A/N I don't own these characters, wish I did though...

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The tension in the javelin was thick enough to cut with a knife.

Oliver Queen fidgeted uncomfortably, for the most part he was a pretty upbeat guy. All this anger and tension wasn't quite his forte. Helena looks like she's gonna kill something or start crying, old Viccy looks like Buddha which is pretty good 'cause he was practically blushing earlier. Oliver mused, looking over his teamates. Man is Dinah steamed, I haven't seen her this mad in years. Huh, she's pretty hot when she gets mad; in a sexy, predator way. Mm, wonder when we'll be done with this little mission...

Dinah glared furiously at Huntress and Question. Oh I can't believe those two! Ugh, I swear Helena must be as crazy as they say to put herself through this twice. Doesn't she know that guys who do that never change; God knows HE didn't. You can't trust guys who do that, they never change and they don't care. I should know that better than anyone.

Vic gave a silent prayer of thanks that Dinah's eyes weren't as deadly as her voice. Had they been both he and Helena would have been frozen alive from the icy glares she was sending them. Christ, she's angry, wonder why she's taking this so personal, I did a bad thing but if Helen can see past that then one would think she could, too. Hurm, should investigate cause of fury later after we get our daughter. Swear if he touches a hair on her head I'll be helping Helen bury his body in a ditch.

Helena noticed Dinah glaring at her and looked away. Ugh, I wish she'd shut up and and butt out! God, I can make my own decisions and with all this shit happening you'd think she'd be more worried about my daughter than who sleeps with me.

"So..." Started Ollie, eager to break the silence. "Wanna grab a bite to eat?"

"Oh, you have got to be kidding!" Helena exclaimed.

"Oliver!" Dinah snapped. "Would it kill you to be a little sensitive?"

"Hey, I'm just saying! It wasn't exactly a walk in the park to beat Mandragora last time and we're gonna need a lot of energy." Ollie argued.

"Well we all know that those two," Dinah cocked her head in Vic and Helenas' direction. "are probably exhausted so maybe that's not that bad of an idea."

"Damn straight we're beat." Helena snarled.

Ollie shot Vic a Do something! look, earning him a shrug of helplessness from the faceless man. "Could you two relax?" Ollie asked.

"No!" The two women both shouted at the same time.

"This is gonna be a fun ride." Ollie commented under his breath as he sank lower onto his chair on the javelin.

"Tell me about it." Dinah muttered.

Arrow resisted the urge to smack his face. "Can't we all just get along? At least until the mission's over?"

"Fine by me, just tell her to calm down." Helena shrugged, closing her eyes and leaning back in her chair; mentally deciding which weapon would cut through two tons of muscle the easiest.

"I vote for Ollie's suggestion." Q opined.

"Whatever." Dinah frowned.

"And I vote for myself so that's that. Good, now everyone can be focused and happy again." Seeing a glare rise from his companions he quickly added, "Well not HAPPY but, you know, mellow-ish."

"Mellow-ish?" Vic asked.

"It sounds like it could be a word." Ollie protested.

"Well, I'm glad we're all so darn happy now." Dinah muttered under her breath.

Huntress' eyes flew open. "Happy? You think I'm happy?"

"Now she's done it, here we go..." Vic whispered.

"I'm sitting here in a plane trying to get to my daughters KIDNAPPER who KILLED my family in front of me and made me spend my childhood afraid he would pop out of the shadows and shoot me! I'm trying not to panic at all the shit I know he can do to her and that he probably IS doing to her and you're all sitting here glaring at me for a choice I made and you think I'm HAPPY?" Helen demanded turning red with anger.

"Look I just meant-"

"Shut up Canary. I'm done talking to you." She finished sitting back down.

"Don't try to make yourself so innocent." Dinah scowled. "I'm worried too, but you don't see me blowing up and shouting at everyone. You made a mistake and now you have to deal with the consequences." Dinah said coolly.

"Mistake? Ha!" Helen snorted.

Ollie turned to Vic and whispered, "I don't know if I should be turned on or terrified."

"I'm a little of both." Q admitted.

Helena drew her crossbow.

"Okay, now I'm just terrified." Vic said quickly.

"Accidentally forgetting to lock the trigger and shooting someone in the arm is a mistake." Helen spat, holding up her crossbow for effect. "Agreeing to wait until five dates to have sex with someone you really care about, plan it all out, have both of you agree about it, then do it so long and hard you limp the next day isn't a mistake."

"No, but who you did it with was." Dinah retorted, unfazed.

Helens' eyes flashed dangerously with anger. "Funny, you yell at me for sleeping with a man who I made work for seven moths before he was allowed to touch me and another two weeks before letting him sleep with me when you've hopped right back in the sack with Ollie after he cheated on you, what, fifty times?"

Dinahs' hands curled into a fist. "Don't cross that line, Huntress."

"Oh, so were back to codenames' now? Well then Canary, since you think it's okay for you to cross that line why can't I?"

"I never said that-"

"Okay, okay, that's enough." Ollie declared standing between the two women before they could claw each others eyes out.

"No, it's not. You'd think that considering the circumstances she'd be a little more concerned about her niece but no; she's giving me a lecture like I'm her daughter." Helen spat.

"Maybe you just need to sort it out." Vic suggested. "You know, try talking."

"Ha." Arrow snorted. "The last time they resolved something we had to lock them in a cage and let them beat the crap out of each other!"

"And if I remember correctly you were the one that lost that, right Dinah?" Huntress asked sweetly.

"That's only because I let you win." Canary sneered.

"Oh please, you were out of breath and begging me to stop." Helen snorted.

"Okay, okay, we're all good fighters here." Oliver cut in quickly.

"You know what, I do think we need a moment." Helen said glaring at Dinah.

"Alright." Question said folding his hands on his lap as he and Arrow intently stared at the two women. "Feel free to start kicking each others asses whenever." Ollie added.

"I meant alone." Helen clarified. "As in just Dinah and I."

"Are you sure we can't watch?" Oliver frowned wistfully. "I love watching Dinah fist fight, it's really sexy."

"And that's why you're leaving." Helena explained, rolling her eyes.

"But-"

"Goodbye, Oliver."

"Can't I just-"

"Beat it!"

"So you enjoying your stay?"

"Huh?" Bella said in confusion before realizing he was talking to her. "Oh, uh, yeah I love what you've done with the place. I mean gray; that's-that's a really nice color and you've got lots of weapons. Sharp, pointy weapons..."

"I ain't gonna use 'em long as you behave."

"Ain't isn't a word."

Tony frowned. "Sure it is. Ain't is a word, what else would it be?"

"No it's not."

"Yes it is."

"No it's not."

"Yes it is."

"No it's not."

"Yes it is!"

"No it's not!"

"Yes it-"

"Shut up!" Tony roared, cocking his gun. "Ain't is a word and it means isn't and it's real! If you say it ain't a word again I'll shoot you!"

"You know I like the other guard a lot better, he's nicer than you and he uses real words not made up ones like confuzzled, shnerple, ain't." Bella frowned. "Plus he jiggles when he walks which makes me feel like he's Santa."

"Whatever, kid." Tony sighed, lighting a cigarette. "In a little while you'll be dead and then I can dance on your grave and use all the slang I want." He smiled.

She ignored the urge to stomp her foot and tell him that she's wasn't going to die because Mama and Daddy were going to rescue her. "So you're admitting it's slang?"

"It's a word!"

Dinah turned around to face Helena and crossed her arms, staring at the younger woman suspiciously. "And what exactly do you think this is going to accomplish?"

"I don't know, Vic suggested it and it sounded like a good idea." Helena admitted.

"Oh well if Vic said it then it must be true." Dinah gushed.

"What is your problem today?" Helen exploded. "I get it; you're mad! But, God, you'd think that maybe you could be a little sympathetic since my baby's in the fat bastards hands but no, you're just thinking about Dinah!"

"I'm thinking of myself, please!" Dinah laughed. "If I was that selfish do you honestly think I'd be so upset about you and Vic? I'm trying to look out for you and all you're doing is stabbing me in the back."

"Why do you even care, you're not my mother!"

"No but I'm trying to look out for you!"

"You keep saying that but all I see is you acting like a bitch because you've got a grudge!" Huntress snarled. "I don't get why you feel the need to make this all about you!"

"I'm not making it all about me!" Canary shouted. "It's not my fault you can't make good decisions about who to date."

"Oh, you're telling that to me? I'm sorry, which one of us is dating a billionaire who sleeps with everyone in a skirt again?"

Dinah glared at her. "For your information, Ollie's changed. He hasn't slept with anyone besides me in the nine years we've been married. So yes, he did it in the past, but that's the past."

"Same with Q and I, we both made mistakes and now we're trying to fix them." Helena coolly retorted.

"But that's different; Ollie might not have been able to keep it in his pants but he didn't abandon his child!"

"'Cause I never told him about her!"

"Don't you get in Helena? Guys like that never change, once they leave they don't ever stick around for good."

Helen rolled her eyes. "What, did you get that from a Hallmark movie or are you speaking from experience?"

"Experience." Dinah said tonelessly.

"Meaning?"

Dinah looked at her suspiciously before letting out a sigh. "Before I was born, my mother; the original Black Canary, was dating a man who later became my father. They were young and stupid and ended up getting her pregnant with me. The second my 'father' found out he left. I never even met him."

The Italian-American looked at Dinah in a mixture of shock and sympathy. "I never knew..."

"Now do you get it," Dinah said, straightening up and regaining her composure. "men don't change. Once they leave, they stay gone. My dad did it to me and my mother, and Vic will do it with you and Bella."

"You're wrong." Helena said, shaking her head. "Look, I'm sorry you went through that but Vic's not like that. He actually wants to be part of our daughters life and to try again. We both admitted our mistakes, tested it out on a few dates, and we decided to try again. It's not like we decided to throw caution and our clothes to the wind, we thought it out."

"But-"

"And he didn't leave knowing he'd knocked me up." Helen added. "Which he actually took pretty well."

Dinah stared at her sadly. "You're not going to listen to me, are you?"

"No." Helen shook her head. "I'm sorry you went through that, but I'm also stubborn. I want to try again, so I'm going to."

"I don't like him."

"You don't have to, just don't constantly judge us; especially in front of Bella. It's not good for kids to be exposed to that."

The beautiful blond woman sighed. "I really wish you wouldn't, he reminds me to much of my dad."

"Your dad was a redhead?"

"Helena..."

"Kidding." Huntress said quickly. "But seriously, try to get along. I rarely go for the peaceful approach so you should do it for me just this once."

Canary looked at her for a long while. "I'm not promising anything." She finally sighed.

"I don't need promises." Helen said determinately. "Right now I just need your help."

Dinah was quiet for a moment. "Okay, I can do that."

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