And I'm back and to make up for my absence there will be two new chapters added to this. I also apologize since I wanted to have them ready and posted sooner. I hope everyone will like them.
Correction 4: Season 2 Episode 3 Entitled "Broken Dolls" And Onward
Laurel sat on her sofa that night, staring at the bottles of alcohol and pills standing beside one another on the small table before her. It had been a trying evening for her after her and her father's ordeal with the murderous Dollmaker and shortly after that she'd come to the realization that, as far as she was concerned, she was truly responsible for Tommy's death.
Granted it was his insane and murderous father that had destroyed a part of the Glades due to his twisted desire for revenge but she had chosen to stay over there which prompted Tommy to need to go and rescue her and which, in turn, led to his death. And yet she'd blamed the Hood for it and had shown him nothing but cruel hatred.
As she continued looking at the pills and wine before her, which she'd brought out earlier to deal with her pain and grief, she continued to think about how easy it would be to just drown herself into oblivion with booze and drugs, if only for a little while. With that said, she moved her hand towards the pill bottle, ready to forget everything.
All of a sudden, she stopped, thinking. What the he** was she doing? Was this really the answer to her problems and would it truly solve anything? She was a smart woman da** it and knew full well the consequences of those who engaged in this type of destructive behavior. He**, she'd seen it from her father and Thea especially and how the latter at 17 had nearly ruined her life with it. She was the one who'd even helped Thea overcome this addiction and reshape her destructive path. What kind of example would she be setting for her if she decided to engage in the same type of behavior and what kind of hypocrisy would this be?
And Tommy. Poor Tommy. What would he think of her if he could see her right now? In fact, what if he was watching her right at this moment from wherever he was in the afterlife? That particular thought filled her with a shudder. Not only that, but would she really be honoring his memory this way? And her heart also broke at how her father and especially Oliver could see her right now, about to do what she'd been planning.
Making up her mind, she immediately took the pills and bottle of wine, marched right into the kitchen and then stood next to the sink as she poured everything down the drain, first the pills, and then the alcohol, silently berating herself as to how foolish she'd been and what she nearly allowed herself to do, extremely thankful that she'd pulled herself from the brink.
Instead she went out that night and ordered some Big Belly Burger alongside a platter of chilly cheese fries with plenty of ketchup and a black and white milkshake, took it home, and drowned herself in that instead. Granted it wasn't the healthiest choice but definitely a far cry from pills and booze.
In the days that followed, she would eventually go to grief counseling with her father and receive the emotional support she needed to help let go of the guilt while leaning more closely onto her loved ones instead of pushing them away and Thea would also do everything she could to help and be there for her just as she'd helped her before, and Laurel knew that everything was going to be alright, even when things went to hell when Slade and Blood nearly destroyed the city, as long as she made the right choices and kept her family close to her.
A/N I personally think, for now, that S2 was the best season of "Arrow". However, I also believe that the substance abuse storyline they gave to Laurel in it was a serious mistake from a writing standpoint and character assassinated her. This chapter rectifies that mistake.
Now onto the next chapter.
