Villain at Night *Third Book To Hero by Day

Chapter 2 - Back from the dead

"It's so much more fun to be bad"

~ Catlin Snow (Killer Frost)

:Oliver:

Since Mary's death, I'd been going out to fight crime at night a lot more often. It helped me take my mind off of things, and it helped me get out of the apartment.

Since her engagement, my mother has been insufferable. She's always running around with orders and flowers, trying to set up the wedding, which was happening in a couple of months.

And, since the engagement, Chad offered for us to stay over at his apartment. I mean – if we were going to be family (ugh) then we'd have to live under the same roof. His apartment was, to say in the least, much bigger than ours. It was the "penthouse" of our apartment complex. I say that in quotes because, though it was much bigger than ours, it was by no means a penthouse. It was a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment with a full kitchen and living area. The shower actually had two settings instead of just cold, and the furniture was not held together with duct tape and sheer willpower.

When Chad asked us to move in, my mom was reluctant at first. She didn't like to take other peoples' charity, but I guess it didn't count if it came from your fiancé.

I shuddered at the thought. It still bothered me immensely that Chad, my boss, was now my future father-in-law. It made me want to gag.

No, don't get me wrong, he was an okay guy.

Scratch that. I can't even think of anything okay about him right now.

Chad was, to say in the least, a Remedist. He hated supers, not the best quality for the future father-in-law of Washington DC's favorite superhero. He also got my mom to hate on the supers as well. The more time he spent around her, the more I couldn't help but to think he was changing her. They were always out places, and she barely had time to see me anymore (not that she had time before with her job and my school).

You could be thinking I'm just being prejudice because he was going to get married to my mom, but it wasn't just that.

Let's just say that he's one of the suspects for The Obstructer, a mastermind who was out to destroy not only the superheroes, but all supers. The Obstructer was responsible for Captain Impossible's death and responsible for sending Andromeda and her goons after me. He would go to any lengths to see me dead.

Captain Impossible was Daniel Jackson, my old boss. You must've been living under a rock if you hadn't heard all those news stories about him when he died. He had been America's favorite super, and when he died the world found out who he was.

It was what happened after many supers died. Their identities couldn't stay secret for long after they were dead. If I hadn't told them who he was, facial recognition or his fingerprints would've told the police who he was, and, in turn, the media.

Andromeda was a super with telekinesis who was originally hired by The Obstructer to take me out, but lately I figured she had her own agendas in mind. She knew who I was, and who my sidekick and girlfriend were. She had our identities, but something told me she hadn't released them to her boss yet. I had a feeling I would know when he finally sent someone to kill me when I wasn't my alter ego, White Lightning.

Andromeda was also known as Nicole Lee, a fellow student at our school. I should've suspected it earlier. What other kind of person had the connections to enter into America's most prestigious high school in the middle of the year with no questions asked? Even after Agent Argent and Calico had explained how she need to leech others' energy to power her abilities, I couldn't see it. Elise had seen it, but by then it had been too late.