#lorena bertinelli

Finally some time for me to talk about my girls!!! (also I just mean time in my life, it's been a crazy couple of months)

So we will start with Astra Constantine

Astra is the only child (as of this moment) of John Constantine and Zatanna Zatara. Shortly after her birth, as in like hours, she was kidnapped by a demonic entity that was hell bent (no pun intended) on making both Constantine and Zatanna suffer for the good they're tried to do in the world. They went three years without know whatever happened to their baby girl. One day, while the Legends were battling a cult devoted to Mallus, they came across this toddler, who Zatanna instantly knew as her missing daughter. The cult had been given the child and told she would be the vessel for the return of Mallus and it was their duty as devout followers to ensure the child was ready for sacrifice upon her third year. The child had been given the name Astra, another jab at Constantine, about the girl he once failed to save, and to 'prove' to him he would always be doomed to repeat his same mistakes. Only this time watching his own child be consumed by evil. Thanks to the wonderful quick thinking of the rest of the legends team, and Nyssa literally willing to stare a crazed demon cult leader down, saying something along the lines of 'If the Demon's head did not frighten me, what makes you think you're pathetic excuse for worship stands a chance?' they recover their child and take her with them. Not wanting to scar the child further she retains the name Astra, but John and Zatanna decide to giver her the middle Nyssa, as a way of thanking her for saving their child. Astra spent the next 15-16 years living with her parents on and off the Waverider, depending on the missions at hand. Each year she grew more powerful in her craft, to the point that Constantine and Zantanna wonder if the entity that took her didn't do something to magnify her magic in someway. On her 18th birthday Astra received a vision imploring her that she must find a way to stop the demon Mallus from returning. Because his followers are still wide spread, and if they succeed in bringing him back, she will die. So she often teams up with Delilah Morningstar to go on solo missions to track down rogue cult members in order to save her eternal soul from being destroyed by a demon.

Now on to my Lorena Bertinelli

Lorena is the daughter of the notorious anti-hero/parttime? crimelord Helena Bertinelli and Duke Reginald Lancaster. Yep.... for a brief time Helena almost let the few men remaining her her family line dictate how her future would shape after prison. Get betrothed to a affluent man, have a few heirs, one of course for the Duke and a second to take over the Bertinelli family business. Shortly after Helena learned of her pregnancy she discovered Reggie was also being influenced into this betrothal from his own family, looking to make political gains with an american crime family in their back pocket. She also learned he still was not over his ex. So the two mutually decided to part ways. Reggie soon married said ex (name redacted because i don't know it's been discovered yet), and the two went on to have at least one son with each other (look i know he has other kids but like... i can't finds the notes on them). Helena then returned to Star City several months pregnant and regained control over her family's business with the help of fellow crime boss/gang leader Grey (first name redacted but this time I know it, i just don't think we've revealed it in a story yet). She wanted nothing more than for her and Lorena to reign over the crime families together and show the men that women could, and would do it better. Sometime during Lorena's childhood, Grey called upon Helena for a favor, he had recently taken in a young street kid into his gang, and while the kid had promise, the boy also had a little sister who wouldn't do well in the world alone. Lorena over heard the man remind Helena, that there were still favors she owed him for her current position over the families, and this would go a long way in clearing that debt. Helena agreed to his request and soon Venetia came to live with them, and was adopted into the Bertinelli family. And though Lorena could see her relatives looks of unrest at Helena bringing a child with no blood ties into the family fold, none of them spoke a word against it. As Lorena grew she started to see the gray areas her mom operated in as places she didn't want to go. Determined not to end up like her family, she contacted her bio father for his assistance in paying for university so she could study law and become a lawyer. She knew if she used the Bertinelli money they would feel like they could pressure her to break the law instead of uphold it. And because I love them I'm gonna add this bit in, Lorena met Owen Queen in a crappy dive bar one of her 2nd or 3rd cousins own. He was there to see a band, alone, on his birthday. She thought he was cute. They met, talked, hooked up.... then she discovered he was the little brother of one of her best friend's Mia Queen. By then the both were a little too far in their feelings to stop.

Her heart was stuck in a staccato rhythm, like each beat had to wrap itself around the chords he played. It was a trance, and she let herself fall into it each time

“Too corny?” Owen asked as he put his guitar down. “You can tell me if it is.”

“Huh,” Cami shook her head, letting the daydream that had played out to his words fall away. “No, are you kidding? You’re amazing, the song is amazing.”

She got up and started to move. Sometimes it was the only way to truly get out of the spell she let herself fall under. 

“Thanks, Cam,” he was fidgety. She could see it in the way his leg bounced. And she’d known Owen long enough to know, that he was distracted too.

“Did you talk to her?” She hadn’t brought it up all week, the giant elephant that sat in between every rehearsal and sound check. The information that formed a lump in the back of Cami’s throat every tie she looked at him.

He pulled something from his pocket, a folded piece of paper. It’s not the first time she’d seen it. He’d been carrying it for the last three years. 

“If you want answers for that letter, you have to go see her.”

“Maybe I don’t,” he looked up at her, his eyes full of pain. “Maybe I just... let it go. His voice dropped. “Maybe I can move on?”

She could almost imagine what came next. She could see his hand reach out to hers as he stood, and and feel his fingers as he brushed her hair back. She could hear the hesitation in his voice, just before he added her into that.

But she turned towards the piano, to keep him from seeing how much this effected her, but also to keep every one of those things from happening.

“I don’t think you’ll be able to move on, not until you talk to her,” she had enough strength to look at him again. “I think if you don’t then there is always gonna be a ‘what if’ over your head.” she smiled at him. “And I know you have too good of a heart to do that to a hypothetical someone else.”

He let out a slow breath as he stood, packing up his guitar case. “You really think I should?”

“Not many people get a second chance. Either to work things out or to say goodbye. But you two do, and you shouldn’t waste it.”

“You really believe in second chances?”

“Of course I do. Don’t you?”

“Yeah, I guess I do,” He smile. “Don’t tell Nik, but you give better advice.”

That made her laugh. “It’s because I’m the better friend.”

“You’re the best friend, Cami. Thank you.”

As he left Cami felt herself slide down to the piano bench. 

She did believe in second chances, she even felt like this was one. Just not theirs. Owen didn’t love her the way she loved him, and one day she’d wake up and that wouldn’t hurt as much.

Mia, being almost 3 years younger than the older kids, was always left out of the cool stuff.

The only person who ever really spent time with her from the older group was Jason. But her dad didn't like the Gotham gang and Eliza occupied most of his time anyway.

The one person that Mia had by her side, through thick and thin, was Lorena.

The keyword: had.

Zoe (William) - She loves all of them. She’s designated mom friend(tm)

Jade (Thomas) - Clara, naturally.

Jon (Wes) - Rosemary. She likes visiting the farm to play with the animals.

Ronnie (Eliza) - Miriam. She knew he existed before Eliza did because he was always with Troy on the Waverider. She used him for milkshakes once he started dating Eliza because he can’t say no if he wants to be accepted.

Jason (Eliza) - Mia. Everyone else was busy in their own lives to care when they first dated but Mia liked that he let her do things her dad wouldn’t like. And now everyone else doesn’t trust him but he’s still one of Mia’s closest friends.

JJ (Ada) - Miriam. He helped teach her how to dance when she decided she was gonna quit the classes because they weren’t challenging enough.

Connor (Mia) - Owen. They’re both very calm and so naturally they get along very well. They sit back and watch the chaos go down

Marley (Miriam) - Owen. Marley spends enough time with Miriam and where she is, Owen is. So they became friends easily as kids and that fact remains still.