Disclaimer: I do not own Arrow or anything else you may recognize

I know I said I can only do one long story at a time but I still wanted to get this one out ASAP because even I don't know how long it will take for me to finish "The Devil and The Arrow" considering how much of Arrow Season 2 is still left to cover.

This story won't be that long. It will probably end up being shorter than 10 chapters.

This is rated M because of the dark tone.

And now the biggie, this is based on the 1994 movie- "The Crow." I was rewatching it yesterday and it is still just as poignant and amazing as the first time I watched it. The unfortunate death of Brandon Lee during its shooting makes it even more upsetting. R.I.P. Brandon Lee.

Chapter 1- Death and return

People once believed that when someone dies...a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens...that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes... the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.


October 30th, The Devil's Night

Harvey Bullock stood at the crime scene with several other cops. He looked down from the window of the building with a sad expression on his face.

Down below, the coroners covered the body of Oliver Queen aka the Green Arrow with a blanket and carried it away. The explosion had hit Oliver and burnt his skin while also embedding shrapnel into him and then launched him off the floor to the ground.

Never in his wildest dreams had Bullock imagined that Oliver was the Green Arrow and his wife Sara Lance the Black Canary. They both had been fighting several super villains in the building before they had set off a huge explosive while escaping that had killed Oliver and gravely wounded Sara too. Bullock just hoped she survived. Ever since he had been transferred to Star City 2 years ago, he had worked with both of them on quite a few cases. Something that had cost him his gold shield.

No one noticed that had a crow had perched upon a the rooftop of the opposite building, watching the scene carefully.

"Sir, we gotta move her." One of the cops said to Bullock. He looked at Sara Lance, who was on a stretcher with mechanical ventilation to help her breathe. She too had been hit badly by the explosion and had burn marks and shrapnel all over her.

"Do it." Bullock said and they started wheeling Sara away quickly. As they reached outside, the sight was witnessed by William and Mia, the two children of Oliver and Sara. William had been born years ago when Oliver had cheated on Laurel with Samantha and had been adopted by him when she had been killed by Adrian Chase.

Mia was their biological daughter, born in late 2017. She was 5 now while William was 14. Upon discovering that the Green Arrow and Black Canary were Oliver Queen and Sara Lance respectively, the cops had called both the children to the area as well.

The two walked over to see Sara being wheeled into an ambulance.

"Mom?" Mia said with tears in her eyes.

"Stand back, children." Bullock said gently to them.

"Where's Oliver?" Sara suddenly whispered as she regained consciousness.

"Just don't worry about him." Bullock assured her as gently as he could.

"Tell him to take care of Mia and William." She whispered hoarsely.

"Look, l will." Bullock said as she gasped and panted in pain, "You just, uh, lie back. Come on."

Sara was put into the ambulance and driven away.

"Yeah, look. Your mother, she's gonna be okay." Bullock said to William and Mia, though he himself knew that it wasn't the case.

William walked closer to Bullock and whispered to him so that his little sister couldn't hear, "You lied to her about my dad."

"l had to." Bullock said with a pained expression.

"And you're lying to us about her." William said as tears started streaming down his face, "She's gonna die, isn't she?"

"Hey, uh-Now, come on. Come on. lt's okay." Bullock tried to assure both the children, "She's gonna be fine."

Mia started crying and William hugged her tightly as Bullock hugged the two children with a pained expression on his face.


One year later

15 year old William and 6 year old Mia dropped flowers on the graves of Oliver and Sara. They had both been placed in adoptive care first. Barry Allen and Caitlin Snow had tried to adopt them but eventually they had been given up to another woman called Darla Thompson. She had taken good care of them at first but she had taken to drugs and because of that, she had lost her job.

She had eventually ended up working in a motel where she had sunk low with several criminals and continued taking more drugs, neglecting both the children. The adoption center didn't check up on them unfortunately.

Barry still came to check up on both of them time to time and took care of them when he was there. He had decided to fight a custody battle for them later in the year.

The two children looked at the two gravestones and started walking away. That moment, a crow came flying and sat on the gravestone of Oliver Queen and cawed.

The two children turned around and looked at it.

"What are you?" Mia asked with a curious expression, "The night watchman?"

William chuckled at his little sister's innocence and led her away as he held her hand.


Later

Bullock was eating a hot dog at a small shop when William and Mia came skating in.

"Hey, it's William and Mia." Bullock said with a happy smile as the two sat next to him and put their skateboards away, "How do you steer that on a wet street?"

"Pure talent." William said.

"Hi." Mia greeted the cop.

"Hello." Bullock greeted them back before turning to the shopkeeper, "Now, William and Mia, they're genuine hot doggers."

He asked the children, "You hungry?"

"You buyin'?" William asked.

"l'm buyin'." Bullock said.

"No onions please?" Mia pleaded with a sweet childlike expression.

"No onions." Bullock smiled.


Graveyard

It started raining and the crow suddenly pecked on Oliver's gravestone a few times. As thunder cracked in the sky, the ground next to the gravestone started shaking, as if someone was pushing it from inside.

And then all of a sudden, a man with short blonde hair came bursting out of the ground, screaming like a maniac.

He screamed more as the crow looked at him while thunder cracked in the sky as it continued to rain.

Oliver Queen stopped screaming and lay on the ground, sighing heavily as he became aware of his surroundings.


Hope you liked this.

Now like Stand with Ward and Queen, Bl4ckHunter and Phillipe363, I have made Mia a kid of Oliver and Sara instead of Oliver and Felicity because she resembles those two a lot more.

As for what happened to the other characters, I will keep it vague like in "Logan" but none of them are around any longer. Okay? Okay.

This is mainly meant to be an emotional and short revenge story so that's what it's going to be. The identity of the super-villains who together killed Oliver and Sara will be revealed later.

Now I know Harvey Bullock is a Gotham detective but I needed a DC comics police officer to fill Sergeant Albrecht's role from the film and Bullock fits the bill.

I will update both this and "The Devil and The Arrow" soon.