Her smile was weak, but a smile nonetheless at his agreement. At least she got that one over on him, with the agreement of it to boot. It was kind of funny and sad in it’s own way, no amount of I’m fine, Mia’s would do well of convincing her of the fact. Perhaps it was experience of hearing them form Roy during a relapse, or maybe her own experience of saying I’m fine at the worst moments of her life, but she struggled to believe it. Even in the average moments, when Oliver wasn’t injured, the words ‘I’m fine’ set off alarms in her mind. “Good.” She lifted her hand, he was a lot taller then her, and yet Mia still patted him on the head. It took some effort on her part, but she still did it. “I’m glad.” She added, her smile less weak then before. Still uncertain, but further relieved by the lack of head injury. He didn’t sound fully convinced of the statement, but Mia liked to think if it was in the head it’d have become obvious by now. So it wasn’t (probably, the worry nagged her still). “I’m glad you made that a promise,” She said. “Cause if you break it I’m totally holding it over your head for at least three years.” This time it was a joke, and the stronger smile showed just as much. “I know I do, at least I’m self aware of my nagging.”
Oliver smiled at her when she patted him on the head. Coming from anyone else, the action would feel demeaning and irritate him to the ends of the earth, but not coming from her. He was his daughter in every sense of the word that mattered, and the head pat came off as endearing because of it. "Now, will you stop worrying so much about me?" He asked, knowing the answer was going to be, not even if she said yes. Mia worried about everyone in the family, Roy and Lian included. She cared, and that showed a lot more than Oliver's caring did. He was proud of her for that; that she didn't turn into him. She was better than he was. All of his children were, even Roy when he was doing well. "Okay, kiddo. I can't live with you breathing down my back for the next three years, so I guess I'll have to keep it. Yeah, well, you sound like Dinah now."