Starling City: 2012

Oliver stared at the scene in front of him, not really knowing what to do. He watched as his mother stepped into the room walking towards a little girl who was glaring at a splash of orange paint on the wall.

"Kyra, what did you do I was only gone for a moment?" Walter said as he followed Moira and knelt down to talk to the girl. She had black hair and light brown skin. From what Oliver could tell she looked to be about three maybe four. Her eyes were a bright
green, the same green as his the same as his mothers and realization dawned on him, to say it was a shock would be an understatement.

The girl's expression was one of annoyance as she looked over from the paint to Walter, "It wouldn't turn pink." was her only reply as to why she had thrown the paint against the wall. "Pink?" If a four year old could look exasperated, then she was doing
a good job at it as she said, "I mixed yellow and red it should be pink, I was painting a pig. Pigs are pink not orange."

Walter couldn't help but smile at the expression and explanation from his daughter. Walter said something to her about an orange pig, but Kyra's gaze had finally spotted the amount of people in the room three she recognized, but the man standing at the
door she didn't know. He was looking at her with a strange expression. She turned back to her dad and pointed at the stranger and said, "Who is that?"

All of a sudden all eyes were on Oliver as if they had all just remembered he was there, Moira froze she didn't mean for him to find out this way, She wanted to tell him about Walter and then she would have introduced Kyra. There was no going back now
so she turned back to face her younger daughter and said. "That's your older brother Oliver."

Now the girl just look confused as eyes flicked from Oliver to her mother, "I have a brother?" Moira nodded and the led her over to Thea and Oliver who were standing beside each other at the doorway. "Oliver, this is Kyra."

Kyra was a little overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of this man that was supposed to be her brother, but she was happy all the same she had always wanted a brother. She turned to her sister with a big smile. "Thea, we have a brother! Did you know?"
Although it was a bit weird for Oliver to think he had another sister but he couldn't help the small smile on his face from the girl's excitement.

"Yes I knew, Ollie and I grew up together." That answer just caused a whole lot of questions to arise in the small child. "Why have I never met him, you never said anything about him either?" The room suddenly when quiet and there was a strong tension
in the air as everyone puzzled over the best was to answer that.

Surprisingly it was Oliver who took the initiative and knelt down in front of her to explain. "I have been gone for around six years, it was sudden and no one knew where I was. I guess I was never spoken of because everyone was upset because they didn't
know where I was." Oliver thought that was the best way to explain it to her, when she was older she would find out the whole truth.

"Why didn't you tell anyone where you were?" Oliver guessed he walked straight into that one, he was trying to think of a believable excuse when Kyra spoke again. "You shouldn't go anywhere without telling someone, that's what mum and dad tell me."

"That is very true, next time I will tell someone." Moira saw the amusedexpressionOliver held at her daughters advice, but it didn't reach his eyes if anything the only emotion she could see there was sadness, and Moira could not figure out
why.

Oliver stood up straight, addressing his mom in his next sentence, "May I be excused, I didn't get much sleep last night and I wouldn't mind getting a couple hours in before dinner." On the way here he found out that Tommy and Laurel would be joining
the family for dinner. Before then Oliver just wanted some time to himself.

Moira nodded and said, "Sure, your rooms the same as you left it, I couldn't bring myself to change it." She watched her son walk away with a bewildered expression, the old Oliver would have not of asked to leave, he just did what he wanted when he wanted.

Starling City: 2006

A week after waking up in the strange room nothing had changed, apart from the door was kept locked after the first day. He would get meals twice a day and the bucket would be emptied, it was always one of the twins. Who Ollie had come to know as Baldy
and Buzz, because he didn't know what their real names were because they never spoke apart from the occasional insult chucked his way, and them telling him to shut up when he started asking them questions about why he was here.

Bored was not a strong enough word for how Oliver was feeling, he had spent the first couple of days yelling at the door for them to let him out, saying that someone would find them. Did theyeven know who he was, He was Oliver Queen. There was never
a reply. Eventually he lost his voice and just laid on the uncomfortable mattress thinking and waiting. Now though he had spent days thinking and really there was nothing left to think about.

The door unlock with a click and swung open, to reveal both Baldy and Buzz, usually it was just one of them. He noticed the black hood Buzz held in his hand. Immense panic arose in Oliver but also a silly determination. He stood up ready to put up a fight,
he knew he was no match for this two, but damn it he was not just going to sit there and let them do whatever.

"Aw, look he's trying to be tough. Isn't that cute." Oliver let his fist fly having had enough of their annoying comments. With speed Oliver had not expected Baldy dodged and returned a very hard one that connected with Oliver's face, it had Oliver bordering
on the edge of unconsciousness, he heard their laughter as the hood was placed over his head and thenwas dragged out of the room. Where to, he didn't know and he wasn't going to ask, because he knew he would never get an answer from this two.

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Author Notes:

Oliver has been missing for six years. Basically why I changed dates was so that Kyra could be at an age where she could hold a proper conversation, but still young enough to be innocent andclueless to things.

Here is a rough timeline to put things in prospective:

May 10th, 2006 - Oliver was kidnapped.

February 23rd, 2007 - Robert died.

July 18th, 2007 - Moira and Walter slept together, which eventually turned into a relationship. Also the date Kyra was conceived. Though Moira didn't acknowledge it till she was about four months pregnant, at first she didn't want to keep her but
later changed her mind.

March 20th, 2008 - Kyra Queen-Steele was born

April 27th, 2008 - They stopped the search for Oliver.

October 7th, 2010 - Moira and Walter got married.

March 14th, 2012 - Oliver returns to Starling City.