Bash and Emilia are best friends. As children they played together, shared each others secrets and hopes. But what happens when one falls in love with their best friend and the other falls for the unattainable. Things in the palace are never as they seem and events are put into motion that can change the course of history itself. Takes place during the first half of season one.

They met a total of four times. Each time he was a different man, a different face and in a different place in his life. Once as Oliver Queen, once as a post island survivor, once as the vigilante, and once as Arrow She was what he needed at the time until the time she needed him. But could he save her life the way she had saved his. Meant to be a one shot but became longer.