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Alright, well I was distracted by a new relationship that I find unique and I kind of FANGIRLED when I found some stories. kenriot1214 story: Supergirl and the Green Arrow - was one that I found intriguing and asked if I could expand on their story without the smut. I recommend you read the story but if not I'd like to thank them for allowing me to expand that universe.
The following chapter is about the Invasion after Oliver and crew escape the Alien ship. This will be the start, I plan on continuing the story and making a world around these two figures.
The non-powered heroes that were being held captive on the alien spaceship are walking back into the hanger with Cisco trying to pry information out of them, "I can't believe that you guys escaped an alien spaceship. Key words: alien spaceship. I have questions."
Oliver not even looking at him, "They can wait." He turns to Nate, "Thanks for helping me get my sister home."
"Yeah, man." He replies with a small nod.
He turns back towards the way they're walking and asks the rest of the heroes "What's our status?"
"Nothing, since the Dominators paid their little visit to mess with our heads." Barry replies with Kara to his right.
"Why would they do that?" Nate asked them all, "What if they were trying to pit us against each other, in order to gain intel about metahumans?" Ray offers to the group.
"Man, I wish they would just send us an IM with a questionnaire." Felicity says.
"Well, metas pose the biggest threat to their invasion. It would make sense they'd want to get to know their enemies." Kara reasons.
"By kidnapping people. Perhaps they were searching your minds for potential meta human vulnerabilities." Stein agrees with the theory of why the non-powered heroes were targeted.
"I think it's time we return the favor." Oliver says to them causing them to look at him.
"What do you want to do? Kidnap one of them now?" Diggle looks at him, knowing that it's exactly what he was thinking.
"Ever since we fought off that one ship, they've kind of been in short supply." Barry tells Oliver, Kara just looks on surprised that no one is arguing against Oliver's idea; since she met him she's noticed how most of the Heroes hold him with high regard even if they don't see eye-to-eye and after finding out that Barry became a hero thanks to Oliver's suggestion and later training she could see why. He was stubborn and guarded but he cared deeply for every person in that room except maybe her.
"Actually, I know where to find one," Her thought was interrupted by Nate and quickly shook her head to get back on track, "I've been reviewing old Army footage of their first encounters with the Dominators, and I think I pegged the fight to..." He stops at one of the computers and begins to type, finding what he wanted them to see he pulls it up on the screens.
Soldiers firing weapons as Nate shares the details he knows, "Redmond, Oregon. 1951." The fighting on the screen continues and the camera man is hit, he falls and coming into view is a Dominator, the screen goes blank.
"You're suggesting we travel to 1951, abduct a Dominator, and interrogate it to determine their intentions." Stein cuts in wanting to see if they were being serious.
"They kidnapped us. Seems fair." Sara says, sounding almost like Oliver.
"Whoa. Time travel. I'm definitely in." Cisco says letting his inner child go crazy at the thought of time travel and aliens.
"Okay, hold on, though. Professor Stein and Caitlin have been talking about a way to take down the Dominators. They could probably use your help." Barry tells him but Cisco doesn't want to hear his opinion, "Pass."
"Yeah, I mean, I'm with him, mostly 'cause I just don't want to lose my geek cred, but time travel!" Felicity says squealing at the thought of living out a dream.
"I could take Amaya and Mick." Nate says trying to assure Barry and the very concerned Oliver, even if he was now Citizen Steel he did not want the rage of the Green Arrow who almost always found a way to win.
To his surprise, Oliver just gave an approving nod and two words, "Do it."
Barry sounded reluctant but agreed, "Okay."
"Yeah!" Felicity and Cisco turned and ran to get what they needed as an amused Sara watched them both.
Barry and Kara turn to the rest of the team, "And, uh, the new president called, which would be cool under different circumstances, but she wants to meet with us."
"Let's bring Ray and Sara as backup." Oliver tells him and Kara not wanting to be left out asks innocently, "What about me? I can do backup."
Oliver looks at her, his expression is neutral, "Can I talk to you for a second?" She looks at Barry who looks confused as well, "I don't know."
She follows him out of earshot and then he stops and turns to face her, "I would like to minimize your involvement in this."
"Why? Because I'm an alien? I also happen to be your biggest weapon." She tells him not believing he wants her to sit out, he's really guarded, she thought to herself.
"You are an unknown quantity, and this is not personal." He tells her without a hint of emotion or expression on his face.
"Except that's exactly how this feels." She says feeling a little hurt and not knowing why it hurt so much, she didn't know them so she was expecting this to some degree but she didn't expect it to sting this way.
"Kara, when I started living this life, it was just me. I was going up against human threats... That I could handle. Then it was meta humans, and I can handle that. Now I learn that there are multiple Earths, and I was brainwashed aboard an alien spacecraft..." He began explaining, he had done his research on most threats but these were different threats, he had nothing to compare with and so the part of him that helped him live through Lian Yu resurfaced.
"I am sure that was unnerving, but I don't..." Kara began but Oliver cut her off slightly a bit annoyed, "I don't get unnerved." He looked at her straight in the eyes before continuing, "But when I go up against something new, I push back. Right or wrong, it is who I am, and it is what I do, so I'm asking for a little bit of space because I have to draw the line somewhere. I need to claw back a sense of normalcy. Please stay here." He walks off and she stares at him still confused, what did he mean he pushed back hard? It seems like a lonely life to live, she thought about why he was like this and made a note to ask Barry later
[Hours Later]
"This isn't up for debate. It's not even a close call. I mean... Turn myself over to the Dominators, they leave the rest of the world alone. Simple." Barry tells the rest of the group.
"No, it's not simple." Felicity says concerned about her friend.
"Barry, it doesn't matter what you've done. You can't do this." Diggle agrees with Felicity.
"It's been an honor to know all of you, to fight alongside of you. Now it's up to you to keep our home safe." Barry looks at everyone before he starts to walk away.
Oliver follows him, "Barry! I'm not letting you leave."
Before turning around to talk to him, "No offense, Oliver, but you and what army?" he turns around to see that everyone present is standing behind him, Kara is standing taking note that when Oliver went after Barry everyone followed.
Even though he named Barry leader she saw that it was always Oliver who everyone trusted, without thinking, even Mick, they followed his actions and took his advice to heart; There was something that she was missing about the man that stood in front of her, the man that reminded her of J'onn J'onzz and her cousin, a hero and a leader, but she didn't know what it was.
When Barry was facing them all, Kara spoke up getting her thoughts away from Oliver, "This one."
"Listen, Red. I don't like you. But when you got a crew, you don't take a hit for the rest." Mick said remembering Snart and his code. Barry looked at them all, some concerned others agreeing with Mick and Oliver who just had a blank expression on his face.
Barry chuckled, "That was actually pretty inspiring. I mean, up until the point that Mick compared us to a bunch of criminals, but..."
Amaya interrupted him, "According to the Dominators, we might as well be."
Nate was next to speak, "And maybe they're right. Maybe we do more harm than good, but this is our chance to find out."
Cisco is the next to speak, "We're not letting you sacrifice yourself. There's no way. I don't care if that's what it means to be a hero. You're not a hero to me. You're my friend." Barry listens and gives Cisco a small smile just as Saran and Jackson enter, "Yo. Guys. You know that ship that landed in Central City?"
Sara answers for them, "It's opening up."
Barry looks at them than turns to Oliver who simply says "Here we go." No expression on his face, Kara notes again.
Felicity is on the computer looking over the info they have and alerts the teams, "Reading reports of ships opening all over the world. Oh, frak."
"Talk to me." Oliver says as he walks up to the screens.
"Something from the Dominators' mothership just broke atmo, and, not to get too technical, but it's really, really big and falling to Earth really, really fast." She answers as she is joined by Oliver and Barry.
"It's the meta bomb." Oliver says realizing what the Dominators were truly intending.
"Why would the uglies drop ships on us if they're just planning on blowing us up?"
"Because the ships were a distraction to keep us from stopping the meta bomb." He reveals to them as Cisco replies from on board the Legend's ship.
"Too bad, 'cause we're gonna stop it." He gets closer to Sara who's maneuvering the ship, "We're gonna stop it, right?"
"Let's hope." Sara says as they approach.
Back at the hanger, "We have to keep the Dominators at bay." Oliver says from the screens as Stein walks in, "This might help. I've mass-produced a small device that, when placed on individual Dominators, will cause indescribable agony. Not the nicest invention, but this is war."
Barry takes the device and looks up at Stein after handling the device, "Nice going."
Stein looks at him, "The caveat, of course, is that if we activate the weapons before all the devices are placed on the Dominators, they'll know what we're up to." He looks to Barry and Oliver, "Well, we got to do it fast." Oliver tells Barry, who simply replies with, "Only way I know how."
[Some Rooftop Later]
The dominators are walking towards the assembled Heroes, Oliver is in the front of them all taking his role as leader, to his right and slightly back is Barry next to Diggle and Nate. To his left is Amaya, and then Mick. Directly behind Oliver is Kara flying above them, FIRESTORM to her right and Ray to her left.
As soon as Oliver moves the rest follow him into the fight. As all the members fight the Dominators Barry takes the time to place the devices on them, not actively engaging them in combat. Meanwhile Cisco and Sara are close to the bomb, 'This thing has to have a tractor beam, right?"
Sara presses a button as she nods and says, "Yep."
"It's slowing down, but, like, barely." Cisco says as Sara rolls her eyes, "Thank you, Cisco. I haven't noticed. Strap in."
"Firestorm, if you're done playing with your friends out there, we could really use your help." Sara says into the coms, shortly after he replies, "I'm on it."
Meanwhile the rest of the group is fighting when suddenly Oliver is thrown off the roof by a Dominator, as he falls Kara flies in and rescues him, when they land he looks at her, no shock or any sign of emotion just a simple nod in thanks and he resumes fighting.
She just looks at him go, he was ready to die if that was the time, he wasn't afraid, what could have happened to him for him to not even blink in the face of death? As she was thinking his words came back to her, 'When I go up against something new, I push back. Right or wrong, it is who I am, and it is what I do,' She was beginning to understand what he meant.
"Good work planting Professor Stein's Nano weapons, but we still got Dominators all over the country. This looks like a job for Supergirl." Felicity said through the coms and off Kara went to where the other Dominators were at.
Barry was running to the other spots as well when he heard her, "Thanks, Felicity. I'm not the least bit insulted."
"Ah, sorry. I meant Supergirl and Flash. This is totally a job for the both of you. That's what I meant. Supergirl and... Flash." Felicity babbled on.
"Firestorm, we're holding it up." Sara said over the coms trying to get Firestorm to answer.
"But, like, barely."
"Not helping, Cisco." She said just as they arrived and landed on the bomb, "Firestorm, do it now!"
"Do what?" Jackson asked and the reply came from Stein within his mind, "I believe Ms. Lance intends for us to transmute the meta bomb into something harmless."
"I was afraid you were going to say that." He tells Stein as he puts his hands on the bomb and begins to send energy waves into it trying to alter the bomb.
Meanwhile, the Flash and Supergirl are finishing planting the devices on the Dominators.
"All right, devices are being planted. Let me know when I can bring the pain." Felicity says over the coms.
"Still waiting on that signal." She continues after no one answers and Oliver realizing that Firestorm may need more time answers her, "Do it!"
"Done." Comes her reply as she presses the button and the Dominators on the earth begin to shriek in agony.
"It's working." Oliver reports in.
"What about the superhero bomb?" Mick asks as he sees the Dominators fall to their knees in pain.
"I can't! I can't do it!" Jackson is saying but Stein is trying to encourage him, "You must, Jefferson. I have a daughter. Her name is Lily, and she's counting on you. She's counting on both of us." After hearing Stein Jackson pumps more energy into the bomb screaming until the bomb changes into liquid.
"They did it! They can do that?" Cisco exclaims from the ship as Sara smiles and turns to him, "They did that."
"Ground, what's your status?" She asks hoping for some more good news.
"They're retreating." Nate informs them.
"It's not just them. It's all around the world." Felicity replies from the makeshift command center.
"He did it." Oliver says but Kara looks at him, she doesn't know why he deflects all the good he does to others like he deflected leadership to Barry, "No, Oliver..." She says as Barry finishes her sentence, "We all did it." Oliver just looks at Kara, her anger at him seems to have disappeared and he's not sure why.
[Later that night at the Hanger]
The new president is speaking to a small crowd as the Heroes stand behind her, "Many responsibilities have fallen to me since the president's passing at the beginning of this crisis. Sobering, sad responsibilities. This is not one of them. Today, it is my distinct honor to bestow upon you a small acknowledgement of the great debt that the world owes to you all."
Throughout this statement all the members are standing united and bowing their heads at the mentioning of the previous president. Mick on the other hand leans into Sara, "Is it just me, or is she really hot?" Sara takes a look as the president continues, "Although your brave efforts must remain a secret..." she makes her judgement and agrees with Mick, "She's hot."
The president continues her speech, "Know that, meta human or not, masked or not, each and every one of you is a hero." Kara breathes in not realizing she had been waiting to do so as the crowd, mainly Generals and other Government officials, erupts into applause.
Her eyes go to her left to see how Oliver is reacting, he's not he just stands there making sure he is standing in just the right way so no one can see under the hood, he's stoic, unfazed, as if this was nothing new to him, in fact if she could get a good look at him she would swear he found this annoying, having been against the idea of even showing up if not for Barry, Diggle, Sara, Felicity and basically everyone forcing him to go. Why does he cringe when someone calls him a Hero? He's proven time and time again that he is one, yet why won't he acknowledge it?
Later after the crowd leaves, the heroes are all together as Felicity opens up a champagne bottle, "Whoo! Whoa." They exclaim as she opens it.
"Thank you." Oliver says as she fills his glass and he walks back to his place, a few steps away from everyone but still within talking distance, Kara can't help but notice.
Barry follows Oliver as he detaches from the group, "Cheers." They drink their glasses, Kara notices and walks over to them leaving Ray and Felicity to talk, "It's like looking into a mirror." Felicity says as Ray looks at Kara, "Yeah, you know what's funny? She really kind of looks like my cousin." Felicity's smile drops as she remembers what Oliver said when she first started dating Ray.
"Hey, hey. Guys." Kara says as she reaches Oliver and Barry.
"Hey." Barry acknowledges her as Oliver just nods and continues walking leaving Barry and Kara to catch up to him, "Either of you ever save the world before?" she asks looking back and forth between the two, "Mm hmm." Barry gestures as Oliver replies, "Last year."
She sighs, they were used to saving the world, and one of them did it with nothing but a bow and arrow, "It doesn't get old, does it?"
"Nope. It sure beats screwing up the world." Barry replies looking down.
"Hey, you are too hard on yourself." She tells him and Oliver looks at Barry, "That's what people usually tell me."
Kara smiles as she thinks about everything she knows about him and how he guards himself from everyone, "And for good reason, I'm sure." She says, her voice a little higher than normal, was she nervous talking to him?
"But, back on my Earth, it's just me and my cousin. Between the two of us, we're more powerful than..." She begins but Barry smiles and cuts in, "Yeah, everybody in this room combined."
"No, no. That's the point. That's what you've all proven here. Meta humans or not, superpowers or not, you are Earth's mightiest heroes." Saying the last words towards Oliver who looks down and fidgets a little.
"Um... I owe you an apology. Keeping you at arm's length was the wrong move, and... Well, the truth is that this Earth could probably use a Supergirl." He says looking at her, she smiles and her cheeks get flustered and again in that flirtatious tone, "Well, that's... that's funny, because I was just thinking my Earth could use an Oliver Queen."
And for the first time since she's met him, he smiles, causing her to smile even more and Barry to chuckle at the encounter happening in front of him.
Kara looks at Oliver, the hero, the leader and mentor to most of the team that was created almost overnight, she respected him even more than she respected her cousin, because without any powers he was the real deal, a true hero, and he never took the glory, he shared or gave it to someone else, selfless. She felt something and she wasn't sure what but she was happy to have met him and for him to come around about how he saw her, it made her happier than she realized.
She shook the thoughts out of her head before talking to him again still a little red in the cheeks, "I know you said you don't get unnerved... But if you did, I think hardship is what makes us stronger. That's probably why these people look to you as their rock." She managed to say it without adding any of her thoughts into the mix, she didn't notice the grin on Barry's face as he agreed with her.
"You guys feeling the group hug?" He asked them as Oliver's face went from a small grin to a scowl in seconds, "No."
"Come on. Come on." Kara said smiling at him, she wanted to hug him, and that made her smile even more. Oliver looked at her and caught her eyes, damn it, was all he thought as he finally nodded, "All right."
Barry laughs at the awkwardness coming from the two of them, Oliver is both relieved and mad when Cisco come over to them and interrupts the hug, Oliver and Barry release her but Oliver's hand lingers on the small of her back as she walks toward Cisco.
"Hey, Kara. I made you something."
"What? Cisco." She says as she takes the box from him and opens it to see a small Tech device, she's confused, "What, uh... What is it?"
Cisco chuckles, "Oh, it's a... It's an inter dimensional extrapolator."
"Oh, I..." she begins not sure what it meant, "It creates small breaches, so you can use it to cross over to our universe any time you need to." He explains after seeing the look on her face.
"Oh, my God. That's amazing." She smiles and laughs as one thought crosses her mind, I can see him again.
Her thought makes her blush a little but Cisco brings her back to reality, "I also included communication functionality, so if you ever need any help, you can always contact the team."
A man walks in, followed by two guards, "Something tells me you weren't invited here."
"Dr. Heywood." He says as Nate walks up to him.
"Don't 'Dr. Heywood' me. What the hell are you doing here?"
"I like parties, and I'm here for the mop-up." He replies.
"Cover-up. But you can't cover this up." Nate says as the man laughs and before he can say anything Kara walks up to him, "Agent Smith!
It's so funny seeing you here. I was just having the loveliest chat with your president about you. I was telling her, on my Earth, we have a Department of Extranormal Operations, which deals specifically with aliens. She thought as an excellent idea. She also loved my pitch about reassigning you to Antarctica." She smiles as the man gets angry and walks away, Oliver having heard her smiles when she walks back towards Barry giving her an approving nod and she in turns gives him one of her brightest smiles yet.
Nate smiles as well before turning back to Agent Smith, "Maybe next time, you're a little nicer to strange visitors from another planet." Smith walks away from them but before he gets out of hearing range Nate yells, "Pack a jacket!"
Oliver was talking to Sara and Diggle talking about the things they all enjoyed, battle stories. Oliver's survival instincts come alive all of a sudden and he looks at Sara, "Is someone staring at me?" asking her quietly.
Sara casually looks over his shoulder and spots Kara staring at him, with a look she knows all too well, the girl was smitten. She looked at Oliver again before replying, she wanted to see how this played out, "Yeah, its Kara, looks like your charm works on aliens too." She said with a grin on her face as Diggle smiled in amusement.
Oliver just shook his head, there had to be another reason she was looking at him. He turned around and noticed that Kara was looking at him and hurriedly looked away when he turned around, he looked at both Diggle and Sara who were both smiling, "I'm going to go properly apologize and get to know our new friend."
Kara saw him approaching and was doing her best to look casual, which was not working one bit. Oliver reached her and said, "Hey I want to clear some things up before you leave can we talk outside?" She nodded but refused to look up at him following him outside.
They walk until they get to the side of the building where some crates pallets were put after the crates were unloaded. They sat on them as Oliver began to talk, "I know I made a bad first impression I wasn't too accepting of you, but it wasn't personal. When I started my crusade, I was alone and I wanted it to stay that way but as you can see my team is just as stubborn as I am." She laughed because she had seen Felicity, Diggle, and Sara all being stubborn, even Thea was stubborn wanting to help.
She looked up at him and smiled, "No its okay I know in this Earth the only aliens you knew were trying to kill you and then I show up." Oliver looked right at her, or more importantly it felt like he was looking through her, she felt nervous.
"Kara, we needed you and I am glad Barry brought you here. I needed to see just how outclassed we are when it comes to other species. Barry has super speed but even I can get the best of him on a good day." He looked at her letting the words hit her, "You are truly incredible I don't think I could ever beat you and, ask anyone, that is hard for me to admit."
Out of everything he said this made her smile the most, he acknowledged her, why was she so happy? Why does he have that effect on her? She wondered but didn't care at the moment, she was seeing a side of Oliver that he probably didn't show many people, "I really like your Earth you guys have made me feel needed and wanted. On my Earth I am just Superman's cousin, he is someone I can never beat, even all my enemies know my weakness and try to kill me or run tests on me."
When she didn't hear, Oliver say anything she looked up to see him giving her a comforting look, not pity, but understanding, maybe? Then he finally spoke "You have a weakness that's hard to believe?"
Kara tried to keep it together, "Yeah it's called kryptonite it's a green glowing rock. Do you guys have that here?" She asked him wanting to know if the same fate had befallen her planet here.
Oliver thought for a moment before shaking his head, "No can't say we do. I thought you loved being a hero in your world?"
She did enjoy it but after seeing how the heroes here operated, no agenda, no involvement from the government, just helping and saving people from the evil of the world, kind of like her cousin did but here they would unite to face a crisis instead of trying to do it alone. She didn't realize what she truly felt until he had asked her, she enjoyed it, but did she love it?
"I don't know, every time I think I do there is a new government agency trying to clone me or run tests on me. Just before I got here someone kidnapped me and took my blood to steal something from my cousin." She sighed remembering how they had used her blood to get into the Fortress,
"I can't even date because I'm afraid of hurting them physically or trying to keep my identity a secret from them. Plus, I don't know if I can have kids with a human and if we did our kids would be experimented on and hunted by the same organizations that want me. There is so much I can't do, because of that."
Oliver listened to her, he knew how it was like working for organizations that he didn't want to, forced to comply or risk innocent lives or those of his family. "You know Felicity?" Kara nodded. "Well she and I were together I had just proposed and on the drive home our car was shot up and she lost the ability to walk."
Kara looked up at him shocked that Felicity and Oliver were together they seemed total opposites and confused since she had seen Felicity up and about, "A trusted ally eventually made a chip that fixed it but being with her has put her in danger. She has been kidnapped and hurt because of me and I won't let it happen again by staying separated. She has already moved on and is putting her life back together."
"Wow I thought you would be with a girl like Sara." That's when she noticed he turned his head away. She realized and continued to speak, "You were with her. I thought she was into girls because she has been looking at me all night."
Oliver had the faintest blush but nodded, "Yeah we were together on my father's ship when it crashed. She likes both men and women and has always been a free spirit. We haven't been together in years though but we are still close friends."
Kara nodded and then looked up to the stars, "I wonder if my planet exists here?" Oliver looked up also, "If your universe doesn't have me then I doubt this universe has one of you, if it did we'd be the luckiest universe in existence." She looked at him and noticed he was smiling, rare of him, but that just made her smile more.
"I just want a place to belong and slow down. Do you know I never have a free day, it's either my super hearing alerting me to a disaster or its the government ordering me to help, which I don't mind but sometimes I just want to be free, you know?"
"I don't get that much free time either, during the day I'm the mayor and at night I'm the Green Arrow. It's exhausting but worth it. I am currently trying to train a team to handle the crime when I am unable to due to Mayoral responsibilities."
Kara gave out a loud sigh and turned back to him, "Don't you wish that you could settle down and be left alone?"
Oliver thought for a minute before responding. "I do and I've tried but this life called me back even when I believed myself to be free. I know when the time comes I can pass the bow and mask down to another, eventually, but for right now I can't hope for an ever after."
He sighed as he looked at her, a concerned look on his face, "You are invincible and they will never let you settle down. We had a woman here named Amanda Waller, she would take people with powers, or skills and inject them with a tracker bomb in their neck to control them. I was an asset to her during my time away, she used the people I cared about as leverage and when that didn't work she used innocent lives. Your big mistake is showing your face to the world, it's one of the things that I learned thanks to that woman."
Kara looks at him, he was opening up, she smiled slightly but shook her head, "People don't know my secret identity Kara Danvers I wear glasses, pull my hair back and pretend to be clumsy."
Before she can continue he interrupts her, "Regular people don't know but the government does and anyone who can hack the government does. People know about my secret identity thanks to Waller and her Organization that kept tabs on me, thanks to Diggle's wife most of that data was erased but the information could have been leaked in one of many cyber-attacks, however, I'm not an invincible alien."
Kara took his words seriously, she thought about the DEO and how they answered to the president, what if one day the president wasn't so understanding of Aliens, what if they wanted to use her as a weapon the way her cousin feared they would one day try to do. "What do you think I should do?"
Oliver looked at literally the strongest person he knew on the brink of tears, "Go back and do your best, but if they ask you to do anything you don't want to, call me, we'll cross over and keep you safe, because like Mick said 'When you got a crew, you don't take a hit for the rest.' I believe he meant that no matter what happens if anyone ever needs the rest we will come and help anyway we can, and Kara that includes you as well. You're a part of this crazy family now."
That's when Kara launched herself into Oliver's arms and hugged him tight, Oliver felt his bones creaking with this super hug, but even though he hated hugs he put his hands on her back and lightly stroked it trying to comfort her and reassure her that she wasn't alone.
That's when Barry flashed in front of them and upon seeing them, especially Oliver actually giving someone a hug, had a face of someone who just walked in on his parents kissing. "Um… am I interrupting something?"
Both of them pulled apart almost instantly, "No, no, I am just scared about going back to my Earth alone. I will miss you guys."
"You ready to see if Cisco's gadget works?" Barry asked her as Sara made her way to the trio, she sighed and with one last look at Oliver, "Ready."
"And remember, if you guys ever need me, I'm just a call away." Oliver told her and she nodded, "Same here." She opened the portal and walked through it to her home.
"It's weird to think that all of this started with the two of us." Sara says to Oliver who nods, "You ever think what it would be like if we never got on that boat?" She continues, he looks at her, "I don't know if I have to think about it. I mean, maybe the Dominators showed us what our lives would have been like."
"I know it was a prison, but in a way..." She began but Oliver finished her thought, "In a way, it was a gift."
She nods in agreement and gives him a hug, one that Oliver doesn't shy away from, "Stay out of trouble."
"Yeah." He replies as she walks away to her team.
When she was gone, Barry turned to Oliver, "What did you say to break the peppiest person I know?"
Oliver sighed feeling bad for ruining Kara's night with his words. "I apologized again but the conversation turned to her unhappiness in her world. She is constantly being threatened by the government or someone who knows her one weakness. We also talked about settling down."
"Oh no, Oliver please tell me you didn't give her the heroes don't get the girl speech?"
Oliver nodded, "I told her about how Felicity and I tried but it can't work out. Your partner will always get hurt and you can't have a family with this job."
Barry looked at Oliver and realized that he was angry, "You can't give up on Felicity"
"Yes, I can Barry she has moved on and is better off for it." He said it calmly but his anger was apparent as he continued to talk about Kara, "Kara is focused on being a hero but she can't be a hero on her own terms. She is watched and ordered by the government. I let her know if she needed help we would be there."
Barry knew relationships and families were a bad subject for Oliver. He had a son that was in hiding, Felicity was with someone else and his parents were both killed in front of him. "Oliver, you sound like something bad is going to happen to her."
Oliver raised his voice, "It is Barry she is being controlled. She knows it's just a matter of time, I saw it in her eyes when she talked about her home that she wasn't happy."
Barry put a hand on his shoulder, "Let's go get a drink." Oliver just nodded.
[Bar]
Barry and Oliver are having some beers talking about their lives and normalcy, "Our lives aren't exactly normal."
"I told Kara that I was looking to reclaim some normal. Thinking on it now, I'm... I'm not so sure." Oliver tells Barry who nods, "I know what you mean. We both got a look at what life would look like normal."
Oliver nodded, "It would've been happy."
"But not full." Barry finished his thought as Oliver nods in agreement, "No. No, nowhere close."
Barry raises his beer to Oliver, "To things not being normal."
Oliver smiles and does the same to Barry, clinking the bottles, "To life being full."
Authors note:
So, what do you guys think? I appreciate any comments and for those waiting on an update on my other stories, I'm sorry but I should be posting their next chapter by Thursday.