Oliver's point of view

After Diggle, and Felicity convinced me to return from Lian Yu, we returned to starling city. As we drove through the glades the damage caused by Malcolm Merlyn's undertaking was obvious. There were people on streets, collapsed buildings, and graffiti covered signs. Once as we drove past some graffiti that said vote for Blood Now! I asked Diggle "Who's Blood?"

Diggle replied "An alderman from the Glades who's trying to save the city, fill your shoes."

After Diggle finished speaking Felicity said "Here's everything on Stalmore International, The vice president is a woman named Isabel Rochev. She looks angry in every photo."

As I was looking at the file Diggle asked "So where to? The office?"

I replied "Home, I want to check in on Thea."

After I said that Felicity said "Oh she's not at your house Oliver."

Surprised I asked "Then where is she?"

After I asked that question I glanced out the window, I was rather shocked when I saw several women attacking a boy that looked to be in his teens. Neither the women or the boy looked normal, for one; the women appeared to have greenish almost scaly skin, and what looked like snake trunks instead of legs and they were attacking the boy with old fashioned weapons like spears or tridents.

The boy wasn't exactly normal either. He fought the women with a sword that looked to be made out of bronze, the women's weapons appeared to be made out of the same metal. During the brief glimpse I got of the boy and women it looked like the boy was a good fighter, and he was very experienced with the sword.

Any normal person like Diggle or Felicity might have thought that they were going crazy if they had seen what I had just seen, but after what I had seen and done during the five years after I was shipwrecked on Lian Yu I've seen crazier things, or at least things that are just as crazy as this. But one thing that confused me was why what I had seen had shocked me, but everyone else who had been nearby didn't seem to be bothered by it.

Diggle and Felicity told me that Thea had been staying with her boyfriend Roy since the undertaking because she was angry at our mother for going along with Malcolm Merlyn's plan for the undertaking, not doing anything to prevent the undertaking sooner, and for lying to us. They also told me that since I left she had been running Verdant, the club that I had started to hide our vigilante operations. We drove to the club so I could see my little sister. As I walked into the club I heard her Arguing with Roy.

I heard her say "and isn't coming back." Before I walked up behind her and said "I'm back."

She turned, walked up to me and said "Ollie! You remember my friend Roy."

Looking at him I said "You're still here?"

Her replied "Always."

Thea asked me "So how was Europe? You never texted, no postcards... Almost like you were on the island all over again."

She didn't realize it, but she had struck on the truth with that comment since I had returned to the island. I had lied and told her I was going to Europe because of how she would have reacted if I had told her that I was returning to the island. I would have stayed there except Diggle and Felicity had convinced me to leave, but they hadn't been able to convince me to return to vigilantism. After the undertaking and what happened with Tommy I wouldn't do that anymore.

I replied "Yeah sorry, I got kind of distracted. Snow skiing, water skiing, a lot of skiing."

I said "I hear rumors that my club is under new management."

Thea replied "It's my club now, and you're not getting it back."

I said "You're not old enough to drink!"

She replied "But I am old enough to run a bar."

I asked "Have you made it to Iron Heights?"

She replied "To see the woman who dropped a city on Five hundred innocent people? No thank you."

I said "Thea that's not what Mom did."

Thea Replied "Right she had no choice. But she did, a choice not to be a Mass Murderer. And I have a choice to, and I choose not to be her daughter. But I'm so happy you're home."

She said "Look I need to deal with one of our liquor distributors who shorted me on yesterday's delivery, and one of my bartenders called in sick."

I nodded, as I continued to watch her she said "So...

As I continued to watch her she asked "What?"

I replied "Nothing, It's just nice to see you like this."

"Like what?" she asked me.

I replied "Together."

As she went back to doing what she had been doing I turned and watched the TV that was on the wall behind the bar, it was turned to a news program. The newscaster said that the Star Labs particle accelerator would be finished by Christmas, and after that they spoke of my return to starling city, and wondered what I would do now that I was back.