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IT'S THAT VERY SPECIAL TIME AGAIN.

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[What do you do if you're in a new city and you strongly suspect you might have friends hanging around that city?

If you have friends like Dinah has friends, you pick a rooftop and you stand on it. Which is exactly what she's been doing, having found a suitable looking corner and staking herself out for the evening.

Someone's got to be around, right?]

[There is, in fact, someone! And she's out and about, mingling and just... literally hanging around. Conveniently doing nothing, conveniently nearby. One might even think she has some idea who is lingering on the rooftops above her, hmmm!]

[Hey, that's Zee.

Hey, Zee is staying down there.

Hey, guess who doesn't have a bird-line or an expandable cape or flight powers appropriate to her codename?

Dinah gives her a few minutes, and then makes the arduous climb back down.]

You could have come up to me, you know.

[It's pretty obvious that all of this was intentional and meant just to be difficult. Typical Zee fashion, huh.

She leans against the soft brown brick wall of the building behind her and offers a slight shrug.] I don't know where the fun is in that, Dinah.

[Dinah just shakes her head and joins her in leaning. Side by side, back to the wall so she can watch the traffic on the street.]

The fun is in a lot less effort on my part, and I don't look like an idiot for being up there to start with.

It's a city full of people with super powers. Hanging around on rooftops, possibly in hunched over, thoughtful poses is practically a city-wide past time! [It's busy, but what do you expect for an amalgam of New York City?]

So, gotten a spiel yet? At least skimmed the intro booklet?

I keep expecting a growl behind me telling to get out of my city.

[It's a pretty bad impression, to be honest.]

I skimmed it, but I was hoping someone would give me the Cliff notes. I hate boning up.

I'm afraid there's currently no one with pointy little bat ears around here, so you'll have to just imagine it for yourself.

[Big cities with a bunch of villains in them can be like that, can't they? Either way, it can't be as bad as Gotham if Zee's stickin' around. She never stays in that roach motel for long (okay, half roach motel, half five star resort?).]

Blah blah, you're stuck, blah blah, amalgam of New York City, blah blah, hey if you don't have super powers you've got them now, blah blah, try to teleport home and something crappy will likely happen to you.

Have you tried? Teleporting home?

[Dinah obviously has no plans to try, but with 'something crappy' as her deterrent, she'd almost be disappointed if Zee hadn't.]

[And what do you do when you've been in a new city for over a year, but there's really only one way of life you know?

If you're like Ollie, you spend your nights bouncing from rooftop to rooftop in green tights and a silly little feathered hat, punching people in the face when the situation calls for it, but shooting warning shots in their general direction more often than not. He's definitely around. He just didn't expect her to be and the surprise is pretty evident on his face.]

Hey there, pretty bird. What's a lady like you doing in a place like this?

[Going rooftop vigilante fishing, Dinah wasn't exactly sure who she'd catch, because she still isn't sure who is here. She was hoping for maybe a Kryptonian or a Bat, but heck, she'd take Booster Gold if she had to.

She's been trying not to hope too hard to see that ridiculous feathered hat. Now she does, it's all she can do not to run to him. But given how they left things that might not be the best idea.]

Hey, you.

[Grinning, she brushes her hair out of her face to see him properly, but stays where she's standing.]

I don't know what I'm doing here. What do you say you fill me in?

Hey.

[Things between them had ended badly, last he checked, and this has the potential to be extremely awkward. Still Ollie can't stop himself from grinning back, she's always had that effect on him. ]

Well, either someone clocked me over the head hard, and you're an incredibly good-looking hallucination. Or, you've just been kidnapped to an alternate reality.

I wouldn't put it past you to hallucinate something like this.

[That stupid stupid grin of his, it gets her every time. And for a moment she can't help thinking that nothing can be too bad if he's here, cheating bastard or no.]

Assuming it is real, what do I need to know?

There are bad guys, and not just your run-of-the-mill pimps and dealers. There's a secret organization or two that are after us because everybody brought here has powers. -- Well, everybody except yours truly.

[He takes a step closer to her. It's ostensibly so that they can actually talk and not yell at each other over the wind across the rooftop, but really it's just because he always tries to be as close as possible to her. It's almost a Pavlovian response.]

You get the rundown about the free housing and dog tags?

[She hooks a finger around the neck of her costume: not quite pulling it enough to see the chain for the tags tucked under there, but enough to indicate that that's where they are.

And she comes away from the edge of the roof so at least they are a normal conversation's distance.]

And I got a new cell-phone. Which would be much more useful if I had pockets in this thing.

[Maybe she should get a utility belt. Or thigh pouches!]

[Please, Ollie would try to talk her out of either. Garter belts are hot in a retro kind of way, utility belts and thigh pouches on the other had? He'd rather she went back to the Olivia Newton John circa Physical look. Not that anything he's ever said on the subject has mattered to her all that much.]

Roy had to explain the cell-phone to me. It was about as embarrassing as it sounds.

[She laughs at the mental image, not least because she just started to wonder how long he managed to go without breaking it or dropping it into the river or throwing it an a thief.

And when she's stopped laughing, she looks up at Oliver, focusing on that important piece of information.]

Roy's here?

Roy's here. So's Connor.

[He can't decide whether or not he's happy that Mia has thus far avoided being pulled into crazy alternate universe land, so he elects to decline comment on that entirely.]

Me and Connor got a place in Williamsburg. Roy's still in the city, as far as I know. You know him, gotta have his independence.

Williamsburg.

[She smirks as she says it. Of course - of course in all the neighborhoods in not-quite New York he could have picked, Oliver would end up in Williamsburg. Where else would he end up?

She notices the absence of Mia as much as the presence of Connor, but for her right now she's happier to hear of another familiar face. No surprise thought that it's Roy living in Manhattan that catches her attention, and she looks out over the city as if it's going to offer her a flash of red.]

He's on his own?

[No Lian? It must be killing him.]

Yeah. Says he's having fun living the bachelor life. [Not that Ollie really believes it. He knows Roy misses Lian, and there's no way he doesn't miss the Outsiders, too, as odd as their whole arrangement was.]

Connor's doing well, though. I think he's even got himself a friend.

[Dinah never has and never really will understand the Outsiders or how their dynamic works. The League was always well defined. And her girls - they're more like family than a team.

But she makes a note to look him up and check on him. No Lian, who know which Titans are here? She'll check on him.

As for Connor...]

A friend or a 'friend?'

[Connor, she's sure, would do well anywhere. He's a force for good in people's lives, but especially Ollie's. However long he's been here, she's glad Connor was here with him. And doubly glad that he's doing well.]

[Ollie smirks and shuffles his feet, the body language is meant to convey a veneer of modest embarrassment but he can't help the smugness that comes through.]

Friend. I'd tell you that emphasis is full of innuendo, but you know Connor better 'an that, and Kate's a nice girl anyhow. She's an activist in the area, and a great shot. She'd be good for him, if you ask me.

[She can't help smiling at him: not for Connor's sake, or this Kate's sake, but at him, Oliver standing there all smug and faux-embarrassed and brimming with pride for his family.]

Another archer?

[Ollie, are you collecting them again?]

[This one was entirely unintentional. Still, she's a fairly alright kid and he collects those lately, too.]

You betcha. Got a hell of an arm on her, too. Anyway, I think they'd be good together, and Connor even says he might like her. He said it in that way he's got where I think even if he understood what I was really asking, he didn't wanna answer. Like I say, you know that kid. He wants everybody else to talk about their feelings, but if you wanna hear about his you're just SOL.

-- Anyway, this is all more than you probably wanna hear right now. You have questions, right, pretty bird? About the City?

[On the contrary, there's nothing she wants more than to hear about family, rather than face the strange reality that is this situation she finds herself in.

Dinah turns her head away from him, looking out over the skyline that's both familiar and not in disconcerting ways.]

Just the one question, really. What is going on?

[It's one thing to stay calm in a new environment, but that's easier when you know why you're here and how to get out of it, or at least a direction to run in or someone to punch. This seems pointless enough to be upsetting.]

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IT'S THAT VERY SPECIAL TIME AGAIN.

Dinah Lance | DC Comics

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sorry for the delay on this. :c

No worries!

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