Hybrid301- Welcome friend I think you were a reviewer on my BrokenWings fic lol but thanks much for your review, and yes I wanted to show what is going on with both of them with a twist of Cheshire hehe
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Stepping over a few drops of blood Cheshire looked down the hall of the run down hotel. The place was a shack, used mostly for dirty acts of drug deals and illegal pleasure, not a place she planned to track him to. Coming to the door the front desk man had sent her to she pressed an ear to it slowly and listened. He had thought her bought company and didn't hesitate to give her a key, commenting on how she could visit him anytime. It sickened her, but when she needed something her feminine body could get her what ever she wanted.
Turning the handle slowly she entered the dark room and closed the door silently, her eyes adjusting quickly. He wasn't in the bed room portion of the room but a sliver of light escaping the bathroom gave her quick idea to were he was. Pushing the door open she had to stifle the gasp that rose in her throat. Between the sink and the tub he sat leaning back against the wall, his shirt and glasses had been removed and there was blood every where.
Approaching him she kneeled between his stretched out legs and pressed her fingers to the pulse point on his neck. It was faint but she got a beat and turned her attention to his shoulder. The puncture was deep and had no doubt caused injury to his muscles, from the looks of the kit beside him he was trying to treat the wound.
"Wake up Hero", she called but there was no response so she slapped him, hard. Roy came awake with a deep breath, his eyes half lidded but alert as he took in the sight of her.
"Came to finish me off?', his voice was deep and pained.
"Hardly, I don't attack wounded prey", she grabbed the peroxide from the sink and unscrewed the top before grabbing a clean hand towel. Twisting it she put it to his lips and waited but he simply stared at her with narrowed eyes. "Bite down on it, if you scream we will have bigger problems", weighing her words he took the clothe into his mouth and she poured the cleansing liquid on the wound.
Roy jerked back, his body colliding with the wall as he tightened his jaw on the wash cloth. Cheshire heard his jaw crack in protest from the pressure before she turned her attention to the kit on the floor. Finding a suture set she began to string the needle as Roy allowed the pain to subside. Turning back to him she looked at him and waited for his nod to proceed which he gave quickly, wanting the pain to be over.
"Man this sucks without tranqs", he hissed after spitting out the damp material. Cheshire remained focused on her task while he kept his eyes on her face as she worked.
"It's rude to stare Hero", she growled but did not stop as she dipped the needle into his skin again.
"Just shocked that your helping the enemy", he swallowed slowly and closed his eyes.
"Technically you were never the enemy, hey stay awake", she smacked his cheek again and he jolted.
"So why are you tracking me", he rasped.
"That's for me to know and you-".
"To find out", he finished with a pained chuckle before settling back again. Cheshire cut the wire as she finished and reached into her kimono, pulling free a small black bottle she paused only for a moment. Opening it she used the brush attached to the top and wiped a thick salve over the sutures before returning the bottle to her person.
"There that should do it, get cleaned up. You look like shit", she got to her feet and left him alone in the bathroom. Roy sat there completely shocked, Cheshire had just done him a very solid favor. The pain in his shoulder seemed to ebb off so he slowly got to his feet and removed the rest of his clothing.
Drawing a bath he slowly lowered him self into the hot water and released a slow sigh of relief. His body felt like a banged up piece of metal, the bruising on his side indicated fractured ribs, and the muscles in his arm were tweaked. There was no way at this point that he could pull back his bow, he was a sitting duck. With a frustrated sigh he realized he was better off going to the League, being in their possession was far better then to turn him self in to the Shadows or the Light.
The thoughts of the League, the Shadows and the Light all seemed to melt away as his hand lightly touched the sutures. She had found him in the weakest he had ever been and she didn't finish him off, she helped him. What she had said about his eyes ghosted through his mind as he sat there in the water, Cheshire was a mystery to him. But all the hero and villain business aside he knew in the back of his mind he craved her, and that thought alone scared the hell out of him.
"We should head back to the mountain, call it a night", Wally leaned against the alley wall while looking at Robin, the speedster had been racing around the city for the past few hours and he was a bit tuckered.
"If we haven't found a trace of him by now we are not going to", he agreed and felt the rest of the team agree. They needed to regroup and rest, all nighters were not easy on anyone.
'Robin. Wally. Heads up', M'gann's voice was clear as day as the two teens looked up and grabbed the descended ropes from the BioShip. As they collapsed into their seats they both sighed in frustration. They were no closer to finding either Red Arrow or Speedy, a place they didn't want to be.
"Status on Santa Prisca?", Robin asked as he stretched with a yawn.
"No flights reported leaving that air space", Rocket replied as she watched a screen in front of her.
"Told you it was just a keep them busy mission", Connor grumbled as he relaxed back in his seat, his boots up on the console. Artemis sighed heavily and crossed her arms over her chest while looking to Wally who was slumped forward and looking less then lively. Leaning to the side she reached into her quiver and snagged a candy bar before waiving it in front of his face.
"So back to the Mountain?", she looked to the others jumping slightly when Wally snagged the offered food and mumbled a thanks.
"Yes, we do not want to tip off Batman that we went behind his back, he wouldn't be pleased if he knew. Red Arrow is injured and in need of help. At this point we just need to hope he will seek us out rather then the opposing side.", Kaldur pinched the bridge of his nose as he spoke the rest of the team accepting the decision.
Jade watched as the archer slept on the hotel bed, she had just returned to check up on him out of curiosity. Upon finding him resting so peacefully she walked around the side of the bed and stood over him. He looked like a menacing predator she had to admit, his muscles looking as if they were hand sculpted by the gods and his features by an artist. A strong jaw line and hard cheek bones made him look much older then eighteen and his usually well kept hair was spiked and in disarray giving him a different look.
Reaching out she brushed her finger tips through his hair but when his eyes shot open she knew she had made a horrible mistake, he was lying in wait and she had fallen for the trap. He grabbed her right arm and rolled, his massive arms pulling her onto the bed with little grace before he covered her body with his. Jade growled at his deceiving action before she realized he had her, the tricky devil had her. In one of his large hands was her two small wrists pinned above her head, a blade to her throat, and his thighs nestled between her legs to keep her from kneeing him.
"Nice moves Hero", she faked calmness as his blue eyes watched her carefully. Roy took in a settling breath as he tried to ignore the pain in his side and shoulder from his injuries.
"I got a lot of moves you haven't seen Chesh", her eyes darkened as he used his nickname for her, though it annoyed her she couldn't fault him for one pet name when she had so many for him.
"Mmm you'll have to show me these moves", she purred but fell silent as he pressed the blade into her throat a little harder. Roy was a ruthless and unyielding force when his temper was flared, she had plenty of experience with him to know.
"Careful, im not a good guy remember? I just might take you up on that offer", his voice was dark and she mentally noted that he may not hesitate to back up that threat in his current mental state.
"Let me up Roy", he growled in the back of his throat.
"That is not my name, its his. Im not him.", she knew her eyes deceived her as his eyes narrowed.
"Your right you aren't", her words seemed to burn him as he pulled the knife back slightly before shaking him self from the shock.
"Well I think we know where your loyalty really lies don't we?".
"Where my loyalty once laid doesn't matter, so back off", she growled and he couldn't help but smirk at their situation, she wasn't going anywhere as long as he held her down.
"Very demanding for the position your in".
"Is this anyway to treat someone who patched you up?", she acted innocent and pouted slightly, using her ability to distract.
"No its how I treat someone who has orders to kill me".
"Sports Master told you?", her eyes widened and he smirked, he loved shaking her up.
"No you just did Chesh", shock crossed her face, he had tricked her again. This male was working his way onto her don't under estimate list very very quickly.
"You son of a bitch", she hissed but he shook his head and 'tsked'.
"Im a clone, no mother, no father", she twisted her wrists in his hand as she tried not to move her throat any closer to the blade that rested there.
"So what are you going to do Hero? Kill the assassin sent to kill you?", she was shocked yet again when the blade left her throat and his hand loosened on her wrists. Shaking his head he holstered the knife and planted his hands on either side of her head to lift his upper body off her.
"Consider us even", he whispered against her ear and she shivered as his body slowly left hers. She laid there as he got to his feet and seemed to focus on his shoulder, the muscles in his back tensed and slackened as he moved and Jade couldn't help but stare. Shaking her head her mission flashed in her mind and she slowly pulled her sai from her hip as she got up from the bed. No distractions, she couldn't be distracted.
Setting down a tray of food Ivo checked Roy's vitals and then looked over his arm, the attachment had taken perfectly. Giga chirped from beside Roy as the robot powered on from his masters presence.
"Professor?", he watched as the teenagers eyes slowly opened to look at him, his voice scratchy from the screams of pain he had released earlier.
"How do you feel?", Roy lifted his new arm and watched as it made a fist and opened again.
"Complete, a little sci-fi but complete", the smirk on his lips had Ivo grinning from ear to ear as he walked over to his work bench.
"The food there is for you, eat slowly your stomach has not had solid food in a long time", the boy nodded and grabbed a piece of toast, deeming it a safe place to start. As he took a bite of the bread he sighed, eating was a basic need that he had missed greatly.
"So what's next? You offer me cookies to join the dark side?", he joked.
"No, as I said, I have had a change of heart. A fresh start is were I am heading and you my boy are a good start wouldn't you say?", nodding the archer grabbed another slice of toast and took a bite. The Professor didn't make sense he wanted a fresh start, and was turning his back on the villainous side of life?
Testing out his arm he took a few jabs at the air and sighed at the familiar an smooth movement of his body. You could knock him down but there was no keeping him down, well unless he was being kept in a frozen coma.
"So as I asked before, ready to wield a bow again?", his attention was caught by Ivo as the small man turned around with a weird contraption.
"Would love to, but that…is not a bow", he pointed at the piece of twisted looking metal and Ivo offered it to him.
"Take it with your real hand", he instructed and Roy did as told, freezing as the metal shifted and uncurled to form a bow. "It will only open to your hand, go ahead pull it back, test out the pressure", he beamed.
"Uhm again, would love to, but this bow has no string", Ivo rolled his eyes and chuckled.
"Use your right arm and act as if there is a string, concentrate on it and pull back", with a shrug Roy humored the good professor and pinched his fingers were the string on the bow would be. Pulling back his arm, shock consumed him as a red string of light began to bend the bow's branches. Out of loss of thought he released the string and Ivo shouted before the medicine cabinet across the room was struck by a red flash of light and was impaled.
"Holy hell!", he shouted as Ivo broke out into a fit of laughter.
"Fantastic, absolutely amazing Charlie my boy!", he clapped his hands together and Roy looked at him in confusion as the Professor celebrated success.
"Professor?".
"Yes?', he looked at Roy as he tried to control his excitement.
"You called me Charlie?", he watched as color seemed to drain from the scientists face, "Who is Charlie?".