Note: I'm so, so, so sorry about leaving you so long without an update, but like I said I was in Canada with no access to this place. You guys are lucky though, or maybe I am, but I just managed to post the last chapter the morning I left, you have no idea how relieved I was. Anywho here's the next chappie for you to enjoy.

Disclaimer: not mine, but I wish they were.

Blue eyes met blue, each a different shade, and each holding their own completely separate thoughts; one pair was confused but joyful, the other was compassionate yet cautious. They searched each other peering deep inside, one needing to know if the other was real, and the other needing to know if the one was all right. Peering deep into each other, they finally found the need to voice their thoughts. "Are you real?" Helena asked. "I'm not just going psycho and imagining this?"

"No, I'm real, I'm here, and for now, I'm safe to." Dinah replied smiling brightly at her girlfriend.

Helena's gloved hand (which was covered by now with drying blood) slowly reached up to Dinah's face, tracing from the jaw to the ear before finally cupping her cheek. "I thought you were gone, Barbara said that you were, and the beep, I was so scared." Barbara chose this moment to leave, deciding that it would be best for the two to have a moment alone; they hadn't told her about their relationship yet, but she was more than capable of guessing their status.

"Nothing to be scared of now, I won't be leaving you again anytime soon." Dinah assured.

"It's just. . . it was like my mother all over again, but worse cause it felt like it really was my fault this time. I shouldn't let you push yourself so hard."

"Stop it. Stop it right now Helena Kyle. I won't have you guilt tripping on me, I won't. It was the Kaze's fault and no one else understand?" Reprimanded Dinah softly.

"I guess, it was just hard is all, seeing you like that." Helena looked straight into Dinah's eyes, "I decided to just shut down Dinah. If I couldn't have you, then no one could have me for anything, not even saving lives. It was so fucking selfish of me."

"It's alright Helena, to be honest I probably would've done the same thing, but if this were to ever happen again, or anything like it, you know that I'd want you to go on right?"

"I know, but it'd just be so hard. I love you." Helena finally smiled. "But for you, I'll do it, if it happens again, which I'll make sure that it won't."

"I love you to Helena, and it's nice to know that I have my own knight in black leather ready to save me." Dinah teased, the humor finally returning.

"Yep, you're just my little damsel in distress." Helena's smile faded briefly turning more serious. "Don't you dare ever to that to me and Barbara again though, especially me; we care about you a lot."

"Don't you worry about it, I'll do my best, and I know that you will to. As much as I'd like to continue this heart to heart, I think that we should be getting back to work, and also that we should tell Barbara about us; she deserves to know."

"Alright, I'm going to kill those bastards for, well, killing you." Helena threatened.

"We won't kill them, just punish them severely." Their eyes caught each other's once again, and for a moment they just stared at each other, content to sit like that for as long as need be. Helena's eyes was then draw to the still very prominent gash in Dinah's leg (she had been so adamant about seeing Helena that she had not yet allowed Barbara to wrap it.)

"You're hurt." Helena almost whispered; it was just a little too loud to be one. "We have to get Barbara to bandage it."

"You sure do know how to ruin a moment." Dinah sighed; she tried climbing back to her feet, but found the pain nearly unbearable. When she had first gotten up, she had been focused solely on Helena, and the pain never registered in her mind, but now it was back with a fiery vengeance. She fell back down the few inches that she had managed to rise, her face held in a grimace as she fought the pain.

Helena picked Dinah up, which, momentarily, made her forget about the pain and replaced it with surprise. Just as she was about to protest Helena spoke, "You're hurt and Barbara needs to take care of you, so just let her before she finds something in all these boxes to knock you out with." This promptly shut Dinah up, and she instead opted for snuggling into Helena's arms. "Barbara, I have injured here."

"Put here on the table." Barbara instructed from where she was sifting through one of the many containers inside the warehouse. "I've just got to get a few things and I'll be right there." For a few more moments she continued from one box to another until, Helena supposed, she managed to collect everything necessary.

Examining the wound more closely Barbara was able to figure out what it was that needed to be done. "Alright, I'm going to inject this into the area around the wound, all it'll do is make the area numb so that I can stitch you up." Barbara explained as she filled a syringe with a clear liquid, and then inserted it into Dinah's leg, only removing it once the plunger was fully depressed. Carefully she made one stitch after another as if she really were a doctor, but then again she took care of both Huntress and Canary so often that it was no real surprise. "Helena, could you help flip Dinah over, I need to stitch the bottom to, that piece of glass did a lot of damage."

Gently Helena aided Dinah in rolling over giving a comforting smile as she did so, "Is this okay?" Helena asked when Dinah was finally laying on her stomach.

"Yes that's fine, I'll be done in just a little bit."

"Are you okay, Dinah?"

"Don't worry so much Helena, I can't even feel it." Dinah smiled to reassure her, and Helena returned it.

"I'm done now, so you can roll back over if you want." Barbara informed the two.

"Okay, Helena, help me sit up."

"Whoa, hold on Dinah. I said roll over, not sit up. Now you can roll over if you want." Barbara gave her a stern glance that clearly said that Dinah had better not even attempt to get up. Dinah sighed in annoyance, but didn't dare to disobey Barbara after that look, in the end she was laying on her back. Both the two girls gave each other a look of hesitancy, but in the end knew they had to tell Barbara about them, and the sooner, the better.

"Barbara, could you come over here? Dinah and I need to talk to you." \

Barbara wheeled over quickly so that she was on the opposite side of the table to Helena. "What is it?" Already Barbara had a sort of inkling as to what this was going to be about, but knew it was best for the girls to come out and say it.

"Um, well. . . you see the thing is that, uh, Helena and I have grown close since I came back." Dinah started.

"Very close." Helena added helpfully.

"And um, well there are feelings." Dinah continued.

"Strong feelings." Added Helena once again.

"Yeah, strong." Dinah agreed with Helena, "And, uh, me. . . me and Helena have um, grown close with these strong feelings."

"Very close."

"Right, so what we're trying to say is that um. . ." Dinah trailed off.

"We're in love with each other." Both blurted in the same moment.

Barbara couldn't help but smile at the cuteness of it all, the great and mighty Helena reduced to a mass of twitching nerves, to her credit though, she did manage to contain her laughter. "And?" She prodded.

"That's, uh, that's kind've it." Dinah said a little hesitantly.

"Dinah, Helena, it's okay. You love who you love, all I need to say is don't let it interfere with work." Barbara stated after seeing how nervous the two of them were.

Both gave a sigh of relief along with two huge grins, "Thanks Barbara." Said Helena.

"No problem, but for now, we need to get to more important matters such as the Kaze." Barbara advised. "I've found an inventory of everything here, but we're going to need some time for Dinah's leg to heal, and to come up with a plan."

"You have building schematics don't you?" Dinah asked.

"Unfortunately no, the only thing I know is what building it is."

"That's not a major problem. All we have to do is call up Tek and get him to get the schematics, then he can send them to us so that we have an easier planning time." Dinah explained

"I'll get him on the line." Helena told them as she wandered off to grab a phone of sorts. "Here." She said as she brought the phone back to Dinah."

Dialing the numbers, Dinah waited for Tek to answer. "Dinah?" came the question from the other side.

"Tek, it's a good thing you're there. We know where the Kaze are, but the thing is that we need a print of the building, can you get it?"

"It'll only take me a few minutes, set up the laptop I gave you in one of the bins and I'll send it to you on that." Tek instructed.

"Thanks Tek, we'll talk to you again when we know more."

"Well, don't be a stranger." Tek told her before the line went blank.

Pulling over the laptop so that everyone could see it, (which meant that it was lying on Dinah's stomach) so that they could all go over the best ways to get in.

"Look there at the top, we could always do the old entrance through the sky light." Helena suggested fondly as she pointed to the screen.

"Or here, there's an under ground tunnel that leads into the building. Can we get a closer look at that?" Barbara asked.

"Yeah sure." Dinah answered, punching a few keys that enlarged the specified area. "It's not wide enough for any vehicles, so he wouldn't be using it for shipping."

"You're right, and so far the security looks pretty low. See there?" Helena pointed. "I looks like it's just a card reader, and with all the toys your friend gave us Dinah, that should be easy enough to break through."

"How long of a hike is it from the start?" Barbara asked, and then answered her own question. "About a mile and a half. That's not very long for you two, but you'll want to travel fairly light, or it could seem a lot longer."

"Now the question is what do we do when we get inside?" Dinah questioned.

"Well definitely to get Saio, you've got to at least take out the leader." Helena commented.

"Right, but there's got to be more to it. We also need to stop as many youkai as possible, and get rid of some of those weapons." Barbara pointed out.

This sparked an idea in Dinah's head. "Barbara, what if we used their weapons against them?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, look here." Taping a few more keys the screen shifted showing a large square room in the back of the building with a road meant for shipping trucks leading up to it. "This has to be a storage area, so what if after we capture Saio, we use their own explosives to destroy everything."

"It's definitely not a bad plan." Helena almost laughed out the sentence.

"Just a little more planning and a few tweaks here and there and it'll be more than ready to be put to use." Barbara commented.

And so the planning commenced once more, as they went over plans and equipment for the night. Eventually though, they became tired and it was found necessary to sleep.

Meanwhile on the top of a large building a meeting was taking place. "So what can you tell me?" Saitoh asked.

"They have schematics of your new hideout, and they're holding up in a warehouse filled with all sorts of goodies." A strangely mechanical voice answered.

"Right, find out anything else that you can. I want to know anything and everything about them, understand?"

"Perfectly." Came the odd voice.

"Good, now get out of here." Saitoh ordered as he threw a wad of bills down on the ground at the person's feet. "I don't want to see you again until you have something else to report." With that Saitoh stalked off the building.

Note: Okay, I know that I really don't deserve reviews for leaving you all hanging like that, but could you guys find it within the kindness of your heart to review anyway? I didn't really get any ideas while I was gone I'm sorry to say, but I did get an idea for a new story that I'll probably start writing after I'm done this one. Maybe I'll even give a little preview at the end of this story. Please review, it was my birthday a little while ago, so how bout nice happy birthday reviews, huh?