Chapter 1

The ceremony had been nice; all the new recruits had passed their training and were ready to be sent out on missions. Rex Stewart AKA Warhawk sat on the bleaches looking at all the families around him, he still remember his ceremony, but that had been more than ten years ago.

"Why are you here all by yourself?" he smiled at his sister, she was a force to be reckon with and almost everybody was scared of her "I thought you had gone home already"

"No, J'onn needed to talk to me" He was supposed to continue with the training of two of the new recruits, that and he didn't want to be at his house by himself "How is Aliyah doing?"

"She is fine, well as fine as one can be when your stomach is bigger than a beach ball" Rex resisted the urge to laugh, Kaya and Aliyah were identical twins, but they only look alike on the outside, they were completely different people. Aliyah was sweet, calm and always tried to solve things peacefully, now Kaya was the exact opposite, she was always yelling at people, had a very short temper and she believed that the best way to solve a problem was kick someone's butt "She is happy, so that's all that matters"

"That's good, I'm glad she is ok"

"How are you?" he raised an eyebrow at her, everybody asked that lately and he didn't feel like talking "I mean about Mareena"

"I know what you meant and I'm fine" a year ago he had believed himself in love, but Mareena had chosen to marry another man and now ruled Atlantis beside him, she was pregnant "You guys don't need to check up on me, I know that she is with someone else"

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to pry" for a moment he felt bad for being curt with her, she was his older sister and she worried about him just like he worried about her "I just wanted to make sure you were doing ok"

"I'm fine, I moved on"

"If by that you meant you went out with Black Swan I don't think that's considered moving on, that's sleeping with someone else" she looked to her left and groaned "and talking about the devil"

"She is not that bad"

"Talk for yourself" the other woman stood in front of them and Aliyah smiled "Hey Swan"

"Is Black Swan"

"Believe me I know" with that his sister left them alone.

He and Eliza had gone out for a while until she had wanted to move things a little too fast, they had gone out a couple of times and they had ended in bed together, but she had wanted to take the next step and he wasn't ready for that. She wasn't a bad person she was just spoiled rotten

"Hi" he tried to sound neutral so she wouldn't get any ideas "Do you need something?"

"Yes" she gave him a flirtatious smile and batted her eyelashes "I wanted to invite you to have dinner with me tomorrow night, I already reserved the table at the restaurant"

"Dinner?" he didn't want to hurt her feelings, it was a good thing he had an excuse to decline "I can't, I have to start training with two new recruits tomorrow"

"Can't you get out of it?"

"No I can't" he stood up and walked to the door "Just invite someone else"

He didn't wait for her to answer and kept walking. Eliza was Green Arrow and Black Canary's daughter and she thought sun set on her. He walked out of the door without looking where he was going until he slammed into someone. He looked down to see, well he couldn't see a lot of her, but there wasn't any doubt it was a woman.

"I'm sorry" he extended his hand to help her up "Are you ok?"

"Don't you look where you are going?" she slapped his hand and stood up glaring daggers at him "You could hurt someone"

Her custom was bright red almost orange and clung to her like a second skin, he couldn't say exactly but the fabric looked really weird, kind of metallic, the mask she had on covered her entire face, he couldn't see her eyes or even her hair. He knew he was starting, but he couldn't help it she looked scary and her attitude didn't help.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't looking"

"Whatever"

She shook her head and walked away. Rex almost laughed, he hadn't really laughed in a year, but that girl reminded him of his mother.