Lauriver Chronicles

Chapter 101

Little change, I'm once again changing the actor who plays Batman, since in all honesty, there's only one actor who truly deserves the honor and that is Tom Cruise. The only man who's as crazy as Bruce Wayne is. Tom Cruise.

And here are a few more casting changes I've decided to make in light of that choice:

Selina Kyle/Catwoman will now be played by Natalie Portman.

Oliver gasped as he came too to find Spartan, Katana and Arsenal lifting a piece of rubble off his chest. The only thing keeping it from crushing him was a piece of metal wedged between it and the ground beneath Green Arrow.

"Oliver, thank God you're alive." Spartan said as they finished digging him out and he and Arsenal propped him up.

"Nearly wasn't." Green Arrow coughed as he still struggled to catch his breath as Red Arrow smacked him.

"Don't ever scare me like that again." she told her brother before hugging him.

"I'm sorry Speedy." Green Arrow said.

"I need you alive to be my man of honor at my wedding, so don't get yourself killed again. I lived through that once and I can't do it again. Not to mention Laurel deserves to go through a pregnancy with you in the picture." Red Arrow said.

"I didn't plan on getting myself blown up. But where's Tommy? Did you find his body?" Green Arrow asked, changing the topic.

"No sign of it. The only heat signature my visor picked up in these ruins was yours. If Tommy was in here, he got away, since there isn't enough debris for his body to be buried too far down to be recovered." Spartan said and Green Arrow sighed.

"What about his lackeys?" Green Arrow asked.

"All of them are out, taking a nap until Argus arrives to take them into custody. I get the feeling that they'll be joining one Slade Wilson in Supermax." Huntress said.

"Good." Oliver said before he noticed his girls just standing there, not sure how to feel and wondering how they should react to this. Seeing the man who'd become their father basically come back from the dead.

"Artemis, Yolanda." Oliver said as he limped over to them.

"Careful dad." Wildcat said as she and Silver Arrow rushed to support their father.

"Are you two okay?" Oliver asked.

"Shouldn't we be asking you that, since a room did fall on top of you." Silver Arrow asked as they helped him sit down before Wildcat hugged him tightly.

"Don't scare me like that again. I finally have a family and I don't want to lose them. I know what I signed up for, but I didn't realize it would mean losing the only father I have left, right in front of me." Wildcat said, her eyes tearing up and Green Arrow immediately knew that that Yolanda was going to need to hang up her cowl for awhile after his and also find a therapist for her, since Thea wouldn't have her license for at least another year and he wasn't a lawyer, but he was pretty sure that letting her be the therapist to her niece was a conflict of interest. But he'd have to ask Bruce if he had a therapist he could trust to help his girls.

"I can't promise you that I won't scare you like that again Yolanda. But I promise you'll always have family to take care of you. You'll never be on your own again." Green Arrow promised, though still wondering how he'd be able to make this up to her.

Tommy Merlyn was currently sitting in an alley, barely clinging to life, wondering how he'd come to this. Oliver had been his best friend once. How had he become his worst enemy? Since honestly, after getting his ass kicked so many times, he was beginning to wonder if it was really just because of a girl. Laurel wasn't an item to be stolen or taken. She was a human being.

God, the more he thought about it, the more he realized what an asshole he'd been. And the more he thought about it, the more he realized the truth about how he'd gotten where he was. His father. Malcolm had been manipulating Tommy for as long as he could remember. He'd used Tommy's grief over his mother's death and his jealousy over Oliver and Laurel dating at the time and used it to light a fire of anger under his ass and turn him into something like him. A murderer with no conscience.

And now he'd lost everything because of that. Both of his best friends hated him, there was a warrant for his arrest and he didn't have a penny to his name. He'd lost everything because he'd let his father turn him into this.

"Tommy Merlyn." a new voice said and Tommy looked up to see an asian man wearing black gear that Tommy recognized as League of Assassins wear from what his father used to wear.

"If you're here to kill me, do it. You'll be doing me a favor." Tommy said.

"No. I'm here because my master believes that you are worthy of being offered a chance at redemption. Ra's al Ghul has seen your potential and believes you deserve a chance to put it to better use than a foolish vendetta." the man said.

"Who are you?" Tommy asked.

"I am Sarab. And you have a chance to become something far greater than you are now. A chance to move forward." Sarab said.

"I accept." Tommy said, thinking this could be exactly what he needed right now. A chance to start fresh.