Eighteenth shot at a hot date // Locked to Lois Lane // And backdated a tad

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

[Roy would be pretty visible, halfway to the back at that table for two, even if he hadn't just stood up when Lois walked in. He's made a command decision to just roll with the surreality for the night, which is why he's giving in to the mischievous impulse to act like a gentleman - or at least act like Ollie - and pull out her chair.]

Evening. Find the place okay?

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[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

[Victory! An easy grin.] All the masks in my crowd did one eventually. [Glances at the menu, nonchalant.]

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

So how big was this 'crowd' exactly?

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I was... part of what you might call the second wave, of caped and cowled crusaders for [handwave] justice, and all that. We started early, usually under a mentor, but all eventually broke out on our own.

How much backstory do you really wanna know? A lot of this is gonna be in your future, time-wise.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

Good point. [It's hard to... keep that in mind.] Let's stick to what's relevant to you.

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

[Pauses to order, which interlude only makes it easier for him to shoot straight.]

My mentor was Green Arrow.

I'm sure this comes as a shock.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

I guess it's a little hard to imagine him... doing the sidekick thing.

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

Think of it as an extension of his ego and maybe you'll have better luck. You met any of the Robins?

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

No. Who's she supposed to be? [Look, Robin's a feminine name. Don't blame her. :|] ... Ollie's other 'ego extenders'?

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[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

[Snerk.] No, they follow around the Batman. Assuming here you have one of those. I was good friends with the first one way back in the day.

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

Wait.


How do you know Ollie?

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

[OH GREAT, GOD, WAY TO GO LANE. Knowing whose secret identities are secret here and which ones aren't is a frigging nightmare in this place. Oh well, at this was harmless enough, since... he's gotta know already, and knowing that she knows isn't really betraying any confidence.]

I've heard people mentioning him here, but I can't say I know anybody brave enough back home to dress up like a giant bat and walk the streets.





We go back.

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

Hunh.

Wellll, that is a difference, another one I mean, from our home and yours. He never mentioned - I mean to say, my Ollie never mentioned you to me.

[Pause.]

He's a pretty different guy, though. All things considered. I first met the Ollie I know when he wasn't much older than the one here is now... completely different. Right off the bat.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

Oliver told me there was... another one of him here for awhile. Was that the one you're talking about?

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

That's the one. Showed up from my future, even, so don't think I have no sympathy for the rest of you.

The guy raised me from adolescence, more or less. [Echoing her a bit.] We go back.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

So that's how you got into this whole... hero shtick?

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

[Pause. Hmm.]

Yeahhh, that's how it started. I was as good as him with a bow - better, in some ways. He ended up adopting me and I joined up with a group of - ahh - those other second-wavers.

Called ourselves the Teen Titans. You'll hear that name again. There ended up being a lot of us.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing a few of those are some of the other heroes zipping around this place?

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

Good guess. Superboy's part of the latest wave - him and the second Wonder Girl and them. Hell, probably the second Speedy, too.

Not the latest Robin, though. So far's I know.

[Short sigh.] Anyway.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

So you have friends here at least. Or something like that.

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

... I have people who I used to know.

When I first got back there were more - old friends, good friends. Titans I'd known from day one. Then I actually stayed awhile and the castle started bringing in family. My Ollie. His Dinah. Speedy mark two. [Flinch.] My daughter.

Now they're all gone.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

Maybe they'll draw your card to go home next.

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

[Snort.] Miz Lane, one thing I do know about all the people who've been around as long as I have.

None of us count on that.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

[She tries not to think about what that says for Clark. :| ]

Then maybe you'll get pleasantly surprised.

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well. Historically that's not a huge part of the story of my life.

Unlike some people at this table I could name.

[loisfuckinglane.livejournal.com]

Meaning the fact that I've been here before and got my golden ticket out, or just in general?