Chapter 1:

Queen Mansion:

Oliver and Sara walk into the mansion hand in hand. For Oliver it's the place he used to call home. It still looks the same it did 7 years ago. For Sara she wasn't really around the Queen household. It was to hard to go there and see her sister and Oliver. She'll never tell anyone but she had a major crush on Oliver. She hated coming here because she always got insecure about herself thinking she wasn't smart enough to be 'friends' with Oliver or wasn't pretty enough.

Oliver notices Sara and her slight discomfort squeezes her hand and they continue to walk towards the dinning room with everyone else. Oliver watches as a familiar face walks up to his mother and nods his head at her. As this person walks away Oliver realizes two things. This man is his dad's old business partner Walter Steele and how he looks disappointed at what his mother told him. As Oliver walks around the staircase he hears a door open upstairs. Oliver turns around his baby sister Thea who not a baby anymore, she's all grown up.

"I knew it, i knew you were alive" Says Thea as she races down to her brother. "I misses you so much" She mutters as she hugs her brother.

"How you been Speedy" Oliver is quick to say as he loosens his grip on Sara's hand to fully return the hug his sister is giving him.

Thea takes a step back to glare at her brother before saying. "You know i hate that name"

"Well get used to it cause it ain't going away" Said Oliver as here pulls Thea back into a hug. Oliver breaks the hug from Thea and looks over at Sara. With a small smile he makes his way back over to her and takes her hand in his. Sara looks at Oliver and smiles before kissing his cheek and resting her head on his shoulder. Laurel stands a ways away from the group next to her father. She doesn't know what to feel in this situation. On one hand she feels so happy that her sister is back home. On the other she wants to hit Oliver and slap her sister for going after Oliver just after he broke up with her.

Everyone makes there way in the dining room. On one side sits Walter and the other Quentin. Laurel sits to Quentin left while Sara to his right. Oliver sits next to Sara not wanting to be more than 5 feet from her. To Walter's left sits Thea and to his right is Moria. Oliver starts the conversation.

"So Laurel i'm guessing you finished law school?" Asks Oliver as he looks up from his plate of food. When everyone got a plate Oliver stared at the plate for good minute or two before looking up towards Sara than asking Laurel the question.

"Yes i did, i work for a small Law firm in the glades called CNRI" Says Laurel as she finally has the courage to look over at her sister and ex boyfriend.

Oliver sees the hurt look in her eyes and turn his attention to Quentin. "Still the detective Mr. Lance"

"Yes i am Oliver, still working as hard as i can to take down the bad guys" Quentin says as he looks towards the man that stole 7 years with his youngest daughter away and managed to break his other daughter's heart.

Oliver notices Quentin look and knows it was bound to happen at sometime. Luckily Walter saves any altercation for a later time.

"Well Oliver and Sara i think i speak for everyone in this room it's good to see you two home. And hopefully we can make the transition as easy as possible" Says Walter as he comes to Oliver's rescue.

"We'll it's good to see my mother and sister were in good hands" Oliver says as he looks towards to shocked expression on his mother and sister faces.

Thea looks at her mother and sees the accusing look on her face. Thea is quick to come to the defense of herself. "I didn't say anything"

"She didn't have to mom. It was pretty obvious from when i walked in" Oliver says to his mother.

"Okay well i guess i'll get this out of the way. Me and Walter got married 2 years ago. I just thought i should clear that up" Says Moira.

"And walter which part of the transition are you talking about, The one where me and Sara have to get back into society or the one where i have my dad's business partner sleeping down the hall from me" Oliver says. He looks towards Sara who has her head down.

Moria is very shocked at the sudden outburst her son just had. Thea looks disappointed and everyone else can feel the tension in the room.

"May i be excused" Says Oliver as he stands up. Moria doesn't say anything and looks away from him. "I'll take that as a yes" Says Oliver quickly as her turn to leave. He takes one step and feels a tug at his. He turns around to see Sara pulling herself and going to walk with him.

Oliver and Sara make it out of the dining room and head towards the main entrance. They stand there for a couple of seconds before Sara pulls Oliver into a hug. They stand there for a while until they hear a door open. Oliver and Sara both look up to see Oliver's best friend Tommy Merlyn.

"You know i hate yachts. First my favorite t shirt and then my best friend if i didn't know any better i think yachts have some beef with me" Tommy says as he walks over to Oliver and Sara.

"Well if it isn't Tommy Merlyn". Oliver says as Sara lets go of Oliver so the long time best friends can hug each other.

"It's good to see you buddy" Oliver says as they end there hug.

"So tomorrow i was thinking me and you do the city cause you got a lot of catching up to do" Tommy finishes as he looks over towards Sara.

"Sara Lance how are you" Says Tommy as he walks over to her.

Sara watches as Tommy comes over. "Better that i can now eat some decent food"
Sara jokes trying to think of hurting Tommy when he hugs her. She's not used to anyone other than Oliver and Slade giving her hugs any time someone else touches her she would be in attack almost instantaneously.

"Hey Tommy it's been a long day for me and Sara so we were gonna go upstairs and fall asleep"

Oliver says as he walks up to Tommy.

"Okay but don;t think that you're getting out of going to the city tomorrow" Tommy says as he hugs Oliver again.

"Didn't think i would" Oliver is quick to reply.

Tommy ands the embrace and heads out the front door while Oliver and Sara move towards the stairs when they hear someone behind them. They turn around to see Laurel.

"Sara are gonna stay here instead of coming home" Asks Laurel who is expecting her sister to come home with her.

"Yeah i want to lay down and help Ollie sleep cause he doesn't sleep much anymore" Sara says as she hugs her sister and says goodbye and see you tomorrow promising to come over to her house.

When Sara gets up to Oliver's room he is already looking around the room remembering a lot of old memories.

Queen's Gambit 7 years ago:

"The storm's a category 2. The captain recommending we turn back" Says a crew member to Robert Queen.

"Alright, inform the crew" Says Robert as he notices his son walking towards him.

"Are we in trouble" Asks a younger Oliver.

"One of us is" Replies Robert as he nods to Sara standing the doorway to room Oliver just came from.

"Ollie where did you go" Asked Sara as she pokes her head out the door.

"I'll be there in a minute Sara" Says Oliver as he looks towards Sara.

Robert sighs then gets his son attention. "You know son that is not going to finish well for either of them or you"

"Actually dad i think it's all gonna work itself out. I don't know how long it's going to be till it does but i sure i don't need to change girls anytime soon" Says Oliver quietly as he looks back at his dad

Oliver's Bedroom Present day:

"Ollie are you ok" Says Sara as she walks in and wraps her arms around Oliver's waist.

"Yeah, yeah i think i'm gonna be just fine"