++++++ Sorry it's been so long since I had an update. I've been a bit focused on something else currently and I've been doing some beta work with a friend.

Please pop on over and have a look at my new Supergirl fic Ghosts of Our Pasts, co-written with the brilliant Stormrunner74.

Have a look at SR74's page when you get the chance and read Learning to Fly-it's amazing!

I hope you enjoy.

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Thirty-Eight

It felt good to be in Starling City once again.

Tessa and Barry had left before Leonard and I, giving us some time to ourselves. I was kinda nervous, purely for the fact that a lot had happened in all of our lives since the last time we'd been together in a group. But hey-Suki was gonna be there and what's a girl without her best friend?

Diggle was waiting at the train station when we arrived. He was pretty much the first thing I saw through the crowd. "JOHN!" I squealed. I dropped my bag and rushed over to hug him.

"Hey pint-sized," Diggle grinned. He ruffed my hair up and went to pick my bags up only Leonard beat him to it. "So you're the boyfriend?"

"So what if I am?" Leonard replied. "Anything wrong with that?"

"Criminal rap sheet as long as my arm that's what's wrong with that," Diggle stated.

I rubbed my temples with a sigh. "Okay, guys-this weekend is about Oliver and Felicity-not about who can out testosterone who. Okay?" I grinned when they nodded. "Good."

We made our way outside to the waiting black SUV. Diggle opened the trunk and Leonard threw the bags in whilst I sat in the back.

It was a quiet drive through the city, my mind awash with memories of how I used to run these streets. I grinned and put my head down on Leonard's shoulders. "Tomorrow morning-what did you wanna do? There's a few things we could do but you don't exactly seem like the tourist type."

Diggle snorted.

Leonard shrugged. "Bowling?" he suggested.

I raised an eyebrow. "Bowling?"

"Why not? Bowling."

"Bowling," I sighed. "Would you believe I've never bowled before?"

"Guess I'll have to teach you," he smirked. Leonard leant down and kissed my head. "You're wearing the necklace," he whispered in my ear.

I smiled. "It goes with my dress…" Biting my lip, I sighed. "I hope they like you."

"Who gives a stuff if they don't?" he asked me.

"I do."

Leonard gripped my hand and squeezed it tightly. "I know you do. They're your friends. Besides-I like it when you worry, you get this cute little crinkle in your forehead."

He leant in to kiss me when the car suddenly swerved a little as Diggle changed lanes.

"Smooth John," I muttered.

Nothing but silence from the peanut gallery.

The driveway leading up to the mansion was long but when we got to the house, the entrance was fill of cars. There was only just enough room for the SUV to drop us off. We got out and headed on inside.

I gasped. Walking in through the foyer, the Queen Mansion was packed with guests and waiters. We'd never find anyone in this crowd that was for sure. "What the hell?"

"Here I'll take your stuff up to the guest room," Diggle offered. "You remember the one you were in last time?"

I nodded. "Yeah, thanks John." I was one hundred percent sure that it was an engagement weekend for friends and a single party for guests not a party weekend.

"Bar." Leonard took my hand and steered me through the crowd to a makeshift bar set up. "Whisky on the rocks," he ordered. "For the lady?"

"Pink Moscato." I took a pause for a moment as I could hear Suki's voice somewhere in the room. "Suki!" I shouted over the top of a crowd of Queen Consolidated lawyers.

"Charlie?" she shouted back. "Where are you?"

"Over by the statue."

"What statue?"

I sighed. "Near the wine buffet!"

A few seconds later Suki came out of the crowd dragging Dick behind her. She brushed off the red lace dress she was wearing and picked up two glasses of wine. "This is bullshit! I had no idea tonight was a party for everyone!"

"It wasn't." River came over to our little group with a glass of whisky in her hands. "Felicity had to throw together a last minute shindig for some new investors. It was supposed to be a night for just us but evidentially its turned into snooze-feast 2.0." She looked to Leonard and smiled. "Nice to see you again Snart. Steal anything and I'm gonna have to pull your spin out through your chest."

"Harper." Leonard raised his glass slightly as River did and the two drank the contents.

"Charlie, manners," Suki muttered.

I rolled my eyes. She knew full well who he was. "Leonard Snart, this is Suki Queen and her boyfriend Richard Grayson, guys this is Leonard…and the guy in the cheesy suit with my chubby bubby on his hip is Roy Harper." I gave Leonard my glass and rushed over to take Sara from him.

The blonde baby automatically grabbed my necklace and it went straight into my mouth.

Ricer laughed when Leonard came up behind me to look at the baby. "Don't let Barry see that…or better yet…Suki take a picture and send it to Joe."

"Do not send it to Joe!" Barry pleaded, appearing out of nowhere. If he could shoot laser beams out of his eyes like a certain Man of Steel could, it would be safe to say Leonard would have two eyes shaped holes in his skull. "Barry Allen," he introduced himself as. "The brother."

"Leonard Snart, the boyfriend."

"Ding, ding, ding," Suki muttered. "Fight!"

Dick elbowed her.

River took Sara from me when she started fussing. "Sorry, Charlie. But she's kinda showing Mirakuru/Hades abilities-broke her babysitter's hand by clutching it too tight."

I nodded thinking ouch.

"We're out the back," Barry spoke. "Just came to see if you got here okay."

I took my wine back and the small group made our way outside to find Oliver and Felicity by the pool with Thea, Laurel and Tessa. I wandered over to Tessa with a soft smile. "Did you find her?"

Tessa grinned. "Yup. The last of the paperwork is sorted and we're picking her up next weekend. And you'll never guess what-Anora's father isn't who I thought it was."

"Say what?" I asked her.

She grinned even bigger. "The guy I was kinda involved with before Laurel-well I thought he was her but her DNA is 50% me and 50% human. Thanks to the good doctor. Just don't say anything to anyone. We're gonna have a dinner next weekend if you can come and tell them about Anora."

I raised an eyebrow. "Okay seriously what have I missed?"

"We've a team doctor," River grinned, out of ear shot of Leonard who was having a starring contest with Barry and Oliver by this point. "She's not here at the moment but you'll love her. Her name is Bierezz Fukasawa. She's been helping look after Sara since we don't really know what's going on inside her at the moment."

I nodded. "Guess I should come to Starling more often than, hey?"

River and Tessa laughed. "Absolutely."

"You need to rescue your boyfriend from Oliver." Laurel came over with a glass of wine. "Hello Charlie."

"Hey Laurel," I smiled. I took a sip of my wine and headed over to the circle of me. "So when does the naked oil wrestling start?" I asked.

"Charlie!" Barry balked.

I laughed. "Hashtag Team Snart."

"The naked oil wrestling will start around about the same time as the naked mud fights start," Dick joked. "I think Suki packed her bikini."

"You misunderstand my suggestion," I teased, "you guys do the oil wrestling whilst we-they women-watch and objectify."

"Other way around, little fish." Dick shouted out suddenly as he was pulled into the swimming pool by some kind of invisible force.

I, however, walked away whistling.