Return to Normal. Sort of. With Mia, Michael, Lois, Sam and Dean.

[olliequeen]

Oliver sat heavily on the steps of Watchtower, his shoulders slumped as he waited for Lois and the kids to show up. Sam and Dean had returned a few minutes before, and while Dean was leaning against the wall, Sam was staring at the computer equipment with something akin to fascination on his face.

He drew in a breath and glanced up as he heard Lois and the kids making their way into the room, and he rose to his feet slowly, despite his body's protests.

"Lois."



(Tag order Lois, Michael, Mia, Ollie, Dean and Sam?)

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[dp-lois.livejournal.com]

"I thought you were going to be in the apartment," Lois said, pushing the door open and watching as the kids and the dog ran inside.

She raised her eyebrows when she saw the two strangers standing there, they were definitely easy on the eyes, but they were not her cousin.

[mirrorsmirk.livejournal.com]

Michael skid to a halt once he was inside at the sight of the two new people. But his eyes grew round with recognition at the taller one. Without any hesitation he ran over and grabbed his legs. "Uncle Sam!"

[need2speed.livejournal.com]

Mia hung back, not sure about the strange men, even if Michael was hugging one of them. She didn't think Oliver looked very well either, he was moving like an old, old man. "Ollie? Are you sick?"

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

He looked down at her, his chest tightening at the worry in her voice. He rubbed a hand over his face and slowly sat back down on the steps. "I'm okay, Kiddo," he whispered.

[helluvahunter.livejournal.com]

Dean had to raise an eyebrow the way the kid clung to Sam. It took him a moment to remember that his little brother had been in Michael's life while he...had been dead. But now wasn't the time to focus on that. He stepped forward. "We gotta get this show on the road."

[lost-lastcookie.livejournal.com]

Sam handed Michael a piece of chalk as well. "Can you draw us some pictures with Mia?" he asked, nodding toward the circle as well as he set the boy down.

[dp-lois.livejournal.com]

Lois just watched all of them, apparently those were the guys who had been helping her cousin figure out how to bring the kids back to normal which was all the more reason why she would be there.

[mirrorsmirk.livejournal.com]

Michael took the chalk and nodded to Sam, walking over the circle. "I'll draw an awesome picture!" Then he stopped and looked back. "Will Mommy come see it?"

[need2speed.livejournal.com]

Watching Dean warily, Mia shrank back against Oliver's hip for a second instead of taking the offered chalk. "Is it a present?" she asked him, still a little nervous about how Ollie wasn't being smiley and happy like he usually was and the strangers...well, maybe "uncle" Sam wasn't a stranger to Michael. "I want to stay with Ollie."

[lost-lastcookie.livejournal.com]

Sam drew in a breath and began to recite the incantation in Latin, focusing on the words and tuning everything else out. When he was done, he looked down to see two teenagers on the floor in the middle of the circle and he grinned.

[dp-lois.livejournal.com]

Lois' eyes widened and all she could do was stare at the kids, well teenagers in the circle, "whoa..." she murmured.

[mirrorsmirk.livejournal.com]

It took Michael a minute to register what exactly was going on. He had a piece of chalk in his hand and suddenly everyone else wasn't so tall. He looked down at his hands. He was back to normal. "Holy crap."

[need2speed.livejournal.com]

The change was so quick, Mia ended up wobbling dizzily on hands and knees where she was crouched over her chalk drawings. She looked up blinking. "Um...someone tell me that didn't really happen."

[lost-lastcookie.livejournal.com]

"We haven't had a chance to get much more information than that," Sam added, glancing at his brother and then looking over at Oliver with worry. "But we're happy to help however we can." Even if it wasn't generally their kind of case.

[dp-lois.livejournal.com]

Lois nodded a little at Mia, the feeling was mutual after all, then turned to Oliver, "she's with the people who beat the shit out of you? And we're just standing here?"

[mirrorsmirk.livejournal.com]

Michael's eyes widened a little at the information. Chloe was in the hands of the people that had done this to Ollie. Not to mention the fact that his formerly dead father and not-uncle were offering to help. He rubbed his forehead. "We gotta do something now."

[need2speed.livejournal.com]

"Chloe wouldn't go without a plan or some way of letting us know where she was," Mia said, frowning at Oliver's bruises and the stilted way he moved. "Have you seen a doctor yet?"

[lost-lastcookie.livejournal.com]

"We'll find her," he said quietly, glancing at Oliver and then meeting Michael's gaze. He offered the younger man a small, reassuring smile, following Dean out of the room.

[dp-lois.livejournal.com]

"This makes no sense," Lois said, shaking her head, after the boys left, "why would she trade herself, why wouldn't she just call Clark and have him break you out or something?"

[mirrorsmirk.livejournal.com]

Folding his arms, Michael watched the two men leave before turning back to Ollie. "She didn't see any other way, did she?"

[need2speed.livejournal.com]

"That or she knew something we don't about the ones that took him. What would they want with her? What did they want with you?" She watched Oliver carefully, still not convinced that he didn't need a hospital or at least to be lying down somewhere.

[dp-lois.livejournal.com]

"And you can't go anywhere like that!" Lois said, joining Michael and Mia, "and if something happens to you, Chloe is gonna kill us when she gets back."

[mirrorsmirk.livejournal.com]

Michael's grip tightened a little more. "You collapsing from exhaustion and whatever other injuries you have is just going to make looking for Chloe that much harder."

[need2speed.livejournal.com]

"Besides," Mia soothed, "no one's saying you'd be doing nothing. You'd know how to work the watchtower better than the rest of us and we need information more than action right now."

[dl-greenarrow.livejournal.com]

Oliver's gaze focused on Mia for a long moment as he fell silent. Then he shut his eyes, exhaling slowly. "Fine." His voice was quiet and he rubbed a hand over his face tiredly. "I'll contact the rest of the League and get everyone here to help." He looked at Lois. "Can you contact Clark?"