An Oliver

In The Past

Disclaimer: Watching the scene with the Legends meeting Old! Oliver inspired this one. Oh, and I own nothing but what you see here. Takes place during season 1.

Summary: The Oliver Queen that the Legends team once came across finds himself years in the past.

Thea had just been minding her own business in her room after her brother was thankfully no longer being targeted by Detective Lance as 'The Hood'. Sure, her big brother may be a damaged closed off jerk with horrible scars on his body, but she strongly doubted he could be anything like that guy! As he was just way too violent and the like and for all her brother's fault, he was nothing like that. Even if she could hear him sometimes screaming in his sleep that honestly gave her shivers down her spine. Shouting out names like 'Shado', 'Yao Fei', 'Slade', 'Fyers', and a lot of others and sounding pissed as Hell or great horrified by whatever he was dreaming of when it came to those names. She knew their mother, Walter, and even Raisa had heard him like that and the fact none of them could do anything bothered the girl greatly. Which honestly made her feel guilty as Hell sometimes when she was such a bitch to him in the heat of the moment and the fact he hadn't completely written her off yet was a surprise.

She was so out of her depth when it came to this version of her brother and she hated it with every fiber of her being. But a strange crackling noise soon broke her out of her thoughts as she turned her head towards the source and what she saw was all kinds of freaky weirdness. As a streaks of lightning was flashing about in the middle of her room as she sat on her bed, wondering what the Hell was going on. And then before her very eyes, a ball of light formed and soon left behind an older looking man with a beard that was as white as snow, along with his hair. He looked ready to attack whatever was going on and she hoped ilke Hell he wasn't gonna attack her! But once she got a good look on him, Thea couldn't help but gape in shock as this was somehow her big brother! An older looking version of him! One without an arm for God's sake! "O-Ollie!?" Breathed the stunned girl in shock from her bed.

The figure turned to her and a look of great surprise crossed his face. "Th-Thea!?" Came the stunned word from the man before his eyes rolled up into his head and he fell down on to the floor, unconscious.

Thea hauled ass from the room soon after and got her mom, Walter, Mr. Diggle, and Oliver to come with her to the room and each of them were just as shocked as she was! "Huh." Said Mr. Diggle in shock.

"Yeah." Breathed out Oliver as seriously, how is this even possible!?

Hell, his older self even kinda looks like dad a little for that matter! "And you said he just appeared from some form of electrical light?" Asked Walter while Moira just looked at the older version of her son in stunned silence.

"Yeah! And nothing's even damaged either!" Replied the young girl and she seriously didn't get that!

As wouldn't something like that cause damage in some kind of way? "Let's worry about that later, Thea. For now, let's get him somewhere where he won't pose as much of a danger." Declared Oliver and soon, he and Mr. Diggle got the older guy in one of the less used rooms and tied him up to a chair.

Though why her big brother had that much rope in his room was a complete mystery to her! Sometime after they had tied him up, Old Man Oliver began to stir with a slight moan. "Ugh… I think Connor may have hit me harder then I thought in sparring." Muttered the man as he woke up.

"Or, we're all under some mass drug induced hallucination." Quipped a voice he hadn't heard in years.

Making him look its way and seeing a very young Thea Queen! Along with his mother, Digg, Walter, and even more surprising, his younger self! "If this is some kind of sick joke, its not funny." Warned the man angrily.

"Oh its no joke! You just showed up from outta nowhere in my room! Like in those Terminator films!" Replied Thea quickly.

"Yeah, and thankfully fully clothed too." Quipped Diggle in relief.

Thea shuddered at the idea of her brother naked. As seriously, ew! "I'm gonna have nightmares now, thank you so much for that." Groused the young girl and making Mr. Diggle grin at her.

"Happy to help Ms. Queen."

She only rolled her eyes in response. Young Oliver however decided to get serious about things and stepped towards his supposed older self. "Who are you!? And how do you even look like me!?"

"That's what I should be asking you! I know for a fact I haven't been around anything involving time travel! So you tell me! You some kind of HIVE plan? Maybe a left over revenge scheme Grant Wilson didn't get to use in time?"

"Who the Hell is Grant Wilson!?"

"Slade's son. Of course I didn't need to tell you that since you probably already know."

"I thought he only had Joe? Slade NEVER said anything about a Grant."

Old Man Oliver chuckled as wow! This look a like was seriously giving it his all! The others however was just confused as Hell over all these Wilsons and HIVE plans! "Slade had another son after he managed to survive the Amazo's sinking. Which you clearly already know so why I'm bothering telling you that is beyond me."

Young Man Oliver's eyes went wide in shock and fear as his face paled. "He survived the Amazo!?" Asked the young archer in fear and shock.

"Yeah, yeah he did." Admitted the older version and seeing just how the other guy reacted, making him think that maybe, just maybe that somehow this whole thing was real!

Angry swearing in both Mandarin and Russian could be heard after that, causing the older version of Oliver to snort in amusement over some of what he heard. "Okay, who or what the Hell are you two talking about!? And what are you even saying in whatever language it is you're speaking Ollie!?"

"That would be Mandarin and Russian." Supplied Old Man Oliver helpfully enough.

"I was asking him, not you!"

An eye roll came from the old man. "God, I can't believe I forgot how bratty you were around now." Groused the man good naturedly.

"Oh screw you!"

"THEA! Mind your manners young lady!" Yelled out Moira sternly all of a sudden.

"Now I know this isn't some kind of plan, nobody could be this detailed."

Even machinery made for this kind of thing couldn't pull it off in his view. And there had certainly been quite a few attempts for that matter as well! Before more could be said however, especially when it came to Old Man Oliver wanting to profess how much he'd actually ended up missing his mother, Tommy and Laurel then showed up. "Hey, there you guys are and oh my God!" Exclaimed Tommy in shock.

Shock that Laurel too was feeling as well! Heck, who wouldn't be feeling that way when seeing an older version of someone they knew! Which seriously shouldn't even be possible thank you very much! "Umm… Did we get drugged or something?" Asked the woman nervously.

"Nope, its all real. And believe you me, its a real mind screw for me too." Replied the older version of her ex with a shrug.

Laurel then did something none of them were expecting at all from her and fainted.

Author's Notes: I'm probably being too candid and easy going with Old Man Oliver here, but I think it works either way.