Oliver and Sara were confused. One moment they were trying to find a way to hide from the bombs set off by Prometheus after he killed themselves. The bombs went off with Nyssa and Talia beside them. The next moment they woke up back on the Gambit 10 years ago when the entire mess started.
"Ollie, why are we back on the Gambit and what the hell happened?" Sara asked worriedly.
"I have no idea Sara." Oliver starts when suddenly the boat rocked from the explosion and they were sent sliding across the room.
"Ollie!" Sara yells as rain is pouring down on them, "Where are you!?"
Something grabs her flailing hands from the water and pulls her into the life raft.
"I'm here Sara. I'm right here." Oliver whispers in her ear as he pulls her close to him.
"I'm not letting you go this time." He tells her. Sara hugs Oliver back before she realizes that there are others on the raft.
"Good. Good. Both of you are safe." Robert yells over the storm as he sees the two
comforting each other. The two survivors nod as they wait for the storm to pass and fall asleep.
"...liver, wake up I need to tell you something" Robert says as Oliver returns to consciousness and raises his hand to block the sun. "I failed Starling. I failed you and I failed my family." He starts as he hands them a leather bound book. Oliver starts to get really worried as he sees the same event happening as last time.
"Dad don't…" he starts, but Robert cuts him off.
"Take care of Sara and live" He says sadly as he pulls out a gun shoots the captain and then himself before Oliver could react.
"Dad!" Oliver yells out and scrambles to
his father as the shots startle Sara awake.
"Oh my God!" Sara exclaims as she
watches Oliver cradle his father's body. "Did this happen last time as well?" She asks softly.
"Yes. I had forgotten about it and was
unable to react fast enough to stop it." Oliver answers. "I failed to stop it." he says sadly.
"Ollie" Sara reaches out to him, "You can't save everyone. Now how much longer until the island?"
"It shouldn't be much longer." He says, "take a sip of the water."
"Sara look. There is the Island." Oliver starts. "Start paddling towards shore." He tells her. They start paddling and reach the island. Once they reached the island go out of the raft and dragged Robert onto the shore. "Be careful Sara." Oliver starts again when suddenly an arrow shoots out of nowhere. Oliver manages to dodge it before another one hits him and causes him to go unconscious. Sara starts to rush over to him to protect him before she gets hit with an arrow and loses consciousness as well.
Oliver slowly wakes and opens his eyes in a cave with Sara laying next to him. "Sara. Sara. Wake up." he says as he shakes her awake. "Get ready for Yao Fei to come." he follows. As soon as he finishes talking, the same man comes in holding the bird in his hand.
"Here bird. You kill to eat." The Chinese man explains in broken English.
"Wǒ liǎojiě màn tuó luó. Nǐ néng gàosù wǒ nǐ shì shéi, wǒmen zài nǎlǐ ma." Oliver answers back surprising both Sara and who they know to be Yao Fei.
"Wǒ jiào yáo fēi. Nǐ zài liànyù." Yao Fei explains. "Nǐ xūyào chīfàn cáinéng shēngcún." Oliver takes the bird and snaps its neck knowing they have to eat to survive as Yao Fei said. When Yao sees Oliver kill the bird, he nods in recognition and leaves the cave they are end and moves the boulder back into place.
"When did you learn Mandarin Oliver?" Sara asks before realizing it was probably during his time away which she still doesn't know everything about.
"My third year away was spent in China where I was forced to learn Man drain by Amanda Waller." He explains, "I can tell you the story since we have time." He starts telling his story and Sara marvels at what he had to go through and realizing that he had just as bad a time as she did except he didn't have anyone to love during that time as she had found with her love. "We need to get some rest." Oliver says startling Sara out of her reminiscing. As Sara starts trying to get settled in, Oliver goes to add a couple of sticks to fire to keep it going. He then heads back to where they were laying and lays next to Sara.
"Everything will be ok Ollie we will do our best to save everyone we can this time around." Sara reassures him. Oliver smiles at her and hugs her.
"Thank you Sara." He says as they both fall asleep.
As Sara and Oliver were falling asleep in the cave two women woke up on the other side of the world just as confused as they were. One of them looks over and sees her sister next to her. "Nyssa what the hell is going on?" Talia asks.
"Who are you?" Nyssa asks as she sees someone who looks like her twin on the bed next to hers. She also pulls out a knife to be safe.
"What the hell are you talking about. I'm your sister." Talia demands.
"You look more like me then you used to." Nyssa says, "As a matter of fact where are we?"
"We need to find out what is going on. You go shower while I figure out what is going on." Talia tells Nyssa, Nyssa complies and Talia starts digging around looking for some answers. She eventually finds a diary in what she thinks is her travel bag. As she is reading it to figure what is going on Nyssa comes out of the shower. "I found my diary that the other me wrote." She begins, "apparently we are twins now." she finishes.
"Do you think we might be in some alternate universe?" Nyssa asks. "Sara has told me about their existence."
"Yes I do," Talia answers, "Oliver also told me about parallel earths and his experience. However there is something else I read."
"What is it?" Nyssa asks curiously.
"We have an older sister who did the same thing I did in our universe." Talia replies.
AN:
Welcome to my first fanfiction. I've had this idea floating in my head for a couple months and finally decided to give it a shot. Give it a review and tell me if you like it. I don't know how often I will write so don't expect regular updates. Also, any tips to improve are greatly appreciated.