Chapter 7: A mistake too far.

"Will this do?" Dyna came into Leo's room, wearing a dress she had found in her old clothes. It was a dark black and clung to her hips and barely reached her knees. The back was open, with a pattern of crisscross string holding it together. She had yet to put any shoes on to go with it, she was going to borrow a pair from Lisa. She wasn't sure this would be good for seeming sophisticated but nothing of Lisa's would work any better. Leo turned around, his shirt in his hand and Dyna bit the bottom of her lip as she scanned his chest before focusing on his face. She caught two names tattooed on his chest, near his heart: Lisa and Lillian. Lillian had to have been his mother's name, he didn't talk much about her but it was obvious he had loved her very much.

"Um...knocking probably would have been a good idea, wouldn't it?" She stood awkwardly in the door frame as he walked over to her, pulling his shirt over his head as he did so.

"If I hadn't wanted anyone in, I would have shut the door. And for your earlier question, that will do just fine. She's going to love you...you look beautiful Dyna. Is this yours?"

"Ah yes...I wore it a couple of times in college to some of the parties I got invited to. I had one friend in the beginning before he took off, he took me to the parties to make me laugh by always coming up with some extravagant prank on everyone else there. He was a lot of fun." She cleared her throat. "But that was a long time ago...so let me go find some shoes and I'll meet you downstairs." She backed out of the room, finding it hard to take her eyes of off him and made her way to Lisa's room. She was laying on her bed, throwing a small ball into the air and catching it.

"You two are pretty cute, you know that? If I didn't know any better I would say my brother is definitely flirting with you and you are giving quite the attempt yourself. Though you need some practice." Dyna ignored her and pulled out a pair of heels and slipped them on.

"I'm borrowing some shoes...I'll be back later today."

"Mmmhmm, you can ignore me all you want Dyna, but you two are the most awkward and adorable people I have seen. Have fun on your date." Lisa sung with a huge grin on her face, and Dyna picked up one of the pillows off the floor and threw it at her.

"Its not a date." She shot as she walked out the door. "Yes it is." Lisa called after her as she headed downstairs, her gun was tucked in one of the purses she had found. Leo was talking with Mick as she reached the bottom floor.

"You can't be serious taking her with you!? I'm your partner, ME, not her. She isn't going to have your back if something happens." Mick hissed out of clenched teeth.

"She is part of this team now, whether you like it or not I am going to be taking her with us and sometimes she will be my partner when I can't bring you. You need to come to terms with this..if not, you know where the door is." Snart's voice dropped low turning into his 'captain cold' voice, there was no arguing with him when he was in this mode, and Mick knew it. He turned on his heel with a glare that made Dyna shudder and left the room. She stepped out once he was gone.

"He really doesn't like me."

"Mick doesn't like anyone, it take a while for him to warm up to people. He only gets along with Lisa because she's my sister. He gets...jealous I think would be the best word to describe it. He doesn't trust anyone at my back, and he doesn't even want too. He'll get over this eventually, but for now this is his problem not yours. Ready?" She nodded and followed him outside, where his motorcycle was and she got a little more excited. She had never ridden one but she had always wanted too. It was part of her rebel thoughts but this would be her first time. She slid on behind him, wrapping her arms around his middle. She squeezed tighter when he started the engine and pulled onto the street. By the time they reached the other end of town, she had relaxed her arms, and was looking around in wonder. It felt amazing, it was a thrill she had only thought about and it was so much more than anyone could have described to her. She was actually disappointed when they stopped, and Leo chuckled as he helped her off.

"I wouldn't have taken you for a motorcycle girl."

"I have my bad girl moments." She pushed her hair back over her shoulder and looked at the small Chinese restaurant they were standing in front of. "So your informant is...?"

"She owns the place, its a good front. No one comes here expecting she runs a gun trade. She occasionally dabbles in other things, but she is the best person I know at putting out feelers and getting the information out of the city. Her name is KunLi, I had her look into Julius for me."

"Why? He's gone...I thought we were dropping the whole situation with the pendant? Leo he is trouble, bad trouble..." He started walking towards the front door and she moved in front of him, placing one hand on his chest. "Are you doing this for me? Because I didn't ask you too, I just want to forget he exists and move on. I don't want you to get hurt."

"He's not gone, and I did this because he's a threat. He could come back and try to hurt you or even kill you again. I won't let that happen...I told you you needed to be ready for this.."

"I am but...I know what he is like. He's a monster."

"And I am going to deal with him, I am much worse than he is and I have purpose to what I do. He's playing a game that he is going to lose." Leo placed his hand over hers, and intertwined his fingers with hers. "Let's go inside. If you want to talk more about this we will, but not out here." She walked beside him, still holding his hand. He opened the door and let her go ahead of him. A small woman, in her 50 or 60's greeted them, she had dark grey hair and eyes with a sense of adventure in them. She smiled when she looked past Dyna and saw Leo.

"Leonard, it has been a long time and you finally bring a beautiful young woman with you. Come, we have a lot to talk about." Dyna followed what she assumed was most likely KunLi, and they sat at a small table in the back. Dyna looked around the small restaurant, it was very beautiful. It was a dark red color, with gold splashed along the walls.

"This a very beautiful place you have. I always adored little places like this."

"You are very sweet. A wonderful woman, not many people can appropriate this place once they know it is underneath the curtain. The smartass girl, couldn't stop herself from making bad comments the last time Leonard was here. I don't like her but so far, you I do not mind."

"That was my sister and she wasn't that bad. She has a mouth on her, its a family trait. This is Dyna, she a new addition to this business." Leo kept his eyes on the door, flickering back and forth from KunLi every once and a while. She gave a small roll of her eyes.

"I have plenty of guards, you can stop worrying. Julius...the one you had me look into, he isn't going to just walk in here. We will hear him long before he reaches the lobby. As for what you asked, there isn't much. What I can tell you, he is not a very nice man. He is disrespectful, and abusive. He keeps his people in line by fear alone. No one wants to talk about him."

"Not surprising." Dyna looked over at Leo, slightly shocked. She had thought he would be more upset by what KunLi told him, not accepting of it. KunLi didn't seem as shocked by his reaction, but rather slightly irritated. The two of them just stared at each other until Dyna softly cleared her throat, if just to stop the silence. "You said he won't make it into the lobby without us noticing."

"And you want to test that? I could lose a lot of good men, you have some stupid plans and to bring her here. You are endangering her as well as everyone in here."

"He wouldn't have come otherwise. I never would have done it if I thought she would get hurt." Dyna had the urge to reach over and hit him, and it looked like KunLi had a similar thought only she acted on it, smacking across the back of the head. Dyna looked at him and he looked at her briefly. "I'm sorry...I didn't want to bring you into it, that's why I asked if you were sure you wanted this life. This is what this life means. Its not always fun."

"You could have told me the complete truth, from the start. You didn't have to lie to me."

"Would you have stayed, knowing the kind of person I can be? I'm not always a good guy." He wouldn't meet her eyes, and she touched his shoulder and he looked at her.

"Hey. All you have done is look out for me and help me and stand up for me. This is another attempt at that, not the best but you are doing this for me. I understand that but is killing Julius going to fix anything?" Leo opened his mouth to answer when a small chime went through the empty room, he got to his feet, keeping her behind him.

"Stay down."

"Oh that isn't going to do any good. Your body can only shield half of the bullets I am going to empty into her traitorous corpse. But you are welcome to try. Now we can do this the easy way. Hand her and the pendant over and walk out." Julius walked closer to the table, his men spreading out across the room, easily disabling the guards. Dyna reached into her bag, clicking the safety off as she pulled the gun out.

"In your dreams." Leonard growled, aiming his cold gun. Julius just gave a small laugh. "As if I would be afraid of your little toy."

"Maybe you should be afraid of me then." Dyna got to her feet, and pulled the trigger. The first shot hit Julius in the shoulder, the second in the man standing next to him. She saw the glare of the ice as it shot across the room, and she turned to aim at the ones Leo couldn't reach. She missed the first and was pushed down as a bullet whizzed by her head. She landed on her knees, firing back and two more went down. She dropped the gun as more poured in, some with machine guns and her hands moved above her head as her pulse raced. She acted on instinct and her powers jumped to respond. A field of electricity jumped around them, the bullets as they sprayed, getting caught in midair. Snart had dropped down, and looked back at her. Julius looked at her through her net as she slowly let it drop, the bullets harmlessly hitting the ground. She was on her feet and flicked her wrists, the electricity jumping from the palm pf her hands, to the hands holding their weapons. They dropped them and she slid to her knees, her head spinning. Snart placed one hand on her back and fired with the other, she say Julius drop and escape but most of the other were not as lucky.

"Dyna...are you okay?" His voice sounded farther away than she knew he was and she shook her head.

"I'm fine. Its jut a headache. We should leave before he comes back." Leo didn't argue with her, he helped her to her feet. She leaned into him as they walked. The ride home she was quiet, as she fought against the headache. Once they were home, he helped her inside and she laid down on the couch.

"Let me get you something for the headache." She took the pain killers he gave her and curled onto her sat down beside her, watching her. He had only seen her use her powers once but this was a lot more.

"I'm sorry. You were right. I thought I knew what I was doing. I didn't think he would bring an army with him just to get you." She looked at him and sat up, taking his hand.

"I'm pissed that you didn't tell me...never do that again. You want me to be apart of this then I want you to be honest. And as for Julius, I know you aren't going to stop going after him, don't go without me."

"I can't ask you to go with me...not if it goes down anything like it did today."

"I'm not asking Leonard." He nodded and pulled her against him, letting her rest her head on his shoulder. It didn't take her long to fall asleep once the medication kicked in and the headache started to fade. He wasn't going to argue with her when she was hurting but he knew there was no way he was involving her next time. She got a headache this time but next time she might take a bullet or worse. This was his fight. Once she was fast asleep, he carried her up and laid her down in bed.

"I'm sorry." He whispered in her ear before standing up and leaving the room. He wasn't going to give Julius any breathing room, next time he was going to have the upper hand.

When she woke in the morning Dyna felt a lot better. She got out of bed and changed into some lazier clothes before heading down to get breakfast. When she got there Lisa and Mick were already eating. Lisa waved her over and passed a plate to her. Dyna hadn't realized how hungry she was until she smelled the food and then she couldn't stop herself. She kept a note for herself that the next time she was going to use her powers, she needed to practice, eat right after and not rush it. She wasn't ready for the amount of energy it had taken last night. She looked around the kitchen and living room but she didn't see Leo anywhere.

"Is Leo still asleep?" Lisa shook her head. "I haven't seen him this morning. I heard his bike earlier before I was fully awake but he hasn't been home since then. Is something wrong?"

"No...no I don't think so." She pushed her food away. "I'm going to go look for him just in case..."

"Just in case what?" Mick gave her a concerned look as she got up and moved towards the door. She looked back at him and shook her head. She didn't need another reason for him to hate her.

"Don't worry..." She gave a fake smile before heading out the door. She mumbled to herself as she walked quickly. "I just hope he is not doing the exact opposite of what I told him not to fucking do." She knew nearly all of Julius' hideouts, and the one most often used was not far from here but it was a place he went to be alone. If Snart was going to kill him, that would be the best time to do it and it wouldn't surprise her to know that he would have figured that out, someway and somehow.

Snart slammed the man into the wall with enough force to crack the plaster. "I'm only going to ask one more time, where. is. Julius?" RingMaster clawed at his arm, and gasped out from the choking grip.

"Why would I tell you, he'll kill me."

"And who says I won't kill you if you don't tell me." Snart growled, tightening his grip around the man's throat. "Okay okay. But you had better fucking kill him because if you fuck up and fail, I don't wanna pay for your mistake."

"I won't make a mistake." He left the man go, and the ringmaster slid to the floor, rubbing his throat and glaring up at Snart. "Now tell me where he is." The man gave him a look before talking, once he knew where he was, he knocked the man unconscious and left. He headed to the address he was given, stopping the bike a couple blocks down and walking the rest of the way, his gun out and ready. The building had two guards, he took them out easily before they could even see him coming and broke the door open.

"JULIUS!"He called out, moving quickly through the rooms, until he reached one of the back hallways. Julius sat in one of the chairs and slowly stood up as Snart drew closer, a knife twirling between his fingers. He had a wide smirk on his face, as he waited for Snart to get closer to him and aim his gun.

"I knew you couldn't resist coming after me. What do you think your protecting, an innocent caught in the chaos? She has a darker side to you than you know. She may not remember but I did some intensive research on her. She killed a floor of people in that storm. On purpose or not, she's a monster just like all the other metahumans. I was doing the world a favor keeping her under lock but you had to go and let her out." He didn't reply to the question but instead brought his gun down on the side of his head, knocking him to the ground.

"Say a prayer, because its going to be your last." He kneeled down next to Julius, who smirked up at him.

"You really thought I wasn't prepared for you." Snart turned to late, as the butt of a gun connected with his temple, knocking him unconscious. His gun slipped from his fingers as he hit the ground.

As she approached the building she knew that Leo had already gotten here. The layers of ice covered the two downed men at the door which was now in pieces at her feet. She stepped gently past the remains of the doorway, moving slowly through the small apartment. The further she went, the more she wished she had brought her gun with her. She stopped outside one of the rooms at the sound of voices, before she pushed open the door. Julius had Leo tied up against one of the tables that he had screwed into the floor, a knife against his moved forward without thinking and a man grabbed her from behind, tugging her arms behind her. She struggled as Julius slowly walked over to her.

"Well, well. It seems I was right. Whores do follow close to their masters." He leaned down in her face and she spit in his face, before bringing her heel up to kick him as hard as she could in the crotch, smirking as he reeled backwards.

"Bite me asshole." The slap that followed, took her by surprise as her vision blurred and she gave a sharp cry. She glared at him, through the pain and tugged at her hands causing the man behind her to increase his grip. But it was enough to flex her fingers and as Julius turned his back on her, she sent an electrical pulse through the man behind her and the sound of pain he made came out more a roar as he let her go. She crawled forward, aiming for the other side of the room where the cold gun was laying.

"Stupid bitch!" Her fingers brushed over cold metal as he grabbed her ankle and tugged. She rolled onto her back and kicked out at him, crawling backwards as soon as he released her ankle. She stopped when her hand was fully on the gun and brought it up, firing at the man reaching down towards her before getting to her feet and aiming it at Julius. Her chest heaved as her adrenaline raced through her veins. A better look showed that Julius had, had his fun with Leo, there were several cuts along his face and some see could see through his shirt. Julius chuckled at her, the knife back at Leo's throat and she felt herself waiver as she meet his eyes.

"I would put the fun gun down. Unless you want me to slit his throat." He pressed the knife in and the glare Snart gave him was enough to kill a person. Dyna's eyes flashed between Julius and Leo before she slowly placed the gun on the ground. "Okay...just let him go. You want me, I'm right here." Julius pulled back and shook his head, tsking.

"Now you should know me better than that." He slammed the knife deep into Snart's abdomen and Snart couldn't stop the pained shout as he arched against the binds on his hands.

"NO!" The electricity arched between her palms and she took the step forward, the cements cracking under her feet. She felt the atmosphere change around her and she saw Julius take an unsure step backwards. Another step and she was in front of him, and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, her other hand she slammed against his chest. The surge that was building between her fingers jumped through his body, dropping him to the ground. The air came back heavy and she gave a startled gasp, taking quick steps backwards.

"Dyna...DYNA!" Leo called out, getting her attention and moved quickly over to him. She undid the binds with a touch of her fingers and moved where he could lean into her. She smacked his hand out of the way when he tried to pull the blade out.

"Let me, you are just going to hurt yourself more." She reached her hand over the hilt and pulled slowly and straight, to keep it from nicking anything more than it already had. She felt his hand on her hip, gripping tightly and she leaned more into him. Snart bit down on his lip, taking a harsh breath at the pain. The knife clattered to the ground as she dropped it and using parts of his already ripped shirt, put as much pressure on the wound as she could.

"We should take you to the hospital."

"I'm a wanted criminal...I am not going to the hospital." She huffed at him, rolling her eyes and helping him get to his feet. He tried to support most of his weight on his own as not to trouble her, he gritted his teeth as they started walking. The pain was unbelievable, and every step made him feel sick. He barely remembered the walk back to the apartment, he blinked in and out of consciousness. Lisa and Mick both jumped to their feet as Dyna pushed open the front door and brought him inside, she didn't argue as Mick took Leo from her and helped him over to lay down on the couch. Lisa was a different matter, she bombarded Dyna with a million questions that she wasn't ready and couldn't answer and it took her giving the girl a small shake to get her attention.

"Lisa, I need medical supplies. Can you do that? Just bring me everything and anything you guys use when one of the boys get hurt. Just bring it all out her, okay? Don't worry about anything else." Lisa looked over at her brother and back before she slowly nodded and walked out of the room. Dyna turned to see Mick with a towel clamped down over Leo's wound, trying to slow the bleeding which was much better than it had been on the way back. The two were talking softly and surprisingly Mick wasn't glaring at her. She figured he would blaming her for this, and hate her even more. All she saw was concern for his partner, his friend.

"You have some experience with this." Leo chuckled slightly at her comment as she walked closer, he broke off in a groan of pain. One hand was gripped on the head of the couch, the other curled into a fist at his side.

"Normally its me getting patched up, it rarely happens where its the other way around. He's a lot more careful than I am."

"Its my fault." She leaned down by the couch as Lisa came back into the room and placed a box down by her side before rushing out again. The box had a mix of first aid supplies, some of it looked as though it had been stolen out of the hospital which it probably had been. Lisa came back in with some hot water and a bottle of vodka tucked under her arm. She placed those down on the small table, looking slightly nervous.

"Just fix him up and we won't have a problem." Mick moved to the side to let closer and she gave him a short nod. She gently removed Leo's shirt or what was left of it and her fingers touched gently around the wound. It was still bleeding but had slowed down considerably but overall, it didn't look like anything important or life threatening had been nicked. Very lucky. She handed the bottle of alcohol to Leo, he gave her the best smile he could manage and took a swing from it. She took it back from him, her hands shaking slightly.

"Maybe you need some as well." He teased her and she managed a smile for him. "No...I've just never done this outside of a hospital before and with someone conscious." She poured some of the alcohol over the wound and the sound he made as he gripped down on the couch, shook her. Her hand was on his arm without thinking and she pulled it back as she tried to force herself to focus and cleaned the wound. He took the stitching a lot better and she felt in a familiar area as she closed the wound. Everything dropped from around her and it was nice, nicer than she could have imagined to be back to something she knew in and out. She covered the wound and sat back, the shaking in her hands was long gone and she looked over at Leo, who had been playing lightly with her hair the whole time. She smiled at him, and he gave her one back.

"Mick, can you give us a moment." It was an order but a lightly barked one but Mick didn't argue and he left the room. Lisa who had been sitting on the other couch got up as well and left. Leo brushed his fingers gently through her hair and down along her arm and she lifted her hand for him and he held it close to his chest.

"This wasn't your fault."

"Ye-"

"No it was mine, I didn't listen. If you hadn't done what you did, I might be dead. I should have listened, you never should have had to come to my rescue. I'm sorry...I know its hard the first time, and I don't want you to ever be where its any easier." She looked down. Killing, he meant killing. She had tried not thinking about it, it was just like a wave of guilt in her mind. She pulled her hand back.

"You need to rest." she got to her feet. "I'll make sure the others know to get you anything you need until you are healed. Just try to sleep and don't move around too much." She said softly before leaving the room. Leo reached for her as she walked by but she pulled away far enough that he couldn't touch her.

"Dyna, don't let this haunt you." Dyna looked back at him from the doorway before heading back up the stairs. It may have been an easier thing to say but it she just wanted to give in. It hurt, everything hurt. It was her fault, whether he wanted her to take the blame or not. It was her fault he had felt the need to go after Julius and her fault he had gotten hurt because of it and her fault...and only hers that she had purposely taken a life. She had lost control, her powers were dangerous and she was just as much of a monster as she had been told.

Leonard watched her walk away from the reflection in the mirror in the kitchen and he saw the sadness her in eyes. He wanted to chase after her but he could barely move. He knew what she was going through, he knew if she let it, this was going to drive her to a point she might not be able to come back from. He had no plans of letting that happen. Wounded or not, he was going to reach through to her.

I picked a name, white lightning was a choice offered to me and I love it. It fits her so well and gives me some options for things I can do with her. This chapter was intense, I loved writing it and I couldn't stop. This had so much emotion, and its the first step for Dyna finding herself and understanding who she is.