Birds of a feather (Barbara)

[Deleted]

And out the redheaded sexy computer geek came, showing off what her mama gave her and not caring whether Dinah saw it or not. Actually that might have been her expressed reason for doing it. It certainly wasn't something Dinah wasn't afraid of doing. In fact she'd once done it in the JSA's meeting room. Right in full view with nothing but the birthday suit. Straight out of the shower to break up a very loud argument between Ollie and Carter Hall. Dinah cracked a smile at the sight of the her new love in all her glory, admiring the view of her breasts, buttocks and lips. The scars however were a different story and caused the smile to run away but that was to be expected she supposed from whatever they did to her when healing her spine. The only mystery was whether it was from surgery or from her days as Batgirl but she wouldn't ask, just wait and see if Babs would bring it up. It was a mystery Dinah was content to live with if she didn't.

She shoveled as much of the food down as she could stand, about half of it and nodded at Babs comment about the hot water supply here never running out. At least they didn't completely treat their prisoners like animals. As she looked at Babs and watched her dress her thoughts turned only for a moment back to Dick and how big of a mistake it was for them to do what they had done. They had both gotten caught up in the moment and it was something she she now regretted. Truth be told, what Dinah told Barbara Gordon last night was the absolute truth. She had been the greatest love she'd ever known for years and she would always be the greatest love of her life. It just took Dinah time to see it.

A quick trip over to her dresser revealed they had already put clothes in it. Must have snuck in and done it while they were asleep and probably got their jollies off of watching the two women snuggle, the creepy aliens that the Skrulls were. She snagged a t-shirt, and a pair of sweatpants, kissed Babs on the back of the neck and made her way inside to the bathroom for her shower, mind roaming once again as to what horrors would be unleashed on both of them as the day unfolded.

"I love you." She called out and closed the door behind her after laying the change of clothes on the bed.

[Deleted]

That would be the last time Dinah would get to say anything to Barbara. While the blonde was in the shower two skrull guards came in and took Barbara away for more training for their skrulls this had lasted for nearly a week she had spent in an environment that looked just like a mountain range California she couldn’t pin point where exactly but knew she was there. She spent day’s there while they watched and learned sometimes they would send in someone she knows either to help or make things harder and she would have to deal with them in some shape or form. After having her for so many years you would think they would have learned everything about her and they had well most of it there were a few small details she kept to herself and had lied about they weren’t going to learn everything about she wouldn’t allow that there had to be some part of her that she could still keep as her own. And it didn’t matter how hard they tried they wouldn’t learn it.

The day’s seemed to have dragged on like they were never going to end but they finally did she had been brought back they took her to the med bay where they patched her up giving her fluids and food she managed to find some of each but not enough they then had her carried back she was a little to out of it from the painkillers to walk on her own. Three guards had entered the room two to move Barbara from one bed to another and the third was there to keep an eye on Dinah and deal with her should she try anything.

[Deleted]

The inevitable had finally happened the day Dinah came out of the shower only to notice that Barbara had vanished. It didn't take much thinking to decipher where she was dragged off to either. It had only been 24 hours since Dinah arrived and it seemed, if the 5 skrulls standing there pointing to her clothes and demanding she get dressed were any indication, they were in an all fired hurry to start Dinah's share of mental torture and whatever else. She did and she wasn't going to go quietly wherever they intended to drag her. She may have had her defense worn since she had arrived but she still had plenty of her temper and spirit left.

She'd learn soon enough with the blood that began oozing down her face again for the second time in so many hours before she was grabbed, dragged and pulled away to a private hell of her own. Dinah's took place in what looked like the middle east with special guest appearances By Ra's Al Ghoul, Lady Shiva, and Sin

There were apparently plenty of Skrulls to go around and differing agendas for all prisoners and when Dinah had been returned, shortly after Babs had been moved to the medical bed back to their shared bed, Dinah was so drugged up and stitched up she was practically out on her feet and in a catatonic, spaced out state when they sat her in the chair. She was most certainly in no shape to handle any of the skrull guards. She could barely hold her head up. She was babbling incoherently when a tray of food was set before her and they finally left her and Babs alone. Dinah sank face first into the tray, starving so much she spared the utensils and eat like a mule before turning her face to the redhead.

Her throat went dry when she tried to speak and could do little bit sit with her mouth hung open. The vacant look in her eyes a new one before she flopped face down to the tray once more and passed out.

[Deleted]

At some time after Dinah had been brought back Barbara started to stir a little she groaned and stopped moving it hurt to much after a bit of work she managed to force her eyes open for a split second before closing them again. She wanted to wake up but her drugged fueled body told her otherwise so she just laid there trying to get her mind to form the words so she could speak. “Dinah? Are…are you there?” she said giving up trying to get her eyelids to work hopefully she’d get a reply soon cause she wasn’t sure how much longer she’d be able to stay awake. She would love to just go a week or two without waking up in pain or being drugged with the way things go around here she was probably addicted to painkillers by now or her liver is probably will be going before long. Or maybe not she had no idea what long term damage alien drugs did on the human body.

[Deleted]

Whatever drugs the bastards pumped into her system was strong. It had to be to overcome someone with a will as strong as Dinah Lance's and a spirit to match. When Babs finally was able to speak to her Dinah stirred only slightly bui a grunt was all she was capable of offering in response to Barbara's question. Her hands were shaking and her body was shivering involuntarily when she tried lifting her face out of the tray. So damn hungry, so damn tired, so damn sore.

The only other sound Babs would be greeted with for the next several hours as the drugs passed through her and started to wear off was the sound of Dinah's body hitting the floor with a thud as she afell out of her chair and inadvertently knocked the tray of food down as well, which fell on her and matted itself in her hair while she lay there. Dinah helpless on the floor And Babs immobile on the bed and unable to see, the two of them able to do nothing to help the other made the blonde wonder subconsciously if it would always be like this or worse if she would become the very thing she once tried to break Roy Harper of a junkie with an endless addiction to drugs.

When she finally woke again this time it was she who had burning eyes. Everything around her was pitch black when she felt her way and tried to find the bed after wearily pushing herself off the floor.

She stumbled around calling Babs name until she thought she had found the bed, tripped and fell over it with a pained groan before she realized she ended up in the bathtub instead. "Are you awake? Speak to me so I can find you, baby."

[Deleted]

Barbara fought for as long as she could to stay away so she could get an answer but never got an answer before she finally lost the battle and was out for hours most likely before she managed to wake up again. It took her a few seconds for her brain to kick in and tell her, her eyes are in fact open it was just dark in the room which meant it was night time. She tried to sit up but the pain in her side told her to stop moving sighing she laid back down again. “Are you in the bathroom?” she asked after hearing Dinah's question. She was wondering why the blonde was in there and not in bed did she get lost in the dark or something? Which is strange since Dinah should be use to moving around in the dark due to her night job. So why was she lost in the bathroom?

Barbara had no idea what Dinah had been through or the fact she had been drugged. She had just thought the blonde was being silly or trying to play a joke on her or something she didn't know. “Stop playing in the bathroom and bring your ass to bed already.” she said while rubbing a hand over her eyes one of the few things she could do with out being in much pain. In the morning she was really going to start trying to come up with a way out of this place again she really couldn't keep doing this anymore.

[Deleted]

Finally. Dinah muttered to herself when Babs spoke, finally getting enough of her senses back together enough to realize she'd been sitting in the bathtub for who knows how long. She was however, very much as blind as a bat. Whatever had been done to her, her eyesight still hadn't returned but she fought through it anyway, pushing herself up out of the tub and struggling to make it out and back to the bed. She was still debating whether or not to let Babs know as she bounced off walls, tripped and had to pick herself up off the floor more than once during the short walk from bathroom to bed.

In a warped, demented way it almost felt like a rite of passage. A "Yay, i got my first torture session, now I have finally made it" type of thing but this wasn't a laughing matter. While she moved and inched closer to the bed she finally decided to swallow her pride and clue the redhead in. You know, just in case all her tripping and crashing into things hadn't made it obvious. "I'm blind, Babs. Don't worry I'll make it. Yes I will." She murmured before finally feeling the mattress in her grasp and sliding in next to her best friend and lover. "How bad did they hurt you, Babs?" She asked, refusing to acknowledge further how much pain she was in and focused attention on Barbara as she laid down.

[Deleted]

“Of course your blind Dinah the lights are out you can't see shit in the dark.” came Babs replay before she groaned louder this time when Dinah got a little to close and touched her ribs even if it was just a little bit it really hurt a lot she was pretty sure they were broken and not just bruised like she had first thought back in the cave she had called home for the last few day's at lest they cleaned her up so she didn't have to bother with it for a while. It was going to hurt like a bitch when she had to take a shower while awake. She did her best to scoot away from Dinah to the other side of the bed she really didn't want to take a chance for the blonde to accidentally bump into her during the night.

“Broken ribs, I cut the palm of my hand pretty good I think I might have twisted my ankle or just hurt it I'm not sure.” everything else was little cuts and bruises nothing really to worry about “Did you fall asleep taking a bath again or something?" she finally asked wondering why Dinah would be in the bathroom after lights out or maybe she had to go to the bathroom and forgot which way to go or something she didn't know.

[Deleted]

"I'm serious, Babs. I can't see diddly. My back hurts like hell, I'm sore all over and they injected me with who knows what. They came and got me shortly after they took you away. I've been away from here for days. I passed out in a tray of food after they brought me back and I couldn't see even with the lights on." She muttered hoarsely. "I'm going out on a limb here and guessing I just grazed your bruised ribs, right? Sorry about that."

Dinah was biting her tongue to keep from groaning while she finally made her way into the bed. It didn't help much and she hated herself for it. She hated herself for showing any signs of weakness and she hated what she'd already been reduced to by the alien kidnappers. Virtually a shell of herself. Once she was laid down she intended to stay in the same position all night. Moving around hurt too much.

"For a bunch of pathetic jackasses who don't really want to harm us, they sure seem to be taking a toll on us. I haven't been here nearly as long as you have and I feel like I'm about to die, Babs. There has to be a way off of here, There just has to be.""

[Deleted]

“Give it some time it'll come back or they'll fix it they wont leave you blind. The first time usually is the worst.” She reached out for Dinah's arm “It's fine it's not like you could see where I was even if you weren't blind.” They really needed to fine a way off this ship and back to earth with out sounding an alarm thing was how would they do it in the shape they were in? For one and two how would they get out of here? These thoughts where still on her mind even now they weren't going to be able to do it now the two of them would be tripping over each other that wouldn't do at all.

“That's what they do we'll more then likely be in the healing tanks in the morning. Not sure if the tanks will be able to take care of your eyes or...” and she just had brilliant idea that's how they can get out of there attack the doctors when they're at the tanks of course they should at lest wait until after their treatment they would be able to deal with anything then. “In the morning they'll take us to the healing tanks after out treatment that's when we attack the doctors aren't fighters not all that strong we should be able to deal with them and there's only two guards in the room the doctors hate them. Then we'll just have to sneak around until we can find a ship and get the hell out of here.”

[Deleted]

"Yeah, I'm sure you're right." Dinah muttered when she felt Babs touch her arm. She groped until her fingers locked with Babs and gently held her hand as she lay there. It could be described as amusing the way they were both trying to make the other feel better about their current status...even if they both knew deep down that things would never be the same even if they did get off this ship. Dinah would get her eyesight back. She believed in that as much as she believed in Barbara but that was all she believed in. Dinah was positive she would see again and when they got back to Earth she would look at everything differently than before. Babs had admitted it when Dinah first arrived, the place had driven her crazy and now it had done the same to Dinah and in a much shorter time.

A smile tugged at the blond's lips when Babs spoke quietly of her plan. It stirred a bit of joy that fior the first time since they were reunited, Barbara Gordon had a hint of optimism in her voice and that was enough for the Canary. It would probably get more complicated then that but iof the treatment made everything right again then they would get out of here. The skrull took them both separately when they made them prisoners but with the two birds working side by side, nothing would stand in their way. They would find a way to survive.

"Sounds like a winning combination, Barbara. As long we'll be sneaking around looking for a ship who knows. Maybe we'll find other captives to take with us like your dad if your theory is correct. Who knows who else is being held here. We just can't let anything distract us to the point of getting caught before we get our hands on a ship"

For the rest of the night Dinah lay there. Stiff as a board with her aching back and other bones while thoughts not of the escape plan but of what things would be like when they were back on Earth. Everything would be different. After what they have endured here they would not return the same way they left. How could they.Dinah would never let Babs get away again, even if it meant one more wedding ring. Dinah would gladly do that for Barbara. It would just be the two of them. There were probably hundreds of skrulls on Earth. Too hard to tell the contenders from the pretenders.

When the lights were on again, they might as well have still been off as far as Dinah was concerned. Everything was still black to her and the pain in her back had caused stiffness and soreness in her other extremities now also. Her stomach was rumbling and she could not wait to get home for a taste of real food instead of the slop she heard being delivered to their room as the door opened. The Canary had heard that sound enough to identify it without seeing.

[Deleted]

Barbara didn’t sleep at all that night it was far to painful with every breath she took in was painful though this wasn’t the first time her ribs had been broken she broke a few in her time as Batgirl but she always had the choice to go and get them looked at and got something for the pain but not here she had to deal with it all with out taking anything for the pain it was almost unbearable and it seemed like the night was never going to end. But it finally did and they came like they did every time they did this to her only now she wasn't alone. They didn't want to wait until they healed on their own the Skrulls knew human's took a long time to recover.

They came in taking Dinah then herself back to the med-lab a different part then what they had been in before this time it was just a few doctors and a couple of guards only because they doctor's didn't like having them around they always got in the way of things. They got Barbara off the bed and stood her in the tank putting a mask over her mouth so she could breath once that was done the upper and lower came together and locked that was the last thing she remembered she was out just as the bright blue liquid hit her feet before quickly filling the whole tank to the top.

[Deleted]

When the guards had finally come in to wrap up what without a doubt had been the longest night of Dinah Lance's life and dragged the sightless blond off the bed, her body was still in as much pain as it was when she laid down, slightly worse now from the discomfort of being immobile for the last several hours. She was exhausted on top of being blind and sore. Her head still felt a few lingering effects of whatever drugs they put in her but that would no doubt clear up once she was in the tank. She was tempted to groan but wouldn't give the freaks the satisfaction. In fact the only thing keeping her moving right now was the thought of tearing the guards and the doctors a new one when this session was said and done, even if Babs had to be her eyes.

Being that this was both her first and hopefully the last time in the tank, the first thought that came to her mind when she was placed inside was that whatever this alleged healing liquid was it stunk beyond belief.. If Dinah was right it probably didn't face Barbara anymore just like nothing here seemed to faze her anymore since she was so used to the goings on. For this bird however her stomach was curling into knots by the time the tank was full and she was floating aimlessly. It scared her that she couldn't see what was happening.

Whatever this crud was it worked like a charm. Her aching back relaxed, the pain being sucked out like a vacuum and her mobility returning both to it and to her legs. Time seemed to have no meaning her and the Canary wouldn't even hazard a guess as to how long she'd been in there but when her session was done, her mobility wasn't the only thing that had been restored.

Behind the mask she wore a smile was hidden. A smirk really in delight of what she and Babs were about to unleash on the unsuspecting guards and doctors but it had to be done quickly and quietly to avoid alerting anyone else. Her head turned to look toward Barbara's tank and gave the woman a wink and nodded her head slightly. She could see again. All she had to do was wait for the guards to drain the tanks and pull them out then it was homecoming time.

She watched Babs and waited until positive the redhead had her bearings straight and then she lashed out. It was on like Donkey Kong.