Chapter 4: A seller and a buyer

Dyna woke up, blinking slowly at the sun coming in through the blinds. She rolled over into the covers with a smile. It had been a month now and she still wasn't use to being able to wake up in her own time with no one forcing her awake. Sleeping through the night in a soft comfortable bed was her favorite thing that she actually looked forward to and food. Whenever she wanted and she didn't have to worry about starving. Leo made sure there was always food in the house, he even brought home takeout once. She was getting use to being here and it almost felt like home, she had even opened up more. Her and Lisa had both discussed their family and she even had a full conversation with Leo and it wasn't bad. He was pretty great, amusing even when he wasn't focusing on keeping Mick in check. Mick...now that was her problem. He was fine when he had something to focus on but when he was bored, he made her life hell. He literally sat outside her door and made comments every time he walked by about how she owed them. Leo had told her to ignore it, that when she felt ready then they would go to her buyer, she had even seen him talk to Mick but it didn't matter. Mick clearly didn't like her and the feeling was very mutual. If she had another place to be, his attitude would have pushed her out but she had no where else to go and she wasn't about to leave another home over his temper and impatience.

She had been keeping an ear out for Julius and it seemed like he had gone underground for now. After all the cops had been all over his hideout after the fire and with everything she was sure they found, there would be a manhunt out for him. Even his most trusted were out of the game. She knew that she should bring up the buyer why she still had the chance. But she didn't want to be used and be out on her own again. After all if Mick had his way, she wouldn't be here in the first place, she would be dead or worse and they would have been using whatever back alley tradesmen they could find. Leo wanted the money worth, which would be a lot. That was the end of all heists. It was suppose to be worth millions. She knew that Julius' buyer ran a nightclub and that would be the place to go and for now it seemed like this was going to be the best chance before Julius came back out into the open.

She threw on some clothes, before heading down the hall into the living room. She hadn't realized the others would probably still be asleep when she was thinking this over. She paced around the kitchen once before leaning against the counter, she jumped at the voice next to her.

"You looked focused, anything interesting in here? Because I sure as hell couldn't find anything good to eat this morning." Snart chuckled as she glared at him before turning to face him.

"No, nothing but I thought maybe today we could go talk to that buyer. That is if you are still interested?"

"Of course I am...what changed your mind? You haven't been very talkative about any of this, its been a little crushing." She shrugged. "I don't have to tell you who he is."

"Very good point...So where are we headed then?"

"49 Groove. Its a night club ran by Julius buyer. He goes by RingMaster. He's not really anything special from what I saw but he knows what's good and he has a lot of money. I'm not very fond of him." She crossed her arms over her chest, she hated the man, he was called RingMaster because he was also in the slave trade. If you didn't work as one of his strippers, then you worked for someone for a good amount of money. The man treated woman like pets and wouldn't even listen if one was talking. This was why she couldn't just take the pendant herself even if she wanted to, he only dealt with men.

"Yes. I know him. He's not my favorite person either. Do want to go now? There isn't much point in getting the others involved until I know its going to be a solid deal. Right now its just a talk." Dyna nodded, and moved to the door to get her shoes and followed him out the door. She got into the vehicle they kept in the back. The ride up to the club was quiet, and she leaned her head on her hand as she looked out the window at the city. She hadn't been outside in so long even after Snart had taken her in. She didn't see the point...especially with a mark on her head. Until Julius gave up or was dead, she was never going to be completely safe. She was only going out now because she knew Leo wasn't going to let anyone lay a hand on her.

Snart pulled the vehicle in behind the club, where is would be less likely to be seen before he got out. He pulled her to the side, taking her hand. Dyna gave him a wide eyed shocked look before he wrapped her fingers around the gun he placed in her hand.

"No...Snart...No I'm not going to use this."

"Yes you are. If its gets bad, which it shouldn't but if it does. You need to protect yourself...yes you have powers but using them wears you out. Until you start practicing with your powers and get better, then you are going to use this. I don't need you going and getting yourself killed...you can call me by my first time, I'm not going to bite." He gently took the gun, and slipped it into the back of her jeans before pulling her shirt down over it. She tensed at the contact but kept her mouth shut as they walked towards the club. "Aim and point, then pull the trigger. Just don't hit me and it will be fine."

"I can't promise that. I've never even held a gun before." She mumbled under her breath as he knocked on the back door. A younger woman answered the door, she shook her head at them and spoke with a thick Russian accent. She was definitely one of the Ringmaster's girls. His specialty was foreign woman, normally very beautiful with a small knowledge of English so they couldn't argue back. "No. Not open...come back later."

"Well you see I would..but I have something I think the Ringmaster would like to see. So go fetch him for me, won't you." The woman looked him over before looking at Dyna who tried not to look guilty. She had been here only once or twice but she wasn't sure if anyone would recognize her. After all, she had let all the woman the Ringmaster had bought for Julius go free. It was very likely, he was either going to try and kill them or he was just as stupid as she thought and wouldn't recognize her at all. Men like him often were like that, a woman was just another face to him. That's why all his woman had stupid nicknames like this one...Tiger. Because that was so original.

"I will bring you to him...come." They followed her to the back of the club, where she knocked once on the door before a voice answered back.

"Whatever is wrong now, it can wait. I'm busy so leave me the hell alone."

"инспектор манежа there are people here to see you. Sellers...the man says he has something for you to see." The door opened and he looked out before waving her away and coming out staring Snart up and down. He spared no look on Dyna and she felt a prick of annoyance. Asshole.

"Well you are new...what is it you have? Lets get it down and over with, I have a lot to go over before tonight."

"I heard you were looking for a certain pendant, that a certain someone was suppose to procure for you. Well I have it in my possession...how much are you willing to pay for it." Leonard leaned against the wall, with his arms crossed. Ringmaster looked him over again and rolled his eyes, sighing.

"I would pay dearly for it but that was a deal I only made with that certain someone and you obviously stole it from him. I can't turn my back on the deals I make. That would be my payment for a job I did for him. I can't just give you money for it."

"The job, you mean the woman you gave Julius...your little slave trade that you run." Dyna felt the anger spike and clenched her fist as sharp jumps of electricity ran between her fingers. Leo looked over at her with a warning glance but she barely noticed it.

"You really should control your bitch."

"She isn't my bitch, she is one of my partners and she has the full right to speak her mind. After all you said you had no plans to do business with us anyways. So we'll be on our way, I'm sure someone else will be willing to pay the same price, if not more." The Ringmaster let out a scoff, looking between the both of them.

"A woman as your partner, boy are you doing it wrong. Woman are meant to be kept on the side, fucked, and then told what to do. You don't let them have a free will, it gives them too much confidence. As for another buyer, you won't find one. I have the word around that no one is to have anything to do with the pendant until it comes directly to me. So you may as well give it back to Julius and pray he is at least slightly forgiving for stealing his property." He threw the last part at Dyna and she bristled, tongue smacking against her teeth. She moved forward, about to hit him when Snart did it for her. The man went down hard, spitting blood.

"You should watch your mouth. I don't like men like you and I'm not afraid of you either. You can do what you want with your operation here but if it interferes or bothers anyone important to me then I will come back and take off something important to you...Let's go." Dyna resisted the urge to kick the man and followed beside Snart as they left. She didn't say anything on the way back. She wasn't use to anyone defending her, especially someone who barely knew her. Lisa and Mick were waiting when they got back, Mick with a very irritated look on his face.

"Tell me you two did not just go see her buyer without me."

"No we went out for a little fun. There is no buyer Mick, the pendant is ours to keep for now. We'll hit something else, something worth more. Do you want to come help or are you going to mope some more?" The men disappeared into one of the other rooms and Dyna sat down next to Lisa on the couch. Lisa gave her a look and a smile.

"So how did it go?"

"Not well...no one is going to buy the pendant...its probably my fault." Dyna sunk back into the couch, running her fingers through her hair. She hadn't even left Snart talk to him...the man had a silver tongue and she knew was it was going to be like around the Ringmaster. After all Julius had her muted just to go there, this was the first time she could speak her mind. And Snart had let her and he hadn't said a word to her about fucking up. Not one word about it. She couldn't tell if he was mad or if it really didn't matter.

"I doubt its your fault. Plus if my brother really cared about it all that much, he would have gotten the information out of you much sooner. He let you open up on your own. He wants to get to know you. The pendant was an excuse. He wouldn't have stopped stealing either way. He was letting you adjust to being here before he let you see what this life is like. My brother is good at it, very good. So are you going to stay?"

"I don't really have anywhere to go. Julius is bound to still be looking for me and its not so bad here. I've never lived with other people but its pretty nice. Not as lonely as living alone...Does he really want to get to know me? Why?" Lisa chuckled, leaning closer to Dyna.

"Who wouldn't want to get to know you. After all, all the stuff you told me makes you very interesting and he doesn't even know anything about you. You are a mystery and you live with us. Its his nature to get to know you. Now the question is, do you want to get to know him?" Dyna didn't even think before she answered.

"Yes." After everything her and Lisa talked about, so much was left out about Snart. Lisa said it wasn't her place to give everything away, that if she wanted to know something she should ask Leonard about it. So she would...eventually, he wasn't the most talkative person. At least not that she had noticed.

A few months later and she found out that in the right moments that he could be very talkative but he was a much better listener. He had taken her on a couple heists with them and taught her not only how to use that gun but also how to break any lock and how to take someone down without killing them. He trained her a lot on how to defend herself. He tried a couple times to at least get her to use her powers but she tensed up and would lock herself in her room for hours. Her powers made her nervous when she was around people she didn't want to hurt, if she was alone she would try a couple times but she was no where near having control over it, she was terrified. One of the times, she came out of her room he was waiting for her. Leaning against the wall, he looked up when she opened the door.

"Do you want to talk?"

"I'm not sure...what kind of talk is this going to be?" He nodded for her to come with him and she did wearily. She sat down on the couch and he sat down next to her. She looked around the room, there were alone and she got even more nervous.

"Lisa and Mick went out for a little while...they do that sometimes."

"Obviously...what did you want to talk about?" A million differently things went through her head when she asked him that. She always thought the worse when people wanted to talk, she wasn't good at conversation. She was a very solitary person, there was a few people who she could talk with and it was rare and she wasn't sure Snart was one of those people...yet.

"I want to know what happened when the particle accelerator went off? Why are you so afraid of what you can do?"

"I...I was working at the hospital that night...I took another shift so I didn't have to go home and pretend that I wasn't lonely. It hit and all the power went out, everyone went black and I woke up next to burnt bodies. Someone tried to help me and I...I don't know if they were hurt or I killed them. I ran out of the building and I never came back. I never told anyone where I was." Dyna played with her fingers, looking down at the floor.

"It wasn't your fault...you had no control over it. You aren't going to hurt anyone unless you want to. I saw you are the bank, you didn't kill Mick. You have some control. Maybe not a lot but it will get easier."

"I'm not so sure...I just want to go back to being normal." She flinched when he leaned closer to her and touched her hand. "Now why would you want that. Normal is so boring...Were you happy before? Being a doctor? Or did you need more in your life?"

"I enjoyed it...I did but it wasn't enough. All I did was work, I didn't really have a life...not that I have one now...I still stay inside all day most of the time and I have only you three as my friends. Its pretty pathetic." She chuckled, relaxing back into the couch. She had never really ever thought about more until after the accident. Before she had been content with work and sleep, but deep down all the people she turned away she regretted it.

"What about your family?"

"I never tried to contact my parents...I'm sure they had to go collect everything from my apartment...I can't imagine they are very happy with me right now."

"You should go talk with them. You can take Lisa with you tomorrow. Bring your stuff here if you want, after all I'm sure you miss having your own clothes and you can reassure them that you aren't dead." Leo smiled at her, patting her shoulder before he got to his feet.

"Wait...I have a question for you?"

"Shoot." He turned back to her, one hand on the arm of the couch.

"What happened to your parents...Lisa told me about your mother but what about your father? She never talks about him." She watched his face drop and the light fade out of his eyes and she wished she hadn't asked.

"Our father was a monster. Not all his life but he went to prison and when he came back he was a different person. He was abusive and used Lisa and I to get what he wanted. The last time, he put a bomb in my sister's head so I would help him...a friend got the bomb out...I killed my father."

"I'm sorry."

"You don't need to be. You didn't know...so tomorrow. I'll make sure Lisa is up and awake and you girls can have a day together. I'll talk to you later." Dyna watched him leave the room before getting to her feet. She understood him better but she still wished she hadn't asked. He had looked so haunted by his father, and she would too if hers had been that bad. Her mother wasn't the best person in world but still she was still a good person. Picky and demanding but deep down she cared or Dyna hoped she did. She was an adopted so she always hoped she was loved and cared for. She headed to her room, taking some left overs with her for dinner.