Okay so most of these next 12 entries will be replaced soon. Updated really. Putting them all up at the top instead of scattered throughout my blog serves two functions: gives them priority and easier access for me. Gives them easiest access and just the extra bit of prominence to my reading audience.
National City, DEO and Smallville are on Earth 13. The two versions of earth-based heroes will be Earth's 27 and 42. The legends are Earth-based heroes which means if they weren't on the Waverider anymore, or hadn't joined in the first place, they'd be hereabouts. Or I would put their stories as I write them on a completely separate Earth.
Earth 27:
“Oliver can I take with you for a minute?”
Oliver Queen looked up from his novella to a welcome sight: Quentin Lance standing in his study as if he belonged there. “Of course Quentin, what's up?”
“I know when the three of us are together, you mom me and you you're very chill about it and I appreciate that. But I wanted to know...ARE you okay with it?”
“Mr. Lance, you've been seeing my mom romantically for a year and a half, you've been living with her for the past five months if I had a problem with it you'd have heard about it like way before now. And is this going where I think it's going?”
“I want to propose to her. Why do I feel like I'm rushing things here?”
“You don't.” Oliver answered easily. “You want to know if this is a marriage of convenience, or whether she'll think you're charging in. She won't and you're not. You're direct and plainspoken with the biggest heart and the strongest moral compass of anyone I have ever-known. Be equally unadorned, no fanfare, no parade, just ask.”
“Wow, on the list of things I thought you'd say that is...was nowhere near the top.”
Oliver's face went completely blank for about five seconds. “Wait, were you nervous about what she would say or...about what I would say?”
“Oliver to say we have a complicated history is an understatement. We've had a lot of crap we've had to push through over the years..”
“..And we've had almost as much crap happen to us that we've pushed through together. Our relationship, as myself at least, has been through so many ups and downs I've lost track of when I was looking up. You didn't realize it as t the time, how could you but as the Arrow I saw another side of you. And if I hadn't still been worried how'd you'd feel about it, I would have been warmer. I'm sorry I should have trusted you more. Besides, it meant a lot more than you apparently realize when you admitted to having worked with the Arrow last year. You risked happiness with my mom, and falling from Grace in my eyes, standing up for a masked man in a hood that the entire city thought was a murderer all over again. 'We've been through a lot', is sure as hell an understatement, but I think you're focusing on the wrong part of that expression: we've been through it.”
“Did she already know?” Quentin asked suddenly.
“I hadn't told her yet. It turns out I wasn't that good at hiding from her, she already knew. And something I've been waiting to tell you, since that day on the bridge I think, whether you're with my mom or not...I've always tried to make you proud of me...like I think it would be with a father.”
“So to recap then.” Oliver said in rather a weak voice. Yes, I'm fine with it, and yes, I want you to be a part of the family...of MY family. And I'm very sorry if I ever made you feel otherwise.”
“I...I feel like I should hug you right now.”
“Yeah I'd say it's a hug thing.” Oliver replied, embracing Quentin with affection and joy.
Takes place the eight months between Oliver's wedding to Felicity and the Green Arrow's victory at Genesis Day. And when four years later The Green Arrow holds a press conference to hang up his hood after a decade of protecting the city Quentin Lance-Queen and Moira Queen listen somberly and in private, knowing their son put on that hood and another man is taking it off. Robert Queen died when Oliver was 12. Prior to Lian-Yu Quentin DID see Oliver as a spoiled punk and kept an intentional respectful distance with Oliver after he got back. Growing closer to the Arrow from the undertaking to Rashe than the Quentin and Oliver we knew. I' So Quentin has been a present role model in Oliver's life a lot longer than just since Lian-Yu, but not close to Oliver and Moira until Rashe framed the Arrow for the Mayor's death and all the chaos and the Alpha-Omega virus at the end of season 3.
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