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Originally, this one was going to be longer. I was originally going to combine two episodes of flashbacks into one, but then I realized that episode seven's flashbacks were ones I had major plans for, there will major differences between the episode and the story in the next chapter. In the meantime, enjoy.

Yamashiro apartment, a week later

Day

"Don't your parents have anything else to eat in this place?" Sara asked Akio dissatisfied as she closed the fridge.

"Mom's going shopping tomorrow." Aiko told her nonchalantly from where he sat at the kitchen table before looking at her curiously, "you and Oliver are having a baby together."

"Yes, your point?" Sara growled her hormones making her temperamental.

"So why aren't you married, don't you have to be married to have a baby?" Akio inquired and Sara froze, not quite sure how to respond to that.

Luckily for her, she didn't have to. Tatsu walked into the kitchen and snapped at Akio in her native tongue and Akio shot up from the table and fled the room. Sara, while relieved she didn't have to answer Akio's awkward question, didn't like the kid getting in trouble simply for talking to her.

"We were just talking." Sara said defensively.

"Ms. Lance, I will clothe you, feed you, even help you deliver if I have to, but my son is off limits." Tatsu told her not unkindly.

Sara wanted to argue but held her tongue. She supposes if she were in Tatsu's place, if a strange man and his pregnant girlfriend were living with her and Oliver and their child, she would feel the same way. Sara nodded before walking out of the room.

Hong Kong

Same time

"You need to work on your patience." Maseo told Oliver pointedly.

"Where is this guy, and more importantly, how is he gonna help us find China White?" Oliver demanded.

"Waller hasn't been able to locate her because China White avoids using a traceable form of communication." Maseo explained.

"So this guy's the target now…he's her delivery guy." Oliver realized.

"Or carrier," Maseo corrected, "but he's not a target, Waller doesn't want you to kill him."

"That's…refreshing." Oliver said sarcastically and Maseo looked at him annoyed.

"He's carrying a dead drop, carrying information for White's network." Maseo told him but Oliver was no longer listening as he looked over Maseo's shoulder.

"I see him." Oliver warned and Maseo followed Oliver's gaze to the young man putting a white envelope in his jacket pocket.

The pair watched him turn right and walk in that direction. Maseo turned to Oliver to deliver his orders.

"Stay alert; I'll be right behind you." Maseo told him and Oliver nodded.

Oliver walked in the same direction that the young man went. Oliver spotted the man turning a corner and followed him. When he was about to turn the same corner, the young man punch Oliver in the face and Oliver stumbled back, yelping as the young man made a break for it.

"What was that, did he see you?" Maseo asked through the small comms device in Oliver's ear.

"Yeah, I think he did." Oliver grunted as he began to run after his target.

Oliver had to the give the guy credit, he was fast. But Oliver had built up a rather impressive speed himself due to his time on the island and was on him within moments. The man, sensing Oliver's approach, threw down some plastic, colored crates to slow Oliver down as he took off once more. However, Oliver simply jumped over them and tackled him to the ground, punching him in the face. The two began rolling on the ground, almost rolling into the street when Maseo appeared. Maseo pulled the young man off Oliver, lifting him into the air by his shirt as Oliver stood up from the ground. At Maseo's signal, Oliver walked over and began searching the man where he had seen him put the envelope only to squint in bafflement.

"It's not there, where'd you put the envelope?" Oliver demanded but the man just sneered at them not saying anything.

"It's okay; we have ways of making him talk." Maseo assured Oliver as the trio of men began to move.

Argus safe house

Afternoon

The young man sat in a chair, his hands bound behind his back. Oliver stood in front of him, Waller and Maseo next to him. In the corner of the room was a large duffle bag that Waller had brought with her.

"Mr. Queen, go open the bag." Waller commanded.

Oliver nodded, shooting a hateful glare at the woman before walking towards it. Oliver opened the bag and was shocked to see his bow as well as his quiver and arrows, along with Yao Fei's hood in the bag. Stunned, Oliver turned to Waller, his emotions dancing across his face.

"I didn't just have you and Ms. Lance salvaged from the Amazo, I had your weapons retrieved as well. And now I'm going to teach you how to use them in a more…novel use." Waller said calmly and Oliver knew where this was going.

"You want me to torture him." Oliver said disgusted.

"Yes." Waller said callously.

"You're sick." Oliver said horrified.

"Mr. Queen, there are people in this world who deal only in extreme measures, it would be naïve to think anything less than extreme measures would stop them!" Waller said passionately and, seeing Oliver wouldn't budge, tried a different tactic, "my operatives can do more to Ms. Lance than simply collect her. Would you like to find out what else they can do?"

"You stay the hell away from her!" Oliver snarled beginning to stalk towards her but Maseo held him back.

"Then follow my commands." Waller said coldly.

Oliver sneered at her before walking back over to the bag. Oliver reached inside and pulled out his bow and a single arrow. Oliver turned to the man before notching the arrow and taking aim. Realizing what was going on, the young man began to panic.

"Wait, please don't!" The man cried out fearfully.

"Then tell us where you put the envelope." Oliver all but begged.

The young man looked away; obviously more afraid of China White than he was of Oliver. Oliver closed his eyes, taking a deep breath before he opened them again. It was as though a different man now stood in the room, his eyes now cold and hard. Oliver let the arrow fly and the young man let out a pained scream as the arrow flew into his shoulder.

Yamashiro apartment

Same time

"What do you want Tatsu?" Sara asked as the older woman led her into the kitchen.

"Since I am being forced to house you and your boyfriend, the least you can do is help out around the house," Tatsu said tersely as she pulled out a pot, "I'm going to teach you how to cook."

"What?" Sara asked sure she had misheard her.

"I am going to teach you how to cook." Tatsu said with more emphasis as she filled the pot with water.

Argus safe house

Afternoon

"It's the crates," the young man said weakly from where he sat slumped in the chair, pain shooting through his body, "the crates I knocked over, that's the dead drop."

"Well done Mr. Queen," Waller said smoothly as Oliver shakily lowered his bow, "you and Mr. Yamashiro go to the dead drop and collect the envelope. Report back to me with your findings."

Hong Kong

Late afternoon

Oliver, his hands shaking by what he had done to that man, walked with Maseo to where the plastic crates that had been knocked over earlier in his pursuit of the white's carrier. Oliver looked at the center and, sure enough, the envelope was in there. Oliver kneeled down and picked it up and opened it, pulling out the piece of paper inside. As they looked at it, both Oliver and Maseo were puzzled by what they saw.

It was a drawing, a drawing of a mountain overlooking a plain with animals. Geography had never been Oliver's strong suit, but if he had to guess, he'd say that it was a drawing of somewhere in Africa. Oliver and Maseo exchanged bewildered look before looking back at the drawing.

Yamashiro apartment

Night

"Not bad for a first attempt." Tatsu admitted begrudgingly as she and Sara did dishes.

"Gee thanks." Sara said sarcastically as they heard the front door open and close.

Putting the last plate away, the two of them walked into the living room to greet their significant others. Maseo walked passed them after giving his wife a kiss but Sara froze upon seeing Oliver. Oliver had the same look in his eyes that he had when the Amazo had first arrived at the island and he killed Ivo's men: his eyes had a haunted look to them. Hearing Tatsu give them some privacy, Sara walked over to him and took his face in her hands.

"Ollie, what is it?" Sara asked gently.

"I…I tortured a man today," Oliver admitted had to hold back her horrified gasp, "Waller had Maseo and I captured him because he's China White's delivery boy. He wouldn't tell us where the dead drop was so Waller had me torture him until he told us where it was."

"Ollie-" Sara tried to comfort him but Oliver was on a roll.

"The entire time I was doing it, I just kept thinking of what Maseo told me a few weeks ago: that you and the baby have to come first now, no matter who else becomes collateral damage. But I just…I have to wonder who else will become collateral damage before Waller is satisfied?" Oliver asked broken and Sara took him in her arms and hugged him.

"Hey, that's on Waller, not you. Listen, we'll survive this. We survived Edward Fryers' and his men, we survived Anthony Ivo, we survived Slade and the Amazo, and we can survive this. Anything you do, you're doing to protect me and our baby and no one can fault you for that." Sara assured him.

"You know what I've done, but you continue to have faith in me," Oliver said in disbelief before he laughed in disbelief, "You are one of a kind, Sara Lance."

"I am aren't I?" Sara joked and they both smiled before Oliver followed Maseo with Sara deciding to see what all the fuss was about.

When they walked into the room, Maseo was sitting at a laptop, running some sort of device over the drawing. As they walked in, Maseo looked up at them. Seeing that Oliver had managed to pull himself together and knowing that it was likely Sara that was responsible, he gestured them both over.

"Have you ever heard of steganography?" Maseo asked as they reached him.

"The dinosaur with all the plates on its back?" Oliver asked cluelessly.

"It's when there's a message hidden within a message right?" Sara asked and Maseo nodded.

"Yes, in this case, within an image." Maseo explained as he typed away and Oliver and Sara came to stand on either side of him as the image of the drawing faded away to reveal words.

"Contact Li Kuan Hui." Sara read out loud softly, as though to herself.

"Who's Li Kuan Hui?" Oliver asked Maseo thinking he might know.

"I do not know but if White is interested in him, so are we." Maseo told them.

So, what do you guys think of the changes? Please leave any thoughts or comments in a review, feedback is greatly appreciated.