Emerald Wings Chapter 1: Aftermath and Start, a justice league fanfic

EMERALD WINGS

Disclaimer: I do not own any DC related characters in this fiction.

John/Shayera. From Starcrossed Lovers to the unknown…

Aftermath and Start

Space Sector 2814

Justice League Watch Tower

The distress call had come in at a very inopportune time. The only members of the Justice League present were presently avoiding each other and when the call came in, they had both gone to the control room to respond and unfortunately they bumped into each other. As big as the Watch Tower was they would have eventually, run into one another so it was inevitable but its inevitability did not mean that it had to happen so soon. Ever since the Green Lantern John Stewart had told Shayera about his future sojourn and the subsequent meeting with their son, their previously mending bridge had suffered a setback.

After the chaotic events with Carter Hall and the Shadow King, John had felt that Shayera had a right to know. His confession might have seemed to be an attempt to reconcile with his love but he had decided to stay with Marie and that had been that. He still loved Shayera but he had chosen Marie, through a sense of loyalty and his own growing feelings for her that had grown with the time they had been together. Marie was stable, warm and safe, qualities that had not been present in the temperamental Shayera Hol.

Overall, John thought he handled the situation well. He had found himself in an untenable position, where he held information that affected the future. Given how unstable time travel was he could not be sure how it would play out and so he had sat on his inside information, biding his time. He hoped that the future would happen on its own. He knew that he still loved Shayera but with all that had happened; he also felt the adage "Love isn't enough" applied.

Finding that the duty rooster had stationed him along with Shayera for Tower duty did not give him pleasant feelings. Some of the League were helping in an off world conflict and the others had gone to their respective cities and towns to help in the aftermath of the Darkseid\Brainiac invasion. He had no active Lantern engagements, and Shayera did not have anything on her plate and so it was not so farfetched that they would end up on the same shift. Before the distress call had come in, they had been trying their best to avoid each other. Since their terse greeting earlier on, they had spent their time apart. John himself had gone to his temporary quarters and Shayera had said something about going to the training room.

He remembered seeing her when he came in and the flood of memories of their brief time together assaulted. Bringing with them feelings he had tried to keep hidden, especially since his relationship with Marie began. She was still the most beautiful women he had seen and that would never change. Her fiery red hair an identifier of her red hot temper, her deep green eyes showing unimagined depths. She was an enigma that would take forever to understand. His mind was straying and he needed to bring it back to the present. They had just received a distress call and he needed to focus on situation.

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Shayera Hol had gone through a range of emotions when John had told her his secret. At the time, she had wanted more from John but she had settled for an account of the future from Batman. She clearly remembered his clear analytical voice, informing her of the events that the Time villain Chronos had caused and the future they had witnessed. Batman had told her about their meeting with the decimated Justice League Unlimited and with the future version of hers and John's son. Warhawk. So much was in that one name. Each statement Batman had given had brought up a thousand questions and hearing them from him did not give her much comfort. Finding out she had a son with John was a bit of a shock and she had needed so much more, but he had closed that door. Confessing his long hidden truth and then leaving it at that. How could he, she had raged. He had given her such a callous confession and a shattering of her heart all in one conversation. If she did not love him with her very soul she would have knocked his head clear off.

Batman had described the meeting of father and son as something significant and he had told her of the way John and Rex and had taken to each other. John accepting the man as if he had known him his whole life and warming up to rex in what would be seen as a drastic change in character of the always on edge Green Lantern. After that conversation she had calmed down a little bit and she had found herself contemplating a what might be scenario.

Before she could fully explore information and its impact and she could have her curiosity slacked, the Darkseid\Brainiac saga had occurred. It threw out the chance of getting the time to work thorough everything.

She had planned to confront John and to have a long talk but with all the drama going on she never got the chance. In the aftermath of the destroyer's departure, she found it harder and harder to confront the Green Lantern whom she had given her heart. She still loved him, that much she knew and accepted, the brief fling with Carter was just a distraction. It was something that did not have the substance of her relationship with John even in its current state. He had a large place in her heart that she thought no one could move or replace. That was before she found out about a future son she shared with the love of her life. This as yet born or seemingly never to be born child had somehow found a place within her heart, a place slowly growing with everyday. Every time she imagined what he looked, how he sounded, how he walked, she would find that strange feeling she attributed to him would grow. It was weird she was having feelings for someone who did not even exist.

She had greeted John when he had come in to take up his post along and after that, she had gone to the training room, to work off a little steam. She had not said anything to him then seeing as they were on duty. Thinking about her duty brought her back to the present. They had received a distress call and with that, she could find a real life person to take out her frustrations on.

"Emergency, Emergency, can anybody read me. Over!" came a male voice over communication channel.

"Emergency! We are under attack from hostile forces and require assistance" the voice continued.

"Is any body there, Over" the voice finished.

"This is the Green Lantern of this sector, please identify yourself." John replied.

"Oh, thank you." The voice on the other end said, the relief evident in his voice. "My name is Ark'Thur of Vargis 5."

"Who is attacking you" Shayera cut in to the conversation, her voice clearly showing her agitation with how the conversation was going.

"My ship is under attack from a Gordanian battle cruiser and we need help." Ark'Thur relpied.

"Did you say Gordanian!" Shayera Hol exclaimed. "Were on our way" she said after the shock had worn off.

John shared her surprise and shock, Gordanians in this sector was alarming. Shayera's out burst had brought John out of his thoughts and what really made him pay attention was Shayera's sudden flight towards the hanger.

"Shayera wait!" he shouted but it she was already on her way.

"Darn woman!" he cursed to himself before he let the familiar Emerald energy envelop his form thus giving him the ability to defy the artificial Watch Tower gravity. He then pursued his hotheaded team member.

He found her in the launch bay readying the Javelin 7 for launch.

"Hold on Shayera" he said. "We need to find out exactly what is going before we rush into such a situation"

She turned her sharp gaze towards him.

"I already know the situation. The murderers of my people are out there and I intend to stop them from hurting anyone else," She said in an even tone of voice. "Your military strategy won't change the fact that every second we waste could mean someone's life."

Javelin 7 ready for launch an electronic voice said.

"We can't just blindly jump into this situation without finding out as much information as possible," John said trying to reason with her.

"I know enough. There are bad guys and we stop the bad guys" she said in a sharp voice. "Are you coming or what?" she asked as she stepped into the Javelin.

He contemplated his options for a split second and then he followed her into the spacecraft. Someday had to keep a level head and knowing her and the subject matter her objectivity was truly in question.

Her blood was boiling. The murders of her people, the cause of her casting out from both races, which she regarded as her own. This was clear and simple. She would stop them for those people in danger and for her lost people. Activating the tracker in the Javelin, she locked onto the distress signal and she then noticed John float into the seat next to her his presence bringing a brief moment of peace. The launch doors opened and she fired the thrusters and the ship blasted out of the hanger. A Javelin aimed at the heart of a deadly foe.

AN: My way of the GL/HG drama. It will go from the end of the Justice League series to the official JLU and beyond.

I haven't seen Any JLU episode but I know enough. If I have messed up anything please tell me.