"No dart guns!" Barbara shook her head.

"And how do you expect to get her down?" Dinah crossed her arms.

"Dinah, this is not right."

"Well, I don't think she wants to come down here on her own. And Diana is hurt and I don't want to bother her for this "minor" problem. May I add that she is soaking the entire Clocktower?"

"All right, all right." Barbara said, exasperated, moving her hands trying to control her temper. "Just a small dose."

"Ok.." Dinah turned and went to the cabinet.

"Helena, come here!" Barbara insisted, but the brunette didn't move and kept licking her hand crouched on the rail. The alcohol smelled awful and it burned when it touched her skin. She was not going to go down there. She heard a "click". Her senses turned on; she raised her head and turned to look back.

The blonde was showing the redhead some of those things that make so much noise. She growled quietly. And watched them.

"It's ready," Barbara said.

"Mmm... I guess she knows what we are doing." Dinah said, looking up at her friend.

Barbara raised her head. The brunette was keeping an eye on them. "Yes... I see."

"Let me try to distract her." Dinah went toward the elevator.

Helena didn't move her eyes off the gun. She didn't like this. She hissed. After a few seconds, she heard the elevator door opening, but she didn't want to turn her attenton from the gun that the redhead had in her hands.

"Helena, come with me," Dinah said, standing in front of the elevator. She began to walk slowly toward her.

Helena hissed, she was nervous and began to move her head quickly, looking back and forth from the blonde to the redhead downstairs. Suddenly, she jumped down and hid behind the desk near the clock mechanism. Dinah ran downstairs. Barbara wheeled to her.

Helena raised her head slightly and watched them. Now she knew, she was being stalked. She crouched and remained perfectly still. Dinah walked to her right and Barbara to her left. The redhead made a sign at the blonde to move slowly.

Dinah kneeled a few meters from her and began to talk softly to her while Barbara moved closer.

"I promise not to touch you," Dinah said. "Forget about your hand, we just need to change your clothes."

Helena watched her suspiciously out of the corner of her eye, unmoving. Dinah moved closer. "No more baths, no more alcohol in your wound, we just need to cover it."

Barbara removed the safety on the gun. Helena's senses turned on. Barbara raised her hand slowly, trying to not to startle the brunette. She knew the blonde was trying to distract her.

"That's it Hel..." Dinah mumbled. "Don't move... don't move."

Helena sharpened her hearing. She was watching Dinah, but was feeling the movements of the redhead behind her. She could almost guess her move. Recognizing her next move, she jumped a second before Barbara shot. The dart buried in Dinah's thigh.

"Crap!" the blonde girl growled.

"Damn!" Barbara shouted. "Dinah!"

Helena crouched over a rail, again looking down. The blonde removed the dart from her leg and threw it to the side rubbing her leg. "I'm okay, catch her," she said to Barbara.

"Helena, that's enough come here!" Barbara shouted angrily, helping Dinah to stand up.

"I'm okay..." Dinah felt strange and put her hand on the arm of the chair to steady herself.

Diana walked in at that moment. "What is going on?" she asked.

"We were trying to catch Helena to change her and clean her hand. I shot a dart by accident at Dinah."

Diana sighed and glared at the brunette locking her eyes on her. "Come here! You have caused enough trouble today." Helena grunted. "Come here. We need to bandage your hand now!" Helena grumbled and jumped down. "Sit down and don't move!"

The brunette jumped onto the stretcher and crouched on it.

"Dinah? Are you all right?" Barbara's protégé didn't look well.

"I dunno..." Dinah said, staggering "I feel funny..."

Diana saw Helena, she was grinning, looking at the blonde. They had failed and no one was going to put that stuff that burned on her hand.

"This is not funny." Diana scolded her, while she walked over to help Barbara with Dinah. She passed her arm behind the blonde to help her to walk.

"Hey... the floor moves." The teen laughed.

"Oh, sorry, Dinah," Barbara apologized.

Diana helped Dinah to sit on a chair. Barbara gave her some alcohol to smell. The amazon turned to see Helena, who was moving silently out of the infirmary. She hated the alcohol smell and while they were distracted with the blonde she could hide.

"Helena," Diana called her.

The girl tried to run but the amazon moved faster and blocked her way. Helena crouched and hissed. The tall woman raised her golden lasso and showed it to her. "Do you recognize this?"

Helena growled softly.

"Go back and be nice or I'll use this on you, got it?"

Helena mewled.

"Go back, now!"

The brunette crouched on the stretchter. Diana touched Barbara's shoulder. "Bandage Helena's hand and I'll take care of Dinah." She glared at the brunette who just grunted and avoided her stare. "And don't worry, you can heal her now. She is not going to move."

"Thanks, the wound is not deep, but I don't want it infected with dirt and her saliva."

Dinah recovered a few minutes later. She had removed the dart quickly and she hadn't been affected too much. She stayed in the infirmary with Helena, changing her soaked clothes, while Barbara was attending to the amazon in her room.

"Comfortable?." Barbara asked Diana, after finishing with the bandage her on arm.

"Yes... I think I will sleep better, thanks... Helena surprised me; she fights amazingly well."

"She is very good." Barbara smiled. "I can't deny it."

"You trained her well."

"Thanks. I tried to teach her the best that he showed to me."

"You fought like him... You taught her... she fights, in some ways, like him."

"I never thought about that."

"It doesn't disgust her?"

Barbara kept silent a few seconds and winked. "I don't think that she has stopped to think about that. So it's best if you don't say a word about it. You know how difficult she is when she's pissed."

"Deal." The amazon smiled.

"Circe is looking for you now. It worries me."

"Me too, she knows I'm in the city and now is going to focus all her attention on that. In some ways that is good."

"Good?" Barbara frowned.

"It will divert her attention from poisoning people with her potion."

Dinah ran inside the room. "Barbara, Helena passed out!"

"What?"

"I was finishing her bandage when she suddenly passed out."

The redhead wheeled toward the infirmary followed by the princess. Barbara stood next to her protégé who was lying on the stretcher and touched her forehead. She was burning up and trembling.

"She has a fever."

"A fever?" Dinah asked, surprised. "But... how? She was okay a few minutes ago."

"Would it be the antidote?" Diana asked.

"I don't know." The redhead took the girl's pulse. "Dinah, bring me the ice bag, we need to lower the fever."

Helena half opened her eyes and looked at her. "Barbara?"

The three women turned, stunned to hear the brunette.

"Helena?"

"I'm thirsty..."

"I'll go for water." Dinah said running out of the room.

"How do you feel?" Barbara took a light pen on her pocket and examined her eyes. They had a changed to a strange yellow color and were shifting from cat to their normal size.

"Sick... what... happened?"

Barbara took a cloth to clean her sweaty forehead. "I need to lower the fever; you will be okay."

The girl uttered a low growl. She looked at her mentor, disconcerted, had she made that sound? "What... was that?"

"Don't worry..." Barbara touched her hand. "Try to rest."

"I feel strange..."

Something was wrong. I didn't know what it was, but I could read it in Barbara's eyes. We tried to low the fever, unsuccessfully. The antidote wasn't working; Barbara used all her technology, trying to figure out what was happening, but before she could do anything, things turned worse. Helena began to complain of an ache in her chest and her head.

It hurt me to see the desperation in Barbara's eyes and not be able to do anything. It was one of those moments when I felt with all my powers, gifts from the most powerful Gods of the Universe, the most useless person in the world.

"I need time to investigate what is happening." Barbara brushed her hair nervouslt and looked at Diana. Helena was moving about, clearly disturbed and her irises were changing color again. "She is not having a good time."

Helena grunted and curled up. She pressure in her chest, and her mind was foggy and dizzy. The sensation was more than unpleasant. It was like being drugged in the middle of a desert.

"Easy Hel..." Barbara rubbed her cheek gently with her hand. "You'll be okay."

The brunette answered with another growl and took her mentor's hand holding it strongly. She knew that the sounds coming from her weren't normal. "Why... am I growl... " before she could finish the sentence she curled up again, holding herself. Her chest hurt and the headache turned worse.

"Here is a tranquilizer," Diana said, giving Barbara a syringe.

"Good idea."

"Easy, Helena, calm down," Diana said, sitting next to the brunette on the mattress.

The girl clenched her teeth and gave a loud growl. Barbara could see her irises turning red. "Damn! The antidote is not working." She turned to the amazon, worried. "She is turning feral! Hold her!."

Helena hit the amazon with such force that she crashed against the wall. She jumped to the door and and pushed Dinah to the side.

"Helena, come back"!!" Barbara shouted.

Helena stumbled, moving outside the room. She didn't understand what was happening; her head hurt like hell. She hit a table in the corridor and fell down. Her instinct told her to run, escape, hide. She stood up and tried to do it but her vision was blurred and she crashed against the rail. She fell over it and landed on the lower floor on a computer desk, breaking it.

"Stop her before she hurts herself!" Barbara ordered.

Helena tried to stand up, but she stumbled against a piece of wood near the table and fell down again. She looked around, frightened. Where was she? Diana landed next to her. She jumped back and crouched, hissing at her.

"Helena, it's me Diana," the amazon said.

Dinah stood up a few meters from her, she noticed she didn't look well, she could barely sustain her own weight. Helena crawled back, disconcerted. These women were trying to trap her; she needed to escape. The amazon raised her hand toward her. Helena remained still.

"That's it, we are friends, remember?" Diana stepped toward her. The brunette charged at her trying to scratch her, but Dinah tackled her and both rolled on the floor. Dinah had a hard time trying to keep her still.

"Diana!" Barbara shouted, throwing the syringe with the tranquilizer at her. She caught it and buried it in Helena's leg, who meowed in disgust. She kicked Dinah and moved, trying to run toward the balcony, but Diana was on her before she could stand up. She struggled but she felt dizzy, her mind told her to escape but her body didn't respond. Her eyelids were heavy. She pushed once more, trying to stand up, but she couldn't...she stopped struggling.

Diana watched her, after a few seconds she slowly released her grip on the girl and brushed her hair off her sweaty forehead. "She is asleep now," she said.

Barbara sighed and was slightly relieved. Dinah sat on the floor. "When all this is over she will be really pissed." She cleaned her hands on her sleeve.

"Now we need to investigate why the antidote didn't work. I don't understand what happened."

"We will do it after we take her to her room," Diana told Dinah.

"Ughhh." The teen responded, passing her arm around the brunette's back. "I guess she is heavier now... would be the poptarts. She is going to be pissed when she discovers she gained weight. I hope you accept new guests on your island, princess."

"Sure," she laughed, helping her pick up the brunette.