I want to get into Arrow and am writing this to force me to stomach past season three... I want this to be great... you are going to love Ian when he gets started...

I hope.

I have some great things planned for him...


Shaking and terrified, Ian Mitchell watched the screen in front of him almost not believing what the hell he was seeing. He couldn't believe it, nor did he really want to. If it was real, then his life was going to change and not for the better. He was going to lose everything, forced to live on the streets again...

For Oliver Queen had been found and had returned to Starling City.

The world spun, he pulled his legs from under him tucking them under his chin as he rocked back and forth.

"I need it, therefor I am. I want it, therefor I am. I will it therefor I am."

Over and over, he muttered his mantra, focusing on the sound of his voice until finally he calmed down long enough to think rationally.

"Mrs. Queen is not going to kick me out... I am going to be fine... all is well." Breathing deep, Ian stood from his bed and left his room. He wanted to go for a run around the property, that always helped him to focus. He made it to the stars just in time to hear Moira Queen and his heart dropped into his stomach.

"Your room is exactly as you left it. I never had the heart to change a thing." Moira's voice was filled with love, a love he had never received from her in the five years he had lived with her and her family.

"Oliver. It's damn good to see you. " Walter, his sort of kind of step father said. " t's Walter... Walter Steele."

"You remember Walter, your father's friend from the company."

'So she didn't tell him about getting remarried. I wonder if she told him about me? I doubt it."

A new voice sounded then, just as Thea walked past him, her eyes wide with shock. He knew then that it was Oliver. " It's good to see you, Raisa."

Raisa, the wonderful maid, sighed with a loving presence in her voice. "Welcome home, Mr. Oliver. Mr. Merlyn phoned. He wants to join you for dinner."

Moira spoke again, softly. "Wonderful. Oliver? Did you hear that?"

"Hey, sis." Oliver's voice was close to cracking as he said these words and it sent a pang of jealousy in Ian's heart. No one, not since his mother, had spoken to him like that.

Thea all but charged down the stairs. "I knew it. I knew you were alive. I missed you so much."

"You were with me the whole time."

And with that, Ian finally let himself come down the stairs. From his place around Thea's body, Oliver turned and looked at him, a cold calculating look in his eyes. Ian smiled at the man, who he realized was not only incredibly hot but also very, very muscled... oddly so, for someone who had been stuck on an island for years. For someone who had little access to food or the resources to exercise to such a degree that they would put on that kind of muscle mass... i

"Hi." He said, softly. "I'm Ian, your Mom sort of took me in. I guess she was friends with my mom once upon a time." He saw Oliver's eyes relax, as if whatever he had assumed faded away. Ian had a feeling it had to do with Thea... "Um... it's nice to meet you Oliver."

"You too, Ian."

Ian thoroughly ignored the rude glare of Moira against his skin, knowing full well she wasn't happy with him intruding on a family moment. Even if it wasn't intentional... she never liked him being too close to her family. He wasn't allowed to be family, he wasn't allowed to be anything more then a ward. That's why he studied, worked out, volunteered... he had to be perfect less he lose everything.

He wasn't Thea, a liar, drunk and druggie able to get away with literal murder because her mother was a failure of a parent. He wasn't Oliver who could get away with cheating on his girlfriend, peeing on a cop and punching a Paparazzi and get only a light scolding.

He was a parasite, one that Moira tolerated for some reason even if she hated his mother... for some reason she had agreed to take him in, but never cared enough to like or love him.

He knew his place for Moira would never allowed him to forget it...

Neither would the rest of the world...


Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.

This is a fun character I made for this story... and I think he will be great.

Love, your Ninja Overlord,

Mika.