So I'm back now. Sorry this took so long, but I finally have another installment. This one's "The Huntress Returns". Someone requested it, but I can't remember who. Anyways, here it is now. Hope you all enjoy.

Also, did a little spin by giving Sara a boyfriend at this current moment because she's gonna have a lot of girlfriends, including Helena. I figured I had to give her a boyfriend at some point between all the girlfriends before I make CC canon in this.

It couldn't be nothing. That's what Leonard determined as he studied the police report. There was no way that the theft was just some moron who was a wannabe vigilante or too gung-ho to wait for hunting season to start. Sara told him that Helena's signature weapon was a crossbow, and a high powered one had been stolen from the sporting goods shop. It was too much of a coincidence, even if Sara had told them that Helena was leaving town after she'd been busted out the precinct.

He had to tell her.

Leonard reached over and picked up the phone on his desk before punching in Sara's number. As he waited for her to pick up, his fingers drummed on the desk impatiently. Hopefully, she was still awake and willing to pull on her Canary gear to stop Helena.

"This is Sara. Leave a message and I'll get back to you."

Great, she wasn't answering. Leonard sighed and shook his head. She was probably asleep or over at her boyfriend's at the moment.

"Sara, it's Leonard," he said. "I was multitasking, and ended up seeing a police report about a robbery at a sporting goods store in the city. The only thing that was taken was a high powered crossbow. Given your psycho ex-girlfriend, and I'm quoting Sin on that one, has a tendency to use those, I highly doubt she actually skipped town. You might want to watch your back, Sara."

"Isn't that sweet of you to give advice?"

Leonard snapped his head up to see Helena Bertinelli approaching his desk. A mask covered her eyes and she was in a dark get-up, but he knew it was her immediately.

"I don't think we got properly introduced this morning," she said. "I'm Helena."

Leonard didn't move. He wasn't sure what he was going to do. Not yet.

"Not a talker?" Helena tilted her head. "That's fine. I'll do all the talking. To start, how about you be a good little worker and hack into the FBI database?"

"You might want to watch your back, Sara."

"Isn't that sweet of you to give advice?"

Those last sentences of the voicemail Leonard had left her echoed in her head as she raced across town toward the building she worked in. She had already given Oliver the heads up as soon as she had heard the message. Hopefully, Helena was still there and she could catch her in time. Although she was also hoping that Leonard wasn't going to end up like the rest of the people who had worked for Helena's father. If that happened to him, she would never forgive herself.

"Leonard!" she shouted as she got off on their floor. "Leonard!"

"Sara!"

She sprinted towards his voice, stopping when she saw his shoes peeking out from behind his desk. Running around to the other side, Sara saw Leonard on the ground, wrists and ankles bound. A sigh of relief left her lips when she saw that he was uninjured. Then she pulled out a knife and began to cut away at the restraints.

"Are you okay?" she asked as he sat up.

"I'm fine."

More footsteps sounded in the hallway, growing closer to them. Sara shot to her feet, knife in hand ready to throw in case Helena was back. When Sin and Oliver appeared, she was glad that she hadn't gone with the throw-first-ask-questions-later approach. Relieved, she lowered the knife.

"I got your call," Oliver said before nodding toward Sin. "Grabbed her on my way over here."

"What happened?" Sin asked as Leonard stood up beside Sara. "Was it the psycho ex?"

Sara sighed. "Yes, it was Helena."

"She wanted to know where her father's safe house was," Leonard explained in a tight voice. "I had to hack into the FBI with a crossbow to my head to find the address. So this one's on me."

"Hey," Sara put her hand on his shoulder. "It is not your fault."

It was hers. She had been the one to take Helena in, to try and get her to use her dark side for good. But the darkness in Helena seemed to have overtaken her. Justice didn't matter to her anymore. She just wanted revenge against her father. As bad a man Frank Bertinelli was, Sara knew Helena's mission to kill him would not satisfy her revenge, but only deepen her suffering. Now, she had to stop her before it was too late.

Also, she'd messed with her friend. There was no way she was letting that one go.

Sara began to walk away from Leonard, Oliver, and Sin. They needed to stay safe at the moment. Right now, it was time for the Canary to step in to stop Helena.

"Sara," Sin called behind her. "What are you going to do?"

She stopped and turned around. "I'm going to stop what I created."

A cup of coffee in a takeaway cup appeared in front of him. Leonard jumped slightly out of his drowsiness as it came into his vision. Looking up, he saw Sara standing in front of his desk, holding her own cup.

"Thought you might need something to wake you up," she said as she walked over to her own desk. "Last night got pretty late for us."

"No kidding," he sighed, holding back a yawn, gratefully taking the coffee. "I get why I saw you almost nod off a few times when you first came here."

"That was before I got adjusted to my late night schedule," Sara shrugged. "It happened pretty quickly for me. You'll get used to it too."

"I hope so," Leonard replied as he took a long swig of the coffee. "Thanks for this, by the way."

"No problem," she nodded. "Also, sorry I showed up a little too late last night."

"I'm just glad she didn't kill me. Speaking of which, how did everything go down with your psycho ex last night?"

Sara's face was stony as she stopped typing. "She's gone. Again. But she did shoot Alex in the leg. It was pretty bad."

"And how's he doing now?" Leonard asked. He'd heard of jealous exes before, but Sara's ex-girlfriend shooting her current boyfriend was a new level of its own.

"Well, he's had two surgeries and was due for another when I visited him before coming here. After he gets out of that one, he's planning to head to Coast City to stay with his brother. His plan is to do his rehab down there. I offered to come with him, transfer down to the QC branch there, but, uh, he didn't want that."

"So you two broke up?" he concluded.

Sara nodded. "Yup."

"You seem to be doing okay about it."

"Oddly enough, I feel fine," Sara admitted with a shrug. "Sure, I was a bit surprised, but now I'm fine. We were together for almost a month, but I just don't feel sad about it."

"Maybe you're just relieved that you don't have to hide who you are anymore from him so he won't turn you over to the police."

"Perhaps," she murmured. "Keeping this secret quiet is supposed to be to keep my family and friends safe. But at the same time, it's also hurting them, preventing me from ever being able to be with someone without them getting hurt."

Leonard nodded. He knew what secrets did to people, how much of a toll they could take. The days where you wanted to go to the person you trusted and cared about most of all and to tell them everything, but were afraid to with the way they would look at you.

"I'm sure you'll be able to get around that someday," he said.

"Hopefully."

They were silent for a while before Sara chuckled. "This is probably one of the sappiest discussions we've ever had."

"I don't do sappy."

"Well, you kind of just did."

And there we are! Hooray!

Next one will probably be either the Merlyn job or the opening to City of Heroes.