DISCLAIMER – I OBVIOUSLY DO NOT OWN SUICIDE SQUAD I DO HOWEVER OWN MY OWN CHARACTERS.

Chapter Five

Rick and Lena exchanged a look before, he keyed in the number on the pad by the door, Lena watched him intently only distracted when Harley tugged at her arm to rewrap the makeshift bandage,
"Birdy…it's okay, he's a big boy." Harley crooned out in an attempt to soothe her.

Hey, kid why didn't you tell us he was your brother?" Lawton shot out casually.

"Because he abandoned me with...them, never called, never wrote, the first time I saw him in thirteen years was last week when he walked into my cell.

"Wow...he really is an asshole." Lena said nothing instead finding the wall beside her incredibly interesting as a stray tear fell down her right cheek.

"Jerk." Harley elbowed the paid serial killer, but Deadshot didn't even flinch.

"We're just an asset to them they see us as objects an' not people, they'll be happy when we're dead." Lena spoke softly as she turned in time to see Deadshot head on through the doorway. He'd barely been gone a few minutes before gun shots were heard yet nobody even flinched. Another few minutes passed by as Lawton appeared back through the door followed by the colonel and Amanda Waller.

"No way." Harley spoke shocked at the realisation that HVT-1 was Waller all along. The other members of the squad shared similar reactions other than Lena who already knew of the deception if only moments earlier.

"Let's go home." Rick stood tall as if his height was something meant to intimidate them.

"Yeah, let's go home. That sounds good. You guys wanna go home? Or you wanna go back to prison?" Digger spoke up visibly angry at the revelation.

"I'm not going back to prison." Harley spoke up looking at Lena who nodded in agreement, she had a feeling Harley was hiding something from her. Lena could have easily pried inside her best friend's head but she didn't want to invade Harley's privacy.

"What I'm saying is, we kill the pair of 'em now before they kill us." Boomerang stood glaring at the two, after hearing this katana drew her weapon ready to cut him in two only to be stopped by Waller.

"You all made it this far, don't get high spirited on me and ruin a good thing." Waller pulled out her phone which was running the app that had the power to kill, her thumb hovering over Harkness' mug shot.

The squad all visibly deflated as the evil woman shook the phone in their faces. Amanda followed her threat by pushing her way passed Croc causing him to let out a low grumble as she carried on walking out of the room.

"I like her." He rumbled out, mimicking what Lena had said earlier on in the day.

They made it to the rooftop primarily unscathed, Lena stood with Harley as they watched a chopper come in to hover beside the building. Everyone began looking between each other when it became clear that there was something wrong when GQ wasn't getting a response over the comms device.

"Our birds been jacked, light it up." Rick pulled his government issue machine gun into submission as the other soldiers followed suit. Just as the back of the chinook opened up firing back in return, soldiers were going down left and right. Lena could have sworn she heard the Joker's bone chilling laughter over all of the ruckus but how was that even possible?

The remaining members of the squad ducked down behind air vents hoping to avoid the continuous spray of bullets. Lena along with Deadshot and Harley somehow managed to huddle behind one air vent, the young woman covering their ears as they did.

Deadshot glanced over at both Lena and Harley.

"What? I got a hickey or something." Each of the women having not noticed the glowing white light emitting from the smite explosion in their necks. Something buzzed against Lena's leg as Harley shoved her hand in her pocket retrieving a cell phone.

"You've had that the whole time?" Lena commented sounding a little harsher than she had wanted to.

"Now...what does now mean?" Just as Lena spoke another message came through 'bring our birdie." Or rather the birdie was replaced with a bird emoji.

"Since when did Mistah J use emoji's?" Both Lena and Harley shared a look before looking over at the confused Deadshot.

The young woman stood up amidst the barrage of bullets, their names being called by various people.

"Harley...Harley, get your ass back here." Deadshot shouted over the deafening noise knowing that nothing would distract her from her Puddin'.

"Lena, that ain't a good idea darlin'" Digger shouted out from the air vent he was peaking over.

Lena followed Harley as she walked over a metal grating toward the end of the rooftop.

"Hello Baby...oh and look there's my little Birdie." The Joker looked down at the both of them madness obvious in his eyes as he threw a rope down to them.

"Kill them." Waller hollered over the gun battle.

"I can't their nanites are disarmed." As Rick attempted to press each Lena and Harley's mug shots in turn and getting an error message in return.

"Come on, girls." The joker swept his arm out as if were conducting an insane orchestra.

"Harley..." Harley held out her hand to Lena giving it a light squeeze as another thick rope was dropped.

"Together?"

"Together." With that the two young women started their run up before leaping off the building both still holding hands as the leaped, letting go only to grab onto their respective ropes. For Harley this sort of thing was second nature but Lena didn't often spend time swinging from ropes.

Lena felt the burn of the rope as she slid before she clamped her knees to stop her sliding right off the end of the rope. Lena laughed, she'd done it and she hadn't died she was still alive to see another day.

"Deadshot...shoot those women right now." It was obvious that Waller was seething, her squad was falling apart in front of her and she was starting to lose control of her valuable assets.

"They ain't done shit to me."

"You're a hitman, right? I got a contract kill Harley Quinn and Eleanor Flag, do it for your freedom and your kid." Rick stood behind Waller shocked that his younger sister had just gone and jumped off a 50 storey building. Waller knew that using Deadshot's weakness...his daughter would mean that he would do anything.

"Okay, now they dead." Deadshot turned resting his loaded firearm on one of the vents they had been using to hide behind moments earlier. He could feel how everyone's eyes were on him willing him to miss. In the distance both Lena and Harley knew this was what Waller would do and they both knew that he would miss. They shared a look as the heard the gun fire as Harley made the conscious decision to play dead. Before giving her manacle laugh with Lena waving to signal that they were fine.

"I missed." Deadshot never missed well not until now anyway and it would be the first and last time.

"Good one, mate." Harkness drawled out as Lawton walked past him.

"It's Waller, saviour one-zero's been hijacked. Shoot it down." She spoke calmly although from her outer appearance it was obvious that she was seething.

"She's my sister." Rick spoke softly.

"She's a deranged psychopath." Waller spat out.

The chopper flew high over midway city, both Harley and Lena shimmied their way up the ropes, both women may look weak but they had enough muscle to pull their own weight. Hands were soon pulling the two women into the chopper one belonging to the clown prince of Gotham and the other belonging to his right hand man.

Lena couldn't quite contain her excitement when faced with her long lost lover.

"Missed you, birdie." Johnny whispered into her ear as she jumped up wrapping her legs round his waist.

"Missed you too, been a good boy?"

"Aren't I always?" Johnny walked with ease with her still attached to him as he showed her around the cockpit.

"Shit...boss we got a problem." The missile made bee line for the occupied helicopter. Lena closed her eyes willing the missile to slow down, but it was too close. Then it hit, the explosion was loud causing Lena to become deaf for only a few moments. Joker grabbed hold of both Lena and Harley and pushed them both from the chopper as she was going down. It all happened so quickly that the two didn't have time to comprehend what had happened as they somersaulted roughly across the rooftop, reaching the end just in time to see the chinook crash into the city below in plumes of flames.

"Target destroyed ma'am."

"Thank you. Now get me off this roof."

"Yes ma'am we are inbound." Waller spoke over the comms system before turning to address the rest of the squad.

"The Joker, Harley Quinn and Eleanor Flag are no more.

"You couldn't save her."

"Just like I couldn't have saved Lena." Digger made an attempt to comfort his new found comrade. Waller left with promise of sending another helicopter. Those left on the rooftop stood still in shock no one saying anything as they looked between each other not knowing what to say. Katana placed a hand on Rick's shoulder giving a gentle squeeze, she knew what it was like to watch a family member die and be utterly helpless.

"Ops just confirmed, she's down 1km west." GQ Edwards confirmed over the comms device.

"Let's go get her, the missions not over." Rick stepped down off the gangway and towards Lawton who looked over the whole situation but who could have blamed him.

"Nah, it is for me. We had a deal." Deadshot bit back at him.

"Without Waller, you got nothing." It was evident that Rick's heart wasn't all in this mission anymore even with June currently being possessed by enchantress losing his sister had affected him deeper than June's loss ever would.

Turning away and leaving the rooftop Flag was followed by katana as the remainder of the squad looked over to Deadshot for guidance. Disarming his gun, Lawton then threw it in the floor before leaving the rooftop, Harkness, Croc and Diablo following behind him.

"Birdie...we gotta go." Harley pulled at Lena's hand, despite choking back tears as she did she hadn't lost her puddin' once but now twice. Lena knelt on the floor the gravel on the rooftop digging into her knees, she felt numb, not able to form the words to tell her friend that she couldn't move. Taking her other hand Harley pulled up Lena and wrapped an arm around her waist as she steered her down the fire escape.

They hadn't been far from where they had left the others, they could probably make it back there in 10 minutes or so, if they ran. That's when the rain started soaking both women's clothes, right down to the bone, Lena had managed to pull herself together enough to walk without being pulled by Harley. They soon managed to reach where they needed to be luckily without running into anymore of the 'former humans'.

The rain seemed unrelenting as it pelted both Harley and Lena as they perched on a wrecked car, one of the bonnet the other on the roof. Lena as she watched her best friend pull off her Puddin' choker, pain shone in her eyes as Harley threw the choker over her shoulder and onto the cold wet asphalt. Lena closed her eyes as the flashbacks filled her mind, how her and Johnny met, their first kiss, the first 'I love you.', she shook her head to stop the painful memories.

The pair hadn't been sat their long before what was left of the squad appeared from the sixty-four story building, the two young woman hid their emotions away and put on a brave face as they waved at the group.
"Hey Guys, we're back."

"We missed you all so much." Lena followed Harley's lead, all she really wanted to do was curl up in a ball and die.

"We're glad you could make it." Deadshot spoke truthfully he was just glad that the two hadn't died more specifically that Harley hadn't died it was obvious that he had a soft spot for Harley by the way he stepped up to carry her off the roof of the police cruiser. Lena watched the exchange with intrigue as she hoped off the bonnet, she was soon pulled into a hug by the odd Australian.

"I think you need a shower."
"Missed you too girlie, I got you somethin'." Boomerang pulled away before producing Lena's shotgun from his jacket. Lena squealed as she took the shotgun from his hands before kissing him on the cheek and skipped off and straight up to her brother.

"Hey Ricky."
"You're done, You're fucking crazy." Rick spit out harshly leaving Lena more than a little taken a back.
"You don't understand." Lena looked up to him.
"Damn right I don't Eleanor." Lena winced at the mention of her whole name and now she knew he was angry with her, she was right though Rick didn't understand what it had been like to be here to have to struggle to survive. Then to fall in love with a gangster and get sucked into one of the most violent criminal underworlds in the united states, Rick had always been the good guy. Lena watched as her brother stalked off ahead looking for hostiles, at that moment what was left of her heart shattered and a dark hole was left in place of her heart losing her lover and her brother in one day was just too much.

End of chapter Five

I'm SO sorry that this is late, work has been hectic and the less said about that the better, thank you all so much for reading and reviewing I really do appreciate it.

I needed to get this scene out of the way because I wanted to have the whole bar scene as one chapter because I felt that it lacked in the film.