Chapter 13

A few days later, Oliver, Laurel, Thea and Sara were training in the foundry, since Oliver had been unable to get ahold of Talia, so he figured he'd start training Thea himself until he could, when suddenly, a breach opened.

"What the hell?" Laurel asked as two people exited the breach.

"Oh good, we're at the right base." one of them said.

"Who are you guys?" Thea asked, even more surprised when Oliver and Sara didn't look surprised to see them, if anything, they just looked annoyed.

"Barry, couldn't you have given me a bit more warning." Oliver asked.

"Wait, Ollie, you know these guys?" Laurel asked.

"Yeah, and so do you." Cisco said.

"Never seen you before in my life." Laurel said.

"Actually, that's why we're here." Barry said as he held out a ring.

"What's that ring supposed to do." Sara asked.

"You'll see in a second." Barry said as he pressed the ring against Laurel's arm and then Thea's, causing them both to pass out.

"What did you do to them?" Oliver demanded.

"Relax Oliver, we just reset their minds to wake them up to the truth." Cisco said.

"Wait, are you saying?" Sara asked.

"Yep, thanks to a visit Kara and J'onn paid us a few days ago, Cisco was able to develop these rings that can restore people's memories from before the crisis. Now we know this will happen. But on the bright side, they should retain their memories from this universe along with their original memories." Barry said.

"Well that will come in handy when Laurel wakes up and realizes that she's not only in a relationship with you, but also has a kid with you." Sara said to Oliver.

"Tell me about it." Oliver agreed as Laurel woke up.

"What the hell just happened?" Laurel asked.

"Laurel, you're awake." Sara said.

"Yeah, and I have a killer hangover. I thought those would be behind me after I stopped drinking." Laurel groaned and Oliver and Sara both grinned as Sara helped her sister up and hugged her.

"So, you remember." Sara asked.

"Everything. Including my death." Laurel said and Sara just smiled.

"Welcome to the club sis." Sara said with a tearful smile as she hugged her sister again and Laurel hugged Sara back.

"What happened? How is this possible?" Laurel asked.

"It's a long story. But seeing you alive again, it makes it all worth it." Oliver said with a smile as Sara let her sister go so she could walk up to Oliver.

"This just got awkward didn't it?" Barry asked.

"Yeah it did." Sara agreed.

"Take Thea over the med area until she wakes up. Any idea when that will be?" Oliver asked.

"Should be any minute now. Of course the fact that she's younger might have something to do with it." Barry said and Oliver nodded as Sara, Barry and Cisco carried Thea over to the med area so that Oliver and Laurel could talk.

"So, should we talk about this?" Oliver asked.

"About what, how in this world, I am William's mother and you've just been pretending to love me so that you can be there for him?" Laurel asked, since the memory dump had made her aware that this was a new world.

"Laurel, I wasn't pretending. And you were wrong about what you said that night you died." Oliver said.

"What?" Laurel asked, not daring to hope.

"You said you weren't the love of my life. You were wrong. You always have been and always be the love of my life. The only reason I moved on with Felicity is because I was trying to respect your wishes." Oliver said.

"My wishes?" Laurel asked.

"You told me that we couldn't be together without dishonoring Tommy's memory. So instead of wasting time on something I thought would never happen, I decided to move on." Oliver said.

"Wait, that's why you started dating Felicity?" Laurel asked.

"She knew my secret and she had feelings for me. I thought at the very least, dating her could distract me from my feelings for you. But Laurel, you are the best part of me. Always have been and always will be. You remember even after Felicity was crippled, I refused to kill. But when you died, that was when I decided that if I'm going out there, I have to do whatever it takes." Oliver said.

"You mean that?" Laurel asked.

"You are the best of us Laurel, the best of me. You're the light of my life and you mean the world to me. I lost you once. I can't go through it again." Oliver said.

"Do you really all this?" Laurel asked him again.

"Every word." Oliver said and Laurel smiled at him before she kissed him.

"But what about Felicity?" Laurel asked when they pulled apart.

"We're planning on waking her up to now that Barry's given us the means, since I need my team back up to full strength, but I will talk to her. Explain things to her, since while I never lied to her about how I felt, she deserves to know that she was my second choice after you and she deserves to be with someone who wants her as their first choice." Oliver assured her.

"Good. Now who else are you waking up?" Laurel asked.

"John, Felicity and Roy for now." Oliver said and Laurel nodded as she looked over at her sister.

"And what about you Sara, you sticking around?" Laurel asked.

"Only until I get recruited by Rip, since honestly, getting on that ship is the best thing that has ever happened to me." Sara said.

"Oh that reminds me, here." Cisco said as he handed her a ring.

"A ring?" Sara asked.

"It's another memory ring, once Rip recruits you, you can use it to wake up the rest of the Legends." Cisco explained and now Sara nodded.

"Got it." Sara said as Thea woke up.

"What the hell?" Thea asked.

"Welcome back Speedy." Sara said.

"Sara, Barry, Cisco, what the hell is going on?" Thea asked.

"It's a long story." Oliver said.

"Why are we back in the foundry?" Thea asked.

"Like he said it's a long story." Sara said.

"Yeah, and as much as we'd love to help you guys tell it, Oliver, there's a different discussion we need to have. In private." Barry said.

"Okay." Oliver said as he and Barry walked to a separate part of the foundry.

"So what's up?" Oliver asked.

"Before you died in the old universe, you said that you gave it all up for me and Kara. What were you talking about?" Barry asked and Oliver sighed.

"Barry, it doesn't matter anymore." Oliver said.

"The hell it doesn't, you died Oliver and you said that did it for me and Kara, I think we're owed an explanation." Barry said and Oliver sighed.

"The arrow I used to destroy the book of destiny, to get the monitor to give it to me, I had to offer something in return. I offered up my life to save yours and I'd do it again in a heartbeat." Oliver said.

"You gave up your life, your family and your future for us. You shouldn't have done that." Barry said.

"You and Kara would've done the same exact thing. And it doesn't matter now anyways since we're all here and we're all alive now." Oliver said and Barry couldn't argue with that.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Barry asked.

"Because I knew if I did that you'd become distracted on trying to find a way to save me when that wasn't the mission. You needed to focus on the mission and trying to save me would distract you from it. And in the end, you found a way, John and Mia brought me back." Oliver said.

"When are you going to tell Laurel about Mia?" Barry asked.

"Let me worry about that. Besides, there's a chance that Laurel and I can have our own version of Mia and hopefully she'll grow up in a better future." Oliver said.

"Okay, good luck with that. Cisco and I should get back to Central City though." Barry said and Oliver nodded.

"Thanks for everything Barry." Oliver said.

"So, do we hug now?" Barry asked and Oliver chuckled.

"Just this once." Oliver said and Barry laughed as they hugged.

"So, apparently you and Laurel are still a thing on this earth." Thea said when they rejoined them.

"So, you're all caught up." Oliver said.

"Yeah, I have to say, Laurel was always my favorite of your girlfriends, though Felicity was a close second." Thea said.

"Thanks." Laurel said.

"Anyways, Cisco, why don't you breach back to Central City and get the presents you made." Barry said.

"BRB." Cisco said as he breached out.

"Wait, presents. Does that mean what I think it means?" Laurel asked.

"Last time I checked, you and Thea were the only ones who never got a suit designed by Cisco." Barry said as the breach reopened and Cisco returned, now carrying to cases with him.

"Not anymore." Cisco said as he held out the cases, which Laurel and Thea both moved to grab.

Thea opened her first and saw that Cisco had made her a completely new suit. This one was mostly black, though it had dark yellow trims and the hood was a dark yellow as well.

"This is cool." Thea said with a grin.

"No offense, but I always felt like this color scheme would look better on you." Cisco said.

"No arguments here. Too bad it'll be some time before I can use it." Thea said.

"What do you mean?" Oliver asked.

"The mind dump might've restored my memories and skills, but let's face it, my 17 year old body, while fit, is not conditioned for jumping off rooftops. I need to get back into shape." Thea pointed out.

"She's not wrong." Sara agreed.

"I'm working to get in touch with Talia, since you two were partners on the old earth, so I figured that she could help with that exact problem." Oliver said.

"Fine with me. Then maybe I can take back that sword." Thea said.

"Let's focus on the task at hand. Regardless, you're not leaving with her until after you graduate school." Oliver said.

"I can live with that. Though honestly, I can probably graduate early, since I've technically graduated high school before." Thea said.

"So we've seen Thea's suit, Laurel, what about your's?" Sara asked and Laurel nodded as she opened it and Oliver found that it looked just like the suit Earth 2 Laurel had worn before the multiverse was destroyed.

"Nicely done." Laurel said, though she looked nervous.

"Thanks, but just out of curiosity, were you in Central City when the particle accelerator exploded?" Cisco asked.

"Yeah." Laurel asked, confused until she realized why he asked.

"You think Laurel's meta?" Sara asked.

"Two of her dopplegangers have been metas with the same powers, I think it's a safe bet." Barry pointed out.

"Good point." Oliver conceded.

"What powers were they?" Laurel asked.

"An actual canary cry." Barry said.

"Really. That'd be cool." Laurel admitted.

"We can run tests on your DNA to see if you have the metahuman gene and Sara, since you're her sister, we should probably test you for it to." Barry said and Sara nodded.

"Got it. But I don't need powers to be a hero." Sara said.

"We know, but it couldn't hurt to find out if you have the meta gene." Cisco said.

"We'll send you a DNA sample for Caitlin to test." Oliver said.

"Great, but now, we should get back to Central City." Barry said and Oliver nodded.

"Before we go, Oliver, you mind if I start working on plans for your bunker?" Cisco asked.

"Please do, but it's going to be under Queen Consolidated this time, since I'm planning on taking my place at the company." Oliver said and Cisco nodded as he opened a breach and he and Barry left through it.

"Uh, the last time you did that, we lost everything." Thea said.

"Because I trusted the wrong person. Now I know better and I have real experience." Oliver reminded her.

"Fair enough. Speaking of, we should try and get Rochev arrested." Thea said.

"Not yet." Oliver said.

"Why not?" Sara asked.

"Because for right now, she's our link to Slade. We don't know what else has changed, but if he's still using her, then we can do the same to find him." Oliver said.

"Fair point." Laurel said as she looked down at her mask.

"You okay?" Sara asked.

"The last time I wore this mask, I died. I'm not sure if I can get over that." Laurel said.

"That won't happen again Laurel." Sara said.

"How do you know that?" Laurel asked.

"Because the first thing I did when I arrived in this reality was kill Damien Darhk. I made it hurt." Sara said obviously pretty proud of herself about that.

"Really." Laurel asked.

"I got my greatest wish. I killed Darhk and saved you." Sara said.

"Diaz is mine though." Oliver said.

"Absolutely." Sara said.

"I'm sorry, who?" Laurel asked.

"We have a lot to catch you up on. But Laurel, if you feel like you aren't ready to get back in the field, that's fine. There's no rush. John and Roy can cover things until you feel like you're ready." Oliver said.

"What about the others?" Thea asked.

"No reason to recruit them now that I've got my original team back." Oliver said.

"Okay, I agree about Dinah and Curtis, but what about Rene? He seemed the most committed to the mission." Thea asked and Oliver considered.

"Maybe, we'll put it to a vote after we bring John, Felicity and Roy into the fold." Oliver said and Thea actually looked excited about the possibility of seeing Roy again.

However, any further conversation they could have when they heard a new voice enter the foundry.

"Sorry to interrupt, but I need word with Sara Lance." Rip Hunter said as he entered the foundry, only to have Oliver pull a tranq dart of his pocket and hit him with it.

"Was that necessary?" Sara asked.

"Ray told me about the flash thing. Didn't want to deal with that, besides, now you can restore Hunter's memories." Oliver said and Sara nodded as she slid the memory ring Cisco had given her on and then pressed it against Rip's head.

"When he wakes up, he should have his memories back, so I'm gonna drag him out to the alley." Sara said and they nodded as they watched her drag the brit out.


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