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Laurel Sophie clearly hadn’t expected her mom to show up at the police station after she called Laurel because she shrank in her chair at Felicity’s words.  “ I’m sorry, mom... ” which wasn’t stated in her normal, defensive tone.  Instead, those three words were filled with more remorse than what the teenager had been able to produce all night.  She wasn’t sorry for beating up Mouse, but for the fact that her sick mother had had to come down to the police station and worry over her more than what was necessary. “Zero one zero zero... ” It had been so long since Felicity had had one of her binary speaking spells that the group had thought she’d recovered from that condition altogether; but something about being at the police station must have triggered it because she quickly found herself hiding behind Laurel as a couple of rookie cops passed by her.  “ Zero one one... ” Felicity nearly buried her face on the back of Laurel’s shoulder as the newbies began to laugh at her.  

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The More The Merrier || SnowQueen Ship || Written for: Laurel Lance ( multiple muses and Alice Harper ) 

Silent as the Night || The More the Merrier AU Part 2 || SnowQueen Ship || written for:  Laurel Launce ( multiple muses and Charlotte )

The One with All the Drama || The More the Merrier AU Part 3 || SnowQueen Ship || Written for: Laurel Lance 

The One Where Sophie Goes to Jail || SnowQueen Ship || written for: Laurel Lance ( Felicity & Sophie )

The One With Ray || The More The Merrier AU Part 4 || SnowQueen Ship || written for: Laurel Lance ( as multiple muses with Alice at the air port )

The Single Mom || written for: Laurel Lance ( as Oliver & Felicity ) 

@fearnevertrying The One with Cait & Ollie || written for:  Caitlin Snow ( as Oliver Queen )

Laurel       Team Arrow celebrated a silent victory as Oliver carried in the tiny ninja that had terrorized the city for months and nearly murdered Caitlin and Laurel with one swing of a single sword.  The team had had trouble disarming it from the tiny person; but as Oliver tied her to a chair in the middle of of the hide out, the fight seemed worth it.  “Who are you?” he demanded.  A slur of foreign words fell out of a mouth that clearly belonged to a female who was younger than anyone else in the room.

      “What did she say?”  Caitlin was still shaken, and sore from needing a few stitches, but she’d wanted to be there when they unmasked the little devil that had managed to give Killer Frost more than a tiny cut across her abdomen.  “I don’t know,” Oliver replied. “It sounds like a cross between Chinese and Arabic,because I only recognize a few words...”

     Stepping up to remove the ninja’s hood, Oliver stopped in his tracks when he realized how much this girl looked like his daughter, Alice.  “Charlotte....?” He asked, careful not to get too close because the girl was snapping his teeth at him like an angry dog, “How is this possible...?”         “XIAO ZHANGSHI!!!”

      The girl yelled her name at him repeatedly.  Caitlin let out an angry snort at the scene and left the room angrily, while Felicity followed her.  Oliver felt bad that Caitlin had come back to him to find this happening first thing; but as he looked at Laurel he used his eyes to beg her for the answers that he hoped she had.

He wouldn’t have bothered with therapy if he thought Cait was going to leave him like this.  “ I just hope she’s not playing doctor with Bruce, cause that’s our thing. ”  If he had thought about their daughter being at her house, the mayor of Star City would not have mentioned his bedroom activities; but since he had he offered her a box of takeout when she entered the room, to makeup for the details she might have overheard.

“ That’s gross, dad... ” Alice told him as she took the container of Chinese food, “ hey mom, since dad is down in the dumps about Cait --- can he stay here and watch a movie with us?  I’ll make some popcorn and you guys can go get us some chocolate...it’ll be fun.”  

She had only come to live with them a few months ago, but she already wanted her parents together more than she wanted Caitlin back with Oliver.  It seemed like life would be much easier if her mom and her dad would get back together and now all she had to worry about was getting uncle Ray out of the picture.

“ But, Laurel!  I’m already in trouble at school and I spent part of the night in a cell...why can’t that be punishment enough?”  

The teenager sat still while Laurel inspected here knuckles, slowly tugging one of them away to wipe blood from her throbbing black eye.  It hurt like hell and probably needed medical attention, but she didn’t dare draw attention to it because she didn’t want to know how bad it actually looked.  

      “ I don’t mind at all, ” Felicity said to Laurel.  “ Just don’t ask me to fetch coffee for you because our machine is out of order. ” This friend of Oliver’s seemed like a lovely woman, but she didn’t dare tell her that she was the reason that Mr. Queen’s coffee machine had suddenly broken. “ If you’ll follow me, there’s a room close to Oliver’s that’s big enough for both --- of you or I can find a room for your little girl to stay in as well. ”   

      Felicity didn’t like that on top of being his secretary she was now the concierge of his house, but she wasn’t going to say that to Laurel.  “ Have you ever been to Queen Manor before? ” Tapping the screen to silence a beep from her tablet, the blonde decided to wait for Laurel to make a move before showing her to their room.

     Judging by his actions, Oliver had ignored her last few texts.  “ Exes...?  She was my fiance when they left! ”  And as far as he was concerned, that was something that you didn’t get over until you could beat the crap out of the person that stole your girl.  “ You’ll what?? ”  Oliver laughed, “ and what would you have him arrest me for, Laurel? "  Assault was only an offense if the other person was alive and right now Barry Allen was still technically a dead man so it wouldn’t count.

     “ Daddy falled down...? ”

     The four year was barely tall enough to reach the door knob, but the second Oliver heard the familiar click of latch, Oliver picked Barry up and pretended to dust him off to save the feelings of the little girl who had entered the room.  “ I’m okay, kiddo, ” Barry promised her, “ did you finish your picture? ”      

     “ I did! ”

     The child tiptoed behind Oliver to show the speedster her picture, clearly not realizing who he was at first, “I drawed you and mommy and birdie...and...and...that’s my DADDY!”  Sophie immediately forgot about her drawing and wrapped her arms around the tall mans leg.  “I been waiting to meets you for foreber!”  The only thing she regretted was that her mother wasn’t there to see him too, but the little girl was soon that her mother would be back soon.

      For once in their whole life Oliver stood there and let her tell him off without saying a word.  This was partially because he was thinking about how things had changed between he and Caitlin since each of the kids had come along; but he was also afraid to open his mouth for fear of being yelled at again.  “I’m sorry, Laurel,” he told her honestly.  “I’m sorry I didn’t know that you were pregnant or that you’d had the kids...and I’m sorry for not treating you better when we were together because I was just a stupid kid myself...”  

      This was one of those rare moments when he opened up and let her see what he was actually feeling...thinking that if she saw his tears that maybe she’d understand how much all of this was killing him inside.  “Did you see how happy she was the last time she came to visit the kids?  I don’t stand a chance against Bruce.  Not as long as my past keeps turning up and burning down what’s left of our relationship.”  

      Bruce must be doing something right because he hadn’t seen Caitlin smile like that since Lydia had been born.  “Besides....” he stated quietly, “if I go fight for her that means I loose you.  How can I do that when we have a daughter to take care of?”  It would kill him if their relationship grew cold and distant, like the relationships that he had with Caitlin and Felicity...but she was with Ray so Oliver understood why they could never be anything more than friends.

      “ Another one down the disposal, father... ”        Felicity had barely opened the door and taken off her blood soaked apron when she noticed the bright blue flames from across the room.  “ It wasn’t him, but feel free to kill him if that’s what you want. ”  

      When Felicity first started in this  life of crime, someone told her not to be have attachments to anyone because they would be your weakness in a job gone wrong.  And while she loved her father with all her heart, the young crime lord was determined not to let anyone hold her anything over her head to get what they wanted.

     Sophie made herself small in her chair the second that she saw Laurel.  This police station was the last place anyone would have ever expected to see her, but some jerk pulled the fire alarm and blamed her.  “ I’m sorry, birdie, ” she said, cringing at the long list of names that fell out of Laurels mouth and not daring to correct her even though she’d passed hers.  “ Mouse Avery pulled the fire alarm to get out of chemistry again, but he told Principal Jones that it was me.  Leah told Jill and Jill told Randy and Randy told me, so I beat the snot out of him before security found us in the back parking lot. ”

     And she had swollen, bloody knuckles as proof of her assault, but the kid had been falsely accusing her of bad things her whole life and she couldn’t figure out what she’d done to deserve it.  “ Mom and my dads and Caitlin would have freaked out so bad if I had called them; because Mouse’s parents are here somewhere, trying to decide if they want to press charges. ”

      Barry raised a brow at the series of noises that came from Laurel’s phone.  “I forgot about cell phones.  They were banned on the other Earth.”  He vaguely remembered having one before they’d been taken by the officers from Earth 21 --- but he hadn’t dared to ask what happened to them when they were allowed to return home.  “ Why did she want to throw Felicity out...? ”  He could understand if Felicity was having an episode, but she had seemed perfectly normal when he had left for Central City.

      “It’s not that bad,” he reassured her.  “She just has moments where she can only talk in Binary Code.  Sometimes I understand it now, but usually she carries a pen and a notepad to write it down if Sophie isn’t around.”  Shaking his head as he peeked out the door to check on the four year old.               “Wait...who’s dead...?”  

      Barry thought Joe had caught him up to speed, but he went wide eyed and instantly forgot that conversation when Laurel mentioned the fact that Oliver was coming for a visit.  “Joe told me he still isn’t over the whole ‘running away with felicity’ thing so maybe it’s a good idea for me to go look for my wife before he decides to kill me.”  He was afraid of what Ollie might do to him if he stayed, but as he stood up to make a run for it the speedster felt something pick him up by the collar of his shirt.       “Hey pal...” Oliver looked determined as he held Barry’s shirt.  “why don’t you stay a while so we can catch up?”  Anger seeped from every pore on his body as he slammed the door closed and tossed Barry to the floor like a bag of dirty laundry.  He might have been the mayor, but he could kill the speedster and get away with it because murder only applied to people who were legally living on this Earth.

      Oliver smirked at Caitlin’s bluntness as he pressed the needle against her skin.  “ Then that’s my cue to say this will hurt. ” Fortunately for the doctor, Oliver had stitched up enough wounds to be able to patch hers up fairly quickly.  This wound was fairly deep so there was a good possibility that she’d have a scar on her shoulder, but he wouldn’t tell her that unless she asked.  “ The first patch up is free, but next time I’ll have to charge you. ”

      This house was still fairly new to the children and he’d have to send all the servants to look for them if they got lost.  “I understand,” He told her, trying to silence his phone as it started ringing in his coat pocket.  “I remember getting lost in the west wing when I was her age.  Raisa always knew where to find me...and I think that’s why my parents kept her on for so long.  She’s a good friend and an excellent cook, so don’t hesitate to ask her for something if you need it.”  

      He knew that Laurel had met his caretaker while they were dating, but he wasn’t sure if she remembered her.  He was absent a lot because of Queen Consolidated, but as his phone rang in his pocket again he was suddenly reminded that he had another reason for being gone a lot.  “Sorry, I don’t know who would be calling me at this hour...”