Hey Beasties and Arrow lovers, I know I have been a ghost for a while but I'm back and I what to thank everyone who has followed me since the beginning.
Note: this story does contain some of Season 1-4 of arrow but laurel is alive, olicity is marred and Conner is older.
Note: this story does contain some of season1-4 of beauty and the beast. yet Catherine's real father Reynolds is alive and at Ryker's.
Disclaimer: I do not own either Arrow nor BATB.
save thou father ch.1
I was born in New York City to an unusual family. my birth name was Amanda Elizabeth Keller. I was known to only a few people till the age of 6. My DNA is a mixture of human and what my uncle calls it Beast DNA. It true…. I am the only living proof that a Beast and a human can create a child. My blood is the secret to creating more of these beast. My life hasn't been an easy one but I won't have it any other way. This is my story…
"When arriving in Staring City, you were only known as just a girl who returned with the billionaire playboy Oliver Queen. But now, you are the youngest CEO of two fortune 500 companies and you have a degree in business and law enforcement. You have new family and made your mark on this city and in our homes. Have you ever thought you would have the opportunity to live this life, a life one can only dream?" Hearing the reporter recite all the accomplished over the last few years made me think of the first time I came home with Oliver. I knew my life would be different I just didn't know how much. Oliver knew things about my past that very few knew. He knew the extent of my beast side and the results of it but he cares enough to worry about me losing control.
"Being only thirteen when I was ripped from my first family, I think the universe owned me another. Which I got in the form of the Queen family. Oliver's mother, Moira, was very apprehensive about Oliver taking over the role as a father for me. Yet, as the years passed and she could see that Oliver really was a good father, she became more open with it and with me. Oliver and I were very different people when we got back from the island. We have both been through a lot and we found comfort in each other. When returning home many would had dubbed me and Oliver as suffering from PTSD given the situation life had dealt us. The worse thing we both had to get over was the nightmares. The fear of what happened on that island could come back to haunt us back at home". Oliver, who was sitting next to me, squeezed my hand. He must have felt the unease building up in me. This was one of the several interviews I had to take part in as the release of the news of Oliver retirement from CEO of Queen Consolidated.
"Mr. Queen, how do you feel about you only daughter, although adopted, taking over the family company with the help from your son, Conner who just finishing his degree in computer science and law enforcement. What is with your children and the police. Especially since you spent so much time at the station." The reporter asked Oliver.
Although Conner and I weren't blood related, I felt that we are were connected by a common interest. With Oliver's retirement from his CEO job, he was also retiring the hood and giving it to Conner. Conner had come a long way from the first time he spared with me, with the help of Diggle, Oliver and myself. Oliver is more confident in handing Conner the hood. While Conner would take over as the Green Arrow, I would stay behind as the new Overwatch and Diggle and Lyla's daughter Sara would take her father's place as Spartan. The three of us had become the new Team Arrow.
" I couldn't be more proud of my children, and the whole law enforcement degree, Amanda's birth mother and her aunt work for a police department. She felt that to hold on to her past. As for Conner, he was always interest in that field." Oliver was very open with the idea of me taking a positions at the local precinct during the summer but when my other activity's interfered I had to confess to Captain Lance that i was in fact working for Oliver. Although Lance didn't like the fact that I was putting myself in danger, he kept me on the force but as a mediator when it came to disputes between the team and the police force.
While the reporter was asking Oliver some more question I was thinking back to the first few months' home from the island and the difficulties we had to endure by coming home and how it affected both of our families, it made me think of the first night back.
We first didn't think about the idea of sticking together by sleeping in the same room when returning home. The first night back, there was a horrible storm and that night I couldn't sleep, so I went walking around the house and I heard a thud. Suspecting it was an intruder, I ran to Oliver's room in hopes that he too heard the noise and that when I saw that Moria was on the ground getting ready to wake up Oliver who seemed to be in the grips of a bad nightmare. I ran over and in time, I gabbed Morias hand.
"Let me, he has these very often. Touching him will make him go into survival mode and I don't want to risk you getting hurt."
as Moira and Walter nodded, I turned my attention to Oliver. He was drenched in a mixture of rain and sweat. I grabbed a few pillows from his bed. As I'm position the pillows I could feel Walter and Moria's eyes watching me. I had done this before, I closed the window and I turned to the small party that was now occupying the doorway which now added Thea to the group.
" Don't be alarmed to what you are about to see." I took a deep breath and turned around to face Oliver. I knelt next to him.
"Oliver? Oliver it's me. Its Amanda ". I told Oliver's sleeping body, my voice had that attentive bit to it.
"Slade? I didn't mean it. He was going to shoot either one of them. This is Ivo's fault." Oliver whispered.
"Shit." I said under my breath. Now it was on to plan two. I headed over to where I saw Oliver put Yao Fei's case. I undid the lock and pulled out the herbs and my knife. I then turned to grab the water, crushing the herbs and got it ready.
"What are you going to do?" Thea asked. I could see the fear in her eyes. I felt sorry for the 17-year-old girl. She had no idea what happened to her once playboy brother. honestly, no one knew the extent of the pain either of us went through.
"In these kind of dreams he is having, he needs to let out some energy. So as counter measure, I'm going to attack him and wake him that way, it will knock him out of his nightmare. Being on the island we worked out constantly to stay alive. But since we returned, our body's aren't use to this kind of inactive. So because of that, I don't sleep and Oliver goes into fits of horrible nightmares, which end up being recreations of actual events."
"But is the knife really necessary, what if you hurt each..." I didn't hear much after that because I had approached Oliver. Raising the knife, I yelled" TIME TO CHOOSE OLIVER, WHO LIVES AND HE DIES,"
Oliver woke up suddenly and caught me by my foot. Taking me down to the floor. In a swift move I had Oliver in a headlock but quickly he gained to advantage and got my knife. He stabbed me in the shoulder, I could hear Thea let out a whimper.
"I DIDN'T KILL HER!" Oliver yelled. He was still in the dream; I could see it in his eyes.
"Oliver, OLIVER! let her go, you're going to seriously hurt her." Thea yelled. That must have woken him because he let me go and rushed to the nearest corner. It was then I saw the pain and anger in his eyes.
"Amanda why did you do that. You know how I react. And you let my family watch!" Oliver was angry. I knew he would be mad. But I knew that I couldn't let anyone get hurt, I WOULDN'T.
"What did you want me to do? Let YOU hurt someone. At least I can fight back. You were having THAT dream again. WE need to go out running. Our bodies are too high functioning now." I turned to his family and regained my calm.
"He will be fine; you can go back to sleep." I was thankful that Oliver had only slightly injured me. I walked over and grabbed the herbs and a bottle of water from earlier.
"Did I hurt you?" He said with an apologetic voice. Oliver was always being very protective of me. Which wasn't exactly helpful when my beast side came out.
"Nothing the herbs can't cure. Really I'm fine, you stabbed me where I already had a pre-existing scar. Now, while I wrap this wound, go change into running attire. I wasn't lying when I said we needed to let go some energy. I know today has been very stressful".
We ran for a least four miles and did some bamboo fighting in the back yard and then we collapsed on to Oliver's bed. we learned our lesson and for about 3 months we shared not only a room but a bed.
I was pulled out of my memory when I heard "that's a wrap."
After the interview was over I thanked the reporter and headed to my room to get the rest of my stuff packed for my trip to New York with the girls and John. John Diggle has been like a big brother to me since the beginning. This would be my first attempt to introduce my New York life to my Starling family. So Thea, Felicity, Laurel, Sara lance and the Diggle clan (John, Lyla and Sara) will be traveling by car to New York so I could do such thing. This also gave me the opportunity to also meet QCs new partner. While we were gone, team Flash would look over Starling. While I was packing I vaguely heard someone calling my name.
"Amanda, someone is on the house phone for you. He says it urgent." Raisa said from the stairs. As I packed the rest of my clothes into my bag as ventured to see who would be calling me. When I got downstairs I could see that the girls had all arrived.
Raisa handed me the phone when I walk towards her. I could feel in the pit of my stomach something was wrong.
"Hello? Amanda Queen speaking…...HELLO?
"You could have kept your old last name. It would be easier to find you... Ms. Keller." exclaimed the voice on the other line.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME….
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