Title: Behind Broken Arrows

Rated PG-13

Characters/Pairings: Chlollie, Dollie, Hal Jordan

Chapter Two

Spoilers: Through the Finale

Summary: Oliver is ready to turn a new leaf no one really believes him and he reflects on how he got there.

Inspired by a prompt by xtimegirlx I'm not sure if it fulfills her request at all but here it is.

Oliver sat on the floor on the green matt with no shirt on doing yoga.

"Dude, do you ever where a shirt?"

"It disrupts my flow." Oliver said as he raised his hands lightly up.

"Great. Well maybe all of this nancy pancy stuff will knock some sense into you."

Then he threw a towel on his head.

"Hal? Why are you're panties in a bunch?" Oliver asked slightly amused.

"Gee, I don't know maybe because you are here in Signapore instead of Star City going after Vertigo and finding out..."

"It's done man. So I had some time to kill and well I thought…."

"Dude, this is worse than leaving us high and dry to chase skirts and get drunk."

"How is seeing my kid worse than…?"

"They're a family man."

"They're my family, man."

"Not for six years."

"Gee, thanks. Did they give you sensitivity training in the corps?"

"You know I'm right you're just going to confuse the kid. What happens when you go off the wagon again?"

"Look this time is going to be different."

"I've heard that before. How many times have you fed that line to Dinah?"

"Who are you my mother?"

"Just your baby sitter apparently."

"I'm fine, OK. I got this. I thought this through. I know it's a long shot for Chloe to ever… for us to ever get back where we were. I hurt her to much but I realized that I can't… I can't be this guy whose kid never knows him. I grew up without a father and that messed me up. My father died at least it wasn't his choice."

"You died too."

"I came back."

"You didn't come back the same."

"And whose fault is that?"

"Oh, don't blame this on me I saved your ass."

Oliver got up and then grabbed the towel wiping his face of sweat.

"Maybe."

Hal rolled his eyes.

"Dude, just please tell me you're taking the next flight out of here."

"Not quite."

"Dude. Come on you're not doing anyone any favors. You have to let her go." Hal said.

"I tried. I really did. I wasn't doing anyone any favors then trying to move on. I only hurt more people that way."

"For the record, I've told you this is a really bad idea. So don't go crying to me when it blows up in your face."

"I won't." Oliver said and he meant it, he really did. He knew his track record wasn't the best. He knew he could be a jerk sometimes, OK a lot of time. He also knew it was a defense mechanism.

What happened was he and Dinah were getting back together. He had stop drinking, he put on the Green Arrow costume on again, and he really was dedicated to changing his ways. He let Dinah know that and of course she was skeptical but she took him back like she always does.

Then the next thing he knew he was leaving her in the middle of the night. He didn't even know why. He thought that he was always sabotaging himself because he was afraid to get hurt again like he did before. He thought that he wanted to move on so much but never did because he couldn't get passed his fear. He really thought and hoped this last time would be different and he'd stop making promises and then leaving. He remembered what Hawkman told him all of those years ago. "You hide it you act like jack ass because you're afraid." That was overwhelmingly true now more than ever and he really hated it. He knew way back then he hated himself and punished him self but now it was a thousand times worse.

He went out to patrol to clear his head. He swung around from building to building on his Zip line expertly using his bow and arrow and then the next thing he knew, he was at his old apartment, their old apartment. This was the place he and Chloe started their life together. He tore at him. He really thought he'd gotten pass this. He thought he had to. His whole life was different when he came back from the dead he was different.

It was so strange it felt like he had memories of two completely different people. One guy was the guy who he was with Chloe, the man she helped him become, the hero guy. The other was this completely different guy. He still tried to be a hero he was lot more pig headed and he had a tendency to go from woman to woman.

Oliver remembered what it was like to come back. When he had fought those aliens they had teleported him to a completely different planet and a completely different world. That's when he first met Hal, he had rescued him and brought him back to earth. When he was captured they did something to him and he couldn't remember anything after the time he got lost on the island and had sworn an oath to the Dark Archers. He did his best to get back to his life as Billionaire Oliver Queen and to be the Green Arrow. He felt lost losing so much time. He went and he did his thing. He saved people and he butt heads with a lot of heroes and he butt heads with Dinah. They would work together every now and then. They would argue and get volatile and then that led to making out and sleeping together. Sometimes working side by side by side would lead to that too. The adrenalines of fighting together seem to always get to them.

He had grown a goatee and he felt like his body was very worn out and went through a lot of ware and tare. He had really tried to become this man who he thought he was. He tried to be this hero. He couldn't help but feel that something was missing. He lived in this place by himself. When he came back it was totally abandoned with no real clue about how he lived. So he forged his own new life there.

He tried doing the hero thing and being with Dinah thing, he was really giving his life a go. He felt a huge part of his life was missing and he could not point to it. He just couldn't he didn't know why there was this huge whole in his life.

One day she came in walking through the door like she was some kind of apparition. She was some type of ghostly figure. She was tiny and had long blonde flowing hair. She looked at him like she had seen a ghost. It looked like she wanted to rush over to him but she constrained herself. He saw the tears betraying her escaping from her eyes despite her trying to remain strong.

"Oliver." She said her voice remained raspy with barely above a whisper.

Oliver then said, "Who are you? How do I know you?"

The tears came and swallowed hard and breathed in trying to gain strength and she said, "You don't remember me?"

"I had amnesia, well sort of, I don't remember the last fifteen years."

She nodded and then she bit her lip lingering that way for a while. It looked like she was forming some kind of plan in her head. He felt like he knew her. She looked and felt so familiar.

Then she said, "My name is Sandra Hawke."

"OK? How do I know you? Did we ever…."

"Breifly." She said quickly.

"OK. So exactly what happen? I'd love some answers."

She nodded, "We were together for a little while and then we weren't. We have son his name is Conner."

"I have a kid?"

"Yeah."

"You said we were together briefly."

"Ok, so it was just long enough to have a kid and long enough for you to….leave."

"Oh."

They stood there awkwardly for moment. He felt like she was holding something back or even lying but he didn't know why.

"So why are you here? Do you want money?"

That looked like it hurt her.

"No. I just thought you should know."

Oliver remembered that scene vividly but it was like he was viewing someone else's life. It broke his heart to think about it and how he must have hurt her without even knowing it. After he got his memoires back it really stung and hurt that she would lie to him so much he later found out why.