A/N: So...yeah it's been a while but I have a reason. I've had multiple death's in the family that have put us through a lot, my mom nearly had gallbladder cancer if they hadn't have been going in to remove it anyway because of a parasite she picked up in Belize, then my sister had a relapse with her Bi-polar disorder...yeah. I don't wanna air my family's issues but this is why I have been absent from the site for a while.

I am sorry for the absence as writing has been an outlet for me for many years so now that it's all done with (hopefully) I can get back to writing a lot.

So here's the last part of Lone Gunman and we really start to see deviations from the episodes because...well the twins are already living with Merlyn at this point so no family interactions with Moira and Walter anymore...

Disclaimer: Wow been two years since I wrote one of these. I still don't own it, I just enjoy screwing with canon and making it (hopefully) better.

Chapter 7: Lone Gunman part 2 and Secrets Revealed

After Malcolm had finished explaining everything he knew and had done for the Undertaking as he was calling it, Thea and I sat there stunned. "Wow dad that's….that's a lot to take in." I whispered still in shock.

Malcolm sighed. "I understand if you don't wish to tell me your answer right away. Take your time to think it over. I have no wish to harm this city anymore, rather now that Moira has taken the mantle of the head of the Undertaking, my new goal is to make sure her plans fall through."

I looked at Thea, she was shocked but she looked at me and nodded. "We understand. While it's hard to swallow right now…" I sighed and looked back at the man in front of me. Malcolm Merlyn had always been somewhat withdrawn from society. Sure he played his part well, he went to functions, he kept his company going and thriving, but there was always a sense of...emptiness around him, suffocating him in a way. I could see now that since his wife's death, he had become detached, angry and resentful. He had just gone about this in the wrong way, and while logically I knew this and that he was trying to make up for it by backing completely out of it, my heart still had a hard time processing it. "Just give us time to process. I'm still your daughter, Oliver is still your son as is Tommy. This is just...a lot to take in." I said trying to reassure the broken and vulnerable man in front of me.

I saw a small weight lift off of his shoulders. "Thank you Briar, Thea. Take all the time you need, and please don't feel the need to rush any decision. I'll still be your father in any way you need me to be, if that means backing off a little because you can't stand by what I've done I'll understand. I promise." He said with a small smile that didn't reach his eyes.

At that moment the front door opened and we could hear Oliver and Tommy talking. I frowned at the tension I could sense. We all walked out to the front hall and I gasped at the sight they made. "You two go to check out the competition at the club and you come back looking like you got into a bar fight." I said shaking my head in exasperation.

Oliver and Tommy looked at me sheepishly. "It wasn't our fault?" Oliver tried to explain, but I just frowned at him with a disbelieving look in my eyes.

I turned to Thea. "You buying this little sis?"

Thea shook her head with a smirk. "Nope." She said popping the 'p'.

I shook my head with a laugh. "We'll I'm going to leave them to do whatever it is that they were doing. I've gotta go meet up with Sara and Laurel, I promised them I'd stop by today and hang out with them." I suddenly turned to Thea. "I didn't know if you had plans but if you want to…?" I trailed off and let the question hang in the air.

Thea smiled at me and shook her head. "Nah, I'm alright. I've gotta figure out the online school thing anyway and get a head start on that. Maybe next time though."

"You got it Speedy. See you all later!" I said walking out of the house and towards my motorcycle once more, making sure I had at least my swords in the compartments on either side of the bike. I slipped my helmet on and revved the engine as I sped away from the house and towards the apartment that Laurel and her sister shared.

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When I got to Sara and Laurel's apartment I knocked and smiled when they let me in. "Hey, so you two had something you needed to show me?" I asked as I set my bag down. I saw the two share a look and my curiosity level spiked. "Okay, I know that look. I invented that look with Ollie, what are you two not telling me?" I asked now facing the two of them.

Laurel stood firm so I turned my gaze to Sara, sure enough she started fidgeting and then about a minute later after fidgeting under my stare she blurted out, "We've been able to track down Slade but we're not sure you are gonna wanna hear it." She finished with a wince.

I blinked and looked away for a moment, a thousand different scenarios flashed through my mind before I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and then looked at them again. "Just tell me. Please?" I added at Laurel's hesitant look.

She pulled a file and showed it to me. "After you and Ollie were pulled off the island, a sweep was done on it, along with all of Fyer's dead men they found this." She said showing me a picture of a person in a black and orange mask like what Billy and Slade wore in ASIS.

"Okay, that could also be Billy Wintergreen, he was on the island too you know." I replied wondering where they were going with this. "What did they mistakenly identify the body or something?"

"Something like that, but that's not all we found." Sara said pulling out another file. "We did a little digging in the underground world and found out that a bounty had been placed on someone named 'Deathstroke'? Does that name ring a bell? It was associated with a known alias for him as 'Slade Wilson'."

I took a deep breath that name bringing back memories of my month with ASIS. "Yeah, Deathstroke was Slade's undercover name. So the bounty hasn't been claimed or revoked that means he's still alive." I said almost in a whisper. I looked at them. "This is good that means he's still alive." I hesitated for a moment before nodding to myself.

A couple of hours later, I checked my watch and sighed. Right about now Oliver was going to the Bratva for information, he had insisted on going alone this time and I had agreed. "Damn, I've gotta go meet up with Thea." I said getting up and grabbing my stuff, we had spent the rest of the time reminiscing about memories of before the island.

"Tell her we said hi and that we'll come visit you guys soon." Sara said as she and Laurel hugged me goodbye. I smiled and then made my way to my motorcycle before heading home for the night all the while thinking about the fact that Slade was alive.

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Later that night we had gotten a name for Lawton and were getting ready to go after him. I had told Oliver what Laurel and Sara had told me and I could see the hope in his eyes return after that. We were one step closer to having all our family in one place again. "Alright you ready tiena?"

Oliver looked at me and smirked. "You know it tuahine."

After that we made our way to the hotel Lawton had stayed at the last time he was in Starling City which had been given to us by the Bratva who were also helping Laurel and Sara continue their search for Slade. I looked at Ollie and took my swords out, then nodded at him as he approached the door.

Oliver kicked in the door and knocked an arrow, aiming it at Lawton who was surprised to see us entering his room. Ollie shot an arrow at him which Lawton dodged and it stuck into the back of the chair he was sitting in as he dove behind the bed.

The sniper popped back up with a handgun and started firing at us and both Ollie and I managed to dodge them by backing out of the room before I nodded at Oliver again and he knocked another arrow and fired again while I threw one of my daggers at Lawton. The hitman responded by using that gun attached to his wrist again and forcing us to duck out of the room again. This allowed him to make a break for it out the window, making us lose track of him but now we had his laptop.

I grabbed my dagger and our arrows and we booked it out of there and back to the factory and then back home.

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The next morning we went to Merlyn Global to see a tech about the laptop. Oliver thought up a story but I wasn't sure the tech was gonna buy it. Merlyn Global had recently grabbed Queen Consolidated's best tech so that's who we were going to see.

Seeing the pretty blonde I smiled as I saw Oliver approach her. "Ahem. Felicity Smoak?" He asked getting her attention. "Hi. I'm Oliver Merlyn." He introduced himself as, we were going by Malcolm's last name now so it was going to take some time for everyone -including us- to get used to it. "This is my sister Briar."

"Of course. I know who you are, you're Mr. Queen….uh Merlyn. Sorry gotta get used to that." Felicity said starting to babble a little.

"No, Mr. Queen and Merlyn were and are my father." That sentence it seemed sounded strange even to me.

"Right, but he's dead. I mean, he drowned. Mr. Queen that is...But you two didn't w-which means you could come down to the IT department and listen to me babble." The poor girl, she seemed like the kind of person we would both get along with, just needed to work on her confidence levels. She was nervously tapping her pen on her desk as she continued. "Which will end. In three. Two, one."

Oliver smiled in both amusement and sympathy. "I'm having some trouble with my computer and they told me that you were the person to come and see." He said lifting up Lawton's computer for her to see and then setting it down on her desk. "I was at my coffee shop surfing the web and I spilt a latte on it." I sighed to myself resisting the urge to facepalm. Right Oliver, because a Latte could cause bullet holes.

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"'Cause these look like bullet holes." Oh I'm definitely gonna like her. I thought chuckling.

"My coffee shop is in a bad neighborhood." Felicity gave him a look with a head tilt that said she definitely wasn't buying it but wasn't gonna ask. "If there is anything that you can salvage from it...I would really appreciate it.

"Mm-hm." Felicity made a noise of agreement before going to work on it while Oliver waited and I went to go explore a bit.

I was mostly just wandering around and just memorizing the layout of Merlyn Global for future reference when I realized how long I had been gone and raced back to the IT department and found Oliver leaving in a hurry. He didn't need to explain to me for me to know this was urgent.

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"The exchange building is surrounded by three towers with eye lines into the building. Lawton could get his kill shot off from virtually anywhere. But I can't cover the area. I can't protect all of Deadshot's targets. The two of us aren't enough for this." Oliver explained as we geared up to go meet Detective Lance. I understood the reasoning, Lance was spearheading the idea that it wasn't us so maybe he would listen to us.

At that moment we got to the parking lot for the police station and Oliver tackled Lance while I sighed. Though if we hurt him or antagonize him, he may not help us. I thought dryly.

"Ah, you son of a bitch!"

"Detective, quiet!" Oliver replied keeping Lance on the hood of the car.

"You got a pair on you, pulling this right outside a police station."

"Floyd Lawton's the one targeting the buyers interested in Unidac Industries." I said stepping over to the two of them, my eyes constantly sweeping the area. "Interpol calls him Deadshot because he never misses. You can look this up after we leave."

"Yeah, and stop chasing you two, I suppose?"

"Warren Patel hired Lawton. I can't be sure who they're targeting it might be all the buyers, and we can't protect them in a space that big." Oliver continued.

"We need your help Detective." I finished.

Lance chuckled. "Yeah? Professional help."

"Lawton laces his bullets with curare. Tell your men to wear Kevlar."

"Oh, come on."

I dropped the laptop next to Lance and Oliver rammed an arrow in the hood next to it and we quickly got out of there.

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I really didn't want to be at the stock auction but Malcolm was going if only to see who would win and he wanted us there with him. My only solace was that Thea, Tommy and Oliver were forced into this thing as well. At least now me and Oliver have a reason to be here though. I just really hate how people look at me and Ollie at things like this. I thought fidgeting with my orange, black and silver dress. I had given Ollie another quelling look when he smirked at the colors again but I was determined to ignore him. Oliver would be going after Lawton if we managed to find him but I would be protecting the others and helping the police if I could, as would Thea.

I saw Oliver go over and talk to Lance a little while later after officers had taken Patel into custody. I nodded to Thea and she began to discreetly check the perimeter as I went in the opposite direction. My eyes continued to move around as I went, and my mind couldn't help going to the sliver of hope we now had that Slade could be found. The only question this had brought up was.

Why hadn't he come to Starling City to find us by now?

I shook this thought out and continued to search, looking out the windows for any sign that Lawton was setting up somewhere. I ran into Diggle. "Dig. Got your eyes open?"

"That's what I'm here for ma'am. That and answering patronizing questions."

"This guy's out of time, if he's gonna do something it's gonna happen before the auction." I said a little impatient.

"Ma'am?"

"I heard the story on the radio." I saw Walter and had the thought hit me that he was going to be a target as well so I stayed on him but out of sight just in case.

Fortunately Lance was there as well and he saw Lawton's laser sight just as I had and he tackled Walter out of harm's way.

Unfortunately this caused a panic as the bullet hit one of the wait staff instead and everyone started scrambling as the police tried to get everyone either out of the building or to cover until they could get them out, and Lawton just kept on shooting. I got to Thea to make sure she was alright as she was standing near Walter and she assured me she was as we made our way to our suits and geared up before going back out and staying in the shadows until we were needed as Oliver and surprisingly Diggle went after Lawton. Though Dig was probably going to try and protect Oliver, still not knowing who we really were. I had a feeling that was going to change after tonight.

I was kind of a little disappointed that me and Thea didn't get to help Oliver but having that many people going after Lawton was just a bad idea. Any of us could get caught in the crossfire and we actually didn't know if Lawton was working alone so this way worked best. Plus for all we knew Lawton could have rigged something to happen in the exchange building itself if he couldn't get his shots off.

And I was right. About Dig that is.

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After it was all over Lawton had been taken care of to our knowledge and Dig had been poisoned. The three of us got him to the lair under the factory and quickly got him the antidote he needed.

This of course meant that he saw who we really were when he came to as we all had our hoods off, all agreeing that it was time for him to know to see if he could handle it.

This was the moment of truth for all of us.

*Maori translations (courtesy of google so if they're wrong please feel free to correct me)

Teina-brother

Tuahine-sister