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[withasouvenir]

[ thea has been mildly on the up and up of what is going on thanks to the fact that she has a star city google alert and oliver actually speaking to her while they were doing the classic indiana jones dungeon crawl that she enjoyed way more than she should have.

(plus roy told her some stuff when he stopped by after the ninth circle crap.)

since she has always been william's favorite aunt and since felicity is indisposed caring for a newborn, oliver desperately calls his sister when his adult son and daughter arrive from the future and his beautiful daughter cannot handle it for some reason she will not tell him. thea doesn't need to read between the lines that oliver doesn't call felicity because he is afraid of what the answer really is, she would never say no to seeing william (and now mia) anyway.

stepping into the bunker all over again, thea breathes out a slow breath, glancing idly at the red suit still neatly hung up and illuminated despite her retirement. every time it is like she has never left. she drops her bag and weapons on the floor without a care that someone might trip over the bow. ]

Olly olly oxen free, I was told my namesake would be here, [ thea sing-songs by way of a hello to whomever is around. ]

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[Mia is over by the salmon ladder. She's not thinking about doing it, because even if she can she figures it would be just ... so cliche. But it would be something she could do with her body rather being trapped in her own thoughts. Because her thoughts are racing a million miles a minute and she can't seem to decide what to do.

Zoe's dead - but in 2019 she's not.

Her father is dead - but in 2019 he's not.

Her mother is off somewhere with baby her, which is a head trip in and of itself and her father is alive and she can't pin down if she should be happy about that or not. What kind of fucked up daughter is she.

When she hears another voice in the bunker, she rounds a corner and stares her down, eyeing the other woman as she takes stock of her, before smiling softly.]

Hey, Aunt Thea.

[She didn't get to see Thea often - off running the League of Assassins 2.0 - but sometimes she would come by when Nyssa came out to train her.]

I guess he sent out the bat signal?

[withasouvenir]

[ despite everything, thea doesn't believe in ghosts, but when mia turns the corner it's like seeing the ghost of her own mother. same nose, same eyebrows, same pinched mouth like hoping for the best and preparing for the worst is tiresome and she's grown to simply expect the worst. ]

Wow, that is weird. [ a beat. ] Not you, it's just I've only ever heard Aunt Thea out of William and JJ's mouths, you know. Hits a little different when it's a girl.

[ feels natural though, like she's heard it before. an echo. more ghosts. she needs to get a god damn grip on herself. ]

Ollie called because parental issues are my niche. [ her arms spread like what can you do. ] You look just like our mom, it's wild.

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[The flash of anger that hits her eyes at the name "JJ" is hard to hide, especially with the way she sets her jaw and looks away again. It's still too hard, Zoe's death is still too fresh, but she doesn't want to talk about it. So she moves on to something else:]

What was she like? Your mom.

[Felicity always said that Mia is short for Moira, but she didn't know enough about her to tell her anything.]

[withasouvenir]

[ thea sees it, crease forming between her eyes, but she smooths it out. she isn't here to pump mia for information, she is here to help. maybe helping means talking about mia's late grandmother.

thea strides over to the command center, sinking into a chair and rooting around underneath where she knows rene hides mini cans of sprite so she can crack one open, giving herself a minute to think about how to explain the complexity of moira dearden queen. "oh she was a mass murderer!" doesn't seem like it'll fly without context. ]

She was complicated. She loved us, so much. She knew Ollie was the Hood -- that's what he called himself -- way before he told her. I love your dad dearly, but my brother is a moron.

[ she takes a sip of the soda. ] When dad and Ollie disappeared she sort of... It broke her, she made some bad choices. Once Ollie came back it was too late.

[ the undertaking was underway already. ]

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Kinda becomes a pattern with the people in his life, I guess.

[Oh is that still some stray bitterness about her mother lying to her her entire life? Good to know that's not totally gone. And now her mom is just gone so there's that.

(Only she's not gone. She's not even that far away, with baby her, just going about her life and getting ready to lie to her again. It's fine. That doesn't bother her at all.]

Dad disappears and people make bad choices.

[withasouvenir]

It's all that repressed trauma.

[ okay that's a little flippant, but thea can't help it. she tends to default to brushing it all aside, especially when it comes to her mother. it's fine, she doesn't have abandonment issues, it's fine, she doesn't have parent issues because they're all murderers and TWO OF THEM DIED FOR HER.

it's fine. ]

So is that it? Oliver vanished again?

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Dad died.

[She swallows hard, before running a hand through her hair. She doesn't want to have to say this, but knowing that her dad already knows, maybe Thea already knows too.]

A couple months from now, actually. If my math is right.

[withasouvenir]

Fuck.

[ thea doesn't sugarcoat it. it makes sense though. ollie might drop off the universe when it comes to her, but mia and william are something oliver isn't going to leave lightly. it turns out he doesn't leave them lightly at all, he dies.

it's cute mia thinks thea is told anything. ]

That would do it.

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[There's a beat as Mia realizes that Oliver hasn't told Thea anything and she rolls her eyes.]

Why am I not surprised he hasn't told you anything?