Summary: Tessa had a lot of feelings about the episode, so she wrote a Donny piece. Enjoy! (SPOILERS FOR CRISIS BELOW)
Donny's eyes flew open, his balance delicately thrown off as he gazed around his dad's bunker for what felt like the hundredth time that week.
"What the hell just happened?" His sister whispered beside him.
His sister.
Mia.
She was alive. He barreled toward her at breakneck speed, engulfing his twin in his arms, grateful to see that she made it. A strained gasp came from the gurney in the center of the cave, and Donny felt his blood run cold.
"Dad" He whispered, rushing forward to the side of the bed, barely able to recognize the features of Oliver Queen through the bloodstained bruises that outlined his face, strained breaths and gasps passing his lips with hardship.
"No," Donny murmured, unable to comprehend the sight before him. His stomach dropped, knotting itself as his chest constricted, eyes pricking with unshed tears.
**
"Mia…Donny…" Oliver breathed, a ghost of a smile on his face as eyes that looked so much like his stared down at him. For a moment Oliver thought he was looking at himself and Felicity.
That she was here to see this.
He even thought he saw the slightest bit of Willa in them.
Their determination.
Their drive to save others.
She had raised them right. He had made the right choice.
"Remember--what---I said" He coughed, unable to tear his gaze away from the two loves of his life, "Find your mother--Find William"
Donny shook his head, a strained sob leaving his mouth as Oliver's fingers tightened around his son's hand, "tell them how much I love them."
"tell Willa--" his breathing turned ragged, slowing down as he could feel the beating of his pulse come close to halting, "Tell her--"
He coughed again. Perhaps the Monitor was right, perhaps the universe was determined to keep some things secret.
"She knows," he said instead, spending his last moments with his kids. His beautiful children. The best of him.
His legacy.
They were proof that he had done this right.
They were proof that these past eight and half years hadn’t been for nothing.
They were alive.
Now they needed to stay that way.
"Survive" Oliver implored, his last breath spent echoing the same words his father had given him all those years ago.
**
Donny couldn't hold it back.
He reached for his father, his grasp on the lifeless hand growing tighter, trying to squeeze the life back into it.
As if his strength alone was enough to bring the man back.
He didn’t want to survive.
Not alone.
Not without his father.
"Dad," He whispered, his voice breaking as he repeated the word over and over again, "Dad please," his tone shook, "don’t go. You can't go."
Hot tears marched down his face, burning his lips as he brought his head to Oliver's chest, Mia shaking beside him.
They had lost their dad a second time.
What were they supposed to do now?
I’m not gonna be tagging anyone because of spoilers, but there will be more COIE oneshots in the future, so let me know if you wanna be included in that!
Also, I don’t believe Oliver is dead. I think Barry is gonna end up running through time again and that saves his life/retcons some of the crossover.
