Laurel Lance's Life is a Country Song

by Nicolette134

I wrote some of Laurel's finer, and some of her less than finer, moments into country songs. Laurel Lance was my favorite character on Arrow, besides Thea, and I actually started this little project pre- "Eleven Fifty Nine", so things have obviously gone a little sideways since then, which I've tried to incorporate into the story. Let me know in the comments if I missed anything!

6. Until This Dream Is Gone

AN: This song makes me cry, so it's in honor of my original favorite on this show. RIP Tommy- I wish you'd known Thea was your sister.

I had a dream about a burning house
You were stuck inside, I couldn't get you out

She knew it was all her fault that Tommy'd gone into the CNRI building anyway. She'd broken his heart and he'd still gone back for her, to save her life. She didn't deserve him, deep down she'd always known that to be true. She didn't deserve him, despite her father always having imagined it to be the other way around. He was dead now and it was all her fault.

I laid beside you and pulled you close
And the two of us went up in smoke

It was always the same. Tommy'd rush into the CNRI building calling her name, he'd save her, and then get trapped himself, as had really happened. Although, in her dream, instead of escaping to live in this hell without him, she went to him, as she should've all along. She joined him, and held him, and the two of them went together into the next life, a better on than she had known without him. She'd treat him right this time, she was sure of it. Then, every time, she woke up.

Love isn't all that it seems I did you wrong
I'll stay here with you until this dream is gone

The nightmares came at first nightly, and then less often, although they were still more frequent than she cared to admit to. She liked to think that she'd moved past this trauma, that she'd grown up, as they all had, but it wasn't necessarily true. She didn't need the others to know what was going on with her, although she knew Sara and Thea at least had their suspicions. She didn't mind the nightmares so long as they didn't interfere with her Black Canary activities, she felt better knowing there was still a part of him with her, even now.

I've been sleepwalking, been wandering all night
Trying to take what's lost and broke and make it right

Thea Queen had always been like a little sister to Laurel, more so than Sara had in some ways, although the older girl would not trade on her relationship with her sister for her life. But Thea was like a sister to Laurel nonetheless, and when Oliver and Felicity senselessly ran out on the young girl, leaving her alone in the apartment when she'd once died, Laurel was happy to move the girl in with her. Thea was happy too, because now she knew there was someone there for Laurel when the nightmares woke her up.

I've been sleepwalking too close to the fire
But it's the only place that I can hold you tight
In this burning house