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CHAPTER 4

Oliver sat once again in his car. He was about to do something he was avoiding. He had been avoiding Laurel since he came back, he had been avoiding Sara too. It's not easy to go and talk to your ex. Especially if you've cheated on them. Especially if you then were assumed dead. Especially if you were secretly the Green Arrow. But Oliver knew he could never be with Laurel again, but he wanted to friends. So he was sitting on the street in front of Laurel's house. He knocked on the door, Sara answered. She stared awkwardly, then called out for Laurel. "Hey Laurel, someone's here for you," she said.

"Who's here.." she was looking down at some papers "Oh…" she said when she saw Oliver.

"I'll give you guys some space," Sara said as she walked away, still staying within earshot.

"Look Oliver…" Laurel started.

"No, Laurel. I did something horrible and I betrayed you. It's not Sara's fault and it's not anyone's fault but mine," Oliver explained. "I felt horrible on the island, and I feel horrible now. I have no excuses. I'm just humbly asking you to forgive me," he added.

"Look Ollie, I just don't think I can forgive you just yet. I mean you cheated on me with Sara!" She was still angry. Sara could take it any longer. She walked in.

"Oliver it's not all your fault, it's just as much mine too. Laurel you never blamed me, but IT'S MY FAULT TOO! DON'T TRY TO CARRY ALL THE BURDEN ON YOURSELF OLIVER!" she looked like these thoughts had been on her chest for a while. "And Laurel forgive Ollie, he's clearly changed and he wants to fix things," her face was red.

"But Sara, he…" Laurel interrupted.

"JUST SHUT UP LAUREL!" Sara said. "He's not asking you to get back together, he's just asking you to be his friend," Oliver was slightly in shock and nodded in agreement.

"Um, I'm going to go," Oliver said pointing to the door. "I hope you can bring yourself to forgive me," he said before he left "both of you," he added. Although he wasn't quite sure what just happened, he felt relieved.

Oliver was still confused about what happened last night, but Laurel sat with him and Tommy the next day at Lunch. They acted like nothing was wrong, it was refreshing. "What happened," whispered Tommy.

"I have absolutely no idea," Oliver responded.

…

It had been too long since Cisco and Caitlin's fight and Barry was becoming oftly tired of them not talking. Especially over something as stupid as this. So Barry resolved to do something about it. He approached Cisco in the cortex in STAR labs while Caitlin was out running errands with HR. "How long until you and Caitlin make up?" Barry asked. Cisco shrugged. "Do you even actually like her?" Barry asked.

"No," Cisco answered "which is why this is pretty stupid," he added.

"So why even make a big deal of it?" Barry was kind of mad that Cisco's choices ruined Barry's last few weeks. Cisco shrugged again.

"I was just being stupid," Cisco said "I thought Caitlin liked me and I'm pretty desperate Barry,"

Barry nodded. "Like I was saying the other day Nyssa Al Ghul is good lookin' and crazy awesome but she'll never like a guy like me," Cisco turned away, a tear in his eye. Barry wasn't good at comforting people. So he put his arm on Cisco's shoulder.

"There there Cisco," Barry said, "I'm sure you'll find someone." Just then Caitlin walked in.

"I'm sorry Caitlin," Cisco said, he walked up and hugged her.

"Oh," she said. She resisted at first, but then hugged back. Barry smiled at his friends. Then HR walked in.

"Awwwwwwwww," he said looking at the hug. Cisco and Caitlin broke their embrace.

"It was just a friendly hug!" Cisco and Caitlin said in unison.

...

"Hey you want to go?" Jax asked Wally.

"Yeah, hold on," Wally responded. "Joe! I'm going down to the courts with Jax!" Wally yelled to his father.

"Okay just be back by seven!" Joe hollered back. Jax and Wally grabbed a basketball and started out towards the basketball courts. As the approached the courts, they noticed only two other people there. It was Snart and Mick.

"Hold on,"Jax put out his arm stopping Wally. They hid behind a building to assess the situation. Snart was practicing his threes while Mick watched. Now and again Mick would play defense while Snart popped his jumpers. "He's really good, I wonder why he didn't play until this year," Jax thought out loud.

"C'mon Jax let's go shoot around," Wally said nudging him from behind the building.

"Okay man," Jax complied. They jogged out to the hoop farthest from Snart and began to shoot around trying to pay no attention to their teammate. Snart noticed them quickly and started to leave.

"Let's go," he muttered to Mick as he headed toward to exit.

"Why? You scared of some freshman?" Mick teased.

"Nooo." Snart said. "Let's just go okay," he tried to leave but Mick blocked him. Snart scowled a little. Mick took his basketball and went in for a monster slam.

"We're staying," Mick said. Snart walked up to Mick and tried to discreetly take his basketball back. "C'mon you were enough of a nerd to join the basketball team you can't run away now," Mick said.

"Shut up, Mick," Snart replied. He looked angrily at him.

"Why did you join anyway? Suddenly interested in school spirit?" Mick teased. Snart scrunched his face at the insult.

"No, they said if I played a sport I wouldn't have to take PE. Which means one less hour a day in that hell hole of a school," Snart retorted. "Plus," He stole the basketball from Mick and made a three. "I'm good at it," he added as he backed away. Snart gave in to Mick and stayed. Jax and Wally hadn't noticed their little disagreement at all.

"Let's go play with him," Wally suggested, making a layup.

"What? Are you insane" Jax said. Wally shrugged.

"We play with him at practice, how is this any different?" Wally said making another shot.

"That's at school! With people around! People who would notice if Mick bashed our brains in," Jax said in a worried voice. "Do you see any people around?" The courts were empty.

"Oh, I'm sure we'll be fine." Wally smiled and started walking over. "Hey Snart!" He called. Snart looked up, mildly terrified, but he put a tough look on his face.

"You don't know what you're doing Wally," Jax said. But Wally had made his move so Jax followed. Wally was only slightly scared. He had a gut feeling Snart wasn't as bad as he thought.

"What do you want, West?" Snart asked. Straightening his spine to look intimidating.

"How 'bout some two v. two?" Wally offered. Snart looked back at Mick who shrugged.

"Mmmm… fine." he agreed. He inbounded the ball to Jax who started down the court. Jax did some light moves only to have Snart steal the ball and nail a three right after. Snart was out to win. Ever since he was a kid, Snart was out to win. The game was fairly well matched after that. Even though Mick wasn't nearly as good as the rest of them. The sun was starting to go down, and Wally stopped to check his watch. Mick sat down exhausted.

"Oh! It's 6:45! We've got to go Jax!" Wally said. "Later Snart, goodgame!" Jax and Wally ran off the court and down the street. Snart sat down next to Mick and wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"Now that wasn't too bad was it?" Mick sad mockingly. Snart scowled and punched Mick hard in the arm. Mick didn't budge.