Remember

A/N: I don't own of the DC character and here's a warning for the foul language. Don't forget to leave a review!


Gotham City: November 17, 00:26 EST

"Catch."

"Whoa there!" He'd barely landed on the rooftop when Batman tossed a green object towards him, barely catching it with his left fist. One look was all the Green Lantern needed before his head snapped up.

"Hold up. Where did you get this?" Hal demanded. Batman didn't replay, forcing him to follow the bat into the warehouse.

Once the green lantern was inside the dark knight simply jerked his head to the right. Ever since word had spread thru the hero community, that Batman, the most feared vigilante in Gotham City and the Justice League had taken on a partner, a child. As far Hal knew, no one has been able to pull a fast one over the bat to get a glimpse of the new kid. Fed up with all the attention, Batman had sent out a message to the Justice League that he would introduce Robin when the time was right.

And yet there he was sitting down against a large crate, a respirator attached to his face, Robin, the boy wonder, bright and colorful, was vastly different from the caped crusader. Greeting the Green Lantern with a vigorous wave, Robin looked ready to take off the respirator before Batman stopped him.

"Not yet. You still have ten more minutes."

Dejected shoulders were Robin's only response. At Hal's questioning glance the dark knight explained the respirator was filtering out the fear toxin he had been injected with. To the left of Robin was a girl lying on the floor, a respirator also attached to her face, a small domino mask covering the upper section of her face. Hal wasn't quite sure what to make of her, what was her connection to all of this? Before he could dwell anymore about the kid, Batman was addressing him.

"According to Robin, a Green Lantern saved him tonight."

"But how? I wasn't anywhere near Gotham."

"Not you. The Girl. She was the one that took care of Scarecrow's men before I could figure out where Robin had been taken to."

A pregnant pause passed between the two, Batman looking for Hal's reaction and the Green Lantern rapidly thinking of when the guardians appointed a new lantern.

"Batman… I have no idea who this kid is and I don't know how she got this ring."

"I know."

"Well-wait what?" said Hal shocked, watching as Batman approached the girl, kneel beside her and took a blood sample, " What'd you mean you knew that I had no idea who that kid was?"

"Guy Gardner."

The Green Lantern gave no response. He knew what the bat meant. "Then why call me to Gotham? Is it because of this ring?"

"There's something I want to test," Batman responded. "Is there any way for you to find out who it belongs to?"

"Yeah, hold on a sec."

A giant box construct sprang from the Green Lantern's ring, enclosing Batman, Robin, the girl and himself. Chuckling at Robin's wide eye reaction the Green Lantern explained it was to make sure no unnecessary ears heard what they were about to learn.

Holding the ring out in front of him, Hal took a deep breath.

"Ring, I can sense the ring I'm holding needs some help. Establish a lifeline until this over. Then we'll get this sucker powered up when we get have a power battery."

"Scanning. Scan complete. Link established to object identified as power ring 2814.4"

"What."

"Green Lantern Xylia Jordan. Green Lantern in training, protégée of Green Lantern Hal Jordan of Earth."


Hall of Justice: November25, 20:36 EST

Xylia wasn't sure what was going on any more. The teenager had awakened on a medical bed. A domino mask adhered to her face. Xylia could see she hadn't been changed out of her cloths. Her dark hoodie, blue jeans, and poke-a-dot socks were very much still on her body, she could spy her shoes resting on a small desk at the foot of her bed (no sign of anyone changing her cloths, thanks goodness). Pushing away her questions about her cloths, she still wasn't sure how she gotten from the rooftop to her current location. The machines to her right did little to improve the aesthetic appeal of the windowless room.

What she really wanted to know where two things: where that colorful kid was and just where the hell did her power ring go?

Of all the things that had been hammered into her head from training, one rule stood out above all others. Never lose sight of your power ring. A Green Lantern with out their power ring meant serious trouble. It took Guy showing off his scars for Xylia to see and promise to her older brothers she would never carelessly lose her ring.

And then this happens.

I need to find out where I'm at, Xylia thought, Hal's probably flipped a few tables looking for me. Need to find my ring, find that kid, get in contact with the guys and then figure out just what the hell happened with that portal and Gotham City's building swap.

Xylia was still thinking of a plan when the sound of her door opening distracted her thoughts. Of the three men walking into her room, she knew the names of the first two men but not the third man. Seeing a green skinned person wasn't something that fazed Xylia after meeting so many different species on Oa (the diamond body folks still wigged her out). Greeting the men with a smile and a wave, Xylia looked over at Hal, trying to see past his neutral expression for any signs of I told you so.

"Alright, before you go all Papa Hal on me…" She paused tearing her eyes away from mentor's face. She didn't want to see the disappointment. Not from Hal. It would hurt too much. But she had to apologize before she asked any questions.

"You were right." She whispered aloud, wincing at how pitiful her voice sounded, " You were right and I was wrong… I'm sorry I didn't listen to you about Otis. But I just couldn't ignore him! He's my dad Hal… and I just thought maybe he really would change, because everyone deserves a second chance…but I see now that he is never going to change. It's too late for him and I need to finally let him go."

Xylia listened to silence for a few moments before she hear a voice.

"Kid, as hard as it must have been to have said that out loud… I'm afraid you got the wrong person." And just as she had treated looking at Hal's face like hot lava, she quickly snapped her attention back to Him.

"What are you talking about?"

"I ran your ring though the Oan database. There's no record of you."

Xylia just stared him in confusion.

Instead of continuing his train of thought, Batman moved closer to the girl's bed and picked up were Jordan had left off at.

"Finer print scans show no match to any one person on Earth, yet blood tests indicate you share some DNA with the Green Lantern." Jerking his head over to Hal. "Which leads us to our question: just who are you and what is your relation to the Green Lantern?"

A pregnant pause passed before Xylia answered.

"Is this some kind of joke?" She could hear the anger in her voice, the rage and panic building up, threating to spill over. "Hal, did you lose you mind or something? I'm your partner. One of FOUR Green Lanterns chosen to protect Earth! I'm your niece for crying out loud. I live with you at your apartment-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa there kid! First of all, there's only two Green Lanterns assigned to Earth not four. And secondly there's no way you're my niece or partner because I've never seen you before, plus I know for a fact I don't have a niece."

She started her mentor in shock.

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"And you will never-"

"Hey!"

A young man ran over to the father towering over his daughter. "Otis! What hell do you think your doing? Your wife just died. Yelling at your daughter isn't going to-"

"Just the hell up Harold." Sneered the man. "You don't know what this little bitch is capable of."

Pulling himself up to full height, Harold marched into Otis personal space, pushing a single finger into his chest. "I don't know what gives you the right to yell at your kid like that. But I'm going to do you a favor. I've heard the rumors of how badly you've been treating your child. And Lord knows how hard we tried to get Heather to admit it. But yelling at your kid at a funeral! That's the last straw. I'm taking her with me."

Otis's face gained a deep red color before he pushed the man away. "Fuck-you, mister high and mighty! This is my flesh and blood and I will do what ever I damn will please."

"Daddy stop!" sobbed a little girl. She hated it when her father got violent.

"Shut your trap, whore!" With out so much as a glance, the man used his foot to kick the little girl, not noticing how his foot slammed into her stomach, her small body landing roughly on to the patchy grass.

That single act was all it took for the other man to see red. Rushing head first towards the father, he took the man for surprise when he dogged right. Confused Otis turned around and saw the man's true goal.

He watched as Harold gently lifted the child and wrapped his arms around the small girl as he hoisted her onto his hip.

Otis managed to only take one step forward when a cold steel tone voice ripped through the air.

"Otis, you take one more step towards that child and I swear as district attorney of Coast City I will have you jailed for life."

Face pulled back into a thin line, Otis muttered a few words under his. However the young man holding his daughter didn't hear any of that as he walked away with the girl. He rubbed her back in a soothing motion, doing his best to calm the sobbing child.

The little girl spoke only for a moment before she fell into a semi-restful sleep.

"Thanks, Uncle Hal."

Harold Jordan, also known to others as Hal Jordan, simply squeezed his niece in comfort as they made their way to first aid.

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"Hal, please" pleaded Xylia. "Please tell me is some kind of training excise."

"Kid-"

"The child does not lie." All occupants in the room turned their attention to the wallflower of the group. His glowing green eyes fading to a darker color grabbing Xylia's fascination. "I apologize in advance for reading your thoughts little one, but Batman, Green Lantern. This girl has spoken no lies. What she says is all true."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning exactly what I first thought when I conducted the tests for the eight time," responded Batman, the slits of his eyes narrowed in concentration.

That there's a possibility you're not of this world. Not of this same universe to be exact."


Coast City: November 16, 20:36 EST

It was an unofficial tradition.

Looking back, Guy Gardner was the one who started it. He'd stumbled against Hal Jordan's apartment in the wee hours of the morning, kicking and screaming, at Jordan's door how unfair it was for taking his little sister. To say things were a little tense between Hal and his landlord would be an understatement. He was on thin ice. His saving grace from becoming the first homeless superhero was the generous donation of anonymous donor had sent through the mail (he had a feeling though it was from the secretly caring vigilante of Gotham). Bills and rent were finally paid off. But his high-strung landlord still gave him the stink eye from time to time. So he couldn't let Guy be the breaking point of why he finally got kicked out to the streets. After a quick bash to the head with a boxing glove construct, Hal dragged Guy's body into his home. It never escaped Jordan that Guy would do this every year on the day they lost one of their own.

John Stewart never liked being alone on this day. Losing someone on the job wasn't unusual. But it was always this day above all others that the study released by the guardians haunted his every thought. It shook his core because it hurt, but deep down it felt way too close to home. But the fact of the matter was that the average life span of a Green Lantern is said to be four years, three months, one day, thirteen hours and seven minutes. His unofficial little sister was one year, eleven months, sixteen days and three minutes serving as a Green Lantern when she pulled through some kind of portal.

A few months shy of the half waypoint.

Even though she was under Hal's tutelage, John liked to help out with her daily lessons when ever possible (Guy never stuck around to help; mostly because he'd get bored and start checking out his refection via a construct). So when it became too much to think about, he'd find himself spending the day at Jordan's apartment where a cranky Hal and drunk Guy would greet him for lunch or breakfast.

Regardless of how they came to be, they'd always take this day off as personal time.

Kilowog would come whenever possible but they all understood when he didn't show. Recently their newest rookie started to join them on this day. It was his own way of getting to know the girl who charmed her way into the hearts of men he patrolled the galaxy with. He knew they missed her. As a special gift to the guys he worked over time to create a book with hand painted illustrations of all the adventures they had gone on with Xylia. When Hal first unraveled the wrapping paper to see the cover of the book, he had honestly stared at the cover of the book for a good ten minutes. Refusing to let the other impatient men see it. Hal gave a simile, whispered a "Thanks Kyle", and handed the book over to Guy before he took off for a walk.

The book soon became a favorite read to the Green Lanterns of sector 2814.

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