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Star - I'm sorry, Starling City?

[Wait, that makes even less sense than anything.]

Northern California?

Yes. That's the one.

Is that so strange?

It's called Star City at home.

[Dinah shakes her head at the strangeness of the multiverse.]

Of all the random differences.

[Random, indeed.]

Are you sure we're talking about the same place anymore?

No, not really.

But if that's your city and that's Oliver's city, then I can't imagine him anywhere else.

It's the only City we've ever called home.

I raised both my children there. Saw them become wonderful, beautiful adults. For all the horrible things that have happened to us in the last five years...it's that fact alone that often keeps me going.

[One could not deny that everything she had done since, for better or worse, had been for her children.]

[Again, Dinah hesitates. Much as she wants to know about the last five years, what exactly happened there, she focuses on that other thing Moira just said.]

Children.

[Plural. Ollie has a sibling? He's such an archetypal only child.]

[At least, this time, she was a little more aware of the discrepancy. Oliver had reacted with similar surprise at hearing of his sister.]

Yes. One of each. Oliver...and Thea. She just turned eighteen, and is every bit as much like her brother as neither of them will ever admit.

Two Olivers.

[There is no better way to assuage awkwardness than by making a joke.]

You must be a saint.

[She couldn't help chuckling. It was the only thing to keep her from desperately wanting to cry at just how wrong ~~Laurel~~ Dinah was. But she couldn't bring herself to tell her. Not so soon after they've remet for the first time.]

Far from it.

If anything, Oliver's the one who deserves most of the credit. Ever since he returned from the island, he's been...different. More responsible. A better role model for his sister than I could have imagined. [She paused] ...at times, possibly even a better parent than I ever was.

[Well, there it is. Actual mention of the island. Dinah's smug smirk fades, becomes softer at that reference.]

Yes, well. That island definitely changed him.

[And they're back to the similarities. Possibly.]

Did he...ever tell you what happened while he was there?

[Softly:] Yes, he did.

When he was ready.

[Just as softly:]

Is it going to be something I've ever going to want to hear?

[Is there anything - anything about Roy's life (Or Mia's, or Sin's) that Dinah doesn't want to hear about, whether she likes it or not? She comes up with no.

And assumes it's the same for Moira.]

It's not going to be easy to hear.

[Hearing that it wasn't easy, in and of itself, was already difficult. Because it all but confirmed what she had suspected.]

No wonder he seems to have repressed it.

Ever since he got back, he's devoted himself to that business of his. The Nightclub, down in the Glades.

Running a nightclub?

[That sounds like both a likely cover and something Ollie might actually have done, when he was younger.]

That's very Oliver.

I'll admit, I was skeptical at first...but if there was anyone who would know the Starling City Nightlife inside and out, it would be Oliver Queen.

[Dinah smirks suddenly at that. Because it's true, Oliver does know his city's nightlife.]

It must keep him out at ridiculous hours, though.

No worse than any he's ever kept before.

[THIS IS TRUE]

True. And wait until he gets a real day job. He still won't settle for a full night's sleep.

You mean such a thing is even possible?

Oliver getting a day job.

[Dinah grins.]

He served two terms as Mayor.

[Eyes. Wide.]

Not my Oliver?

[If she hadn't been so shocked, she would have laughed.]

Now you're just messing with me.

Well, my Oliver.

[Not arguing possession, just acknowledging they are two different men.]

What can I say? That city's the most important thing to him, behind his family.

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