𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘢
𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘐 𝘢𝘪𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶
The five times Robin fell in love with a Red Lantern and the one time she fell harder five years later.
Nightwing x OC
Yo...
a/n: keeping Hal's POV for a chapter more because i adore this man being a father to the two most chaotic Lanterns to exist and because there's a war on Tiktok again over him
and i'll give this poor girl a break and a well deserved vacation soon, I SWEAR IT
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"Zaria... you're glowing red again. That's never a good sign when it comes to you."
"You're never going to believe this!" Zaria exclaimed, slamming her fist on the table. "The Guardians want another Council, Dad! ANOTHER TRIAL!"
"Another!?" Kyle yelled. "Last time you died and look at what brought you back!"
I froze.
Another trial...
My jaw tightened before I even realized it had. The room felt smaller. Brighter. Too bright. The light from the kitchen windows refracted strangely off the table's surface, yellow flaring at the edges of my vision like a trick of the eyes.
"Another trial," I repeated slowly, forcing my voice to stay even. Calm. Reasonable. "For what, exactly?"
"Overstepping authority for mastering the Emotional Spectrum, according to Sayd," Zaria dragged a hand through her hair, the red glow around her Ring flickering like an exposed nerve. "Ganthet tried to mediate, but apparently it wasn't enough."
Something twitched in my chest.
Overstepping authority.
The words scraped the inside of my skull, wrong in a way I couldn't quite name. I felt heat crawl up my spine, sharp and familiar, like the second before a construct snaps into place.
I leaned back in my chair, crossing my arms, forcing myself to breathe through my nose.
"Overstepping authority," I said again, this time with a faint scoff. "Funny how that phrase always shows up when someone does something the Guardians can't control."
"Hal..." Carol warned, glancing down at my Ring. "This time it's different and I don't like this any more than you do, but Zaria mastering the Spectrum on the way that she has... It does present some major problems."
"Problems for who?" I asked, sharper than I meant to. I cleared my throat and forced a half-smile. "Because last I checked, she saved the Justice League, stopped a planetary collapse, and pulled a speedster out of the Speed Force. That sounds like a solution, not a problem."
Zaria opened her mouth, then hesitated. The red glow around her Ring flickered again, briefly deepening to something darker before snapping back to white.
"The Guardians don't see it that way," she said carefully. "They're... scared."
"They don't get to keep doing this," I said, more to myself than anyone else. "They don't get to keep putting our family on a stand like she's a weapon that malfunctioned."
