White Wolf (Laurel Lance)

Future Past Tense

2014

Starling City

Queen Consolidated.

Two weeks after the Siege.

Dennis walked through the doors to see a table of full unfamiliar faces in the board room. All but one. Walter Steele was handing PMs to them.

"Mr. Steele? I thought you left." Dennis said surprised to see the former CEO of Queen Consolidated back in his old workplace.

Mr. Steele smiled, amusement evident in his eyes. "I see that Mr. Queen hasn't given you the memo."

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Lian Yu, North China Sea.

"Thank you for doing this." Oliver thanked Bucky for helping him regaining the ownership of his family's company. "You have no idea how much this means to me."

Bucky shrugged. It was no problem helping  Oliver buy the company back, following the reveal that Isabel Rochev was complicit in Slade's city wide attack. "After everything you did to protect me from Wallers clutches, it's the least I can do."

"How's Quentin?" Oliver inquired, wondering about how Laurel and Sara's father was doing after a heart attack caused by internal injuries he sustained during the Siege.

Bucky sighed thinking about the call from Laurel during the trip to the Island. "Last I heard, he's in a medically induced coma. But he's doing a bit better now, brain wise. They'd just have to wait for him to wake up."

Oliver's phone went off soon after Bucky explained Quentin's condition. He pressed the green button on his phone answering the call. "Oliver Queen."

"Who the hell do you think you are to hire a new board of directors?!" Mr. Dennis all but roared into his ear, making Oliver chuckle for a moment.

"Simple. I own the company." Oliver told him smugly. Bucky snickered. He could tell that Oliver was enjoying this moment.

"What?"

Oliver had been wanting to do this for a long time. He never liked Dennis from the start. "I have you and the previous board to thank for making it possible. After it was discovered that the late CEO of Queen Consolidated and Steelmoor International Isabel Rochev aided  Slade Wilson in his attack on this city, the one you all voted in after you voted me out,  nobody wanted to do business with the company anymore. I was really amazed of how fast the stock had plummeted over the past few weeks.  Buying those stocks was easy pickings. I just had to wait for them to get low enough so that it wouldn't hurt me in the long term. And during that time, I went to find new board members. People who actually care about Starling City than just money that the company was making. Now, I may not have gone to Business school but I believe it's called a hostile takeover." Oliver said as Bucky couldn't contain a smile on his face.

"Listen here, you self entitled..."

Oliver hung up before Dennis could finish the cliche threat.  He sighed in content. "Worth it."

-

Temporal Zone

Waverider 

Bucky never feared death. He knew that he was going to die someday. Death is inevitable. But its a totally different situation when you face the risk of being erased from existence.  It's a fate worse than death.

Bucky was anxiously waiting in the hallway when Sara walked up to him.

"Did you get him?" Bucky asked referring to Mick's younger self who was the first target that The Pilgrim was after.