This is a sequel to 'A wrecked knee', 'at the hospital' and 'Taking the offer'.
If you haven't read them yet, you can click on my nick and read them. But it's not necessary...
The moon shone above him. Oliver looked up to see a million small stars above him. He hadn't seen that many stars since the island. The fact that there was a power outage and that it was affecting all of Starling city might be the reason. It was beautiful.
But the people of the city was used to have electricity. It was three days since the power had disappeared, and it was starting to look like a battlefield. Those who didn't have gas-stoves built fires outside, in the streets… Most didn't even know how to cook over open flames.
Some of the things Oliver had seen the last couple of days put him on the verge of either laughing out loud, or cringing. He had seen someone trying to practically soot a steak, he would be willing to bet that that man had never lit a campfire to make other food than hot-dogs before. Well, if he had lit a campfire at all… Another thing he was willing to bet was that the steak would be raw inside, and still kind of cold… The man had basically been asking for food-poisoning.
Oliver had probably seen a hundred people fuzzing about that their phones was running out of power too… What had the world become? He remembered that he used to be upset whenever his phone was low on battery, but that was in another lifetime… Before the island.
Now he enjoyed whenever he could disconnect and chill out.
He was far from running out of power himself though. Both him, Felicity, Diggle, Sara, Roy and Laurel had bought solar chargers for their phones. It came in handy…
And team Arrow, as Felicity sometimes referred to them, was in need of being able to reach each other at all times…
Dominic Kays was the man behind the power problems. He had become a rather public person over the last year or so. He went around warning people about things like this happening.
It had taken them a good while to figure it out. Kays wasn't your typical criminal mastermind. Far from it! His day-job was teaching kids that somehow had fallen outside the regular system. Kids that would either turn in to criminals or hobos. Everybody who knew Kays liked him and thought of him as a kind person. Oliver included.
It wasn't to stick under a rock that Oliver had a troubled past. As early as fourth grade was the first time he had been in one of Kays' classes. He got help with a lot of things down at that center. Managing his ADHD for instance… The reason he had been placed in that class in the first place was that he had kicked his teacher hard enough to make the man limp for almost a month. He had truly had one of his 'episodes' back then.
But he had learned now that Kays wasn't who he pretended to be. After a little research from Felicity, they found out that he in fact was a part of some Czech mob. That his real name was Dominic Bartusek, and that Dominic Bartusek was far from anyone you wanted to watch over your kids.
Convicted for more than 20 murder, 3 known rape-charges amongst of other things. He escaped from a high-security Czech prison 6th of May back in 1985. Ten days before Oliver was born, that part creeped him out a little bit. Dominic had been 26 at the time, now he was a well-respected 55 year old… It was weird knowing how differen Dominic Kays really was. Oliver couldn't help shaking his head when he thought about it.
Tonight was the night; he was going to stop one of the men that had helped him out a lot when he was a kid.
Hope you enjoyed reading, the next chapter will bring some pain into the picture...