The Hero In the Dark

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Olivia rolled her eyes at her beeping phone. She rolled over in the bed and looked at the messages. Most from Tommy and a few from her parents."I've got to go."

"Queen family drama?"he asked as he propped himself up with his arm.

"As always." Olivia gave him a quick kiss before getting out of the bed. Gathering her things and slipping on her shoes. She ran to the next neighbourhood and finding the path to her house as she walked up to the two story building memories flashed before her. New ones of her and Tommy playing with a boy. Robert. Their little brother. Olivia ran up the steps and opened the door. She saw her parents there in the living room with Tommy.

"Hi guys."

"You get back to your original-time and you don't come home right away? You know you two were sitting at breakfast this morning one minute and then the next you where gone." Olivia smiled at her mother. Her hair blond and pulled into a messy ponytail. Her glasses sat on the bridge of her nose perfect as ever. Oliver stood in his dress pants and blue button up shirt hands on his hips.

"I went to see the boy I loved who had died in my original timeline. He's alive and well Thank you. But Tommy came straight home. I didn't think much of it."

"Okay. That's okay." Felicity walked over to her daughter wrapping her arms around her. "We were just worried."

"I mean this time line is perfect. What is there to worry about?"

"A lot. The Legends came by. Warning us about a man, he wants to take over all of the super hero's." Olivier crossed his arms.

"Here or-"

"Everywhere." Tommy said." So Uncle Barry's team, our's the Legands all of them."

"Can we seriously not just have a quiet day? A week maybe? What's his name?"

"They said he call himself Serpent." Felicity said taking out her tablet.

"Let me guess he's a ghost, no one has seen or heard of him before." Felicity nodded her head."Okay, we'll then we don't have to worry about it." Olivia stood and started making her way to her room.

"Liv-This is serious." Tommy started to follow her.

"Not to me. I'll help dad if he needs it. But...Tommy, here I'm normal. My secret is safe. And my boyfriend is alive. We even have a little brother. It's perfect here for so long before it wasn't. And the only reason I ever bugged dad about finally becoming a hero was that Sean had died and you were missing. I'm not risking losing it all again. I can't." Olivia ran to her room. Shutting the door behind her. Putting her back to the door she slid down.

Major changes in her timeline appeared in her mind. Like the people who weren't there. Robert. A male version of her mother and it could make her smile with her relationship with him. And of course Sean. The boy she remembered dying. A boy she had killed for. But there were still blank spaces.

She got up and went to her closet. She split the hanging clothes and found the slight outline of a one by one square she pressed it and space opened. Inside was her fighting gear. She let out a breath of frustration then closed it. She closed it and ran to her dresser. She found her journal. She opened it to the date she never wanted to know before.

The day Sean originally died. She skimmed the page to see the same events passed that morning. But the person who went to the car wasn't Sean. It was Archer. Haylie's boyfriend. He was mugged and she couldn't save him in time. This time it wash Haylie who got hurt and got left alone with a child. Their child.

"What's the announcement?"Sean asked.

"I can't tell you."Olivia smiled.

"Yes, you can. I'll just act surprised. What did they run off to Vegas with fake ID's and get married?"Olivia shook her head as she smiled."They're taking us on a cruise for couples?"Olivia laughed."Is Haily pregnant?"Sean watched as Olivia's laugh stopped and she just looked up at him."No way." Olivia covered her face with her hands upset she couldn't hide her emotions around him.

"Yes, way. That's what happens when you get drunk together on your birthday and you hopelessly in love."

"Me an uncle and you an aunt. That's gonna be crazy."

"You have to act surprised." Olivia watched as he smiled at her.

"Liv?" Olivia looked up at Robert's face."You okay?"

"Yeah..."She stood looking at her brother. A little mad that he had walked into her room, but happy that he was worried about her. He's a softy."Why?"

"Because I could hear everything. This family is anything but subtle in their own house."

"You've got that right kid."Robert held up Olivia's car keys."I swiped them from dad. He still doesn't know. If I were you I'd leave fast." Olivia kissed her little brother's head.

"You, kid, are the best and I love you."

"Just tell Haylie and Sean I said hi."Olivia escaped her room through the window and ran to her jeep. She drove off going in the direction of Haylie's house. When she pulled into the driveway she messaged Sean to come to. It wasn't long before Mr. Jenkins, Haylie's father answered the door. She said her hello's then made her way to her best friends room.

"Hey girl-"

"I have to tell you something." Olivia walked over to the crib and looked down at her nephew Max. At least that didn't change. He's still the same 3month old that he was when she left."You're not going to believe me."

"You're my best friend. I've known you since we were kids. I'll always believe you." Olivia turned to her best friend. She wasn't quit sure this time if that was true. She has never told her about her powers. In either timeline. It was weird hiding it from her and there were a few close calls but she just never knew how to say it. In there first time line, things happened. And in the new one, things happened to Haylie. There was never a good time.

"Hay, I'm not,..I'm..."

"Oh My God-you're pregnant."

"No! No I'm not. Look I just don't want you to hate me. But.." Actions spoke louder than words. Olivia made herself invisible. Haylie jumped clearly freaked out. Olivia reappeared then created her force field around herself.

"Holy Shit!" Haylie covered her mouth and glanced in the crib hoping not to wake her finally sleeping child. He moved a bit but was still asleep."What the hell?!" She whisper yelled.

"That second particle accelerator in Central City a couple years ago, yeah I was there. Tommy and I are both...Meta humans." Olivia sat Haylie down on her bed. Explaining her powers and how she got them. Mostly being the fact she was an uber nerd back then she already knew and Haylie remembers her talking about the second accelerator.

"But why tell me now?"

"We have to wait, for Sean."

"Sean doesn't know?" As said the girls waited for Sean. She found herself more scared telling him then anyone else. Even though she already knows his views on Metas. All of witch good. A similar reaction as Haylie's but with a bonus couple seconds of flirting thrown in.

Once done explaining her powers, again, she knew she had to tell them the truth. Explaining time travel and her original time line wasn't going to be easy. Especially since the new time line left Max, without his father.