Wow so many of you guys are Olicity shippers, which I find pretty cool. I mean in the comics Oliver and Laurel are pretty much set. Based on the amount of request I will make this story into an Olicity story. However, you must bare with me it might take time to get those two together since Oliver and Laurel are dating.

Hope you all enjoy this chapter! :)


Chapter 3

They had managed to get to the safe house without being tracked; getting Laurel to a safe place was both Sara and Oliver's number one priority. It was the middle of the night, everything was silent and so were they. Without trying to make any noise, they walked through many secret passages that would lead them to their destinations. Sara led them underground to a concealed door with a hidden keypad.

Sara entered the key code followed by a retinal scan, automatically the door opened to their safe house. As they entered, Sara turned around to face the others whose faces were shocked after looking at well-furnished safe house.

Expecting to the place to be dark and cold, instead it was the opposite. The place was warmed by the fire place in the corner, surrounded by two couches. Shelves of books leaned against the wall and near it were sets of computer monitor running different programs. On the other side of the room was a complete kitchen and mahogany dining table that could serve up to ten people.

"Welcome to the safe house, this where you'll be staying till we get thing under control." Oliver understood what Sara meant by "under control". If it meant protecting the people he loved, then there was no choice to make. He had to kill Slade Wilson and make sure he stayed dead this time. "I'll show to your room"

They followed behind Sara as she led them to a bunch of closed doors. They could hear a female having a heated argument with a male coming from one of the closed door. Oliver couldn't make out what they were actually saying, but he wondered who he who be sharing the safe house with.

The room Oliver and Laurel were going to share was pretty much empty, beside two twin beds. There were no windows at all; unlike the main hall the room looked depressing.

"You guys can push your bed together if you want, but as you can tell the walls are not sound proof." Sara said with a wink and left the other two alone in the room.

The brunette walked over the nearest bed and dropped herself onto it. She was completed exhausted, the last couples of days she couldn't sleep. Nightmares about the day she was taken from her sleep.

"I'm sorry, this is entirely my fault." Oliver felt guilty; he couldn't look Laurel in the eye. He wondered what she actually thought of him. He walked over to her and fell to knees as he tried to beg for her forgiveness. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you that I wasn't the vigilante. I kept you at arm's length to prevent anyone trying to use you to get to me." He looked at as she silently listens to what he had to say. "I left that life to have a normal life with you, yet you were targeted for my past life."

Laurel could tell Oliver was being sincere; it was the first time he looked like he was going to breakdown. The Oliver Queen she knew kept everything bottled up inside him; however now he was letting everything out. She just didn't know what to do; this had completely changed everything she knew about him. This also changed everything about Sara, she knew had spent a couple of years with the League of Assassins but now she was she says she part of a team of superheroes. Two of whom she had met. If it weren't Superman and the Flash she or Felicity would have been dead.

"I want you to tell me about Slade Wilson, I want to know why" Laurel looked him into his eyes. She wanted to know exactly why he had her and Felicity at gunpoint.

"Slade was my friend; we were like brothers helping each other out as we try to survive the Island. Things changed between us because of Shado, she was the one who taught me how to use a bow and arrow. We became close until the day she died."

The Island had changed him she knew that but she didn't know how. He had once told her that he wasn't alone on the Island and that people had tortured him. Every night she saw Oliver's scars; there were times when she felt scarred of him.

"Because of my feelings, I destroyed the man I once called brother. Slade got hurt in explosion trying to protect me. I lost conscious in the explosion; I was captured by Dr. Ivo and his men who came to the Island looking for a Japanese serum that create super humans." Oliver had lied to Laurel about Sara's death and now he had to tell the truth. "They took me prisoner on their freighter, that when I saw your sister Sara alive. Dr. Ivo had found her drifting in the ocean. They took me back to the Island to help them find the serum."

This wasn't just about Oliver, this was about Sara. Laurel knew she had to talk to her sister after talked with her boyfriend. She was getting answers from him, and she needed to get answers from Sara as well. Only then will she be able to understand why she almost lost her life.

"We were able to escape thanks to Shado and a very injured Slade. Half his body was burned and he was in complete agony because of me. I felt so guilty, so with the knowledge that the serum was hidden on the Island we went out to search. We had no clue that we were being followed by Ivo and his men." Oliver continued with his story as Laurel took in the knowledge. "We found the serum, none us of knew what it could really do, so we took a fifty-fifty chance and gave it to Slade hoping it would save him instead of killing him. It caused him to go into some sort of shock, his eyes began bleed out and that was it he went dead with no pulse."

The description Oliver was giving her sounded so familiar. Laurel thought back to a time when Thea and Roy had come to for help about something similar.

"That was when my friend Slade Wilson died. Ivo caught us again; he was so upset that we killed his men to escape. He wanted to punish me for what I had done, so he pushed Sara and Shado down to their knees and waved his gun between them." Oliver had vividly remembered that day, that very moment. It was something he would never forget and now Slade Wilson was making sure he didn't forget. "Ivo wanted me to choose between them who would live. I couldn't choose I just couldn't do what he was asking me to do. He was going to choose for me, he had gun on Sara, right at that moment I ran in between the barrel and Sara. In a blink of an eye Ivo pulled the trigger, and I found Shado dead on the ground with a bullet in her head."

Tears were streaming down Oliver's face, Laurel felt bad for making him remember such a horrible thing in life. She had seen this face before, when Slade did the same thing with her and Felicity. The fact that he had to go through that was something but to make him go through with it a second time around was just plain sick. It made her think as who Oliver would have chosen this time. Would he have chosen her because they were dating or would he have chosen Felicity who seemed to be part of his other life that she didn't know?


-Thana