After he'd been rescued by fisherman just like he'd been in the original timeline, Oliver was now standing in a hospital in Hong Kong, thinking about he'd do things differently with this second chance he'd been given. For one thing, rather than push Laurel away like he did before, this time he'd pull her closer. Maybe he'd done that before, she wouldn't have died when she did. But now he could keep himself from making the same mistakes twice. He'd also try to cut down on the killing a bit, for while he still planned on killing Malcolm, especially since he had more training and experience now than he had when he'd first gone up against Malcolm and if there was a Darhk on this earth, he planned on killing him to, since men like Darhk and Merlyn, they deserved to die and he was considering killing Chase now to, before he could become Prometheus.
However, the rest of his thoughts about that were removed when he heard the door to his room open and he turned to see both his mom and his dad standing in the doorway.
"Oliver?" Moira asked.
"Hi mom." Oliver said as he hugged his mother, thinking back to how he'd watch Slade drive a sword through her heart, which reminded him, he needed to start figuring how to procure the Mirakuru cure now so he could be prepared when Slade made his appearance next year.
"Son." Robert said proudly as he hugged his son.
"Dad." Oliver said.
"I thought you were dead. Even after I was rescued, I spent weeks having search teams look for you. It was weeks before I was forced to face the reality that you were gone." Robert said and Oliver smiled at him sadly.
"I thought you were dead to dad. I assumed that you went down with the ship." Oliver said.
"Well what's important is that you're both alive and we can finally be a family again." Moira said.
"Where's Thea?" Oliver asked of his little sister.
"She wanted to come, but we weren't sure how exactly you'd be, so we didn't want to risk you scaring her. She's excited to see back home though." Robert said and Oliver nodded.
"But, I think there's one person who will be happier." Moira said and Oliver smiled.
"Laurel?" He guessed.
"Yes son, I'm surprised she didn't ask us to let her come with you." Robert said.
"Can we stop at her place before we go home?" Oliver asked.
"Of course. That was actually the plan." Moira assured him and Oliver smiled.
After they'd returned to Star City, Oliver looked out the window to see that things were exactly the way they were the last time he'd come home from Lian Yu, the calmness that this was under, with no idea of what was coming and if Oliver was successful, it wouldn't.
Anyways, as the car pulled up to Laurel's apartment building, Oliver noticed that it was the same building she'd lived in the other earth and considering how many times it had been attacked over the years, he made a note to get her and their daughter out of there as soon as possible.
"Well, here we are." Moira said.
"You guys can go back home, I'll come home later, something tells me that Laurel and I have a lot to discuss and I don't know how long it'll take." Oliver said and while Moira wanted to argue, a look from Robert convinced her to go along with it and give the kids some much needed privacy.
Oliver had multiple different thoughts going through his head as he took the all too familiar walk to Laurel's apartment, wondering how he'd explain his absences to her, for while he didn't want to lie to her, he also didn't want to put her in danger again.
With that in mind, he had barely knocked on the door once before it swung open and Oliver's jaw dropped at seeing Laurel again for not only the first time in 5 years, but also the first time since her death.
"Hey." Oliver said to her simply.
"Seriously, you're gone for 5 years and the first thing you say to me is hey?" Laurel asked with a smile and Oliver couldn't help but notice how similar she looked to the last he'd seen her on Earth 1.
"Well, I'm not quite sure what else to say." Oliver said and Laurel smiled.
"Come on in. There's someone here I think you should meet." Laurel said as she showed him inside.
When they entered the living room, Oliver saw a 4 year old girl sitting on the couch, watching TV and he couldn't believe just how much she looked like Laurel, with blonde hair and green eyes.
"Jasmine, there's someone I want you to meet." Laurel said to her daughter, who looked away from the TV to her mother and saw a person she'd only seen in photos at her grandparents.
"Mommy, who's that?" Jasmine asked.
"Jasmine, this is your daddy." Laurel said as Oliver kneeled down to her level as the 4 year old approached him.
"You're my daddy?" Jasmine asked.
"I am. Is that okay?" Oliver asked.
"Mommy told me you left." Jasmine said.
"I did. But if I'd known that mommy was pregnant with you, I never would've left and I'm not going anywhere for that long ever again." Oliver promised her, nervously, wondering what she'd think of him.
To his immense relief, Jasmine smiled at him before hugging him and then tried to stifle a yawn, but she wasn't fast enough for Laurel.
"Nice try young lady. I think it's nap time for you." Laurel said.
"But I'm not tired." Jasmine said as she yawned again and Laurel rolled her eyes.
"Don't even think about trying to fool me. Nap time now." Laurel said as she picked her daughter up and carried her to her room.
After Laurel put Jasmine down for her nap, she walked out to the living room where Oliver was sitting on the couch.
"She's adorable Laurel. Sorry I wasn't here to help raise her." Oliver said.
"Hey, it's not like you were having an affair with my sister." Laurel said before she could stop herself and she was surprised at the look in Oliver's eyes.
"Laurel, I'm going to say something to you and I want you to tell me exactly when and where you heard me say it before." Oliver said and Laurel nodded, both of them not willing to hope this meant what they thought it meant.
"Barry can travel through time, and he warned me that when you change the past, the past fights back, so for the past few months, I've been torturing myself if the reason all of this is happening is because I didn't listen to him." Oliver said.
"You said that to me in the bunker while we were training and you were blaming yourself for Felicity being shot." Laurel said and they both looked at each other in disbelief.
"Laurel?" Oliver asked, not believing that this was really this Laurel.
"It's me Ollie. I can't believe this. I thought I'd never see any version of you ever again, but especially my version of you." Laurel said as Oliver hugged her.
"I missed you so much." Oliver said.
"I missed you to. I hoped that one day you'd join me here, but I never thought it would actually happen." Laurel said.
"I never thought I'd see you again, but since I am, I need to do something that I've been wanting to do for years." Oliver said.
"And that is?" Laurel asked, though she had an idea.
"This." Oliver said as he kissed her passionately, this kiss filled with more passion than any kiss he'd shared with Felicity and she responded with just as much passion in her own kiss.