This story will discuss various methods in which Laurel Lance of Earth 1 could have been resurrected from the dead, there will be a different method in each chapter. Some will be fairly obvious and some won't.
Laurel Lance of Earth 2 knocked on an apartment door, and it opened; revealing Tommy Merlyn, a friend of hers from her Earth. "Wow, you ... you really look just like her," Tommy said stating the obvious.
"I'm your wife's doppelganger, of course, I look like her." Earth 2 Laurel remarked.
"Woah, you might actually have a bigger mouth on you than her." Tommy chuckled. "Come on in."
Walking into Laurel's apartment, she saw family photos of her, Tommy, Quentin, Sara, and more. Eventually, Earth 2 Laurel came across her doppelganger. She was sitting on her couch bouncing a beautiful little girl with jet-black no older than 3 on her knee. Earth 1 Laurel caught her doppelganger in her eye and put her daughter down.
"Becca, sweetie, why don't you don't go play with daddy for a bit. Mommy needs to talk to her twin." Earth 1 Laurel told her little girl.
"Okay, Mama," Becca said and hugged her
"Love you, baby girl." Earth 1 Laurel hugged her back. Quickly Becca ran to her father and picking up his daughter who he named after his mother he left the room leaving the two versions of the same woman together.
Earth 1 Laurel got off her couch and stared at her doppelganger, she had a shorter haircut than her and she had bleached her hair blonde compared to Laurel's natural blonde hair. She also spotted a tattoo or two on her, she'd never get a tattoo, her dad would have killed her. "So if this as weird for you as it is for me?" Earth 1 Laurel asked.
"Definitely." Earth 2 Laurel replied and they took a seat together on a nearby table. "So what do you remember?" She asked.
"Well when J'onn came by to restore my memories it ... it was quite a lot to take in." Earth 1 Laurel admitted.
"Same. I felt like one of the worst hangovers I've ever had." Earth 2 Laurel replied.
"Listen, um, I'll cut to the chase. I want you to continue to be the Black Canary." Earth 1 Laurel stated.
"Are ... are you sure, I mean I can get another name." Earth 2 Laurel admitted.
"You need it more than me." Earth 1 Laurel said.
"You deserve it more than me." Earth 2 Laurel countered.
"Maybe. But ... but even if I wanted to be I couldn't. When Darhk stabbed me, in this universe I was pregnant with my daughter; and I nearly lost her and it took months for me to back into shape." Earth 1 Laurel explained.
"So what, you're just going to do playdates, preschool, and change diapers?" Earth 2 Laurel snarked.
"Whoa, you really do have a mouth of you." Earth 1 Laurel remarked. "Yes, that's exactly what I want to do. And you know what? I love it, I love being a mom."
"You do look happy as one." Earth 2 Laurel noticed.
"I am. But that's not the only reason when Oliver gave up his life to fix ... well, pretty much everything and after my original memories were restored, I realized I have this great life because of him." Earth 1 Laurel stated and her counterpart continued to listen. "Since I'm talking to myself here, I know that ... that you had an Oliver on your Earth."
"Yeah." She admitted to her doppelganger, thinking fondly of her Ollie who was more faithful to her than the other version of him.
"Well, in the old universe, Oliver and I despite everything that happened between us I still loved him and ... in a way he still loved me. He asked me to never doubt his love for me ... but I did, more than once. But now, now I never will again. And, I don't want to throw away this gift he gave me. I don't want to make my daughter an orphan or my husband, who I really love and have a second chance with a widower."
"I get that, I wouldn't want to throw this life away either if I were you; especially after everything you've been through." Earth 2 Laurel acknowledged. "While I am the Black Canary, I promise I will try to live up to you and your sister." She swore.
"I know you will, take care of yourself ... Laurel." Earth 1 Laurel said.
"You too ... Laurel." Earth 2 Laurel replied and got up to leave the apartment.
"You know, I actually had a dream about there being two of you," Tommy said as he entered the room. "Any chance we could -?"
"Not on your life, Merlyn." Earth 1 Laurel said sarcastically with a smile knowing were was going with that thought. Laurel went over and then kissed her husband, she could remember calling Oliver the love of her life in one universe on her deathbed. But here, in this universe, this was the love of her life. "I love you, Tommy."
"I love you too," Tommy said then resumed the kiss.
Author's Notes: What you are about to hear right now is a kind of a bitter and angry rant, so I apologize but I really needed to get this stuff off of my chest.
I am very upset that Arrow did not resurrect Laurel Lance of Earth 1 in the series finale. When Oliver restarted the multiverse and created Earth-Prime he brought back all the people who did in his life; his mother, Tommy, Emiko and Quentin but not Laurel. Moira speculates that the reason his father, Robert, wasn't brought back was that he didn't want to take away the deaths that made him who he is. If that's true, then Tommy's death shouldn't have been adverted because after he died was when Oliver decided to stop killing on a regular basis. Now, one could argue that Diggle and Felicity influenced him on this decision but it was Tommy's death that was the final nail that made him do this, so this reason is kinda bullshit. Oliver not bringing back Laurel, is not only something that he would do but something that the writer should have made him done without question. I mean he brought back his evil half-sister, he would have brought back one of his oldest friends and great loves but he didn't because of the writers.
Speaking of Tommy, the fact that he just mentions that he married Laurel in this new universe also irritates me. If Laurel was alive in this new universe I would be a sad because I'm primarily a Lauriver shipper but I would have been mostly happy for Laurel to be alive, married, and happy with someone other than Oliver; I'm not blind to what he's put her through and that she deserved someone like Tommy. But the fact that she was married and still died, pisses me off because they brought Tommy back just to make the poor guy a widower. If they wanted Earth 2 Laurel for the spin-off, they could have just left Earth 1 Laurel to stay family woman while giving her blessing to her double to continue to be Black Canary for the sake of her family but they didn't. (Side Note: I'm also annoyed that Laurel admitted that Earth 2 Oliver cheated on her with her sister, as I believed and hoped for a long time that he was more faithful than his counterpart.)
As for Earth 2 Laurel, even she admitted that Oliver would have brought her doppelganger back instead of her and the fact she or rather Katie Cassidy on some level has to point it out really says something. It is more than possible for both Laurels to coexist on the same Earth and in the same scene for god's sake. They could have even created a Earth-Prime Laurel with the memories, abilities, and personality traits both Laurels, which I will cover in the next chapter. According to Marc Guggenheim to not bring Earth 1 Laurel into Prime Earth was a "difficult" decision for him and the others of Arrow's staff, but they choose Earth 2 Laurel mostly for the spin-off and because they didn't want to throw away her character development. While a part of me can understand that, given the writers and Guggie's treatment of Earth 1 Laurel it is impossible to believe him when he says how difficult it was for him and the Arrow writers, given how they treated her over the years.
Again, I'm sorry for the rant but Laurel is one of the poorly treated characters I've ever seen both before and after her death and all the missed opportunities to just bring her back even if not to be the Black Canary again, will always be a sore spot for me. Like some people who are still angered over things like the cancelation of TV's Firefly, the series finale of Seinfield, or the death of Carl Grimes in the Walking Dead. This is mine for me and many others like me.