Title- The Daughter of Justice
Author- pinkchik08
I do not own Smallville, DC Comics, Green Arrow, Connor Hawke, Black Canary,Gotham, ect. I do own Dinah O though.
- Black Canary and Green Arrow. Aka, Dinah Lance and Oliver Queen, were happily engaged. But when Dinah catches Ollie cheating on her, she leaves him, not bothering to inform him that she's expecting a daughter, more specifically, HIS daughter. Now when the new Dinah Lance is thrown back in time to the original League to save her mother, the truth just might be revealed. Mixed things from Smallville and the comics.
In the afternoon, the streets of Gotham are very busy. But the rush went by unnoticed by one young girl. A girl of about 16 yrs old was running through the city, dodging to the side to avoid pedestrians. She made a quick right into one of the taller buildings in the city. As she moved through the lobby, she was met by the talking and ringing phones that always came with the Gotham wing of the Daily Planet.
Taking an elevator up to the 6th floor, she stepped out to see the ON AIR sign for the studio lit up, so she sat down in one of the chairs and waited.
"Hey D.O, you're here early."
The girl turned to see a man older than her, and at the same time still young, walking down the hallway.
"Jeremy, would you please not call me that. My name is Dinah. Dinah O if your on a first name basis with my mother, which you're not."
Jeremy smirked and leaned against the wall. " Well Dinah O, when I'm the biggest radio host in Gotham, you'll want to have a nickname from me."
"Jeremy, you fetch my mom coffee and do her paperwork when she doesn't feel like it." Dinah O said. "In fact, shouldn't you be getting my moms coffee order right now? I'll put a good word in for you if you get me a chocolate mocha latte with whipped cream mixed in and a glazed doughnut."
"You do know how much sugar is in those things, right?"
"I don't care, I'm still a teenager."
With a huff. Jeremy walked away, down the hall, to get the orders for both of the women. Dinah O smiled to herself. " I love being the daughter of 'The Word of Justice'."
With nothing to do, Dinah O took out her laptop and began to do her school homework. Jeremy came back with her coffee and left again. About 10 min. later, the On Air sign, blinked off.
"Hi sweetie." Dinah O heard. She looked up to see her mom exit the studio.
" Hey Mom, you done?"
"Yep, the Word of Justice is retiring for today. What do you say we go home, order pizza, and rent a movie for tonight? That sounds like a fun way to spend a Friday night."
"Sure Mom." The two left the building and chatted as they walked home. Walking the streets, Dinah O looked up at her mom in admiration. 'I have the coolest mom.' she thought. It's something most people would think, since her mom was Dinah Lance, the Word of Justice, and when she took of the wig and put on some makeup, her mom was the second Black Canary.
"So," Ms Lance said to her daughter. " Why did you get back from school earlier than usual? Normally you're running in just as I get out of the studio."
"Well, I was really excited to tell you about this new school program. The teachers decided to increase are appreciation for sports other than baseball and football ans the ones you here about all the time. So, we're going to begin less known sports, like bad-mitten, horseback riding, and canoeing. We'll get to take field trips to different places so we can play, and each activity is 2 weeks so I get to do them all.
"Sounds fun, I've never heard of your school doing something like that before, but I think knowledge in more sports would be good for you, and after all, you'll want to be constantly exercising if you're going to be out on the streets in the night, fighting crime."
Dinah O. smiled at her mother's comment, partly because it was funny, and partly because it made her proud she was a soon to be super hero. " Arn't mothers supposed to be protective? And not send her child on life-threatening missions." Ms Lance responded by throwing a napkin at her.
"You're my daughter Dinah. I know you're ready for this." Silence fell after those words. After a few moments, Dinah O. decided to speak again.
" You know, I only told you of a couple of the sports we'll play. I'm really excited for archery."
At the last word, Dinah's mother froze. She looked over at her daughter, and for some reason Dinah O. didn't know, grief was on her face." Archery, you say?"
" Yeah" Dinah O. said tentatively.
Ms Lance seemed to be thinking some things over. When she finally looked at Dinah O. again, she said one simple word, "No."
" What, 'no', but why not? Archery is great for aim, and I really wanted to do it." Dinah O. asked.
" I just don't want you doing it. Archery is dangerous and I won't let there be a chance of you getting hurt. I'm sorry, but you can do everything else. Who paid to get the school archery courses anyway?"
Dinah O. observed her mother, whose mood had changed so rapidly."Bruce Wayne." she said.
Ms Lance looked furious. They arrived at their apartment and Ms Lance immediately went to her room. Dinah went to the living room.
Nearly a hour later, Dinah ventured to her mom's room. She was about to knock when she heard a soft sound coming from the room. Quietly, she opened her door just a crack. Ms Lance was sitting on the edge of her bed, holding a thin green stick in her hands. Dinah realized it was an arrow. 'What's mom doing with an arrow?' she thought. Suddenly. Dinah realized with shock her mom was crying.'What is going on here?' Silently, Dinah backed out of the room. She was back in the living room when her cell phone rang. Dinah was relieved for a distraction. She hastily picked up the phone. "Hello"
"Hey Dinah O."
Dinah's face lit up. "Connor."
"Hey, girl whats up?"
"Mom's being kinda weird. You?"
"I'm in Gotham and I wanted to know if you wanted to meet up."
"Actually Connor," Dinah O walked over to the window and opened it up, " Do you think you could meet me on the roof of my apartment building?" she jumped onto the fire escape.
"Sure, when?"
"Right now, I have something I really need to talk about with you."
"Alright, I'll be there in just a minute." Connor hung up the phone. Dinah started climbing up the escape, occasionally jumping from platform to platform, till she finally reached the top. Seeing Connor wasn't there yet, she walked to the edge of the building. Forty floors below her, cars were rushing through the streets and pedestrians were pushing past each other on the sidewalk. Sitting on the edge, she waited. Only about a minute later, she heard something land behind her.
"Connor Hawke." she said with a smile, facing the newcomer.
"Dinah Olivia Lance, the 3rd." he replied. With a laugh she embraced him.
" You do realize it doesn't work with my middle name, since Mom's Dinah Laurel and Grandma's Dinah Who-Knows-What."
" Well I'm not positive, but you're the third to be Dinah Lance, and you'll be the 3rd Black Canary." Connor told her.
The two teenagers sat on the edge of the building catching up.
" Her Connor, why are you in Gotham anyway? Shouldn't you be in Star city, protecting them as the Green Arrow?" Dinah O asked after a bit.
"What, you don't want me around?" he joked.
Dinah O shoved him lightly. " You know your like my cousin. But you have hero business to take care of in Star City, so I was just wondering what's up."
Connor smiled at her. " A couple of heroes were visiting in the city, so Green Arrow decided to take a little break and visit his favorite Lance. Good thing to, since you seem to of needed me. Why'd you ask me to meet you up here anyway?"
Dinah O. sighed."It's my mom. For some reason, she doesn't want me taking archery. She got really mad, but an hour later, I found her in her room, holding an arrow."
"Interesting."
"That's what I thought. But the arrow was green. You, Connor, are the Green Arrow. Did you ever give her an arrow or something?"
Connor shook his head. "No I never gave her any arrow. But I don't see what the big deal is, she might of just picked it up from a battle, and it's just an arrow, why is it so important?"
Dinah O. met eyes with her companion. " Connor, she was crying. I know it doesn't sound so amazing, but I have never, EVER seen my mother cry."
Connor looked thoughtfully in the distance. It was true, Ms Lance did not cry often. "Dinah," he said "your mother was the Black Canary."
" Yeah I know." a confused Dinah O. replied. "For the League. So was my grandmother, for the Justice Society. And I'm going to be the Black Canary soon since I inherited the Canary Cry. What's that got to do with anything?"
"If your mother was the Canary, she most likely never let herself cry. Maybe that's catching up with her now?"
"Alright, but how does that explain the arrow? Especially when she told me an hour earlier I was forbidden to do archery."
"What do you know about the original league?"
This question confused Dinah even more." It was my mom, Uncle AC was Aquaman, Uncle Bart was the Flash, Uncle Victor was Cyborg, Aunt Chloe and Aunt Tess both were Watchtower , Uncle Clark was, and..." she trailed off.
"The original Green Arrow." Connor finished for her.
"Why do I have the feeling you know what's with my mother?" Dinah questioned.
" Cause I do. Now Dad, the original Green Arrow, but he would be known as Oliver to you, never told me much about it, but I had gathered from his friends, he and your mom were really close, but they had a huge fight. Maybe your mom doesn't want you to do archery, because apparently, she hates him a LOT."
"Well, I suppose that makes sense. But what did they fight over?"
Connor was silent for a moment. Finally he spoke."It was about your father." Dinah was silent. No noise came from the two for a long time, until they heard an alarm go off somewhere below, and Dinah quickly stood.
"Well, I guess that's our signal. Let's get there before the police have all our fun."
"Dinah are you sure? I mean, your not technically a hero yet, your only seventeen, what if you got hurt?"
"Green Arrow," she addressed him, " I am the third in a line of Black Canary's, I've been trained by nearly every super hero on the League, I have the Canary Cry, you really think I can't kick a couple of loser's asses? Just try and keep up."
Meanwhile, with the older Dinah/Black Canary (A/N- I'm going to call her Dinah Laurel at points)
Dinah Laurel Lance wasn't easily upset. Especially not by her daughter. But archery was always a touchy subject for her. When Dinah first had her child, she decided she would do everything to keep her daughter from becoming anything like her father. After she left Dinah O, she made her way to her room and found the arrow. It was years old, but she still kept it. As she sat on her bed, she tears began to stream down her face, as the memories that came with the arrow made their way to her thoughts. She wasn't sure how long she sat there, she was only brought back to reality when she heard the window open in the living room. The sound was followed by a slight thud. She knew her daughter had left the apartment, but she wasn't alarmed. When Dinah O had been born, Dinah Laurel's teammates, at least the ones who knew about Dinah O, had looked after the child like uncle's and aunt's and trained her well. The child was more than capable of taking care of herself. Dinah Laurel gave her daughter enough time to get out of earshot before walking into the living room, picking up the, phone and dialing.
"Hello" a voice picked up.
"Bart." Dinah said. " Do you think you can make it to my apartment, from..." a rush of wind pushed a few papers from the table and Dinah Laurel looked up to see Bart Allan in the room. She put down the phone and embraced her friend. "Thanks for coming so fast."
"Eh, no problem. Anything for my favorite girl." Bart replied. Dinah smiled at his remarks.
"Favorite girl?"
"Second only to your daughter. Speaking of Dinah O, where is my little niece."
"Out on the fire escape, or the roof more likely. I actually wanted to talk to you about her."
Bart could tell Dinah she was serious." What's wrong?"
"Gotham's favorite billionaire has just donated money to Dinah's school to get courses in things like archery."
Bart thought this over. "He's doing it again, trying to have Dinah find out who her father is."
"Exactly." Dinah said. She walked over to the kitchen counter and slammed her hand down. "Last year it was paying for the school to take a trip to Star City, the year before he sent her a book full of information on superheroes, he's been sending her clues for seven years!" Dinah Laurel was really mad now. Bart on the other hand, remained calm.
"Maybe he has been sending clues." he said, "but you've done a pretty good job at keeping the girl from learning the truth. I mean, your not permitting her to do archery, you didn't let her take the field trip to Star City, and I don't recall her ever getting the book."
"Can you blame me? Dinah thoroughly studies everything she does, any of those things would some how lead to the original Green Arrow, and BAM!, she would know who her father is."
Dinah stopped when she saw the look Bart was giving her. It said, 'Are you serious?' all over it.
"What?" she asked him.
"It's been seventeen years, and you still go out of you way to make sure Dinah never knows that Oliver Queen, is her father. What if something happened to you? Where would she live?" Bart said.
"Simple, with you. They wouldn't track down her father because I had Chloe forge documents that say I got a sperm donation for the child, and besides, you're her godfather." Dinah replied.
"Alright, what is something happened to me?"
"She would go live with AC. If something happens to him, she would live with Victor, something happen to him she would go to Chloe."
"Tell me, how does Chloe feel about being your last choice?"
"She's not my last choice, there's still Clark, and Wildcat, and the rest of the Justice Society. Dinah has so many potential guardians, she will be taken care of her whole life."
Bart just shook his head. "One of these days she'll stop respecting you not want to tell her and demand to know, if she's any thing like you. She might even go behind your back to find out. You really want her finding out from hospital files and street rumors instead of her own mother?"
Dinah Laurel didn't know what to say, "Bart.." she began, but he silenced her.
"Come on, I want you to see something." Dinah followed him through the room, onto the fire escape, and eventually to the roof where they hid so they could see the other two figures without being seen themselves. Dinah Olivia was sitting there, and Dinah Laurel saw the other person was none other than Connor Hawke, the second Green Arrow. 'And that bastard's son' she thought, but she had actually come to like him. Like Lois would say, you don't get to choose your parents. From where she was hiding, she watched as they sat with each other wondering why Bart wanted to show her this, until she heard a police siren in the distance. She observed her daughter as she stood and prepared to go help, as she told Connor she was going to be a hero. She saw her each into her back pocket and pull out a small tub of black make-up and putting it on as she started jumping from rooftop to rooftop, blending into the falling night with her black skinny jeans that she had learned to fight in, and leather jacket. She saw Connor as he stripped his clothes, having his Green Arrow uniform underneath, and pulling a bow from his bag, then speeding to keep up with Dinah Olivia. Bart and Dinah Laurel waited until they were safely into the distance before they stood up. Bart turned to Dinah Laurel.
" You see what I mean? She may have agreed to wait until she was eighteen to officially become Black Canary, but after that she is just like you, always wanting everything yesterday. Your daughter is an amazing girl, but sooner or later she has to find out. And when it does it should be from you.
Dinah Laurel took a moment to let his word sink in. She wanted to say he was right, and she would tell Dinah Olivia, but she knew she was wrong. She knew she would never,ever tell her daughter the truth. She knew Bart could tell too because he turned away defeated. He started leading her back to steps downstairs. She followed him when she felt an energy pulse from behind, causing her hair to fly wildly and the air around them to stir. She turned and had to shield her eyes from the spinning blue circle that had appeared. She sensed Bart by her side, ready for a fight. A figure stepped from what she guessed what was a portal. A closer observation told her it was a girl, about the same age as Dinah Olivia, maybe a year older.
"What do you want." Bart yelled.
The girl pointed at Dinah Laurel. "You."
Dinah lost all her senses as she was pulled,blinded, into the swirling vortex, Bart right next to her.
A third body slammed into an alley wall and onto the growing pile of already knocked out robbers. An arrow shot passed Dinah Olivia and nailed the fourth and final one. They started making there way back to Dinah's apartment.
"Di," Connor asked, using her nickname, "Do you ever wonder who your father is?"
Dinah looked at him strangely. "Not really. I don't have a single memory of him, and I once asked my mom a couple years back. She got pretty angry though, so I just decided to let it go. Why,?"
"It's just, I would want to find out if I didn't know."
"Connor, I have about a dozen 'aunts' and 'uncles'. I really don't need a father. I mean, I have them all to care for me, all my uncle to be over protective, my aunts to spoil me, and my mom to care about me more than anything else in the world. I really don't miss a man I never knew. But if you want to ask my mom about it, she should be right inside." Dinah O said as she swung in the window.
"Mom!" Dinah Olivia said. "MOM!
No answer came. Dinah Olivia and Connor exchanged worried glances. They heard things being moved in Dinah Laurels room. Curiously, they went in to find a surprise.
"Aunt Chloe?" Dinah asked?
"Dinah O." the blond women looked up at the girl. "Your all right." To Dinah's surprise, she immediately embraced her. "I'm glad your all right."
"One, why wouldn't I be? Two, I have asked you again and again to not use the O, and three, where's my mom?.
Chloe sighed. "Sorry Di, but it's the only way to define you from your mother, and your uncles and I like it. About your mother, we have a problem."
Dinah looked at the woman with questioning eyes. "What is it?"
Chloe looked into her eyes, with a look that was a mix of seriousness, and concern. "Dinah. Your mother's been kidnapped."
Authors Note- Hi Everyone! This is just a try at this story. I really want to do it, but I'm not sure. I love Black Canary/Green Arrow, and I like thinking what it would be like if you mixed the comic books and Smallville. This is kinda like a tester chapter, so I'd like to know if I should continue. Also, please let me know if the multiple Dinah thing is confusing, because if it is I'll change it.