The Ghosts

Of

Oliver Queen

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the general idea you see within this story.


As Thea and Sin tried to figure out what to do about the freaking arrow of all things that was in Roy's leg in between panicking. They were at first not noticing the extra figure that was in the room with them watching as they went out figuring out a plan. And it was Roy who happened to notice her first. "Uhh.. Guys? I think we have a visitor."

Thea looked at him a bit confusedly as she thinks she would have heard her door open up even while she and Sin were freaking out and all that good fun. He pointed towards her door and she and Sin looked to where he pointed. And what the two girls saw surprised them. A Chinse or Japanese looking woman with black hair was staring at them with what looked to be an amused expression on her face.

"Hello." She decided to start off with, figuring it was the best way to go.

Thea quickly went towards the woman. "Look, I don't want to seem rude or anything. But who are you, and how did you get in here with out anyone noticing it at first?"

The woman just looked at her with a calm radiating off her. As if nothing could really even bother her at all. "I am Shado and I easily came in. Were I an enemy you would all be dead."

Sin and Roy looked pretty nervous at that and even Thea was looking a bit that way herself if the gulp she did was any indication. "Well um.. Nice to meet you and all but I need you to leave." Thea fired off quickly and made to try and turn the woman around to get her to leave. Not even thinking of what the consequences could be.

But to her complete suprise and shock, along with the others, she passed right through the girl and nearly fell. "W-what just happened!?" The young Queen teenager cried out.

"I could tell you, but I feel that may have been entirely rhetorical. So I will save time instead. I need to speak with Oliver. Please." Sure she was a ghost and all now, but manners were still an important thing here thank you very much!

Thea looked at her and then at the other two a bit confused. "My brother? Why... Why would well.. You know... Want to talk with him?" While the girls Ollie had been with back in the day were quite a few, she was still pretty sure she would have remembered this one. Maybe she was after the island? Come back to haunt her brother for some reason? Which would be kind of funny if she was fully thinking straight.

"I've come as the need to speak with him is important, to warn him of something." To warn him? Of what?

Thea thought of a tactic she might could try in this situation and briefly wished that the Ghost Whisperer was real. "Well maybe you could tell me and I could tell him?"

Shado smiled at what the girl was attempting there. "While I thank you for the offer, I feel he would not heed it and think you to be playing a cruel joke on him. Please, bring him here!" She implored once again.

Thea's eyes widened at the suddenly serious tone and the pleading that was part of it. "Okay, I'll go get him and I promise we will be right back!" Shado nodded gratefully at her and the girl took off to get her brother. Leaving the other two to stay in the room with their guest.

"Soo... Haunt places much?" Roy couldn't help but ask and got a smack on the shoulder from Sin. The action causing Shado to smile again.

It didn't take long for Thea to find her brother, as he happened to be in a nearby hallway conversing with someone else she'd never met. And his appearance highly suggested he was in need of a tailor and a barber. The two also seemed to be arguing however. "You are fool to think you fail me Oliver. You never fail." She heard the other man say and wondered just what the heck that was about.

It seemed however that her brother wasn't about to be deterred from that. "But had I gotten out of the ropes quicker, Fyers wouldn't have been able to shoot you!" Whoa! What!? This man was shot!?

The man would have said something but then he noticed Thea. "We have guest Oliver, I will come to you again when you alone." And to her shock, the man vanished as if he was never there.

The look on her brother's face though scared her as he was looking paler then she'd ever seen him be before. "Who... Who was that Ollie?" The question surprised the hell out of him as he certainly wasn't expecting that.

"You saw him!?" Perhaps he wasn't going nuts like he thought?

"Yeah, I did. Who was he? I thought you said you were alone on that island? Why was he shot!?" Her questions came in a rush as she couldn't quite hold back.

Oliver sucked in a breath before responding. "His name... His name was Yao Fei and he was murdered by a damned maniac." The last part was said a bit grimly and she definitely noticed he hadn't answered the other question.

Oliver decided to get on with things however and find out what she was doing. "So what's up Speedy?"

"Huh? Oh, um could you come with me to my room for a few minutes? Its really important." She pleaded.

Oliver stared at her and wondered what could be wrong. "Alright, let's go." Was all he decided to say on the matter.

Thea was pretty worried now at why they seemed to be getting haunted all of a sudden. Though these ghosts seemed to be more of a thing in Oliver's direction. And as soon as she let him in to her room, the first thing Oliver noticed was Roy and that new girl he and Thea had been hanging out with lately. The same girl who liked to hang around with Sara too as a matter of fact. He also noticed the arrow he had earlier put into the kid's leg. This sight might have been funny to him if he hadn't of talked with Yao Fei's ghost. He started to think that maybe this was why she had wanted him in here. "That arrow why you needed me in here for Speedy?" He asked her with a curious look on his face despite the fact it was him who had done it in the first place!

Thea looked at him in shock as she hadn't even honestly thought about doing that. "Uhh.. Yeah sure!" Though privately wondered if he would even be able to do it.

Oliver smiled at her and a moment later with some chat involved, the arrow was safely out of her boyfriend's leg. Making her wonder how he could have been able to so calmly just do that. Something she was going to put resolve into asking about very soon. Though she did wonder where the heck Shado got off too since she was the reason he was in here in the first place! But the sudden sound of a foreign voice speaking in another language drew her attention to her brother again as she saw his face go even more paler then what it already was. Oliver turned to the voice he thought could only have been in his imagination and dreams now.

The sight before his eyes made him drop the bloody arrow in stunned disbelief. "Sh-Shado!?"

The girl smiled at him, and the smile seemed like one of warmth and affection in Thea's view. Making Thea wonder just how well these two knew one another and when they did know one another. Oliver walked towards her as if only he and her were the only two in the room now. Sin just continued to feel like the whole thing was one bizarre freak show. Roy couldn't help but find the whole thing interesting and wondered if he might be visited by a ghost too. Though he wasn't quite sure he'd be able to handle it all that well.

"You can't... You can't be here." Oliver finally said to the ghostly woman as he held the side of her face with one hand. And one could easily see how she leaned into the touch with her eyes close and seemingly relishing in the feel of it.

"I know, but I had to come and warn you. Put down your bow, take off my father's hood, and stop fighting. Or everyone you love will die."

Needless to say, that alarmed the other three in the room while at the same time causing them to come to a startling realization about the man before them. A realization that Thea definitely wasn't happy about, not only was her brother the Arrow, but he also put a freaking arrow in her boyfriend's knee! What an asshole! While Roy wasn't exactly happy about the whole arrow in the knee thing, finally knowing how the Arrow is was a huge thing for him. Sin just felt it made a lot of sense for why Thea's brother and Sara seemed to not have too many issues over Sara's being a vigilante like him.

Oliver looked at Shado with a slight look of disbelief on his face, wondering how she could possibly ask him to do that. "I wear that hood to honor your father, to honor you." He finally said with a tone full of convinction.

Shado could only look at him with tears welling up in her eyes. "If you want to honor me, you'll do as I've asked. Something is coming and I fear you will not survive it. So please, stop while you can." She implored to him, making the other three damned worried about what it is that could be coming. Thea especially didn't want to lose her brother to anything life threatening.

Deciding to take a chance before leaving to her resting place. She gave Oliver a kiss on his lips, causing the two to savor it. "Its time I returned to my resting place Oliver. Remember my warning, and please heed it. And know that I will always love you and that you need not burden yourself with guilt over what happened to me. It was not your fault and I could never blame you for it." Oliver could only watch as she stepped away from him while he held on her to hand. And with one last look around the room before finally looking at him again with a sad smile on her face. She vanished, nearly making Oliver want to fall to his knees.

"I... I didn't even get to say it back..." Was all he could say, making Thea's heart break for him.

But before she or anyone else could say anything, a loud blood curdling scream could be heard through out the Queen home. Taking Oliver out of his state of shock and heading quickly towards the door with Thea following closely behind as she told Sin and Roy to stay where they were for the time being. Leaving those two to wonder what was going on as the Queen siblings rushed to find out where the scream had come from and who could have caused it.


Author's Notes: And here we are with the start of The Ghosts of Oliver Queen. Originally meant to be a one shot, but as I wrote it, I realized this was going to be more then that. Though it will only be a few chapters. I hope all who read this will enjoy my take on a different version of the Three Ghosts episode. R and R!