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Thea Queen hasn't had the best time of it in, well, years. First her brother and father were missing and presumed dead and then Ollie pulled a Lazarus and showed back up with a bunch of scars and a badass attitude and Thea hardly knew who he was anymore. A vigilante has been saving/terrorizing the city for the better part of a year and the father of the guy she's crushed on forever tried to bury half the city under rubble.

Oh, and, she's actually the daughter of that maniac and not her actual dad and she only found this out after her mom barely escaped prison time. It's been a hell of a ride. She's been kidnapped, cheated on and just about everything in between and while she's a rich girl, she's by no means sheltered. Any and everything that could happen to a person before the age of twenty has happened to her and Thea isn't sure if she wants to deal with it anymore. That's why she decides to go with Malcolm Merlyn. She's not doing that great in Starling so she might as well take a chance on something different, right? Thea Queen isn't working out for her so well so maybe being someone new is the right way to go. Maybe disappearing and turning into someone else is the best thing for her right now.

As she pulls open the car door, a strange thing happens. Instead of crawling into the backseat of a car to sleep while she escapes to God knows where, she tumbles into a closet and hits her head on a doorknob. That's...weird. What else is weird is that when she tugs open the closet, she's inside what looks like a hotel lobby instead of anywhere she recognizes.

"What the hell is going on?" Thea is aware this is rhetorical and, frankly, not even a really good rhetorical question. She basically lost her skills to make witty quips along with shooting her biological father and discovering that everyone important to her in her life has lied to her so she isn't really running on all cylinders. She's running on...less than half. It's not ideal.

"Anyone?" While part of her hopes she's in Starling so she has a chance to orient herself another part of her hopes that she's not in Starling and, instead, she's somewhere that she can get a blank slate. Thea wants to be anyone but Thea Queen right now and she thinks if she's outside of her old stomping grounds, she might just have a chance to start over new again.

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God knew Thea had questions that needed answering, but Oliver ignored her in favor of pulling her into a hug. She'd probably push him away and give him that angry, betrayed look that had become all too painfully familiar, but for now...she was right here and she was fine and Oliver had never been happier to see her since his return to Starling.

"Are you okay?" He asked when he pulled away, hands on Thea's shoulders as he looked her over for any sign of injury.

"Are we talking physically or emotionally? Because I've got enough fodder to keep every therapist in Starling in business from now until the end of time," Thea says, shrugging a little. It still feels good to have Ollie close again and she isn't exactly willing to push him away yet. Not when she's this thrown off balance.

"I don't have any internal bleeding or missing organs, though, so I think we're good in the injuries department."

Oliver did his best not to sigh. Most of Thea's problems were his and their mother's fault, but Thea was talking to him, and he was going to take that as a small victory.

"I'm glad you're okay. I was worried." He had a million questions to ask about her departure from Starling and subsequent severing of all her ties to the people who loved her, but that was a wound Oliver wasn't willing to poke. Not when some crazy alternate dimension of a hotel had Thea talking to him again. "And I will answer any questions I can about this place."

"We can start with where? Because I'm not really recognizing this particular hotel lobby but I'm guessing you're more familiar with those than I am," she says, watching him carefully. Thea isn't really sure what to do with Ollie right now because while she loves him, there's a part of her that feels betrayed still.

"You know. Given your recreational activities and all that. How did I end up in here?"

Oliver blinked at Thea's (very true, at one time) insinuation, and took a deep breath before he worked up the words to respond to her question.

"That part, I couldn't tell you. Seems like you go through a door and end up somewhere in this hotel." He glanced toward the main doors, and wondered if a few minutes into her arrival was too soon to show Thea the spectacular view outside. "No idea how to get home, either. Felicity and I have been here for a little while." It was a short stay so far, compared to the months Oliver had spent in the hotel the first time he'd been around.

"I know you have a penchant for the whole off the grid thing but you mean to tell me that you and your assistant have been holed up here and none of us noticed? I'm young but I'm not stupid, Ollie."

Thea has begun to realize over the past several months that she really doesn't know her brother. Those five years on the island changed him in a way she can't touch and, in exchange, she got changed too. She isn't the idealistic little girl who hung on her older brother's every word. She's grown up and she's changed and now Thea is just a little bit jaded.

"And how are we stuck exactly? Can't we just take a cab home?"

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