So first of all, I just want to apologize for the extremely long wait on this chapter, and my only excuse is that I could not figure out how to write it. But now the long wait is finally over and I can't tell you how excited I am to share this with you and I can't wait to hear what you have to say. So, without further ado here is the next chapter...Enjoy!


After sitting in silence for a good half an hour, there was a commotion outside of the door that broke both Oliver's trances and then the door opened.

"Hey, I think we have an idea on how to stop Darhk" Sara said looking into the room and catching both pairs of eyes.

Without another thought, they both stood up and followed the blonde back to the main room.

"What's going on" Future Oliver asked.

"Well Felicity filled us in about Darhk and everything about HIVE" Cisco said.

"And then we added our knowledge of him" Sara finished.

"And did you find anything that we don't already kn0w" Oliver asked.

"Well, we know that Darhk relies on his idol to syphon his power" Felicity said.

"Yeah" Oliver nodded.

"Well, the key is to get that idol away from him and destroy it."

"Ok, well how do we do that, because last time I checked that thing was impossible to destroy." Future Oliver asks.

"Well, not impossible because we have Cisco. He created a device that will be able to penetrate the wood, and therefore destroy it." Felicity said with pride.

"Ok, well if you're sure it works…" Oliver started to say before he was cut off by Cisco.

"It works" Cisco says defensively.

"Ok, ok, ok" Oliver said putting his hands up in surrender. "I trust you."

"Alright then what's the plan" Ray asked.

"Well first we have to track down Darhk, which is why I am running a search on where he was last seen and if we're lucky that will lead us right to him" she said in deep concentration, while typing away. "And Boom, found him" as everyone crowded around the monitor.

"Where is he" Future Oliver asked.

"926 W. Port Street, it's a warehouse near the docks."

"Ok, here's the plan" Future Oliver says taking over. "Barry, Reverse Flash is all yours" and Barry only nodded in agreement. "And Dig…both Dig's and Team Legends, you have the Ghost's, and me and Oliver will look for the idol and destroy it."

"And what about Darhk?" Sara asks.

"We've got Darhk" Oliver says looking her in the eye.

When the plan is set in place, and everyone knows their part, they start to move to get ready, but before they get a chance to break, Tommy comes out from the back, awake from his nap, carrying his Green Arrow & Flash action figures in his right hand and his left rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"Daddy?"

When everyone hears the little boy they immediately turn their attention to him.

"Hey, little man", and without another thought Future Oliver kneels down and the little boy beelines his way into his father's awaiting arms.

"You come back, right?" Tommy asks looking into his father's eyes.

"Yes, I will come back. I promise" and the last part comes out as a rough whisper full of emotion and promise. And then he pulls his son into a tight and loving embrace, "I promise".

And then he stands up and lifts Tommy with him, and gently gives him to Felicity.

When the little boy is settled in her lap and has his ear to her heart, listening to her steady heartbeat, his father kneels once more.

"Tommy, do you remember when I gave you these" he asks touching the two action figures in the little boy's hand, and Tommy responds with a nod, never letting his head leave his mother's chest.

"And do you remember what I said?"

"They keep me safe, always."

"That's right, and that we will always be there for you… I will always be there for you. Do you understand?"

And the little boy can only nod and instead of saying yes, he says "I love you daddy."

And Future Oliver gives a small but powerful and meaningful smile to his son and responds, "I love you too Tommy." And with one final kiss to his son's temple, he stands up and looks back at his team and says "Suit up."

And without another word Future Oliver went straight to his suit and for the first time that day he let his anger take a hold of him. All the pain and sorrow he had been suppressing for Tommy's sake, was now being directed into rage towards one man. The man who put the love of his life in a coma. The man who made him send his son away. The man who took everything from him, right before his eyes. And now he was out for blood, he was going to make sure Damian Darhk was dead and this time for good.


After leaving the lair, they all made their way to the abandoned warehouse.

"Alright, well I am getting some strong heat signatures coming from the front of the building" Felicity said over the comms.

"I guess that's our cue" Sara said as they all quickly made their ways to the side door.

When they burst through the door there were about 75 Ghosts in the warehouse and they all attacked.

"Hey Barry, heads up Reverse Flash heading your way" Cisco said. And Barry looked to his right and saw his enemy coming towards him, full force. Leading his fight away from everyone else, Barry started to run and his nemesis followed.

"Go, Ollie we've got this" Sara said, and with that the two Green Arrow's broke from the group and make their way to the back of the warehouse.

"Overwatch, anything" Oliver asks.

"Umm, keep going straight, I'm getting a heat signature from the very back."

And with that the two men tag teamed, watching each other's back's, and headed towards the man that had destroyed their lives.

When they reached the last room of the warehouse, Future Oliver kicked down the door, with the rage leading the force of his kick.

"Damian Darhk, YOU HAVE FAILED THIS CITY!" Future Oliver said while both held their bows high and ready to strike at any moment.

"Oh, what do we have here, two archers and no team, now that wasn't very smart" Darhk said in his signature sarcastic voice.

"Do you see the idol" Felicity asked.

Oliver scanned the area, when he finally saw it. "Yeah, I have eyes on it."

"You really underestimate me" Future Oliver responded with venom coating every word.

"And you Mr. Queen, must peg me as a fool, if you honestly think that you can defeat me. I am the most powerful man alive."

"Yeah, we'll see about that" Oliver responded, and without another word, the two men fired their arrows at the same time and somersaulted in the opposite directions to expand the space between them and Darhk, and also to increase the distance between Oliver and the idol.

When the battle began between the three men, the intensity was at a boiling point and only escalating from there. Before the team arrived to the battle, the two Oliver's came up with a plan to defeat Darhk and they both agreed that the only way to stop him was through distraction. So, that was what they were doing.

While Darhk held his own, with his sword, both Oliver's didn't hold anything back, they fought with a ferocity that they had never fought with before. Not for Slade, or Ras, or even Darhk the first time. This time they knew that there was so much more at stake and that they couldn't lose because they had a little boy and a woman they loved counting on them to make things right and to come home.

When Future Oliver noticed how close his younger self was to the idol, he took the opportunity to take the full force of the battle onto his shoulders. When he saw, what his older self was doing Oliver took the opportunity to take his shot. But before he could, Darhk noticed what their intentions were, and immediately stopped Oliver with his power, by holding him in place.

"No" Future Oliver growled and drew back an arrow and released it, making it hit Darhk in the back, which caused him to lose his concentration for a split second, releasing Oliver. With the moment of relief, Oliver somersaulted near his future self and used the opportunity to use his perfect aim and fired the laser Cisco created, and it hit the idol full force, and exploded into pieces.

When the pieces fell to the floor, Darhk screamed "No", and Future Oliver fired an arrow in Darhk's leg, causing him to fall to his knees, and then he drew another arrow back, pointing it to his enemy's heart.

Rage consumed Future Oliver's every thought, he finally had this man on his knees. He was ready, he was ready to end this, to end his life.

"Hey"

"Don't try to stop me, he deserves to die, he NEEDS to die. He took everything away from me."

"Do it."

"What?"

"I'm not going to stop you. So, DO it."

And without another second he released the arrow and it hit its mark.

With a loud thud the fight was finally over, and he didn't have a regret in the world. His family was finally safe and he could finally breath.

Oliver laid his hand on the other man's shoulder, and it broke his trance. "You did it. You saved us."

And the older man turned and looked at his younger self and gave him a relieved look and finally took a deep breath and let it out in a huff.

"Let's go home"


"Yeah" And he took one last look at the evil before him before he turned around for the final time, and walked out.

When they walked out into the main part of the warehouse, they were met with dead bodies, and the rest tied up. The rest of the team was finishing up when Barry arrived.

"What did I miss" Barry asked with a lopsided smile plastered on his face.

"Let's go home" Future Oliver said looking at everyone.


When the doors open to the lair the first words that reached both Oliver's ears were laughter.

"No, no stop" Tommy laughed as Felicity tickled the little boy.

"Stop what" she asks innocently while continuing to tickle him.

"That" he says squirming in her arms.

When she sees the two men making their way to her, she immediately stops tickling Tommy and instead whispers in his ear. "Look who's here."

And as soon as the words reached his little ears, he immediately turns around and sees his father kneeling down with open arms,

"Daddy" he screams and jumps from Felicity's lap and launches himself into his father's arms. "I knew you come back."

"I made a promise, and I made a vow to NEVER break my promises, and that goes for you too."

While watching the beautiful scene before her, she spy's the man she's been longing to see all night, and he catches her eye too.

"Hey" she says when he walks towards her.

"Hey."

"So is he… you know" then she pretends to slice her throat, and Oliver can't help but chuckle a little, but quickly sobers up.

"Um, yeah, he's…" and then he mimics her. "He won't be a problem anymore" he says looking at his older self who is now doing a little handshake with his son.

"I'm really proud of you Oliver, you know, that, right?"

"Yeah" he responds breathless with a soft smile that he only uses for her.

When Future Oliver finally stands up, he brings Tommy with him.

"Thank you, Felicity."

"Oh, it was nothing, other than my job, to get you home safely. Not that I had any doubt that you wouldn't get home safely, because if you didn't then I wouldn't have done my job right, and now I'm just gonna stop talking." She says pursing her lips together, which only sparks a small, sad, but extremely meaningful smile to Future Oliver's lips.

"Thank you" he says again, but this time she knows that that Thank you has nothing to do with the mission.

Before she can respond Caitlyn comes over.

"How is she" Future Oliver asks immediately.

"She's good, but she's still in the same condition. I'm sorry."

"No, thank you" he says with a smile that barely reaches his lips. "I know you're doing your best."

Before he can say anything else, he feels a tug at his collar.

"Daddy?"

"Yes, buddy?"

"Where's mommy?"

And the question completely throws him and the rest of his close circle for a loop.

"What did you just say?"

"Daddy, I said where is mommy?

Not sure how to answer the question, Future Oliver just looks at Felicity for help.

"Well buddy your mom's right here" Oliver chimes in trying to help.

"No" he says shaking his head and crossing his arms. "She looks like mommy, but she's not my mommy."

"What do mean by that" his father asks.

"Well momma has long hair, and she and I have a secret, but this mommy doesn't know the secret."

When both Oliver's lock eyes and watch the boy in astonishment, they both then simultaneously turn their focus to Felicity.

"What are you looking at me for, it's clear this kid is smart, which would only mean that he is my kid" she says smirking.

"I want to see mommy" Tommy says in his demanding voice and pulls out his little pout with his arms still crossed across his little chest.

"Umm buddy I don't know if that's a good idea" Future Oliver says.

And then the big alligator tears start to fall from the crystal blue eyes. "Why? Is it because she don't want to see me?"
"No buddy, that's not it at all, it's just that she's …." He stops desperately trying to find the right words.

"Sleeping" Oliver says.

"Right, she's sleeping and we both know how much mommy likes to sleep."

"But, I also know how much I love to see my little boy too" Felicity says for the first time, and both men look at her and the older one looks at her like she's crazy.

"What are you doing" he asks in a flustered whisper.

Ignoring him, Felicity takes Tommy's hand and says "you know if your quiet, you might be able to wake her up."

And the little boy's face immediately lights up and says in a whisper, "I promise to be quiet."

"Well ok then" she says matching his whisper. And when she looks up, his father is still sending her daggers. "What? What could be the harm in letting your…my little boy see his mother… me or future me, ugh, you get my point."

And then the older man looks to his younger self for help, but he only gets a shoulder shrug and a "what the heck."

Finally, being defeated, he moves towards the back of the lair, to where the love of his life is currently in a coma.


When he slowly enters the room, he watches his son's face light up at the sight of his mother.

Walking over to the side of the bed, he gently sits down beside her and continues to watch the little boy marvel at the sleeping woman. He is just waiting for the other shoe to drop, for his son to realize that his mother's not really asleep but in a far worse condition, to the point where she may never wake up. But it doesn't, because the little boy only looks upon the woman as if she were the most incredible sight he had ever seen.

"Mama" he whispers, and when she doesn't move, he tries again. "Mama, wake up", and again, and again, and by the fifth time he starts to shake her as if she were pretending to be asleep.

And all while this is happening, Oliver's heart is breaking piece by piece watching his son try to wake his mother; his wife. And nothing's happening.

But the little boy's spirit isn't broken yet, in fact he thinks it's a game, which breaks Oliver's heart even more, because when Tommy finally realizes that she's not waking up, that it's not game, the little boy is going to be confused and the dreadful six words will tumble out of his little mouth "Daddy, why isn't mommy waking up?" And then he is going to have to break the news to the little guy, to his son, that his mother may never wake up, and he doesn't want to do that. So, he silently prays to God that he doesn't have to have that conversation with his three-year-old son who loves his mother as if she were the greatest thing that ever lived.

And all while this is happening he tries to keep the tears from escaping and crashing down his face like a waterfall, while his son continues to smile and laugh at his mother who isn't responding to his calls.

After about a minute of lightly tapping his mother's face and arms and stomach, he finally looks back at his dad with a smile plastered all over his face, but it quickly disappears when he sees his father's red rimmed eyes.

"Daddy, why you crying?"

"I…."

"Do you need a hug?"

"I…" and he only silently nods, and the little boy quickly puts his tiny arms around his father's neck and nuzzles his head in the crook of his neck and says…

"It's ok, don't cry daddy, mama's just playing."

And then, he knows the moment has come, he has to tell him. He has to tell him that his mother isn't sleeping, and that is the moment he lets the tears fall. That is the moment he lets himself cry in front of his son.

With tears streaming the words finally find a broken way out of his mouth.

"No, Tommy" he says nodding his head side to side, "mommy's not… playing…she's…"

"She's what?" comes a very broken and very raspy voice.

And when the words hit his ears, he thinks he imagined it, because he didn't say it and Tommy didn't say it, but then it comes again.

"What game am I playing?"

And then the next thing he knows he is breathless looking at the beautiful eyes that he has only been haunted by for the last couple days and the little boy is the one to break him from his trance.

"Mommy!?" he practically screams, and when she winces, he dramatically clamps his hands over his mouth and whispers "Momma. I knew you'd wake up. I knew you weren't really asleep" he says softly launching himself at her while putting his arms around her neck and smiling in the crook of her neck, just like he always did with his mother.

"You got me" she said with a smile in her voice, while she puts her now movable hand to her son's back and lightly rubs it, and then plants a kiss to his hair.

All while the mother and son are sharing this perfect moment, Oliver is still sitting on the bed, crying full force now, not being able to comprehend what is going on. The tears are silent, and his eyes are red, but now they are for a completely different reason, then they were two minutes ago.

She's awake, she's awake he keeps telling himself, but a part of him still thinks that it isn't real and that his mind is just playing tricks on him. But the moment of doubt is quickly banished when he feels her hand on his, and that is when he lifts his eyes for the first time and they meet hers.

And when they meet he is immediately grounded, and he realizes this is real.

"Felicity" he says in a super soft broken voice.

"Hi" she responds in her soft delicate voice.

When she sees the urgency, and need in his eyes, to do more than just see her, she quickly whispers to the semi-conscious boy on her chest, "My love, why don't you come sleep on my side, hmm?"

And without so much as a protest he gently moves over to her right side, so that he is now cuddled in her side.

Once Tommy moves, Oliver sees the opportunity to truly allow himself to embrace his wife. He gently but quickly leans over her and grabs the back of her head, bringing it to his chest, and kissing the top of her head.

And then when that's not enough he settles her back down on the pillow and then moves his lips to hers, for a soft chastised kiss. And when that's still not enough he moves his head to her chest, and lays where is son was, but making sure he doesn't put any weight on her.

When he feels it, the beautiful pattern of thumps of her heart beat, he finally lets himself fully break down, and does the one thing he can do to keep telling himself that this is real, he holds onto her for dear life.

As he cries and let's his vulnerability take over all of him, Felicity does the one thing she can to soothe him, and that is to gently run her fingers through his hair and scalp and say comforting and loving words to him.

It is in that moment that she finally takes in her surroundings and realizes that she is not in her house or the hospital, but in the bunker. And she doesn't know why, but all she does know is that she has her two boys with her, one pleasantly sleeping in her side, cuddling her like he always does, and the other baring his completely broken soul to her and holding onto her for dear life.

And in that moment, she could care less about what happened to bring on this side of her boys, because all that mattered was that she still had them, and that is all she needed.

And for the first time that day the first tear of happiness, fell from her cheek.


So first off I just want to say, that it was not my first intention to base so much of this chapter on Future Oliver, but somehow the words just kept flowing and I couldn't stop. I am really curious to hear what you have to say about this chapter and the way I perceived Future Oliver, and I hoped you enjoyed it!