Title: The Writing's on the Wall pt.2

Author: meremortal2k3@yahoo.co.uk

Rating: Pg (but the f word is in here)

Pairing: Helena/Dinah

Disclaimer: I don't own them, I'm just playing

Author's notes: There will be a part three so don't panic. Lena's the best when it comes to the beta'ing - I read and reread this one and I thought I did pretty well, but eagle eyes still found mistakes. Thanks Lena.

................... Part.2

Knock, knock

"Dinah, are you up yet?"

"I'm running a little late, Barbara. Go on without me and I'll catch the bus." Dinah called back through her bedroom door. She wiped at her sleepy eyes and peered at her alarm clock. She still had enough time for a quick breakfast before heading out. At least she wouldn't have to sit around with Barbara as she prepared lesson notes for the day. The blonde felt the bed dip as she stretched and yawned. Opening one azure eye she watched the fully clothed Huntress climb out of her bed and search for her boots. The bed dipped again as the older woman sat on the edge to tie her laces.

"Are you mad?" The blonde asked. The other woman knew she was awake yet she hadn't said a word.

Helena took a deep breath and turned so that she was looking at her troubled friend. "Yeah." She sighed. "I wish I wasn't but I am. I can't help it Dinah." Even after their talk she couldn't get the images of that boy hitting Dinah and Dinah letting him, out of her head. Hell, the girl had even defended him. "You of all people should know that hitting someone in that situation is wrong. What Todd did to you was wrong. What your father did to you was wrong. And what makes things worse is that you were too young to fully understand before, but now . you should know better." Helena tried to tame the anger threatening to escape. She would never hurt the blonde but a tongue lashing could be almost as vicious. "I am sorry, Dinah . but it doesn't stop me being just a little mad."

"I'll finish things with him if it makes things better between us." The teenager pleaded.

Helena shook her head. "You need to finish things because he's hurting you. Me being mad or telling Barbara . those are not the right reasons."

"But ." Dinah stammered as she threw back the bedclothes and swung her legs out of the bed. She grabbed a hold of the brunette's hand. "If I don't tell Todd that we're over, you'll still tell Barbara."

Helena nodded. "Too right I will."

Dinah closed her eyes and took a deep breath as she thought over her options. She didn't have to think for long - she had to break up with Todd, she didn't have any other choice. "Tell me you love me again." Her voice was barely a whisper.

"What?" Helena choked.

"Tell me that I don't have to be alone." Dinah lifted dewy eyes to meet the brunette's.

"Barbara and I, we both love you." It was not Helena's usual thing but she took the teenager into her arms and hugged her tight.

Dinah squeezed her eyes shut at the words. They were not what she wanted to hear but they would have to do.

................

"Are you mad at me?"

Dinah turned to see her best friend walking the side of her. She wanted to be mad; it would've been so easy. "You shouldn't have told her."

"I couldn't let him do that to you anymore." Gabby pointed towards the other girl's black eye.

Hanging her head so that long golden hair covered most of her face from prying eyes, Dinah walked towards her next class.

"Are you going to tell me what happened?"

"We talked."

"And?"

Dinah shrugged her shoulders as if it were no big deal that she was regularly hit by her abusive boyfriend. "I have to stop seeing him. Helena's gonna tell Barbara if I don't."

"When? If you want me to be there with you . you know for support and shit, I will."

The younger blonde shook her head. "Thanks, Gab, but I have to do this on my own." She thought over everything that Helena had said to her. "I'm gonna tell him during lunch."

"In public I hope."

Dinah glared at her friend. In her heart, she still didn't believe that what Todd had done was so wrong. She had upset him and she deserved to be smacked. It was a messed up logic that she possessed but it was one hammered into her by her step-family.

"Di, will you be alright?" Gabby had reason to be concerned.

Dinah nodded her head.

..........

"Hey babe." The tall dark haired teenager neared his girlfriend and pulled her away from Gabby. "You're eating with me today."

"Good." Dinah tried to smile as Todd kissed her. "I need to talk to you about something anyway."

"If it's about the shiner, I already said I was sorry." Todd's thick eyebrows creased in to a frown.

The blonde shook her head. "No . I . erm . I just need to talk."

Dinah walked away from her small group of friends as she followed Todd. He was holding her slender hand in a huge paw of his own. Todd played football and it showed. She followed him to his car and climbed in besides him.

Dinah didn't notice the darkened figure watching her, jumping to the roof tops as the car started up and following from above as they sped away from the school grounds.

......

"Todd, What are we doin' here?" Dinah looked out of the window. In front, behind and to either side of her were trees. She recognised the place where they had often come to make out and more.

"Are you hungry, baby?" The ebony haired boy unlatched his seat beat, scooted between the two seats and attached his lips to her neck and began to suck. He was marking her as his. Her question ignored.

Dinah shook her head and tried to push him away from her. "I need to talk to you Todd. Please stop."

"I said - are you hungry?" He rubbed at his crotch with one hand as he palmed her breast with the other.

"No, Todd." The blonde tried to squirm out of her boyfriends hands. "I don't wanna go out with you anymore." She spat. It hadn't come out like she wanted it too. Dinah had wanted to sit down and explain things calmly. Right now she wished that Gabby had come with her because Todd hadn't stopped squeezing her breast roughly. It was as though he hadn't heard her in the small confines of the car. "Stop it, Todd, I'm warning you."

Todd stopped. He raised his head slowly an angry smirk crossed his lips. "You . are . warning me?" He was incredulous. The black haired boy grabbed for the blonde's chin and pinched hard. He glared into watery blue eyes.

Obsidian eyes widened in shock as the car door was swung open and he was pulled backwards out of his seat. He crashed into the ground with a livid yell. "What the fuck?" Todd jumped to his feet and stared at the brunette standing in front of him wearing a maniacal grin.

Helena peered inside the car and looked the frightened blonde over before turning back to the dark haired teenager. She cocked her head to one side and stalked forward until he backed up. "I promised D that if you ever hurt her again, I was going to kill you." Her voice a soft but threatening growl as she spoke. "I think I'm going to enjoy this." Helena's irises yellowed and the pupils stretched to feral slits.

"Who are you?" Todd gaped.

Helena came closer still. She could feel his heavy breathing on her face. "Someone you royally pissed off." She ground out through gritted teeth.

"Stop!"

Helena had heard her friend exit the car but she didn't move. She kept on looking into soulless black eyes. "A promise is a promise, D."

Todd held on to his stomach and crumpled forward. He hadn't even seen the punch that struck his gut but he knew instinctively what had happened. Now he was starting to get angry. As he tried to pull himself up into a standing position, he saw the blur of darkness and felt the crunch of a fist to his jaw. Todd fell to his hands and knees.

"Huntress, no." Dinah cried as she ran towards her friend and ex-boyfriend. "Helena, please. Don't hurt him anymore."

"After what he did to you?" She glanced sideways at the blonde. "Damn it, D. Am I the only one who noticed what he was doing in that car?" Helena pointed towards the Mustang. She wanted to put her fist through every window and she might just once she had finished with the boy. "You told him to stop."

"I know." Dinah pleaded. She didn't want Helena to hurt him because she recognised the wildness in the brunette's eyes. Dinah was scared that if the Huntress started - she might not stop. "Please, Hel. Let's just go home."

Helena pulled a punch aimed at Todd's chest. It would've done so much damage but she hadn't cared. If Dinah hadn't looked so scared, she might have continued until blood ran over her hands. Helena stopped. Shaking her head at the battered blonde jock she turned to her friend. "Okay."

The brunette knew it was coming. She could feel the air shift around her and it would have been so easy to stop the huge fist impacting with her right kidney, but she didn't. Helena knew that Todd would have never just left; he had to regain some of his pride after being beaten by a girl. So she let him hit her. The older woman crumpled to her knees at the sledge hammer impact.

Todd's smirk was quickly wiped from his face as a fist connected with an already delicate jaw. He howled in pain, convinced that the bone had been broken. A sneakered foot to the groin ended with Todd writhing on the grass in agony.

The blonde teenager stood over her ex-boyfriend. "I don't wanna see you anymore." She placed her foot on Todd's hand and pressed down. "And if I ever find out that you're hurting someone else like you hurt me . you won't have to worry about Helena, 'cause I'll come after you myself."

Dinah held her brunette friend around the waist as the pair watched Todd limp to his car and drive away in a cloud of smoke and dust. "How did you know where we were?" She turned to Helena.

"I followed you." Helena returned with a shrug. "I just had to make sure that you were alright. D, I don't know what I would've done if he'd hurt you again."

"I can take care of myself." The blonde replied. She knew that she had been doing a bad job of it lately but she had seen Todd's true colours as soon as he had hit Helena. "I told you that I was going to break up with him and I did, so now you don't have to tell Barbara anything."

Helena smoothed dishevelled honey hair away from pale blue eyes. "Dinah, I care about you, that's why I would've told Barbara. I thought that maybe she would've been able to talk some sense into you. You sure as hell weren't listening to what I was saying." She pulled the blonde into her as she hung her head, hugging tightly.

"Say it again." Dinah breathed, looking up through moist cerulean.

"I care about you."

The teenager pressed forward, her lips on Helena's. For the briefest of moments they were kissing, full lips against full lips.

Helena pulled away sharply. She took a step back so that they weren't touching. The brunette had felt Dinah's tongue slip between her parted lips and she panicked. "We can't do this." Her voice broke. Helena swept hands back through her thick auburn hair. "You're too young. Barbara will kill me if I touched you."

"Barbara doesn't have to know."

Helena looked aghast. "No Dinah, you're only seventeen. We can't."

Dinah stood with tears in her eyes and watched as Helena spun on her feet and ran.