Chapter 14

[Okay, yes, another break from the Clana but I am tying strings together here! Please bear with me!]

[Queen Industries Medical Facility—a couple of hours later]

After dropping Chloe and Davis at her apartment, Lois headed for Star City. Granted, she and Oliver were exs and definitely in the past. Still she wanted to make sure that he and the rest of the League were all right. Given how fast the magic lady had pulled her whammy, she hadn't had the chance to do so at the Talon.

She parked her car in the lot outside of the facility and looked at what seemed to be another nondescript warehouse. Yet her research had turned up a lot more than that. A whole lot more. Ollie, what have you got going on in there, I wonder? She set her jaw and got out of the car. Then she marched up to the door and slipped inside with surprising ease. "You'd think you'd lock the doors around here."

"You'd think so," Victor noted. "Lady, what are you doing here?"

"Victor Stone aka Cyborg. I knew it! This has to be the place!" she declared with a feeling of triumph. "Where are your buddies?"

He motioned up the stairs. "They're in recovery. Green Bean's out with the magic lady at the moment. Anyone else you wanna check on?"

"Just wanted to make sure the fight you all picked didn't kill you," she indicated.

"Someone had to deal with Doomsday. We won," he disagreed while leading her toward the elevator.

"And who were the three flying masked guys? Seems they did all the work," she countered.

"Other members of the League. Boy Scout's been on a few missions with us. We recruited Raven recently. The third one Archer Boy's working on himself," he explained cryptically. "Leader Man's already chewing himself out big time over the maneuver."

"He should be. You all should have been killed," she chided as they headed down the hall. One by one, she peeked in on the sleeping heroes. She saw their injuries and noted their sacrifices.

As she reached AC's room, she stopped cold.

He was on his back in a water filled tank with his ribs and left leg wrapped. He shook his head.

"Hey, Fish Cakes! You have a visitor!" Victor announced into an intercom at the door.

"Who?" AC squinted as he saw her standing there. "Lois? What are you doing here? How did you find us?"

"Amazing what a little research will do." She grinned in pride. "Besides what's a girl going to do? I'm a reporter. I like to delve into the depths."

"You did that out in Smallville too," AC recalled. "Even if you couldn't swim as fast as me." He coughed and grinned at her.

"In your dreams, Fish Boy," she sassed back while walking up to the tank. "I still want that rematch some time. By the way, you eat, right?"

"Last time I checked I did. Why? You hungry? I could get the Tin Man to find something for us," AC offered.

"I'm fine. Maybe we could get together…for well…dinner at my place. We left things kind of undone at the dock when you just swam out of my life," she declared.

"Dinner and a swim maybe? Well…maybe when I get out of here. Think you can wait a couple of days?" he suggested.

"You're on. Can't wait to see what you've got up that culinary sleeve of yours, Curry," she accepted.

"I'll surprise you." He grinned at her while feeling the sparks they had back in Smallville almost three years earlier. "Hey, meantime, mind taking a seat and talking for a while? Not that it's all that great of a place but the solitary's driving me crazy."

"Yeah. I can do that," he agreed as they continued the conversation for a while afterwards.