Oliver lightly shushed Sara as he held her tightly, stroking her hair a bit. "Hey, you have me, everyone on the team, everyone on your team. I know we're not your blood family, and I understand that we can never have the same standing for you as your father and Laurel did, but we're here for you. Don't put yourself down like that though. I know it's not the same, but I'll always love you and be here for you." He knew that he would never have the same weight and standing as her own blood family, but he wanted her to know that was there for her. Who knows, maybe he could eventually become her rock. Though, for now he was just going to be what she needed and just be there for her, he wasn't going to push anything or any ideas onto her while she was in this state.<br/><br/>Although, he didn't know about her contacting her mother like that, if he did then maybe he would have had different words for her. "I didn't know about you calling your mother and trying to reach out to her like that. I get that some people need time, but she should have tried to reach back out to you by now, especially after your attempts." And he would have thought that after Quentin's death that Sara's mother would have at least tried to reach out and reconnect with Sara, be her support as her mother, and just the two of them supporting each other in that family way. "Have you tried confronting her? Face to face? I would have thought that she would have at least spoken to you since your father's death. You are her daughter after all. If you want then we can go to her and you can try to talk to her, see if anything changes." She still had her mother on this earth, and she was the only family that she had left. Oliver didn't want her losing her mother on top of everything. Her mother shutting her out and just doing what she is doing was essentially the same as killing herself out of Sara's life.<br/><br/>"I just don't want William turning into me, I'm just afraid of that. I mean, it might start off as some small secret right now, but then it grows. I don't want him turning into me." Oliver didn't want to see William hurting those around him because of keeping secrets. Out of all the things he could have gotten from Oliver, that was the last thing that he wanted his son to pick up from him.<br/><br/>______________________________<br/><br/>"Wow, I really know how to pick 'em." Serena joked with a chuckle. "Sorry, I don't mean to be offensive or sound mean by saying that. It's just I don't have the best of luck when it comes to men a majority of the time. I mean, my last one tried to kill me, nearly did." One of the names that were on her list. "But damn, you're<i>that </i>Roy Harper? Damn, going to jail for Oliver Queen, taking the fall like that. We they getting close to finding out that it was Oliver and you just decided to take the fall so that he could keep on cleaning up the city?" She was just curious, and she wasn't upset or anything to find out that he had done all of that. Besides, it was all in the past, she saw no point in getting upset over anything over his past actions. "You don't have some wife and kids or anything do ya? From the time of your faked death." It was mainly a question out of a joking manner, and her chuckle and the playful tone that she used would have given away that she was just joking with the question, though there was a slight hint of seriousness to it because he could for all she knew.<br/><br/>"But you give some you get some, so you want to know anything particular about my life since you gave me a slice of yours. Well, anything that's not about my father, that's off the table." She felt like she should tell him something in return for him divulging a part of his life. Although, she did give him a small snippet about her last ex trying to kill her, but she figured she owed him a little more.