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Title: New Life Daybreak
Author: dynus
Claim: Connor Hawke and Jason Todd AU friendship/relationship
Characters/Pairing: Connor Hawke, Jason Todd, Oliver Queen, Roy Harper, mentions of Batman and Dick Grayson and Lian Harper.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1076
Prompt: # 37- Writer's choice- "In the Beginning..."
Summary: Connor, at age fifteen, was take out of the monostary his mother put him by Oliver Queen and becomes the second Speedy and meeting, and eventually befriending, the second Robin.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Both belong to DC.
Author's Notes/Warnings: I had two AUs walk into my head today, this one is a bit more fun and open to crackyness, so I decided to play with this one first. This fic is a big departure from my usual style of writing. But I wanted to play around with words, see if I could merge my poetic side with my fictional side (PS, yes I have poems posted on my writing journal, but they’re old so not as good as the ones I write now.) I don’t think I managed to get what I wanted done style wise, but, hey, it’s step in the right direction. Story wise, I like what happened, it covers a lot of stuff quickly.
I
Connor only spent a year in the monastery when a strange man took him out of it. When he asked man who he was, the man, who had been sorta twitchy all day, got really still and told him that he was his father.
That day suddenly went from the most confusing day in Connor’s life to the best day in his life.
The man wanted to know everything about him, and so Connor told him; about the kids who used to make fun of him because he looked different, to how his mom just couldn’t handle anything, to her bad boyfriends, to his hero the Green Arrow.
His father smiled a lot when he talked about the Green Arrow. His father told him he was a fan of the Green Arrow too.
II
Star City was a new beginning for Connor. He wasn’t sure he wanted to go back to school, but his father insisted. He was grateful that his dad sent him to a public school instead of a private one. He heard stories of private schools; that they were even meaner to kids who were different. And he was so very aware of how different he was.
His first day of school was nerve wrecking, like wrecking ball knocking over buildings wrecking. Some kids did laugh at him for having a bald head, and he felt his old temper, the temper that monks had been so adamant about him controlling, flare up, but he took some deep breaths and ignored them. At least he wasn’t laughed at because his skin, as there were other mixed kids in the school, but none, he knew, had blond hair like he did. He wondered what would happen when his hair started to grow back.
He didn't want to make his father regret taking him in.
III
It took awhile, but he discovered the truth; Oliver Queen was the Green Arrow. At first he was upset and moody and refused to talk to his father. Ollie had been bemused at the silent treatment he was getting. But when Connor was suddenly wearing Batman t-shirts Ollie might have gotten point. If he did, he didn’t say it though.
It was two weeks into the silent treatment and Connor came down stairs to get a midnight snack and finding the Green Arrow very bloody and, to his adolescent eyes, so, so close to death, he broke the wall of silence he had built up and helped his father out his uniform and called the hospital.
He convinced his father to let him become Speedy the day Ollie came home from the hospital.
IV
Red was not Connor’s color. So he was wearing the brown of the monks. It wasn’t the best costume, but at least he didn’t look terrible. He refused to wear the hat though, and instead had a hood attached to his tunic instead. It had to cover his hair, after all, how many multiracial kids with golden blond hair were there? Not that many.
He was prepared for this. Since he had been taken in by his father a year ago he had continued his study of martial arts under the best instructors his dad could hire. Every summer he went and visited the monks for a couple of weeks, and trained and meditated there. He liked it there, it gave him peace and he found comfort in the teachings of Buddha. He continued to practice his archery, though he would never be the natural his father or Roy was.
V
Roy. He had met him. Ollie had taken him on a trip during spring break to meet some of his friends. Roy was going by Arsenal these days and had a daughter, also, Connor was quick to notice, half Asian. He was slightly scared of Roy though. Roy’s friend, Dick (Connor couldn’t believe he was called that) had noticed and must have said something to Roy which made the red head take him aside after lunch one day and they talked. After that Roy wasn’t so scary, but still left some big shoes for Connor to fill. Roy had laughed at that, a bitter nasty laugh like dregs of bitter coffee.
VI
Jason Todd was an annoying brat, Connor decided that on the first day they had met. He was a year younger than Connor, but had more experience under his belt, and he was rude, brash, and prone to violence. And he knew Jason actively called him (behind his back, in his face, ten feet away) an introverted hippie with an inferiority complex.
Somehow, probably only because they were the only members of the Titans in their age range, they became close, to the amusement of the rest of the team.
VII
He and Jason became friends and, like the first Speedy and Robin, began to help each other out. When Jason was fired from being Robin Bruce shipped him over to Star City. Connor had over heard his Dad over the phone with Bruce and that it had to do with Jason’s mother.
Needless to say that Jason wasn’t happy when he arrived on the Queen’s door step. Connor didn’t put on the Speedy costume the whole time Jason stayed. Jason had told him not be stupid and go out and do his thing, but Connor knew that Jason was grateful to Connor for staying with him.
VIII
Jason became Robin again, but his relationship with Batman was strained ever since. Connor offered to take Jason to the ashram with him one summer and Jason accepted.
Jason would never be able to meditate like he did, but he liked to think that the experience was good for Jason.
IX
Jason quite being Robin a year after the “mom incident” and somehow, using some sort of bat trick, convinced Connor to move with him to good old L.A. with him.
His dad was all for this for some reason. And it made sense in away, he had graduated from high school, and was ready to go to college, something he hadn’t really considered, he had applied to several colleges, and been accepted into all of them, but he hadn’t thought about actually going. He had wanted to continue his studies at the monastery with the monks… and that was probably why his dad was for it.
So Connor Hawke was accepted into the University of California L.A. Branch, and would be starting in January. Jason would finish up high school and possibly join him.
Now all he needed was a new code name. And there was no way in hell that he was going by Brown Arrow.
Author: dynus
Claim: Connor Hawke and Jason Todd AU friendship/relationship
Characters/Pairing: Connor Hawke, Jason Todd, Oliver Queen, Roy Harper, mentions of Batman and Dick Grayson and Lian Harper.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1076
Prompt: # 37- Writer's choice- "In the Beginning..."
Summary: Connor, at age fifteen, was take out of the monostary his mother put him by Oliver Queen and becomes the second Speedy and meeting, and eventually befriending, the second Robin.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Both belong to DC.
Author's Notes/Warnings: I had two AUs walk into my head today, this one is a bit more fun and open to crackyness, so I decided to play with this one first. This fic is a big departure from my usual style of writing. But I wanted to play around with words, see if I could merge my poetic side with my fictional side (PS, yes I have poems posted on my writing journal, but they’re old so not as good as the ones I write now.) I don’t think I managed to get what I wanted done style wise, but, hey, it’s step in the right direction. Story wise, I like what happened, it covers a lot of stuff quickly.
I
Connor only spent a year in the monastery when a strange man took him out of it. When he asked man who he was, the man, who had been sorta twitchy all day, got really still and told him that he was his father.
That day suddenly went from the most confusing day in Connor’s life to the best day in his life.
The man wanted to know everything about him, and so Connor told him; about the kids who used to make fun of him because he looked different, to how his mom just couldn’t handle anything, to her bad boyfriends, to his hero the Green Arrow.
His father smiled a lot when he talked about the Green Arrow. His father told him he was a fan of the Green Arrow too.
II
Star City was a new beginning for Connor. He wasn’t sure he wanted to go back to school, but his father insisted. He was grateful that his dad sent him to a public school instead of a private one. He heard stories of private schools; that they were even meaner to kids who were different. And he was so very aware of how different he was.
His first day of school was nerve wrecking, like wrecking ball knocking over buildings wrecking. Some kids did laugh at him for having a bald head, and he felt his old temper, the temper that monks had been so adamant about him controlling, flare up, but he took some deep breaths and ignored them. At least he wasn’t laughed at because his skin, as there were other mixed kids in the school, but none, he knew, had blond hair like he did. He wondered what would happen when his hair started to grow back.
He didn't want to make his father regret taking him in.
III
It took awhile, but he discovered the truth; Oliver Queen was the Green Arrow. At first he was upset and moody and refused to talk to his father. Ollie had been bemused at the silent treatment he was getting. But when Connor was suddenly wearing Batman t-shirts Ollie might have gotten point. If he did, he didn’t say it though.
It was two weeks into the silent treatment and Connor came down stairs to get a midnight snack and finding the Green Arrow very bloody and, to his adolescent eyes, so, so close to death, he broke the wall of silence he had built up and helped his father out his uniform and called the hospital.
He convinced his father to let him become Speedy the day Ollie came home from the hospital.
IV
Red was not Connor’s color. So he was wearing the brown of the monks. It wasn’t the best costume, but at least he didn’t look terrible. He refused to wear the hat though, and instead had a hood attached to his tunic instead. It had to cover his hair, after all, how many multiracial kids with golden blond hair were there? Not that many.
He was prepared for this. Since he had been taken in by his father a year ago he had continued his study of martial arts under the best instructors his dad could hire. Every summer he went and visited the monks for a couple of weeks, and trained and meditated there. He liked it there, it gave him peace and he found comfort in the teachings of Buddha. He continued to practice his archery, though he would never be the natural his father or Roy was.
V
Roy. He had met him. Ollie had taken him on a trip during spring break to meet some of his friends. Roy was going by Arsenal these days and had a daughter, also, Connor was quick to notice, half Asian. He was slightly scared of Roy though. Roy’s friend, Dick (Connor couldn’t believe he was called that) had noticed and must have said something to Roy which made the red head take him aside after lunch one day and they talked. After that Roy wasn’t so scary, but still left some big shoes for Connor to fill. Roy had laughed at that, a bitter nasty laugh like dregs of bitter coffee.
VI
Jason Todd was an annoying brat, Connor decided that on the first day they had met. He was a year younger than Connor, but had more experience under his belt, and he was rude, brash, and prone to violence. And he knew Jason actively called him (behind his back, in his face, ten feet away) an introverted hippie with an inferiority complex.
Somehow, probably only because they were the only members of the Titans in their age range, they became close, to the amusement of the rest of the team.
VII
He and Jason became friends and, like the first Speedy and Robin, began to help each other out. When Jason was fired from being Robin Bruce shipped him over to Star City. Connor had over heard his Dad over the phone with Bruce and that it had to do with Jason’s mother.
Needless to say that Jason wasn’t happy when he arrived on the Queen’s door step. Connor didn’t put on the Speedy costume the whole time Jason stayed. Jason had told him not be stupid and go out and do his thing, but Connor knew that Jason was grateful to Connor for staying with him.
VIII
Jason became Robin again, but his relationship with Batman was strained ever since. Connor offered to take Jason to the ashram with him one summer and Jason accepted.
Jason would never be able to meditate like he did, but he liked to think that the experience was good for Jason.
IX
Jason quite being Robin a year after the “mom incident” and somehow, using some sort of bat trick, convinced Connor to move with him to good old L.A. with him.
His dad was all for this for some reason. And it made sense in away, he had graduated from high school, and was ready to go to college, something he hadn’t really considered, he had applied to several colleges, and been accepted into all of them, but he hadn’t thought about actually going. He had wanted to continue his studies at the monastery with the monks… and that was probably why his dad was for it.
So Connor Hawke was accepted into the University of California L.A. Branch, and would be starting in January. Jason would finish up high school and possibly join him.
Now all he needed was a new code name. And there was no way in hell that he was going by Brown Arrow.