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Part 5
Helena resisted the urge to turn around and see what Barbara was trying to shield her from but deep inside she already knew. She'd always expected this day. Never in her concious but it was the thing that pained her the most so it was always there.
As Helena sat there, infront of Dinah, her breathing sped up, her palms got all sweaty and a severe nausea overcame her.
Barbara could feel Helena trembling beside her so she put her arm around her while still trying to reach Dinah but that task was soon taken on by Helena.
"Dinah? You have to get us out of here, right now." She practically begged.
"It'll be over soon." The blonde whispered. Her eyes hadn't left the same spot there entire time they'd been there. It was really conerning Barbara, she worried it might be too much for Dinah to recover from.
Helena was beginning to get worked up as tears started to build in her eyes. "What do you mean? Just get us out of here, I can't see this! It's your head get control of it!"
She explained cryptically, "There's no control anymore. This isn't my head, it's everyone else's." And as if on cue she began bring her knee's down and instead wrap her arms around herself. Her eyes squeezed shut as she bent over.
Barbara reached out for Dinah and took her by the shoulder's. "What is it? What's wrong?"
While the red-head tried to get an answer from Dinah, Helena couldn't control herself anymore. She could hear his foot steps as he ran away, she heard the knife fall to the ground, she heard the people gather and she heard her mother's last breath, all over again.
She turned around just in time to see herself... her old self crying out. yelling for he mum to be fine, for someone to stop the evil bastard who had just murdered her mum.
Helena was strangely still as she watched her mother's downfall, the moment that changed her forever. It was odd to be on the outside watcing rather than seeing it from her own eyes.
She didn't think she'd ever seen anybody as distressed as she was now... then. She was never good with the technical stuff.
She'd thought it would return her to that place, where everthing she knew, everything she relied on was tore out from under her. That place where it was only a darkness around her, in her.
It just made her feel sad. She regretted not having more time with her mother and never getting to talk to Catwoman. It was odd to want to meet gotham's finest theif;s but it was her mother's great talent after all.
"Helena!" Barara tried for the third time. Dinah was impossible to get a sane comment from and she was running ou of patience. That was when she noticed Helena was zoned in on her mother's death, something she tried to protect her from.
Finally, Helena's intense stare broke and she looked to Barbara.
"Are you ok?" The elder one asked.
Helena nodded unsurely, "Can we just get out of this?"
And with impecable timing the world around the 3 hero's swirled into a grey mass and when it finally stopped they were sitting in a dim room.
Dinah was once again sitting, knee's to her chest staring at the door ahead of her. Barbara immediately knew hat was going to play out before them and really didn't want to see it. A raging anger bubbled inside of her as she heard the TV report then saw her past self run for the phone to call Bruce, then the knock at the door.
She could already see his grin. It was always what she saw when she closed her eyes, but not this time. She'd kill him.
As past Barbara ran to answer the door, expecting Helena, Present Barbara ran and shoved herself out of the way then dived at The Joker.
Helena could only watch as Barbara sped across the room and went straight through her past self and then The joker beore landing harshly on the other side of the hallway.
Then the bang of the gun cut through all her thoughts. She watched her adoptive mother fall to the aparment floor and bleed, unable to scream or move.
And The Joker, that sick bastard just cackled. She'd never seen him before, not in the flesh. His very look gave her chills. There was obviously no sanity there, just evil.
When The Joker turned to leave, she saw Barbara, her Barbara, on the ground in tears, screaming at Him. It broke her heart, she always knew deep down Barbara was the one who never truely dealt with what happened, she used Helena to just move on and ignore her prolems. So, seeing that scene all over again, in exactly the same way, had finally brought it to the surface.
Helena carefully walked around the Barbara bleeding on the floor and walked through the door and out to the hall where the real Barbara was.
Her mentor was screaming at herself to get up. Helena neeled down beside her and pulled her into a hug. As hard as barbara fought, she wasn't getting out of Helena's arms so she completely broke down, sobbing.
Helena couldn't help but think about how different everything was. The old Hlena, the one that exsisted only months ago could be standing awkwardly, not sure what to do or how to comort Barbara. But since Dinah's arrival, all those issues she had with closeness had been driven out. She knew she owed that to Dinah giving her a new perspective on the life they lead.
She kissed the top of Barbara's head and rubbed her back, "Barbara, we need to finish this, I need you to help me. Your the brains of the team." She told her.
Barbara let Helena's word sink in. She was right, they had to stop this torture. For their sakes as well as Dinah's. She tried to even out her breathing. She wasn't being any use as a bubbling wreck. With-in seconds she was walking around herelf and her neighbour who had saved her life by investigating the loud noise he had heard.
Helena followed the red head back to Dinah, who now had her head burried into her knee's.
"We've tried asking her to get us out of here, and I'm not sure she reall know's how. I think the only way is to get her angry. Angry enough to give her enough control over her power to pull us out."
Helena nodded. "Do you think she'll hear you?"
"Yeah, I think she will. She's still in there, just the shock of seeing all these things has really got to her. We can only guess what else she's witnessed since she was infected."
Helena tried to not dwell on that last statement, they'd deal with that later. "How are we going to do this?"
Barbara looked at her, "We're not." She said. She knew Helena would find it hard to verbally abuse the fragile sister infront of her. So would she but it had to be done. It was there only option.
She got own to Dinah's eye level and sat directly infront of her. "Hey Redmond, look what your dreams have done. You're evil, a child of the devil."
This immediately got Dinah's attention. Barbara knew that deep down, Dinah still had a fear of all those lies the Redmonds had fed her.
"Why do you dream these things? You know they'll come true."
Dinah's eyebrows knotted, like she couldn't believe what was happening. "No, it's not my fault!"
Both Helena and Barbara cringed at the pain in th teens voice. Barbara forced herself to continue while Helena began to pace, trying to hold back from stopping Barbara.
"Yes, it is. Your powers are nothing but trouble. You just create pain." Barbara pulled out her final punch, something she knew would work. "No wonder your mother abandoned you. The week she came back into your life she died."
And that was the trigger, her mother's death. "I didn't kill her!! It wasn't my fauit! I tried to save her!! I tried!"
The room began to swirl and merge again only this time they each witnessed clips of various things. Black Canary's downfall, Guy's death, Wade's death. Every painful and horrible thing to happen to the people they knew and cared for until it just stopped.
Part 5
Helena resisted the urge to turn around and see what Barbara was trying to shield her from but deep inside she already knew. She'd always expected this day. Never in her concious but it was the thing that pained her the most so it was always there.
As Helena sat there, infront of Dinah, her breathing sped up, her palms got all sweaty and a severe nausea overcame her.
Barbara could feel Helena trembling beside her so she put her arm around her while still trying to reach Dinah but that task was soon taken on by Helena.
"Dinah? You have to get us out of here, right now." She practically begged.
"It'll be over soon." The blonde whispered. Her eyes hadn't left the same spot there entire time they'd been there. It was really conerning Barbara, she worried it might be too much for Dinah to recover from.
Helena was beginning to get worked up as tears started to build in her eyes. "What do you mean? Just get us out of here, I can't see this! It's your head get control of it!"
She explained cryptically, "There's no control anymore. This isn't my head, it's everyone else's." And as if on cue she began bring her knee's down and instead wrap her arms around herself. Her eyes squeezed shut as she bent over.
Barbara reached out for Dinah and took her by the shoulder's. "What is it? What's wrong?"
While the red-head tried to get an answer from Dinah, Helena couldn't control herself anymore. She could hear his foot steps as he ran away, she heard the knife fall to the ground, she heard the people gather and she heard her mother's last breath, all over again.
She turned around just in time to see herself... her old self crying out. yelling for he mum to be fine, for someone to stop the evil bastard who had just murdered her mum.
Helena was strangely still as she watched her mother's downfall, the moment that changed her forever. It was odd to be on the outside watcing rather than seeing it from her own eyes.
She didn't think she'd ever seen anybody as distressed as she was now... then. She was never good with the technical stuff.
She'd thought it would return her to that place, where everthing she knew, everything she relied on was tore out from under her. That place where it was only a darkness around her, in her.
It just made her feel sad. She regretted not having more time with her mother and never getting to talk to Catwoman. It was odd to want to meet gotham's finest theif;s but it was her mother's great talent after all.
"Helena!" Barara tried for the third time. Dinah was impossible to get a sane comment from and she was running ou of patience. That was when she noticed Helena was zoned in on her mother's death, something she tried to protect her from.
Finally, Helena's intense stare broke and she looked to Barbara.
"Are you ok?" The elder one asked.
Helena nodded unsurely, "Can we just get out of this?"
And with impecable timing the world around the 3 hero's swirled into a grey mass and when it finally stopped they were sitting in a dim room.
Dinah was once again sitting, knee's to her chest staring at the door ahead of her. Barbara immediately knew hat was going to play out before them and really didn't want to see it. A raging anger bubbled inside of her as she heard the TV report then saw her past self run for the phone to call Bruce, then the knock at the door.
She could already see his grin. It was always what she saw when she closed her eyes, but not this time. She'd kill him.
As past Barbara ran to answer the door, expecting Helena, Present Barbara ran and shoved herself out of the way then dived at The Joker.
Helena could only watch as Barbara sped across the room and went straight through her past self and then The joker beore landing harshly on the other side of the hallway.
Then the bang of the gun cut through all her thoughts. She watched her adoptive mother fall to the aparment floor and bleed, unable to scream or move.
And The Joker, that sick bastard just cackled. She'd never seen him before, not in the flesh. His very look gave her chills. There was obviously no sanity there, just evil.
When The Joker turned to leave, she saw Barbara, her Barbara, on the ground in tears, screaming at Him. It broke her heart, she always knew deep down Barbara was the one who never truely dealt with what happened, she used Helena to just move on and ignore her prolems. So, seeing that scene all over again, in exactly the same way, had finally brought it to the surface.
Helena carefully walked around the Barbara bleeding on the floor and walked through the door and out to the hall where the real Barbara was.
Her mentor was screaming at herself to get up. Helena neeled down beside her and pulled her into a hug. As hard as barbara fought, she wasn't getting out of Helena's arms so she completely broke down, sobbing.
Helena couldn't help but think about how different everything was. The old Hlena, the one that exsisted only months ago could be standing awkwardly, not sure what to do or how to comort Barbara. But since Dinah's arrival, all those issues she had with closeness had been driven out. She knew she owed that to Dinah giving her a new perspective on the life they lead.
She kissed the top of Barbara's head and rubbed her back, "Barbara, we need to finish this, I need you to help me. Your the brains of the team." She told her.
Barbara let Helena's word sink in. She was right, they had to stop this torture. For their sakes as well as Dinah's. She tried to even out her breathing. She wasn't being any use as a bubbling wreck. With-in seconds she was walking around herelf and her neighbour who had saved her life by investigating the loud noise he had heard.
Helena followed the red head back to Dinah, who now had her head burried into her knee's.
"We've tried asking her to get us out of here, and I'm not sure she reall know's how. I think the only way is to get her angry. Angry enough to give her enough control over her power to pull us out."
Helena nodded. "Do you think she'll hear you?"
"Yeah, I think she will. She's still in there, just the shock of seeing all these things has really got to her. We can only guess what else she's witnessed since she was infected."
Helena tried to not dwell on that last statement, they'd deal with that later. "How are we going to do this?"
Barbara looked at her, "We're not." She said. She knew Helena would find it hard to verbally abuse the fragile sister infront of her. So would she but it had to be done. It was there only option.
She got own to Dinah's eye level and sat directly infront of her. "Hey Redmond, look what your dreams have done. You're evil, a child of the devil."
This immediately got Dinah's attention. Barbara knew that deep down, Dinah still had a fear of all those lies the Redmonds had fed her.
"Why do you dream these things? You know they'll come true."
Dinah's eyebrows knotted, like she couldn't believe what was happening. "No, it's not my fault!"
Both Helena and Barbara cringed at the pain in th teens voice. Barbara forced herself to continue while Helena began to pace, trying to hold back from stopping Barbara.
"Yes, it is. Your powers are nothing but trouble. You just create pain." Barbara pulled out her final punch, something she knew would work. "No wonder your mother abandoned you. The week she came back into your life she died."
And that was the trigger, her mother's death. "I didn't kill her!! It wasn't my fauit! I tried to save her!! I tried!"
The room began to swirl and merge again only this time they each witnessed clips of various things. Black Canary's downfall, Guy's death, Wade's death. Every painful and horrible thing to happen to the people they knew and cared for until it just stopped.