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Summary: A drabble giving words to Laurel's thoughts after Slade tells her Oliver is the Arrow.
AN: Part of this has been in my computer for a while now. Slade so desperately enthralls me, even three years later. I hope to do more with this some time…just don't know when. So, I will share what I got as a drabble for now, and we shall see what the Muse does with it later.
First her father gets arrested for aiding and abetting the city's vigilante.
Then Slade drops by and tells her that her former love was the vigilante after all.
Then she realizes her baby sister is the partner of the vigilante.
What should she do? She was all prepared to beg her father to turn Oliver in, to save himself. However, if he did that, Sara was in danger of being arrested too.
If her father denies knowing who the vigilante is, does it mean he didn't know what Sara does? Sara, who has looked Laurel in the eye and denied over and over again not to have any knowledge of the vigilantes. However, Laurel saw with her own eyes, her baby sister having the same scars Oliver had. Supposedly from the island. That she never talked about. That she was supposedly never on, since she supposedly had died when the yacht went down and Oliver never saw her again. Supposedly.
Slade had underestimated her. He thought she would betray Oliver to save her father. However, he did not figure that in a pinch, she could be as down and dirty as anyone else, for the sake of her family. She took a chance, and decided to threaten to sue the district attorney's office. It was a calculated risk, but one she knew she had an excellent chance of winning. She knew she was an excellent lawyer, and could bring bite to her threat in suing the DA office over the ridiculous charges of her father. And it worked.
The three most important people in her life, keeping such huge secrets from her. Why? Well, she can certainly keep some secrets of her own, for sure. She will bide her time until it was right, before she let them know she knew. That she finally knew what they had been keeping from her.
When that time arrived, there would finally be no more secrets kept from Laurel Lance, recovered addict and alcoholic. In fact, an entire new life, one step at a time, would begin.
AN: Well, what do you think of it? Just a little ditty that persisted in being written, through fits and starts. Make my day and let me know what you liked or if it spoke to you. Always, always appreciated!