Full Circle (Book 8 in Arrow/Spn Crossover)

Gathering Strength

I laid there for a second, Coyote laughed and shoved me towards the edge of the bed. "Room service was your idea, not mine. Tough shit Babe."

"I get no damn sympathy, none."

She arched her back and licked her lips, "Nope. Go get the food, I'm wounded and hungry."

Talk about having to change gears. I rolled my way off the bed, got up and grabbed the food. I didn't bother calling Sam, just knocked on his door with my elbow since my hands were full. "Hey, food's here."

I heard a muffled "Okay" then the door opened. I looked over his shoulder and saw that the laptop was actually closed. Good. My panic attack about possibly losing Coyote must still have been showing on my face somehow because he paused before stepping out into the hall. "You all right?"

"Yeah. Let's eat."

He let me slide, shut his door and we went back to my room. I divvied up all the food and we settled down to eat. "So Sam, when did you become a ninja? That was a crazy ass flying kick man!"

"What?" Coyote asked, "I missed that."

In typical Sam fashion he seemed a bit shy about it and tried to shrug it off, "Just been learning some stuff from Oliver and Roy. When I stayed there all those years ago Oliver said that I'd be pretty devastating if I learned how to use my legs better. I've had the time over the last year so figured why not. It's not as hard as I thought it would be. I'm so used to flying through the air anyway thanks to all the crap we fight that I actually have pretty good air awareness, which, according to Oliver, is the hardest part to learn. The rest is just practice."

"You'll have to show Coyote sometime. He looked like Bruce Lee, seriously. Nailed Gordon straight in the face, landed and tried to one shot, one kill him. It was brutal."

"Dude, I'm not that good."

"Sam, someone as big as you are moving like that, it's damn impressive. I'm a little jealous."

That made him smile, "I can show you if you want."

"Me too," Coyote said, "I'd love to learn something new."

"Sure, next time I'm over at your guys' place I'll give you the basics."

"Good," Coyote replied, "That way next time Badger acts up I'll have a new way to humiliate him."

"Speaking of Badger," Sam said after he took another bite. "What was up with that whole fight anyway? You never really explained it. I thought all of that was said and done."

"It was, until I decided to step down as leader of the tribe," she explained.

Sam slowly set his beer back down on the table, "You what? Why?"

She told him the whole story, he didn't say anything until she finished. I think both of us were surprised at how pissed off he looked. "They seriously thought there was some weird threesome thing going on?"

"Probably not," she answered, "those two just hate me so will do or say anything they can think of to piss me off."

He shook his head, took another drink then got serious, "I know I'm not the expert here and I'm not trying to piss you off or tell you what to think, but, I think both you and Rising Dove, all respect to him, are wrong.

It took her a second before she said anything, "Why?"

"I see how much you care about those people, about bettering their lives. Maybe back in the old days, when everything wasn't so interconnected you'd have to choose one or the other, being in the "white man's world" or with your people, but it's different now. Yes, you love Dean, there's no denying that, and sure, he somehow makes you happy; not sure how, he's kind of a dick," he said with a huge smirk on his face.