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Three

Having just put Sara down with Midnight in her room at Queen Manor, I came down the stairs with the baby monitor in my hands. Felicity had volunteered to babysit Sara tonight whilst I tried to knock some sense into the Queen cousin's. Roy was out like a light for now, I loved watching both of them sleep.

The whole time Suki and Oliver had completely ignored each other, from what I understood, Suki had made a remarked improvement to her skill set since moving to Gotham City to learn under Bruce Wayne. So I'd asked the two to meet me down the backyard where the memorial stones for Robert and Moira Queen were.

The two were already there when I walked down to the backyard memorial.

"What are you doing here?" Oliver questioned.

"River asked me, what are you doing here?" Suki answered.

"River asked me," he replied.

I snorted. "Oh you two-dumber than those Russian models you used to date." The two turned around and stared at me. "You two have got to talk your shit out. Seriously. Felicity has forgiven her for what she did, it's about time you did as well, Ollie."

"Forgive me, River but I'm finding it a little hard to be impressed with someone who almost got my girlfriend killed," Oliver replied.

"I said I was sorry!" Suki argued.

"Sorry wasn't enough," Oliver told her. "This was Felicity you endangered. Not to mention Roy's feelings in the matter that you weren't there to back Felicity up so Roy didn't kill her! Your actions had consequences, Suki. They affected me, Felicity, River, Roy and even my goddaughter. Roy almost killed River."

"Oliver-" she objected.

Oliver held his hand up. "Suki-the Queen's are a dangerous family to be around. You want to change your name, fine, do that. I can see that you've changed. But you still need to build my trust back up."

"Oliver," I frowned as his phone rang.

Oliver paused when he saw who the call was from. "River-it's Barry."

My jaw dropped. "Barry Allen in a coma, Barry?"

Oliver answered the phone with a frown. He spoke for a few minutes before he hung up. "Barry wants to meet me-in half an hour." He stepped away from his mother's stone and made his way back up to the manor.

Suki sighed. "This is ridiculous. I've sent him email after email after email apologising. If Felicity can forgive me, why can't he?"

I ran my hands through my hair. "I remember Oliver Queen one day telling me that I shouldn't be around him anymore. He was poison. On the island, he fell in love with a girl called Shado, that's where I got my name from. Shado died for Sara, Oliver was made choose which girl to kill."

"I'm not any of those girls!" Suki objected.

"You're his family," I reminded her. "Where's his father? Dead. His mother? Dead. Thea has gone. None of us know where she is."

"He didn't send Felicity away in fear of her getting killed!" Suki argued.

"In case you didn't notice, Felicity can hack computers with her brain," I reminded her, "channel the power of the Sith and protect herself with a shield. None of that she used against Roy because he's a friend. You're a fragile, breakable human and so is Oliver and that is scary. A few times Roy has still wished he had comic book powers. I know you're sorry, the world knows you're sorry. Oliver knows you're sorry. Just-stay here and have a chat to Moira about Richard Greyson."

Suki frowned. "You know? You know about me and Dick?"

I laughed. "Of course. Just a warning, Suki Wilson, Dick Greyson likes creating new notches on his bedposts-I was one of them. Just be careful Suki. I was lucky. Not a lot of girls were. Now-we need to look for Charlie and let her know her brother is awake. It's time for her to go home."


"Barry's awake?" Charlie gasped, jumping off the lounge. "Did he ask about me? What's he want to talk to Oliver for?"

Suki and I shrugged. "No clue."

"And Barry only asked for Oliver specifically?" she asked. There was a kind of broken, upset look on her face that made my heart break a little. "Was it like a secret clandestine meeting between men?"

I shrugged. "I don't know, Charlie. Honestly I don't know."

"Maybe Charlie could go to the lair and listen in?" Suki suggested.

I raised an eyebrow. "You go ahead, Charlie. I need to do one more thing before we follow you."

Charlie squealed in delight and took off running.

"Why are we going?" Suki inquired. "I doubt Oliver would want me there after last time."

"Well you can't exactly see your suit without being there, moron," I scoffed with a grin.

"My-my suit?" she stuttered.

I nodded. "Yup. You're suit. Suki, you need to understand that Oliver has already forgiven you for what happened, he's just having a hard time articulating it into words. Your suit-he designed it."

Suki bit her lip. "Oliver designed my suit?" she asked me.

I nodded. "Oliver designed your suit."

"River-before we go, can I see Sara?" Suki blushed. "I've never held a baby before. Mum never let me, neither did grandpa."

"If she's awake," I nodded. The two of us headed upstairs to find Roy just changing her diaper before her feed. "She didn't sleep for long," I noted.

"Pooped herself awake," Roy answered.

Suki wrinkled her nose. "That's disgusting."

"That's babies," I replied. "Take a seat, Suki Wilson." I put my hands on her shoulders and steered her to the nursing chair to sit her down. "Bottle warmed?" I smirked.

Roy nodded. "And little miss cranky pants is ready for a feed."

I took Sara off him and lay her gently in Suki's arms, showing her how to hold her head properly before giving her the bottle and the burping clothe.

Stepping back, Roy muttered about taking a photo and sending it to Oliver to freak him out. I shook my head with a laugh.


After Sara's feed and another change, Suki rocked the baby to sleep, putting her down just as Felicity came in. "Ana's going to watch Sara-Charlie just called-we have a major problem at the Arrowcave."

The three of us looked at each other and we rushed out, Ana waving at us in the hallway. "Don' worry, we'll have her fighting crime in no time," she smirked.

"Yeah not if dad has anything to do with it," Roy muttered, making me laugh.

We rushed to the lair, taking the quick back way around to the gym, arriving just as Oliver dressed as the Arrow landed on the ground. "What are you doing here?" he asked.

"Charlie called," Felicity answered. "She said to get here straight away."

We shrugged and headed inside the dusty, boarded up gym. There was a kitchen in the back of the gym that showed considerable foot traffic mostly leading to an old double door fridge

Felicity opened the doors, inside there was a set of stairs leading down. Everything was clean in here, the stairs were lined by LED lights on the floor and more every few feet on the roof. The stairs went on for about fifty meters until we hit solid ground.

Charlie called it the Batcave.

There were white reflectors installed in an organized way throughout the bunker, along with several glass panels containing equipment and arrows. Various storage containers containing various material were double all across the floor. There was a semicircle of computers where any of us could sit and watch the monitors and also watch the mats set out in front of it watching us train. Oliver's bow sat on a specific glass case beside a case holding a mannequin with the Arrow suit. Next there was a case for Felicity's Katana that sat beside a case holding a mannequin with Cypher's suit inside. This was followed by a case holding a mannequin with the Black Canary suit and her staff inside. My suit was next to Sara's. A case held my sias blades as well as my boe staff sat beside that. A small square case sat next to my suit with a watch in it. I never noticed but it was similar to the watch that Charlie was wearing. There were two more empty cases-I'm guessing that these were for Roy and Suki. A series of cots were lined up against the other wall and right at the end where the last cot was sat a change table and a bassinet for Sara as well as a dog's bed for Midnight.

And Felicity called it Arrowcave 2.0.

Someone was already there besides Charlie, Laurel and she wasn't alone.

The dead body of Sara Lance was also there.

"Sara?" I whispered.

"Sara?" Oliver gasped.

"I didn't know where else to take her," Laurel sobbed, clutching her sister's body.

"She's-she's not breathing," Charlie sniffed, trying not to cry, her arms covered in blood. "I can't get her to wake up."

"Oh my god," Felicity whispered. "Oh my god, what happened?"

"I couldn't…I couldn't leave her," Laurel whispered.

"We have to-call-we can…take her to the hospital," Felicity stuttered.

Suki rushed across the room to hug Charlie as she broke down crying, Sara and Charlie had got along brilliantly. She was whispering to the teenager and took her outside. I could only imagine Charlie with her big smile after listening to her brother for the first time in just under a year, and turning around to find Laurel with Sara in her arms.

Where was Tessa?

Roy wrapped his arm around me and pulled me in as I fought tears.

Oliver crossed the room to pull Laurel into his arms as she started screaming.

"Ollie! Ollie! It's not fair! We just got her back!" Laurel screamed.

"I'm sorry," Oliver whispered. "I'm so, so sorry."