What's wrong with us when happy hurts

First flag you see, they'll be actin withdrawn want to be by themselves

Notes:

Thank you guys so much for your support, it means a lot and I really appreciate it.

This chapter completely took on a life of its own and I have no clue where all of this came from... but I just ran with it and it's here now and let me know what you guys think.

Okay honestly I've decided to rewatch Season 3, god knows why and I've regretted it being barely half way into episode one, up to Episode 11 and yeah, there will be a rant at the end. There hasn't been one of those in a while, lol.

Here are some things to consider for this chapter:

So, Maseo told Oliver he and Sara came to the League at the same time... that means Sara spent between 6-12 months alone on Lian Yu? With Ivo's former prisoners and men? And then after that time Nyssa found her starving and afraid. The only way Sara would've been starving, were if she had been so badly injured that she couldn't find food. Or if she'd been held captive and they hadn't fed her. Or am I seeing that wrong?

So Amanda Waller was watching Oliver on Lian Yu with a satellite, this means she knew exactly what had happened to Sara too, right? Or am I getting that wrong?

Just as information, I'm going with the wound Ra's inflicted on Oliver's chest and not his wrapped stomach, we were shown the next episode. And since I like things to be as close to reality as possible, Oliver was gone way longer in my universe than the show. He was run through with a sword, pretty sure one of his lungs would've been severely injured given the entry point of the sword. That takes more than a couple of weeks to heal. Also not sure about the penicillin and will to survive. Tatsu ends up protecting the Lotus, so I'm going with her knowing more potions going in that direction, just like Yao Fei and his herbs and Constantine and his magic. There's no way he would've survived his wound, never the less his fall otherwise without surgery and a hospital. This probably won't come up in the story but it just annoys me so I'm letting you guys know.

Also it is not that Felicity friendly... there are a couple of questions that came up while rewatching Season Three and those are sort of being addressed here, let me know if I got something wrong.

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First flag you see, they'll be actin withdrawn want to be by themselves, sittin alone, cryin out for the help but some don't respond til they dead and they gone

Sara

She had been contemplating whether or not to bring this up for the last couple of days. Thea had shown up after her classes as planned. She and Sin had stayed over and spent the night, and the following day and another night and eventually just decided to crash here until Ollie was back, which had not been planned at all, but very welcomed none the less.

The three younger adults had gotten mattresses from different rooms and put them all on the living room floor, recreating sleepovers they used to have as kids, the type she hoped her daughter would have one day, when she was older, with a group of friends like Sin, Roy and Thea, at her and Ollie's place; no discussion.

Their home was going to be the home other kids came to hang out at. Period. She didn't care what they had to do to achieve that, even if it was building a fucking amusement park inside of their home, but she was not going to have their baby girl stay at strangers houses, that would be way too stressful, and she was pretty sure there was no way in hell she could keep Ollie from staking that place out if they allowed her to spend the night at a friend's, and she wasn't sure if she wouldn't be right there with him. And it would've nothing to do with not trusting their daughter and everything to do with knowing what a dangerous place the world was and how deprived some people could be behind closed doors. Knowing very well that behavior like that was not really an option or healthy in any way, shape or form. So, having the other kids stay at their place was the way to go. It also gave them the chance to know what was going on with their daughter and her friends. They would know where she was, who she was spending time with, and what they were doing. There were no guarantees, of course. Noone knew that better than Ollie and her, given the shit they had gotten into as teenagers, but it would ease both of their minds massively.