Oliver quickly beats all the guards to a pulp knocking them down easily one by one before making his way towards his target.
"Marcus Redman, you have failed this city." He hisses as he holds Marcus' head right above a speeding fan, threatening to push him towards it.
"Please don't!" Marcus begs fear evident in his shaky voice.
Oliver merely stays focused on his mission "Cell phone, inside pocket." He orders "Call your partner. Tell him to give those pensioners back their money!"
As he shoves Marcus' head closer and closer towards the fan he practically cries as he begs for his life "Please don't!"
"Do it now." Oliver orders before leaping off Redman and making his way off the roof.
As he climbs something catches his eyes a blonde figure climbing out of a car. She was too far away for him to say her face clearly and the baseball cap she was pulling out of her bag wasn't going to help matters.
Oliver frowns and looks down at his watch. It was 1'oclcok in the morning and they were in the Glades. This woman must be really clueless, to wander around in this neighbourhood at this time of night.
Buffy sighs in annoyance as she leaves the hospital. It was one in the morning and Starling General had decided that having her cover for someone at the hospital in the Glades on her first night of work was a brilliant idea.
Thankfully it was finally over. After a gruelling 16-hour shift, she was exhausted and very much looking forward to good night's rest.
She grabs her baseball cap from her bag and places it on her head. As she does she pauses as she hears two sets of footsteps approaching. The blonde immediately sighs "It's late. I'm tired. And I wanna go home. So let's just get this over with."
Buffy turns to face the two men currently approaching her, one middle aged and one who looked no older than herself. She looks at them unimpressed, before rolling her eyes at the knives in their hands.
"I take it you're new around here sweetheart." The elder one with the greying hair says as he looks her up and down with a look of approval.
Buffy gags slightly before smiling "Yeah. Is it that obvious? I must stick out like a sore thumb." She pauses and places her bag on the ground "As will you in about thirty seconds from now."
The men frown in confusion before chuckling at the tiny woman "Come on sweet pea don't you wanna have some fun?"
Buffy smirks "Oh sure. Who wants to go first?"
The elder man swings his fist out towards her face however she quickly side-steps him and ducks underneath his next blow. She then grabs his arm and backhands him across the face, before head butting him. She kicks her leg out kicking the younger man in the chest knocking him down before she wraps the same leg around the elder's shoulder, she forces him down to the ground with her leg.
"Wanna play now?" She asks before tightening the force around his neck, she watches as he goes blue before eventually passing out.
Tossing him to the ground she turns to the younger man, who was staring at her fearfully "You gonna have a go kid?"
The kid stares at her fearfully before taking off running.
Buffy watches unimpressed "I guess this was my welcome to town moment huh?" She says before grabbing her bag and heading off towards her car.
As she climbs into her car not once does she notice the man in the green suit watching her from above, an impressed look on his face.
Oliver stands before the judge at his hearing just praying for this to be over with "There was a storm. The boat went' down. I was the only survivor." Oliver pauses remembering his father pulling out the gun "My father didn't make it. I almost died. I—I thought that I had because I spent so many days on that life raft before I saw the Island. When I reached it, I knew. I knew that I was going to have to live for the both of us. And in those five years, it was that one thought that kept me going."
As Oliver finishes reminiscing about his hell his lawyer stands to face the Judge "Your honour, we move to vitiate the death in absentia filed after Oliver's disappearance aboard The Queen's Gambit five years ago. Unfortunately, we will not be requesting that the declaration of the death filed for petitioner's father, Robert Queen, be rescinded. The Queen family is only entitled to one miracle."
Buffy climbs out of the ambulance and immediately heads towards the back door, as the doctors approach her.
She pulls the patient out "I got a police officer, a bullet wound to the gut, his left lung is haemorrhaging, airway's blocked, I did a crike on route. Three fractures on the left leg. The bullet is still lodged in his lung, it shifts every time he moves, I couldn't remove it on site."
The doctor nods and turns to his team "Let's get him up to the ICU and quick. Thanks, Summers."
Buffy nods and watches as the cop is rolled into the building, at that moment the detective who had been with him at the time climbs out the ambulance "Thank you." He says to Buffy.
Buffy shrugs and closes the doors before turning to her new partner Stewart. Man did she miss Peter.
"It's no problem."
The detective offers her a grateful smile "You do your job better than I've seen in a long time. You probably saved his life."
Buffy smiles slightly, she wasn't good at compliments "Again it was no problem Detective..." She freezes having realised that she never got his name.
"Lance." Quinton finishes for her before shaking her hand.
"Summers." Buffy says as she gives him a wave before climbing back into the ambulance.
"I hired you to protect my son." Moira tells Diggle as he stands in her living room "Now, I'm not a professional bodyguard, but it seems to me that the first requirement would be managing to stay next to the man you're hired to protect."
Diggle sighs, he was still furious at how Oliver had taken him down, and he wanted answers as to how a billionaire playboy even knew that move, the only other person who had ever been able to do that on him was Buffy, and that girl was an oddball.
"Will all due respect, ma'am I never had a client that didn't want my protection."
Moira doesn't seem to process this as she walks over to him "I hired you. That makes me the client. Now, where do you think my son is going on these chaperone-less excursions?"
Diggle shakes his head, he had no idea but he intended to find out "Ma'am I truly do not know."
"And he truly doesn't." A voice says from behind Moira. Moira turns to see her son entering the room "Then perhaps you'd like to share with me, you know, where it is you run off to."
Oliver scoffs "I've been alone for five years"
"I know that—"
Oliver cuts her off giving her a pointed look, making it very obvious "Mum! Alone."
"I see."
"So this is your desk." Willow's supervisor at Queen Consolidated says as he leads her through the IT floor "Felicity with help you get set up."
Willow glares at him as he leaves as she catches him again staring at her ass, "This is why I swing for the other time."
She shakes her head and moves to head into the small office in front of her, "Felicity Smoak?" She asks as she spots the blonde haired woman sat at the desk, her hair tightly wound in a ponytail, glasses sitting on her nose as she chewed a red pen "Yes, Hi, yep, me, that's me."
Willow smiles slightly, she sounded a lot like she herself used to back in high school "I'm Willow. Willow Rosenberg"
The pen falls from Felicity's mouth "Oh yeah, I know who you are. Well, I didn't know exactly who you were, but I know of you. You're Miss Rosenberg."
Willow laughs slightly "Yep, that would be me. So where do I start?"
"As you can see Oliver we've modernised quite a bit." Walter says as him and Moira lead Oliver through Queen Consolidated.
Oliver whistles as he looks around, it was so different from the last time he stepped foot here, Oliver notices two girls grinning at him flirtatiously and gives them a smile before chuckling.
"Are you enjoying yourself?" Moira asks in amusement.
"Yes, I am." He says as he follows Walter into his father's old office.
As they walk, Walter decides to reminisce "I remember when your father used to bring you here when you were a boy. You always were so excited."
Oliver nods as he remembers "Dad, let me drink soda in the office."
Walter and Moira move to stand together allowing Oliver to wander around the office, after a moment Walter turns to him "The Queen Consolidated success of late is a result of its targeted diversification. We have been making impressive inroads in cutting-edge fields. Like biotech and clean energy. Plus now that the Watcher's Council of England have partnered with us I'm sure..."
"That's great." Oliver says shortly, cutting Walter off "Excuse me!" He calls to the female assistant sat outside the glass doors of the office "Can I get a—sparkling water or something cold, please?"
The assistant stands however before going to get the water she opens the door her attention on Walter "Mr Steele, Mr. Harris is here."
Moira's head spins around "Lovely." She says with a fake smile "We will be down soon."
Xander sits in the waiting room, his foot tapping the ground, he was nervous. Xander groans in annoyance he wasn't supposed to be nervous, Will was here and Buffy was just down the street. But the warning Giles had given him was still there.
'That woman is a vile creature, Xander. Please, whatever you do never let your guard down around her.'
Xander's attention was brought back to reality as he watches a dark haired blonde man storm out of the building. However, before he could focus on that a blonde haired woman and a tall man in a suit approach him.
"Alexander?" The woman asks.
Xander smiles standing slightly, trying to act as professional as possible "Mrs Queen. Mr Steele." He greets shaking both their hands.
Five Years Ago - Chicago
"So where is our happy helper?" Buffy asks as she stands in the doorframe of the small office "You know the man who has offered us asylum."
Giles looks up from his row of books, a small smile grazes his lips at the sight of the blonde slayer "Out of the country...You're standing. Properly this time."
Buffy waves him off and wobbles slightly into the office, before taking a seat opposite him "You know me, I heal faster than a lizard. Although I can regenerate my limbs, but I am working on that."
Giles chuckles in amusement before sitting back in his chair, from the look on her face it was clear that there was something that she wanted to discuss.
Buffy sighs when Giles gives her a look, making it clear she would be the one to speak first.
"So what's the plan? And I swear if you say, Cleveland, I might explode."
Giles shakes his head "Faith has already volunteered along with several of the other girls to head to Cleveland. The mystic energy will likely go insane now that the Hellmouth in Sunnydale has been destroyed."
Buffy's eyes widen slightly, she had not been expecting that after a brief moment of silence she looks Giles in the eye "I need a break, Giles."
Giles nods and removes his glasses to look at her seriously "I think you've definitely earned it, however, I would like to ask you to stay...just for a short time to help some of the first girls we find."
Buffy sighs, knowing he was right, these girls would likely be scared and confused, and she was really the only one who could understand.
"Two months." She tells him "Then I take my break."
Starling City – Present Day
"My mother wants me to join the company." Oliver tells Laurel as he sits on her living room floor a tub of melting Ice cream in his hands. When she arches a brow in astonishment he nods "Yeah, take my rightful place."
Laurel thinks for a moment trying to imagine it "I can't exactly picture you as the master of the universe."
Oliver nods glancing away from her "You know, after five years, I have plans. I have things that I have to do. I can't do that if I'm—I don't know, attending board meetings and stockholders briefings."
Laurel takes another bite of her ice cream and shifts in the couch slightly as she looks at him "Oliver. You're an adult. You can say, no."
Buffy waits outside the burger joint John had asked her to meet him at, she glances up at the sign 'Big Belly Burger' she reads, before her stomach rumbles.
"Buffy Anne Summers." A voice says from behind her "I take it you can still eat like an NBA player."
Buffy grins slightly, before turning to face her old friend, her smile widens at the sight of him, he hadn't aged a damn day.
"Hi, Dig." She says before giving him a tight hug where he lifts her off the ground slightly as she is so much smaller than him.
As Dig places her back down on the ground he smiles at the young woman he thought of as a little sister "It's good to see you, Buffy."
Buffy smiles before rolling her eyes as her stomach rumbles again, she then punches John in the arm "This is what happens when you make me stand in front of food. It's teasing."
John chuckles in amusement before placing an arm around her shoulder and leading her into the restaurant "Let's get some food in you then, kid."
"I'm 27, not a kid."
"So wait he threw an unbalanced knife with perfect accuracy?" Buffy asks astonished as John finishes telling her about his night.
Buffy sighs "Well you're right, something is not right there. It takes years to learn that kind of skill."
John nods, it was nice talking to her again, she was one of the few people that knew about his past "He's making my job extremely difficult."
Buffy nods as she takes another bite of her burger, relishing in the taste of cheese and delicious beef.
"So enough about me, you're a paramedic now? Who would have thought?"
Buffy rolls her eyes "Shut up. I'm good at it."
Buffy pauses and glances down at his hand, which was wrapped in a bloody bandage "You worry me, John."
John arches a brow "Really? Buff, you've got more scars than anyone I know, this new one of mine doesn't even catch up close with yours."
The two stay in a comfortable silence as they eat before John looks at her "You moved here at a bad time Buff. Things are really going downhill."
Buffy arches a brow "Trying to get rid of me Dig?" She teases.
"No. I love having you around but you brought your roommates, I don't want you or them in danger."
Buffy smiles fondly at her friend however their nice meeting was interrupted as his phone buzzes "Let me guess Quick guy?"
"Queen. So I gotta go."
Buffy pouts slightly before giving John one last hug "It's cool my break's over, I better get back to the hospital."
Oliver sits at his desk, and pulls out his father's notebook, grabbing his pen he crosses another name of the list 'Martin Somers'.
As he does he remembers back to the island and how he found the book, and the message his father had left for him.
Buffy places her newspaper down, "A vigilante, what are we in a comic book now?" She asks herself as she leans back on the couch.
Just as she begins to doze off the front door slams shut and next thing she knew something heavy was dropped on her chest.
"Ow!" Buffy exclaims as she sits up, what had felt like a rock turned out to tonnes of files of paperwork, Buffy frowns in confusion before looking up to see Willow standing over her "What is all this?"
"That's everything I could dig up on the demons we're looking for. It's time."
