One-Shot: When Amanda Waller found out Tommy Merlyn was looking for Oliver in Hong Kong, What If instead of deciding to have him killed she decided to give him the chance to stop and go home
Chance Encounter
"No, No not you Dad" Tommy was on the phone talking to his Father Malcolm Merlyn, or more like arguing because of his sudden trip "I'm already in Hong Kong, H-..No I didn't tell you I was taking the jet cause I knew you would freak out like this"
Tommy turned and walked back into his Hotel Suite "No I don't know how long ok it doesn't matter. Listen if Oliver is still alive, if he is still here…" Malcolm began trying to tell him Oliver had died 2 years ago like everyone else had been saying in his search for the Queen heir, making him slam his cup on the kitchen counter "Look why don't you just go back to banging your polities instructor ok" he said before hanging up
He turned to look out the window not noticing the black figure through the mirror beside him "I'll just be here searching for my best friend" he muttered to himself before the man behind him plunged a syringe into his neck then put a hand over his mouth and dragged him away
oOo
The next thing Tommy knows he's waking up tied to a chair with a cloth being pulled off his head, he stutters for a bit "H-How did I—"remembering being kidnapped from his Hotel room he realizes the situation. Listening he hears the sound of soft footsteps nearby "What the hell's going on here? Where am I?!" he yells
He could hear a door opening then closing behind him "Please, please don't hurt me, just let me go. I won't tell anybody about this" he pleaded to his kidnappers but was only met with silence "Look whoever you are you really don't want to do this, do you have any idea of I am! Who my Father is!"
"Thomas Merlyn" A female voice finally spoke
Tommy was surprised to hear a woman's voice, it was a man that had been the one to kidnap him so who could this woman be, he heard the sound of her high heels walking toward him until she came into his line of vision. She wasn't what he had been expecting to see, she was well dressed in a business suit with her hair tied into a bun with a serious expression on her face
"You've come looking for Oliver Jonas Queen"
"H-H-How do you know that?" He stuttered, the only other person who knew that was his father because he had told him over the phone, but there was also the computer technician he hired to keep track of Oliver's accounts who had informed him of the alert that his e-mail account had been accessed in Hong Kong
" , My name is Amanda Waller I am the head of A.R.G.U.S, A division of the United States Military"
"If your part of the military then you must know that according to our laws kidnapping is a felony!"
"But you must also know that someone of my ranking is a person of great influence"
Tommy looked around the room they were in and saw that it was mostly made of concrete, looking like it was under construction since there were some walls missing and tarps covering it "What is this place. What does any of this have to do with me?"
"This is an abandoned facility that's now used as a meeting place for associates and I to discuss progress on missions. As for why you are here, I want you to go back to America as soon as possible, if you do this then there will be no unpleasantness"
"What?! No, why should I do what you tell me" Tommy was not intending to leave Hong Kong until he found Oliver
"That is not a wise decision Mr. Merlyn, be happy I'm giving you the chance to leave my first plan was to have you killed"
"W-What" Tommy's eyes widened
"I cannot have you compromising my agenda by allowing you to flash Oliver Queen's picture all over Hong Kong, either you leave or I will have no choice but to have my men assassinate you"
Tommy could tell by the look in her eyes that she was being serious, this woman did not have a funny bone in her body but something didn't make sense to him "Why do you care?" Waller didn't answer so he tried again "Why do you care if I'm flashing my best friend's photo around Hong Kong, how could that possibly compromise any mission of yours unless-" Tommy's eyes widened in the realization then looked back at Waller "Unless Oliver is Alive!"
"That is not any of your concern Mr. Merlyn"
"It is too my concern! If your keeping Oliver prisoner in Hong Kong somewhere then—"
"Then what?" Waller crossed her arms "You don't have any authority to do anything about this, as far as the rest of the world knows Oliver Queen is dead. I never confirmed that he is even here"
"What other reason would you have to stop me from looking for him? What could you possibly want with him anyway?"
"That's classified"
"Have you been keeping him prisoner these past two years, he has a mother and a sister that need him back home, you can't just keep him from going home like this!"
"I was the one who rescued Mr. Queen from drowning 6 months ago. What I am doing now is a debt that he must repay for that"
"6 months ago?" Tommy lifted an eyebrow the Queen's Gambit sunk 2 years ago not 6 months ago
"Mr. Queen was involved with a freighter accident sinking 6 months ago; if I hadn't intervened he would have died. I brought him to Hong Kong for a mission I needed him for; with the proper motivation he agreed to help me"
"What type of Motivation?" Tommy glared
"Nothing that concerns anyone you know, all you have to know is that Oliver is ok so now that you know that you can take your father's jet back to Starling City"
"No, I came here to bring Oliver back home and I'm not leaving without him!"
"I already told you Mr. Queen is needed for a mission, once that mission is over he will be able to go anywhere he pleases, whether that will be Starling City is his decision"
"Oliver never had any Military training, what mission could you possibly have that involves him and don't say that its none of my business, Oliver and I have been like brothers since we were born!"
"Your friend has changed a lot in the past 2 years Mr. Merlyn, he had to do a lot of growing up to survive in the conditions he had before I brought him to Hong Kong. The skills he has acquired are the part of the reasons I need him for this mission"
Tommy didn't really understand what could have happened to Oliver in the past 2 years, Where was he before he came to Hong Kong? Why hadn't he contacted anyone? How did he survive the Queen's Gambit? Did anyone else survive? "I want to talk to him"
"What?"
"I want to talk to Oliver!"
"That's not possible Mr. Merlyn"
"Yes it is! You have to have contact with him if you're using him for one of your missions. I won't believe any of this if I don't hear it from Oliver himself"
After a long staring contest between Amanda and Tommy she spoke to one of her men standing by the entrance of the room "Contact Mr. Yamashiro, tell him to bring Oliver to this location" Tommy sighed in relief seeing he was able to convince her of letting him see his best friend
"Miss Waller I believe that Mr. Yamashiro and Mr. Queen are working on the current mission you sent them on"
"Tell Maseo to hold off on that mission and bring Mr. Queen here"
"Yes Ma'am" The man then turned and walked out the door
"After this you will take the jet and leave Hong Kong" Amanda told Tommy who just sat in silence trying to prepare himself for Oliver to walk through the door behind him and tell him to leave
"Where's your wife?" Oliver asked Maseo as he walked through the front door of their home
Maseo was cutting vegetables in their kitchen "Tatsu? She needed to be someplace else"
Oliver let out a heavy sigh "She doesn't like me"
"You're wrong, she hates you"
"She's not happy that I'm here, neither am I" he walked closer to Maseo in the kitchen "I killed a man today I don't even know the reason"
"Sometimes it's better that way"
"Oh? Blindly following orders is better?" He turned away from him
"You're not blind Oliver, only focused on what's more important" Maseo turned to see his son Akio on his laptop across the room "You should do the same, it's not our place or our burden to know why we carry out our missions"
"I didn't realize having a conscience was a burden" he sternly told Maseo
Before Maseo could respond his phone from A.R.G.U.S began ringing so he went to answer it, Oliver turned to look at Akio on the laptop then looked down at the flash drive he got from the man he killed so walked over to Akio "What are you playing?"
"A reading game"
"Oh yeah, do you mind if I try? I want to work on my Japanese"
"Dad said I shouldn't let you use my computer"
"Ok, why don't we make a deal then?
"You don't have anything, you're a bum"
Oliver smiled "Well this bum has something that you don't have; height. You know that stash of candy that your parents keep in that covert above the fridge" he held up two fingers "I'll swipe you 2 pieces"
"5"
"3"
"5"
"Fine 5, give me the computer" Akio handed him the laptop letting Oliver plug in the flash drive and once he read the information off of it his eyes widened at the familiarization. Oliver saw Maseo walk in "I need a meet with Waller"
Maseo saw that Oliver was on the laptop so turned to Akio "Akio"
"Not his fault!" Oliver told him as Akio ran out of the room "I need a meet make it happen!"
"Waller's men just contacted me, they say that Waller has someone who wants to talk to you and I was to bring you their location"
"What?" Oliver lifted an eyebrow
"She wants us there right away I already called a sitter for Akio so we need to go"
"I need to talk to Waller anyway"
"Well?" Amanda asked as her agent came back into the room
"I contacted Maseo, he's bringing Oliver here as we speak"
"Good"
"Oliver wanted to speak with you Ms. Waller" the agent spoke up
"What?"
"Oliver spoke on the last call to confirm they were coming, he seemed quite angry and demanded to speak with you once he arrived"
"If this is about this recent assignment then I don't want to hear it"
"He told me to tell you 'Ferris Air: Flight 637' he said you'd know what he was talking about"
Tommy had been listening in on their conversation since he was still tied to the chair in the middle of the room; he heard from the agent that Oliver was angry about something involving a plane. Did they tell Oliver it was him who he was coming to talk to? Why would he be angry about that? Judging from the look Waller suddenly got at the name of the flight she knew what Oliver was talking about
"Very well I will hear what he has to say" with that the agent left the room so Waller turned to Tommy "I will need to speak with Mr. Queen on this matter first before you speak with him, Move him out of the light so Mr. Queen doesn't notice him" She told her agent oOo
Tommy had been moved into the shadows of the side of the room away from the light coming from the hole in the wall by Ms. Waller, she had told him not to interrupt her conversation with Oliver until she told him when he could speak. He was getting a bit agitated with every passing minute Oliver didn't walk through the door, thinking he might not come after all, had they told Oliver he was here or not
The door to the room open making him catch his breath in his mouth and look up but it was only one of Waller's agents
"Mr. Queen is here" the agent announced
"Good, send him in" Waller told him
Tommy tried to get his breathing back under control, the moment was almost here, he would finally get to see his best friend again, confirm he hadn't died in the shipwreck 2 years ago. He could hear footsteps coming on the other side of the door, then the knob turning and finally the door opening
Everything went in slow motion to Tommy the moment Oliver stepped into the room, he looked completely different from the way he looked the last time he had seen him but this was defiantly his best friend. Oliver's hair had grown to neck length, he had a sort of 5'o clock shadow and he was dressed in ordinary clothes nothing you would expect a billionaire to be dressed in
He could only stare for now in awe seeing his best friend right in front of him alive and healthy from the looks of it
"Good Evening " Waller spoke breaking the silence "I believe Maseo has told you about your guest"
Oliver spoke "He didn't say who that was but right now it doesn't matter, what matters to me right now is Ferris Air: Flight 637"
He defiantly had the same voice he remembered, but apparently these people didn't tell Oliver that he was the one who wanted to talk to him, Tommy could tell Oliver was angry about something. It was rare to see Oliver angry sure he had gotten mad on occasion when they went out to party but that was usually from his intoxication, whatever he was angry about it had to do with that flight
"You prevented that flight from being shot down over Lian Yu"
"Were you watching me?!" Oliver narrowed his eyes
"Via keyhole hexagon satellite, how else was I supposed to know you possess the capabilities I require" she paused for a moment "That business with the freighter last year impressive" she turned to leave "Are we done?"
Waller began walking away, Tommy began getting ready for what he wanted to say to Oliver now that he had gotten over the shock of seeing him alive, he didn't really understand the situation of what they were talking about but didn't really care that much either. Oliver spoke again interrupting his thoughts
"Just getting started actually, Adam Catswift" Oliver spoke up making her turn to him "The man you had me murder, he was Edward Fyers handler" he pointed his finger at Waller "And he worked for you"
Tommy's eyebrows furrowed in confusion, did Oliver just say murder? No he had to be meaning something else, he knew Oliver and he wasn't capable of doing something like that
"You're out of your debt Mr. Queen!" Waller yelled
"I don't think that I am! I think Mr. Catswift had a USB drive on him detailing everything. I think that he knew that you told Fyers to shoot down the plane and I think that you wanted him silenced!" he yelled
"The world thinks you dead Mr. Queen!" Waller walked back over to him "The convenient thing about dead men is that no one tends to believe them"
Tommy glared at Waller, he believed Oliver and from hearing this conversation it looked like Waller tried to shoot down a plane full of people and Oliver had somehow stopped it. He would help Oliver if he wanted Waller to stand trial
"Yeah well what about dead men who make arrangements to have the information on that USB drive in the hands of every blogger and journalist in this hemisphere " He pointed at her again "If anything happens to Maseo's family then you're going to spend a long time testifying in front of the senate subcommittee!"
"The world's a much bigger place then you realize, Edward Fyers thought he was to shoot down that plane to destabilize the Chinese economy. In truth I wanted to take out a single target"
"So you blow up a plane full of innocent people to take out one man"
"No" Waller looked down to her phone "To take out one woman" she faced her phone to Oliver to let him see an A.R.G.U.S mug shot of a Young Chinese white haired woman "Chin Na Wei, Two years ago we had our only chance at her and you saved her life and now she's in Hong Kong I need to know why"
Tommy couldn't see the picture since it was so small, this woman sounded dangerous, women could be just as dangerous as men given the right circumstances
"So is that what this entire mission is about? Finding out why this Chin Na Wei is in Hong Kong"
"Yes she's a very dangerous woman, she only deals with the most dangerous of attacks on countries and if she's in Hong Kong then we need to find her and stop her before she causes another attack"
How the heck was Oliver supposed to stop a terrorist from causing an attack? Tommy thought to himself trying his best to keep quiet
"Because of that grant plan to kill this Chin Na Wei in that plane attack, Edward Fyers killed a very good friend of mine"
Tommy's head shot up at that statement, could Oliver be talking about Sara? Sara was dead?
"Yes Yao Fei, he was assigned to take the blame for the plane being shot down, he didn't want to take that fall so we had to give him the right motivation as well. Yao Fei was not meant to die though but I could not control it anymore than you could save your other friends on that island"
Tommy had no idea who this Yao Fei was but he could tell from the way Oliver was glaring at Waller that he meant a lot to him and he was apparently dead because of Waller's actions
"Slade, Shado and Sara would all be alive today if you had intervened"
Sara! Tommy's eyes widened, Oliver finally mentioned Sara in their conversation but according to what he was saying Sara was dead too, but she hadn't died in the Queen's Gambit, had she died from something else Waller caused?
"Looking after your friends was not my issue Mr. Queen. I believe we are done discussing this matter" Oliver stayed silent so she took that as a yes "Now I'm sure your guest is very eager to speak with you after hearing the last bit of this conversation"
Oliver lifted an eyebrow
Tommy held his breath, the moment was finally here
"You can come forward now" Waller announced
Tommy lifted an eyebrow, he couldn't move he was still tied to the chai-, Tommy moved his wrists to see the rope had been cut, When did that happen? He steadily stood up from the chair and began to walk out of the shadows toward Oliver and Waller
Oliver hadn't really been paying much attention having his arms crossed still trying to get over his anger about Flight 637 but when he saw the person coming out of the shadows his eyes widened "Tommy?"
Tommy was glad Oliver recognized him, but then again why wouldn't he?
Oliver turned to Waller "What the hell's going on here?! I thought you said no one could know I was alive!"
"I didn't bring your friend to Hong Kong Mr. Queen, he came here looking for you" Waller explained
"What?" Oliver eyebrows furrowed looking to Tommy and Waller
"During your last escape attempt, when you logged into your e-mail it set off an account alert. Dead men don't check their e-mail Mr. Queen!"
Now Tommy knew Oliver really had logged into his e-mail account as an escape attempt, but what had they done to make sure he didn't try again?
"So this is my fault!" Oliver huffed
"I brought Mr. Merlyn here to convince him to return to Starling City, he wanted to hear it from you so I brought you here. I can't have you be compromised by having your friend flash your picture around Hong Kong. Now your job is to convince him to leave Hong Kong so that you can get back to your mission at hand" Waller ordered him then walked out of the room leaving the two billionaires to talk
The two stood in silence until Tommy finally decided to his not so deceased friend "I thought you'd be happy to see a familiar face"
Oliver looked toward him "I am happy to see you but I wish it would have been under different circumstances" Oliver stayed quiet for another moment before speaking again "you need to go back home Tommy"
"What?"
"You can't stay in Hong Kong Tommy, you clearly heard the conversation between Waller and I, this Chin Na Wei could be planning an attack and I don't want anyone I care about anyone near here"
"But what about you! Your part of the family back home too and if I go back knowing your alive in Hong Kong and then you die in some attack I'm gonna regret not bringing you with me"
"I can't leave Tommy"
"Whatever it is Waller is threatening you with I'm sure with the connections our families have.."
"That's just it Tommy, she's not threatening my life" Oliver told him "She's threatening a family in Hong Kong that I've been staying with, if I try to leave she's going to kill them. I can't have something like that on my conscience"
Waller had told Tommy she had motivated Oliver to stay in Hong Kong to complete her mission for her but threatening a family was just wrong. "How the heck did you get mixed up in all this"
"That's a really long story that I don't have enough time to explain"
"I don't know about that looks like we have plenty of time" Tommy looked around not seeing any agents around "How did you survive the Queen's Gambit in the first place? From what the rescue teams say there wasn't anything left of it but debris"
"All I remember of the sinking is being in my cabin with Sara when it capsized then water came gushing in and the next thing I know I'm trying to keep above water with the large storm pushing giant waves everywhere" Oliver didn't want to tell Tommy that his father had killed himself and the captain in front of him
"I heard you mention Sara earlier in that conversation" By the grim look on Oliver's face Sara was in fact dead "What happened to her?"
"We were separated during the Gambit's sinking, I didn't see her again until a year after she was on a freighter but during a confrontation the freighter was hit with a missle I told her to leave without me but she wouldn't go. She was sucked out of the freighter during its sinking and I was trapped inside. After that I woke up here"
"How do you know she's dead then, seems like those were the same circumstances from the gambit how do you know she didn't come to the surface again outside the freighter too?"
"I don't know, like I said I woke up here once I was knocked out. I had no way of looking for her but that was 6 months ago so even if she did survive I don't know if she could have survived on the island we were on" there was no one left on the island to teach her how to survive like Yao Fei, Slade, and Shado had taught him
"Well you never know"
"You can go ahead and check but I wouldn't recommend it, that island is dangerous"
"What the name of the island"
"Lian Yu, it's a small abandoned Island in the north china sea make sure someone knows you went there if you're gonna check cause that place has no way of getting any outside contact"
"Alright"
"So you agree to leave Hong Kong without me?"
"Won't you ever be able to come home?"
"I'm sure once this mission to stop Chin Na Wei is over I'll be able to go home"
"Yea hopefully, your mom and thea were devastated when they thought you had died"
"How are they now?"
Tommy didn't really want to tell Oliver Thea had gotten into drugs and drinking and endless partying "Well Thea's been better" the look of concern on Oliver's face made him re state that comment "Yours and Robert's death really hit her hard she's having a hard time dealing with it but I try to look after her as much as I can"
Oliver nodded wishing he could be there for Speedy
"Your mom's actually been seeing someone too"
Oliver looked to Tommy with wide eyes, she moved on so fast after his father
"You remember Walter Steele, your father's friend from the company"
He remembered him just fine but he didn't know he wanted to sleep with his mother, he was slightly angry thinking they were taking advantage of his father's death to get together "How's laurel?" trying to change the subject
"You really want to know?" Tommy lifted an eyebrow
"Well I want to know how much my mistake affected her, I would have liked for her to moved on from me, she deserves someone better"
"Hey you tried to save Sara didn't you?"
"Sara wouldn't leave without me, it my fault I should have forced her to leave before the freighter sunk. I somehow hope that if you go to Lian Yu she's somehow be there and you can bring her home"
"Yeah me too, there's something I wanted to ask you though" Oliver lifted an eyebrow "During your conversation with Waller you said you murdered someone but you didn't really did you right?" Tommy tried to smile hoping he was right but from the way Oliver avoided eye contact he was wrong "Oliver?"
"During the past 2 years I've done things I'm not proud of Tommy, on Lian Yu I was almost killed dozens of times, I had a friend there named Slade and he taught me how to fight back these people didn't care about taking my life and the only way I was going to survive is if I was willing to do anything to survive so if that meant killing I had to too stay alive. Another friend of mine named Shado taught me more of how to defend myself and she wanted me to survive that island no matter what I had to do"
Tommy slowly nodded, Waller had told him beforehand that Oliver had changed in the last 2 years, and from what Oliver was describing the killing he had done was to survive not because he actually wanted to do this "What happened to Slade and Shado? Could they still be on the island? They might be taking care of Sara, you never know"
"Slade and Shado are gone, Tommy. Everyone that was on that island is dead"
The door to the room opened back up and Waller walked in "I believe you've had enough time to convince your friend to go home Mr. Queen. Has Mr. Merlyn agreed or not?"
Oliver looked to Tommy and Tommy looked to Oliver "Yes"
I'll let the reviewers decide if they want a second chapter of a one-shot in The Return, or if Tommy will find Sara on Lian Yu.
I thought of doing another One-shot of The Return where the police arrive at the warehouse and find Oliver there too