In The

Legion Now

Disclaimer: I own nothing but what you see here. This is something that's been running about in my head off and on for awhile now. Could be a multi chapter thing one day too. The island never happened.

Summary: A trip to the Middle East with his dad prompts Oliver 'Ollie' Queen into making a life changing decision. Robert gets stuck with having to explain the situation back home.

After Robert had gotten home and Moira had enquired about where their son was had made for an unpleasant encounter after he explained where he was. The fact he'd gone hesitant at first over explaining things made her really worried. And when the man had seen that look, he quickly informed her that nothing bad happened. That thankfully made her less worried but she still wanted to know where he was. And that's when he pretty much dropped the bomb on her about what their son decided to do while in the Middle East after he'd had a little trip of his own while out there. A trip that included several others he wound up making friends with and despite no training at all whatsoever, had managed to help out in a situation that could have meant his death. Needless to say, Moira was less than pleased over what she was told, not to mention shocked too. "HE DID WHAT!? How could you let him just do that!?" She yelled at him, pacing about frantically with fear and worry showing very clearly.

"Well its not like I let him do it! He really wanted to do it and I could see it clearly, so I gave him the okay. Besides, this is a good thing since it'll help him grow up even more then it already seems to have done." Really, why couldn't she see that!?

Moira looked at him in continued shock after hearing of how he had just practically admitted that he let their son run off to be a damned soldier of all of things in a foreign legion! She started shaking her head, wondering if her husband had gotten far too much sun while he'd been out there in the Middle East as this was not okay! Fixing him a glare that made even Robert wince she spoke up. "You just gave him the okay!? Without discussing it with me first as would have been appropriate!?" She asked him shrilly.

Robert wanted to roll his eyes over how she was over reacting, besides their son's an adult now for crying out loud. "You do remember he's not under age right? And therefore is fully capable of making his own decisions?" He had to duck after that when she threw a vase at him. The crash made Thea so darned glad she had stayed outside of the front room!

Though she wondered herself just what her big brother was thinking! Especially since she knew him and Laurel were still together despite their latest little blow out over his cheating habits. Why the girl had yet to dump him was beyond her since she wouldn't EVER put up with that kind of crap. But since she's only 12 and all that, that's not something she needs to be focusing on. Or so says her brother anyway, not that she disagrees cause to her boys are pretty darn dumb! She winced when another object crashed and hoped her mom didn't kill dad. She wondered how Tommy and even Laurel would take this once they found out. As Laurel certainly had plans for Ollie despite certain habits of his. Plans that would likely go out the door now that he apparently joined the Foreign Legion. Her sister Sara was already over there after having joined up awhile back while on a journey of finding herself, whatever that meant Thea wasn't sure of. Something neither of their parents were still too happy with considering it could get her killed.

Thea had a feeling that Laurel was definitely not going to like that her sister and him were going to be around one another more now since a few people including her were highly aware of the fact that Sara has a thing for Ollie and has had it for years. Something Thea herself despite her young age thought that Laurel hadn't given a crap about it and saw herself a meal ticket even if it caused bad blood between her and her sister. Thea then could hear her dad telling her mom to calm down, which she had a feeling that was so not going to be a good thing. "DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!" Moira roared out, making the young girl wince and decide that maybe she should go back to her room.

As she walked off, she could hear another item crashing into the wall. Bad move daddy!

Moira pointed a finger at her husband as she spoke to him in an irate way. "You WILL go back there and bring him home immediately! His place is here with us, not out in a desert doing and fighting God knows what for the Foreign Legion!"

Robert sighed in slight annoyance. "I can not do that Moira, that would only put him in a serious amount of trouble that could even mean prison time. And no, money is not going to get anywhere in this sort of thing. He's there, he's staying, and will be back in 5 years. The End. His choice Moira, and you need to respect that." He informed her sternly, not willing to back down at all while still feeling proud of his son for doing something like this. Hell he never even approved of his relationship with Laurel anyway since he could tell the girl was nothing more then a gold digger that was willing to hurt her own sister when she knew full well of the other girl's feelings.

Momma Queen glared at her husband and walked up to him, leaving the man slightly worried at what she might do. "You're sleeping on the couch until further notice." He raised his eyebrows at that before being forced to painfully turn his head into another direction after she slapped the ever loving Hell out of him.

She then walked off as he rubbed where she slapped him and he could hear her muttering some choice words. Son, you owe me SO much for this one. He grumbled to himself and hoped his wife wouldn't throw more things at him again anytime soon. A feeling he had though told him that the next 5 years weren't exactly going to be all that great until their son's return.

God, if you're listening right now, I could use some divine intervention to survive my wife's wrath! He'd pray every day if he had too in order to get it. And damn does her slap hurt!

Author's Notes: I hope folks enjoyed this! Robert I've noticed rarely gets a lot of focus on in stories so I decided to let him have a moment here. I do plan at some point to do a multi chaptered story starting from when him and Oliver went to the Middle East and the joining of the Legion for Oliver. As for making Laurel look like something of a bad guy, come on now, she stayed with him despite how she knew full well of his cheating and still didn't leave him? And may have been aware of her sister's feelings for him, but went after him herself? That's messed up in all kinds of ways. Girl clearly looking to get a meal ticket. Course I could always be wrong about that.

I know there was something where Sara and Oliver discussed how Laurel might have known of her feelings during a flash back scene in season 2, so that's where that is coming from. Anyways, on another note. This and the next chapter for Making The Call may be the last updates I do for what I hope will be a short period of time. As my computer keeps experiencing some supposed uncorrectable hardware error that makes the computer shut off then restart. Leading to a very frustrating experience on a daily basis several times. Sorry for this folks.