Wedding Reception...
Interrupted!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the general idea you see here in this story. I'm going to play around with the timeline here a bit where Moira and Walter had yet to marry until now.
Summary: In a world where Shado never died and Waller, after a timely intervention on her part. Pretty much pressganged Oliver, Slade, Shado, Anatoli, Sara, the Yamashiros, and later Nyssa Al Ghul into working for her. The group is finally free to leave and Oliver and his friends arrive just in time for a reception of a wedding.
The group who had come together in various ways after 5 years and now pretty much saw one another as family were currently coming up the drive way to the Queen mansion. The group had finally won their freedom from the near tyranical Waller after a rather explosive fight in Hong Kong that involved a particularly giant robot. And even though there had been film of it, Waller had absolutely made sure that none of it got out. They were all intent on seeing Oliver re-unite with his family. Well most of them aside from Nyssa anyway, she and Oliver were often at odds with one another for various reasons. Something that Slade at least often found to be amusing. The group quickly noticed the amount of cars that were in the drive way. Not to mention the streamers and balloons also hanging about. Which was making Oliver especially curious as it seemed he was about to come home in something close to style. Coming up to the front doors and seeing a lone African American man standing guard. Oliver spoke up.
"Uhh hi there, what exactly is going on?" The man gave him a look, one he learned to recognize as someone sizing up another.
"A wedding reception sir." Honestly, didn't this guy watch the news!? The thing is though, while Oliver didn't much care for it. The others did and knew full well what was going on. They just thought it'd be amusing to see how he'd react once he finally found out.
"Wedding? For who?" It better not be his sister, she was way too young for that kind of thing!
The man sighed again, as if annoyed by the newcomer. "For Moira Queen sir." The widening of the eyes proved rather comical for him.
"WHAT!? MY MOTHER IS GETTING MARRIED!?" He yelled out, shocked as can be.
The man looked over at him in surprise, and recognition was finally dawning on him that this newcomer was more than what he appeared to be. Just that he was a lot more hairier compared to any pictures or videos that was out there of him showed. "Yes sir, to a Walter Steele. You can go around to the back if you want." He didn't have a problem at all with letting the apparently not dead Oliver Queen do this. As after all, how often does one come back from the dead to learn about their parent or otherwise is now married?
"Yeah, yeah I'll do just that!" He responded and then took off around the mansion to get some answers.
Nyssa let out a chuckle at the Queen scion's misfortune. "Perhaps if he watched the news, he would know these sorts of things." Sara nudged her in her shoulder with a smile on her face.
"Oh Nyssa, be nice!" She lightly chided her lover.
Nyssa regarded her Canary with a smile of her own. "One day perhaps, once the Robin Hood wannabe acknowledges I am the superior of the two of us." Sara only rolled her eyes while Slade gave a raspy chuckle.
"Come on, let's go keep Oliver from making a fool of himself." Called out Shado as she began to walk in the direction Oliver had gone off too.
"I am Russian, not a fool preventer!" Anatoli good naturedly grumbled as he began to follow the girl.
The others followed suit, reserving comments for later. The African American man watched it all with amusement on his face before raising a hand to his earpiece to speak to his brother. "This is Army Man Diggle to Man of Security. We have surprise guests inbound. One being a missing son."
Meanwhile in the backyard of the Queen Mansion, spirits were raised rather high due to the happy nature of the gathering there. And as Malcolm Merlyn stood up to deliver a speech and good will to the newly married couple. He was soon stopped however when a rather shaggy man in green suddenly appeared. "WAIT A MINUTE! HOLD THE PHONE!" He called out while waving his arms about madly as he jumped onto a table.
Off to the side, Man of Security could be seen talking to his brother via his own earpiece. "Yeah? Well that just made this a whole lot more interesting. And boy does he need a shave." He muttered jokingly.
"Who the hell are you to dare interrupt this very happy occasion?" Asked Malcolm, ready to do damage if need be.
Oliver looked at him for a moment. "Well Mr. Merlyn. I would be the long thought to be dead and the one and only Oliver Queen. That's who I am. That answer your question?"
Malcolm's eyes widened in surprise, as did the eyes of everyone else. Moira's hands were covering her mouth as tears started to come down her face at the sight of her long thought to be dead son. "OLLIE!" Cried out Thea, ecstatic as can be to see her big brother alive and in serious need of a shave.
The girl rushed up to the table and gave her long lost brother a tight hug. One he happily returned as he let out a sigh of relief. "Speedy, you have no idea how happy I am that its not you that's getting married." He muttered to her.
His comment caused her to look up at him in shock, and seeing the seriousness on his face made her laugh. "Oh! Ha ha! Oh God no! Not anytime soon for me!" She managed to get out while laughing. Even though Roy is shaping up rather nicely in her view.
"HEY KID! YOU DONE MAKING A FOOL OF YOURSELF YET!?" The raspy voice of Slade called out jovially.
His sudden appearance, alongside that of his friends quickly grabbed everyone's attention. Although quite a few were shocked that Sara Lance was among them. Considering they thought her dead as well as Oliver. "Ollie? Is dad with you too?" Thea asked, though she was afraid of what the answer might be.
Oliver shook his head no, and Thea buried her head into his chest. Saddened but happy that at least he had managed to come back to her. "And he wonders why I do not take him seriously?" Nyssa muttered to Sara who laughed a bit.
While his sister saught comfort in his arms, he looked over at his mother and the black African American who looked slightly familiar to him. "I don't know why, but you seem familiar. And since you seem soooo close to my mom and all. I'm guessing you're the new step dad?"
The man gave a nod to him. "Quite right, I have no intention of taking your father's place Oliver. As for why I am familiar. I am Walter Steele and a long time friend of your father's."
Oliver nodded at that and nudged Thea to let go for a moment so that they could get down. Coming over to the man and shaking his hand while congratulating him. He looked at his mom, the conflict obvious in his eyes at seeing her with someone new. She stood up and took in his appearance. "Oh my baby boy!" She cried out happily and wrapped him in a hug, one Thea quickly joined in on.
Everyone present aside from Oliver's bunch had tears in their eyes. And those watching via a live broadcast were also in tears too. Like Laurel and Quentin Lance for example. And while Tommy is present at the reception and seriously wanted to welcome back Oliver, he knew that for the time being, the family being re-united and together was pretty important. And besides, all the girls who showed up with him were pretty hot!
"This is why you should watch the news Queen!" Nyssa called out, knowing that her taunt would annoy the archer.
"Wait, you mean this was on the news!?" He asked, confused on what she was talking about.
Nyssa could be seen smirking at him. "Well yes, it pays for one to watch the news after all."
"You suck!" Was the genius response he could give to that.
Shado walked up to him with a smile on her face, one she had perfected during the times when he was proving rather difficult and or silly about something. "Oh Yuchun, we tried to tell you numerous times to watch the news."
The fact she had fallen in love with him and caused him to grow up amazed Sara. Who thought the former Playboy would never grow up at all. She knew Slade was still smarting from a shot she sent his way some time ago about the fact he's still married and that going for another wasn't all that cool. The fact that Oliver even called him out on something he'd said previously really didn't help much either. But at least he had backed off from Shado, something that made everyone immensely happy. Though he still liked to mess with Oliver from time to time when the kid was being pig headed about something.
As for Nyssa, she found herself grateful that Amanda Waller had managed to get her captured. Sure Queen had accidentally ensured it happening and it would always be a sore point for her. But the life she was beginning to get accustomed too outside of the League was rather refreshing. She was also rather happy that her father had agreed to the terms Waller had set. Even if he wasn't too happy about it, but even he knew it was wise not to challenge the woman when she had access to certain weaponry that could easily end him and all he stood for.
As for the others, they were finally glad to see Oliver re-united with his family. The years of Hell they had to endure together to witness this moment between the Queen family was well worth it in their eyes. Shado herself was grateful for how things had turned out, as otherwise things for Oliver or for any of them could have been so much worse.
Author's Notes: I definitely intend to explore this a bit more in future Possibilities updates. Like that whole big robot incident for example. Look forward to your thoughts!