Laurel was driving over to her future home to check on the remodel she and Oliver were having done, since she'd gotten Cisco to come out and install a sonic dampener in the house, which was designed to run off the house's electrical grid without raising suspicion. Laurel had also spoke with Oliver and in order to avoid people asking what exactly was remodeled, she got the permits and hired a crew to add a pool to their very big backyard.
Anyways, Laurel had just pulled up to the house to see that Cisco was walking out.
"Well?" Laurel asked.
"It's done. Now the worst your scream can do when you're inside the house is hurt someone's eardrums." Cisco said.
"Thank you Cisco." Laurel said.
"My pleasure. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to Central City." Cisco said as he pulled out his goggles and and made sure no one else was looking before he opened up a breach and jumped through.
"Well, that's useful." Laurel said as she walked from her car up to the new house so she could begin unpacking her stuff, since she wanted the house to be all set by the time Oliver got out of the hospital, though considering he was discharged tomorrow, she doubted that would be the case.
After Oliver was discharged from the hospital and he and Laurel finished moving into their new home, which they had also decorated for Christmas.
Now it was Christmas Eve and the team was preparing to do their own version of Santa Claus as Laurel entered the bunker, a sack over her shoulder.
"Laurel, what's that you got there?" John asked.
"In the spirit of Christmas, I come bearing gifts." Laurel said as she began handing out gifts.
"Not that I'm complaining, but isn't this a day early?" Rene asked.
"Since my sister Sara was born on December 25th, it kind of became a Lance family tradition to celebrate Christmas a day early, in order to keep Sara from feeling like her birthday was any less important, so we celebrated Christmas on the 24th and celebrated Sara's birthday on the 25th. And since Sara is currently off time traveling and my dad is in rehab, you guys are also my family, so I figured I might as well carry on the tradition with you guys." Laurel said as she handed out gifts.
"This is really sweet Laurel. Speaking of your dad, have you visited him recently?" John asked.
"Yeah, I saw him earlier today. He's doing well." Laurel said.
"Any chance of him coming home for Christmas?" John asked.
"Funny you should mention that." Laurel said as her father entered the bunker.
"Quentin, you're looking well." John said, surprised.
"Yeah well, that's the thing about rehab. It's a long process until it ain't." Quentin said with a smile as Oliver and Thea entered the bunker.
"Quentin" Thea said happily as she went and hugged him.
"Hey Thea. Thank you so much for making me go to rehab. You were right. I needed it." Quentin said.
"I'm surprised you got out so soon. I was honestly expecting you be in there at least till new years." Thea said.
"Well, once I found out that Laurel was alive, it was like something inside me clicked. But I still stayed for her." Quentin said as he looked at his daughter, who smiled at him.
"And I'm glad you did, since now I know that if something were to happen to me or to Sara again, you won't go off the deep end." Laurel said as she hugged him.
"It's a good thing to, since I could really use my deputy mayor back." Oliver said.
"Looking forward to it." Quentin said as he and Oliver shook hands.
"So dad, did you ever think that one day Oliver Queen of all people would be your boss?" Laurel asked with a smirk.
"Very funny Laurel." Quentin said.
"I'm not getting the joke." Rene said.
Oliver chuckled before saying "You'd never guess this now, but Quentin here didn't like me. He thought I was just a spoiled billionaire playboy who would never amount to anything. He never approved of my relationship with Laurel and I'm honestly kind of surprised you didn't punch me after I got back from Lian Yu."
"Don't get me wrong I thought about it, repeatedly, but then I realized that would probably do more to me than it would to you." Quentin said.
"So that's why you tried to convict Oliver as the Hood. You wanted an excuse to hurt him without looking biased." Thea said.
"Well, to be fair it turns out I was right to do that since he was." Quentin said.
"True, but now that I think about it, there's someone in this room that you owe an apology." Oliver said.
"Who?" Quentin asked.
"Me." Roy said simply.
Quentin took a deep breath before saying "Roy, I am sorry had you imprisoned for being the Arrow while also not putting you protective custody."
"Apology accepted." Roy said.
"Good, now, if we're all friends again, I believe we have a city to protect, we can open gifts when we get back." Oliver said, right as the computers beeped.
"Felicity, what's going on?" Oliver asked as Felicity took a look at the computers.
"It looks like Prometheus has decided to end his break and has gone right back to killing." Felicity said.
"Okay, but where exactly?" John asked.
"It looks like, Palmer Tech." Felicity said.
"It looks like he's getting into the bad guy's habit of using our family's former company and it's technology to hurt people." Thea said.
"Let's go." Oliver said.
"Oh, Laurel, before I forget, I got you an extra Christmas present." Curtis said as he handed a box to Laurel.
Laurel opened it to see that Curtis had repaired her sonic device.
"Thanks Curtis, but I don't need the sonic device anymore." Laurel said.
"I know, but I modified it so that rather than allowing you to project a sonic scream, it will allow you to more efficiently focus your sonic scream and bypass sonic dampeners." Curtis explained.
"Sick." Laurel said as she, Oliver, John and Roy all headed towards the mannequins and Curtis, Rory, Rene and Evelyn went to go get their suits.