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Fifteen

A few days later I was sitting alone at my dining room table when it became painfully obvious that I wasn't alone with my own thoughts.

Bìnàn was opening in just a week and already my department had received two dozen files from Iron Heights of young kids that needed mentoring. I had been given three kids, twelve-year-old Jasmine Waters, fifteen-year-old Gary Conti and sixteen-year-old Ashton Knight. It was Ashton who was my biggest worry though-I didn't think he would listen to me or work with me having shot his step-father a few years ago when he was beating his mother.

My nose twitched at the smell of Suki's floral fruity perfume and I sneezed. We'd been avoiding each other for a few days since I'd pretty much kicked her whilst she was down. I sighed. "What do you want? I'm kinda busy."

"We're leaving in a few hours," Suki advised. "Richard told me last night that he'll be spending a few days in Gotham before leaving."

I cocked an eyebrow. "Dick is leaving Gotham? Why?"

Suki sat down at the table across from me. "He's got a job as a police detective in a city called Blüdhaven. The crime rate is pretty high apparently and he wants to forge his own identity away from Batman and the Robin persona. He asked me to go with him."

"Well?" I asked.

Suki sighed. "I want to. You know I do. I love him but I don't want to move away to a new place with the man that I love that doesn't love me back. I can't sit there and watch him flirt with everything that has breasts and legs and be okay with that."

"Well I think you should be telling him that and not me," I answered honestly.

"Tell me what?" Dick suddenly asked, sitting his bag on the floor.

"That you're a jackass and a man-whore!" I snapped.

"Charlie!" Suki gasped.

"Let me get this out!" I snapped. I stood up and crossed the room to get in his face. Richard Greyson may have been like three times my size but not today buddy. "The way I see it, you have two options here, sunshine. You either cut Suki loose and let her fall in love with another guy who knows how to treat her like an actual Queen-last name not withstanding-or you grow a fucking pair of balls and do it yourself!" I snapped.

He stared at Suki with a clueless look on his face. "Suki what is she talking about?"

Suki took a deep breath and stood up. "I love you Richard Greyson," she blurted out.

"And she finally grew a pair," I muttered.

She ignored me. "Last night you couldn't have dropped all that crap on my lap at a worse time. You should have told me like you told Bruce. I'm always in the dark when it comes to you two-Alfred has to tell me what's going on. What the hell am I supposed to do in Blüdhaven aside from watch you flirt with everything that had breasts and legs? The only carer I have is with ARGUS. Super spy organisation looks shit on a resume!"

"Go back to university like you always planned," Dick suggested. "You always told me that you had a year at uni under your belt studying psychology. Go back and continue it!"

Suki shook her head. "No. I won't go to Blüdhaven with you if my soul purpose is as a fuck buddy. It's all or nothing Greyson. I won't be second best. I'm number one or not at all. I always have a place on Team Arrow-you and I will never have to darken each other's doors again."

Dick ran a hand through his hair. "You never really said we were exclusive…but I'm man enough to admit that seeing you and Barry working together whilst Charlie was in the tank pissed me off a bit."

"So the suggestion stands that the two of you will try monogamy for a bit and see how it works!" I grinned. "If you're gonna kiss and make up, I'll just grab my coat and excuse myself. Put the sheets in the washer when you're done. I ain't touching that with a ten foot pole." Suki blushed as I grabbed my coat and bag. I winked as I left the apartment.

Just as I got to the elevator, my phone rang. A brief bout of confusion crossed my brain when I saw the word KNIGHT flash across the screen. "Oh that sneaky son of a bitch," I muttered, smirking. I slid the answer button across. "What's the polite word for stalker?" I answered.

"A good afternoon to you, snow princess," Leonard chuckled on the other end. "We didn't get to celebrate your return to Central City in the proper manner."

I laughed nervously. "You gave me stolen jewellery, which by the way I still don't know what to do with-then we spent six hours in bed, I think that's sufficient celebration don't you? Besides…how do you know I'm not busy?" I asked, pulling my coat on as I left the building.

"Because I'm looking at you," he answered, real world.

I froze and turned around. True to his word, Leonard Snart was leaning against a black SUV-probably stolen as well. "Again I'm gonna ask what the polite word for stalker is," I told him. "You know I could have plans. We're a bit busy at Bìnàn at the moment cause the grand opening is days away."

"It's certainly not like you, snow princess, to say no," Leonard chuckled. "I promise, you'll have fun and after you'll even thank me for it."

I scratched my head, every sense was screaming at me, telling me it was a bad idea but stupid me has to get into the car.

Leonard grinned and got in behind the wheel. "You'll thank me later, I promise."

The two of us pulled up in what I thought was an empty warehouse about half an hour later. I climbed out of the car uneasily when I saw four other guys surrounding a table covered in papers and guns.

"Marcus," Leonard called out, walking over to the table. "We ready?"

The one called Marcus looked up when he saw me hovering behind Leonard. "Who the bloody hell is this?" he snapped.

"None of your concern," he replied. "All you need to know that she'll be useful. She's a cop's kid."

You son of a bitch, I though. He's using me. I clenched my fists in a ball, ignoring the need to make his body explode from the inside out. I relaxed my body. "Um-I think I should go. Armed robbery isn't really on my list of things I like to do."

Marcus suddenly aimed his gun at me. "Not like you to bring a piece of ass with you on a job, Snart," he snapped. "Joey, tie the bitch up-we'll deal with her later."

A gunshot rang out across the warehouse.

My eyes widened in horror as Marcus crumpled to the ground. Leonard went around the table and shot him again, this time in the head. "Any more questions?" he snapped. "Or can we get on with the plan?" he asked, aiming his gun at me this time. "Snow princess?" he asked.

I glanced at my wrist, realizing in horror that my watch was at home in the bathroom. I gulped and crossed the room to stand at the table.

I should have trusted my instincts and I wouldn't be in trouble now.