Dinah nodded softly. “Of course you will, and you’ll have to check on your Father as well.”
”Definitely,” Sara smiled, “Now It’s freezing out here. You want to go get a coffee or something and I can at least try and explain what happened?”
Sara continued to embrace her mother for a short while longer before pulling back a little to see Dinah’s face. “Is Laurel okay? After that night…”
“She’s managing, she’s been talking to The Arrow he’s been helping her. She’s taking self defence classes too.”
She couldn’t help smiling slightly as her mother mentioned Laurel getting help from The Arrow. Of course, Oliver had been helping her sister. The self defence classes were new though. While Sara could understand taking her frustrations out on something, there was a niggling sense of something that Laurel hadn’t told anyone. She’d have to see her about that. “I’ll have to go see, her.”
“Shh, it’s alright. I’m just glad you’re okay.” She said softly.
Sara continued to embrace her mother for a short while longer before pulling back a little to see Dinah’s face. “Is Laurel okay? After that night…”
Dinah smiled brightly before wrapping Sara into a tight hug. “Thank god.”
Returning her mother’s embrace, Sara couldn’t help burying her face into Dinah’s neck, relaxing a little. “I’m sorry I didn’t come and tell you and Laurel sooner, Mom. I had to make sure you weren’t going to be hurt.”
“Oh my god Sara.” Dinah moved closer very quickly. Her hands reached out to try and check for any injury. “You’re alive."
She nodded, stepping up to her mother to allow her to reassure herself that she was really here, giving her a slightly tearful smile. "It’s me. I’m okay.”
“True,” Sara replied, grabbing the cleaning things and moving to head back outside, “And I do love him for it.”
“As do I dear.” She smiled.
”Still probably wouldn’t look great if he shot my boyfriend though,” she laughed.
Dinah had gone back to the grave without Laurel and with some flowers. She’d been there for a while, just standing and trying to come to terms with the fact that the daughter she had just gotten back was lost again. It was why the voice made her turn in shock.
“…Sara.”
She gave her mother a small smile, suddenly feeling emotional. This reunion was completely different to her first return home the first time, when Nyssa had kidnapped her mother. All she could think was that she shouldn’t have stayed away for long enough that Laurel had told Dinah she was dead. All she had been thinking of was keeping them out of something that could once again place her loved ones in danger.
”It’s me, Mom.”
She’d suspected that Laurel had possibly told their mother she was dead for a while now. Though her priority had been to let Laurel know she was okay, Sara hadn’t wanted to let too many people know that she’d been brought back from the dead until she’d found out who had killed her that night. And as much as it had broken her heart to keep her big sister in the dark now she was back again, she’d feared that the same someone who had attacked her would go after Laurel.
Though as all of her possible leads on her attack had dried up, she hadn’t been able to bring herself to keep up the façade any longer. With her mother in Starling, she’d kept a close eye on her, figuring out quickly that Laurel had finally confided in someone about the night she’d died. Following her from the hotel to the graveyard, Sara knew she would have to tell her soon that she was alive.
Dropping down from the tree near her grave where she had been watching her mother from, Sara took a few tentative steps closer. There was no way she could break this without it being a shock. “Mom?”
“Yeah, that sounds about right.”
“Bless, he means well.”
“True,” Sara replied, grabbing the cleaning things and moving to head back outside, “And I do love him for it.”
“I was joking, Mom,” Sara smiled, putting the bucket into the sink to fill and grabbing a sponge, “I’d rather Dad not shoot my boyfriend thinking he’s a burglar.”
“knowing your father he’d be shot just for being your boyfriend let alone a burglar.”
“Yeah, that sounds about right.”