Sometimes she asked to her self how many she had changed after the accident. She looked to her past and found many of her temper in Helena, Alfred had told her that so many times. Maybe for that reason she felt so identify with her. She rested her back on her wheelchair looking the screeen, but her mind was lost in her thoughts.

"You couldn't help her yesterday." Alfred said walking outside the

Barbara just looked him. "How do you know it?"

"It's easy read your feelings in your expression."

Barbara sighed and nodded. "I can't if she don't let me in. Dinah removed her feelings, but she… she just kept them again inside of her. Hidding it."

"She is not easy."

"She never had been easy. I thought that her fight last night brought to her memories of that night. Is something that she can't jump yet. The fact to don't know who was and is something that had been circlingher mind all this years."

"Maybe some day she will endure it." Alfred said.

"I hope." She moved again to her keyboard. Now as she uses to do, she is going to be far from here until her hangover had gone."

"A couple of days."

"Yes, she is going to patrol the city and later appear as if anything had happened."

"Wayne style." Alfred raised his brown.

"True, Bruce was like her in that way. He never opened his self." She began to type, "We can't do anything, just wait and work. Alfred, may I ask you a favor?"

"Sure."

"I let at the laundry in the next corner something, could you pick it up please?" she took off a paper and gave it to him. "Is paid."

He took the note and read it. "A stuff cat?"

"I found Jaçques in an old box. He needed a bath." Barbara explained.

"Master Jaçques?" Alfred opened his eyes surprised.

"I see you remember well." The red head smiled.

"Who could forget him?. Would be a pleasure see him again."

"Thanks."

Alfred walked toward the elevator and exited. Barbara tied her hair in a pony tail carefully, when she finished she took her eyeglasses on the desk and put it over her face. She needed work in the names that Helena had gave to her after talk with Gibson. She just had come back from her work at High Scholl; she moved the wheelchair in front of the monitor that was next to her.

"Hi Barbara." Dinah said appearing at the elevator.

"Oh, hi, you leaved early."

"I have an exam." The blonde looked her ashamed, "I want apologize."

"No Dinah, don't worry." Barbara touched gently her hand, "all of us had our moments."

Dinah hugged her self nervous. "I promise pay for the…"

"Don't worry I said, everything is okay, really."

The blonde hugged her. "Thanks so much:"

Barbara hugged her back. "It's okay."

Dinah moved back. "How I could do that door explote? I wasn't thinking on that, I was thinking in…"

"You have a great power inside that you are yet discovering." The redhead fixed her eyes on her takingg her hands. "Sometimes unknown powers appears in unexpected moments, when you are under pressure or when you feel fear, like yesterday."

"Im feel so stupid." The blonde

Barbara smiled warmly and pressed her hand with hers, "You aren't, believe me, you aren't."

"Helena is okay?"

"I hope she is now." Barbara took off her eyeglasses.

"Why? I hurted her?" Dinah sat next to her metor.

"Nightmares." Barbara smiled saddly "See? Not just you have nightmares. She has too."

"Nightmares?"

Barbara looked her, she didn't want tell her that her touch had removed Helena's emotions out, "sometimes you don't need sleep to face your nightmares. Many times it follows you to everyplace you go. She apparently is strong, reude and cold, but she is just a shield to hide her feelings. Just don't ask her nothing when you see her."

"Is not my fault?"

"No, it wasn't your fault. Hurts her remember how her mother died, that's all."

"Where is she now?" Dinah askked worried.

Barbara looked her watch, "Sleeping I think, she had drink alcohol to send a rocket from here to the the moon."

"Oh Barbara."

"She will be okay, is not the first time she does this; you know her. Don't worry. How do you feel?"

"Fine, thanks. Much better."

"Why don't go to change and help me to do a research here?"

"O sure…" Dinah smiled happily and went toward her room.

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They worked all the day with the names, it was true, they were persons missed. When the night was falling over the city, the sound of the elevator's door echoed in the place. Barbara raised her head. She felt surprised to see Helena walking in. She never appeared so fast after an emotional crisis. But she knew the best was not ask.

Helena knew that the serial killer was free, and that she couldn't stop to look for him just for the bad feelings than bought to her her memories. She had been walking around Clocktower before to take the decition to walk in. She didn't want face Barbara or answer questions. She just hoped the redhead avoid do it.

"Hi." Barbara greeted, "I was checking your names. Gibson was right."

Helena felt thankful that Barbara didn't start the questions session. Had been a bad night. She walked inside the laboratory. "What did you find?"

"All those people is miss as Gibson said. All meta-humans."

"Another lunatic as Morton?"

"Yes."

"Where is Dinah?" the brunette asked.

"Taking a bath." Barbara said.

"Is she okay?"

"Yes, she is, she was ashamed but I told her that all of us have nightmares? No?" she raised her brown and looked the tall young woman.

Helena rolled her eyes and turned her head to the other side knowing about what she was talking about. "Was nothing." She said.

"Sure."

"Watever," she crossed her arms and fixed her eyes on the red head "why was the meal the other day with her?"

"Is good go out sometimes."

Helena cocked her head. "The truth."

"I guessed would be fun move out Clocktower. Dinah don't know many places of the city," Barbara explained turning her head to see her "Came on don't tell me you didn't have fun."

"Yes, is just that we had a lot that we don't go out to lunch. You know, work." She shrunk her shoulders. "Now, the truth."

Barbara surrended. "You saw what happened. Her mind power exploted the door. I knew that Dinah had been sad but I never had thought about how much had affected her the bad memories of her childhood. She feels alone, with out family. I had been talking with her. Im just trying that she feels she is not alone, that she has us. You know how terrible is the feeling of solitude and loss."

"All right. I get it." The brunette waved her hands. She didn't go so deep in that topic.

The Delphi alarm sounded. Both looked up.

"Reese." Barbara said typing at her keyboard to do a zoom in a map that she opened at the top screen.

"He is near the reservoir."

"I'll be there in a few, is near from here."

"Right, while I'll keep doing this research."

Helena walked toward the elevator.

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Three patrols and an ambulance and a forence van were next to the sidewalk, police had closed the zone. Some paramedics were kneeled next to a body, maybe were at the zone ten policemen. She stood up on a next buliding, she pointed her scanner to the zone and pressed the zoom button. She had a better view of the body.

"Get it?" she asked to Oracle.

::Yes, all, thanks.::

She looked for him, she finale found him. He was far from the place. Recharged against his car talking by phone, she moved along the cornice stepping carefully. When she was near him, she jumped down. He didn't see her.

"Hi." She said.

He jumped on his place. When he saw her he shook his head. "Ill call you later John." He said before hung the phone.

"Did you call me?" she asked amused.

"You enjoy doing

"What?" she tilted her head.

"You know, appear suddenly and scare me."

"Don't be grumpy," Helena smiled; she liked be next to him. He had something that attracted her.

::Here we go again:: Oracle said.

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::Give me a second Reese, not funny Oracle.:: Helena's voice was heard on the speakers.

Dinah smiled.

Oracle smiled to her self, she had find a clue."Wel Huntressl, all the people that had been murderer were meta-humans and Gibson is right, two of the names of the missing people appeared like two of the people murdered."

::Sounds bad.::

"This confirms the theory of a maniac." Dinah rubbed her chin sat next to the redhead.

"Exactly." Oracle sighed.

::How are you kid?::

"Im fine, Im sorry for last night."

::Was not your fault kid. Im glad you are okay.::

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A man inside a car moved his binoculars to a side and took his radio. He smiled, she was predictable, where he was, was she. "Down street. Black long coat. Short hair. A black policeman is next to her."

::A woman?:: a voice was hearon the rdio.

"Don't ask, just do your job. You can't fail. She is dangerous."

"I have it." The man answered.

The man smiled. "Do it."

"Something wrong?" Reese asked.

Huntress put her hand over the mic of her necklace. ""It's Dinah, she hadn't feel okay the last days."

"I'm sorry, what happen?"

"She had a bad chilhood and sometimes nightmares." She did a pause and remembered her self, "Do you know? Sometimes is hard move it away of you. It's... well…"

Reese could read the sadness in her eyes. "I understand."

She smiled to him. She felt grateful he don't asked more, was hard talk about her feelings. He was trapped suddenly in her smile. They looked in silence a few seconds. Suddenly, she felt something, and was nothing good. He noticed her eyes changed to slidecats. Before he could ask, she felt an impact on her back that pushed her agains him. He wrapped his armas around her to avoid that she hit the ground. He didn't understand what was happening. The girl whimpered and buried her face on his chest. She had tried to react but hadn't been enough fast. Something had hit her back and hurted as hell. She bite her lips and pressed her eyeslides trying to endure the pain. He kneeled slowly on the floor with her.

Reese was hugging the young woman that kept unmoving between his arms. He felt warm between his fingers. He raised a bit the hand that had on her back and looked blood. "Shit…" he growled and moved her head of his chest; he moved the hair that was covering her face and noticed her look was lost and was breathing faster. "Huntress are you okay?"

All had been unexpected, suddenly she felt something pushing her against him. And a second later the darkness covered her. She felt she was floating inside a burble. Reese's voice echoed far. She tried to focus on his voice.

"Don't move." He took off his coat and put it as a pillow to rest the girl's head on the floor. He lie her

"Reese?" she said almost with a whispered. She couldn't feel anything. Was like be looking all throught a dirty window.

"Easy, easy. You will be okay, some one shot you." The detective leaned over her back, he ripped her coat with his hands putting his fingers on the sides of the hole to made by the bullet. The wound was big and don't looked well. "Just don't move." Reese raised his head and saw Morton walking toward him smiling. Morton? what the hell?it's suppoused he was dead.

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Oracle frownered, the word "shot" had frozed her in her place. "Huntress? Everything okay?" she asked.

Silence at the comm.

"Huntress? Please, answer me."

"What happen?" Dinah turned to see her.

"Some one shot Huntress."

Dinah felt a cold chill on her back. "What?"

"I don't know exactly what happened. I just could herar Reese saying that." She fixed her eyes on the speakers "Huntress, are you there? Huntress?"

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"Sorry, Service Secret service assignement." Morton raised an identification when Reese walked tolward him.

"Are you crazy?" the black detective shouted angry.

"Get away of her; she is dangerous." Morton said to Reese.

"Why the hell you shot her?" he faced his ex-partner. "You hit her to betrayal! For her back!"

"Was not me, was one of my men." He pointed up to a building.

"Snippers?" Reese couldn't hide his angry and punched him on his face. "Damn asshole!"

"Stay calm!" Morton shouted at the time that a van appeared. Men with rifles moved down surrounding them. "This is a national security mission and the best is that you stay calm if you don't want I arrest you!"

Mac Nally and the two policemen that were with him arrived in that momen looking Reese was discussing with a man. McNally looked Morton stunned.

"Morton? I thought…."

"No, I'm okay, I survived.." Morton said.