It turns that even before she'd brought the subject up with Oliver, Laurel had been house hunting and she'd actually found a really nice lake house out in the suburbs and she'd even already gone ahead to set up an appointment to meet with the realtor. Really, asking Oliver was more of a formality to her than anything else.

That was why they were currently checking the place out with the realtor and Oliver had to admit that he understood why Laurel had been drawn to this place. The view of the lake was beautiful and it was also fairly isolated with a gated fence surrounding it.

"What do you think?" the agent asked as they finished looking around the place.

"I like it." Oliver said.

"Me to. We want to make an offer." Laurel said, since they were so in sync they didn't even need to anything between them.

"Well, I'm sure that as Queens, your offer will be very high." the realtor said.

"Name your price and we'll match it." Oliver said.

"I'll get in touch with the seller, but I think there's a good chance of this going through." The realtor said.

"Thank you." Oliver said.

A few days later, Emiko came up to the penthouse to find stuff being loaded into boxes.

"You know there are moving companies right?" Emiko asked with a smile as her sister-in-law came into view.

"Emiko, I think this is the first time we've met face to face." Laurel said with a smile.

"I take it you don't normally look like this." Emiko said, referring to Laurel's baby bump.

"No I do not. And in about 2 months, I won't look like this anymore." Laurel said.

"I haven't told Oliver yet, but congratulations." Emiko said and Laurel smiled.

"I really am happy that you're finally a part of this family. This baby could use another aunt." Laurel said.

"I'm surprised you're so willing to let me be in the family after what I did." Emiko said.

"You're forgetting who I married." Laurel said with a smile.

"Fair point. But anyways, why did you want to see me?" Emiko asked.

"Well, as you can see, Oliver and I are moving." Laurel said.

"Yeah, but I'm not much of a mover." Emiko said.

"I'm not asking you to help us move out, Oliver's out looking into moving companies right now, but I hear that you're looking for a new place to live in Star City, since you clearly can't go back to wherever it was you were living before." Laurel said.

"True. But why am I here?" Emiko asked.

"Because since Oliver and I won't need this place anymore, we thought maybe you could use it." Laurel said.

"You're serious?" Emiko asked.

"Completely. What do you say?" Laurel asked.

"Last night I checked and all my funds from the Ninth Circle are now frozen so I couldn't even pay for a towel, let alone the rent of this place." Emiko said as Oliver joined them.

"Which is why we're willing to pay the rent until you land on your feet and I think I know a way for to earn some income." Oliver said.

"How?" Emiko asked.

"Come work at Queen Consolidated. It turns out dad kept your plans on file and they're impressive. I could use someone like you in my corner and John is thinking about leaving QC to go work with Lyla at Argus, become our new liaison with them, so I wouldn't mind having you in his position of vice president, you're more than qualified." Oliver said.

"Thank you." Emiko said.

"Take a few days and think about it." Oliver said.

"No need, I'll do it." Emiko said.

"Welcome aboard." Oliver said as the siblings shook hands.

"Thank you." Emiko said.