2030

Like all hot days of June, students are tired and just want school to end to begin their weekend. Students of the Middle School of Star City were exactly in that position. In class, nobody listened to the teacher. They were to busy looking at the clock, making funny faces to their friends or looking at the sun. Sitting in the last row of the class, Mia doesn't make exception. She was looking at her phone, counting the seconds before the end of the week.

5...4...3...2...1...

The bell rang and students ran out of the class. Mia got out last. When she finally arrived in the corridor, she ran to her locker, opened it, took her skateboard and ran out.

Mia only had one idea in her head. The same idea who didn't work because of a certain person...

-Mia! Mia!

The teenager looked back and saw Sara, her sister. Well, Sara was not her real sister but Mia liked to think that she was because with her, she could say she was part of a family.

Sara was a beautiful girl. She was tall and seemed like a ballerina with her constantly bronzed skin tone and her bun always perfectly made. Mia couldn't say she looked like her, except for the karate skills ; the two girls were champions of karate for a long time.

"Mia!" Sara exclaimed. "Hey, what are you doing here?". Sara seemed surprised by her question a moment. "Mia! What do you want me to do to your school except seeing you?" "You can... Take a healthy walk..." proposed Mia.

Sara looked at her sister, a little smile on her face.

"I wanted to make you a good surprise for your birthday but I can see it's not..." "No, no! It's super cool Sara, really!" Mia instantly responded. "Thanks!" "But you have other plans?" Mia shook her head. "Okay, I'll say to mom that you are in detention. After all, you are often in detention so it's not a lie!"

Mia slapped her sister to the shoulder, laughing. "It's not my fault if teachers don't like me!" "You do nothing for them to love you!" Sara went away and Mia jumped on her skate and went down the street.

Mia had grown in Star City, she knows everything about Star City. She slow down in front of a disaffected building where the only letters of the place were the E and a A. Fifteen years ago, this night club was called Verdant. At that time, all the green letters were visible and a lot of people would be in it in few hours, only to have a chance to meet Oliver Queen, the billionaire. Not anymore.

Mia entered by the front door, even if a notice said that the building was under surveillance by cameras and people who disrespect the notice will be arrested for intruding illegally. It didn't bother Mia. Two years ago, she destroyed the cameras. As always, the smell of moisture in the night club was insupportable but after she made the code of the secret cave, the smell was gone. Each time her fingers touched the board of the code, she smiled. If there's one thing that resisted threw the years, it was the cave. And without the code, there was no entering the secret cave. Thanks mom, thought Mia before entering the cave.

It was gigantic. In the middle, there was a big table, it fascinated Mia. Each time, she thought about the discussions people had around it. Behind, there was some old-fashioned computers. A window separated the place for surgery emergencies and the place for training. On the other side, there was the Costumes Driveway. Mia called it like that. Four glass blocks were aligned on the wall. Four glass blocks that were empty. If they had not been, everything would be different.

Mia walked in front of the blocks and went to the computers to make her homework with her own electronic tablet. The reunion table was too imposing for her. Mia was not so good at school, even if she was in fact really smart. She blamed the boring teachers and the boring classes. She was good for something else: martial arts or electronic classes! Technology class was her favourite. She was the best, maybe because of her mother who left her a lot of tricks about "how hacking things" and due to all the hours she spend in the cave.

Linguistic was also a thing Mia liked. Specially Mandarin and Russian, since she learned her father spoke these languages too. There was one more thing her father gave her: his passion for archery. Every day, Mia practiced archery with the bow of her father in the cave. It was too big for her, but she didn't care. She was good, she thought by being like her father would bring her closer to him.

Mia's house was normal; two floors, red bricks, a big backyard... She opened the front door and, like usual, threw her school bag on the floor before going in the kitchen.

Lyla, her adoptive mother was there, cooking diner. She still had her work clothes on. Mia always thought that these clothes made her look older than she really was. Maybe because when she wore it, she was always so stressed and so impatient. "You were in detention again young lady?" "What do you want, teachers hates me!" "What did you do this time?" asked Lyla. "I locked up a girl in the restrooms". Lyla looked at Mia, she tried not to smile. "Mia!" "She deserved it! Believe me!" Lyla smiled; Mia was like that, she couldn't change it. "Put the table, we'll eat in few minutes!"

For her fourteenth birthday, Mia had her favourite meal: hamburger with chocolate cake. Presents time arrived. "Because you already have all you want spoiled kid, I didn't buy you a gift" said Sara, seriously. "Well, don't think I will give you one for your birthday, big spoiled kid!" answered Mia, laughing. Sara smiled and gave her her gift. It was a little green box. She opened it and found a gold watch. "To replace the one you broke in a fight" explained her big sister. She smiled and hugged Sara before Lyla gave her her second gift. This one was a big box in a pink candy box. Mia opened it and found a green hoodie. She kissed Lyla and put on the hoodie.

Later, Mia went in her bedroom. From her room, she can see the old office of Queen Consolidated who were apartments now. She stayed at her window, looking at the city for a moment.

She sat on her bed with her tablet and listened for the thousand time the video. The first image was the image of her mother and her father, smiling to her. "Hey Sunny! Mommy and Daddy won't be gone for too long, you won't miss us! And, if you are sad, ask Lyla to put the last video of stunt of your Daddy. He was amazing, like always, you will see!" "Felicity!" Felicity Smoak turned toward her husband. "What! I had to say it!" "Felicity, she's six months old! Do you think she can understand what you're saying?" "I read in a book it was really important to talk to a baby every day and the most possible!". Oliver sighed and looked at the camera. "You see little princess, your mother has still reason! So, Mia, know that I love you, that I will miss you a lot and that we will be back as fast as our friend Barry can go. Love you little princess!"

He turned to Felicity and they began to kiss. Diggle's voice stopped the lovers "Okay, we will stop that now if you don't want your girl look at a sex-tape of her parents!". They both turned towards the camera, surprised and began to laugh. The video stopped and Mia played it again and again, her eyes filled with tears.

An hour later, someone knocked on her door. Mia wiped her tears and put her tablet away before Lyla entered in her room. "How was your day?" "Good, thank you". Lyla spotted the tablet and sat on the bed next to Mia. "They love you. A lot. I'm sure they are proud of you." "Why? Because I'm in detention?" Lyla smiled " "You know your father was not the most... calm guy. I think he would be happy that his girl is following his footsteps." "And my mom? She was good at school , no?" Mia knew the answer but she liked when people would talk to her about her parents. "She would be proud of you too. She was the biggest fan of your father and you are just like him" "Not physically" said Mia. "Yes... But still, you have your father's eyes". Mia smiled and Lyla looked at her for a moment before leaving the room. "Goodnight!"

It was almost midnight and Mia couldn't sleep. She stood up; it was the sign that there was more important things to do than sleeping tonight. She put on her jeans, her Converse and her new green hoodie and got out by the window. She was accustomed to get out at night like that since two years and a half. She went down the long of the gutter and walked towards the street.

The neighbourhood she preferred in Star City was the Glades, strange as it can seem. She liked it because her live was in the Glades; she was born there, she did her first steps there, she said her first word there, the Verdant was there and her parents saved it one day. Well, a part of it. The other one is still in construction and Mia would avoid that part. Mia was walking in a deserted street when she heard someone yelling. She stopped and listened. The scream came from an alley nearby. She approached it slowly and saw two guys agressing someone. A girl, as she looked more closely. She took her phone in her pocket and dialled 911 but then one of the guys saw her. He screamed and ran after Mia.

Unfortunately for him, Mia was fast. But the guy too. She ran, trying to find someone who could help her but the street was empty.

The guy approached her and a few seconds later, he was on Mia, hurting her. Her karate lessons served her. She kicked the guy in the stomach, scratched him in the face and punched him in the face. She was able to get up and continue running. A street later, she almost got hit by a police car.

It was one hour in the morning, Mia was sitting on a chair in an interrogation room who had a big light and she had been waiting there for ten minutes. She almost fell asleep on the table when the door suddenly opened and made her wake up.

The officer was a man in the sixties, bald with black eyes. He was imposing... and seemed unfriendly. He sat in front of her, sighted and looked at her. He opened a folder on the table and clicked his pen.

"Your name please"

"Mia"

He looked at her, discouraged. "Your complete name please".

"Mia Olivia Felicity Queen but we just call me Mia Queen"

The officer stopped writing and fixed her. "Mia Queen? The daughter of Oliver Queen?"

She shook her head. He looked at her a moment and finished writing Mia's name.

"And you, who are you?"

"Quentin Lance, captain of the police department of Star City since sixteen years"

"Congratulations!" answered Mia with a smile.

He looked at her, surprised.

"What? You would prefer me saying that I know who your girls are? What my father did with them?"

Mia stopped.

"Wow. That sounded weird. Excuse me captain Lance."

"When we look at the hour it is and why you are here, you make me think of your father. But now, I'm not entirely certain..." said Lance.

"I will take that as a compliment!" answered Mia with a smile. Lance looked at the Queen heir a moment. "So, let's go Queen, what happened tonight?"

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