saving Thea Queen

|AN: episode 2 happened same as in Canon, Oliver got legally resurrected, Thea is pissed at him because he doesn't talk to her, he and Laurel got attacked in her home, he took down Martin Somers who had connections to the Chinese triad. |

About a week after the events with Martin Somers happened Oliver chose his next target, James Holder. When he approached him as the Arrow to get him to redeem himself his visit got interrupted by someone shooting James Holder with a sniper rifle and shot Oliver in the arm as he took cover. After he got back to his hideout and treated the bullet wound he feels something affecting him and quickly uses some medicine from the island before he fainted, realizing that the bullet was poisoned.

After waking up and checking the time Oliver quickly goes home so nobody gets suspicious and sees cops in his home talking to his mother and step-father.

"What happened, is Thea OK?" Oliver asks Diggle, seeing his sister sit on the couch.

"Cops brought her home, she and some friend broke into some store and tried on some dresses last night and the breathalyzer then lit up like a Christmas tree. So how was your evening sir?" Diggle replies.

"You mean after I said I was going to the bathroom and never came back?" Oliver asks.

"I guess from now on I'm gonna be watching you pee." Diggle tells him stoically.

Oliver sees the cops leave with Walter and approaches his mother and sister.

"Last time it was public intoxication, this time it was breaking and entering. My how we are moving up in the criminal world." Moira tells her daughter disappointed.

"You know when you pay off the store owner you should check out the merchandize, they have some pretty killer outfits." Thea says dismissively.

"Thea go get ready for school." Moira says ignoring the comment.

"You know, I was thinking of taking a sick day." Thea tells her.

"Fine, then get some sleep." Moira replies and Thea leaves, telling her brother "you look like crap on her way out."

"You're letting her play hooky?" Oliver asks his mother.

"When your sister gets like this it's best to give her some space." Moira tells him.

"She's testing you." Oliver says.

"Yes, who did she learn that from?" Moira replies.

"Mom, when I was her age you and dad would have let me get away with murder, looking back I could have used less space and more parenting." Oliver advises before leaving his mother to her thoughts.

After cleaning up at home he sneaks away from Diggle yet again and goes back to his hideout, where he finds out that the bullet was laced with curare and after a search of some criminal databases he finds out that the shooter is called Deadshot, an assassin for hire.

The next day Oliver gets Tommy and shows him the Queen's old steel factory, which is located over is hideout and tells him that he plans to open up a club there.

Tommy suggests that Oliver gets reacquainted with the club scene and tells him about a club opening, the only downside is that Oliver slept with the owners' fiancé before her wedding and that he most likely still has a grudge, but Oliver agrees to meet Tommy there.

|CNRI|

Joanna wants some case files from Laurel and Laurel starts looking for them randomly, having no clue where she put them.

"I was just surfing the net." Laurel tells her, feeling her best friends stare.

"Really?" Joanna asks knowingly.

"Joanna I'm over him, and you don't believe me." Laurel tells her.

"Well I would if I didn't just see you trolling over some articles about him." Joanna tells her.

"I wasn't trolling." Laurel defends herself.

"Yes you were." Ryan tells her coming over to them with some files for Laurel.

"Do I have to remind you that he was cheating on you with your sister?" Joanna asks.

"You're stuck in the past and the reason I know this is that the only physical relationship you've had since Oliver is with his best friend. It is time to move on, it is past time." Joanna tells her.

"I've been busy, I work a lot." Laurel replies brushing her speech off.

"Really? Well that's gonna stop. We're going out tonight. And we're gonna have shots and dance with men we don't know and we're gonna stay up way too late." Joanna announces, pulling Ryan to her side.

"Just to make this clear, I'm not gonna dance with dudes." Ryan tells her, making Joanna grin.

"I really don't think I can go out tonight." Laurel says as Joanna finds the file and starts to walk over to her station.

"It is adorable that you actually think we're giving you a choice." Joanna says and continues on her way.

|Queen mansion, Thea's room|

Thea is getting ready for school when Moira walks in and tells her "I want you to come home right after school."

"Uhh, can't Margo and I are gonna go to the mall." Thea says.

"What more shopping? Tell Margo you're gonna have to cancel and you're grounded for two weeks." Moira says.

"Grounded? I've never been grounded." Thea asks confused.

"Well you've never committed larceny before." Moira tells her.

"Since when do you care?" Thea questions going over to her mother looking at her suspiciously.

"I've always cared, I'm your mother" Moira replies.

"We've had a good thing going on the last five years, why mess with that now?" Thea asks annoyed.

"No, we are paying off store owners to keep your record clean so clearly it hasn't been working." Moira answers.

"And you're gonna teach me? It's Oliver isn't it? His judgmental hypocraty is rubbing off on you." Thea challenges.

"I don't need Oliver to teach me how to parent you, you'll be home by four." Moira demands.

"Or what? You'll call the cops on me? Tell them I said Hi." Thea says brushing her threat off and leaves for school.

Later that day Oliver follows Deadshots' trail, finding one of the bullets Deadshot fired at him and using his Bratva connection to get them to trace it to Deadshots' location.

Later that evening Detective Lance and his partner talk to Walter Steele and Moira since Walter is intending to bid on an industry, which will be sold at an auction next evening where many buyers will gather, something Walter lets the detectives know.

|nightclub Poison|

Oliver and Tommy make their way into the club, immediately let through by the bouncer but Oliver tells him that Diggle is not with him, causing Diggle to have to wait outside.

They see Laurel and Ryan near the bar and go over to them.

"Oh wow, doesn't you going out to have some fun violate some kind of law? Like the ones carved on a stone tablet? And good to see you again Ryan." Tommy greets Laurel and Ryan, not seeing Joanna on the dancefloor.

"Hi Tommy, Oliver. I hate to admit it sis, but that was a good one." Ryan says, shaking Tommy's and Oliver's hand.

"Yeah it was cute, I can see you two are up to your old hunting patterns?" Laurel tells them.

"Just seeing what passes as fun in Starling City after 5 years." Oliver replies.

"Well I'm sure you'll find it hasn't been the same without you." Laurel tells him sarcastically.

"Big brother!" Thea says running over excitedly.

"I'm so wasted, there is two of you." Thea tells him, while Tommy Laurel and Laurel turn away hoping to at least give them the illusion of a bit of privacy.

"I thought you were grounded?" Oliver asks surprised to see her there.

"I am and thank you for that by the way." Thea replies.

"You're done for tonight." Oliver tells her.

"And what are you gonna do? Call mom?" Thea challenges him.

"Thea, you're hanging with the wrong people." Oliver says.

"You're one to talk, how much do you know about your own so-called friends over there?" Thea tells him.

"Woah, Thea maybe you shouldn't." Tommy tries to stop her.

"Tommy, I think your bff has a right to know." Thea tells him.

"Thea, let's go." Oliver tells his sister.

"Oh I guess they they never told you that they've been screwing while you were gone." Thea says.

"Look man, I…" Tommy starts to say but Oliver stops him telling him "Tommy, it's OK."

"You and me, we're done for tonight." Oliver tells Thea, grabbing her arm to take her home.

"Take your hands off of me. You're not my father and you're barely my brother." Thea tells him, shrugging Oliver off before leaving.

"I'll see if she'll let me drive her home, I think you may need to talk." Ryan tells his three older friends, following Thea.

Oliver still wants to follow her himself, but Laurel stops him telling him "He'll get her home safe."

They then get interrupted by Max Fuller "Well well, look who we have here." He says with his security team behind him.

"Max Fuller, how've you been." Oliver greets him.

"Happy you drowned." Max tells him before he leads Oliver and Tommy to a VIP section.

Once inside the section Max punches Oliver in the face and tells his people to get him up but Tommy stops them saying "Let him go, Let him go!"

"told you he was gonna be pissed." Oliver tells his friend.

"Back off Merlin, this isn't your problem." Max says.

"You wanna get to him, you're gonna have to go through me. Wow, they're probably gonna go through me." Tommy says.

Tommy and Oliver then start to fight the three more muscular security people and were getting pummeled by them since Oliver can't show his true skills, until Laurel enters the section and hits Max in the back two times, before spinning him around and showing him down.

"So is this over Max or are you gonna have your boys pound on me next?" Laurel asks him.

"You three consider yourselves banned for live. Get the hell outta my place." Max tells them angrily.

"You're club sucks anyways." Tommy shouts after him as he leaves with his men.

"You guys OK?" Laurel asks Oliver and Tommy.

"Where did you learn to do that?" Oliver asks surprised.

"Cop dad, he made me take self defense lessons, as did Ryan." Laurel tells him.

"Laurel, what Thea said…" Oliver says.

"Oliver, Tommy and I don't need your blessing and certainly not your forgiveness." Laurel says before she leaves.

In the meantime, Ryan caught up to Thea, who was making her way out of the club.

"Hey Thea, wait up." Ryan says, now walking next to her.

"Who are you again? You're Laurel's friend, right?" Thea asks him.

"I'm Ryan, we met at Oliver's welcome back party remember? And I'm Laurel's roommate to be exactly." Ryan tells her.

"I don't exactly remember much of what happened at the party to be honest." Thea tells him.

"Given how wasted you were that's not really a surprise to be honest." Ryan replies.

"So what do you want? Did Oliver send you after me or something?" Thea asks annoyed.

"No, I just wanted to offer you a ride home." Ryan tells her as they walk past the bouncer onto the sidewalk in front of the club.

"Sure why not." Thea agrees.

"So what do you do?" Thea asks him.

"I work at Laurel's office, it's only a secretary job but it's OK. Though now that I've graduated recently I'm gonna try to see if I can move up in the ladder a bit. You're still in school right?" Ryan tells her.

"When I actually go there, yes." Thea tells him with a smirk.

"I know the feeling, for different reasons though I'd guess." Ryan tells her, unlocking Laurel's car since he was the designated driver, since he only drinks rarely and holds open the car door for her.

"What do you mean?" Thea asks confused.

"You don't go cause you don't care or have to right?" Ryan asks her, getting in the driver seat.

"Yes." Thea confirms.

"well I didn't go because I was working at CNRI already and no one cared if I went, since they didn't really teach that much where I went to school." Ryan tells her.

"Oh, well looks like it worked out for you anyways." Thea says.

"Yeah, mostly because of Laurel though, orphans in the glades don't really have many options when it comes to work." Ryan tells her and starts the car.

"So, where do you live?" Ryan asks and Thea gives him the directions.

"Orphan huh? Did you lose your parents, or did you never know them?"

"Oh, I know them. My dad is in prison as is my brother and my mom walked out on me when my brother got incarcerated." Ryan tells her.

"How about you? I know it's not nearly the same but how are you dealing with losing your dad?" Ryan asks her.

"Well the first few years were hard, but it got better until Ollie came back, now it's starting all over again, this time knowing for sure that he's gone and even though I have my brother back, I don't." Thea tells him tiredly and angrily.

"What do you mean?" Ryan asks.

"Ever since he came back he's been different, distant and cold. He shuts us out completely, mom might be able to deal with it, but to be honest, I can't." Thea replies.

"that sucks." Ryan agrees as he arrives in front of the Queens house.

"Yeah, well thanks for the ride and please keep what I told you to yourself, I really should learn to keep quiet when I'm drunk." Thea jokes.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anybody. It's not like I have anyone to tell it to either way." Ryan tells her as he walks around the car and opens the car door for her.

"Well anyway thanks, maybe we'll cross paths again sometime." Thea thanks him as she walks to her door.

"Sure, Oliver and Laurel seem to get along OK so I'm sure we're bound to run into each other. I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully next time you'll remember me." Ryan jokes.

"I guess we'll have to wait and find out." Thea tells him with a smirk as she goes into the house, after which Ryan drives home himself.

|Big Belly Burger|

"Why don't you guys take a seat and I'll grab a couple of burgers and some ice for those faces." Diggle tells Olliver and Tommy as they walk in while greeting Carly, his sister in law.

"Oh, that girl's cute." Tommy says seeing Carly.

"That's my sister in law." Diggle tells Tommy, staring at him.

"Who I'll never speak to or look at. I'm gonna grab a booth." Tommy says escaping Diggle's stare.

"She's not wearing a wedding ring, brother out of the picture?" Oliver notices.

"Yeah you could say that." Diggle confirms.

"It's so sweet of you to adopt two white boys, they need a good role model." Carly tells him as Diggle makes his way over to her.

"That's my client Oliver Queen." Diggle tells her.

"Looks like you're doing a bang-up job protecting him." She jokes.

"Look man about Laurel, I was gonna tell you I was just trying to figure out the right way." Tommy tells Oliver, while they sit down in a booth.

"To tell somebody that you slept with their girlfriend after they went missing and were then presumed dead. What there is no greeting card for that?" Oliver jokes.

"Look it was wrong and I'm sorry." Tommy apologizes.

"Tommy, I was dead." Oliver says.

"But you were with Laurel and whether you were dead or as it turns out alive on a deserted island you are my friend and me being with Laurel violated that friendship in about 50 different ways." Tommy apologizes.

"Thank you but it's OK." Oliver tells him.

"How dangerous is this gig anyway?" Carly asks her brother in law.

"It's a cakewalk Carly, don't worry." Diggle tells her.

"Too late, or have you forgotten that this job got your brother killed? Because Dig, I haven't, I can't." Carly tells him.

Oliver then gets a phone call from his contact with the bratva and gets the information on where Deadshot or Floyd Lawton as his real name is stayed last in Starling City so later that night Oliver pays him a visit and trades fire with him but Deadshot manages to get away and Oliver takes Deadshot's laptop.

The next day he goes to the IT department of his family's company and asks the employee Felicity Smoak to salvage any information she can from the computer. And a few minutes later Felicity tells him what's on the computer, which are blue prints to the auction house where Walter and others will bid on unidac industries later that day.

|Queen mansion, Thea's room|

"Oh good you're here." Moira says walking into her daughters' room with two dresses.

"I'm under house arrest remember?" Thea says while she's sitting on her bed texting.

"Do you want to wear the Calvin Klein or the Zack Posten?" Moira asks her daughter, holding up the dresses.

"For dinner? I was just gonna go in my pajamas." Thea asks confused.

"For Walters stock auction." Moira says.

"I think I'd rather be grounded." Thea replies.

"No, it's important that you come." Moira tells her.

"To whom?" Thea asks.

"To me. Listen to me, when you were four years old you came home with a cat. It was a stray, filthy and it was mean but you stood there and declared that it was coming to live with us. When your father came home from the office and he saw what was going on, he sat you down and explained to you that the cat was in fact a tiger and that we needed to get it back home and somehow you understood. Robert was always so good at getting through to you, I was always so jealous of that." Moira says.

"You never talk about him, dad. This is the first time you've talked about him in years." Thea says blinking a few approaching tears out of her eyes.

"I think you and I've gotten into some bad habits. There has been a lot that's changed recently Thea and I think that maybe this can change too." Moira tells her before leaving the room.

After studying the blue prints Oliver realizes that he can't protect everyone in the building by himself, so he pays a late night visit to Quentin Lance and asks him for help and warns him about the curare laced bullets.

|that night – auction house|

"Well, quite a turnout huh?" Moira asks her husband standing next to him.

"Well it's quite an opportunity I suppose, but regardless of the outcome of the auction I'm already winner, because I have the two most beautiful women at my side tonight." Walter replies.

"Two?" Moira asks and follows Walter look to the entrance, where Thea walks in and goes over to them.

"Thanks for coming Thea, it means a lot to your mother and me." Walter tells her, hugging her before his wife does the same.

A employee then tells the three that the bid will begin shortly and that Walter should get his bid ready.

As they walk over to where the bid will take place Thea sees Ryan, who is dressed in a black suit, standing at the edge of the room with a camera and tells Moira "I'll be right back, I just saw a friend of mine and want to say hello really quick."

"Alright." Moira agrees and watches as Thea goes over to Ryan wondering who he is.

"Hey there Ryan, looks like I still remember you huh?" Thea greets him giving him a quick hug.

"Hi, you came with your stepfather huh?" Ryan says returning the hug.

"Yep, but what are you doing here?" Thea asks curiously.

"I'm pretending to be a photographer and am hoping to catch some information, some of the people here are involved in a trial against CNRI." Ryan whispers.

"clever. I have to say you clean up pretty good." Thea tells him looking him over.

"Thanks, you're beautiful as well, here let me take some pictures." Ryan says and takes a few steps back before focusing the camera on Thea and snaps some pictures.

"Now it's a successful evening even if I don't get any information tonight." Ryan whispers, making Thea blush.

"Well I better get back to my mom, she's staring." Thea tells him before she goes back over to Moira.

"Who is that? I don't think I've met him before." She asks her daughter quietly.

"I'll tell you later." Thea replies.

"Dig you got your eyes open?" Oliver asks walking over to his bodyguard.

"That's what I'm here for." Diggle tells him.

"This guy's out of time so if he's gonna do something It's gonna be before the auction." Oliver says.

"Sir?" Diggle questions.

"I've heard the story on the radio." Oliver says.

"Oliver I'm so pleased that you managed to attend." Walter greets his son in law.

"Walter I've heard that two of the unidac bidders were murdered, I think we should be a little bit more careful, my mother already lost one husband." Oliver tells him.

"Well if Moira shared your concerns she wouldn't have come, and she definitively wouldn't have brought Thea." Walter tells him, motioning to the two of them.

Oliver makes his way over to his mother and sister and motions for Diggle to come over.

"Oliver what a wonderful surprise." Moira greets him.

"I need you to get them out of here right now." Oliver tells Diggle.

In the meantime, Floyd Lawton has taken position across the street and is now aiming at Walter and turns on his laser pointer, which Quentin sees and rushes at Walter throwing him to the ground just in time, causing the bullet to hit a waiter in the back.

Everyone starts to panic and tries to flee, while Floyd Lawton takes shots at them, taking out some more of the bidders.

"Are you OK, are you hurt?" Oliver asks his sister and mother.

"No I'm fine, where is Walter?" Moira tells him while Thea is to stunned to talk.

Quentin brings over Walter to them.

"He's fine." Oliver tells them.

"Sir let me get you out of here." Diggle tells him.

"No, them. Them!" Oliver orders and rushes off.

Ryan also came over to the group, having seen his surrogate father with Walter as well as Thea.

Diggle starts to lead them outside before Ryan tells him "We got this, go after Oliver." While nodding to Quentin.

Floyd Lawton however has taken out almost all of the other bidders, or at least everyone on his kill list other than Walter and aims at him again when he hears the glass shatter and his aim is off, causing him to aim at Thea instead. He quickly takes the last shot before engaging Oliver who came crashing though a window in combat.

Ryan sees the red dot at the back of Walters suit and warns Quentin, who immediately jerks Walter to the side, behind a pillar, taking cover. Ryan sees the dot swerve to Thea and covers her back, pushing her to the side over to Quentin and Walter before he tries to get out of the way himself but he's to slow and gets hit in the shoulder and falls to the floor with a painful yell.

Quentin seeing the next best thing to a son he has on the floor immediately rushes over and drags him behind the cover of the pillar the Queen family is also at.

"Ryan try not to move and stay awake." Quentin tells him while he takes off his jacket, pressing it on the wound and tells his men to storm the location of the shooter and to get multiple ambulances. Ryan only nods his head with a painful grunt.

With Oliver and Floyd. After crashing through the window Oliver gets behind a pillar to dodge the incoming fire of Floyd's modified machine gun and manages to fire two arrows in between bursts of fire from Lawton but he misses him as well.

Oliver then disappears from behind the pillar and engages Deadshot in close combat, using a painter's platform to swing from a pipe and kicks Deadshot away who quickly recovers and aims at Oliver again, but Oliver is already on top of the platform and jumps off it, while grabbing the arm Deadshot has the machine gun attached to and flips him over his shoulder.

The two of them then get up and Deadshot tries to punch Oliver but he catches the attack and uses his free hand, in which he's holding his bow to punch Lawton in the stomach repeatedly. He throws him up against the painter's platform and chokes him with his bow but Deadshot squeezes Oliver's arm, where he shot him before, causing Oliver to release his grip and Deadshot flings his bow to the ground, Oliver grabs the back of Deadshots jacket and jerks him away while he runs over to his bow, picking it up and then takes cover behind a pillar again.

After a quick exchange of words, where Deadshot wants him to let him go since they are both killing people and he might be a mercenary as well they fire at each other again with Oliver hitting him in the eye while he escaped the fire of bullets however Diggle, who just arrived at the scene gets shot in the shoulder.

Oliver brings him to his hideout quickly and gives him the antidote for the curare he received along with the bullet in his shoulder.

In the meantime, Ryan as well as one of the bidders get rushed to the hospital and Quentin tells the ambulance drivers that the bullets are laced in curare and that both Ryan and the bidder will have to get the antidote as soon as possible.

Quentin has to stay there and handle the scene, so he tries to call his daughter, but Laurel has her phone turned off.

"You Queens really have to take away every bit of family I have." Quentin curses after not being able to reach his daughter.

"Family?" Moira asks confused.

"Ryan, the boy who took a bullet for your daughter. He's the closest thing to a son I have." Quentin tells her angrily.

"Will Ryan be OK?" Thea asks him concerned.

"I don't know the bullets are laced in curare I just hope he'll get the antidote quick enough." Quentin says.

"We should follow him to the hospital mom." Thea tells her mother who agrees.

"Mr. Lance, we'll follow them to the hospital and call if we have any news." Walter tells the man.

"Thank you. Sorry for blaming you, I just can't bear to lose another child." Quentin apologizes before he tries to get back to his job while the Queens other than Oliver drive to the hospital the ambulance has taken Ryan to.

|hospital|

"I'm sorry, we're looking for Ryan, what's his last name Thea?" Walter tells the nurse, before asking his daughter for the full name.

"I don't know, we've only met twice before. He's the young man shot in the shoulder who was admitted here not long ago." Thea tells the nurse.

"He's in surgery at the moment, please take a seat over there I'll inform you when he gets out." The nurse tells them pointing over to a waiting area.

"How do you know him?" Moira asks her daughter.

"We met at some parties, the one for Ollies revival and one I was at last night. He works and lives with Laurel Lance.

"Well that would explain why Mr. Lance is so close to him." Walter says.

"I just hope he's gonna be OK." Thea says hugging her mother for support.

A while later the nurse tells them that he's out of surgery but is still sedated and shows them to his room, where Thea sits down on a chair in the room and tells her family that they can go home, and she'll stay there.

Moira only reluctantly agrees and both she and her husband leave to get home.

Thea then calls Quentin Lance and informs him of Ryan's current condition making the older man sigh out in relieve audibly.

About two hours after Ryan got released from surgery he wakes up with a painful groan since the pain medication is starting to wear off for now, waking the brunette who had fallen asleep in the chair close to his bed.

"Ryan, I'm so glad you're OK." Thea says getting out of the chair and taking his right hand since his left arm got shot.

"Well your definition of OK might differ from mine but right back at ya. I wasn't sure I got you out of the way in time." Ryan tells her.

"Other than worrying about you for the last 3 hours I'm OK." Thea tells him.

"How's Quentin? I don't recall much of when I got shot but I remember him freaking out." Ryan asks her.

"I called him a while ago once they released you from surgery and told us you were gonna be fine." Thea says.

"Thanks." Ryan replies.

"I should be thanking you, you saved my life." Thea tells him while she pulls up the chair closer to his bed and slumps down in it.

"Were you here the whole time?" Ryan asks her, seeing the clock on the wall across from him displaying that it's 2o'clock.

"Yes, mom and Walter were here too but I told them to go home a while ago." Thea informs him.

"What about Laurel, how did she handle the news?" Ryan asks.

"I don't think she knows, Mr. Lance couldn't reach her phone." Thea says.

"OK, well as you can see I'm alive and kicking though I guess I won't be throwing for a while so maybe you should head home. I'm sure your parents are worried." Ryan suggests.

"I'm not leaving you here alone." Thea protests.

"Come on, it's not that bad. I'll probably get released tomorrow morning." Ryan tells her.

"I'm not going anywhere until Laurel or Quentin come, you almost died." Thea tells him decidedly.

"From a gunshot to the shoulder?" Ryan asks doubtfully.

"The bullet was poisoned." Thea informs him, making him stare at her shocked.

"Well looks like I can't get you to leave huh?" Ryan asks her.

"What you want to get rid of me that badly?" Thea asks shocked.

"No, no, I just don't want to be such a bother." Ryan says, getting her to relax.

"Well come on, the bed is big enough for both of us." Ryan tells her and scoots over, grimacing in pain shortly.

"Are you sure?" Thea asks uncertain, not wanting to injure him further.

"Sure, I was shot before and a chair is not a good place to nap." Ryan tells her.

Thea climbs in the bed, lying down next to him in silence and glances over at him a few times, noticing him close to dosing off again and remembers something she wanted to ask him.

"Ryan you still awake?" She asks.

"Uh-huh." Ryan answers.

"What's your last name? The nurse wanted to know and I realized that I never got it." Thea asks him.

"Atwood." Ryan tells her quietly with his eyes closed.

"Well thank you for saving my life Ryan Atwood." Thea says and gives him a kiss on his cheek before both of them dose off slowly.