Ollie and Hal; vacation, for iamza

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It was all Hal's idea.

Well, not really. Ollie had mentioned a vacation, but he'd *meant* a nice resort on Earth where they could catch some waves, look at *human* women in bikinis, and protest against ocean pollution and the class divisions into public and private beaches.

Vacationing *off*planet was all Hal's idea.

(Not that he'd really minded. Even he could use a chance to get away from it all.)

All the beaches on all the planets in his sector, and Hal *had* to choose one where it was raining.

("Hey, at least it's not yellow rain!"

"It's not *what*? You could have taken us somewhere worse?"

"Let's just say you're lucky you went with me rather than with *another* Green Lantern I could mention."

"How about *you* put up a force field and *I'll* sit under it, *under* my umbrella arrow, and you tell me *all* about it.")

And *then* there were the tentacles.

("Great, great, you took me to the planet of the octopi?"

"I think these have too many tentacles to be octopi."

"Whatever they are!"

"I think they're sentient, too."

"Tell them we come in peace, then!"

"They say we don't have enough limbs to be sentient.")

After the number-of-appendages issue was resolved, diplomacy ensued. The aliens had their own set of political issues that Ollie was *happy* to help with.

After a week or so, Hal dumped him on Dinah's doorstep and went to have a vacation on his own.