer, thankfully one large pipe cast enough of a shadow to keep them from being seen. But as the lights got closer Helena pushed herself more onto Dinah's body and Dinah felt as if she could no longer breath. As the voices and lights faded from the street above, Helena turned her attention to Dinah. Helena could sense, what she thought was Dinah's distress and turned to try and look her in the eye.
"Dinah what's wrong are you okay?" She whispered.
"Uhh mm Yeah, I think so, you?" She felt Helena run her hands along her sides, she knew Helena was only examining her for injuries but she couldn't help her eyes closing as she savored the feeling. "Helena I said I'm fine." her voice failed her as Helena's hand gripped her hip, she opened her eyes to find Helena's face just centimeters from hers again. Oh how she wanted to pull Helena closer and feel her lips, she nearly groaned from the wanting.
"Dinah I may not be able to see but I can feel, I can feel your heart rate skyrocketing, tell me where are you hurt?" Helena brought her hand up to Dinah's face and held her cheek, firm yet comforting. She was genuinely concerned, scared even for Dinah and Dinah had never felt more loved.
"Helena, it's just a graze along my leg, I'll be fine." She raised her hand up to cover Helena's and gave it a gentle squeeze, Helena didn't pull her hand away.
"What happened back there Dinah?"
"I don't know I just remember seeing him squeezing the life out of you and wishing I was close enough to help." There was silence for a moment and when it looked like Helena wasn't going to say anything Dinah added. "Whatever happened I'm glad it did."
"Me too, " Helena whispered. Then she did something Dinah never could have anticipated, Helena leaned down and rested her forehead against Dinah's with a sigh.
"So what are we going to do now?" Dinah asked with a dry mouth.
"Wait for Barbara and Reese to get us out of here, until then we should try to not to attract attention…I hope you're comfy." Helena stretched her back slightly resulting in Dinah's breath again catching in her throat and color rising throughout her face.
"Oh yeah very comfy." She swallowed attempting to focus on anything other than the feel of Helena's body pressed into hers unaware that at the exact same moment Helena was savoring their closeness like never before.