So here's the final chapter. I hope you enjoyed this story.

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When Barbara returned to the clocktower, she found that the computer had found a match. She quickly sent an untraceable e-mail to Detective Johnson with her attacker's photo, and his home and work addresses. She was comforted by the fact that the police would soon have him in custody until she realized how quiet it was in the tower. Where are Helena and Dinah?

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Helena threw the man into the outside wall of his apartment building. She held him against the wall with one hand to his throat, his feet barely touching the ground. Even though the sun had set and it was quite dark, she could tell that it was him.

"What's your problem, b****?" he said squirming to get out of her grip. What's wrong with me she's just a girl, he thought, but Helena's grip on his throat was unbreakable.

"Watch what you say, big man, you don't want me to make your face any uglier."

Looking at his face, Helena noticed that his nose was broken and his jaw was bruised.

"Did she do that to you?! Huh? She wasn't the easy prey that you thought. You saw the chair and thought 'I'll just take what I want'!" Helena shouted at him. "Well, you need to learn some manners," she said as she let him go.

"You just made a huge mistake, little girl. Now, I'll teach you a lesson."

As Huntress had expected, he tried to attack her and that was exactly what she wanted. He tried to punch her in the face, but she ducked under his arm and hit him under the ribs and he yelled out in pain. Standing back up, she punched his already broken nose. He lunged for her neck, but she crescent kicked his arms out of the way and put him in a headlock. She held him tightly, partially cutting off his airway.

"The woman you attacked last night was a friend of mine. You need to treat women with more respect, do you hear me?" she asked cutting off his airway a little more. "You're filth and I should just get rid of you now."

Helena was seriously considering snapping his neck until she heard Oracle come over the transceiver.

"Helena! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Barbara, not Oracle, yelled.

"I found the a**hole who attacked you. I'm going to teach him not to mess with us. What he did…was going to do is inexcusable. He needs to pay."

Helena's prisoner was truly terrified now. Not only was he being attacked by a woman, but she was now talking to herself as if she heard voices in her head.

"The police are on their way, you better get out of there," Barbara said in an eerily calm voice. Before cutting off communication, Barbara quietly added, "You never considered that this was something I wanted…I needed to do on my own."

Dinah came around the corner out of breath from trying to keep up with Helena, but with fire in her eyes. She had forgotten her transceiver in the tower and had missed the exchange between Barbara and Helena.

"That's him!" she said with rage as two nearby trashcans began to hover.

"We're going!" Helena barked as she dropped him to the ground, hearing the approaching sirens.

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In the clocktower, all was not well.

"Barbara, we wanted to get him for you…for what he had done to you," Dinah tried to explain.

"I don't need you to care for me like a child," Barbara shouted. "I'm an adult and I can take care of myself, despite being in this chair!"

"You know that chair doesn't matter," Helena shouted back.

"Well, it matters to me!" Barbara snapped.

Silence filled the tower. Things had reached a boil.

"I'm sorry, Barbara," Helena started softly. "I…when I found you last night…I thought I had lost you. You've been my only family for the last seven years and I don't know what I'd do without you."

Helena pretended to look out the window behind her, so that they would not see the tear running down her cheek.

"Listen, both of you," Barbara said to Dinah and Helena. "I didn't talk to you about last night because I wanted to protect you…or at least that's what I told myself. In reality, I didn't want to deal with what had happened. I could see the pity and the guilt in your eyes. I told myself seven years ago that I would never be a victim again, but I let it happen again."

"Barbara, it wasn't your fault. I know that I haven't been here a very long time, but the strength and courage that it must have taken you to rebuild your life fill me with awe, not pity," Dinah said.

A silent tension filled the tower again.

"Especially, since you somehow managed to control Helena."

The dark mood in the tower lifted as Helena threw a pillow at Dinah's head.

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The Birds took the rest of the night off. They were on the couch in Barbara and Dinah's apartment watching an old movie on the television, enjoying the comfort of their mix-matched family. There was a knock at the door, and Helena opened it to let Jim Gordon in. The commissioner was clearly excited.

"They caught him, Barbara!"

He was so excited with his news that he missed the surreptitious smile that the three women shared with each other.

"First there was an anonymous e-mail to Detective Johnson and then when the uniforms went to arrest him, he practically asked to be arrested. He's made a full confession. You don't need to worry about him anymore," he said as he made his way over to his daughter hugging her and kissing her forehead.

"Actually, he isn't the first perp to turn himself in and confess recently. There's a rumour about this woman…" he stopped. Thinking better of it, he said, "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

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Jim Gordon spent the next hour with the girls. He had no clue that he was one floor below the secret lair of the mysterious vigilantes who were rumoured to protect the city and he would never imagine that the three women in front of him were in fact those protectors.