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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: DCU (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types, Spectre (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) & Helen Jordan II | Hal Jordan's Niece, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) & Jessica Jordan, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) & Martin Jordan, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) & Justice League Characters: Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Helen Jordan II | Hal Jordan's Niece, Materna Minnx Additional Tags: Slow Build, Adoption, Rebuilding Coast City, Family Bonding, Religious Content, Memory Alteration, Past Child Abuse, Complicated Relationships, Fix-It of Sorts, Hal Jordan-centric (Green Lantern), Hal Jordan's Fast and Loose Relationship with Gender, he's a dad in a mom way to me Summary:
'Her face did something complicated then, and her mouth, perfectly angular and red as a cut garnet, performed another feat he didn’t think it capable of: soften.
'“I’m sorry,” she said as the sky mantled a gentle, sanguine pink behind her. “There’s been an accident.”'
When Hal Jordan is miraculously returned to life with the Spirit of Redemption lifted from him, he thinks he understands why. Then the Presence takes his older brother from him, returns the ring he used to commit untold atrocities and leaves him to care for a niece he didn't even know he had, and suddenly, that illusion is shattered. As Helen slowly reveals herself to be more than a normal girl and the memories of the soul he'd left behind start impacting his new life, Hal must learn to accept the man he once was or risk never becoming who the world and, more importantly, Helen need him to be.
The story of Hal Jordan's return as told through relationships, new and old, which redeem him again, and again, and again.
Or
A retelling of the events post-Spectre (2001) incorporating Hal's previous lore because I don't think it was that hard, Geoff.
















