What's wrong with us when happy hurts

This is my temporary home, it's not where I belong

This is my temporary home, it's not where I belong I'm not afraid because I know This is just a stop on the way to where I'm going

Sin

She watched Sara out of the corner of her eye. It was obvious how worried she was about Oliver. Not that she was saying anything, it was just her behavior. Small things that gave her away. Sara was absentminded and distracted most of the time, something both Roy and she had noticed early on, neither of them had said anything though, they've come to a quiet agreement to not mention her behavior and try to distract her from Oliver's absence as well as they could. The blonde had been pretty worried about her baby daddy the last time he had left town for a while, to fight freaking aliens, but she was even more worried now. Understandably so, Sin had heard enough about Ra's al Ghul and Nyssa to know that Talia was probably just as dangerous, and Oliver was putting himself in a potentially lethal situation and he was going with no backup, something he had had while fighting the aliens. She wasn't entirely sure why he had chosen to go by himself and not taken at least Dig with him, but given it was Oliver, she was sure there was a very good reason. He wouldn't have made a decision like that lightly, and Sara would've said something if she thought it would've been better for him to take backup with him, which made her wonder what was going on there. And why he had chosen to go on a dangerous mission without taking any member of his team with him. Interesting. Something was seriously up there, was there trouble inside Team Arrow? She looked at the woman sitting in Oliver's armchair again. Contemplating what might have led to the couple mistrusting his team, because that's what it came down to, that was the only reason the Green Arrow wouldn't involve his team into this mission, at least in her book and knowing the two vigilantes the way she did. The only reason they would choose to go solo was if they didn't trust the people responsible for having their backs.

Sara wasn't easy to read. Analyzing the Canary was something Sin still had trouble with on the regular, even though she had gotten better at it. But the blonde was a pretty open book when it came to Oliver and her emotions towards him, especially just how much he means to her. It had been plain to see from that very first time Sara had mentioned Oliver more than three years ago. 

"I just ran into an old boyfriend..." it had taken a lot more information on those two and their involvements for her to realize the significance of her choice in words. She hadn't given it much thought past the revelation that Sara was from Starling and had an old boyfriend and family here. That had been more intriguing than her mentioning a guy she used to date. People had exes that was no big deal, at least that was what she had thought back then. Even though Sin had noticed her body language, how she had sunk down to the floor, the look in her eyes and the way her voice had sounded when she had said that. Obviously, the guy had left a lasting impression on her friend. 

"An old boyfriend" it would be easy to brush it off as Sara trying to avoid getting into an actual conversation about him and needing to do a lot of explaining except, she could've just said "an old friend". It would've made sense and also not been a lie. They had been the closest of friends from early childhood on, as she had also learnt later on, mostly through Thea and a bit through Sara, even though she had talked little about her past in general and her past with Oliver in particular. Telling her she had run into an old friend, would've also ensured that she wouldn't be asking any follow-up questions, people hardly ever asked anyone intruding or indelicate questions about old friends, the chances of her asking follow-up questions to the boyfriend part would've been a lot more likely, and had probably happened, had she been anyone else. She hadn't known Sara that well yet at that moment in time, but she had already known that she was a very private person and didn't appreciate people digging into her private life. Not that she would've had, even if she hadn't been aware of that already.