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Chapter 2
Oasis
Holly at a table in the far corner of the room, soft drink in hand as she mindlessly stirred it with her straw. She was dressed as her doppelganger, Lilly Amanda Lowenstien. Her body double was known to the world as the daughter of a reclusive wealthy electronics tycoon, unlike her father, she enjoyed the public eye and had recently taken up modeling. Holly loved dressing as Lilly because she got to act a lot older than she actually due to the fact that Lilly was sixteen, according to all her records (created for her by Tess). A cherry red dress hung tightly to her body, showing her perfectly toned legs in the slit up the side that reached up to her upper thigh. On her feet was her favorite pair of red Jimmy Choo peep toe heels. Her blonde wig hung in loose ringlets down the exposed back of her dress. She stared around the beautiful grotto like room,that had been decorated to like an authentic rocky oasis with real rocks and fountains that looked like springs, to her it was somewhat tacky. Her eyes caught on the head table where her father stood talking to Oliver, forever the intrepid reporter, notebook in hand so it appeared that he was simply interviewing the billionaire CEO. Tess was nearby speaking with one of the dignitaries in the room. Seeing Tess prompted her to look around the room, searching for the rest of her extended family weather they were in disguise or not.
In one corner she saw her Uncle AC with his wife Mera, looking like themselves, but masquerading as important visitors from Australia, which meant their daughter Ariela was here too. Continuing to sweep her gaze around the room, she found her. Not in disguise of course, she and her family weren't in the public eye enough to really need one. She was dressed in a deep blue floor length dress that hugged her figure perfectly, her chestnut brown hair in some complicated curly mess on top of her head. She was speaking to a tall blonde haired boy with grey eyes, laughing with him as they shared a joke. Realizing whom the blonde was she got up and quickly moved to their side of the room.
"Ugh, what are you doing here, your not supposed to show your face till thanksgiving," she said, pretending to be annoyed as she stared into the disguised, yet smiling face of her big brother.
"And I don't understand how Mom and Dad ever let you out of the house in that getup." He said quietly, so only she and Ariela could hear.
"They didn't, I left afterwards, a model must always be fashionably late." Holly joked.
Her brother laughed and rolled his eyes, then looked serious. "So, Dad called in all sorts of reinforcements for tonight, he seems really on edge too. I have a bad feeling about this, although I cant see anything." He said referring to his x-ray vision.
"I do too, something feels off, must be a family thing" Holly winked although her hand was nervously moving to the hidden garter on her leg, specially made to carry her throwing knives. Her father had taught her never to kill, but something told her that if it meant protecting those she loved she could.
"Seriously guys, doesn't it defeat the purpose of being in disguise if your all huddled in some sort of secret looking pow-wow?" A voice said behind us, Holly turned, expecting to see Flynn in disguise but instead came face to face with her Uncle Bart Allen, looking dignified in an all black suit with a bright red tie, he shook my brothers hand and winked at Ariela.
"Bart! It's been ages! I was wondering when you were gonna pop up!" She exclaimed quietly.
"Apparently it has! You've grown into quite the young lady!" he smiled appraising Holly's appearance "but I'm not sure how I feel about that dress." Holly rolled her eyes. What was with the men in her life thinking she was still twelve? Seeing her reaction Bart smiled, and squeezed her shoulder.
"You look beautiful, I'm just going to have to get used to it, that's all." He said.
"Thanks Uncle B, How are Courtney and the baby?" Holly asked.
Bart grimaced a little, "Well, lets just say the hormones are kinda making her crazy. She hates being cooped up. When she heard something might go down tonight she wanted to be here so bad, but we cant risk it now that she's due any minute, I just pray to god that it wont be tonight. I feel like I need to be here, but I'm going to go find your father. Ill see you later Lilly." He said, winking as he used her doppelgangers name.
She turned back toward her brother and Ariela.
"Ari, how are you? It's been awhil…" Holly began to ask her, when there was a tug on her dress. She looked down, there staring up at her with wide brown eyes was Flynn's little brother Tristan Queen. His parents didn't require him to disguise yet, mostly because without superpowers he was too young to be able to do much in way of protecting the family yet. That was Flynn's job.
"Lilly! Have you seen my brother?" Holly thought for a moment looking at her diamond encrusted watch that had been a thirteenth birthday present from Tess, the dinner had been going for almost two hours and she hadn't seen Flynn yet. Which was odd considering the fact that Flynn was so enamored with Ariela that he usually followed her around like a puppy dog at these sorts of events. Ari would have none of it though; her parents wanted her to marry one of her own kind. Like they had done. Besides, Ariela wasn't exactly the rebellious type. She got along with her parents to well to screw that up for Flynn. Holly looked back down at the little blonde boy at her feet.
"No sweetie, I haven't. That doesn't mean he's not here though, if you keep looking Ill start looking too. How does that sound?" Holly said bending down to his level, and brushing a strand of his blonde curls behind his ear. He smiled a toothy smile at her, nodded and took off across the room. Straightening up Holly looked at Ari and her brother with a worriedly; Holly could tell they were thinking the same thing she was when there was a loud CRASH! And half the ceiling began to cave in. But, as the room began to crumble around her, Holly noticed something else, green dust among the normal colored grey dust that could mean only one thing, kryptonite. She cursed, there was no way this was an accident. Her fear was confirmed as she saw her brother collapse behind her. She couldn't hear anything through the crash of the ceiling. That was when she realized something else. It was hot, too hot; she was already beginning to sweat which could mean only one thing, someone had cranked up the heat, they would have had to. Which meant, AC, Mera and Ariela were not only without their powers but in serious danger as well. If they were exposed to dry heat for too long it would kill them. By now Holly was hacking attempting to clear all the dust from her lungs. She knew it was dangerous for any human to be exposed this much kryptonite at one time. She needed to find anyone that wasn't affected by the dust, she needed help. She needed to get everyone out. She wandered blindly through the room. Till she finally bumped someone, Bart appeared out of the rubble. Thanking her lucky stars she gave him a hand to his feet.
"Bart, thank God. I need your help, there's kryptonite dust everywhere and, I'm sure you feel the heat, you have to get my Dad, Conner, AC, Mera and Ariela out. "
He nodded, and then took off to search for them. Holly called out, for someone, anyone. She knew she had to be careful though, chances were whoever had set off the explosion knew her dad and brothers identities as well as her Aunt and Uncles. If she was correct in thinking, they didn't know her disguise or they would have tried to take her out of the equation as well. Again she wondered where Flynn was. The dust had begun to coat her throat now. She almost stumbled as she stubbed her toe on a body lying at her feet. Bending down and straining to see through the dust in the room she realized that the body belonged to Tess Mercer. She had a deep gash across her forehead and was out cold, biting back tears of worry, Holly knelt at her side.
"Tess, TESS please NO, TESS!" she found herself screaming as she searched for a pulse. She found one, but it was faint, as though her body was struggling with the effort to even allow her heart to beat. She needed a hospital; she needed her husband, the league's Doctor, Emil Hamilton. She knew that Tess didn't have much time. Holly screamed for help but she knew no one would hear her, the rubble and dust was too thick. She held Tess's body close, her tears falling like rain onto her surrogate Aunt's deep purple cocktail dress. Then there was a hand on her shoulder, she turned around and stared into the eyes of her mother. Lois Lane.
"Mom, She's barely breathing, she needs a Hospital! And I sent Bart to get the others out. " Lois nodded and stroked her daughters head.
"I know sweetie, I was next to your father when Bart found us, Bart said to find you, tell you that he got your brothers and the Currys out before the heat and the kryptonite could do too much damage." She trailed off.
"What about the others, Ollie and Chloe? Tristan?" Holly asked, Lois shook her head.
"Gone, Bart couldn't find them anywhere. The blast must have been a distraction so that people could kidnap them." She looked at me, "We think they might have captured Flynn too, earlier, before the party. That's why he never showed up." Hearing this my heart almost gave out in my chest, causing more tears to fall. But my arms stiffed then as Tess began to stir in them.
"Tess! TESS Are you alright?" I exclaimed
"Hol," she said shakily, gulping for air. "Hol, im not going to make it, you have to get out of here. Find anyone you can and get out," she gulped again "They have the Queen family, all of them, and they won't stop until they get what they want. You mustn't give them what they want." Her eyelids were starting to droop now, her voice getting softer. Her hand reached weakly up to take Holly's "I am so proud of you, you truly have grown into a beautiful strong woman." She drew another deep rasping breath. "A letter…. In the safe at Watchtower, Emil knows the combonation, for you. Read it. Tell Emil that I love him, and that I'm sorry for not telling him, tell everyone I, I" she struggled to speak. " Love them, love you." she breathed one last time and then went limp in Holly's arms.
Holly was in shock. She couldn't speak, she barely even felt it when there was a whoosh of air behind her and Bart picked her up. She screamed for Tess, she wasn't going to leave without her. But, Lois took up Holly's position next to Tess's body and helped her into the speedster's arms. Holly continued to scream as Bart supersped her away, through an opening in the rubble and out into the black of the Metropolis night.