An: Short note this time, I had an idea and want to know what you guys (and girls) think. Anyway I had an idea to do a collection of one-shots and maybe a few double-shots about Tomar-Re's life before this story and maybe after. It would contain scenes like when he met Nazli, their first date, when he became a GL and when Tooey was born. Things like that. So what do you think? Would you read it? Please let me know. I actually went back and changed part of the last chapter, I changed Betah's age, she is twelve not ten and she lost her parents when she was two not four. One last thing, this chapter is sort of written to go along with the Nickleback song Far Away. I highly recommend that you listen to it while you read; I stole a few of the lines from the song for dialogue.

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Little Dark Sapphire: You caught that, I've been playing with the idea for a while. Tooey is adorable.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my thoughts. Mary belongs to KikaKatTIOI. Far Away belongs to Nickleback.

Italics for thoughts. Bold italics for flashbacks

The group gathered outside. Tomar-Re put Tooey down and walked over to Nazli who had her arms wrapped around herself, she was looking at the ground. "Hey," he said lifting her chin up," I'm not going to be gone long this time." Nazli looked at him with sad eyes.

Tooey grabbed Mary's hand and spun her around so she had her back to his parents. "What did you do that for?" Mary asked.

"I've seen Momma give Daddy that look before," Tooey said sticking his tongue out a little," That is the look they give each other right before they kiss, gross right?"

Mary laughed. She turned her head a little to look behind her. From what she saw Tomar-Re and Nazli must have just finished, as Nazli's wings were opening to reveal the couple embracing.

Nazli currently had her arms around Tomar-Re's neck and was resting her head on his shoulder, his arms encircled her. She nuzzled him a little. "I love you," Tomar-Re said to Nazli," and I miss you. I wanted to stay; I just need to hear you say it. "

"I love you and I forgive you. You've been far away for far too long," Nazli replied. She pushed herself off of her husband and gave him a sad smile. She reached and pulled a clear chain from around her neck, on the chain was Tomar-Re's ring. She undid the clasp, handed him the ring and stepped back.

Tomar-Re slid the ring onto his finger. "And I shall shed my light over dark evil, for the dark things cannot stand the light, the light of the Green Lantern," He said his oath as his GL suit covered his body.

Mary heard a small sniffle beside her. "Hey buddy what's wrong?" she asked as she crouched down to Tooey's eye level.

"I don't want you or Daddy to leave," He said rubbing one of his eyes.

"I'll make you a deal Tooey. Your dad and I are going to leave and soon he is going to come home to you and next time I visit how about you and me make sometime to play. You like that?" Tooey nodded and gave Mary a quick hug. She returned it before standing up.

"Are you ready to leave?" Tomar-Re asked. She nodded. Mary gave a quick wave to Nazli, who returned it with a smile. Then she and Tomar-Re took a couple steps back and started to float.

"By Daddy," Tooey said moving to beside his mom. Tomar-Re nodded before he and Mary took off.

They flew in silence for the whole time it took them to leave the atmosphere of Xudar. Mary noticed that as they flew away Tomar-Re kept looking over his shoulder.

"I need to cheer him up somehow," Mary thought to herself. She smiled when an idea came to her. She flew underneath Tomar-Re flipped over so she was looking up at him.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

Mary just smiled. "Oh nothing," she said," That is a lovely family you got there. I hate that I didn't get to meet Betah."

Tomar-Re chuckled. "You would have gotten along with her," he said looking down at her," She is just as annoying as you."

"Hey! That is not funny. Since when do you crack jokes?"

"Since it is going to take at least six hours to get to Oa, we need something to pass the time or you are going to die of boredom. As you have clearly said on previous occasions that we have had to travel great distances."

Mary groaned. Six hours would feel like an eternity. Mary moved to her previous position to Tomar-Re's left. She let her mind wonder as to something to talk about to fill the void.

- (Flashback) -

"Oh, Councilmen," the guard called just as they entered," There has been no sign of Romat-Ru."

"I understand," Mary replied," One last question though. Who is Romat-Ru?"

A flash of apprehension crossed Tekel's face. He spoke but he seemed to be carefully choosing his words. "Romat-Ru is a local problem. It is not someone you should be concerning yourself with."

"Please be careful. He is still at large," the guard said as Mary and Tomar-Re passed through the doors.

"I will," Tomar-Re called back. Mary shot him a confused look. He just shook his head and continued to walk down the steps.

"That is my older brother Romat-Ru," Nazli said placing the picture back.

-(Flashback Ends)-

"Oh my God!," Mary suddenly exclaimed as the realization hit her," Romat-Ru is Nazli's brother. He was said to be at large which means he is a felon."

Tomar-Re sighed. "I was hoping that you wouldn't catch on to that."

"Who is he?"

"Romat-Ru is my brother-in-law and a convicted serial killer."

"What!"

"We didn't know until he was to be arrested on a light charge. I was with the officers that searched his home and discovered the…" Tomar-Re said before pausing to look at Mary. She had a look that meant she wanted him to continue," bones of thousands of children."

Mary covered her mouth with of her hands. "That is awful," she said removing her hand," did you catch him."

"Yes we caught him several years ago. I took him to a Green Lantern detention center," Tomar-Re said calmly.

"So he got you then?"

"When most of the core was called to fight the Anti-Monitor the detention center was left understaffed and he got out."

"So he's coming after you then?"

"Well when I left him at the detention center he swore that one day he'd kill me, so yeah."

"Wow. I can't believe it."

"Neither could Nazli or I. I mean Romat-Ru had always been a little off but we never thought he would be capable of doing that."

"How about we change the subject?"

"That sound like a better idea, is there anything you would like to know about Xudar?"

"Actually I want to know if you have any good stories about Hal messing up," Mary said with a smile. Tomar-Re laughed.

Over the course of the five hours or so they had left to get to Oa Mary learned a few things. One was that Tomar-Re was a born story teller. The other was a huge amount of black mail material she now had to use against Hal.

They were maybe twenty minutes away from Oa when Tomar-Re asked for them to stop.

"Mary I have a favor to ask," He said as the stopped.

"Sure," she said.

"I ask that you not tell a single person about my family," he said looking form Oa to where they had come.

"Why not?"

"There is no one currently on Oa that knows I am married let alone had a son and I would like to keep it that way."

"No one. All this time no one knows."

"Ganthet knew because he was the one who gave me my ring and he met Nazli when he was there. He vowed to keep my personal life just that."

"Wow that is amazing."

"My family means the world to me."

"I get it. Believe me I understand the importance of family."

"So can you keep it a secret for me. I would like for the others not to know about my North Star."

"I promise. … Wait North Star?"

"Oops," Tomar-Re chuckled," I got the name for Hal Jordan. He had managed to get us lost during one of our shared missions and kept going on about how he wished he could find the North Star in the sky. I asked what he meant he told me that when he flew on Earth, he always used a certain star to find his way home. Xudar's sun is my North Star."

"That is really cool," Mary said looking back the way they had come. She knew that one of the stars she saw had to be Xudar's sun.

They continued on their way to Oa. Mary flying a little behind Tomar-Re, and she could help thinking to herself," There is a lot more to this uptight Lantern than I thought."

An: I'm going to clarify what in this chapter is headcannon and what is fact. What I said about Romat-Ru being a serial killer and how he was discovered is true. I got the idea to make him Nazli's brother when I realized he looked a lot like Tomar-Tu. In the show it is state (at least on the Wikia) that Tomar-Re is single so I made it that no one knows. I also changed that he got his ring from Ganthet not Appa Ali Apsa, only because I don't like Appa and I didn't think he would keep Tomar-Re's secret. Anyway one chapter left then it is done. *sigh* Review and tell me what you think.