(part two of Within Arm's Reach)

A/N: STOP! SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ARROW SEASON 6! FOR BOTH PART ONE AND TWO!

If you have seen Arrow 6x06 go ahead and read this!


Within Arms Reach - SLADE

The choice wasn't easy but those last looks and first steps were what cemented my decision and I was too far gone to turn back now. Yet despite this I found it hard to let go of ten years of my life. As I recalled them I couldn't exactly separate the memories by years, a lot of it just blurred together into a mix of good and very bad moments that made up the previous decade.

However it was my job as a father to not give up on either of my sons, even if that meant continuing to take those steps further from Oliver no matter how hard they got. And they got hard.

Sometimes the mind is cruel in what it has you think up. Right now I recalled those two years on Lian Yu with the kid and everything that went right, all the tings that made the steps harder. I forced myself to remember just how much I had wronged him and everything horrible I had done to him just to keep one foot in front of the other. Though, despite it all, he had forgiven me and this is what causes me to take one single look over my shoulder but it's too late, I've come too far and he's no longer in sight.

If my emotions and thoughts keep up this way our paths just might have to cross once more.