Author's Note: this is word emphasis.

Oliver narrating in first person

Prologue

Tsukino Usagi stares down at her chest in incomprehension for one long moment before Sailor Jupiter pulls out her arm and she starts to fall forward. No one present notices the silver crystal flash briefly either.

2007:

Moira Queen looks down at her newborn granddaughter Olivia Selena Queen, born three days after the Queen's Gambit sunk off the coast of China. It broke her heart to see that milky film over the eyes her granddaughter had inherited from her father, her baby boy, Oliver. Not too long ago she had paid off another woman to lie about her coming grandchild and now she wished she hadn't. Olivia was all she had of her son now and Moira refused to make the same mistakes with her granddaughter and resolves to tell Thea the truth about her paternity once she was close to eighteen unless events precipitated that she do so sooner.

Chapter 1

2012:

Moira Dearden Queen sighs after talking to the doctor that looked over her son as she looks down at her granddaughter. Due to the fact that none of the elementary schools in the area could handle a blind student she was being homeschooled. Raisa was teaching her Russian while Olivia was also learning Japanese, French, and learning Lerdrit while also being taught the core subjects as well. Thankfully a nurse had volunteered to watch Olivia while Moira greeted her son and informed him of his daughter. Olivia's mother had died in childbirth and had never told Oliver the truth. Moira was also going to track down Samantha Clayton as well at some point and rectify her mistakes. Oliver deserved to know his other child as well.

After reuniting with his mother Oliver can see she's still tense, " Mom, what's going on? "

He watches as she wrings her hands together, one of her tells, and wonders what she could possibly tell him that had her this worked up, " Oliver, sweetheart, three days after the Queen's Gambit sunk Glades Memorial Hospital contacted me, informing me of my newborn granddaughter whose mother died in childbirth and everyone thought had lost her father before she was even born. "

Oliver had never felt such a heady mix of emotions in his life, confusion, fear, and a few others he hesitated to name, " I'm a father? " He managed to keep his voice level somehow.

" You are, I couldn't just take you home and throw you in the deep end, that would be too cruel of me. " Moira admits.

Olivia had taken her father's question as a cue to enter his room and Oliver's blue eyes zero in on the five year old immediately, concern entering his eyes when he sees the milky film covering the eyes she had inherited from him. " So, munchkin, you have a name or do I just stick with munchkin? "

Olivia sighs at this question and Moira chuckles at her reaction, she preferred her middle name, " Her full name is Olivia Selena Queen but she prefers her middle name. "

Oliver could just imagine how difficult her life had been to this point by being named after him. He hadn't planned on being a father but seeing his daughter for the first time he fell in love immediately. " Come here, Lena. "

Oliver catches her easily enough and swings her up from her flying leap at him, laughter coming out unbidden, " So who spoils you the worst your grandma or your aunt? "

Olivia nestles her head on his right shoulder, " I'd say it's a tie although grandma should probably break the other news though. "

Oliver sends a look to his mother and Moira sighs, " I got re-married, sweetheart, I suppose this is her way of making sure you don't get blindsided by that either. "

" Thank you, Lena. Now, why don't we head home. "

By the time they reached Queen Manor Olivia was asleep in her father's arms. Oliver manages to carry her and his munitions box in easily enough, he sets the box down and greets his new step-father while shifting Olivia to make her more comfortable. He greets Raisa, accepting her hug, and then has his reunion with his little sister though Thea kept her voice down when she noticed her niece sleeping in her brother's arms. " I can show you to her room. "

" No, I just want to hold her for now. Still getting used to the idea that I helped create…" Oliver trails off, looking down at the person he had helped to create, to bring into this world. He had never expected to feel so much love and pride in his life.

Thea nods her understanding at this, father and daughter had just met for the first time today. Oliver lays her down on his bed while he gets ready for dinner, she's just stirring as he finishes getting dressed though she curls into him as he picks her up again.

" What did I tell you, yachts suck. "

" Tommy Merlyn. " Oliver gives his best friend an one armed hug.

" You've met the little hellion, I see. "

Oliver sends him a questioning look, " That daughter of yours is a prankster, I honestly have no idea how she managed to turn me into a smurf. "

Olivia snickers, she was partially awake, " Had Raisa get me some herbs that I knew would do that. Oh what books written in braille and the internet can tell you. "

Oliver smirks, " The paps got pictures, didn't they? "

" Alas, they did. Selena, I bow to your evil genius. "

" I accept your supplication, you unworthy peasant. "

Now Oliver is full out laughing at the interaction between his best friend and his daughter, he'd had very little to laugh about over the last five years but, now, well he had a highly intelligent and precocious little girl to start getting to know. He was also going to step up and be her dad. He was ready for that kind of responsibility now. Olivia's eyes slit open, " How am I the peasant, your majesty? " Tommy asks her.

" Simple you're a Merlyn and everyone knows Merlin was King Arthur's advisor ergo you are the peasant. "

Tommy stares at the five year old dumbfounded as Thea snaps a picture of the look on his face and one of her maternal half-brother and niece, " Didn't you know that my niece happens to be highly intelligent, Tommy? " Thea knew the truth about her relationship with Tommy, Moira had confessed when she noticed her daughter gaining a crush on her other half-brother.

Tommy sighs at this, " You are so cruel to me, Thea. "

Oliver leads the way to the dining room and lets his daughter sit on his lap, sending a look his mother's way, daring her to disagree with his choice. Moira keeps her silence, ultimately Oliver was her father so if he wanted Olivia to sit on his lap then she would say nothing. The scent of strawberries hits Olivia's senses as Raisa brings out their meal. Raisa had thought ahead and brought Oliver a fruit salad while bringing Olivia some ramen and strawberries. Oliver eats his fruit salad while keeping an eye on his daughter as well. He did let her steal a piece of honeydew from him though. Tommy fills him in on the previous super bowl winners and a few other things before Raisa trips. Oliver steadies her immediately and gives away the fact that he can speak Russian and asks Raisa to say she taught him. Olivia cocks her head to the side, " Где же вы на самом деле выучить русский, папа(Where did you actually learn Russian, dad)? "

Oliver blinks, " Это длинная история, манчкин(That's a long story, munchkin). "

Olivia nods and continues to eat her meal, " What's her educational situation like, Mom? "

" For now we're homeschooling her since no area schools can handle a blind student. " Moira admits.

" Any medical issues I need to be aware of? " Oliver asks.

" She's allergic to bee stings and wheat. " Thea answers, " Found out the hard way about bee stings too. "

" After finding out about that allergy I had her tested which is how we found out about the wheat allergy as well. I'll make sure to give you an epi-pen for her as well. Even Tommy keeps one on hand for her. "

" How could I not, she's practically my niece and I did not want Ollie coming back to haunt me if I let her die due to an allergy attack. Raisa's been good about making foods that Selena can have, though taking her to restaurants is an experience. " Tommy states.

Oliver winces at the very thought, " Just about everything has wheat in it too. I see the problem. "

Selena, as that was what Oliver had decided he would call his daughter snuggles into him as she finishes her meal and Oliver excuses them after making plans with Tommy for the next day before heading upstairs to bathe his daughter and get her ready for bed. His strawberry blonde daughter covered him from head to toe in water though he did manage to get her clean. Once he has her ready he looks at the book on her nightstand, the third Harry Potter book. He grabs it and the well-loved teddy bear that had been his before taking everything to his room. He wanted her close tonight. He knew that after they truly got used to each other she'd have to go back to sleeping in her own room but right now her father needed proof of something that he'd done right. He'd helped to create her and now after five years he could be her father.

For the first time in five years he was actually able to get a full night's sleep and he was pretty sure it was because of the little girl practically on top of him. He'd woken up to find his arms wrapped gently but firmly around her and he knew that if there had been a threat he would have woken up, protecting her however necessary. When he'd come home he hadn't been planning for this. Now he had to balance being a dad and his mission to clean his home city up. When she stirs Oliver lets his fingers run through her strawberry blonde hair, " Ready to get up, munchkin? "

Selena mumbles unintelligibly under her breath before nodding. Oliver gets them both up and then gets her ready for the day, whipping her hair up into a French braid, he had a little sister so he had learned how to French braid hair before getting himself ready as well. He had found an emerald green long sleeved t-shirt and a pair of black jeans for her to wear as well as slipping her black and purple tennis shoes on. He picks her up easily enough and carries her downstairs for breakfast in the kitchen with Raisa. " Raisa, let my mom know that I have Selena with me for today. "

" Of course, Mister Oliver. " Raisa says and packs some snacks for Selena.

Tommy had anticipated the younger Queen's presence and was driving one of his safer cars. Oliver chose to sit in the back seat with his daughter, " First we need to get me a new phone and then teach me how to use it. "

Selena perks up since Raisa had packed her e-reader and ear buds in the back pack her dad had been given, Oliver sees this, " We'll see about getting you some new audio books as well, munchkin. "

The beaming smile he received in response made him smile as well. Tommy could literally see the love in his best friend's eyes. After shopping they stop by the park where Tommy watches as Oliver plays with his daughter. In the last five years he had never seen his honorary niece so happy and he knew she had needed her father. Five years ago he would never have believed that Oliver would be such a phenomenal father but watching him now told a different story. Oliver was born to be a father, he was currently pushing the youngest Queen on the swings to her delighted laughter. Tommy was recording it all on his phone and would transfer it to disk. Oliver had missed a lot but now he was getting to actually be a father to his daughter.

After that they swung by the old Queen Manufacturing building in the Glades before Oliver wanted to go see Laurel. Selena rolls her eyes, " Better take me along for that visit. Laurel will pull her punches and actually let you say your piece if I'm there. Neither she nor her father could blame me for your stupidity since for all my life until recently everyone thought I lost both parents. "

" Her majesty raises a good point with that. " Tommy admits.

Oliver carries his daughter into CNRI to visit Dinah Laurel Lance and the lawyer stiffens before softening when she sees Selena, " Making sure I pull my verbal punches, Selena. "

Selena nods, " You can read him the riot act after three months have passed. You will let him say what he needs to and actually try and see things from his perspective. Don't just lash out, Laurel. "

" You're right, I need to be an adult about this. Ollie, I will say this, you have a beautiful daughter. " Laurel states.

Selena starts listening to one of her books, her job done, nestling her head against her father's shoulder. Once his conversation with Laurel was done she paused her book and shut off her e-reader before putting it away. Her hearing picked up the trouble first and then she felt a small prick though even as she was falling unconscious she could feel her father go down in stages. She came aware to the sound of arcing electricity which meant a taser. She played dead perfectly and hears her father kick some serious ass. Tommy had her untied by the time he returned though and she's lifted up into his arms immediately. It was his touch that told her how concerned for her he had been.

" Я в порядке, папа(I'm fine, Dad). " Selena murmurs.

She can feel him relax even as she snuggles into him, she would be confronting him about his new skills later, for now they had to deal with the aftermath of this aborted kidnapping and torture session. After dealing with Detective Lance, him also pulling his punches due to her presence and she gives him the same warning as Laurel, it was time for dinner. The strawberry blonde's nose picks up the scent of mac and cheese, Raisa made all of the pasta herself so she could be sure it was actually gluten and wheat free. Thanks to Raisa's foresight Oliver was actually going to get re-acclimated to richer foods. Moira, Walter, and Thea notice Raisa's meals for Oliver and Selena, Moira kicking herself for not thinking about the fact that her son's diet had to have changed immensely over the last five years.

Once again Selena was seated on her father's lap even as she walks him through using his new smart phone. Hers was all done by vocal commands, same with her e-reader as well. Tommy joining them once again and helping out with the tech tutorial Oliver was getting. Selena had also given Raisa instructions to get her father a journal so he could write down everything he had been through even if he didn't talk about it. Which is exactly the explanation Raisa gave him when she handed it to him, though the explanation was in Russian. Oliver rolls his eyes only to get a sharp elbow shoved into his side, " Разве ты не закатить глаза, папа. Вам нужно какой-то способ вентилирования все благополучно, и я каким-то образом получить ощущение, что вы будете отказаться, чтобы получить профессиональное лечение для всех вопросов, которые вы должны иметь(Don't you roll your eyes, Dad. You need some way of venting everything safely and I somehow get the feeling you'll refuse to get professional treatment for all of the issues you must have). "

" Вы выигрываете, манчкин(You win, munchkin). " Oliver states softly.

Selena grins, " Well, you have learned the basic lessons all guys need to learn. "

Thea snickers, " Yeah, he's learned that females are always right even when they're not, isn't that right, Ollie. "

" Laugh it up, Speedy. " Oliver fires back.

" I will. " Thea retorts.

" Are we getting a translation for that mini conversation or not? " Tommy asks.

" No, you're not, peasant. " Selena ripostes.

Tommy sighs, " Why not, your majesty? "

Selena smirks, " Private conversation, learn Russian if you're so eager to know. "

" You are evil, your majesty. " Tommy retorts.

" Devious, vindictive, cunning, those I'll accept, not evil though. Otherwise I would have already taken over the world. " Selena retorts.

" Scary thing is I believe you actually could. " Tommy states, deadpan.

" Too much paperwork. "

Stunned silence is left in the wake of that comment even as Selena continues to eat her meal. Oliver shakes his head at this even as he realizes she had been dead serious with that comment. The next day dawns to show Oliver researching Adam Hunt and looking at his father's notebook though he did start writing in the journal Raisa and Selena had given him. It was helping him to write everything out, what happened, his thoughts and feelings about it all. Raisa brings him breakfast and he immediately hides what he had been doing, though he noticed Raisa had brought Selena's breakfast to his room as well, " Thank you, Raisa. "

" You are good boy, Mr. Oliver, especially with Miss Selena. "

" I want to be the man you always said I could be. " Oliver admits to the woman whom had practically raised him.

" You already are, five years ago you would have run from the responsibility Miss Selena brings you, now you embrace it. " Raisa says as she leaves the room.

Oliver knows she was right about that, he would have run from Selena five years ago, now, well, he was ready to be a father. After the father daughter duo eats and get ready for the day Oliver sneaks them out, avoiding the bodyguard Moira was going to assign to him, grabbing his munitions case that held his bow and the seeds for the island herbs along with the dried herbs themselves. Selena has no problem with sneaking out as she was working on her Russian today and since she happened to have a father whom spoke the language she could get some practical experience in.

Most of her lessons were pre-recorded and she just had to listen and then answer the questions that came with it. Oliver was glad he had chosen a ten year out of date Maserati to drive to the old Queen Manufacturing plant. He had a Lair to set up and his daughter would be working on her lessons. Finding out she mostly attended everything virtually made things easier on him though he did make sure to pick up some food that she could eat along with stocking some fruit in the Lair.

Selena just sits quietly doing her work while Oliver sets to work on building his Lair. At this point he was seriously considering converting the upper floor into his own home after he and Selena got to know each other better though he did have fun helping her learn Russian and he even started her on Mandarin as well. The younger you were when you learned languages the better. She started him on Japanese and French if only so they had more languages to talk in that no one would understand. Finding out she was taking Lerdrit lessons amused him as he had learned a bit of that particular martial art. She was also teaching him how to get along blind if necessary.

Oliver knew applying this to his archery would be hell on him though Selena nailed all of her targets since he had gotten her, her own bow. " How did you manage that, munchkin? "

" Learned echolocation from the time I started walking and Aunt Thea wanted to teach me archery, it annoys her that I'm almost as good as her without the visual aids. " Selena states, " Just don't use any sound attacks around me unless there's no other choice. "

" You were awake when I took those men out. "

" Duh, unlike most people out there I realize that sometimes you just have to live in the moral gray area. Hell, I'm quite the skilled dip as well. " Selena says, " If you're going to clean up Starling City then do it smart, change your body language between identities, add an accent to one, wear a Loki damned mask, carry something on you that scrubs security footage, and most importantly, make damned sure not to leave any traceable evidence behind. " Selena says, no-nonsense in tone.

Oliver blinks as he comes to a stop with his renovations, " How do you know all that anyhow? "

" This is my third damned life, was a mahou shojo in the second, which meant I lived a double life. We're also going to make damn sure you have good cover stories as well. " Selena says firmly, she was going to make sure her only living parent did not get arrested because he didn't think things through.

Oliver found himself being put through double life training by his daughter not knowing his mother was fuming at the fact that he had snuck out of the Manor with her granddaughter though Moira still needed to make things right with her son, which meant telling him the truth about the fact that she had paid Samantha Clayton two million dollars to say she had miscarried their child and to move to Central Coty and never talk to Oliver again. Moira knew Oliver was going to be infuriated with her, Thea hadn't spoken to her for a month after telling her the truth about her parentage. Moira knew she needed to tell Tommy and Oliver the truth as well. She would give her granddaughter and son time to bond before dropping Olivia's slightly younger half-brother on both of them.

By the time Oliver went after Adam Hunt Selena was positive he could handle himself and maintain his two lives. She would tell him about her previous lives while they were at the Foundry getting it set up in Russian. Oliver always made sure he was there to tuck his daughter in at night and that he returned before she woke up. He scheduled his day around her because he had a lot of catching up to do. He had also kept missing meeting his bodyguard, a John Diggle as well since he knew the ins and outs of his childhood home better than his mother and he never escaped the same way twice.

This frustrated John Diggle but he also viewed it as a challenge to try and actually catch his principal. The fact that he took cars so he could safely take his daughter with him didn't help, especially since Oliver had taken the time to coat them all so his cars would be ghosts, they would not show up on any surveillance system and his license plates were also coated the same way. He had gotten his motorcycle and car licenses renewed before his mother had gotten to him and through one U.S. Embassy's in China he had also started the paperwork to resurrect himself as well. He only needed to go to court to make it official and claim paternity for his daughter since the driving thing had already been handled.

He was so not looking forward to his court date and Selena would be staying with Raisa for that as she would not suffer through wearing a dress. Especially the ones his mother and sister picked out for her. Selena hated formality in all its forms along with etiquette and decorum. Selena stayed out of the spotlight at all costs. Oliver resolved to take her shopping for formal clothes himself since with her hands Selena could tell the dresses were not her style and she had a sixth sense for all things pink and frilly. She may be blind but she still had her own sense of style. Hence why she memorized her sizes and made her Uncle Tommy take her shopping, demanding darker colors. Tommy followed through, hence why her non-formal wear consisted of shirts, pants, and darker, bolder colored clothing. Same with her shoes actually, all the ones she liked were the ones Tommy had taken her to get.

It must really irk his mother that Selena was not going to be turned into a socialite. Oh, she could pull it off, he'd seen some of her memories of being the princess of the whole freaking galaxy they lived in, in her first life. She just wanted to be as normal of a rich kid as possible. Selena was grounded and did not use her family to get her way unless someone really annoyed her. Tommy had told him about the one and only time Selena played the Queen card and left the poor socialite reeling as she literally was verbally torn to shreds by a prodigy four year old. Needless to say Selena had every Artemis Fowl book in e-book format.

Oliver sighs as he gets ready to become the playboy he had once been while also making damned certain that he would be able to get in and out of his party undetected by asking his bodyguard to protect the single most important person to him, his daughter. The fact that she had trusted him with the truth of her origins had only cemented his need to protect her. He did this entirely too late for his mother to assign him another bodyguard and he asked Diggle through a phone call by also stating he would add an extra thousand to his pay for essentially being his five year old daughter's glorified babysitter.

Once he sneaks away from his party and changes into his alter ego his eyes narrow even as he fires off a grappling arrow into Hunt's Building across the street. Hunt's goons were easy for him to deal with and he manages to fire off a specialty arrow that would make stealing the forty million from him easy. Hunt's new head of security proved to be more problematic but thanks to his daughter insisting he get a compressible micro fabric mask so his identity was better concealed even when his hood fell down after he was shot in his bullet proof vest he needn't fear immediate discovery. Once on his feet and then shooting the guns out of Detective Lance and his partner's hands he ziplines back to the party and rejoins it before the police invade.

Due to Selena's restrictions on the Lances Quentin Lance was forced to pull his verbal punches. Once the cops leave Oliver gets the party started up again but bows out so he could get home and maybe try to get some decent sleep. He slept better with Selena curled up with him anyhow. After getting home, relieving Diggle, and cleaning up he curls up on his bed with his daughter. Selena immediately cuddles into him while also hugging her inherited teddy bear as well.

Oliver sneaks them out after having breakfast brought to them the next morning so he could see to getting that forty million back to its rightful owners. He also told Selena about his mission the night before in Russian while she worked on her katas, ones he was actually able to help her with as he'd started brushing up on Lerdrit after learning she was taking lessons. John Diggle still hadn't figured out how Oliver was escaping from the Manor without detection. Oliver might have discovered a few secret passages that weren't on the blue prints when he was a little older than Selena currently was. He utilized them to make good his escapes with Selena. The next day he'd actually have Diggle accompany them as he took his daughter shopping for formal clothes that she would actually wear though she had made sure he could describe the colors properly.

" Who's next? " Selena asks.

" I'll figure that out later, munchkin, tomorrow we're going shopping for formal clothes you actually will wear and then I will clear out your closet and donate the formal wear to charity. " Oliver states.

Selena perks up, " Dark, bold colors, sensible and comfortable shoes along with no frilly and lacey crap. Oh, absolutely no brown. "

Oliver blinks, " Why the no brown stipulation? "

" The gown which must not be spoken of. Princess Serenity the V went to a ball without a stitch on because of a brown gown that made her and anyone whom saw it physically ill. " Selena says in a deadpan tone.

She projects the image and Oliver swallows thickly, " I can see why. Damn, that thing is repulsive. "

" I can curse that thing out in several languages. Fair warning if I cycle through seven or more languages in a swearing rant either hope to hell you can talk me down or get the hell away from me. " Selena states.

" In other words seven or more languages means someone or something has pissed you off to the point of no return. " Oliver translates.

" You got it, Dad. " Selena admits.

Coming back home to save my city, I never took into account finding out I have a daughter. Learning of Olivia Selena Queen and meeting her forced me to adapt my plans to take raising her into consideration. I still had my mission to save my city but I also gained a new one to raise my daughter, to be her father. Finding out I'm the only parent she has left was terrifying and humbling all at once. Getting to know her over the last few days, learning her secrets has given me a new direction in which I can go to save Starling City from all the corruption polluting it. Killing the bastards will be a very last resort instead my daughter has challenged me to use my cunning and creative sides with some deviousness thrown in for flavoring to deal with the idiots. Now I have to get ready to be legally resurrected and to accept paternity of my daughter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Arrow.