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Chapter 22 - JUDGE, JURY, EXECUTIONER

As Dick walks back into his apartment, Helena walks out of the room with the batman shirt on.

"Was that him?" She asks.

"Uh, yeah, it was. He had to leave in a hurry though."

Helena nods then wraps her arms around Dick as he grabs her by the waist.

"Well, since you don't have company anymore, why don't we go back to bed." She says.

Dick smiles.

"I like the sound of that."

As the two start to passionately kiss, Dick gets a phone call from Aaron.

"Hang on, one second, I gotta take this and I'll definitely be right back."

Dick quickly goes into the other room and answers the phone.

"Cash, you know I love ya, but you kinda caught me at a bad time."

"Sorry, I just wanted to congratulate you on busting Frankie Black."

"Yeah well, it was a group effort. Next is Black Mask."

"Hell yeah."

"Hey you're doing that prisoner transport today, right? How's that going?" Dick asks.

"We just picked up Mandragora and heading back to Bludhaven. Said he'll hand over names in exchange for immunity."

"I swear, sometimes I think this system is broken if their offering a guy like that immunity. Anyway, let me know when you guys get to the safehouse, I'll suit up and watch for Mandragora's men, just in case."

"Sounds like a plan, partner. See you then."

When Aaron hangs up, Dick leaves the room he's in and goes to his bedroom where he sees Helena's bra and the tshirt she was wearing on the floor. He grins and joins her on the bed.

Later that night, as Dick sleeps Helena changes into her costume. Before she puts on her mask, she looks back at Dick, feeling conflicted about what she's about to do. She then puts on her mask and jumps out of the window. Later, when she stands on top of a roof, she sees a police vehicle with the crime boss Mandragora inside.

"There you are." Huntress says as she aims her crossbow at his head.

As she is about to pull the trigger, a wingding knocks the bow out of her hand. She looks up with anger in her eyes at Nightwing.

"Going for a late night stroll?" Dick asks.

"How the hell did you even follow me? I thought you were sleep."

Dick jumps down to where Huntress is standing.

"I was trained by the most paranoid man in the world. I learned to sleep with one eye open."

Huntress folds her arms and looks away in anger.

"You shouldn't be here."

"Why? So you can kill Mandragora? That's why you came to Bludhaven in the first place, you knew Mandragora was gonna pass through here tonight."

Helena grits her teeth.

"You don't know anything about it. This is something I have to do."

As she tries to walk away, Nightwing grabs her by the arm.

"I can't let you do this."

Huntress snatches her hand away and gets into his face.

"Look, just because we slept together, doesn't mean you get to tell me what to do. Mandragora deserves what's coming to him, which is an arrow through his fat head."

"I don't like the guy either, but he's flipping on a lot of guys tonight, giving us information that we can use to put away other criminals. Once he's done, he's going into a cell."

"But for how long?"

The two have an intense stare down.

"I'm killing him tonight, Grayson. And if you get in my way- I'll kill you too."

Huntress then kisses Nightwing, and disappears. Dick let's out a sigh and heads to the safehouse where they are keeping Mandragora.

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