Huntress jumped to the next rooftop and went home. She arrived to her appartment and took off her clothes letting them fall on the floor. She turned on the water and took a warm bath. She put her hands on the wall and felt the hot water on her back. She couldn't forget her fight against that man. He tried to kill Dinah.

The picture. She really had hit him very hard. She felt confused; she didn't want to kill him. She didn't want. She closed her eyes, when she opened them the water was red. It was blood red. She jumped stepped back and taking a towel she cleaned her body. But her hands were still stained in red.

She woke up trembling that night. She looked around, she was alone. She cleaned her forehead and sat on her bed. She went to the fridge and opened the door; it was empty and only had inside a freeze piece of cake and a bottle of water. She growled and took off the bottle of water. She drank all the water and rested her head on the fridge. She hated those guilty feeling. She slided her back over the fridge door and sat on the floor she cleaned again her forehead with her hand. She looked through the window the light of the moon. She sighed,it was going to be a long night.

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Helena stepped into the Clock Tower the next afternoon; she tried to seem as normal as usual, but Reese's comment had left her shocked. She felt guilty; they had discussed the issue of killing many times. But this had taken her off guard.

Dinah was doing her homework in front of a computer. Barbara noticed that Helena was inside. She turned her wheelchair and glared at her in silence.

Helena sighed knowing what was next. "What?"

"I'm waiting for your explanation." Said Oracle looking at both girls. "What happened out there?"

Helena turned pale. Had she spoken to Reese? She didn't know what to say.

"She always jumps into danger without even thinking!" Dinah finally said.

"Helena?" Barbara asked.

Helena sighed with relief. They still didn't know about the dead man.

"She jumped over a thief when he was pointing a gun at her." Dinah moved her head. "He missed by millimeters."

"Oh please!" Helena exclaimed raising her hands. "That man was pointing a gun at you! He was going to shoot you! He beated you!"

"Helena, you jumped between him and me!"

"What do you expect me to do? Stay there and watch him shoot you?"

"Why did you hit him so angrily?"

"I don't like answering questions." Helena growled glaring at the blond girl. "I don't like interrogations. He was going to kill you! I was saving your ass!"

"He didn't kill me!" Dinah said angrily.

"Yes and I prevented that!"

"Enough!" Barbara shouted. "Helena, I've told you so many times to take precautions in a fight and not to be so rude, we are the good guys. Keep in mind that we are a team. Dinah, I don't want to hear any discussion while you two are fighting. Before or afterwards I don't care of you two kill each other, but I don't want to see you distracted by fighting with each other. The criminals would take advantage of that and hit you. Don't help them! Okay?"

Both girls looked down.

"I don't hear you!." Barbara said with firm voice.

"Yes!" both said at same time.

"Good. Now let's get back to our case. Huntress, what did Reese tell you?"

"That none of the men remember anything about the robbery." She said moving nervously. She needed to tell her. "and... and that one of them was dead."

Barbara and Dinah turned to look at her at the same time. "What?" Barbara asked.

"Reese is waiting for the post mortem information to tell us what happened to him."

"What guy was it?" Dinah felt stunned.

Helena took a picture of the guy out of her pocket and showed it to her. Dinah recognized the man; she looked at Helena while Barbara examined the picture.

"Holy..." Barbara exclaimed "Who beat this guy?" she glared at Helena.

The brunette took a deep breath. "Me.." she said.

"You.." Barbara looked at the picture again.

"Yes me."

"How did this man die?" Barbara seemed to be really annoyed.

"I don't know. Reese didn't know either. He doesn't have bullet wounds or anything... Just... just the bruises from our fight." Helena said in bad mood "We need to wait until the post mortem exam is finished."

"And what do you think?" Barbara was pressing her. Dinah felt the tension between the two women increasing.

"What do I think about what?"

"Well you were there, I would like to hear your point of view on this."

"I didn't' kill him! Okay?" Helena shouted. "I just hit him!"

"I'm not saying that you killed him, I'm asking your opinion." Barbara said in a cold voice. "Why do you believe that I think you killed him?"

"God Barbara! You are pushing me just because I beat a thief!"

"I have told you many times that you must control your temper!"

"I control it!"

"Yes? You do?" Barbara faked a laugh "Explain to me then, what happened tonight."

"That man tried to shoot Dinah, I stopped it from happening! Is that hard to understand?" Helena was losing her patience. She pointed Dinah, "You should be thanking me and not trying to push me into the lions den!" she began to pace around the place.

"Helena no one is pushing you into anything." Barbara said. "I think you are feeling guilty."

"What are you talking about?" Helena glared at her.

"Imagine that you did kill him by accident, because you went past your limits, how would you feel?" Barbara asked her.

"What?" the question disconcerted the brunette.

"Answer me. How would you feel about that?"

"We are not discussing that now!"

"So what's this whole mess about?"

The Delphi alert turned on. The women looked at the screen.

"It's Reese calling you." Barbara said.

"I'm on my way." Helena saw it as a good opportunity to avoid Barbara and walked toward the elevator.

"We aren't finished with our conversation yet, okay?" Barbara said as she watched her go. The elevator door closed. Dinah looked at her in silence. Barbara moved her head. "You have just seen the reaction of a caged cat."

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