"Helena, It's me, Dinah," she heard a voice "we injected an antidote into both of you against the fear drug, you will be fine in a few minutes." Dinah looked at her waist "Damn..." she mumbled loosening it. "Bring the handbag Reese!"

She came closer to Barbara and placed her hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay Oracle? Do you recognize me?"

Barbara nodded, feeling the terrible fear disappearing. she began to relax.

"Reese is with me," Dinah continued to explain. "I was able to get the antidote with your instructions."

"Thanks you... you did very well..." Barbara smiled at her.

"I brought this to you, it could be useful" Dinah took the transponder out of her backpack. "Its dangerous, but it's more dangerous if you can't defend your self..."

Reese knelt down next to Helena, he opened the handbag, she felt alleviated, being liberated of the drug effect and the fear, it mentally gave her an enormous rest. Her breathing began to return to normal.

"God!" she breathed deeply "I feel much better..."

"Are you joking?" Reese looked at her, surprised.

"No..." Helena said in a low voice "I feel very good..."

"You don't need to give her an antibiotic. There's no time" Barbara said to Reese while she placed the transponder on her waist. "we have to prevent an infection and we have to control the fever, take out a bandage, just cover the wound. We need to catch Scarecrow."

"Barbara, I'll bring it to you" Dinah showed her some small capsules.

"What is that?" Barbara asked and Dinah simply smiled.

Reese finished assisting Huntress, her lips were so pale. He cleaned her wet forehead and touched her cheek. "She is very hot..." he said.

"I'm fine..." Helena whispered half-opening her eyes.

"Reese, take her out of here" Barbara leaned down next to Helena and looked at her.

"Dinah and I will search for Scarecrow."

"But..."

"Without the effect of the gas it won't be very difficult for us. I know him." Barbara explained "we can't expose Helena to a fight, neither can we leave her alone, she has lost a lot of blood and she has a fever, she is lost if they find her before us. Please take care of her, go to the Clocktower, Alfred will be able to help her there."

"Ready?" Dinah opened the door and leaned out.

"Reese?" Oracle look fixedly at the detective "Can I count on you?"

"Okay" Reese declared. He hated to leave her alone but Helena really needed attention, she was shivering.

"Where's Dinah?" Oracle asked.

"Follow me, we can surprise him." Barbara and Dinah left the cell.

Reese put a hand on her back. "We have to go."

"I'm fine..." Huntress told him trying to reject the help.

"No, you are not fine" Reese nagged her, "we have to go" he helped her get up. Huntress didn't like to depend on anybody, but in that moment she understood that she couldn't reject it, she felt dazed, the cold invaded her body and her legs couldn't support her own weight. She tried to walk a step but her legs didn't respond. Reese held her to prevent her from falling. She moaned.

"Are you okay?" asked Reese.

"Yes, I'm fine." she whispered trying to keep her eyes open, her mouth was dry "It just. it hurts me."

Reese knew that she was to weak to walk. "Let me help you." He said lifting her. "I'm thirsty..." She placed her head on his shoulder, she felt so tired, so weak. "Hold on, just hold on." He said.

Huntress couldn't respond, she fainted. Reese began to walk to the opposite side of the hallway heading for the exit.

* * *

Scarecrow closed the box he was holding in his hand. He headed over to a computer.

"It is ready" he told to one of his men. "Do you want to see how it works?"

A batarang flew across the room and hit his hand throwing the control to the floor. "That won't be necessary" Barbara took the batarang with her hand.

"You?" Scarecrow was surprised when he saw Oracle walk into the room.

The two men in black rushed at her but Dinah forced both away with her power, smashing them against the wall, Oracle walked towards Scarecrow, who took a cap out of his pocket and shattered it against the floor.

"I am your worst nightmare" he said, laughing.

"And I'm yours! Bastard!" Barbara hit him in the jaw.

"How are you able to...?" Scarecrow got back up, surprised that Barbara wasn't afraid of him. Barbara kicked him in the stomach throwing him against a table "That is for Huntress!" she took him by his neck and punched him in his face "And that too!"

Dinah came closer to the interceptor and taking a seat destroyed it with a smash. One of the men in black rose but Dinah knocked him out with a single blow.

Scarecrow attacked Oracle with fury. "Your nightmares will take control of you!" he screamed pushing her against a table, and placing his hands on her neck.

"No, not to me" Barbara said putting one of the capsules that Dinah had given her in his mouth and pressing his jaw to break it "To you yes! Without your gas you are nobody!"

Scarecrow began to swoon and Oracle hit him in the face making him fall to the floor. The sinister figure began to scream. He was terrified. He crawled full of panic to the corner of the room.

"Good.we gave him a taste of his own medecine!" Dinah said coming closer to Oracle.

"Yes... That was very ingenious on your behalf"

"Having the compound, it was easy to recreate the same gas"

Barbara looked at her "I am very proud of you, you did a good job."

Dinah broke into a wide smile.

* * *

Oracle & Dinah arrived at Clock Tower As fast as she could, Barbara ran toward the infarmary, where Alfred finished stitching the wound in Huntress' waist.

"Is she ok?" she asked Alfred, putting in her hands a pair of gloves.

"Yes Miss Barbara"

Barbara observed Alfred's work on the wound. "This looks good."

"I have magic hands Miss Barbara."

"I know that" Barbara smiled "Is she.?"

"She is awake, she asked me used just s local anestethic" Alfred began to placed a sterile piece of gauze over the sutures.

"I'm tired of being drugged." Huntress said with low voice "And I hate your drugs."

Barbara looked at Helena's face and cuddled her head. "How do you feel, Helena"

Dinah smiled, knowing the strong union between Barbara and Helena, but but also knowing that it was very rare to see both women showing their feelings to each other. They usually were hard and inexpressive.

"I'm feeling better. I'm happy to see you both again, I was worried. what happened with him?."

"It's all over. forget it now, we talk later about that" Oracle said and touched her forehead ".she is warm yet Alfred."

"I gave her an antibiothic when she arrived," Alfred said finishing to tape the gauze "It's working, the fever is lower."

"Hi partner!" Dinah said with a big smile behind Oracle.

"Hi blondie." Huntress couldn't avoid returning a smile ".Thanks."

"No thanks please, you both will do the same."

"I'm sorry" Alfred said "I need bandage Miss Helena and later take her to rest, she needs sleep a while. It has been a very hard day."

"I can do that Alfred." Barbara said.

"No, I'm going to help Alfred" Dinah touched Barbara's shoulder "You go and take off the transporder."

"But."

"And you thought I was obbstinate." Helena whispered.

"She is right Miss Barbara" Alfred looked her "That thing hurts you."

Barbara sighed and up her hands "Okay, okay, you win."
* * *
Two days later, Barbara played with her hands while she chatted with Dinah.

"You have advanced a lot, I believe that you will be a very good detective."

Dinah felt excited, she was seateded in front of her. "Do you really believe that?.

"Of course, just continue putting an effort into school."

"That is the part that I don't like" Dinah said, a displeasured look on her face.

"We all have to do that" Barbara laughed.

In that moment they heard Helena come closer from behind. She walked slowly toward them, her waist still hurt a little.

"Hi!" Dinah smiled "You are awake."

"Are you sure this won't leave a scar?" the youth asked Barbara as she stopped by her side while looking at her bandage, "It would be terrible. I would never be able to wear a bikini ever again."

"No," Barbara laughed "I told you several times, your vanity will be satisfied."

"You really are conceited!." Dinah said.

"I have enough of them hitting me all the time, I don't like being filled with scars" Helena said upset "I am still very young."

"Don't play with that!" Barbara told her removing Helena's hand from the bandage.

"It's itching." Helena protested.

"I know , but don't touch it!." Barbara Insisted. Dinah observed the amusing scene.

"Helena...." Barbara looked her in the eyes "do you really fear Batman? He is your father... I always thought that you had some resentment against him, but not fear."

"I resent Bruce Wayne... But, Batman..." Helena meditated "perhaps his legend is too big for me, a challenge very difficult to overcome, for not living under his shadow... for not being his daughter. Maybe I'm afraid of not being able to be as good as him..." Helena looked out to the horizon "perhaps to demonstrate to me that I don't need him... or to show me how good I am..."

"You are very good, you have your own personality, your own style... never compare yourself with him, you are completely different."

Helena lowered her head and looked at her feet. "Do you believe that he left because I could not avoid that my m...?"

"He didn't know that he had a daughter" Barbara interrupted her "Your mother never told him. He didn't abandon you, he doesn't have resentment against you, he just didn't know that you existed."

The silence was in the air for a few moments. Helena felt so sad.

"It was so difficult... I miss her..." she said.

"I know ... She would be very proud of you now. "

"Thank you Barbara..."

Barbara looked at her. "Why?"

"Without you I wouldn't have known what had belonged to me... perhaps I'd have continued wandering. Inflicting my fury on somebody.."

Barbara took her hand. "I believe that we survive together and we help ourselves to continue ahead." Helena smiled.

"Yes," Dinah said "you gave her enough distraction taking you out of your messes."

"Messes? I never was never in any messes..." Helena shouted but stopped when she saw Barbara looking at her with a raised eyebrow. "... well they were... were small setbacks."

"Ah, setbacks" Barbara laughed "And when you were out because you put grease on the floor in the hallway at school?"

"Did you do that? Dinah asked surprised.

"It was an innocent joke" Helena puckered her frown.

"And how about that time you spiked the water? Was that innocent?"

Helena looked up.

"Really you were terrible." Dinah laughed "How many days did they expel you?."

"Okay, okay, time out, enough" Helena raised the hand.

"You were really a pain in the ass" Barbara smiled looking at Helena who felt a little embarrassed. ".But you lightened my days... and you continue doing it."

Both women looked at themselves and began to laugh.