Chapter 3: Voyage

Oliver, Thea and Felicity sat in an old rickety row boat. The boat was in a quiet peek of the lake that had become a favorite fishing spot. Each of them either hold a fishing pole or had one leaning against the side of the boat.

It had been almost a week since they had all arrived. Both houses were now up and running to the fullest potential. The three of them had spent a large portion of their time with each other trying to catch up that was the main purpose of their voyage.

"How'd you get drunk enough to manage steal a police cruiser?" the blonde asked as she adjusted her line. Thea glanced over at her brother on the opposite side of the boat awaiting an answer that was sure to be amusing.

He laughed awkwardly and rubbed the back if his head. "I wasn't drunk." He said.

Thea snorted back laughter. "Why'd you do it then?" she continued to ask.

"There was this chick." The young sibling was already trying to suppress her laughing fits. Oliver brought a hand to his face and slowly ran his hand through her hair. "Me and my buddy-"

"My buddy and I." The tech genius corrected.

He rolled his eyes. "My buddy and I made a bet on who ever got the car got the girl. I got the car and he got the chick 'cause I was spending the night in the station."

The young brunette rocked onto her back having forgotten that she was trying to suppress her laughter, causing the boat to rock in the water. Felicity chuckled at the story; she knew it would be a good ice break for their voyage. They continued swapping wild stories of the past year, each of them centered on different experiences for parties to crazy professors they covered them all. Every time a fish neared one of the hooks and boat would erupt in laughter shaking, scaring away the river dwelling creatures. They let it all out and enjoyed each other's company. It didn't take long for the sun to lower in the sky signifying that it was time to head back to the docks and prepare for dinner.

"Can you pass me the oar behind you?" Oliver sounded bring a close to the 'fishing trip'.

The blonde nodded and began to awkwardly twist around to grab oar. She leaned beside Thea resting her hand on the edge of the boat to support herself. She grasped the hand and pushed herself upright. Just then a large motor boat passed by going at ridiculous speeds so that the people hanging off the back on tubes would fall out. This rattled the boat causing Felicity to lose her balance and drop the oar into the lake.

She cursed under her breath as she leaned out over the side to grab it better it sunk into the vegetation at the bottom of the lake. Another hand reached out with hers in a frugal attempt to try and retrieve it. This, of course, caused the boat to rock dangerously to the one side at the momentum. Their hands were mere inches away from their goal. This ushered Thea to lean nearly her entire body over the side. This caused Oliver to lung forward to haul his sister back into the boat, following the chain of events. And that all it took to flip the boat over throwing everyone and its contents over into a rather deep and cold place in the river. A couple seconds everyone bobbed up to the surface.

They coughed up water and gasped for air, once they had all regained their bearings when they started to survey the damage.

Oliver swam to Thea and brought her to the over turned boat so that she could rest there. He swam around the boat to find Felicity had done the same thing on her own. He grabbed her arm and together they swam to the other to meet with Thea. After a few minutes of debating they came up with the best method to flip the boat back upright. They swam under it and pushed it up and had it roll over so it was correctly stationed.

They spent a few minutes of awkward maneuvers they managed to get into the row boat. They sat slouched against the boat and each other while they tried to figure out what came next.

Felicity ran her hand through her supping water hair, pushing it out of her face. "Well, we lost everything that was in the boat so now we have no oars, no fishing gear or anything else. Any suggestions on how we get back? We traveled a good few miles from the docks, I'm not sure about you guys but I know I can't swim that far."

The younger girl sighed and nodded in agreement and looked to her brother to see if he had any ideas.

He let out a sigh. "I could swim to shore," he gestured to the nearest piece of land on the side of the lake that their cottages were. "I'll run back to the house and get the motor boat and some rope; we can tug it back then."

That seemed to be the best idea they could come up with and decided upon it after a few more minutes of deliberation. And like that Oliver dived into the water and swam back leaving the two girls to drift in the water's currents.

They sat soaked in their seats, quietly waiting for Oliver to come, both knew it would be a good 45 minutes until they saw him again.

The brunette sighed frustrated at the silence. "Any big plan this summer?" she asked to fill the void boredom left.

Felicity removed her glasses and tried to dry them the best she could, she gave up and put them in the front pocket of her shirt. "Nothing big, just this one thing with my college roommate."

Thea smiled. "Tell me about it."

Oliver swam all the way to the shore. Once he reached it he tore of his shirt and rung it out as best as he could it didn't take long for him to give up and toss it over his shoulder. After that he took off in a steady pace. He knew the area around the lake just as well as he knew Starling City. He ran back taking all the short cuts that he's found over the years.

The only difficulties he ran into were fallen trees and over minor obstacles but that was expects. Even with that he made it back in record timing. His parents gave them odd looks as he came brawling through the house. He changed into dry clothes and grabbed a few blankets and towel. Moira stopped her son as he was about the exit. "Weren't you on the boat with the girls?"

"Yeah, the boat flipped over, we lost the oars and everything, I came back to get the motor boat to tow it back." He explained as quickly as he could before continuing on with his mission. He hurried it the boathouse and ready the closest one the door (which had been open from the row boat). He tossed the blankets and towels on the seat next to his and drove off in the way he had come. After a few minutes the small row boat came into view. He let out a sigh of relief seeing that both girls were still in it and okay. He slowed the pace as he approached them.

"Long time no see, Ollie." Thea called over. Oliver stood up and walked to the side of the boat that was next to the row boat. He extended his hand the Thea and pulled her on board. He then tossed the one end of the rope the Felicity in the smaller boat. She then tied it to the front making sure it was nice and secure. She then walked over to Oliver who offered her a hand as well. She grabbed it and allowed him to help her on.

Once everything was ready they settled into the seats. The girls dried off the best they could with the towels then wrapped themselves in the blankets.

It's safe to say there was no more complications that night.

AN: it has been awhile, sorry! I don't even have a good reason really. With the new season I will likely be writing more but can't guarantee frequency. School is killing me. I've worked out all the major chapter topics I want to cover (some will cover more than one chap). So unless I come up with more it will probably be 10 – 12 chaps once completed hope u enjoy!