Barbara wheeled inside Helena's room where she was at the floor with Diana. The princess was entertaining her with her magic lasso making her undo knots. It was strange listen her giggling, which sounded more like a staccato purr than anything else. Barbara watched them in silence a few seconds. It reminded her of the early years when Helena played with her mother. Maybe her eyes were transformed, but they no longer reflected the rage and anger. Her eyes reflected an innocent kid, but she was a lethal weapon.

Diana heard her wheel in. She smiled at Barbara. "She is okay just... just..."

"She is angry."

"I think so... She thinks you don't pay attention to her: She feels alone..."

"Maybe it's true," Barbara rested her back on her chair watching Helena who kept playing with the lasso not paying attention to her. "I have been working almost all day trying to find a cure for her."

"But she is still her..." Diana said "Maybe you forgot that she needs you now too, not just trying to find the cure."

"You are right." The red head paused. "But... how I can make her know that I care for her if she is not herself...?"

"She is herself, she recognized you immediately. She follows you all day and you reject her:"

Barbara took a deep breath.

"Try it, I'm sure she will understand." Diana stood up. Helena growled in disapointment. "I'll back." Diana said, tapping her head. She walked outside the room. "I'll be in the lab."

Barbara watched Helena who kept playing with the lasso trying to undo a knot.

"Helena... I have a lot of work, but I'm working for you..." The girl kept playing without paying attention to her. Barbara sighed and looked at the door. She didn't know what to do. She maneuvered herself to the floor and sat near her protégé. "Helena, I'm sorry, but... I needed, I need work on this, the city is in danger and you..."

Helena grumbled and moved the lasso trying to untie the knot. Barbara watched her in silence. "I wish you would listen to me," she whispered.

Helena bit the lasso.

"Hey, hey, no." Barbara took her hands. "Let me help you." Helena growled, still angry with her; but the movement of her mentor's hands over her working on the knot kept her attention. After a few seconds the knot was undone.

"See?" Barbara said. "It was easy. Want to try again?" She did another knot and gave it to her.

Helena tried to undo it unsuccesfuly and growled frustrated, again biting at the rope.

"No, no." Barbara smiled. "You are doing it wrong again." She took her hands. "Watch it..."

They kept the play for long minutes. Finally, when the girl could unlock the knot alone. She looked at the redhead with her orange irises.

"Yes, you did it!" Barbara laughed and brushed her hair. "You did it."

Helena leaned toward her and Barbara hugged her. It was strange; they usually never talked about how important they were to each other, but at the same time she understood that sometimes it was important to open their hearts regardless of the moment.

She felt Helena purring in her arms. She thought Alfred and Diana were right. She understood that maybe Helena couldn't think and act straight, but it didn't dimish her capability to feel, love and be loved. She needed love in that moment. She had been asking for it and Barbara hadn't understood her.

Helena just wanted love. It had been in front of Barbara the entire time and she didn't see it. Maybe because they were never emotional with each other. Both are cold, to say it in a way, they are the kind of people that don't hug each other or say "I need you, I love you", but inside they feel a great love for each other.

I'm warmer, I like to hug my sisters and mother, I like to tell them "I missed you", well, in Paradise Island you can breathe love everywhere. I grew up in a marvelous place blessed by gods. Barbara and Helena's lives were very far from a place like Themyscira. They were circled by violence, murder, and blood. They hadn't chosen that world to live in, they had born there. And I... I had chosen her world to live, for love, to help people and make them understand that it's possible to live in a better world.

Helena followed with her gaze the movements of Dinah's hand over the notebook. Dinah was doing her homework at the living room and Helena was sat o the floor next to her with her head resting on her arms looking what she was doing.

After a few seconds she did some soft gutural noises with her throat and trid to take the pen. Dinah moved her hand. "No, Im working."

Helena did again her strange sounds.

"Whatever you said." She raised her head and looked her mentor who was working at Delphi's "Barbara, why she can't talk?"

"Why do you want she talking? We barely could stand her with out talk." Barbara answered looking distracley again her monitor.

"No, I'm asking serious."

Helena tried to take again her pen and Dinah moved her hand again. The teen looked in hr bag and gave her a felt-tip pen and a white paper. "Take this and keep quiet." She stood up next to the trail.

"Well," Barbara explained down stairs "The potion didn't transformed her as I said to you. But overwhelmed her meta cells. Her body had some changes physically and mentally; one of this it's her vocal chords in one hand and in other hand she don't remember she can talk."

"But she understand us..."

"I don't know if she understand us or is the tone, the way as we say the words." Barbara looked up "The tone would make her feel accepted, scolded... just as dogs do.."

"Why am I guessing that Helena won't like that comparison?" Dinah asked with a laugh.

"Because you know her," Barbara smirked. "And I think we'll keep it between us."

"Yes... you are right. Im intrigued, she is not aggressive... why?"

Barbara kept silence a few second "Becouse Helena wasn't. Was after her mother's murder that the fury began to control her feelings. And cat's usually aren't aggressive until they try to defend or protect itselves. She feels secure here, not feel danger."

"Great, we have now our own cat pet." Dinah sighed and looked Helena again, she open wide her eyes and ran to took the felt-tip pen, she was scrawling the wooden floor with it. She tried to take the pen but the brunette growled in protest moving back. Dinah held her hands between hers and said in low voice.

"Are you crazy? Are you trying that she kill us???"

Helena answered with most gutural sounds and pulling her hands.

"Helena give me the damn pen before Barbara hang me of a the clock and make a carpet wth your skin."

"Urghh?" Helena looked her with big eyes.

"Carpet, do you understand?" Dinah pointed the carpet at the floor under the table and touched her skin "Barbara would do a carpet with your skin if we don't clean this mess now. Barbara..." she pointed the red head "Remember Barbara? Remember the bath?" she took a glass of water of the table "water?"

Helena hissed.

"Give me that stupid pen or Ill never will bath you again and Ill let her do it, and remember what happened then." Dinah put the pen over the table again.

The brunette did most strange noises.

"Yes, right, she giving you a bath."

Helena gave her the pen and crawled toward the sofa. Dinah brushed her hair and looked the mess over the floor. She stood up and pointed Helena. "Don't move or when Ill back Ill clean the floor with your ass ."

The brunette protested doing whimpering sounds. She looked the water, Barbara and later the wood floor. She jumped down and began to scratch the floor with her nails.

Dinah walked in a few minutes later with a bucket, soap and a cloth. She almost cried when she saw her friend kneeled on the floor scratching it frenetically.

"Helena!" she shouted. The young crime fighter jumped over the coach and when she saw her and hissed annoyed; she had scared her.

"What's going on Dinah?" Barbara asked.

"Nothing, she just spilled a glass of water but ill clean it now." The teen moved down and took the cloth and cleaned the wood surface. But her partner had damaged the varnish.

"Dammit Helena, you screwed all. Now your bath with Barbara it's a fact."

Helena continued doing sounds worried. She didn't like the idea of bath. The once that they had bath her hadn't been funny. After that Dinah had do it and she let her play and jump inside the tub. She looked the teen worried and meowed softly..

"We need think in something." Dinah scratched her head.

After a few minutes Alfred walked inside the living room and watched the furniture had been moved, the table was in other place. Dinah was picking her school bag and Helena was stood up next to her..

"Miss Dinah?" he asked.

"Oh, just was to keep Helena doing something, and looks better..."

"Well, yes."

"See you Alfred, came on Helena, let's go to watch TV." The teen grabbed her friend's arm and pulled her out. She just was praying that no one move the table that was covering the floor scratched.

Diana had been working on the anthydote while Barbara was checking for new traces of Circe. After four days since her encounter with the Sourceness they didn't had any trace of her. Fight against a sourceness was something unusual in her crime fighter career; she had faced any kind of murders and criminals, simple burglars to Joker. But this one was something that she didn't know how to deal.

"Circe seemed had dissapeared." Barbara wheeledo toward another monitor "What if she changer her plans and moved to another city?"

"I don't think so, she knows Im here." Diana said "And now this problem turned personnal. She is planing a way to attack and trap me. She knows I can't kill her."

"We don't kill... but... why do you say that?"

"It's Hecate's curse: 'Upon the death of witch and birth of witch, Hecate, by name and choice shall reposseses her soul.'"

"What?..."

"It's a course... If I kill her, Im doomed to inheit Hecate's fould legacy." Diana lowered her head looking at the michroscope. "according with it Im the second witch. Killing her Hecate would repossessed me; my powers are incredible and throught me Hecate would be unstoppable."

"You wasn't name by Hecate." Barbara went to her.

The amazon raised her head. "I don't have choice. We were both born both whim of God, she is my reflection in a warped mirrow."

"How are we going to stop her?"

"If we can find the anthydote we can inmunize people and help Helena. And Ill try her trap her with my golden lasso."

The red head looked her. "I never had fought against a sourcenness, do you know that? Why you called me? Maybe there are people with more experience than me."

"You never has enough experience to fight against Gods, wizards and magic. No one is prepare for that. They are aways impredictable."

"That's true; I hope that we could defeat her soon." Barbara sighed. She looked for the corner of her eye Dinah moving down stairs pulling Helena. She looked them

"Where are you going?" she asked.

"To watch Tv." Dinah frozed.

"Did you finish your homework?"

"Yes... just now, all done."

"How is Helena going?"

"Good, good... no problem." The teen bit her lips nervous.

"Well... I can take care of her after I finish and you will take a bath."

Helena recognized the last word and she hissed. She pushed Dinah and ran toward her room. Diana and Barbara looked her stunned and later Dinah. The teen just raised her shoulders and smiled nervous.

"She is... she is nervous, you know it, Dinah said... I, I better go with her."

Barbara frownered and looked her go.

"What do you think that happened?" Diana asked.

"I don't have an idea, and I prefer not know what would be."

After a long day Dinah was sleeping on the coach. She suddenly felt Helena pushing her. "Mmm? What are you doing?" Dinah asked sleepy. The brunetter tried to climb on the coach. "Helena, we don't fit here, the coach is small, go to your bed!...Damn!..... okay okay." Dinah stood up and taking her pillow went to the bed "Stay there I'll go to the bed."

Dinah put her self on the bed and coverd with the blankets. She closed her eyes again and a few seconds later she felt Helena on her back and her annoy purring. "No Hel! Please!" Dinah sighed exhasperated. She pushed her with her hands. "Stopt that!" Helena meowed "Whatever you said, the same for you. Now go to sleep, I have an examn tomorrow!!" she turned and covered her head with her pillow and close her eyes.

Suddenly she felt a bite on her arm and she yelled. "Shit!!! Helena!!!"

The brunette moved down the bed and hissed. Dinah turned on the lamp of her night table. "Why the hell cant you sleep as a normal person?"

Helena meowed again.

"Please Helena, I just want sleep, I can do it with you purring on my back. Go to sleep!" Dinah turned off the lights and covered again with the blankets.

Dinah woke up next. She sleepy looked her eatch, six o'clock, she yawned and sat on the bed. She looked around looking for Helena but she wasn't there. "Uh, oh..." she stood up inmediately and began to call her in low voice. "Helena, where ae you?" the room was empty. "Came on Helena, I don't have time, I need go to school."

Dinah began to look for her partner. She seemed had dissapeared. She went toward Clocktower and saw Barbara at Delphi's. That was strange, it was too early. She tried to step back slowly to avoid that she discovered her.

"Did you lost something?" the red head asked.

"Uhh... I? Well..." the blonde girl didn't know what to say and walked toward her.

Barbara turned. She stop on her tracks. The red head had a face not friendly and she had big rings under her eyes.

"Uh..uh..." Dinah muttered "Why... are you here... it's six on the morning...?"

"Tell me." Barbara raised her brown "Could you sleep with a girl which purres on your back and her chest vibrates all night while she is hugging you?"

"Oh Barbara... I, I... Im sorry, I fell asleep and I didn't..."

"The damn bed vibrates with her purr all night!"the red head said annoyed.

"Yes... I couldn't slept either."

"It's not your fault Dinah, I couldn't sleep; so came here to work on the antydothe."

"Ill help you when I back, I have examn I need go early."

"Take the Hummer."

"Okay"