AN:/ Day 11! This one is going to be a fun one and it was a lot of fun to write. It's kind of a look back on how far Oliver has come, this fic takes place 3x07. It's also in honor that the last season is about to start in a few days and we kind of get to see where he was back then compared to now in season eight.

It starts during Oliver's time after the finale, he's visiting a past version of himself. It's sad in a way but it was a lot of fun to explore. I hope you guys like it as much as I do (I'm biased I know). Let me know what you think in the comments!

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Oliver doesn't know how much time has past since he left Felicity and Mia but it feels like years. He has been working on 'assignments' as he calls them, that the monitor has given him and so far they have all been really bizarre. The worst one yet was living a life where his mother left his father for Malcolm Merlyn, that was the hardest situation that he has ever been put in.

He has been in this house for what feels like weeks just waiting for an assignment, The Monitor normally keeps him here between assignments and anything that Oliver needs is there. All he has to do is think about it and then it shows up, he just can't do the same with people...he has tried multiple times.

Oliver was not only beginning to become restless he was also starting to become angry. The Monitor pulled him from his life back on his earth or his time or whatever he hasn't really figured it out yet but acted like it was so urgent and important yet he was being kept here instead of doing something.

Oliver was about to start to throw a temper tantrum like a grown man never should and then he showed up looking like the pompous ass that he was. Oliver looked over at him and jumped up from the couch ready to go off on him but he just held up his hand to stop him.

"I have a mission for you Oliver."

"I sure as hell hope so I have been sitting here for what feels like a week completely alone, the only company I have is that damn TV. I am pretty sure I have watched Friends three times while being stuck here waiting for the next assignment. Why the hell did you even pull me from my life when you didn't even need me?" Oliver was irate but The Monitor really didn't seem to care.

Oliver was just a pawn to him and he really didn't care how he felt or his feelings on the situation as long as he did what he swore he would do and help save the universe. However, was only useful to him when he obeyed his orders which was why he had come back with a mission for him to at least give him something to do.

"Are you done with your tirade? I could leave and take the mission with me if you aren't satisfied, then I really would have pulled you from your wife and daughter for no reason." The Monitor said having had enough of Oliver and him acting like a three-year-old, this was the reason he only interacted with humans when he absolutely needed to. They always let feelings cloud their thinking.

"What's the god damned mission? What Earth do I need to go to now?" Oliver asked only interested because it was something to do and he was ready to get his hands dirty and take his anger out on something. All Oliver wished for was to be able to see his wife and daughter, he knew that he needed to let this go but for the time being, he wasn't able to.

"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, isn't about saving an Earth this time from collapsing in on itself. You need to go back to a younger version of yourself from 2014." The Monitor says and Oliver is confused, what he knows about time travel is very small but what he does know is that meeting an older or younger version of yourself is a giant no-no he knows that much.

The monitor could see the confusion on Oliver's face so he decided to go on and continue with what he needed to tell him. "I have noticed that every Earth that I have sent you to so far your heart was never exactly in it, I expect it the first time maybe even the second but I have sent you on 8 missions so far and every single time you are distracted. This mission isn't about any Earth, it is about you and seeing how far you have come. It is about realizing that if this is going to work you need to become the Oliver Queen from these different Earths. You have to stop dwelling on your past, I am hoping that sending you back to meet your past self will help with that."

Oliver watched The Monitor for a few moments wondering if what he was saying was true, he didn't have any reason to lie so Oliver took him at his word. He didn't want to admit it but he knew what he was saying was true, he just couldn't help but be hung up on what he left behind. He left his wife and daughter behind, the life he always wanted but never thought that he would ever get the chance to have.

"I will accept this mission, how long will I be there for?" Oliver asked, he has so many questions about what was going on and what he could and couldn't do and also why he needed to go back to 2014.

"As long as you to be there to realize whatever it is you need to realize so that we can continue our mission."

"Am I allowed to interact with my past self?"

"Yes. He will remember everything so be careful how much you tell him when you meet him. I really rather enjoy it if we didn't also have to send you in to fix your own earth." The Monitor said and Oliver nodded not knowing when in 2014 he was going so he didn't have much to prepare for.

"Am I allowed to know when I am going back to in 2014?" Oliver asked wanting silently prepare himself for what he might see, honestly 2014 Oliver was all over the place and he wasn't sure how he was going to react.

"November 19, 2014." The Monitor said as if he should know exactly what that date meant.

"Am I supposed to recognize that date?"

"Most likely not, however, the moment you arrive you will remember." Oliver has more questions but suddenly he is shot back in time and back to his earth.

There is truly no feeling like it when The Monitor sends him to where he needs to go, he knows what it was like for Diggle every time Barry would use super speed to get Diggle somewhere. Oliver only threw up the first time but he is always extremely nauseous for a few minutes afterward until he gets a grip on it.

He looks around and realizes that he is in the old QC building, wait no if this is November then it was already Plamer Tech by then. Why in the hell would the monitor send him back to see Ray? Oliver walks around a corner and sees past him looking through a glass door seeing Felicity and Ray kissing and suddenly it kind of starts to make sense of why he was sent back here.

It suddenly hit him like a ton of bricks how far he actually had come, this Oliver thought that he couldn't have a life as the Arrow and Oliver Queen. Little does he know that he gets married and has two kids, in fact, the exact kind of thing he always silently craved but never in his wildest dreams thought that he could have until he fell head over heels in love with Felicity.

The younger Oliver turns around and walks away not seeing the other Oliver because he was standing in the shadows which in retrospect probably wasn't the best idea.

"It's not always going to be like that." The older Oliver called out and before he knew it the younger Oliver swung at him but the other Oliver blocked it. The younger one stared at Oliver like he was seeing a ghost, older Oliver stood there waiting for the younger one to just accept that he was there so that he could have a proper conversation with the man.

"Who...Where...How…" Oliver spits out not even being able to form a whole sentence it seems, which makes older Oliver laugh.

"More like when. I'm from the future Oliver, your future to be exact. I can tell you right now that the pit in your stomach that you right now from seeing what you just saw goes away. You end up marrying Felicity, way down the line that is but you do get to have the future that you never thought was possible."

"Why are you telling me this? Why the hell should I even believe anything that you have to say?" Younger Oliver asked

Older Oliver didn't really have any answer for this if he was being completely honest, he had a lot more experience with time travel in the future so he was more apt to believe that something would happen but 2014 Oliver hasn't really experienced a whole lot of that so far.

"I'm telling you this to give you some sort of hope that things will get better, whether you think they will or believe what I am saying or not. They do get better, as for why you should believe me I can't really explain that one. I guess you'll just have to trust me I guess, but then again asking Oliver Queen to trust someone is like asking ice cream not to melt in July." Older Oliver laughed but the younger Oliver didn't find it too comical, this was one of those moments that he realized how much Felicity had really rubbed off on him. She was normally the one to use humor as a way to cut tension that wasn't ever really his thing, until now perhaps.

2019 Oliver chuckled for longer than was probably necessary and then realized that he was being completely awkward and took a deep breath. Why is this so hard? He shook his head and looked at the younger version of himself and it really hit him why he had to make these missions count, why he had to do what The Monitor had been telling him to do all along. He had to clear his mind for his missions and put everything on the back burner.

He was doing this for his family, for Felicity and William and Mia. To make sure that the universe didn't cease to exist, that they had a good place to grow up. In a way he was still keeping them safe, he just wasn't physically there to see how anything turned out. Even though that made him want to punch something he knew that he was doing the right thing in the long run. He had to keep this in tact in order for things to work out and in order to do that he couldn't be hung up on anything.

"Just keep that in mind for the next couple months, when you think things are getting bad remember that."

2014 Oliver looked at older Oliver like he was crazy but then he relaxed as if he suddenly just absorbed what the other Oliver had said and accepted it. Older Oliver was about to tell his younger self about Felicity and what their future turns out to be. However the moment he went to tell him The Monitor showed up giving him a look and suddenly they were back in the cabin and Oliver felt like he might puke again.

"Now that the mission has come to a close, do you understand what you need to do? Why this is so important?" The Monitor asks and Oliver nods without a second thought.

"Yes I know what I need to do."

"Alright I have another mission for you."

That was typically how the next 20 years of his life went. Going to different earths and saving them until one day he was told that he did what he needed to and had retired of sorts. Not to long after that Felicity showed up in the cabin and he had never been more thankful to see someone in his whole life.