"What happened to you and the blonde clown?" Chato asked her when the two had fallen into step with each other. "Had a fight over who gets to wear what lipstick?"

Lin shook her head with a tight grin on her face. "She wants to leave Jay, and me, if I don't leave him." Her emotions were pressing, suffocating her and strangling her insides. Lin could feel one of her attacks, or episodes, starting to build up but she forced herself to somehow push all of those damaging emotions down and instead focus on the memories she had of Joker. She had been so blind for so long about how Harley's attitude had changed towards them and now she was paying the price. "I should have seen it coming, my cards warned me about this but I didn't listen."

"Your cards" The man wielding fire repeated with a sceptical frown on his face. "I don't understand why you thought it would be a good idea to be in a relationship with two people at once. Especially since Joker hates Harley but she's obsessed with him" He swiped his hand out in the air and gave her a pointed look.

Lin sighed and looked down at the ground. "I was recovering back then, Harley was our toy" She smiled as she reminisced about the past. "I don't know when, or if, I fell in love with her, all I knew was that I was too attached to let her go." The dark-haired woman kicked a rock on the ground in anger. "It was always Jay and I, never Harley, Jay and I. I know that now, and it's not fair of me to keep her trapped where she doesn't belong. That's why I'm letting her go"

"What are you two chatting about?" Harley's peppy voice asked and an arm was slung around Lin's waist, which made her tense up and force a smile on her lips. It was a bittersweet feeling; she liked having her girlfriend's arms around her but at the same time she knew she had to let her go.

"Cookies" Lin responded quickly and shot Chato a look. "We were talking about cookies, and now we're done. Let's go catch up with Floyd", she continued and walked briskly past the two other people staring after her with confusion in their eyes.

Lin stared right ahead as she strode away from the two others, her head spinning and heart thrumming in her chest. She touched the tattoo that was inked there, a heart with a joker and a rose inside of it. Lin had gotten it a few months into their relationship, right after he got a similar one. She smiled softly as she thought about her lover, and longing struck her heart-- longing for his embrace, his growls, laughs, his everything. Up ahead she could hear Floyd and Flag arguing about seemingly nothing and yet everything at the same time.

"Take a knee" She heard the soldier say when a big building came into view that Flag deemed important. When he saw the look Deadshot gave him he pointed at the top and said: "The body is at the top of that building. Get up there..."

Lin zoned out of the rest of the information the man gave. She was stuck in her head, replaying old memories like it was a movie. The woman walked ahead of the rest, needing the silence to clear her head, and to be away from Harley who was one of her biggest problems at the moment. Lin wasn't sure where they stood yet and she doubted that Harley knew that Lin knew what she planned to do. Now she wasn't even sure if Joker would be willing to take Harley with them when he came to rescue her, she wasn't sure if she wanted him to take Harley with them. Did she want to stay around a woman who clearly didn't want to be with her? Her love for Harley wasn't nearly enough to overshadow or even cast a shadow on her love for the green-headed maniac.

"Lin stay in line!" She heard Flag

"You wish" Lin screamed back at him, not even caring about him being able to blow her head up with a single tap of his finger on a screen. The tower had something burning or glowing at the top that she suspected was where the helicopter was going to land, if there was going to be one.

She heard Harley giggle at her words but the sound no longer brought the same feelings they used to, they hadn't for awhile now. Maybe she too had been losing feelings for Harley and was being a hypocrite when she condemned Harley for distancing herself and wanting to leave.

Lin stopped walking when she reached the entrance and squatted down to wait comfortably until the rest of the suicide squad arrived at the scene. "Slowpokes" She mocked them and grinned, winking at Chato and sneering at Flag. "Kept me waiting long enough, let's go already!"

"Lin don't you dare" Flag warned her with a harsh scowl on his face and a burning glare. "I said don't! Remember that I can blow your head off if I need to? Yeah this counts" He growled at her when she didn't stop, making her come to a screeching halt with one foot ready to press down on the broken stairs leading up to their building.

She stomped back down, muttering a 'fine' with a pout until she wrapped her arm around Chato's. "He's such a buzzkill" Lin whined to him and blew Flag a raspberry when he snapped his head around to glare at her, his hand twitching at his side.

Lin stared as Deadshot marched up to Flag, leaned down and said something that she couldn't hear before he walked up the stairs and entered the building. She scoffed when he didn't get threatened like she did when she wanted to do it, probably because Flag feared Deadshot more than he did her, but still. She released Chato and rushed up the stairs, past Flag and up to where Deadshot was walking, ignoring the looks the squad sent her.

"Mind if we tag along?" Flag asked Deadshot with a bite to his words. The criminal didn't answer, instead he continued scouting the building for any more of the weird monsters they had just defeated.

Lin stared at the empty hallway of what probably used to be a busy place full of people rushing to and from work. Papers laid scattered on the floor, probably having been thrown there when the building was evacuated, or by the wind that rushed through the broken windows. All she could hear was the sound of their heavy footsteps and some of the squad's heavy breathing that would have revealed their position if anyone was to be stalking them. Deadshot and Flag took the lead, much to her dismay, and would even go as far as walking faster to get ahead of her if she decided to get ahead of them. The two men stared at the screens showing the live-footage from the various cameras around them, but saw nothing of interest.

"Looks like we have a spot of luck, eh?" Boomerang joked, his accent standing out from the rest of the mainly american ones. " Be a walk in the park. Easy peasy", he continued even after seeing the look Deadshot gave him, showing that he was not appreciating the other man's comments.

Lin stifled a laugh but grew somber when she saw how Harley tried desperately to catch her eye. It's better this way, Lin thought, to both her and me.

"Don't make me shoot you" Deadshot seriously told the joking Australian and frowned when he heard the chuckling from the threatened man.

The group moved on from the lobby and up another set of stairs when they heard the pling of a nearby elevator. Lin's eyes snapped up and widened in surprise when she saw Harley's pale face grin down at her before winking and biting her lower lip. The woman growled in anger, Harley had left her behind... again. The situation was all too familiar and it made anger bubble up inside of her. Memories of all the times Harley had left Jay and her behind played in her head-- and add on the fact that now she wasn't even sure where Harley's loyalties was.

"That your idea?" Deadshot taunted her. "But she left you behind"

"That wasn't my idea. She acted on her own, don't mix me in with her bullshit" Lin shot back and pushed Deadshot's chest to make him move out of her way. "Now get out of my face before I give you a free plastic surgery"

"She told me that you've been having trouble in paradise" He said and raised his hands. "Don't shoot the messenger. Not my fault you two freaks scared her off"

Lin grinned mockingly at him before brandishing one of her knives she had brought for the mission. "I'm this close to fixing that ugly mug of yours. My troubles are none of your business, and for your information we didn't scare her off. Harley was never cut out for our life but her obsession with Joker and I kept her there."

"So you played her" He stated with knowing, but angry, eyes.

"So I played her for my own benefit" Lin rolled her eyes, her heart at war with itself: one part knew that what she said was true and the other said that there had been at least some genuine feelings on her part. "Now can you move or do I need to tell you more of my so called 'trouble in paradise'?"

"Why? You looking to share?" Deadshot grinned but moved out of the way when Lin shot him another death glare and swung her knife at him. "Fine, fine, I'm sorry I asked."

"Let's just get this over with" She growled and rushed up the stairs, feeling the phone vibrate in her pocket. Her hands twitched with the need to see what Joker had sent her and a wide smile, one that she hadn't had on her face since the day she was taken grew on her face.

The group, excluding Harley, waited outside of the top floor that the elevator would stop on. Flag, Killer Croc and Deadshot stood in the front while Lin stayed a bit back so she could look at the message.

'I'm almost there', it said and she had to slap a hand over her mouth to suppress a ecstatic giggle from flying out of her mouth.

'Good. You've kept me waiting long enough :)', she texted back before shoving the phone back in her pocket before any of her team-members noticed anything. Lin's smile was still present on her face and her heart beat faster at the thought of her reuniting with Jay.

"Hey guys" Harley stepped out of the elevator and walked past all of the stunned squad members. Lin thought the woman would have bolted as soon as she got a chance to so it surprised her to see Harley still there and staring at them confused. "Come on. Let's go" Harley said as if it was obvious.

Lin scoffed and bumped her shoulder against Harley when she pushed past the other woman. "You abandoned me. Again", she whispered in the other woman's ear just before she got out of hearing range. The threat was unspoken but Harley heard it loud and clear.

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"Flag this is such bullshit" Lin told the man when they walked in the broken room. Her hands shook with anticipation of the fight she could feel coming. "I bet 20 bucks it's Amanda we're saving"

"Shut up" He barked at her and then heard something. "Hold", he called out to them and raised a closed fist.

"I don't like this, Flag" Deadshot commented and Lin shot Flag a look as if 'I told you so'.

"See even Deadshot agrees with me" Lin snarked back at the 'leader' of their squad with a bitter grin on her face. "If no one says anything in the next two seconds you're all in on the bet. Only you're betting against me and I'm going to be a lot richer afterwards."

"I don't like it either" Was Flag's response to Deadshot, ignoring everything that Lin had said.

Deadshot reached down and then pulled on his white mask, making Harley smirk and roll her eyes. "Pussy" She told the man who never misses, hands on her bat and eyes staring at Lin, who in turn was looking out a window.

"I will knock your ass out. I do not care that you're a girl" Deadshot told the pale woman and fixed the extra features on his mask, a light ringing filled the tense air.

Lin turned back to the group when she heard the multitude of voices grumbling and speaking in a language she had never heard before. She recognised it from how the black blops of misery spoke earlier before she killed them in various ways. "Great. Those fuckers are back. Though the moon did tell me-"

"No one cares, Lin" Deadshot interrupted her, making Lin snarl at him and take a threatening step towards him just before the used-to-be-humans fell through the roof and started attacking them with savage groans, snarls and barks.

Gunfire filled the room, and flashes of bright light from the guns and exploding lights lit up the otherwise dark room. Lin cursed and pulled out her gun before firing at the blob closest to her. It rushed at her with its arms outstretched as if ready to grab her, but it fell to the ground after two shots to the head that she delivered without flinching. Lin reloaded her gun and kept shooting at every blob she could see that was running. Shooting one, two, three and then getting pushed to the ground by one that had sneaked up at her. They fell to the floor and her gun was forced from her hand by the weight that settled on it. The monster growled at her and clicked in that strange language before raising a shining, grey knife in the air. Lin stared at it with a hint of fear in her eyes before she slowly let her hand grab the knife she had strapped to her left thigh before pulling it out of its binds. She shifted her grip on it, all the while keeping a close eye on the blob that was just about to stab her in the face when she rolled to the side and forced her knife into the head of the blob underneath her. It flinched and struggled for a few seconds before Lin slashed the head open from within and dragged out the knife. It died with a faint screech and a 'mom'.

"Lin" A masculine voice called out to her and she saw that the squad had formed some kind of a circle around Flag, probably because he had almost gotten himself kidnapped by the blobs again.

She rushed towards them, shooting a few blobs coming their way and then placed herself besides Deadshot and Killer Croc. Lin reloaded her gun again and pulled out the other one, raising both of them before shooting wildly at their enemies, missing some and killing others.

"Let me fight!" Flag protested and pushed at them.

"You die, we die" Deadshot barked back as the group formed a tighter circle around the man that was their only chance at getting out of it alive. Lin snickered and shot one blob that was running at one of Flag's men that had yet to see the creature about to end his existence. The man nodded his thanks but Lin had already moved on.

"Everyone move out" Flag called out once all of the blobs were dead.