2 Oliver's return

|Lian Yu|

A man in his late twenties is running over the rocky terrain on a deserted Island called Lian Yu. He jumps of a rock, landing on a small plateau where he has some of his equipment prepared. Looking out to the sea in front of him he can see a small fisher boat located near the shores of the Island he is stuck on. The man, Oliver Queen son of deceased Millionaire Robert Queen takes an arrow and runs the sharp stone head over the nearby rocks, creating a spark igniting the cloth wrapped just under the arrow head. He then grabs his bow and shoots the burning arrow at a wood pile at the coast, which he prepared in case there is someone nearby he can alert to his presence.

The wood pile goes up in flames and thick smoke rises from it. A fisherman on the boat Oliver sighted points to the signal, alerting his captain that there seems to be someone shipwrecked there. The boat steers to the shore of the island and the fisherman and his captain use a rowboat to get to shore safely and look for whoever ignited the signal.

In the meantime, Oliver made his way down the cliff he was on and approaches the two fishermen with his few possessions and kneels before them grateful that he can finally hope to get off the island. The two fishermen take Oliver aboard their boat and take him along to their former destination, where he gets help from the local government and after explaining them who he is and some parts of what happened they help him get back to his home: Starling city.

|Starling General Hospital|

Oliver is standing in his hospital room looking out of the window seeing the lights of Starling City shining bright in the night.

In front of his hospital room Moira Queen his mother is talking to his doctor

"Twenty percent of his body is covered in scar tissue and second degree burns on his back and arms. X-rays show at least twelve fractures that never properly healed." The doctor explains.

"Has he said anything about what happened?" Moira asks looking sadly at her son.

"No, he's barely said anything. Moira I'd like you to prepare yourself. The Oliver you lost might not be the Oliver they found." The doctor replies.

Moira takes a deep breath and opens the door warily, stepping inside. "Oliver?" she asks.

Oliver turns around slowly and gives a very small smile saying "Mom."

Moira smiles brightly and gets closer to him, reaching him and saying "Oh, my beautiful boy." sounding very shook up and gives him a long hug, welcoming him back.

They soon leave the hospital, thanking the doctor for checking Oliver's health status and then go home.

|QUeen Mansion|

As they enter the building the driver wants to get Oliver's case out of his trunk, but Oliver stops him and carries it himself telling him "I got it."

"Your room is exactly as you left it, I never had the heart to change a thing." Moira tells him opening their front door and going into the mansion.

"Oliver, it's damn good to see you." Walter Steele, someone who Oliver remembers as a friend and employee of his father greets him. After a few moments of silence he says "It's Walter, Walter Steele."

"You remember Walter. Your fathers friend from the company." Moira says gently brushing over Oliver's back sportingly.

Oliver sees someone else coming into the lobby and goes past Walter approaching the maid saying "It's good to see you Raisa." smiling at her.

"Welcome home Mr. Oliver. Mr. Merlin called he wants to join you for dinner." The maid replies with a Russian accent.

"Wonderful. Oliver did you hear that?" Moira asks seeing her son go to the other side of the stairwell.

"Hey sis." Oliver says smiling at seeing his little sister at the top of the stairs.

"I knew it, I knew you were alive." Thea says relieved, jogs down the stairs and hugs her brother as soon as she reaches floor.

"I missed you so much." Thea says near tears.

"You were with me the whole time." Oliver replies.

|CNRI office|

"Come on Laurel we're lawyers not miracle workers. We can't win this." Joanna de la Vega Laurels best friend tells her while Laurel is checking her mail.

"If we can't win a class action sue against a man who swindled hundreds of people out of their homes and life savings, then we're not fit to call ourselves a legal aid office." Laurel replies.

"And if we go bankrupt in the process we won't be a legal aid office. Hunt has an army of lawyers and they are ready to bury us." Joanna says, while they walk over to Laurels workstation.

"You and I against an army, I love those odds." Laurel says sitting down.

"Why do you hate me?" Joanna asks annoyed at her friends in ability to see reason.

"Here is some more Intel on Hunt, but nothing helpful. Also, just because I'm only a secretary and not a full-fledged Lawyer like you guys, doesn't mean I'm not also on your team." Ryan says jokingly, walking over to Laurels desk and handing her the files.

"As if I could ever forget about you, now try to get me some helpful intel on Hunt." Laurel says looking over the file.

"I'll try but don't expect too much, Hunt has good connections and any dirt will most likely have been swept under the carpet." Ryan says.

"Well if it's gonna be like this with every case, then I don't think we'll need your assistance anymore, I mean I can get useless Intel anywhere." Laurel teases.

"Haha, be honest, ever since you got me this job your cases went far easier and you have a way higher success rate." Ryan replies walking off to do his work.

"He is right, his work often is helpful in one way or another, then again we don't have many cases dealing with people like Hunt." Joanna says.

"Yeah, yeah I know I just like to tease him." Laurel says and then notices that everyone is focusing on the TV showing the news.

"The Queens Gambit was last heard from five years ago. Mr. Queen has confirmed that he was the only survivor of the accident that took the lives off seven people including local resident Sarah Lance, survived by her sister Laurel…" The news reporter says, showing a picture of Laurels sister.

Laurel has walked over to the group people all listening to the news and upon hearing of her sisters death yet again, she takes the remote and shuts it off getting the attention of all off her coworkers and just walks to her desk again, slumping down on her chair.

Ryan comes over, having seen the scene from his desk and asks her gently "Hey sis, everything OK? Must be hard hearing about your sisters' death yet again."

"Yeah, I'll be OK it just opens old wounds, don't worry about it." Laurel replies sounding exhausted.

"OK, if you need anything you know where to find me and remember I'm not only your secretary but also your surrogate sibling." Ryan replies going back to work assuming that Laurel will just need some alone time.

|Queen Mansion|

Oliver just finished his shower and is looking around his room dressed in only a towel wrapped around his waist. Thinking about everything that changed and looking at his many scars in the human sized mirror standing in his room. After mulling over everything that happened on the ship he gets dressed and goes downstairs to the lobby, looking at the pictures and waiting for his best friend Tommy Merlin.

Tommy opens the front door and says "What did I tell you? Yachts suck." Seeing his best friend standing in front of him.

Oliver turns around, looking at his friend saying "Tommy Merlin." Smiling brightly.

"I missed you buddy." Tommy replies hugging Oliver.

"Come on dinner should be reads soon." Oliver tells him and they go into the dining room, where they sit down to eat along with Moira, Thea and Walter.

"Ok, what else did you miss? Super bowl winners: Giants, Steelers, Saints, Packers, Giants again. A black president, that's new. Oh and Lost, they were all dead, I think." Tommy says while Thea looks at him smiling and Oliver looks at his Mothers and Walters behavior noticing that they are a couple.

"What was it like there?" Thea asks curious.

Everyone looks at him interested what his answer will be like and Oliver only replies "cold."

"Tomorrow, you and me we're touring the city we have a lot to catch up on." Tommy suggests.

"That sounds like a great idea." Moira says.

"Good, then I was planning to swing by the office." Oliver replies.

Walter tells him "Well there is plenty time for all that, Queen consolidated is not going anywhere."

Raisa is bringing a bowl of fruit over to the dinner table and stumbles, loosing her grip on the bowl next to Oliver, who grabs it in time before it can fall down and she apologizes "I'm so sorry Mr. Oliver."

Oliver replies something in Russian to which everyone looks at him surprised and Tommy says amused "Dude you speak Russian?"

"I didn't realize you took Russian at college Oliver." Walter says surprised.

"I didn't realize you wanted to sleep with my mother Walter." Oliver replies challengingly.

After a few seconds of silence Thea says "I didn't say anything."

"She didn't have to." Oliver explains.

"Oliver, Walter and I are married and I don't want you to think that either one of us did anything to disrespect your father." Moira explains holding hands with her husband.

"We both believed your father, like you was, uhm gone." Walter adds.

"It's fine, may I be excused Oliver says at which Moira nods her head and Oliver gets up, grabbing an apple and walking to his room, while walking past Tommy he pats his shoulder and winks at Thea while Tommy reminds him "Hey don't forget about tomorrow buddy."

|the next morning|

Thea is in her room with one of her classmates, who is using a credit card to make lines of a drug for them to snort.

"Where did you get these?" Thea asks curious.

"Roxys, thank you daddys acl tremor" Her friend says holding up a bottle of pills.

Oliver then knocks at Theas door, entering while Thea hurriedly puts a book over the lines and greets him saying "Ollie."

"No one's called me that in a long time speedy." Oliver replies walking towards her.

"Worst nickname ever." Thea says.

"What always chasing after me as a kid I think it fit pretty well, maybe it still does." Oliver replies.

Theas friend takes this as her cue to leave, grabs her Jacket and leaves the room saying "See you at school Speedy."

"Sorry about her." Thea apologizes.

"I have something for you." Oliver says holding up a stone in the shape of an arrow head with some kind of writing on it.

"You did not come back from a deserted Island with a souvenir." Thea says surprised.

"It`s a hosen and in Budism it symbolizes reconnecting. I kept it in hopes that one day I could give it to you." Oliver explains and Thea accepts the stone smiling at her brothers thoughtfulness.

"A rock. That is sweet, you know I want a T-shirt that says my friend was a castaway and all I got was this crappy shirt." Tommy jokes, walking into the room and walking over to Oliver.

"Don't let him get you into too much trouble, you just got back. Take it slow." Thea says and hugs her brother goodbye.

"The city awaits." Tommy says and he and Oliver leave Theas room.

"You noticed how hot your sister has got?" Tommy says and adds "Because I have not." after seeing his friends stare.

|streets|

Tommy is driving with Oliver through town talking about everything that happened while he was gone.

"Your funeral blew." Tommy says.

"You got lucky?" Oliver asks.

"Like fish in a barrel. They were so sad and I'm counting on another target rich environment for your welcome home bash." Tommy smiles.

"My what?" Oliver asks surprised.

"You came back from the dead, this calls for a party. You tell me where and when and I'll take care of everything. Man this city is going to crap, you know your dad sold his factory just in time. Why did you want to drive to this neighborhood anyway?" Tommy asks pulling up in front of the old rundown Queen industrial factory in the glades.

"No reason." Oliver replies looking at the factory.

"So what did you miss the most? Stakes at the palm, shakes at the station, meaningless sex?" Tommy asks.

"Laurel." Oliver replies.

"Everyone is happy you're alive and you wanna see the one person who isn't?" Tommy asks doubtfully and Oliver only shrugs his shoulders as a reply.

|CNRI|

"Laurel, I just got this from police lawyers. The files a change of venue we are now in front of Judge growl." Joanna says giving Laurel a folder and walking with her.

"And Hunt founded growls reelection campaign, so he's got growl in his back pocket." Laurel says annoyed handing Joanna the folder back.

"You know it's fun being your friend I get to say I told you so a lot." Joanna jokes.

"No Adam Hunt is not smarter than me." Laurel replies.

"No just richer and willing to commit multiple felonies." Joanna tells her.

"We don't need to go outside the law..." Laurel says.

"To find justice. Your dads favorite jingle." Joanna finishes and takes off.

Laurel walks a few more steps to her desk and sees Oliver standing at her desk next to Ryan talking to each other.

"So from when do you know Laurel?" Ryan asks curious.

"About 5 years ago, we were together at the time but I screwed up. How do you know her?" Oliver says.

"I rescued her from some assailants 2 years ago, while she was walking around the glades and she helped me get this job and pretty much took me in as a surrogate brother." Ryan replies.

Oliver then sees Laurel and turns to her saying "Hello Laurel."

Laurel looses her smirk and gets a sad expression on her face, Ryan notices this and steps closer to her sister asking her "Everything OK with this guy or do you want me to throw him out?"

"No, he's OK. A giant dick, but not dangerous." Laurel replies getting Ryan to relax.

"Can we take a walk and talk?" Oliver asks hopefully.

"I guess I've got to deal with you sometime soon so lets get it over with." Laurel replies and leaves with Oliver.

"So you went to law school? You said you would." Oliver says after they got outside and started to stroll around.

"Yeah. Everyone is proud." Laurel replies emotionless.

"Adam Hunt is a heavy hitter you sure you want to get in the ring with him?"Oliver asks her.

"5 years and you wanna talk about Adam Hunt?" Laurel asks.

"No not really." Oliver replies.

"Why are you here Ollie?" Laurel questions him stopping their stroll and looking him in the eyes.

"To apologize. It was my fault, I want to ask you not to blame her." Oliver explains.

"For what? Falling under your spell? How could I possibly blame her for the same things I did? She was my sister! I couldn't be angry because she was dead, I couldn't grieve because I was so angry. That's what happens when your sister dies while screwing your boyfriend. We buried an empty coffin because her body is at the bottom of the ocean where you left her. It should have been you." Laurel says.

"I know that it's too late to say this, but I'm sorry." Oliver apologizes.

"Yeah I'm sorry too. I had hoped that you'd rot in hell a whole lot longer than 5 years." Laurel snaps and walks away. Passing by Tommy she asks him "How did you think this was gonna go Tommy?"

"About like that." Tommy replies sarcastically and he and Oliver walk to where they had parked their car.

"OK so we took care of that, now we can make up for lost time. If you're not too sick of fish I'd suggest we find some lady models and eat sushi off of them, what do you think?" Tommy suggests, when suddenly a van pulls up behind them and 2 masked people come around the corner shooting Oliver and Tommy with tranquilizer darts. Some one bringing out his garbage sees this and shouts "Hey." another kidnapper shoots the man with his automatic rifle. After that Oliver lost his consciousness.

|abandoned factory|

Oliver is tied to a chair and has the sack that was over his head ripped off with one of the kidnappers shouting at him "Mr. Queen. Did your father survive that accident? I ask the questions you give me the answers." showing Oliver his taser.

Oliver looks around the room and test the strength of the zip cords tying him to the chair. The masked man looks at one of his other 2 companions and shrugs his shoulder, tasing Oliver who screams out in pain and flinches at the electric shock.

"Did he make it to the island? Did he tell you anything?" the man asks and tases Oliver again.

"Yes he did." Oliver answers breathing heavily.

"What did he tell you Mr. Queen?" the man questions.

After a taking a pause to calm himself Olive" answers "He told me I'm gonna kill you."

"The abductors laugh and the man says "your delusional. You're zip cuffed to that chair."

"not anymore." Oliver replies showing his hands free of restraints.

The man swings at Oliver, who ducks under the punch, grabbing the chair and pushes it one of the guys in the throat. He turns around and grabs the taser from the guy who was talking to him and tases him in the chest, punching him and then uses him as a human shield, because the guy with the automatic rifle shoots at him, after seeing that he missed the man takes off running.

Oliver goes after him, stopping shorty to check if Tommy who is lying tied up on the floor has a pulse. Finding one he continues his pursuit of the guy who shot at him.

He chases him through the factory with many acrobatic maneuvers and after catching up to him he dodges another incoming rain of bullets, by swinging on a chain and landing next to him. He kicks the guy and then grabs his head in a reverse chokehold with the guys head between his armpit and hand.

"You killed that man." Oliver says.

"You don't have to do this." the man pleads.

"Yes I do nobody can know my secret." Oliver replies and breaks the guys neck.

|Queen Mansion|

"So that's your story? A man in a green hood flew in and single handedly took out three armed kidnappers? I mean who is he, why would he do that?" Quentin Lance, Laurels father and a Starling city police detective asks Oliver.

"I don't know, find him and you can ask." Oliver replies.

"What about you? You see the hood guy?" Quentin asks Tommy holding up the sketch a police officer made based on Olivers description.

"I saw, just movement. Everything blurry. I was kind of out of it." Tommy explains.

"Yeah it's funny isn't it. One day back and already somebody is gunning for you. Aren't you popular." Quentin remarks.

"Were you able to identify the men?" Moira questions looking annoyed at Quentins behavior.

"Scrubbed identities and untraceable weapons. These were pros." Quentins partner replies.

"Yeah well they probably figured that you'd pay a kings ransome to get your boy back or Queens ransom as you will. After all a parent would do anything to keep their child safe." Quentin says.

"I don't find your tone appropriate Detective." Moira says.

"If Oliver can think of anything else, he'll call. Thank you gentlemen for coming." Walter says standing up.

Quentin packs his things and gets up telling Oliver "Your luck never seems to run out does it." and he and his partner leave the house.

A bit later Oliver is sitting in his room researching Adam Hunt and looking at a notebook with a list of names in it. Adam Hunt being one of them.

Raisa walks in with a fruit platter and says "You are different. Not like you to read a book."

"I missed you Raisa." Oliver replies.

"No kitchen on the island." Raisa jokes.

"No. No friends either. Hey, thank you." Oliver says and takes the platter of her hands.

"Do I really seem different?" Oliver asks.

"No you're still a good boy." Raisa replies kindly.

"I think we both know I wasn't." Oliver replies.

"No but still a good heart." Raisa explains.

"Well I hope so. I always wanted to be the person you said I could be." Oliver says smiling at her lightly.