Author's note: This is a green arrow fan fic, based during the blackest night saga.
I used to be nothing but a bastard. A spoiled, trust-fund baby who couldn't pull his head out of a champagne bottle long enough to find out what day it was.
But getting stranded on an island and forced to fight a gang of drug smugglers...it opened my eyes.
I was still a bastard after that, but at least I found a calling... standing up for the defenseless.
I didn't always fight alone. Roy was my first and best Speedy. No wonder he graduated to the Justice League as Red Arrow.
Connor Hawke is my long-lost son. He thinks I never knew about him, but the truth is he wasn't lost. He was abandoned.
I wasn't ready to be a father. I packed my bags the day he was born. Pretty selfish, I know. Hence that part about me being a bastard?
Now, Speedy is a girl. Mia is a spirited creature. Reminds me of myself, only a hell of a lot cuter.
But my best partner...that of course would be Black Canary. Dinah. My wife.
She's been at my side through the best and the worst of times. The best being the day i met her.
The worst being the day i killed my best friend.
Hal Jordan is a space cop--A Green Lantern. But he lost his way, was consumed by evil--transformed into Parallax.
I was saving the world-- being a hero. But it sure didn't feel like it at the time.
Yes, that was the worst day in my life--until today.
