Chapter 2
Normal Food
Disclaimer: And we are back with an all new chapter in the continuing struggle of Oliver's life since returning from Lian Yu! Thanks to all who reviewed the first chapter, it is highly appreciated!
Summary: Various times Oliver tried eating normal food.
Ice Cream
Deep within the Queen Mansion, particularly the basement where a large walk in freezer was located at. One Oliver Queen was inside the freezer with the door closed and not even caring about it. Why? Because the man who survived five years of Hell on an island had missed quite a few things and one of those was Ice Cream. Ice Cream he was currently pigging out on with a spoon he thankfully remembered to get! His long shaggy beard and parts of his long hair was covered in melted Ice Cream as he digged into his 5th box of the stuff and had no intentions of stopping now! He would have been out hunting again but someone had taken his knife he used to skin his kills with! Granted, he knew his friends and family weren't happy with him for skinning a Stag right in front of them a few days ago but to take his knife without speaking to him about it!? That just wasn't right!
As anything could happen at anytime and he needed that knife if he was going to adequately defend himself if he didn't have his bow on him at the time! A very important talk was going to have to happen really soon about the importance of his having that knife with him. As if he couldn't fight for whatever reason, using that knife to distract then fight would be the best way to go about it. I'll have that talk after I have all this Ice Cream… He happily thought to himself as he ate his way through the 5th box of the stuff and not bothering to realize in his enjoyment of the frozen treat that his stomach was already pretty full.
Meanwhile… Outside of the Freezer
Annie, one of Thea's long time friends was coming down into the basement after offering to grab some Ice Cream for all of them to enjoy. Sadly her bit of intended frozen fun was about to be denied! Coming up to the door and opening it, what she found inside was entirely what she wasn't expecting! As after all, how often do you come across a shaggy haired man who was starting to look a little blue going crazy on some Ice Cream and some of it covering his hair!? Not this girl that's for sure!
The sound of the door opening got the former castaway's attention and hoped whoever hadn't just opened the door wasn't about to try and attack him! "Hmm?" He grunted with a wide eyed look at the person who had opened the door. The light coming into the freezer made it kind of hard for him to fully see who the newcomer was.
Annie did the only thing she could do in this instance, she screamed loudly in fear at the sight of him looking at her crazily. Unfortunately for her he started to scream back as well as if he too was freaked out by the whole thing! He then started to walk towards her. "Who are you!?" He barked out and the girl screamed again, causing him to do it again and get the door slammed right in his face!
The unexpected motion caused him to fall over in shock and boy did that hurt his butt! Not to mention make it pretty cold too! We have intruder in the house… Need weapons to protect home, family, and Ice Cream! A gurgling in his stomach just now finally made it clear how unhappy his stomach was starting to feel too!
Meanwhile, Thea and the other girls came running down the steps with alarm on their faces. "Annie what happened!?" The young Queen asked worriedly as she grabbed her friend by the arms and looked her in the eye.
"There's some cave man in your freezer!"
Thea looked at her confusedly as that couldn't be right! "Umm.. Could you run that one by me again please?"
"I'm serious girl! There's a freakin' cave man in there eating the Ice Cream!" Exclaimed Annie as really, this shouldn't be a difficult thing to believe!
Not sure if whether or not to believe her, Thea made the decision to call in Mr. Diggle and he thankfully arrived within seconds. "So we got us a possible intruder in there huh?"
Annie nodded fervently to his question and so Digg put a hand on his gun in case it was needed as he reached out to open the freezer door. And instantly regretted doing it too as a horrible smell started to make its way out and making the girls behind him gag. Fully opening the door, Diggle realized the intruder in question was Oliver himself and he could be heard groaning. "Mr. Queen, are you alright?"
His question sent the girls into whispering aside from Thea and Annie, as Thea was just confused over all and Annie felt embarrassed for not having realized it was Thea's older brother! Now maybe if he had shaved she would have recognized him!
From the spot where he sat against a shelf with an un-opened bucket of Strawberry Ice Cream, Oliver looked towards Diggle with an ill look on his face. "Too much… Ice… Cream..." He groaned out.
"How much could you have possibly had!?" Called out Thea from where she was in a strange sounding way thanks to the fact she was holding her nose in an attempt to not smell the horrible puke smell coming from the freezer. Something she knew Raisa was NOT going to be happy about!
"Five boxes..."
That response was something that not even Diggle could comprehend as it was crazy for anyone to eat that much! After getting the former cast away out and the mess was cleaned up courtesy of Raisa who had a very stern lecture in mind for Oliver when he was feeling better, a lock would be placed on the freezer door and only certain individuals would have a key to it. Something Oliver hated as it meant he had to get someone to open it up for him whenever he was in the mood for some Ice Cream. A camera would also have to be later installed to make sure he wasn't trying anything after he managed to break the lock at one point.
Pizza
A few weeks after the Ice Cream incident Tommy had decided to bring a few pizzas over to the Queen Mansion to see if his buddy was down to eat a few slices while they watched whatever was interesting to them. For the Merlyn Scion, it had been a good idea in his head and even when he got skeptical looks from Thea he still thought it was a good idea since his buddy needed to start adjusting more to normal food now that he's not eating whatever he could find on that island. Or even out in the woods for that matter since Moira still refused to give Ollie the knife back much to his annoyance. What nobody knew was that he was close to deciding to sneak around in her room to find the thing. Unfortunately for him, one sniff from Oliver over the pizzas had made the man have no interest in the food.
"Dude! Its pizza, how can you say no to that!?"
"Because, the smell has no appeal to me Tommy." Which actually bummed him out some as he had loved pizza quite a bit before the island.
"Well ignore that and take a bite anyway." Replied Tommy, thinking it wouldn't be a big deal but the look he got in return told him what his buddy thought of that idea.
"Eat it with Thea, I'm sure she'll like it a lot more." Oliver told him before walking off and contemplating once again about breaking into his mother's room to get back his knife.
Tommy watched his best friend and brother in all but blood walk away with a sad look on his face over how things had just gone. And while he wasn't the praying sort, he wound up doing one then and there that his friend would find his way back to some sense of normalcy sooner rather than later.
Raisa's Special Stew
A day after Tommy's pizzas, Raisa had decided to cook her special stew that had been a recipe in her family for generations as an extra special for the night's dinner and Oliver had wound up in the kitchen after smelling the pleasant aroma of the meal. Pleasant as it reminded him of certain animals he had eaten on the island but he doubted Raisa's stew was anything like any of those animals. Though he was willing to try some Stag with her stew provided she was willing to let him add it. His presence wound up startling the woman. "Oh! Mr. Oliver! You scared me!" She told him with a hand to her chest.
"Sorry, the smell of your stew drew me in here."
Knowing of his tastes these days she was rather happy to hear the smell had brung him in here and his scaring her accidentally made it all worth it to her now. Getting an idea, she dipped her stirring spoon into the pot and then brought it out with a little stew in it and brung it towards him. "Would you like to try some?" Hoping it would sit well with him.
Surprised by that, Oliver happily and gently took the spoon from her and tried the stew. Unfortunately for him however, whatever ingredient in it made his mouth begin to burn quickly. "Water!" He got out while handing the spoon back to her and going for the nearest sink and grabbing a measuring cup to fill it with nice cold water. She watched with shock on her face as he downed the water in one go before going for some more and wondered what it was in the stew that caused it.
It took three more glasses of water before his mouth cooled off before he turned to her with a guilty look on his face that made her heart break for him. "Sorry about that, I don't know what happened but it burned." And he loves her stew damnit!
She smiled at him to show it was okay. "I understand Mr. Oliver, perhaps you can try it again at a later time." He nodded at that and then she surprised him by giving him a tight hug. Something he returned happily.
This thing with food can't last forever. He thought to himself as he continued to be hugged and hugged back in return.
Author's Notes: I think that's a good place to end this chapter. Apologies if its not longer then it probably could be. My next update should be for 'Found But Still Lost' if I'm able to get past the slight writer's block I'm having with it. What would you guys like to see be covered next in this story? R and R!
