Author's Note: Sorry it took so long; we had the worse case of writer's
block in the world. We wrote twenty different versions of stories, all were
stupid, and made no damn sense at all. It didn't even sound like a Birds of
Prey fan fiction, it sound, well weird so we tossed them all and rewrote
what we had all ready rewritten nineteen times.
Part 4~Helena's Christmas 2: Batman's Promise
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Helena awoke to find herself lying next to a completely naked Detective Jesse Reese; she quickly searched the room for her clothes. She spotted her skirt handing off of the ceiling fan; she quickly jumped up to get it down. She dressed and scribbled a quick note to Reese and jumped out the window; okay so not your typical exit, but she's Helena Kyle, the great Huntress, what else needs to be said? She made her way home only to find Alfred sitting on her couch reading a book. "What are you doing here?" Helena asked stopping dead in her tracks. Alfred glanced up from his book, "I should ask you the same thing, Miss Helena," Alfred replied.
"This is my apartment, Alfred."
"And what day is it, Miss Helena?" she desperately search for a clock and/or calendar. "Oh, Thursday morning."
"Yes Miss Helena, the day we usually have our little talks. Where were you?"
"You're not Barbara."
"Miss Helena, has that ever actually worked?"
"Well, not really, but a girl can hope, can't she?"
"As much as she'd like, but you still haven't answered my question, Miss Helena."
"I was with Reese."
"Still on your date?"
"You could say that."
"What else could I say about it, Miss Helena?"
"Something happened that.um.usually doesn't happen on a first date regularly."
"Oh, that well what did he say?"
"I wouldn't know, I left before he could reply. Well more like before he could awaken."
"Miss Helena! What were you thinking? You have to work with him!"
"I wasn't thinking, obviously."
"Well not much of a surprise coming form you, Miss Helena."
"Well, thanks Alfred; I feel so cared about."
"Miss Helena, you always do this. Why can't you just stay a whole night without jumping out a window?"
"Well I'm sorry, alright!"
"Perhaps you should talk about this in therapy."
"I'd rather not, but thanks for the suggestion."
"Miss Helena! U shall do as you're told; you have to work through your problems. I can't always help you."
"I'm not surprised, no one helps me anyways, not unlike my father."
"Miss Helena."
"don't you dare Miss Helena me, Alfred! I'm tired of this bullshit! Always standing up for the man who left me, abandoned me! How dare you?"
"How dare I? How dare you?! He is your father no matter what he's done?"
"Why do you always defend him? He left, he left my mom, Barbara, you, and me and still you defend him! Why?"
"Because your father was like a son to me! Alright! Because your father the great Batman, the savor of old Gotham was like a son to me."
"Oh, I didn't know.I'm sorry."
"No, you're not, Miss Helena. You feel guilty about what you said."
"And what if I am? Huh? What does it matter?"
"If an apology is not sincere it's not worth a thing."
"Look Alfred I just made a huge mistake and now I have to fix it and I don't know how."
"Perhaps we can talk about this subject this afternoon over lunch."
"My place 12:30pm and be on time."
"As you wish Miss Helena. I must be getting to the clock tower before Miss Barbara and Miss Dinah awake. I do have to make sure it's all in order."
"And what the great Oracle can't?"
"No, not by herself; remember when I went to Europe for a week.?"
"Oh yeah, I remember, that was the first time I begged not to eat."
"Now, Miss Barbara's cooking isn't really that bad; was it?"
"Yes, it is; you eat some of it."
"No, Miss Helena I don't have a death wish."
"Ha, ha, ha!" Helena said between yawns.
"Perhaps you should get some rest, you have quite a busy day tomorrow actually today."
"Night Alfred."
"Good morning Miss Helena, I shall be back later so we may have our usually talk."
"Okay Alfred see ya later."
"Yes, Miss Helena, we shall."
Helena leaned against the door after she heard a satisfying click; she slid down the door and laid her head on her knees. How stupid can I be? What was I thinking? Duh, I wasn't thinking as usual, she thought. Reese, what's he think about this whole thing? Maybe we can pretend it never happened, she thought as she drifted off into a sleep full of questioning dreams. ~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~& "Helena! Helena! elnHHHHHelena Kyle! Get up right now young lady. You're gonna be late for school!" Selina Kyle shouted into her daughter's room.
"I'm almost ready, I just have to do my hair."
"Wonderful, I only have to wait two hours."
"Don't be so dramatic mom."
"I'm not being dramatic, it's true. You take forever to do your hair."
"Do not!"
"Do to! Now hurry up, it would be nice if you show up to school on time once this month."
"I was on time on Monday."
"Of the last day of October," Selina added her motherly tone sneaking in.
"Alright, alright. I'm done, happy?"
"Yes, now let's get going."
"Mom?"
"Yes, Helena." her mother said turning her attention back to her daughter.
"Can I.um.a bunch of."
"Helena, spit it out!"
"A bunch of the girls on the drill team, actually all of them, are going to a movie on Friday and.can I go?"
"You should have just said that. Sure, which theater?"
"The new one."
"What time?"
"5:50pm."
"Who is taking you?"
"Coach."
"Who is taking you home?"
"Melissa."
"What time are you going to be home?"
"Around 8:00pm, 8:15pm."
"If you're not here by 8:15 on the nose you're not going anywhere next weekend, understand?"
"Yes."
"Good, now let's get going, I'm gonna be late for work."
"Alright," Helena replied and ran to grab her backpack. "Who is picking me up after school?"
"Don't you have practice?"
"No, coach is sick, she doesn't want us to practice without her."
"Well, I'll see if Barbara or Lisa can."
"Lisa? Who is Lisa?"
"You remember Lisa, she use to always take care of you."
"Oh yeah, but she doesn't drive."
"Right, that I'll ask Barbara."
"Okay, so let's go." The phone began to ring and Selina made her way over to it. "Helena, go to the car. Here are the keys," she said as she tossed the keys to her daughter. "Alright mom, hurry up through," she caught the keys and ran out the door. Selina picked up the phone, "Hello." There was nothing but stone clod silence on the other end. "Hello!" Soon Selina grew impatient and she slammed the receiver down; she grabbed her briefcase and purse off of the kitchen counter. She ran down the stairs and into the parking garage; she got into her car and put her stuff into the backseat. She started the car and drove Helena to school; she dropped her off right in front of the main school building, "Helena remember, Barbara's gonna pick you up, be outside waiting for her, understand?" Selina asked before Helena closed the car door. "Yes mom. Bye," Helena said as she gave her mother a kiss on the cheek. She closed the door and ran up the stairs of New Gotham High and disappeared into the building. The doors closed behind her, her mother drove off once she saw her daughter safely enter the school building.
That afternoon Barbara was waiting outside for Helena after school, "Hey Barbara," Helena said as she opened the door.
"Hello Helena," Barbara replied as she started the engine.
"So, you're taking me straight home?"
"Um.well I to have to make one quick stop before I drop you off."
"Okay, do I stay in the car?"
"No, you can come in with me."
"Okay."
"So, how's the drill team doing these days?"
"Good, we're getting our uniforms Friday."
"Really? How much did they cost?"
"Um.About 700 dollars."
"Wow! Your mom paid for the whole thing?"
"No, I raised the money for half and mom paid the other half."
"Good, you must have worked hard."
"Yeah, we even got o sponsor."
"Really, and what does this sponsor do?"
"He pays for all the buses we use to go to compete against other teams, well actually he's paying for everything but the uniforms."
"Well, who is this great sponsor of yours."
"Bruce Wayne."
"Bruce Wayne, as in the multimillionaire?"
"Duh, unless you know another Bruce Wayne that I don't know about."
"Actually I do, Barbara thought. "No, I don't. Does your mother know about this?"
"Of course, she's the one who suggested him."
"So, have you meet Bruce Wayne?"
"No, not yet we're suppose to meet him next week."
"Well, how would you like to meet him today?"
"That would be so cool!"
"Wonderful, we're going to his office right now."
"You're joking right?" it's impossible to get an appointment with Bruce Wayne."
"I know Bruce, he and I are good friends."
"Really? Why didn't mom ever tell me, it would have made it easier to get him as a sponsor."
"Well, obviously your mother wanted you to work to get Bruce as a sponsor."
"But it was really hard, took us almost two months to get him to come to one of our performances than another three weeks just to get an appointment with him and them another three hours to actually talk to him."
"Prove you're a hard worker, Bruce likes people who work hard. No wonder he chose to sponsor the drill team."
"Well, all that hard work was hard."
"Obviously Helena."
Barbara parked the car in front the Wayne's Enterprise building; they got out of the car and walked into the building through two huge glass doors. Helena looked around; most of the inside of the building was glass and marble. "Wow!" Was the only word that escaped Helena's tightly sealed lips.
"Big, isn't it?" Barbara asked as she stopped next to her.
"Wow! I didn't know it was this big."
"Well, now you do."
Barbara walked up to the front desk, "Hello, I'm here to see Bruce Wayne."
The woman behind the desk looked up, "Oh, hello Miss Gordon. Mister Wayne is waiting for you."
"Thank you, Diana."
"You are very welcome, Miss Gordon."
"Can we take the stairs?" Helena asked as she looked at the grand spiral staircase.
"If you want to."
"Great, race ya." They both dashed up the stairs, Barbara began to notice Helena's speed; she was quick and agile like a cat, much like her mother. She's coming into her abilities very nicely, Barbara thought, Selina will be very proud. "Barbara, can I say one thing?" Helena asked as Barbara finally reached the top of the staircase. "Go ahead." Barbara said as she caught her breath. "You're so slow."
"Well, I'm not as young as I once was."
"Obviously."
"Hey!"
"You and mom are almost the same age."
"She's almost five years younger than I."
".And she can keep up with me when I run."
"Yeah, but you always run together. You and I never do."
"True, but that's because your always busy."
"Being Batgirl," Barbara said under her breath; it was the perfect end to the sentence, and Helena heard it.
"Bruce are you in here?" Barbara asked as she entered his office with Helena. "Bruce? Are you in here? It's me, Barbara." Soon Barbara grew impatient. "BRUCE WAYNE GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!!!"
"Why hello Barbara," Bruce replied as he entered. "I see you brought a guest."
"Not just any guest, you're sponsoring this young lady's drill team."
"Oh, yes. I'm suppose to see the rest of the team, in a week."
"So I brought her early, is that a problem?"
"No, what's your name young lady?"
"Helena Kyle and I am captain of the drill team."
"The leader of the pack."
"You could say that."
"Wonderful so, how's the drill team coming along?"
"Great, we're getting our new uniforms soon."
"Wonderful, you must show them to me when the team gets them."
"Okay, I'll make sure and do that."
"Great, I'll make sure to leave an opening in my appointment book."
Helena smiled, "Thank you Mr. Bruce Wayne."
"Please call me Bruce, Helena."
"Alright, Bruce."
"Now Barbara, what are you hear for?"
"Need to talk to you about."
"Oh, yes."
"Yes or no?"
"Yes, he will be there to help us tonight."
"Well, I have to drop off Helena and then I'll be back."
"Alright Barbara, see you later."
Barbara stopped in front of Helena's and her mother's apartment building, "So, what did you think of Bruce?" Barbara asked bringing Helena's attention back to her. "He's great, why?" Helena asked curiosity in her voice. "Well, I would like to know if you like to know if you like my friend or not." Helena could tell that, that wasn't the reason but she went along with it. "Well, no need to worry, I like him, I really do." She grabbed her backpack and got out of the car; she turned back and kissed Barbara on the cheek. She ran to the front of the building and once she was inside the building Barbara left. ~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%
Helena awoke to light shinning on her face and birds singing like idiots; she got up and closed the curtains and laid in her bed and went back to sleep. When she got up for the second and last time that afternoon, she walked into the kitchen only to find Alfred seated at the table, "Tea or coffee, Miss Helena?" Alfred asked as he walked over to the counter. "Coffee, please," she replied as she seated herself. Alfred placed a cup in front of her, and than made himself a cup of tea. "Shall we talk?" he asked as he seated himself with his tea.
"Sure."
"Wonderful, let's start at what happened last night, " he said getting right down to the point. "After the date," he clarified.
"What do you think?"
"And why didn't you stop it?"
"Cuz I didn't want to."
"Now, Miss Helena really! That's not an answer."
"Well it is to me."
"You can be so stubborn at times, Miss Helena."
"Well, there's nothing I can do now is there?"
"You are right, Miss Helena, for once you are right."
"Well thanks for complementing me and insulting me all in the same sentence. How convent for you."
"I didn't mean to both insult and complement you all at once."
"Well, it saved you time, now lets move on."
"As you wish Miss Helena."
"Lose the Miss, Alfred."
"I cannot, that would be showing disrespect."
"No, it wouldn't. I asked you to."
"Miss Helena, even through your father was practically my son I still called him Master Bruce."
"Well, that's him not me, so stop bringing him up."
"I refuse to, Miss Helena! I refuse to let you forget about your father."
"My father! Why don't you get it through your head! He's gone, just think of him as dead."
"No, Miss Helena! He's not! He's a great warrior and he will always be! I refuse to let you speak about your father."
"No! My father is suppose to be this great warrior, the savor of Gotham but where is he? Huh? Where was Gotham's greatest champion when I needed him? Nowhere! That's where! He was never ever there when I needed him. Hell, he was never there for me, period!"
"Miss Helena, your father was the great savor of Gotham, but he isn't now. He didn't know you existed, if he had I doubt he would have left."
"Why does everyone defend him?"
"Because he was an important person to me; I loved him like a son and he treated me like a father."
"Sorry, Alfred, I didn't mean to piss you off.I just.why didn't you ever tell me that?"
"Because, I knew you would never understand, you hate your father and I never have and never will; I'm far to caring to do so, Miss Helena. I care for you as much as I care for your father perhaps more, but don't forget, Miss Helena just because I stand up for your father doesn't mean I don't care for you."
"You were always good at making me feel bad when I haven't done anything wrong."
"What can I say? It's a gift."
"Yeah, well my gift is getting me into more trouble than I need."
"Actually, Miss Helena you're getting yourself in more trouble than you need."
"Sure, blame it on me."
"Well, who else is there to blame, Miss Helena?"
"Well, thanks for the facts, Alfred."
"You are very welcome, Miss Helena."
"I was being sarcastic, Alfred!"
"And so was I, Miss Helena."
"Well, you can never tell."
"As with you, Miss Helena, as with you."
Helena got up and exited the room, leaving Alfred where he was, "We will have to talk about this, Miss Helena," Alfred said continuing to drink his tea. She emerged from her room and replied, "But not today, and not tomorrow, and not the next and not anytime soon." She grabbed her purse off the couch and walked out the front door, "I'm going to work, Alfred. See you later." Helena closed the door behind her and leaned her head against it.
"Helena! Helena! Respond!" Oracle shouted.
"What?!" Helena annoyingly replied.
"Well someone's in a bad moon," Dinah said coming in through the com set.
"Who asked you?" Helena replied.
"I did."
"Let's just get back to the problem," Oracle said breaking up the fight before it began.
"What's the problem Oracle?" Helena said getting down to business.
"I need you and Reese to work together on this new case."
"What case?"
Barbara quickly disconnected Dinah's com set, "There have been reports of, well more like have been sightings of the joker, more like someone who looks like the Joker. I don't want to tell Dinah about this, I want you and Reese to handle it."
"Alright Barbara."
"Good." She reconnected Dinah. "Sorry Dinah, technical glitch."
"Alright," Dinah replied a bit suspicious.
"Helena."
"Yeah?"
"Reese is waiting for you at the corner of Maple and Spruce."
"Alright, I'm on my way." Helena felt so many emotions surging through her body as she raced across the rooftops of Gotham. Emotions that were tearing through her strong body, making her feel, for once in her life, timid, scared and weak. She stopped, still on the rooftops of Gotham; she looked down and spotted none other than Detective Jesse Reese. All the emotions began to tear through her body more quickly, making her feel more timid, scared and weak than before. But of all the emotions ripping through her strong body, an emotion she hadn't felt in years was the strongest. an emotion she thought she'd never feel again. She took the deepest breath she could and jumped. Helena covered Reese's eyes with her hands, "Guess who?" she said. "The one and only Huntress."
"What do you know, you're right," she said as she removed her hands.
"So, are we gonna."
"Don't even say it," she said as she cut him off.
"Alright," Reese replied.
"That's all you have to say? You're such a guy!"
"Well, I hope so."
"This is not a joke! This is serious! I've got to call Oracle."
"Don't you have any friends without code names?"
"Um.Do you and my butler count?"
"Forget it."
"Thought you had to call Oracle?"
"Oh, yeah," she turned her com set on. "Oracle.Oracle, are you there?"
"Yes, are you with Reese?"
"Yes, why?"
"We better get started before whoever this guy is decides to do something to make a name for himself."
"So, where do we go?"
"He's been spotted at most of the Joker's old hideouts."
"Go to the most popular place," Helena said, practically reading Barbara's mind.
"Right, go there now!"
"We're on it."
"Good, now hurry the hell up!"
"We're going! We're going! God, calm down, Oracle."
"I am calm."
"You call this calm?"
"When am I ever completely calm?"
"Never."
"That's not true!"
"Oh, and this is such a great example?"
"Huntress.shut up!"
"Ooo, the great Oracle said shut up. I'm so scared, I'm shaking in my leather."
"Huntress!"
"What can I say, the voice told me to say it."
"Oh, stop blaming it."
"Whoever said there was only one?"
"Fine, I'll rephrase. Oh, stop blaming them."
"Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
"Oh, shut it!"
"I will not."
"Now you sound like Alfred."
"Wonderful, I'm being compared to a British butler."
"I know, it's A grand complement."
"Sure, a well paid high school English teach, being compared to a butler."
The best butler."
"Oracle shove it you're."
"Barbara, what happened?" Dinah asked cutting Huntress off.
"I believe you know the rest of that sentence," Helena said as she shot off her com set.
"Sorry, I guess there are still a few bugs I have to work out."
"Oh, you better work them out soon; my com set could go out during a fight."
"I know, I'm worried about that; I want you to head back to the clock tower."
"But Oracle."
"Dinah, you're a Jr. superhero not a senior superhero and anyways there are technical difficulties."
"Fine, just don't start techno babbling; you'll put me to sleep."
"Hurry up! Do you hear me, Dinah?"
"Yeah, yeah. I'm on my way." Dinah began the long trip back to the clock tower, it wasn't fair, even when Helena's com set went out she still got to fight crime, but not Dinah, she was treated like a complete child and she hated it! She continued to walk not really pay attention to what was going on around her, for if she had she would have noticed the five huge gritty guys coming up behind her. She was steaming, everyone treated her like a child; she wasn't a child she could take perfectly good care of herself; then again she was probably wrong. "Hey," a loud, strong male voice said. Dinah stopped dead in her tracks; what was she suppose to do? She could probably out run them, but she was in an ally and the only way to run was to a dead end; she could climb the wall but that would take too much and they'd probably pull her off it before she reached the top. She turned to face them, why was she in an ally anyways? Well, now is not the time to think about that, Dinah thought. "Barbara! Barbara! Are you there? Barbara answer me, now!!!" Dinah shouted, but she got no reply, her only chance was Helena. "Huntress! Huntress, are you there?" ~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~# "Dinah? Dinah, is that you?" Huntress asked as she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Huntress, I need your help now!" Dinah said her voice breaking up every few second, but Huntress got most of it.
"Why didn't you call Oracle?"
"I can't get through to her."
"Where are you?"
"In the ally where we took down Mike."
"Oh, I'll be there in five minutes, will you be okay till then?"
"I think so."
"Be safe, okay?"
"Yes, Huntress. And hurry!"
Helena began to walk away and Reese came after her, "Huntress where are you going?" Reese asked.
"Dinah needs me, she in some kind of trouble."
"Do you need any help?"
"Um.give me a pen."
"Here," he said handing her the pen. She wrote down where the ally was on his hand.
"Be there A.S.A.P."
"As you wish master."
Huntress didn't here his last comment, she was already half way up the wall; she had to get to Dinah, sure she hated the kid, but it didn't mean she deserved to die. She ran across the rooftops of Gotham faster than usual, finally she reached the ally and she looked down. There was Dinah's small blonde head ducking from flying punches; she was a pretty good fight, well of course she was Helena had been training her. Dinah got hit and when flying into the wall, okay now it was time for Huntress to save the day. She jumped from the roof and landed in front of the five ugly men, "Now, that's no way to treat a lady," Huntress replied.
"And who are you? A superhero?" one of the men asked.
"Hey, superheroes wear costumes, I don't. I'm a vigilante," she replied in a matter-of-fact tone.
"And who the hell do you think you are?"
"Your painful nightmare."
"Oh, yeah like a weak wanna be superhero chick is gonna kick my ass. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!"
"You are so gonna regret that." She punched him the face, causing him to fall back onto the rest of his friends. Huntress ran over to Dinah, "Dinah are you alright?" she asked as she knelt by Dinah's side. She was unconscious and Helena knew she had to get her out of there, "Oracle! Oracle! Damn it Oracle where are you? Respond Oracle, it important! Alfred!! Alfred! Alfred!! Please be there! Alfred! Barbara! Someone please answer!! Shit!" Three guys came at her; she had to keep Dinah safe and herself for that matter. She kicked one of the guys in the crock, she didn't pay attention to which one, all she was trying to do was get both of them out of there. She did the only thing she could do; use one of Barbara's newest inventions. It was some kind of gas that would only knock out nonmetas; she dropped the ball and ducked down from one of the guys' kicks. "Barbara, come in, Barbara! Barbara! Alfred? Anyone? Come on please someone!"
"Huntress! Huntress, are you here?" Reese shouted as he made his way to her. The gas had already cleared.
"Reese, I'm over here," Huntress said as she made her way to Dinah. "Oracle, come in. Oracle!!" Silence. "Oracle, come in. Oracle." Even more silence. "Batgirl, come in. Batgirl."
"That is just not funny Helena!" Oracle replied as she wheeled herself into the control room.
"Where the fuck were you?" she shouted back.
"I was down in the lab, I was finishing up some research."
"And why wasn't your com set on?"
"Huntress, is she alright?" Reese asked as he knelt down beside Helena.
"I don't know, she got thrown against the wall and then she was out like a light."
"We have to get her to a hospital."
"No, she's not all that human."
"So, where you gonna take her?"
"Back home to Oracle."
"I'll take you."
"Not a chance in hell Huntress, I've already sent someone down there," Oracle said as she began typing away Out of nowhere Gibson came running over to her.
"When did you get a car?" Huntress asked.
"Who said I was driving?" Gibson asked.
Another guy came out of the van, a fellow meta-human, a regular at Gibson's. "Dinah, can you hear me?" he asked squatting besides her. "How long has she been out?"
"A few minutes, I don't know," Huntress replied.
"Let's get her out of here. Gibson help me get her in the van, you clean up this mess."
"Well, here are you criminals, arrest them."
"I don't have three sets of cuffs," Reese replied.
"Rope," Huntress said then ran to the van and got in; they drove off. ~~~~~~~~
Dinah finally awoke two days later, Helena was in her room when she awoke, it had been her shift to watch Dinah. Helena was curled up like a cat in a huge cushion chair, it had once been in her penthouse, but she had no more room for it and Barbara had needed furniture for Dinah's room. It was black, of course it would be black it belonged to Helena Kyle. Dinah's vision was still very blurry, and she didn't want to wake Helena, she look so peaceful, which wasn't a usual quality in Helena. Dinah looked around the room trying to figure out where she was; she remembered this room very well, she spent most of her time in this room; she just couldn't put a name on it. She continued to let her eyes roam the room, to see if she could find some clue as to what the room was. Finally it hit her, it was her bedroom; that's where she was. She tried to sit up but was greeted instead with an agonizing headache; she let her body slip under the covers, she wondered what day it was. She wanted to know how long she had been out; she knew she had missed a few days of school and probably some training that would be critical to her becoming a full time superhero. Just what she needed an even better reason for Barbara to treat her like a child; she didn't treat Helena like that, then again Helena would have probably beat the shit out of her. Helena shifted slightly in her chair, the same dream had been coming to her night after night, it was her mother's funeral and she could have sworn she'd seen him before, but she couldn't place a name with his face and the question puzzled her even now. She knew she knew him, she just didn't know who he was at the moment; she shifted again and she knew she had to get up and check on Dinah, but she was too deep in her dream at the moment and didn't want to wake from it, not just yet. A jolt of pain went through Dinah and she screamed out loud, Helena's eyes snapped open, "Dinah, are you alright?" Helena asked rushing to her aid. "Alfred!" Helena shouted out the door and within seconds Alfred was in the room with a tray and on that tray were three needles. He walked over to Dinah's IV, something she had failed to see, and injected one of the needles into the IV. The pain was dulling slowly, but it was going away and that was all that Dinah cared about. "How do you feel Dinah?" Helena asked kneeling down next to the bed.
"I'm fine, I'm not dead," Dinah replied. She becomes more and more like Barbara everyday, Helena thought to herself.
"Yeah."
"But how are you? Those guys were huge! How did you beat them?"
"Don't worry so much or you'll have gray hair before you're eighteen." A Kodak moment, Helena thought.
"I will not," she replied checking her hair.
"So, how do you feel?"
Dinah rolled her eyes, "I told you a thousands times!"
Helena mentally tallied every time. "Not even, more like 999 times," she replied.
Dinah already frustrated, angrily shouted, "That's not the damn point! Helena!"
Helena, in just as angrily a tone, replied, "What's the point than!?"
"Forget it, just forget it."
"Fine, Alfred should be coming back in her at nine a.m. the give you your next pain killer shot."
"Helena?"
"Yeah?" Helena asked as she turned around to face her.
One simple word came out of Dinah's mouth, "Thanks." That was a word no one had ever said to her. She closed the door behind her and leaned against it. Damn that kid, why does she have to be so polite? Helena asked herself. ~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~() Authors' Note: I'm sorry that we didn't include the letter from Helena's father but we decided that one important event was enough for this part, and if you haven't figured it out the thanks from Dinah is the important event in this part. Thank you for reading, we appreciate it; and please review that would help us very much. Thanks! (((!!!!!
Part 4~Helena's Christmas 2: Batman's Promise
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Helena awoke to find herself lying next to a completely naked Detective Jesse Reese; she quickly searched the room for her clothes. She spotted her skirt handing off of the ceiling fan; she quickly jumped up to get it down. She dressed and scribbled a quick note to Reese and jumped out the window; okay so not your typical exit, but she's Helena Kyle, the great Huntress, what else needs to be said? She made her way home only to find Alfred sitting on her couch reading a book. "What are you doing here?" Helena asked stopping dead in her tracks. Alfred glanced up from his book, "I should ask you the same thing, Miss Helena," Alfred replied.
"This is my apartment, Alfred."
"And what day is it, Miss Helena?" she desperately search for a clock and/or calendar. "Oh, Thursday morning."
"Yes Miss Helena, the day we usually have our little talks. Where were you?"
"You're not Barbara."
"Miss Helena, has that ever actually worked?"
"Well, not really, but a girl can hope, can't she?"
"As much as she'd like, but you still haven't answered my question, Miss Helena."
"I was with Reese."
"Still on your date?"
"You could say that."
"What else could I say about it, Miss Helena?"
"Something happened that.um.usually doesn't happen on a first date regularly."
"Oh, that well what did he say?"
"I wouldn't know, I left before he could reply. Well more like before he could awaken."
"Miss Helena! What were you thinking? You have to work with him!"
"I wasn't thinking, obviously."
"Well not much of a surprise coming form you, Miss Helena."
"Well, thanks Alfred; I feel so cared about."
"Miss Helena, you always do this. Why can't you just stay a whole night without jumping out a window?"
"Well I'm sorry, alright!"
"Perhaps you should talk about this in therapy."
"I'd rather not, but thanks for the suggestion."
"Miss Helena! U shall do as you're told; you have to work through your problems. I can't always help you."
"I'm not surprised, no one helps me anyways, not unlike my father."
"Miss Helena."
"don't you dare Miss Helena me, Alfred! I'm tired of this bullshit! Always standing up for the man who left me, abandoned me! How dare you?"
"How dare I? How dare you?! He is your father no matter what he's done?"
"Why do you always defend him? He left, he left my mom, Barbara, you, and me and still you defend him! Why?"
"Because your father was like a son to me! Alright! Because your father the great Batman, the savor of old Gotham was like a son to me."
"Oh, I didn't know.I'm sorry."
"No, you're not, Miss Helena. You feel guilty about what you said."
"And what if I am? Huh? What does it matter?"
"If an apology is not sincere it's not worth a thing."
"Look Alfred I just made a huge mistake and now I have to fix it and I don't know how."
"Perhaps we can talk about this subject this afternoon over lunch."
"My place 12:30pm and be on time."
"As you wish Miss Helena. I must be getting to the clock tower before Miss Barbara and Miss Dinah awake. I do have to make sure it's all in order."
"And what the great Oracle can't?"
"No, not by herself; remember when I went to Europe for a week.?"
"Oh yeah, I remember, that was the first time I begged not to eat."
"Now, Miss Barbara's cooking isn't really that bad; was it?"
"Yes, it is; you eat some of it."
"No, Miss Helena I don't have a death wish."
"Ha, ha, ha!" Helena said between yawns.
"Perhaps you should get some rest, you have quite a busy day tomorrow actually today."
"Night Alfred."
"Good morning Miss Helena, I shall be back later so we may have our usually talk."
"Okay Alfred see ya later."
"Yes, Miss Helena, we shall."
Helena leaned against the door after she heard a satisfying click; she slid down the door and laid her head on her knees. How stupid can I be? What was I thinking? Duh, I wasn't thinking as usual, she thought. Reese, what's he think about this whole thing? Maybe we can pretend it never happened, she thought as she drifted off into a sleep full of questioning dreams. ~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~&~~~~& "Helena! Helena! elnHHHHHelena Kyle! Get up right now young lady. You're gonna be late for school!" Selina Kyle shouted into her daughter's room.
"I'm almost ready, I just have to do my hair."
"Wonderful, I only have to wait two hours."
"Don't be so dramatic mom."
"I'm not being dramatic, it's true. You take forever to do your hair."
"Do not!"
"Do to! Now hurry up, it would be nice if you show up to school on time once this month."
"I was on time on Monday."
"Of the last day of October," Selina added her motherly tone sneaking in.
"Alright, alright. I'm done, happy?"
"Yes, now let's get going."
"Mom?"
"Yes, Helena." her mother said turning her attention back to her daughter.
"Can I.um.a bunch of."
"Helena, spit it out!"
"A bunch of the girls on the drill team, actually all of them, are going to a movie on Friday and.can I go?"
"You should have just said that. Sure, which theater?"
"The new one."
"What time?"
"5:50pm."
"Who is taking you?"
"Coach."
"Who is taking you home?"
"Melissa."
"What time are you going to be home?"
"Around 8:00pm, 8:15pm."
"If you're not here by 8:15 on the nose you're not going anywhere next weekend, understand?"
"Yes."
"Good, now let's get going, I'm gonna be late for work."
"Alright," Helena replied and ran to grab her backpack. "Who is picking me up after school?"
"Don't you have practice?"
"No, coach is sick, she doesn't want us to practice without her."
"Well, I'll see if Barbara or Lisa can."
"Lisa? Who is Lisa?"
"You remember Lisa, she use to always take care of you."
"Oh yeah, but she doesn't drive."
"Right, that I'll ask Barbara."
"Okay, so let's go." The phone began to ring and Selina made her way over to it. "Helena, go to the car. Here are the keys," she said as she tossed the keys to her daughter. "Alright mom, hurry up through," she caught the keys and ran out the door. Selina picked up the phone, "Hello." There was nothing but stone clod silence on the other end. "Hello!" Soon Selina grew impatient and she slammed the receiver down; she grabbed her briefcase and purse off of the kitchen counter. She ran down the stairs and into the parking garage; she got into her car and put her stuff into the backseat. She started the car and drove Helena to school; she dropped her off right in front of the main school building, "Helena remember, Barbara's gonna pick you up, be outside waiting for her, understand?" Selina asked before Helena closed the car door. "Yes mom. Bye," Helena said as she gave her mother a kiss on the cheek. She closed the door and ran up the stairs of New Gotham High and disappeared into the building. The doors closed behind her, her mother drove off once she saw her daughter safely enter the school building.
That afternoon Barbara was waiting outside for Helena after school, "Hey Barbara," Helena said as she opened the door.
"Hello Helena," Barbara replied as she started the engine.
"So, you're taking me straight home?"
"Um.well I to have to make one quick stop before I drop you off."
"Okay, do I stay in the car?"
"No, you can come in with me."
"Okay."
"So, how's the drill team doing these days?"
"Good, we're getting our uniforms Friday."
"Really? How much did they cost?"
"Um.About 700 dollars."
"Wow! Your mom paid for the whole thing?"
"No, I raised the money for half and mom paid the other half."
"Good, you must have worked hard."
"Yeah, we even got o sponsor."
"Really, and what does this sponsor do?"
"He pays for all the buses we use to go to compete against other teams, well actually he's paying for everything but the uniforms."
"Well, who is this great sponsor of yours."
"Bruce Wayne."
"Bruce Wayne, as in the multimillionaire?"
"Duh, unless you know another Bruce Wayne that I don't know about."
"Actually I do, Barbara thought. "No, I don't. Does your mother know about this?"
"Of course, she's the one who suggested him."
"So, have you meet Bruce Wayne?"
"No, not yet we're suppose to meet him next week."
"Well, how would you like to meet him today?"
"That would be so cool!"
"Wonderful, we're going to his office right now."
"You're joking right?" it's impossible to get an appointment with Bruce Wayne."
"I know Bruce, he and I are good friends."
"Really? Why didn't mom ever tell me, it would have made it easier to get him as a sponsor."
"Well, obviously your mother wanted you to work to get Bruce as a sponsor."
"But it was really hard, took us almost two months to get him to come to one of our performances than another three weeks just to get an appointment with him and them another three hours to actually talk to him."
"Prove you're a hard worker, Bruce likes people who work hard. No wonder he chose to sponsor the drill team."
"Well, all that hard work was hard."
"Obviously Helena."
Barbara parked the car in front the Wayne's Enterprise building; they got out of the car and walked into the building through two huge glass doors. Helena looked around; most of the inside of the building was glass and marble. "Wow!" Was the only word that escaped Helena's tightly sealed lips.
"Big, isn't it?" Barbara asked as she stopped next to her.
"Wow! I didn't know it was this big."
"Well, now you do."
Barbara walked up to the front desk, "Hello, I'm here to see Bruce Wayne."
The woman behind the desk looked up, "Oh, hello Miss Gordon. Mister Wayne is waiting for you."
"Thank you, Diana."
"You are very welcome, Miss Gordon."
"Can we take the stairs?" Helena asked as she looked at the grand spiral staircase.
"If you want to."
"Great, race ya." They both dashed up the stairs, Barbara began to notice Helena's speed; she was quick and agile like a cat, much like her mother. She's coming into her abilities very nicely, Barbara thought, Selina will be very proud. "Barbara, can I say one thing?" Helena asked as Barbara finally reached the top of the staircase. "Go ahead." Barbara said as she caught her breath. "You're so slow."
"Well, I'm not as young as I once was."
"Obviously."
"Hey!"
"You and mom are almost the same age."
"She's almost five years younger than I."
".And she can keep up with me when I run."
"Yeah, but you always run together. You and I never do."
"True, but that's because your always busy."
"Being Batgirl," Barbara said under her breath; it was the perfect end to the sentence, and Helena heard it.
"Bruce are you in here?" Barbara asked as she entered his office with Helena. "Bruce? Are you in here? It's me, Barbara." Soon Barbara grew impatient. "BRUCE WAYNE GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!!!"
"Why hello Barbara," Bruce replied as he entered. "I see you brought a guest."
"Not just any guest, you're sponsoring this young lady's drill team."
"Oh, yes. I'm suppose to see the rest of the team, in a week."
"So I brought her early, is that a problem?"
"No, what's your name young lady?"
"Helena Kyle and I am captain of the drill team."
"The leader of the pack."
"You could say that."
"Wonderful so, how's the drill team coming along?"
"Great, we're getting our new uniforms soon."
"Wonderful, you must show them to me when the team gets them."
"Okay, I'll make sure and do that."
"Great, I'll make sure to leave an opening in my appointment book."
Helena smiled, "Thank you Mr. Bruce Wayne."
"Please call me Bruce, Helena."
"Alright, Bruce."
"Now Barbara, what are you hear for?"
"Need to talk to you about."
"Oh, yes."
"Yes or no?"
"Yes, he will be there to help us tonight."
"Well, I have to drop off Helena and then I'll be back."
"Alright Barbara, see you later."
Barbara stopped in front of Helena's and her mother's apartment building, "So, what did you think of Bruce?" Barbara asked bringing Helena's attention back to her. "He's great, why?" Helena asked curiosity in her voice. "Well, I would like to know if you like to know if you like my friend or not." Helena could tell that, that wasn't the reason but she went along with it. "Well, no need to worry, I like him, I really do." She grabbed her backpack and got out of the car; she turned back and kissed Barbara on the cheek. She ran to the front of the building and once she was inside the building Barbara left. ~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%~~~~%
Helena awoke to light shinning on her face and birds singing like idiots; she got up and closed the curtains and laid in her bed and went back to sleep. When she got up for the second and last time that afternoon, she walked into the kitchen only to find Alfred seated at the table, "Tea or coffee, Miss Helena?" Alfred asked as he walked over to the counter. "Coffee, please," she replied as she seated herself. Alfred placed a cup in front of her, and than made himself a cup of tea. "Shall we talk?" he asked as he seated himself with his tea.
"Sure."
"Wonderful, let's start at what happened last night, " he said getting right down to the point. "After the date," he clarified.
"What do you think?"
"And why didn't you stop it?"
"Cuz I didn't want to."
"Now, Miss Helena really! That's not an answer."
"Well it is to me."
"You can be so stubborn at times, Miss Helena."
"Well, there's nothing I can do now is there?"
"You are right, Miss Helena, for once you are right."
"Well thanks for complementing me and insulting me all in the same sentence. How convent for you."
"I didn't mean to both insult and complement you all at once."
"Well, it saved you time, now lets move on."
"As you wish Miss Helena."
"Lose the Miss, Alfred."
"I cannot, that would be showing disrespect."
"No, it wouldn't. I asked you to."
"Miss Helena, even through your father was practically my son I still called him Master Bruce."
"Well, that's him not me, so stop bringing him up."
"I refuse to, Miss Helena! I refuse to let you forget about your father."
"My father! Why don't you get it through your head! He's gone, just think of him as dead."
"No, Miss Helena! He's not! He's a great warrior and he will always be! I refuse to let you speak about your father."
"No! My father is suppose to be this great warrior, the savor of Gotham but where is he? Huh? Where was Gotham's greatest champion when I needed him? Nowhere! That's where! He was never ever there when I needed him. Hell, he was never there for me, period!"
"Miss Helena, your father was the great savor of Gotham, but he isn't now. He didn't know you existed, if he had I doubt he would have left."
"Why does everyone defend him?"
"Because he was an important person to me; I loved him like a son and he treated me like a father."
"Sorry, Alfred, I didn't mean to piss you off.I just.why didn't you ever tell me that?"
"Because, I knew you would never understand, you hate your father and I never have and never will; I'm far to caring to do so, Miss Helena. I care for you as much as I care for your father perhaps more, but don't forget, Miss Helena just because I stand up for your father doesn't mean I don't care for you."
"You were always good at making me feel bad when I haven't done anything wrong."
"What can I say? It's a gift."
"Yeah, well my gift is getting me into more trouble than I need."
"Actually, Miss Helena you're getting yourself in more trouble than you need."
"Sure, blame it on me."
"Well, who else is there to blame, Miss Helena?"
"Well, thanks for the facts, Alfred."
"You are very welcome, Miss Helena."
"I was being sarcastic, Alfred!"
"And so was I, Miss Helena."
"Well, you can never tell."
"As with you, Miss Helena, as with you."
Helena got up and exited the room, leaving Alfred where he was, "We will have to talk about this, Miss Helena," Alfred said continuing to drink his tea. She emerged from her room and replied, "But not today, and not tomorrow, and not the next and not anytime soon." She grabbed her purse off the couch and walked out the front door, "I'm going to work, Alfred. See you later." Helena closed the door behind her and leaned her head against it.
"Helena! Helena! Respond!" Oracle shouted.
"What?!" Helena annoyingly replied.
"Well someone's in a bad moon," Dinah said coming in through the com set.
"Who asked you?" Helena replied.
"I did."
"Let's just get back to the problem," Oracle said breaking up the fight before it began.
"What's the problem Oracle?" Helena said getting down to business.
"I need you and Reese to work together on this new case."
"What case?"
Barbara quickly disconnected Dinah's com set, "There have been reports of, well more like have been sightings of the joker, more like someone who looks like the Joker. I don't want to tell Dinah about this, I want you and Reese to handle it."
"Alright Barbara."
"Good." She reconnected Dinah. "Sorry Dinah, technical glitch."
"Alright," Dinah replied a bit suspicious.
"Helena."
"Yeah?"
"Reese is waiting for you at the corner of Maple and Spruce."
"Alright, I'm on my way." Helena felt so many emotions surging through her body as she raced across the rooftops of Gotham. Emotions that were tearing through her strong body, making her feel, for once in her life, timid, scared and weak. She stopped, still on the rooftops of Gotham; she looked down and spotted none other than Detective Jesse Reese. All the emotions began to tear through her body more quickly, making her feel more timid, scared and weak than before. But of all the emotions ripping through her strong body, an emotion she hadn't felt in years was the strongest. an emotion she thought she'd never feel again. She took the deepest breath she could and jumped. Helena covered Reese's eyes with her hands, "Guess who?" she said. "The one and only Huntress."
"What do you know, you're right," she said as she removed her hands.
"So, are we gonna."
"Don't even say it," she said as she cut him off.
"Alright," Reese replied.
"That's all you have to say? You're such a guy!"
"Well, I hope so."
"This is not a joke! This is serious! I've got to call Oracle."
"Don't you have any friends without code names?"
"Um.Do you and my butler count?"
"Forget it."
"Thought you had to call Oracle?"
"Oh, yeah," she turned her com set on. "Oracle.Oracle, are you there?"
"Yes, are you with Reese?"
"Yes, why?"
"We better get started before whoever this guy is decides to do something to make a name for himself."
"So, where do we go?"
"He's been spotted at most of the Joker's old hideouts."
"Go to the most popular place," Helena said, practically reading Barbara's mind.
"Right, go there now!"
"We're on it."
"Good, now hurry the hell up!"
"We're going! We're going! God, calm down, Oracle."
"I am calm."
"You call this calm?"
"When am I ever completely calm?"
"Never."
"That's not true!"
"Oh, and this is such a great example?"
"Huntress.shut up!"
"Ooo, the great Oracle said shut up. I'm so scared, I'm shaking in my leather."
"Huntress!"
"What can I say, the voice told me to say it."
"Oh, stop blaming it."
"Whoever said there was only one?"
"Fine, I'll rephrase. Oh, stop blaming them."
"Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
"Oh, shut it!"
"I will not."
"Now you sound like Alfred."
"Wonderful, I'm being compared to a British butler."
"I know, it's A grand complement."
"Sure, a well paid high school English teach, being compared to a butler."
The best butler."
"Oracle shove it you're."
"Barbara, what happened?" Dinah asked cutting Huntress off.
"I believe you know the rest of that sentence," Helena said as she shot off her com set.
"Sorry, I guess there are still a few bugs I have to work out."
"Oh, you better work them out soon; my com set could go out during a fight."
"I know, I'm worried about that; I want you to head back to the clock tower."
"But Oracle."
"Dinah, you're a Jr. superhero not a senior superhero and anyways there are technical difficulties."
"Fine, just don't start techno babbling; you'll put me to sleep."
"Hurry up! Do you hear me, Dinah?"
"Yeah, yeah. I'm on my way." Dinah began the long trip back to the clock tower, it wasn't fair, even when Helena's com set went out she still got to fight crime, but not Dinah, she was treated like a complete child and she hated it! She continued to walk not really pay attention to what was going on around her, for if she had she would have noticed the five huge gritty guys coming up behind her. She was steaming, everyone treated her like a child; she wasn't a child she could take perfectly good care of herself; then again she was probably wrong. "Hey," a loud, strong male voice said. Dinah stopped dead in her tracks; what was she suppose to do? She could probably out run them, but she was in an ally and the only way to run was to a dead end; she could climb the wall but that would take too much and they'd probably pull her off it before she reached the top. She turned to face them, why was she in an ally anyways? Well, now is not the time to think about that, Dinah thought. "Barbara! Barbara! Are you there? Barbara answer me, now!!!" Dinah shouted, but she got no reply, her only chance was Helena. "Huntress! Huntress, are you there?" ~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~#~~~~# "Dinah? Dinah, is that you?" Huntress asked as she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Huntress, I need your help now!" Dinah said her voice breaking up every few second, but Huntress got most of it.
"Why didn't you call Oracle?"
"I can't get through to her."
"Where are you?"
"In the ally where we took down Mike."
"Oh, I'll be there in five minutes, will you be okay till then?"
"I think so."
"Be safe, okay?"
"Yes, Huntress. And hurry!"
Helena began to walk away and Reese came after her, "Huntress where are you going?" Reese asked.
"Dinah needs me, she in some kind of trouble."
"Do you need any help?"
"Um.give me a pen."
"Here," he said handing her the pen. She wrote down where the ally was on his hand.
"Be there A.S.A.P."
"As you wish master."
Huntress didn't here his last comment, she was already half way up the wall; she had to get to Dinah, sure she hated the kid, but it didn't mean she deserved to die. She ran across the rooftops of Gotham faster than usual, finally she reached the ally and she looked down. There was Dinah's small blonde head ducking from flying punches; she was a pretty good fight, well of course she was Helena had been training her. Dinah got hit and when flying into the wall, okay now it was time for Huntress to save the day. She jumped from the roof and landed in front of the five ugly men, "Now, that's no way to treat a lady," Huntress replied.
"And who are you? A superhero?" one of the men asked.
"Hey, superheroes wear costumes, I don't. I'm a vigilante," she replied in a matter-of-fact tone.
"And who the hell do you think you are?"
"Your painful nightmare."
"Oh, yeah like a weak wanna be superhero chick is gonna kick my ass. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!"
"You are so gonna regret that." She punched him the face, causing him to fall back onto the rest of his friends. Huntress ran over to Dinah, "Dinah are you alright?" she asked as she knelt by Dinah's side. She was unconscious and Helena knew she had to get her out of there, "Oracle! Oracle! Damn it Oracle where are you? Respond Oracle, it important! Alfred!! Alfred! Alfred!! Please be there! Alfred! Barbara! Someone please answer!! Shit!" Three guys came at her; she had to keep Dinah safe and herself for that matter. She kicked one of the guys in the crock, she didn't pay attention to which one, all she was trying to do was get both of them out of there. She did the only thing she could do; use one of Barbara's newest inventions. It was some kind of gas that would only knock out nonmetas; she dropped the ball and ducked down from one of the guys' kicks. "Barbara, come in, Barbara! Barbara! Alfred? Anyone? Come on please someone!"
"Huntress! Huntress, are you here?" Reese shouted as he made his way to her. The gas had already cleared.
"Reese, I'm over here," Huntress said as she made her way to Dinah. "Oracle, come in. Oracle!!" Silence. "Oracle, come in. Oracle." Even more silence. "Batgirl, come in. Batgirl."
"That is just not funny Helena!" Oracle replied as she wheeled herself into the control room.
"Where the fuck were you?" she shouted back.
"I was down in the lab, I was finishing up some research."
"And why wasn't your com set on?"
"Huntress, is she alright?" Reese asked as he knelt down beside Helena.
"I don't know, she got thrown against the wall and then she was out like a light."
"We have to get her to a hospital."
"No, she's not all that human."
"So, where you gonna take her?"
"Back home to Oracle."
"I'll take you."
"Not a chance in hell Huntress, I've already sent someone down there," Oracle said as she began typing away Out of nowhere Gibson came running over to her.
"When did you get a car?" Huntress asked.
"Who said I was driving?" Gibson asked.
Another guy came out of the van, a fellow meta-human, a regular at Gibson's. "Dinah, can you hear me?" he asked squatting besides her. "How long has she been out?"
"A few minutes, I don't know," Huntress replied.
"Let's get her out of here. Gibson help me get her in the van, you clean up this mess."
"Well, here are you criminals, arrest them."
"I don't have three sets of cuffs," Reese replied.
"Rope," Huntress said then ran to the van and got in; they drove off. ~~~~~~~~
Dinah finally awoke two days later, Helena was in her room when she awoke, it had been her shift to watch Dinah. Helena was curled up like a cat in a huge cushion chair, it had once been in her penthouse, but she had no more room for it and Barbara had needed furniture for Dinah's room. It was black, of course it would be black it belonged to Helena Kyle. Dinah's vision was still very blurry, and she didn't want to wake Helena, she look so peaceful, which wasn't a usual quality in Helena. Dinah looked around the room trying to figure out where she was; she remembered this room very well, she spent most of her time in this room; she just couldn't put a name on it. She continued to let her eyes roam the room, to see if she could find some clue as to what the room was. Finally it hit her, it was her bedroom; that's where she was. She tried to sit up but was greeted instead with an agonizing headache; she let her body slip under the covers, she wondered what day it was. She wanted to know how long she had been out; she knew she had missed a few days of school and probably some training that would be critical to her becoming a full time superhero. Just what she needed an even better reason for Barbara to treat her like a child; she didn't treat Helena like that, then again Helena would have probably beat the shit out of her. Helena shifted slightly in her chair, the same dream had been coming to her night after night, it was her mother's funeral and she could have sworn she'd seen him before, but she couldn't place a name with his face and the question puzzled her even now. She knew she knew him, she just didn't know who he was at the moment; she shifted again and she knew she had to get up and check on Dinah, but she was too deep in her dream at the moment and didn't want to wake from it, not just yet. A jolt of pain went through Dinah and she screamed out loud, Helena's eyes snapped open, "Dinah, are you alright?" Helena asked rushing to her aid. "Alfred!" Helena shouted out the door and within seconds Alfred was in the room with a tray and on that tray were three needles. He walked over to Dinah's IV, something she had failed to see, and injected one of the needles into the IV. The pain was dulling slowly, but it was going away and that was all that Dinah cared about. "How do you feel Dinah?" Helena asked kneeling down next to the bed.
"I'm fine, I'm not dead," Dinah replied. She becomes more and more like Barbara everyday, Helena thought to herself.
"Yeah."
"But how are you? Those guys were huge! How did you beat them?"
"Don't worry so much or you'll have gray hair before you're eighteen." A Kodak moment, Helena thought.
"I will not," she replied checking her hair.
"So, how do you feel?"
Dinah rolled her eyes, "I told you a thousands times!"
Helena mentally tallied every time. "Not even, more like 999 times," she replied.
Dinah already frustrated, angrily shouted, "That's not the damn point! Helena!"
Helena, in just as angrily a tone, replied, "What's the point than!?"
"Forget it, just forget it."
"Fine, Alfred should be coming back in her at nine a.m. the give you your next pain killer shot."
"Helena?"
"Yeah?" Helena asked as she turned around to face her.
One simple word came out of Dinah's mouth, "Thanks." That was a word no one had ever said to her. She closed the door behind her and leaned against it. Damn that kid, why does she have to be so polite? Helena asked herself. ~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~()~~~~() Authors' Note: I'm sorry that we didn't include the letter from Helena's father but we decided that one important event was enough for this part, and if you haven't figured it out the thanks from Dinah is the important event in this part. Thank you for reading, we appreciate it; and please review that would help us very much. Thanks! (((!!!!!