Christmas party

I stood in front of my mirror as I put on another suit, the last one I tried on had wrinkles, which was unacceptable.

Tonight, I embark on a journey to my old home, Oliver's Christmas party is still being held and it appears my sister isn't very happy right now, her not replying to my texts was the deciding factor on that.

Dembe stood behind me, a scowl plastered on his face, "why do I have to wear a nice suit what's wrong with mine?" he grumbled

I small laugh escaped my lips, "because this is a Christmas party, what if you see someone you like and you are wearing a cheap suit like Diggle?" I pointed out

"You rich people are strange," He noted

I shrugged, "all people are strange my friend,"

He shook his head in exasperation, Dembe wore a nice deep royal blue suit with black accents. I wore a black suit with a red tie and ruby cufflinks.

As we began to leave the house I grabbed a book, I have taken the hobby of going everywhere with books reading whenever wherever I could.

We both got into the car and began to drive off, Dembe despite his grumbling about the suit looked rather pleased with himself.

As we drove to the Queen Estate I read my book, it was an original copy of the Grimm fairytales, they were way darker and more mature than the childish versions. Though in this world they only made children's books not movies of the stories.

As we neared the house I stopped reading, I was on the crow portion of Cinderella. We pulled into the driveway, and Dembe got out he tried to walk around and open my door but I beat him to it.

"It's a family party Dembe," I said exasperated over his constant need to open my door for me

He nodded his head and followed as I walked toward the house, I opened the door and saw Diggle.

"See I told you boring suit," I remarked to my well-dressed companion

"Sir, I get the point," Dembe replied sounding annoyed

"Don't get mad at me," I defended myself

I just so happened to have walked in right as my sister was escaping with some dude, I also saw Moira and Walter branch off.

I briskly made my way over to Thea, "Thea!" I exclaimed with a wide smile

She swiveled her head in my direction, "Lucas," she replied nervously

Gesturing to the human beside her she began to introduce him, "This is -"

"Don't care," I replied as Dembe stepped in front of the human trying to date my sister

"Lucas!," she hissed at me in embarrassment

"What?" I asked blankly

I spotted Oliver as he talked to Tommy and Laurel, giving him a thumbs up I looked back at Thea, and she looked at me unimpressed.

"Seriously?" she asked with a tinge of anger

"Don't get so mad, it's Christmas," I said giving her a hug

"Yeah it is," she remarked dryly

I frowned, "what you don't like Christmas?"

"Bad memories," she replied pulling away from my hug

I think I remember something like that, she didn't like this whole thing because it reminded her of when we were gone.

"What you caught Santa doing a line or something?" I said with a small smirk trying to cheer her up

She chuckled, "actually it was needles," she whispered

"Oh really? Well you know Santa needs that kind of stuff," I whispered back secretively

"I believe it," she nodded along with me smiling

"Keep that smile and have fun, just not with that guy," I said gesturing to the weirdo who was now gone

"Oh wow! He left that's so shocking," I said sarcastically discreetly giving Dembe an appreciated look

"Your unbearable," she murmured

I saw Oliver talking to Laural, poor Tommy was left all by his lonesome.

"I'm going to talk to Tommy, have fun," I said giving her a brief hug before I stalked off back to the main room

I talked to Tommy for a bit, we weren't the closest but it was nice catching up, I saw Oliver begin to make his way over, "hey Tommy can I talk to my brother," he said glancing at us

"Sure," Tommy replied and walked off

"So, what's up?" I asked him in a light carefree tone

"What's up, Really Lucas? I saw Azreal went to Gotham," he said calmly but I saw the look he gave me, it was like he was trying to figure me out

"I heard, crazy right?" I replied shaking my head

"I see you still wear your cast, is it for fun?" he remarked

"Oliver I was shot," I replied briskly

He scoffed, "like you haven't been through worse, you are milking this whole thing,"

I shook my head, "shouldn't you be playing Robin Hood?"

"I'm saving this city," Oliver replied coldly not liking my joke

I rolled my eyes, "I know I know,"

"You know Thea thinks we hate each other," I added amused

Oliver looked at me with disbelief then started to laugh, "it might seem that way to some,"

"She doesn't get it," I sighed

"No one does," he replied

The ninth continued, I talked to some more people at one point Moira and Walter then I headed home for the night.

"How was taking to Thea?" I asked as we drove home

"As you thought, she continued to try and make me talk about what you are always up to," he replied stoically

I snorted at that, "she's too predictable,"

We drove home quickly, with how late it was I still surprisingly had a meeting with some people over a video call.

The social media app is coming along nicely.

-break-

It's been two days since the Christmas party, currently, I was trying out the suitcase I just summoned, it was from Harry Potter, sadly I couldn't get the one with the creatures seeing as they count as sentient beings and that's a big no-no for Libriomancy.

Opening up the suitcase I walked inside, it was amazing, I could literally live down here. Instead, I kept my outfit, and several gadgets and weapons, along with some books. I still use my original base but this is just a portable one. Without electricity so this is kind of like a safehouse of sorts.

*ding* looking at my phone I saw yet another update from my team working on the social media app, the app is coming along nicely I think it will be ready by next year.

I already made the template for them they just need to build the app itself, but then I have to do everything that is needed to run the app smoothly also which adds time.

In other news, if I remember correctly the glade incident is happening soon I think it was at the beginning of May, I remember the month because one of my friends shared something with the same day and he mentioned it before. I forgot what it was though, I don't have a perfect memory well I do now after becoming a vampire but that doesn't help with stuff I already forgot. Well by soon I should really mean, months away, it's only January.

Walter has gone missing as well, thrusting all responsibilities onto me, the workload is annoying but I have people to help, mind control is rather effective on these business-minded humans.

By far what I'm most looking forward to is the release of my first movie, I can't wait to see how well it does.

As I was browsing the dark web something caught my eye immediately, the gathering I was planning to attend got moved up, it's happening in a week.

That's perfect! The gathering is being held on the outskirts of Metropolis, the location was dropped because some people might need to get their funds in order.

"Dembe free up my schedule for Friday next week," I told him

"Right away sir," he said from behind me as he cleaned his gun

"You know I'm supposed to be your bodyguard, not your secretary," he remarked

"Ha oops, should I get one?" I asked

"Maybe, it's getting hard managing all of your projects," he replied dryly

A secretary, the thought never really crossed my mind, I have one at work but only use him for business meetings, I trust Dembe far more.

-end-

A/N: so I thought the glade incident happened closer after the Christmas party episode than It really did, apparently it happened in may...

So new plan-> gathering -> months long time skip-> glade incident-> finally getting into the really fun stuff I planned for. Arrow timeline really threw me off.