Yes, I posted wrong the same chapters at the same page. Sorry, I fixed it

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Helena jumped between the rooftops. It help her to calm down; she loved it. She really loved it. That call was done in the better moment; Barbara had her knee over her throat.

::We aren't finished with our conversation yet, okay?:: she heard her mentor's voice at the comm.

"Yes, I know Oracle. You want see me against the wall again."

::I don't want see you against the wall.::

"Can we talk later please?" Huntress crouched over a building; Reese was down on the street.

::Yes, later. And we will have this conversation..::

"Huntress out.::

Neither of them realized that some one else was listening to their conversation.

Reese was outside of the Police department pacing impatiently. It had started raining again. He hated the rain. When he turned around he felt his entire body jump in a moment of panic. He stepped a few inches back. Huntress stood in front of him.

Huntress smirked. "You called?" She loved when he reacted like that. "Yes, yes... some day... some day I.."

"Some day what?" she took him by the neck and pulled him into a kiss.

He broke the kiss to take air after some seconds "Why was that for?"

"I just wanted it." Helena stepped back smiling.

"That's cheating;" he said gasping "You know I couldn't do anything against that." "Glad to hear that." Huntress raised her brow.

"Hey," he said stepping towards her. "You're soaked to the bone."

"I know, I can't use an umbrella being a crime fighter." She said looking up to the rain. "Though to be honest that is an amusing visual."

Reese reached into his jacket and took out a plastic bag with a small chip inside of it. He raised it in front of her.

"What is this?" she asked, taking it from him.

"We found it in the back of the neck of the man that we found dead last night."

Huntress was afraid to ask. "And?"

"We examined the other henchmen, they don't remember anything. They are all civilians without prior criminal records. The man was dead because this chip damaged his brain. The other men had a thing like this one; but we haven't quite figured out how to get the chips out of them just yet."

"But... I don't understand..."

"The chip failed. He didn't die because you hit him. It was the chip, but I don't know how it works."

Huntress sighed, relief washing over her. She looked at him "Do you want me to give it to Oracle?" She turned the bag over in her hands. "Yes, I did the dirty work and stole the chip. Now is your turn." Reese gave her a light smile.

He reached out for her and drew her towards him. Sliding his hands against her neck he leaned down and gave her a deep kiss. It lasted for several seconds. Finally Huntress broke away, gasping for air. Surprise in her tone she stammered,"Wow. what was that for?"

"I just wanted it." Reese grinned. She smiled at her, eyes bright. Shaking her head she turned to jump towards one of the buildings. It was time to get moving again. "Huntress" Reese called after her. The brunette turned to see him. "Be more careful next time. You beat him pretty bad. You will hurt someone seriously one of the days."

Huntress nodded and jumped.

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Helena walked into the Clock Tower. She moved to stand in front of Barbara. "Something for your amusement." she said putting the plastic bag on the desk. Barbara stopped to type at the computer and looked the small object. She looked at it for a moment and then glanced up at Helena. "What is this?"

Helena walked around so that she was standing next to Barbara who had taken the plastic bag and raised it into the air. "Reese gave it to me. Somebody installed that chip in the back of the head of the dead man. He DIED because the chip failed and damaged his brain." She sat in a chair next to Barbara and pushed it with her feet causing her to spin a complete circle. "So, I didn“t kill the man. Are you happy now?" She locked eyes with her mentor. "This doesn't excuse your behavior if that is your question." Helena sighed and rested her back against the chair. Dinah ran down the stairs and joined the two women at the lab table. "Do you have something?" she asked the brunette.

"I'm innocent if that is your question. I didn't kill that man." Helena said, her mood darkening again. She stood up, her heels clicking the floor.

She called to the loyal butler in loud voice "Alfred, Do you have something for dinner?" "Change out of those clothes first," Barbara muttered, still looking at the small object "You're soaked to the bone. I bet you end up catching a cold." "Yes mom." Helena said making fun of her. Barbara glared at her.

"Everything is okay?" Dinah asked to the red head. "Yes, it seems as if this thing killed the man." she fingered the chip inside the bag " I need to work on this now. Go to dinner with Helena."

Dinah kept an eye on Helena "She is in a bad mood. I don't think is a good idea. I prefer to stay with you if you don't mind you." Barbara looked at her and then over towards Helena's retreating form "Yes, you are right. Come with me."

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Helena sat at in the dining room with her legs over the chair. She watched the two women work at the lab while she played with a piece of her sandwich. She didn't know if she felt happy or angry, she just felt like she needed a good fight. Either to validate her bad mood or maybe to enhance it. She wasn't quite sure. Alfred looked at her with curiosity while he flipped through a recipe book.

"I thought you were hungry Miss Helena," he said.

"Yea, me too." The brunette answered distractedly.

"Something bothering you?"

"I don't know."

"Another discussion with Miss Barbara?"

"Not exactly; call it an 'exchange of opinions',"

"And I can imagine she put you up against the wall in that 'exchange of opinions'."

Helena looked him "Were you listening?"

"No." Alfred smiled "But when you two have an argument, she tends to put you up against a wall."

"You know what you guy's problem is?" Helena grumbled.

"No."

"You think that you know me so well."

"It's not that Miss Helena. Not that at all. It's just that you are often predictable."

"I'm not predictable." Helena frowned.

"May I try?" Alfred asked.

"Forget it. Today is not my day; I'm sure I will lose." she took her plate and stood up walking towards the balcony. Alfred smiled.



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Helena couldn't deny she felt a great relief inside her knowing she hadn't killed that man. It seemed that many years of listening to Barbara saying "We don't kill" was affecting her and she hated that, it made her feet weak and vulnerable.

"Are you okay?" Barbara asked behind her, she didn't hear her mentor wheel outside.

"Yes. What did you find?" She bit her sandwich

"I finished the analysis on the chip. But I couldn't find out too much; it's burned up pretty bad."

"Do you think someone is controlling people's minds?"

"I need one of those chips undamaged. Reese called. The chips in the heads of the other men disappeared."

"What?" Helena was disconcerted.

"The person who is doing this does not want them to be examined. It looks like maybe he can control the molecular structure of the chip from a long distance. He just...well he just dissolved it."

"That man must be mad to play with people's minds this way."

"Yes, he must be." Barbara paused before asking "Were you scared?"

"Scared?" Helena looked her.

"You know about what I'm talking about."

"Are you pushing me again?"

"Im just asking." Barbara said in soft voice.

Helena looked away. "I don't know."

"You seemed like it."

"I don't know if I was scared or angry. You and Dinah were getting so angry at me. I felt like I was being shoved up against the wall. I saved her life. That should count for something." Helena lowered her head.

"It does and we weren't trying to trap you against a wall. You alone felt trapped. Helena, we've talked about this."

"About killing people?" the brunette sighed.

"Yes, and about controling your anger. You don't think sometimes. You went up against that man who was pointing a gun at you. You could be dead now!" Barbara said almost frustrated.

"I didn't kill him."

"But you could have, and you know that. You are a lethal weapon. I saw the picture of the man, you saw it."

"I know! And I couldn't sleep all the damn night!" Helena almost shouted. She kept silent a few seconds and looked Barbara, "Tell me that you never beat a criminal as I beat that man. Tell me that you never did it. Tell me that you never wanted to kill."

Barbara was caught off guard. Both women stared at each other for several long seconds. No one blinked, no muscles moved; it was almost like a challenge; like a power play. Finally Barbara showed emotion. Helena could do that to her. The protege could always push the mentor to the edge.

"Helena, I did kill someone. You know that," Barbara exclaimed. "It's not something I'm proud of. Do you think that I don't know that my hands are red because of Sandy? She was an innocent girl. I will always carry that around with me. I don't want you to carry that burden."

"Sorry," Helena snorted. "But that 'innocent' was a thief. And he was trying to kill Dinah. I don't think I would have spent much time crying for him."

"Helena, if someone forced him to do things that he didn't want to then he is an innocent. If we find a complete chip and I could prove that some one was controlling his mind, that vindicates him.. He is innocent." She paused for a moment. "Look, I'm sure that you felt guilty for a moment; you felt the heavy weight that falls over your shoulders when you have the life of a person in your hands. It isn't a pleasant feeling. And I'm sure you didn't like yourself too terribly much at that moment either."

"Fine, I hated who I was. Are you happy now?" Helena said standing up. "But I can't be nice with bad guys in the middle of a fight! I was a tad bit busy trying to save my ass. And Dinah's in case you failed to notice." "Why don't you ever weigh the risks of a fight before you jump in head first?"

".Adrenaline?".

Barbara rolled her eyes. "And your excess of force?"

"Well, it's all part of the job." Helena said.

"Okay, I buy that. But Helena, you must learn to be careful with that part of the job. You know the drill about with great responsibility...'"

Helena waved her off. "When I'm fighting it's hard to focus on don't hurt the bad guys who are trying to kill me. Kind of a distraction."

The Delphi's system alarm interrupted them., Barbara wheeled inside and Helena followed her. Dinah was already in front of the computers when they arrived.

"What's going on?" the red head asked.

"Robbery, another computer factory. Near the dockyards." Dinah explained.

"Go" Barbara typed fast on the keyboard.

"Barbara I need tell you something." Dinah said suddenly.

"Can't it wait?" Helena asked, impatience in her tone.

"I lost one of my earrings."

"What?" Barbara asked, spinning around to face Dinah.

"Must have been lost yesterday during the fight. I thought this morning that maybe it was on my bed and I looked everywhere but it wasn't there." "Fine. Try to trace back your steps. It's probably where you two were yesterday. Okay?"

Both girls nodded and ran outside the building.



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Oracle guided them to where the robbery took place. Huntress and Dinah arrived but the place was empty. Dinah walked around and Huntress checked the rooftops unsucessfuly.

"Are you sure the signal came from here?" Huntress asked as she walked towards Dinah. "This place is empty"

::Yes... The police got the same signal. You two had better get out of there.::

"Copy that Oracle. Okay, Dinah." Helena said, putting a hand on her friends' shoulder "Why we don't go to look for your earring?"

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"Nice, nice" the man smiled. He was working in front of his big computer equipment, He had been listening to the conversation between the women.. "I love the technology.!" He looked his henchmen. "Move faster, we have work to do."

* * *

Dinah walked inside the big warehouse with a flashlight. The place was still closed in with police tape; that was a good sign, no one had been there since the robbery. Huntress was looking outside. It was still was raining. She wondered idly what was it about cats and rain. They seemed to enjoy being outside in the worst that Mother Nature had to offer.

::Nothing?:: Oracle asked.

"No Oracle, Im in the place where that man held me but... I can't find it." Dinah said. She kneeled on the floor trying to find the small object. Suddenly she felt a hard blow on her head and growled. She fell to the floor.

Huntress eyes changed; she listened the growl of the blond girl on her com. "Dinah? Are yo okay?" she asked.

::What was that?:: Oracle asked.

"She must be in trouble." Huntress said and jumped to a high window of the warehouse. She looked down, was dark inside but she could saw Dinah lying on the floor "She is on the ground."

::Hurted?:: Oracle asked worry tinting her tone.

"I don't know. I can't see any one but I know some one is here." Huntress could smell the danger; the adrenaline started to rip through her. She opened the window slowly. The place seemed be empty. She jumped down and cautiously went to her friend. She kneeled and took her neck. "She is breathing normally but she's unconscious Oracle." Huntress whispered looking around. "I don't like this. Something's not right." ::Is she hurt?::

"Doesn't look like..." Huntress snapped her hear up, her senses buzzing wildly. She stood up taking Dinah by her armpits. At the last moment she heard a strange noise and she lifted her head towards it, She saw a net falling towards her so she rolled with Dinah to avoid it. She moved fast and hid behind some boxes while a wash of bullets rushed past her. She put her back against a box hugging Dinah.

Oracle almost jumped on her chair when she recognized the sound of gunfire. ::Huntress talk to me.::

"It's a trap Oracle." She said with loud voice; the sound of the weapons were loud. She looked up trying to figure how escape.

::I'll call Reese.::

"This place is dark, I'll try jump to the ceiling and maybe I'll surprise them."

::How many men are there?::

"I don't know." Helena began to climb up the boxes up and jumped to the ceiling. There was a kind of metallic corridor and she kneeled looking down. She raised her head, a man stood on the other end of the corridor pointing a gun at her. She rolled before he could hit her and fell over the boxes that she had climbed a few seconds ago; immediately a rain of bullets began to hit nearby her. She bounced and fell to the floor next to Dinah. "Didn't work." She said to Oracle putting her back against the boxes again.

::To your left there is a trap door. It will take you to the river. It's a wet solution but it will get you out of there.::

Huntress began to drag herself to her left and a tear gas exploded next to her. "Shit!" she grumbled and moved back. She went to Dinah and another tear gas canister exploded there. "Tear gas Oracle!" She coughed.

::Improvise an exit!::

Huntress looked around, her eyes were burning. She hit her shoulder against the metallic wall breaking it. Looking down she could see the river. She took Dinah by her waist and jumped down. The men tried to follow her but she disappeared under water. They continued firing their guns into the water. Huntress emerged from the cold water down the building coughing; she held Dinah with her arm around her throat and cleared her eyes with her free hand.

::Huntress are you okay?:: she heard Oracle's voice. ::Huntress::

"Yeah, I'm here, but I can't see a damn thing. I hate tear gas!"

::Where are you?::

"I jumped to the river. I'm freezing here."

::How is Dinah?::

"Still knocked out. The bad guys are up there." Huntres could see a kind of border and swam to it. When she touched the wooden cornice, she dragged Dinah over it. Resting an arm on the wood cornice; she washed her eyes with the water, she felt the gas burning her lungs and eyes, and coughed. She heard the click of the safety pin disengaging off a gun.

"Don't move or you and your friend will be fish food." A man's voice said. They were on a stair way a few meters from her. Huntress growled. Dinah began to recover consciousness. "Good, take your friend and swim here slowly." The man said.

"Where am I?" the blond girl whispered while Huntress pulled her into the cold water again. She put and arm around her neck "Just hold your breath." Helena said in a low voice.

"Mmm?"

"Hold your breath and don't move." Huntress said again. Suddenly, she dived with Dinah under the cornice. She swam under the basement and heard shots. She touched a rock. There was no exit.

Huntress looked upside the floor of wood, all was completely dark and Dinah couldn't see anything. Huntress took her hands and put it around her waist. Dinah understood and held her; she didn't know what she was planning to do but she trusted in her. The brunette put a hand over the floor and began to hit it hard but the wood was thick.

Finally she broke through and using her hands, she began to pull it apart making the hole bigger. She felt Dinah releasing her and she caught her hand, she needed air. Huntress pushed her upper body to the hole and she followed her. Huntress opened her mouth and took a deep breath. She had almost drowned there. She rested one arm on the floor and held Dinah with the other one. Both coughed.

::Huntress answer me:: she heard Oracle's voice and the police cars outside of the building.

"We are fine." Huntress said almost in a whisper.

::What happened?::

"Let me breath..." she coughed again.

"Thanks Huntress..." Dinah said looking her.

"Pleasure..."

Dinah climbed out of the hole and helped Huntress out. "We need a cup of coffee." The blond girl shivered rubbing her arms.

Huntress stood up trembling too. "Good idea, but I need first know who are those men. Wait here."

Huntress went to a upper window and looked up. The men were runing toward a car. She opened and ran toward them but they had gone before she could do something. She was shivering because of the cold and rubbed her hands. Who ever was they were waiting for hers and that didn't like her.