Killer Croc P.O.V.

Harley makes herself comfortable behind the bar, pouring booze like a pro. the others sit by the bar. but I choose to take my poison with me, and went into a stall. "What about her? Dont you whant, cutie?" Harley asks with a grin at Fox, who leaned half asleep against me. I scoff at her and sit down at the worn booth.

I let Fox climb down and lie down on my chest. she curls up to me and put her long tail around herself, like a nest. I put my hand on her head and takes a sip of the burning liquor.

Harley pours a shot to Deadshot. He raises his glass, we follow. "here is to honor among thieves." Katana look hard at Deadshot. "I'm not a thief." she said, leaving us. "She's not a thief." Deadshot says sarcastically.

those at the bar klink glasses, and Deadshot signs with his glass to me. I nod to him in response. "Well, we almost pulled it off. Despite what everybody thought." Deadshot says. I glanced down at the fox and see that she is fast asleep. I drag my hand over her ear to urge them to lie down.

"Worst part of it is, They're going to blame us for the whole thing. And they cant have people knowing the truth. We're the patsies. The cover-up. don't forget, we're the bad guys." "Are you really surprised?" I say under my breath. "for about two sweet seconds. i hade hope." Deadshot continues.

Deadshot looking over at Diablo next to him. "You had hope, huh? Hope you had, huh? Hope do not stop the wheel from turning, my brother." the tattooed man said. "You preaching?" Deadshot says, lifting an eyebrow.

Diablo give Deadshot a smug look. "It's coming back around for you. How many people you killed, man?" he asks straight. Deadshot gives him a hard stare. "You dont ask no question nobody like that, ese." he says and throws back another shot.

Deadshot's hard eyes do not stop Diablo. "You ain't ever whacked down no women. No kids." that explains what happened on the roof, I guess. Deadshot observe Diablo before answering "do not kill the women or childre." He will answer as if it was obvious.

what comes out of Diablo's mouth next, stopping us all in our stride. "I do." I growl low and shift a bit to hold fox closer. "See, I was born with the devils gift. I kept it hidden for most of my life, but. The older I got, the stronger it got." he continues. "So in started using it. For business, you know. The more power on the street I got the more firepower in've got. Like, that shit went hand in hand. You know? One was feeding the other. Aint nobody tell me no. except my old lady. " his mind is now long gone.

"you know, she used to pray for me. even when i didn't want it. I his hand he formed a shape like a woman of fire, with a calm voice he continues. "God did not give me this. Why Should he take it away? See, when i get mad, I lose control. You know I just ... I do not know what I do." He pauses and sets a glass over the fire woman, and like any fire at any time, that flames smothers then it dies. "till its done." Diablo concludes.

Fox had come to life during Diablos speech. "Dude's time that you own what you are." she says and do a cat stretch, she has unwittingly got everyone's attention. Diablo give Fox a hard stare. "What? What I am. how can a little kid like you understand how it is in the hard, cold world." He next scoff at her. I grin because I know what she will say next.

Fox puts her head to the side. "I've killed hundreds, without regret, in not nice ways. that was what I was created for, and trained to do. completely without emotion without hesitation, kill whoever they wanted in the way they wanted. I had not been condemned faulty, I had been a weapon for those who paid the most." fox looking down at her long black claws.

"There was a reason I was in prison too, I have murdered the guilty and innocent alike. And in some cases ..." her voice changes, becomes more dark and menacing, and her eyes shifting from green to bright yellow. "Were the victims my dinner. I'm a monster, just like you." deadly silence follows her last words.

until Harley squeal and throw her arms around Fox. "You are a real little monster, aren't you. If only I could keep you just to myself." she says, rubbing her cheek against the younger girl's.

Deadshot looking at me. "Seriously? I thought that the whole cannibal thing was just a bad rumor." he says, and glances hesitantly toward my innocent-looking fox. I chuckled and shrugged. "You gotta do what you gotta do." I laugh harder at the others (besides Harley) disgusted faces.

"and the kids?" the captain asked. Harley stops cuddle with Fox and looking over at boomerang. "He kill them." Boomerang looks seriously upset to hear the kid's fate. Harley goes to the other side of the bar again and look in Diablo's eyes. "didn't you? Own that shit. Own it! What'd you think was gonna happen? Huh?" Deadshot tries to stop her but she just ignore him and continue.

"what, you were just thinking you can have a happy family and coach little leagues, and make car payments? normals a setting on the dryer. people like us, we dont get normal!"

she says to a shocked Diablo. again interrupted her, but this time by Boomerang. "Why is it always a knife fight every single time you open your mouth?" he asked annoyed. "You know, outside you're amazing. But inside, you're ugly." the last thing he says, he says with a whisper.

Captain Boomerang words affect her not at all. "We all are. We all are! Except for him. He's ugly on the outside, too." she says, nodding at me. I growl at her, maybe if Fox had not been sitting on my stomach, I kick her ass.

"Not me, shorty. I'm beautiful." I say with a grin and do my best hair throw. She grins back at me. "Yeah, you are." Fox can barely hide her giggle. but our fun was interrupted by someone new who walk into the bar. I see who it is and I do a rumbling growl, and fox hiss.

all eyes follow flag when he goes up to the bar and sits down on one of the chairs. "We do not want you here." Harley says bluntly. Flag look around at all of us and after a tense moment he says. "You get to the party in That binds saying i was sleeping with her?" he asks, more targeted to Deadshot. "Yeah. I never been with a witch before. What's that like?" Deadshot asks back, mockingly.

when he does not answer, Deadshot turn to Harley and say. "Apparently, that's why the creatures chase him all the time. Cause the witch is scared of him." Flag looks out into nothing and with tears in his voice, he continues. "The only woman I ever cared about is trapped inside That monster. If I dont stop the witch, its over. Everything is over. Everything."

I sigh. fox turns questioningly at me. I grin and let a hand slide over her pointed ears, down her back reassuring. I hear the sound of something that is being smashed and looking back toward the bar.

"You're free to go." Flag say and smashes the device that activates the bombs and throw it away. Boomerang does not hesitate, but gets up and leaves. Fox and I share a glance. "This witch will become a problem if we do not take care of her now." I whisper to fox. She grins and rubs her head against my cheek. "We would never say no to a fight like this." she smiles so her fangs show.