Editing team: Waves and hugs. Yank, Nightstalker, ShadoWalker, HarleyFan, Dark, Reese's girl, Shan, Dixie, Shadowpup...!!!

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Dinah still couldn't sleep after her conversation with Helena. She was in the living room trying to read, but she couldn't concentrate. Gabby walked downstairs.

"Aren't you going to sleep? It is late," she said, looking at her watch. "One o'clock in the morning!"

"I want to read a little more."

"Ok, it's your choice. But I know that you are not reading, you are thinking about your friends, I still think that you need to talk with them before you leave"

"No, trust me. This is best. In two days I'm going to be far away from here and from this city."

"Oh Dinah, I think is a big mistake."

"Nite Gabby," Dinah answered absentminded. She didn't want to discuss. Gabby shook her head and went back to her room. When she heard the door close, Dinah threw the book on the floor and walked to the garden. She sat in the swing, distracted, thinking.

"How many more times are you going to behave like a child?" Dinah froze when she heard her mother's voice behind her.

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Barbara sat caressing Helena's hair talking to her in a low voice. Alfred entered the infirmary and put on a table a tray with coffee.

"I bring to you some coffe."

"Thanks. I need it"

"How is she?" Alfred stood up next to her. He felt sad to see the daughter of his best friend lying in the bed in that condition.

"Still weak, stay here please just a moment." Barbara wheeled toward the table to took a cup of coffe.

Alfred touched Helena's hand, the girl looked at him and gave him a slight smile.

"Hi miss Helena." he said "You have the character and the inner strength of your mother and your father, like it or not. and you have too, their stubbornness; so, you can do it. I promise you tomorrow morning a great breakfast with a new recipe that I found."

"Alfred." Barbara smiled "Are you trying to kill her?"

"No, is a good one miss Barbara, I promise you, no Mexican food, now is South Arfrican food."

"That sounds dangerous. what about American breakfast?"

Alfred felt Helena's hand squeezing him with lightness. He looked her and could read a "thanks" in her lips. "No thanks miss Helena. You are a great girl, your mother would feel so proud of you, as your father. I know that you don't like talk about him, but it's the true."

Barbara looked her watch, tw o'clock.

"Do you think she would bring her back?" Alfred asked.

"I hope so Alfred, really I hope so."

"What about. if she couldn't?"

"I prefer think that she would do it." Barbara said with sadness and in low voice. She knew was difficult, but, she had the hope. ".As I hope that some day Helena and her father could meet each other."

"Yes. that would be wonderful."

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"You don't have right to say that to me!" Dinah stood up of the swing to face Carolyn.

"Dinah, why do you blame your friends?"

"Which friends?" Dinah turned her head.

"Barbara, Helena." Carolyn locked her eyes on hers.

"Helena? You want her to stay away from me. You don't like her. She is the daughter of a cat burglar, right? She is a bad influence on me, why are you defending her now?"

"Because all this isn't her fault. It is my fault! It was my fault that left you alone when you were a child; it was a mistake to fake my death! You have suffering so much because of me, and it isn't your fault, like it isn't Helena's fault that her mother was a criminal."

"They hid from me that you were back, that is her fault!!" Dinah shouted angry.

"Dinah.." Carolyn felt guilty.

"Anyway, it doesn't matter now. I forced Barbara to let me join them and Helena never liked me. She saw me more like an annoying girl than a friend. Why did you comeback?"

"To be with you..."

"Do you think that am a toy and that you can appear an disappear in my life breaking my heart? Why did you fake your death? And what about my feelings? Did you ever think about me?"

"I saw that you was so happy with them,"

"A mother is a mother, nobody could replaces one!"

"Barbara was doing an excellent job with you." Carolyn explained in a sweet voice "better than me. I thought that I didn't have the right to ask you to come with me, and I decided to disappear from your life."

"Good choice. I don't see the reason for your return." Dinah said sarcastically, crossing her arms.

"I understand my mistake. I went to see Barbara first to explain everything, and I asked them to not tell you anything until I found the right moment to talk to you."

"And now you think that this is the best moment?"

"I will like. but, no, I came here to show you your mistake."

"What?" Dinah raised her brow.

"You can't be a hero only when you are in good mood," Carolyn spoke to her strongly. "If you chose this life, you must take it with all the responsibilities!"

"Ah, no. You are not going to blackmail me with these things!" Dinah glared her.

"No, I'm not going to blackmail you; I'm going to show you what happens when you avoid your responsibilities. Our problems must not interfere with your life as hero. That is, if you really want to be one someday. Come with me." Carolyn took her wrist softly.

"I'm not going to follow you" Dinah groaned angry. "Who are you to.?"

"You must." Carolyn interrupted. "Come with me and later you can do anything you want."

Dinah hesitated.

"I will respect your choice," Carolyn said. "I know that you never will forgive me because I hurt you so much, but your friends aren't guilty of this. I promise that I will disappear from your life after this, but before you tell to me that you quit the hero life, you need to understand that this isn't a game, and that you can't quit it and come back every time you want. You will injure innocent people."

"Where are you going to take me?"

"To the Clock Tower" Carolyn sighed.

"No." Dinah lowered her face.

"Please Dinah, is really important."

"I never come back there!"

"No one is going to try to convince you to change your mind, not Barbara or Helena, I promise."

"What am going to do there?"

"Just look, I only need you to look at something for 5 minutes and then you can go. Please, is important."

Black Canary turned to the street and Dinah followed her in silence.

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