My name is Olivia Queen. I saved the multiverse. The only difference is when I did that, I was a man. I wanted to see some of my friends and family that had died and I was sent to this world where I am girl. Now I had to try to save this world like I did my own. I was still a little uncomfortable in my new body and I was getting used to all of the ways that things were different than what I was used to. When I started this over eight years ago, I need to be someone else. Now I am literally someone else.
Despite being much smaller, I was still more than capable of doing what needed to be done. I probably didn't need to do what I had done before, but these people still needed to be punished for what they had done. I was trying not to be as violent. I didn't want to commit senseless murders and become as bad as worse than the people I was supposed to be protecting the city from. I still had to get my point across and that meant that threatening people was still necessary.
The following morning, I walked into the living room wearing a navy sleeveless dress. I didn't like that I had to keep wearing dresses, but I was due in court today. I had already done this, so I really wasn't nervous about it. I once again found the news was talking about my exploits.
"This girl gets more airtime than a Kardashian." I quipped. I still thought it was a great line. However, I was met with a different look.
"Olivia, the Kardashians haven't been relevant in years." Thea told me. That was I surprised by. I wondered if that meant that Kanye was going to marry someone else.
"Okay…I need to study pop culture." I replied with a blush. "I guess it's a good thing that our culture has improved since I was gone."
"The city used to be different. People used to feel safe." Mom commented.
"What's wrong Mom? Afraid we're next?" Thea quipped. I really hoped that I wouldn't have to go after her this time. It was one of my biggest regrets and it made me feel worse that she had known it was me. I couldn't help but wonder if she knew now. I really wanted her to not be involved in the Undertaking. At that point, Mom turned off the TV and got up.
"So, are you excited about today, Olivia?" Malcolm asked me.
"I don't see why I have to do this." I replied. It seemed like something a teenager would say.
"It's simple. We have to legally bring you back to life." Malcolm stated. "Right now, you are still considered dead and you are unable to get a driver's license, passport and you're also not allowed to legally work. All you have to do is read the statement we've given you and you will be considered a living person again."
As far as I knew, I had never been in a courtroom before, so I couldn't say that I had.
"It'll be great." Tommy interrupted.
"Are you on PTO again?" I asked. I would think that he would need to be at the hospital more.
"Yes, I wouldn't miss you getting legally resurrected." He noted.
"It looks like it's gonna be a real family affair." Thea commented. It was at that moment that I noticed that she was also dressed up. I supposed that another thing that was different about this world.
At that point, Iris walked into the room.
"Mrs. Queen, the car's ready." She said.
Once I arrived at the courthouse, I was once again hounded by reporters. Weren't there laws about harassing minors? The feeling about having them in my face was one that I had never liked and I had been someone whose job was to talk to the media. I wasn't exactly looking that far ahead, but something told me that the chances of me being elected mayor were a lot lower.
Once I was in the courtroom, I started to read my statement. I was trying to do my best not to cry, but the memories of what happened combined with the fact that my dad was the one person I wasn't going to see again did not allow that to happen. The only thing that made me feel better was the chance that maybe Sara was still alive.
"Your Honor, we move to vacate the death of Olivia Queen that was filed after her disappearance." The lawyer said as she stood up. "Unfortunately, we will not be requesting the same thing of her father, Robert Queen. It seems that this family is only warranted one miracle."
I couldn't help but wonder what kind of person would say something like that. It wasn't relevant because it was quite obvious that we weren't doing that.
"I think we should head to the school now." Mom stated. "We have to figure out what we're going to do about your education."
I didn't know what I would do about school. I hadn't been to school in such a long time and I was pretty sure that it would be different than the last time that I was there. I didn't know if I would get a say in whether or not I went to school.
"Mom, can we please not do that today?" I requested. "That was pretty intense."
"Of course." She agreed.
"5 years ago, you wouldn't wait to go to school." Tommy commented. Had I been a nerd or something? I was pretty nervous about having to go to school. Teenagers were probably worse than reporters. I was pretty sure that going to public school would be impossible, not that they would send me to public school.
"Tommy, my priorities have changed a little in the last years." I pointed out as I headed down the stairs and nearly ran into Laurel…Dinah once again. So, she was still here despite not being a lawyer. She still had Emily and Joanna with her.
"What are you doing here?" She asked me.
"I was being brought back to life." I explained. "What are you doing here?"
"I am supporting my employee." She stated. "Her father was killed and we're suing the man we believe is responsible."
Emily looked down. Well, I could tell that I was still going to have go after Martin Somers…and the Triad.
"Hi." I greeted her as I held my hand out for her to shake. Even she was taller than me. I thought that she had been a lot shorter. "I'm Olivia Queen."
"Emily Nocenti." She replied as she shook my hand.
"Olivia just got back from five years away from civilization." Dinah explained. "She was best friends with my sister, a sister that I no longer have."
At that point, she walked away.
"I'm sorry for what happened to you." Emily replied as Joanna took her away, probably to the courtroom.
When I got outside, I found the reporters were once again grilling Somers. I really wanted to just sneak by and not have to deal with them. Unfortunately, I had no such luck. I got in the car and told the driver to drive, leaving Tommy and Iris behind.
Even though in the long run going after these people didn't seem to matter, I wanted to think that I had made a difference by putting them behind bars. I wasn't sure if he would still go after Dinah, but if he did, he was a dangerous person that didn't deserve to be free.
I had to keep training because I had to make sure that I was in good enough shape to take on whatever was thrown at me.
I headed to the docks to do my job. That was this was to me: a job. It didn't matter that I wasn't getting paid. I quickly started to take out everyone else. I wasn't able to hang Somers upside-down because I was not strong enough to lift him. I probably never would be, so I pinned him to the wall instead.
"Martin Somers, you have failed this city." I declared as I drew my bow towards him. I had to admit that watching these powerful people beg for mercy did give me a bit of a thrill. "You're going to testify in that trial and you're going to confess to having Victor Nocenti killed. I'm not going to give you a second chance."
I then shot a bow in front of his face before I left to go home.
When I got there, I found that my mother was giving Iris a scolding.
"Now where do you think my daughter is going on these chaperoneless excursions?" Mom asked her.
"Ma'am, I'm sorry but I don't know." Iris replied. I knew that I needed to step in because I really didn't want to see her get fired.
"And she really doesn't." I interrupted.
"Well maybe you could tell me where the hell you've been." Mom responded.
"I wanted to do something by myself." I said. This was going to be awkward. "I was with…someone."
"Well, I don't care if you think it's uncool. You will take Miss West with next time you see this boy." She ordered. I hated how she automatically assumed I was with a boy. "It's not safe. You have already been abducted once, you could be raped or killed and there is a maniac that is targeting the wealthy."
One of those words really resonated with me. While I knew that it was unlikely to happen, the fact that I could be raped made me feel nervous.
"That maniac saved my life." I argued. Also, I was not someone who would go after the people's loved ones. That was too cruel, even for me at my worst.
"This isn't a fucking game." She replied. Whenever my mother swore, she really meant business. "I lost you once and I am not going to let that happen again!"
"Okay. I'm sorry." I apologized. "I promise I'll take her with me whenever I go out."
"Thank you." She declared before she walked away.
"I'm sorry to give you so much trouble." I told Iris.
"I've had several people close to my die. I've been through police academy. A spoiled rich girl really doesn't rank high on that." She stated. "But I will tell you that if you ditch me again, your mother won't have to fire me."
She walked away and at that point, Thea walked out.
"Where are you going?" I asked her.
"Not that it's any of your business, but Linda and I have a date." She explained. "We're gonna go and get drunk somewhere."
"Is it really much of a relationship if you're getting drunk all of the time?" I challenged. "Do you think this is what Dad would want?"
"Dead people don't want things." She argued. "It's one of the nice things about being dead."
"I was dead and I wanted things." I pointed out.
"Except your family. It seems like the only one you ever hang out with is Tommy." She remarked. I didn't think jealousy was something that I would see from her. She left before I could even respond to that. As much as I didn't want to go to school, maybe I should do it because it would give me a chance to talk to her more.
The following day, I headed to the school with Mom, Malcolm and Thea. Malcolm probably didn't need to be there, but he seemed to really be putting in the effort with me. Of course this wasn't too out of character for him because he always did seem to like me, possibly more than liked his own son. Since I wasn't yet a student, I did not have a uniform, meaning I stuck out like a sore thumb.
"So, this is school. The headmistress's office is down that way." Thea explained. I couldn't help but wonder if they were going to give me a choice. If I had to go, I would make sure to go. Truancy was not something that I was willing to do and I kind of wanted to see if I could be a good student because I was a bit of a lousy one before.
We headed into the Headmistress Sharpe's office and I couldn't help but think that name sounded familiar. I did note the e on the end, so she likely wouldn't have been related to Evelyn. As we walked inside, I knew where I knew her from. The two of us really didn't know each other. We had only met once at Quentin's funeral, which I was allowed to go to.
"Good morning, Miss Queen. It's pleasure to meet you. I'm Ava Sharpe, the headmistress of George Papp Academy." She declared.
"Pleased to meet you." I replied. "Mom, are you sure it's a good idea for me to go here?"
"I don't see what the problem is." Mom declared.
"How about the fact that I haven't been to school in five years?" I challenged.
"I understand your reservations. However, I have looked at your standardized tests scores from your previous school. You showed extraordinary intelligence for someone of your age." Ava declared. "I think that we can have you take a placement test and decide where to go from there."
"It's not just the schoolwork that worries me." I pointed out. "It's also the other students. I don't really trust them. That's why I wanted to talk to you about possibly getting my GED instead."
Having my GED would give me more free time during the day. I still would have to find a good use for the factory to explain why I was there so much since nightclub was off the table.
"That would severely limit your options." Mom pointed out.
"I just want to know that I have them." I replied as I stormed out of the office. I couldn't believe that this was the equivalent of her wanting to me work for the company. I mean obviously you couldn't put a teenager in a leadership position but I thought that I would at least be able to do things. Not to mention, it wasn't as easy to say no to. I was pretty sure that I would need her permission to not go to school.
As soon as I walked outside, there were reporters in the parking lot. Was where I chose to school really big of news? Did they not have anything else to report on? Iris helped me into the car, which did not have a driver in it.
"The driver will be here in a minute." She said.
"Okay." I replied.
"You know I know I'm not supposed to say anything, but I find it hard to believe that your parents think you can suddenly go to high school and everything will be normal." She remarked. "I guess I kind of relate to the idea of disapproving parents. My dad didn't want me to go to the police academy. Want to know what I learned?"
I actually had no idea what she was going to say here. The two of us didn't have the common ground of being away from home.
"What?" I asked since I didn't have any sort of guess.
"Sometimes you have to do what's good for you." She replied. The only problem was that I wasn't sure what was good for me. Going to school probably wouldn't severely harm by ability to do things, even though I didn't want to do them. "I also think that since you were away for so long, you have problems connecting with people. Though, maybe I'm wrong about you. Maybe after losing a chunk of your adolescent years on that island you're not as screwed up as you have every right to be."
I was starting to think that I would really like Iris. We had never super close, outside of the time that me and Barry's lives were switched, though seemed more like a dream.
Later, I decided to take a shower. I had just started to get dressed, currently in a bra and leggings while I watched the news. Somers wasn't going to back down, not that I expected him to. I also expected him to go after Laurel…Dinah. I still can't get used to that. It was probably because I thought of Dinah as someone else and it really wasn't a common name unlike John who could be either Diggle or Constantine (but usually Diggle).
"Oh my god, how did you get those?" Thea asked as I put on a tank top. She was referring to my scars.
"Can't you knock?" I questioned.
"Mom said that there were scars. but I didn't know that they were this bad." She replied. "Olivia, please tell me what happened."
The truth was I didn't know what happened. I only knew what happened in my world and Olivia might have experienced different things. Some of the scars were in different places. I probably would have even told her.
"I don't know." I answered.
"Of course you don't. You never want to talk to me unless it's about my social life." She declared. I wished that I knew what to say.
"Thea, I don't know because I blacked out a lot of it. I don't even know everything that happened." I admitted. I hoped that it sounded believable. If not for the fact that I may have needed to save Dinah's life, I would stay and talk to her. "Where are you going?"
"Why should I tell you? I'm not going to ruin my life if that's what you're worried about." She spat.
"I'm sorry, Sis. I'm not good at connecting with people and I know that I need to get better. I want to try to put in the effort." I stated.
"Let me show you something." She offered.
She took me outside to the graves. I hadn't checked to see if that was still the same.
"Whenever I was feeling down, I used to come out here." She explained. "Mom pretty stopped going out after the funerals. I came out here to talk to you. It was mostly stupid stuff like what happened at school or someone that I had a crush on. I wasn't sure why since I never even believed that you were really dead. I begged you to find your way back and now that you are, you're nothing like I expected you to be. I know that you must have suffered on that island, but you weren't the only one who suffered. So, I decided that I was just going to live my life. You have got to let people in. You have to let me in."
Part of me really thought that I should go to school, though I was little bit concerned that her friends wouldn't like me. I would like to get to know her girlfriend. I really wasn't sure what to do other than telling her, but that seemed like a bad idea.
However, before I could even think about any of that, I had Iris take me to Dinah's apartment. I had to make sure that she was safe and I didn't want to not go and have her be killed by the Triad. I knocked on the door.
After a few seconds, she came and answered the door.
"Hi." I greeted her. "Is everything okay because there are two cop cars outside?"
"What are you doing here, Olivia?" She asked me.
"Thea said that I have been distant ever since I got back and it would probably be a good idea if I talked to someone." I explained.
"And you thought that someone should be me?" She asked in disbelief.
"You always were my favorite babysitter." I quipped.
"Come inside…" She said with a sigh. "Is your mom going to pay me for this?"
"She doesn't know that I'm here." I responded as I started to look around the apartment. "This place still looks the same as the last time I was here."
"I haven't really had the time to redecorate." She remarked.
"I'm a brat." I stated. That sounded pretty weird. It got her to look at me at least. "Everyone thinks I'm a spoiled brat."
"Is there a but coming?" She asked.
"But I actually do care about people and I know that I can never make it up to you for what happened to Sara." I told her. "But I would like to try, so I brought ice cream."
That at least got her to smile at me.
"So I have a bit of a conundrum." I replied. "My mom wants me to go to school despite the fact that I haven't done it in five years. Part of me is of afraid because I'm not scared of what the other kids will think of me."
"You don't seem like the type of girl to wear a uniform." She quipped. "Especially not one with a tie."
"I kind of want to get my GED because there are some things that I want to do that I wouldn't be able to at school. However, there's another part of me that thinks that going to school could help me with a lot of my problems. I'm not around my sister enough and I don't really know anyone my own age." I told her.
"Didn't you have other friends before the accident?" She questioned. I imagined that I did, but I had no way of telling who they were or maybe I didn't. I just didn't know.
"It's hard for me to remember a lot of that. I don't even know if some of them are still around." I lied. I hoped that sounded believable.
"I will say that me being the closest thing that you have to a friend is a little bit weird." She commented. "I personally think that school would be good for you. It would give you some human interaction and I think you're smart enough to make enough for the five years you missed."
I was still not used to everyone calling me smart. I mean, I liked to think of myself as smart after coming back from the island, but I was definitely not that way before.
"But ultimately, you should do whatever you want to do." She added. "I can see why you came to me. I have more than enough experience of parents trying to decide what to do for you."
"I have been on the receiving end of your father's disapproval." I remarked. "Though, I'm not sure why. It wasn't like I snuck her on the boat."
"He blames himself more than he blames you." She replied. "He said that he thinks if he and Sara were closer, she wouldn't have wanted to go with you…or something."
At that point, I heard a noise from outside. Yes, I definitely needed to come here.
"Did you hear that?" I asked.
"Hear what?" She retorted.
"I think there's someone out on the fire escape." I replied before I pulled her away. At that point, an Asian man burst through the door and another through the window and they started shooting. Not to mention, China White was also there. At that point, just as I expected, one of the men fell over dead, having been shot by Iris. She took out the other one but the white-haired woman disarmed her and I found that she was not as good at hand-to-hand combat, so I threw the knife at her and she ran off. At that point, Dinah gave me a tight hug.
"Are you hurt?" Iris asked.
"No." I answered.
"Are you hurt, Miss Queen?" She repeated.
"No, we're fine." I told her. It was weird trying to comfort Dinah when I was so small.
"This is why it's a good idea to have a bodyguard." She declared.
A little bit later, Quentin came in and hugged his daughter tightly.
"Thank God, are you alright?" He asked.
"I'm okay." Dinah assured him. "Daddy, what happened to those cops?"
He was silent for a second.
"I went outside for a minute and found them both dead in the car." Iris explained.
"Miss West, thank you. Feel free to run as many red lights in the city as you want." He said. That seemed unsafe.
"I was just doing my job, Sir." Iris told him.
"No, your job is protect her." Quentin pointed out. "It seems like whenever you're with one of my daughters, people die."
"Daddy, there were after me." Dinah argued. "I bet Martin Somers sent them. This should be enough to arrest him and put him away."
"We can't arrest him based on a theory, Sweetie." He explained before he looked back to me. "Now about you get the hell out of here you little brat."
Iris took me home and I gave her an icepack for her injured hand. I was surprised that she was able to shoot like that.
"I would thank you but I think that would be too much of an understatement." I stated. I might have been to get us out of that, but she certainly helped a lot.
"Well like I told your cop friend, I was just doing my job." She declared. "Besides, I should be thanking you."
"That was a bit of a lucky throw." I replied.
"It was a kitchen knife." She pointed out. "I think you've done something like that before."
"I'm not the type of woman you should take for a fool, Miss Queen." She remarked. "And I think I'm finally starting to understand the kind of woman you are."
"I'm not really a woman." I pointed out. That was true in more ways than one. "I'm nothing but a spoiled rich girl. A spoiled rich girl who needs her beauty sleep, so good night."
I headed off towards my room, but I went out the window once I was there. My night was only just beginning, and it was time to bring Somers down. As much as I wanted to kill him for going after Dinah, I knew that the best thing to do was let him face justice in a court of law.
I had to make my way through several armed men. I couldn't lose focus and I had to go after my target. Killing him probably wouldn't even be suffering for all the pain that he had caused. I finally found Somers trying to flee the scene and caught up to him. I shot an arrow right next to him, pinning him to a crate.
"God, please." He begged.
"He can't help you right now." I stated. "Tell me what happened to Victor Nocenti and tell it to now before I shoot you somewhere else!"
"I can't. The Triad will kill me." He stated.
"I'll kill you if you don't." I threatened.
"Okay. I didn't kill him. It was the Triad." He explained.
"Under whose direction?" I questioned.
"Alright, it was mine. Nocenti said that he was going to testify against me." He replied.
"Get away from him, Little Girl." China White interrupted in Chinese. Was everyone going to call me that?
"Make me." I retorted.
The two of us then started to fight. It was my first time doing anything hand-to-hand like this, but I still thought that I had a pretty grip on the situation.
"Yamashiro has taught you well." She remarked. "Ninjutsu sits you."
Did Maseo teach me the way of the ninja or something? Was that the reason my mask was the way it was? I didn't really have time to dwell on that because I had to keep fighting. Of course, the cops still came to break up our fight and I knew that I needed to make my escape. However, just like the first time, I found myself in the way of Quentin.
"Freeze!" He demanded as he pointed his gun at me. I didn't even look at him. I just threw the arrow with the recording and knocked the gun out of his hand before I made my escape.
The following morning, I knew that I needed to talk to my mother and Malcolm. I had come to a decision, even though I wasn't sure if it was the right one. I wasn't going to make a big spectacle at the groundbreaking since that wasn't the image that I was going for.
"I'll take the placement test and I'll go to school." I stated. "But I don't want you to keep deciding what I'm going to do with my life. Anything that I do at school I want to be my choice. If it's a mistake, you have to let me make it. Do we have an agreement?"
"Of course. You know I only want what's best for you." She declared.
"I know but I should have a say in what's best for me." I pointed out. "I know the company has been in our name for a long time, but I don't know if that's what I want to do right now."
"You shouldn't have to decide on something like that right now." Malcolm replied. The more I talked to him, the more I thought he was either the world's greatest actor or he didn't want to destroy the Glades. "Your mother and I would never make you do something that you don't want to do."
"So, am I going to get something to study for this?" I questioned. "Or I am just supposed to take it?"
"I'll have Thea get something for you." Mom stated. "But now we need to get going."
I had to admit that the ceremony was actually pretty nice when I wasn't interrupting it. The only issue I had was that Dad probably didn't think he deserved something like that.
Once I got home, I went home and crossed Somers's name off the list. I then went outside. This time I was alone, except for Iris who I instructed to stand enough far away as not to eavesdrop.
"Hey Dad, I never thought that I would be doing this again and especially not like this." I stated. "I was hoping that I would be able to see you again, but I guess I can't. I just hope that I can do things better this time. I miss you, but I promise I will save the city."
So it looks like Olivia is going to be going to school. Maybe she'll get a chance to make some friends. Also is Malcolm the Dark Archer or is it someone else? Please don't forget to review.