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|13| 𝚂𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚞𝚜 ✔︎

Dick, Donna, Dawn and Hank were silent the whole way home. Dick wanted nothing more than to rip Deathstroke to shreds and to  understand how the hell Ryder had teamed up with him.

The elevator door opened as they all walked out deathly pale. Dick needed to come up with a plan and he had to do it fast. Not only was Rose's life on the line but the girl he loves was also.

He stopped in his tracks at he saw the magenta haired woman. Oh how she was a sight for sore eyes. She had disappeared after the incident back in Ohio with Trigon and now she was standing in front of them, worry coating her dark complexion.

" What happened to Harper?"

Dick glanced at the teenagers who were waiting eagerly for any news on  the brunette. Dick didn't have it in him to tell them, not while he himself was still struggling with the news.

" Let's talk in the training room" he spoke softly as the adults left the kids to their thoughts.

" It's bad. I can tell." Rachel muttered. " They don't think we can handle hearing the truth."

" I don't think I want to know the truth." Gar mumbled.

" I know a way to find out." Jason spoke as the rest followed him towards the monitor room so they could eavesdrop on the adults.

" You should have thrown that girl out the minute you knew she was Deathstroke's daughter. " Hank spat, he was angry not only at Dick who continued to defend the girl but to everyone as well. Harper was family and he'll be damned if they chose a girl over her.

" Wait a minute. Pirate girl is this guy's daughter." Kory exclaimed as she looked at them in disbelief.

" Yeah and he wants her back."

" Which we can't do." Dick spoke firmly. He needed to convince them that they couldn't just give Rose up.

" Why not? It's not a crazy idea!" Hank yelled. This was Harper they were talking about. The girl who would sacrifice everything for them. Why weren't they doing the same for her.

" You're not serious?" Dawn spoke as her face morphed into disgust at Hank's words.

" I'm serious about ending this with Deathstroke once and for all. It might not be pretty but neither is watching Harper get killed by that lunatic and her brother." He sent them a beseeching look as his hands formed into fists at his sides.

" This isn't Rose's fault. We all know it. The only reason we're still alive right now is because she's here." Dawn said sending a glare in Hank's direction.

The teenagers sat in the other room listening to the adults bicker and yell like children.

" Look, Harper is hurt, alone and scared.And I... we all know how that feels like. Harper has been through a lot, how much more can she take. The bottom line is ,Harper is one of us she always was, this girl isn't. So handing her over, if it saves her life. I don't know about you but I can sleep a little better at night knowing that the girl who has done everything for us is safe and alive. "

" You good with this Grayson?"
Kory questioned the man who had remained silent for quite some time.

No matter how much he hated this, he couldn't give up Rose. Hank was right though. Harper was one of them, but Rose could be. Hank wasn't seeing that.

" Dick?"

" Just give me a second."he snapped.

" She's just a kid." Dawn reminded .

" Deathstroke's kid." Donna said,venom coating her lips as his name stung as she gritted it out. She wasn't going to lose Harper to the man that had taken away Garth from them, from her.  "Let's be honest. The further away from us she gets, the safer she's gonna be."

" If we leave her out there alone. Deathstroke will hunt her down."

" Or worse, we lose leverage over Deathstroke." Donna and Hank scoffed at his words.

" We're not using Deathstroke's kid to get to him again. Look at how it ended last time."

" Screw it. I'll take her there myself. Good luck trying to stop me" Hank said before he made a move to storm after the girl.

" Wait have you lost your minds?" Kory said." You're all turning into monsters instead of trying to figure out how to fight one. We need to figure out how to fight him as a team. Otherwise we've already lost Harper."

" I wasn't the one-" Hank said before they heard the frantic footsteps approaching down the hall.

" Rose uh, overheard you guys talking about giving her up. She's trying to leave." Gar wheezed as  they made their way out of the training room and in search of the girl. They had to stop her from making the biggest mistake of her life.

" Shit."