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Summary: 15 year old William Clayton is about to commit the unspoken law of Star City: Don't break the Green Arrow's weapons

Oh and Disclaimer (cover your ears) I DON'T OWN ARROW OR ANY OF THE CW CHARACTERS!


May, 2020

After arriving home from baseball practice, William went to the kitchen and grabbed a glass so he could fill it with orange juice. He had a tough run of sprints and the coach was extra hard on him. But luckily he had taken lessons in self defense and he was learning how to shoot an arrow so he got some advantage. Still, he'd rather take either his dad or Uncle John over mean old grumpy Coach Mitchell.

Bringing the glass up to his lips, he revealed as he felt the cool drink sprinkle down his throat. He had lost his water bottle and he needed something refreshing so badly. He also needed to sit down, just to relax his legs a little.

CRUNCH

The millisecond William's ears picked up that sound when he sat down on the couch, his blood turned to ice. Please tell me that's not what I think it is.

Rising slowly from his seat, he tenderly picked up one broken half of his father's dark green metallic bow.

Oliver had complained about not finding it that morning, but now William had found it...and broken it.

He could only look at the other half and could only say, "I...am a dead man."


Ignoring the post practice stress burn in his thighs, he ran as fast as his long legs could carry him. In the past 3 years he lived with his father, he had grown quite a few inches at a height of 5'7. Not as tall as either his father, Uncle Barry, Diggle, or Curtis but he was pretty tall for his age.

He ran into the abandoned office building and pressed the button for the secret entrance to the Bunker. Once the elevator door opened, he held tight to the bag that held the broken bow and waited impatiently until he came down to the bottom floor (and the only floor).

He scanned the green illuminated area until he found a tall man with hair that William still thought a porcupine had lived in.

"Curtis!" He ran breathlessly to him.

"Hey kiddo." The bespectacled man put down his T-Spheres. "Whatcha doing?"

"Felicity's busy right now so.." He set down the bag. "Curtis, this has to remain secret with us. Ok, my dad cannot know about this."

"Ok, buddy, what's wrong?"

Taking a deep breath, the teenager hesitantly reached into his bag and pulled out the broken pieces of the Green Arrow's bow.

Curtis stood there, frozen in shock. He absentmindedly dropped his screwdriver and took the pieces in his hands.

"Oh God." He breathed out. "I knew Oliver had lost this but...Oh my God. If your dad finds out about this, I don't actually want to think at the moment because I don't even know what to think! I don't even know if I can think!"

"Curtis!" William yelled. "Focus. I'm not allowed to put a fingerprint this thing, let alone sit on it! Curtis, if we don't fix it-"

"Wait, wait, wait." Curtis put a hand up and a smile was itching on his lips. "You did what?"

"I sat on it but that's not-"

Immediately, Curtis was snickering and it was obvious he was trying to keep it down. "Oh this is kind of terrifying but hilarious. I can't believe, you actually sat on the Green Arrow's bow!"

"Curtis, focus!" William snapped. "My parents are gonna be back from the office in less than 2 hours, and if they see this." He waved one half of the broken bow. "They are going to kill me and let me warn you, it shall not be done with mercy."

"Can't you just call your dad and explained what happened?" Curtis asked. "I mean he won't get mad at you. Not that he won't get mad at you for lying, just that he won't get mad at you for sitting on his bow."

"No, Curtis you don't get it." William pleaded. "If my father, THE Green Arrow finds out I sat on his bow, he won't be angry. He'll bury me alive and dance on my grave." He even made his fingers dance to emphasize his point.

"Come on, you're exaggerating." Curtis exclaimed. "I mean Rene was going to testify against your dad, but now we've all learned to trust each other, even you after you learned your dad lied to you. Not in the bad way, which now that I think about it sounds really bad but still,"

"Curtis!" William interrupted him. "I get it, thanks. But this is different, this is personal to Dad. I can't do this to him. Now come on, we don't have much time."

"Right." Curtis rubbed his hands together. "Now where's that superglue?" And just like that, the duo got to work.


Curtis was very friendly to William. When he was younger he didn't interact too often with him but everytime, they became video game besties and then the relationship grew and they became good friends. Curtis loved kids and William found his sense of humor kind of funny, so they clicked almost instantly. He was almost like Felicity but unlike with his stepmother, when his dad wasn't around, he could discuss guy things with Curtis and with his help, William learned how to operate the computers in the Bunker when Felicity didn't want him within 10 feet of the bunker. Of course his father was angry with Curtis but he warmed up to the idea of having his son near such dangerous equipment and that was how William started learning how to use the bow and arrow.


Speaking of which, it took a lot of sweat and elbow grease but they managed to piece back together the Green Arrow's bow completely, with no complications, no risk of it falling apart and no evidence that it was damaged at all.

"Ta," Curtis started.

"Da." William finished and they high fived each other. But suddenly, William's phone rang.

"Hey Dad." He answered.

"William." His father's voice wasn't too happy. "I just came home and your school bag is still here. Why are you in the bunker and why didn't you tell any of us, including Raisa?"

All the blood ran out of William's face. He had completely forgotten that his dad asked Curtis to install GPS in William's phone when he got it as a 14th birthday present.

"Uh…" He chuckled nervously. "Funny story actually." He turned around only to see Curtis run away from the table.

"Why don't you explain that story to me?" Oliver asked from behind, literally behind William as he turned off his phone.

"Hi Dad." William chuckled. "You look sharp today."

Oliver raised a blonde eyebrow at him. "Curtis! Come out here."


Even though Oliver wasn't totally pissed at William for breaking his bow, he was still mad at him for not telling his father about it. After all, even when you have teammates, you never know when the city could be under attack.

So William felt relieved when he was grounded for a week, instead of the rest of his life.

But for Curtis and William, it was a sweet success for the video game besties.


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