maskormenacelogs | ( closed ) i want my friend back

WHO: Hal Jordan and Clark Kent
WHERE: Clark's place
WHEN: Some random date before Christmas
WHAT: Hal Jordan whines about Oliver Queen
WARNINGS: n/a

[Oliver Queen had told Hal he had no idea who he was and it was like his whole world came crashing down. Their friendship should have been a universal constant. He didn't think it was possible for them not to know each other. He had refused to believe it at first, but as time passed it slowly started to sink in. It got harder to live under the same roof as him. Every time he saw the other man he kept expecting a moustache to appear and for him to make some remark on poverty or chilli and then Hal spent less and less time at the apartment given to him.

Today he's avoiding going back by hanging out with Clark. Hal had asked to meet up but he's mostly moping and flicking through all the channels available on tv. Eventually he sighs and turns it off before looking over at Clark.]

Did you know Ollie's here?

[He had to say something about it to someone eventually.]

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[Clark had patiently waited for the other shoe to drop the moment Hal had called him.

It wasn't that he never hung out with the man, or that they didn't spend time together. Especially now that the hero:civilian ratio was almost event and they didn't have to run every time there was a catastrophe, or that Hal didn't have to go back to the Guardians every Tuesday. But he wasn't so blind, he knew the difference between hanging out and... "hanging out", and it was obvious something was bothering Hal enough to need an ear to talk to.

As soon as he speaks, the reason is clear.]

Is he? [He must have missed it. And he knows it's almost impossible to miss a certain man as he yells around about poverty... which means this man wasn't yelling. Which means, it wasn't their Ollie.

Hm.]

Is he very different?

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