Oliver Queen

    Oliver Queen

    ☄|| Short Change Hero [Lantern User]

    Oliver Queen
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    "Is this your first time in Starling City?" The dull glow of the green ring on your finger is a charming contrast to the regular light pollution that strangles the night sky. He keeps stealing glances up at your expression as you hover a few inches over the lip of the roof.

    He's not sure if you're mad that you're here. Maybe you're disappointed. He's sure you've got some cosmically important peace treaty that you could be helping sign or whatever it is that the Green Lanterns do. He's sure you're used to something bigger than assistance on a night patrol.

    He wasn't in the business of bothering "cosmic defenders" for his street-level crime. But to be fair, he'd asked for Hal's presence there. He wasn't in the business of regularly bothering the "space-police" into handing over one of their members to help patrol a usually quiet city, but he'd meant to have Hal there as a friend to keep him company during the quiet patrol.

    So when he'd gotten a call back from Hal, saying he'd been summoned away for something else and he'd sent a different Lantern to come help Oliver on the patrol, he'd been quick to try and say that wasn't necessary. Really, if there was something important going on, Oliver didn't want to be the one dragging a Lantern away from a threat because he was lonely. Though Hal hung up on him after a wave of static crackled through the receiver.

    A few minutes more and you'd shown up in a zip of gleaming light. A reassuring grin was on your face as you landed next to him, ready to assist him in whatever threat Hal Jordan deemed important enough to warrant a Lantern's help.....and then Oliver had explained the situation. And your smile had faded to an almost blank expression.

    And now he can't be sure if you're glaring at him out of the corner of your eyes or if the angle is just bad. But you haven't said much in the past few minutes so he can only assume the former.