Chapter 1
Like most big cities in the world Detroit was full of busy people even at the most late hours. People that didn’t care about you or the reason you were walking the streets in the middle of the night. This made it the perfect hour for someone like her to be outside.
Dinah Lance was used to being outside the house this late at night. It was better that way. No one paid attention to you while the crowd offered the security of blending in. And blending in was what she needed the most now.
She had escaped Star Labs roughly one month ago. It wasn’t that hard really. The battle with Zoom had created enough havoc for her to sneak her prison unnoticed.
Unfortunately she had now to deal with the fact that she was stuck in an earth that may looked like her own but was far different from hers. Zoom had brought her here, but now Zoom was gone. Most likely dead. And with him she lost her ticked home.
On the top of that she was dead. Well her doppelganger from this earth was anyway. That solved the problem of having to kill her herself, but it also made Dinah legally dead. Something that limited her options on building a new life here.
Not that she was ever going to have a normal life anyway. She had accepted that when she was hit by the particle exploration explosion and gained her extraordinary abilities. In fact she had excepted that long before that.
Dinah stroll past another street quietly like a cat. She didn’t want to think about her past life or Zoom. She had more important matters at hand. Like finding a new prey.
And there they were in the corner of the alley. The 6 men were most likely drag dealers or thieves. Dinah didn’t like stealing, she always though that there was no honor to it. Something her old teammates Killer Frost or Deathstorm would do. But she was going to do anything to survive. Plus robbing low life criminals actually made her feel better, both for knowing that they deserve that money even less than she did and of course beating the crap out of them was quite fun.
She hided behind the corner of the nearest building and observed the men. They were calculating the money they had made so far this night and arraigning who was going to what territory for the next “sift”. Dinah was ready to attack before she heard a scream of pain from the next alley. Curiously she moved towards the sound of fighting raising her eyebrows as she got there. Before her there were at least half a dozen men, dressed in black and dark red uniforms fighting a smaller figure in the middle. Something small flew near her ear and a small purple arrow fell off the wall behind her. More arrows flew around and 2 of the men fell on the ground screaming in pain. The other men here still fighting the smaller woman who has moving with grace either kicking or shouting the men with her crossbow. Two more men where down, before one of the remaining few forced her on the ground, her crossbow falling out of arms reach. Then one of the others kicked her on her stomach causing her to scream in pain.
Before Dinah realized what she was doing, she was already running towards their direction. She then let out a scream, not strong enough to kill but enough to send two of the tree men flying and crashing to the opposite wall, giving the brunette woman enough time to get on her feet again and knock out the remaining man standing.
“Uhh, thanks for the help” the woman said turning towards her direction, still in some obvious pain but seemingly with no any serious injures. “That really was something-… Laurel?” She raised her eyebrows at Dinah, who swore from the inside. That was what she had tried so hurt to avoid, running into someone from her doppelganger’s past life. How popular was this earth’s Laurel anyway?
“Err, hi…” Dinah replied. She knew she could always scream the woman’s head off and run away but for now she preferred to play along pretending to be this Laurel. If those irritating brats Cisco and Caitlyn could fool her into thinking they here Killer Frost and Reverb even for a little while, then how hard could it be?
“What are you doing here?” The woman asked “and dressed like that?” She said as her eyes traveled from the edge of Dinah’s boots to the top of her head.
“I changed my outfit recently…” Dinah said remembering the outfit the black canary of this earth wore. It wasn’t bad, but she had found it too covered up for her.
“I decided it wasn’t really my style anymore”
“Oh I see” She took a few steps closer. “Tell me since when does the great black canary run around without a mask in a city far away from home, alive? And if you are wondering, our new common friend, Mari, told me your little secret.” She smirked “It was an accident on her part” She added.
“Errr.. I…” Dinah struggled to find an excuse for her not only being alive but here at this moment. “I was… I... I faked my death” She said finally.
“Oh, how come? Was the vigilantly life too difficult for you to handle, girlfriend? Because those where some very impressive moves back there. Not to mention the scream…” She was now standing only a few steps away from Dinah.
This is when Dinah grew tired of the other woman’s questions “I don’t have to explain anything to you” she hissed.
“Aww don’t get so defensive with me now Laur. Besides it’s just me, Helena”
She placed her hands on her hips “You know me”.
Before Dinah could react the other woman was pressing her lips against hers. Dinah was so surprised that she froze for a moment, before ending up kissing the woman back. She knew she probably shouldn’t do that but Helena’s lips tasted so good. The brunettes hands were now around her waist and then her neck and Dinah run her hand though the woman’s silk-like hair.
Dinah then felt a small sting on her neck and the world around her blackened.
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During the cause of her life, and especially after Ollie’s death, Dinah have had admittedly a few strange lovers, that were not necessarily the most innocent people. She was also generally used on being in strange and dangerous situations, kidnappings being just one of the most easy to handle compared to others.
But being looked up like that on only her first month on this earth was too much even for her standards.
“Free me” She yelled at the women sitting on the other side of the room. It was an old warehouse with a series of blurred old windows as it’s only source of light. She was tied up in a chair something that shouldn’t be much of a problem for a woman with her skills, if wasn’t for the circle surrounding it that apparently stopped her from canary crying beyond it. She guessed it had magic origin.
“Can you stop yelling like that” The one woman, Helena, responded. She walked towards her and stopped at the edge of the circle lowering her body so her head was on the same height as Dinah’s. “Even if you break free, the circle won’t allow you to go any farther than a few steps. And we have some questions to ask you”
“Like why you look like the late Laurel Lance” The other woman said emerging from the shadows.
“And don’t think you can lie to us” Helena continued. “I’m a mafia’s boss’s daughter and Mari here has her weird magic-jewelry thingy. If you lie we will know”
Dinah leaned towards her as much as she could. “You dragged me while we kissed right? Classic” She said sarcastically, buying some time.
Helena smirked. “Not that you didn’t enjoy it”
“Well, I...”
Mari cleaned her throat “Helena. To the point”
Helena turned back at her. “So, who are you?”
“I am Dinah Laurel Lance” Dinah replied calmly.
Helena glared at her “I said don’t-“
“Wait.” Mari stopped her “She is not lying”
“What?” Helena raised her eyebrow “But she is not. Laurel is dead, remember?”
“This is true” Dinah gave her a big smile. The women’s confusion was amusing.
Then Dinah had a new idea. “These men that I saved you from-“
“Helped me” Helena interrupted.
“-do you know who they were?”
Helena was taken aback by the question. “I... No. We have been fighting them for weeks now but we still don’t know who they are exactly.”
Mari glared at her and Helena rolled her eyes “Trust me, it’s not like I will reveal anything very important to her. Plus seeing that the Hawks have found nothing so far, she might know something”
Dinah smiled again “You are right, by the way. I am not the Laurel of this earth, indeed. I come from a parallel universe. I was imprisoned in Star Labs by the Flash and his friends, but I escaped.” Dinah explained, hoping her plan would work. “And these men that attacked you, they were members of the league of assassins”