I know that Quentin wasn't my father. Not... not the father that raised me, anyway. And... I guess I had just forgotten what it felt like to have someone who cared about me. And losing him, it was the worst pain that I've felt in a very long time. And I can only imagine how you must have felt after Vinny's death.
Listen, I don't expect you to forgive me. But I have to tell you that I am truly sorry about killing Vinny. And I hope one day, you'll see that I am not that person. Not anymore.
You know I went to MIT, right? It's, like, Harvard for computer geeks, with an acceptance rate of 6.7%, so if I can get in there, I can get in... pretty much anywhere. Except for here, which is why I had to resort to saying that we were sorority sisters.
On my Earth, I loved my father, and my Ollie, but they were taken away from me because they were murdered. It's when you lose the people who matter most, once you get through the grief, you get angry. You want revenge, and I took it. But the darkness... it swallows you the more you feed it, and digging yourself back out to the light, it's... it's really hard. In fact, I wish someone would have warned me before I got blood all over my hands the first time. Then maybe that way, I would have been more like your Laurel.
Uh, thanks, I'll pass, but, hey, maybe you should get back to witness protection and you should on back to Earth Two before you both remember you hate each other.
[on the phone] That doesn't make any sense. Mr. Queen has two hours of visitation left this month, so I suggest you get it straighted out, or I will have the U.S. Attorney so far up your ass that you'll have to turn to the left and cough.
Did you even bother to listen yourself in court? You spoke from your heart. Yeah, big surprise, by the way, you do have one. You said the hardest thing to do was to be a hero when no one expects you to be; the easier path is to be a criminal.
Black Siren
What do you care, anyway? If anybody knows the true me, the real me, it's you.
You know, you've been telling people for six months now you've changed. It wasn't until I saw you in that courtroom that I actually believed it. Do not throw that away just because it's getting hard now.
Diaz is in A.R.G.U.S. custody. He's not running around free. Trust me. I would be thrilled to see his head explode, but is it really worth the consequences?
Look, I don't know what you've heard about me, but basically, I had an affair with my sister's boyfriend, I allowed my family to think that I was dead, and then I became a league-trained assassin.
My point is even with someone with a past as checkered as mine can still turn their life around, can be a hero.
Black Siren
I was being a hero. I was the D.A., I got Oliver out of prison, and I was the only one who figured out that his little sister was basically the Devil, and they still turned on me.
So, what, you think you deserve a medal for trying to be good for 5 seconds? Redemption isn't a destination. It's a journey. I wasted years running away from all the bad things that I had done because I didn't want to face the pain that I caused because I didn't want to be that person, and I realized the only way to stop being that person was to come home and own up to things I had done, and, yeah, it was painful, and it took a really long time, but it was the only way to become someone else, someone better than who I was.
Black Siren
Well, that's great for you, but even if I wanted to change, it's a little bit too late because this is who I am.
My sister, Adrian, they're my family. They're... they're good people. They don't deserve to be gone. To think that I'm the one who's done such awful things.
When I was in Afghanistan, my unit got sent out on patrol on a day I drew base duty. It was a routine op. We'd done it a hundred times before. Only this time, there was an IED in the road. None of them made it back. I used to lie in bed at night asking myself "Why them? Why not me?". And I made every deal I could think of with any God I thought might be listening.
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Black Siren
