This AN contains the links to two polls regarding an idea for a potential addition to this series. Let me know if you'll read them, though as usual, they will not be seen on Fanfiction, so you'll need to go to either Wattpad or Archive of our own to see them. The idea is Second Chances: Kid Flash in Keystone City. The links to each poll can be seen below. Let me know what you think and I'll let you know what my decision will be in time.
Kid Flash: /gos6jwr4b
Oliver had barely taken a step inside the door of the Queen Mansion before he was knocked back a step by his 21 year old little sister hugging him.
"I told you you'd find a way to survive." Thea said, signifying that her memories had been restored.
"No need to say I told you so Speedy." Oliver said with a smile as he hugged her back.
"What am I, chopped liver?" Laurel asked from behind them and Thea grinned as she allowed them all to move inside the house, but before she could hug Laurel, she noticed what the other woman was holding.
"Ollie?" Thea asked, looking at the little girl in Laurel's arms.
"Thea, meet your niece, Jasmine Shado Queen. Jasmine, this is your aunt Thea or Aunt Speedy." Oliver said.
"She is not calling me that." Thea said.
"Aunt Speedy." Jasmine said and Laurel chuckled.
"I guess you're stuck with it now Speedy." Laurel said.
"Be quiet and let me hold my niece for the first time." Thea said.
"If she'll let you." Laurel said as she held Jasmine out to Thea, who instantly took her from her mother's arms and instead of throwing a tantrum like her parents were expecting, she instantly cuddled into her aunt's chest.
"Okay, mind if I take her back to Ivy Town with me? I'll let you visit her on weekends." Thea said, only half kidding.
"No." Oliver said.
"Speedy." Jasmine repeated.
"Why do I get the feeling that's not going away anytime soon?" Thea asked as her mother and Laurel's father entered the mansion.
"Probably because your brother spent the entire limo ride home teaching her that your name is Speedy." Moira said with a smile as she had her son, her daughter and now a granddaughter all under the same roof again.
"Of course he did." Thea said, rolling her eyes as she smiled at her niece.
"Dad, did you get a hold of mom?" Laurel asked.
"I did and she'll be here by tomorrow. Apparently her job is more important to her than her daughter coming back from the dead or finding out that she has a granddaughter." Quentin said, annoyed with his ex-wife.
"That doesn't surprise me." Laurel admitted, since her mother had always had her priorities set more towards work than her family.
"Hey, let's not focus on that, let's focus on the family who is here." Oliver said and they all nodded in agreement.
"Speaking of, Thea, are you going to be transferring to Star City University?" Moira asked.
"No mom. While I love Ollie and I'm very happy that I have a niece, I've built a life in Ivy Town and I don't plan on abandoning it." Thea said and Oliver had a feeling he knew the real reason why.
"Thea, can we talk in private please?" Oliver asked and Thea nodded as she handed Jasmine back to her mom before she and Oliver headed off into a side room.
"Something you want to tell me sis?" Oliver asked.
"Yeah, just like how Star City needs you to protect it, Ivy Town needs me, especially since I've already got some tech support lined up there." Thea said.
"Really, who?" Oliver asked.
"Ryan Choi." Thea said.
"The paragon of humanity. Good choice. I'm assuming that Roy is going back to Ivy Town with you?" Oliver asked and Thea nodded.
"After all the time I spent with Nyssa and then Talia, I realized that I can't keep living in your shadow. I need to be my own hero, but that doesn't mean I don't want Arsenal watching my back, so you're not getting him." Thea said and Oliver chuckled.
"Dig, Laurel and I can get by without him, though I will need to find new tech support." Oliver said.
"Yeah, something tells me it would be complicated if your former wife was involved when it's clear you no longer have any feelings for her." Thea said and Oliver chuckled.
"Plus, I had John check and Felicity currently lives in Keystone running Smoak Tech." Oliver said and Thea nodded in understanding.
"On a different topic, you know that after we thought you died, mom started grooming me to take over Queen Consolidated, but if you want it back?" Thea asked and Oliver shook his head.
"We both know that even before the Gambit happened in both universes, I never wanted to run Queen Consolidated and I'm not sure why dad was so insistent that I be the one to take it over." Oliver said.
"Honestly, I don't think we'll ever understand what was going through dad's head, since we both know that he did a lot of things wrong. Including keeping our sister a secret." Thea said and Oliver nodded, since while he loved his father, he knew that Robert Queen had made a lot of mistakes.
"But he did do one thing right." Oliver said and Thea nodded.
"Yeah, he made you the man you are now. The man who saves the world. But I have to admit, you fixed everything else about this world, Mom, Quentin, Laurel, Tommy, even Emiko, they're all alive, even if I have no idea where Tommy or Emiko are, but why couldn't you bring dad back too?" Thea asked and Oliver sighed.
"Honestly, I think I could only change the things that didn't change me and without dad making the choice he made, sacrificing himself to save me, I never would've become the man I am now, since the whole reason I started this crusade was honor him, though it did evolve beyond that." Oliver said.
"Yeah I'll say." Thea agreed.
"But anyways, I wish I could talk to dad, especially now, since I still have so many questions to ask him." Oliver said.
"We both do. But I think we've both come to accept that dad was not the man we thought he was, but he did love us. And so does mom. And that's led them both to do really messed up things." Thea said.
"But we've both become heroes who will leave behind a better legacy. But what's this about Tommy?" Oliver asked.
"He disappeared about 2 years ago, no one's seen or heard from him since." Thea said.
"Sounds like I might need to have a chat with Malcolm earlier than I planned." Oliver said.
"Yeah, hooded vigilante attacks beloved billionaire CEO, that won't make the papers." Thea pointed out.
"I lost Tommy because of Malcolm once before, I'm not going to go through that again." Oliver said and Thea nodded.
Later on that night, Oliver was wearing his Hood suit, standing on a rooftop in Star City when he heard a very familiar sound behind him.
"You're late." Oliver said as he turned to see Barry standing there.
"And you're clearly feeling nostalgic since you're wearing the same thing you did the last time we spoke after I woke up from my coma." Barry said and Oliver chuckled.
"Guess I got that feeling for once." Oliver said.
"You know I'm going to hug you now right?" Barry asked.
"I'll allow it just this once." Oliver said as he and Barry hugged.
"It's good to see you alive man." Barry said.
"Thanks. But man, this world is not what I was expecting to wake up in." Oliver said.
"Yeah, you're telling me. And no offense, but you look way cooler as the Green Arrow than the Hood." Barry said.
"Then tell Cisco to start making my suit." Oliver said.
"I already have." Barry said as they continued to catch up.