A continuation of the Mirror Sub Verse, where e2!Laurel (Dinah) and Felicity slowly try to navigate a friendship. Takes place about a month after Dinah and Felicity’s conversation on the roof. Read the rest of the series here. Rated PG, 888 words.

“Felicity.” Diggle’s voice sounded strained, but she couldn’t tell if he was hiding amusement or if he was actually exasperated.

“Hmm?”

“Please stop poking the bad guy with a stick.”

Felicity straightened up and pouted, looking at Diggle in indignation. The sight of Dinah turning away, hand covering the bottom of her face, though, drew her up short. Was that an actual smile? “You’re ruining my fun,” Felicity said, since she was pretty sure calling it out would make said smile vanish.

Diggle folded his arms across his chest. “It’s undignified,” he said, and Felicity was sure he was close to smiling, too.

“He tried to blow up a building.”

“Still. Stop poking him.”

“I don’t know.” Dinah dropped her hand away from her face. She was a little sweaty and disheveled from being the one to actually keep up with their erstwhile bomber. And maybe she’d jumped three roofs in the process, which was seriously impressive with those heeled boots of hers. She combed her fingers through her hair. “He called me ‘pretty bird.’ I think she should poke him harder.”

Omg i think my jaw just dropped at that last part. Wonderful ideas :)

Thank you! e2!Sara is also still alive, but Dinah doesn’t know her, I have decided. She’s caused a lot of conflict in Dinah, who swore she made her peace over the messed up family dynamics (Larry Lance was not a great father, which is why it’s heartbreaking that Quentin Lance is) years ago, but now she’s wondering what happened to her and if they would have had the same relationship Laurel and Sara obviously had.

Sara and Dinah, however, they have so much in common. They’re both little shits, they have a scarily identical league background, they both love Nyssas. Dinah lost hers, though, and won’t talk about how. She fell into the League because she was some punk kid who ran around with delinquents. Nyssa was her salvation and her undoing.

Sara: “Yeah, I know how that goes.”

Felicity, for her part, is very unnerved when the truth about her other counterpart comes out. “I’m not a tech geek?! I run a...a....”

e2!laurel will most likely be the cause of my death. (I am OBSESSED with that jacket. it seems so league-esque to me and that is giving me a gajillion ideas!)

IT’S SO SWOOSHY and there are panels and fishnet sleeeeeeeeeeeeves. I need all the parallels between e2!Laurel and goth!Felicity. Also Felicity taking in Laurel’s look and just being like, mad respect.

But also I need Sara dropping out of time and chasing down Dinah and an epic battle and Sara’s like, wait, I know these moves. Dinah nearly gets the upper hand on Sara, but Nyssa shows up to bail her girlfriend out and Dinah recoils in absolute shock and her voice breaks as she just looks at Nyssa and says, “How.”

Sara and Nyssa head back to the bunker and tell the others that Dinah is League-trained. Sara would and did bet her life on it.

Eventually they convince Dinah to join the Arrow team (she has absolutely no connection or desire to have a connection with Oliver, and it’s magical) and they settle into something of a peace. Thea’s technically League-trained, so Dinah is comfortable around her, she grudgingly respects Diggle, tolerates Oliver, and will never look Felicity in the eye. To the point where the others suspect that e2!Felicity is possibly a supervillain. Of course, they get a new theory when several weeks into Dinah joining the team, Felicity loses her temper and snaps and Dinah’s immediate response is “Yes, mistress.”

You can hear a pin drop. Every single member of the team goes into shocked silence (even Felicity can’t seem to find words). Dinah gets an oh shit look on her face and just skedaddles. Doesn’t come back for weeks, dodges even Felicity’s attempts to find her, to the point where Felicity gets Sara and Nyssa to come back from time-hopping to go get Dinah, dammit. Sara knows exactly where she went, too. “It’s where I go when I’m upset and I’m waiting for Nyssa to show,” is all she says.

“Feel free to continue spamming me with the "E2 Laurel runs off to Tibet because team Arrow finds out she's a total sub for Felicity" AU”