Chapter 2
“The league of assassins doesn’t exist anymore” Mari glared down at the imprisoned Dinah. “It was disassembled by Nyssa al Ghul a few months ago”
Dinah frowned. “Why would and al Ghul disassemble the league of assassins?” She asked with a look of disbelief. “Regardless, these men were members of the league. I am sure of it.” She now smiled again. “And if you want to stop them you will need my help”
Mari turned to Helena “We need to tell Barry”
“Wait” Helena raised her hand to pause her while still looking at Dinah.
“Helena! She is a criminal!”
“So was I, remember?” She looked over her shoulder at the other woman. “Plus she might actually be useful.”
“Thank you” Dinah said sarcastically.
“Don’t get me wrong birdie. I wasn’t defending you.” Dinah didn’t comment at the, obviously inspired by her late doppelganger, nickname as Helena continued “So tell me why should we trust you”
“Well for starters I did saved your ass last night” She smiled at Helena’s irritated look “so you own me. And also” she paused “since I am not going home any time soon I decided to start anew. Be a better person” She gave the other woman the most honest smile she could manage.
Helena turned her back on her and led Mari a few steps away, giving some space between them and their prisoner. “So what do you think?” She asked the other woman.
“I think she is a criminal and she needs to be locked away” She stopped for a moment and rubbed the top of her noise with her middle and index finger. “But I also think she is telling the truth”
“Even with the whole ‘parallel universe’ crap?” Helena raised her eyebrows
“Uh, yes. I know it sounds strange to you but when you have seen the things I have, believing it this kind of stuff gets a bit easier, trust me” She looked at Helena “What about you?”
“I think she has kick ass skills” She then looked at the floor in frond of her “And I also think that if I deserve I second chance, so should others. It’s what Laurel would have wanted.”
Mari smiled at her and touched her shoulder sympathetically “You know, when she got you out of prison and brought you here, I hadn’t realized how much she meant to you”
“I hadn’t either” Helena left a bitter laugh “I suppose it is true you only ever realize how much you love something when you loose it.” She touched the golden cross hanging from her neck lost in her thoughts.
“Are you two done flirting yet?” Black Siren yelled sarcastically. “I’m staring to get bored”
“Then again we can always just kill her and dumb her body to the sea” Helena whispered as she and Mari walked their way to the imprisoned metahuman.
“So have you made a decision yet?” Dinah asked in a fake, polite, waitress-like tone.
“We decided to trust you for now” Helena said calmly. “Have a nice stay” she then turned around and started to walk away.
“Wait, you can’t just leave me here!”
“How long you will be a prisoner will be decided regarding to how you behave.” She turned to leave “Don’t worry though. Someone is going to bring you your lunch later today” She said as she left a very socked Dinah alone in the room.
***
Back at the alley a man emerged from the shadows. He took a look around seemingly unaffected by the sight of the bodies surrounding him and moved quietly forward one of the men lying unconscious against the wall of the nearest building.
It took him only a moment to spot the blood running out of the man’s ear and even less to recognize what had done this to him.
“Dinah.”
***
The next face Dinah saw was, for the first time in weeks, a familiar one.
“Ah Kendra” She got up as the other woman entered the room. “What a nice surprise”
Kendra stopped a few meters away from the imprisoned Dinah at the sound of her name. “You know me?” She asked surprised.
“Yes” Siren smiled. “Well your earth-2 doppelganger anyway” She said as she brought her earth’s Kendra in her memory.
Kendra Saunders of earth-2, also known as Hawkgirl, was a boundary hunter. And a very good one at that. They had met after the Siren had joined Zoom’s army. Apparently, after the death of her husband, Carter Hall, on the hands of the immortal Vandal Savage, Kendra had sworn to avenge her beloved. But with doing so she ended up too far gone, and eventually found her place at Zoom’s side, just like Dinah.
“We worked together for a little while” Dinah explained. “I am however guessing you are as boring as everyone else on this earth” She said with a tone of disappointment in her voice.
“If by boring you mean not killing people for fan, then yeah” Kendra answered a bit irritated. Cisco had told her about all the earth-2 metahumans Barry had to deal with a while back, and still couldn’t understand why Mari and Helena had decided not to turn this Laurel in yet.
Kendra carefully left a plate with food on the floor and then pushed it beyond the circle surrounding Dinah. “Here, eat” She looked down at Dinah, who by the time she had gotten here had completely freed herself from the chair, leaving the magical circle the only thing to protect Kendra from her, and for some reason she felt a bit bad for the other woman’s condition.
“I am sure you won’t be like that for long” she said apologetically.
“You bet I won’t” Dinah smiled sharply as she took a bite from her meal.
Kendra took another look at the prisoner who looked so much like the woman she had met a few months back, and the only thing she could think about was Sara.
Sara who was so heartbroken over her sister’s death and was now travelling in god knows where, and when, with no idea of this woman’s existence.
“So”, Kendra sat down in frond of Dinah, “you are Laurel’s doppelganger.” She had seen a lot of weird stuff in all of her lives, most of whom she didn’t even remember yet, so she was the one to get used to this the easier out of the group.
“How different are you from this earth’s laurel?” She asked with hope.
“The people from earth-1 and earth-2 are mirror opposites”, Siren answered and ate another one of her French fries. “You don’t happen to have any milkshake do you?”
Kendra ignored her question and Dinah continued. “I never met your earth’s laurel so I can’t express an opinion on her, but from what I’ve heard I couldn’t be more different.” she raised her shoulders “Heroism was never really my thing you see.”
“Then why do you want to help us?”
Dinah seemed sad for the first time “I have nowhere else to go” she played with a lock of her recently dyed blond hair and for the first time Kendra realised the difficulty of her situation.
“Did you had any family back there?” Kendra asked sympathetically.
“We weren’t close”
“What about Sara?”
Siren’s face got serious for the first time. “My relationship with my family is none of your business, Hawkgirl”, she said angrily ending their conversation, and continued her meal in silence.
***
“Kendra” Half on hour latter man walked into the room. Well , walked wasn’t really the right word for it. More like flew.
He was tall and had the same pair of wings she had seen on Kendra growing from his back.
“And you must be Carter” Dinah grinned “I can now see why my earth’s Kendra was so obsessed with you.”
Carter closed his wings and raised his eyebrow at the blonde’s remark, before turning to Kendra. “We have a location for the next attack”
“Oh” Kendra got up fast “Oracle send a message?”
“Yes” Carter nodded “And Helena said she should came too” he pointed at Dinah’s direction.
Dinah raised her eyebrows. She was almost as surprised as Kendra was.
“How come?” Kendra frowned in confusion.
“Well Helena said she has info about the league of assassins” He then walked towards the imprisoned siren. “She also said that if you try anything even remotely suspicious me and Kendra should take you out.”
“Like you could.” She replied as Carter destroyed the circle that held her prisoner.
The truth was that if this had happen to her a month ago, while she was still on her earth, she would have reacted a lot differently at her release. Mostly involving screaming Carter’s head off and escaping. But at this point she had nothing. And pissing off her only potential allies just seemed like a bad idea.