Family Time

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Ollie is relaxing at home. Specifically, he is lounging on the couch with his "granddaughter" Lian beside him. Between Brickwell, Onomatopoeia and the JLA, he's barely seen her since she came to stay with him. But with Roy off in retreat purifying himself, Lian's staying a few more days. And now that the freak with the bullseye mask is in jail (

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*yawns*

Not sleepy.... Wanna watch ... wanna watch Dark Crystal.

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Ollie smiles. It's the third time today for Dark Crystal, but he doesn't mind.

Dark Crystal it is, then.

By the time the disc is in the machine, Lian is asleep, but he knows from experience that if he takes it out now she'll wake up, so he settles down to watch, his hand on her head.

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Cheshire creeps from empty room to room, moving as soundlessly as she possibly can so as not to arouse awareness of her presence until it is far too late.

While she is aware that challenging Green Arrow in his own home where he would have a natural advantage is hardly a venture without immense risk, she also knows that Roy is gone and in Shiva's possession-not that she actually cared to know the reason behind that development-along with his son. As long as Dinah Lance did not appear and use her troublesome bird-cry to blast her through a wall or window, things would remain more even.

The wood creaks unpleasantly beneath her next step and she freezes. What might normally be dismissed in an ordinary household may have just announced her presence...

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Ollie turns his head towards the sound, but not enough to bring the assassin into sight.

Mia? I thought you had that Math quiz to cram for? Summer school was your idea, remember.