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Chapter 7 - Dark Secrets
Felicity stared at the news on her tablet as she sat in her car silently. She stared at the picture of the dead body showing on the news. It was the same man that she had killed 2 days ago in the parking lot. It was the same man who had forced her to remember her childhood that she had run away from. Talia Al Ghul was the name she was born with. The name she had used till the time she had ran-away. It was her past that she had tried to get rid off. There's no way in hell she's going to let anyone destroy her world that she had created. Only fury, Maria and felicity's cousin were the ones who were aware of her true identity. It's something she wanted to keep hidden. After what she did as Talia, Fury was the only one who gave her a second chance to redeem herself. And she won't let anyone destroy it. No-one could find out that she's the true heir of demon.
That's when she heard a knock on her car's window. She looked up to find Diggle motioning her to come out. She quickly got out of her trance and stuffed her tablet back in her purse before stepping out of the car.
"Finally, I thought you had died in there." Diggle joked as felicity closed the door before locking the car.
"Nah, I was just a little sleepy." She said as she innocently rubbed her eyes to prove her Point.
"Well sleepy head, let's go in before Oliver looses his mind again." Felicity laughed at this. That is so true. To be honest, sometimes she likes making Oliver a little annoyed. It shows her how far his limits were plus it's kinda fun. Besides she likes seeing Oliver. She doesn't know why but she always feel happy whenever her partner was Infront of her. It's like all her happy moments are boosted to her super happy moments. It's weird but it kinda light her up.
"I'm not one man" felicity heard Oliver as she and Diggle entered the layer. She looked at where Oliver was facing and found a strong looking blonde girl standing there. She instantly knew it was Sara.
"These are my friend. This is John Diggle and Felicity Smaok. Guys, this is Sara." Oliver said as he introduced them to his ex-lover.
"Welcome home, Sara." Diggle smiled at the women. Felicity could guess that Sara wasn't like laurel.
"I was happy to hear you're not dead anymore." Felicity said as she walked closer to Sara. "I mean, I didn't know you before you didn't die the first time. I'm still glad you're alive" she said as she gave up on her babbling.
"Thank you. you're cute." Sara smiled. Both of the girls are going to be just fine. Felicity actually liked Sara for once. Laurel was sometimes too self-centred.
"We just had an uninvited guest in the Queen mansion." Oliver said slowly. "Trained. Highly skilled. And he was dressed like Merlyn." Wow.. That was a shocker. Felicity had never seen how Merlyn was dressed but someone following his style.. That's weird.
"Well, the last I checked Malcolm Merlyn was dead, courtesy of an arrow jammed through his heart." Diggle said as he remembered Oliver jamming an arrow in Merlyn.
"It wasn't him. It was a follower, an underling bent on revenge." Maybe it was her imagination or not but she could've swore she saw Sara tense a little. "Whoever it was He knows who I am. " Oliver continued as he handed felicity a plastic bag filled with dirt.
"Gee, I didn't get you a bag of dirt." She said sarcastically. She could see Diggle smiling a bit.
"I found it in the house. Copycat Merlyn tracked it in. I want you to analyze it. Hopefully it'll lead me right to him."
"Then what?" She asked again.
"If this pretender wants to follow Malcolm Merlyn so badly, he can follow him right into a grave." Oliver said angrily. Uh-oh, again with that angry face. "Sara? We'll find this guy."
"I don't want you to." Come again?
"What do you mean?" Oliver asked confusingly. Felicity could literally see his mind analysing this.
"He wasn't after you, Ollie. He's after me." Felicity glanced a look at Diggle to see him fully concentrated on Sara.
"Who is he?" Oliver asked again.
"He's called Al Owal, "The First. " And he's a member of the League of Assassins." Felicity held her breadth as she heard the name. Of course now it all makes sense. Felicity could bet her money that Sara was a member of the league. That's why Sara seemed so trained in her moves. And somehow they had followed her to here in starling causing felicity to be discovered. There's no other explanation to this. He found her through Sara.
"The League of Assassins? I thought they were a myth." Diggle said shockingly as felicity tried to control her anger.
"What's the League of Assassins? And please, don't say it's a league made up of assassins." She asked trying stay in her cover while gripping her chair in a tight grip. According to her cover, she didn't know what the league of assassins meant.
"No, it's an urban legend. I heard about them in Afghanistan from a tribal leader." Diggle said beside her. "He claimed there was an ancient sective of assassins, deadly warriors that killed and vanished like ghosts. Thought he was smoking what he was selling." No dig they're worse.. Felicity thought as she remembered her training.
"I tried to tell you, Ollie, but you wouldn't listen." Sara said.
"That's where you've been the past four years. That's where you learned to fight. You're one of them." Oliver said angrily. To felicity it looked like Oliver was accusing her. Wonder what happens when he finds out about me...
"After the freighter, a member of the league rescued me; Took me in and brought me to Nanda Parbatt. They remade me into what I am. And I swore them my allegiance."
"Why are they kicking down doors trying to find you now?" Diggle asked. Felicity already knew the answer.
"Because I left. And there's only one way that you leave the league." Sara said as she confirmed Felicity's suspicions. But somehow there was something that wasn't adding up. She knows her father clearly. He wouldn't wait a second to eliminate someone. Then why is Sara still alive? Even if Sara is a survivor, the league should have used her family to kill her by now. It's not normal for her father to take this much time in eliminating someone. There has to be more to what Sara is saying. She's hiding something.
"Is that why you didn't want to see your family?" Oliver asked again.
"A year ago, I was in Guyana. I was sent there for a man named Suarez. He was a local diplomat. And I slit his throat. In his bed. And his kids They found his dead body in the morning." Felicity shook her hand in understanding. "I'm a murderer, Ollie. You think that my family will be happy to see me?" Everyone felt quiet at this. It was Oliver's phone that broke the silence.
"I have to go to Iron Heights. Felicity, I need you to find this Al Owal." Oliver said over his shoulders as he headed out of the layer leaving a very annoyed Sara behind. Al Owal. Felicity already knows heaps about him. She can't let him see her otherwise he'll recognise her.
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Felicity crushed her plastic water cup in frustration as she thought about the league finding out about her existence. She already has Amanda Waller after her and now the league too... This is the shittest day ever...
"Sorry if I upset you before." She heard Sara say beside her.
"We all join clubs we wish we hadn't. It took me a year to get out of that gym membership." Felicity said lightly using her gym membership as a example while she ran some tests on the dirt sample.
"Thank you." Felicity looked up in confusion.
"For what?"
"Not making me feel like what I am." Felicity smiled at that. She doesn't think Sara is a murderer.
"Oliver's lucky to have you both as friends." Sara said as an afterthought. "He hasn't always had the best luck in that area." Felicity felt pity at that. Even she hadn't had many good friends. It was after she joined SHIELD that changed everything. That's when they heard footstep. The blonde agent looked up to find Oliver coming down the stairs.
"How'd it go with your mother?"
"Not well." Obviously.
"Have you found somebody for me to hit yet?" Oliver asked her as he walked straight to her computers.
"Maybe be. Spectro analysis of the dirt from your house had trace amounts of aldicarb in them." Felicity said as she walked towards her computers too.
"What?" She looked up at Oliver's clueless face. Seriously?!
"It's a pesticide. Starling City used to have its own aldicarb plant, but per the EPA, it was shut down three years ago." Felicity pointed out as she pulled up a satellite view of the building.
"What's it being used for now?"
"Nothing. It's abandoned. But my guess is, it's the homebase to one League of Assassins assassin." Felicity said as she gritted her teeth in the end a little. She saw Oliver heading to his bow when Sara stopped him.
"He will kill you." Felicity totally agreed with Sara. The league is not something to mess with.
"Like you, I am not that easy to get rid of." Oliver said.
"This is my fight."
"He made it my fight when he came into my house. And when he threatened somebody that I care about." Felicity was starring at their exchange. His words made her like him more. But it also made her sad that Oliver's feelings were all over the place. She hated the fact that he kept jumping from one sister to another. She never missed that small longing look in his eyes towards Sara. He has been through a lot. He's trying to find closure.
They left the foundry to face off Al Owal just as felicity turned back to her computers while Diggle went at the back for more training. Since she has time to kill, she logged onto her personal account from her iPad before activating her security virus. She needed to find more information on Deathstroke and ARGUS was the only one who could give her that. They specialise in crazy minded criminals after all.
Felicity was 100% sure that Amanda still have miles on her tail which makes it harder for her to hack in and avoid the trace. Deciding it's best to do now or never, she started her usual hack in the ARGUS's mainframe. It was few seconds later that she found herself looking at their camera controls. She recognised the building immediately. It was ARGUS's base here in starling near the 5th street. She was just about to look in their files when she saw a trace of an unknown virus spreading through her systems.
"Damn you Lydon." Felicity whispered as she zoomed on one of the cameras where Miles Lydon was sitting in his chair while also trying to trace her tracks with his laptop. She quickly loaded up her own virus that she created in her MIT years. She hadn't used that virus since years but figured, it could do well with some workout. It attacked their systems and in few seconds, it left their security in pieces giving felicity the full charge of their systems. Through the camera view, She could see that Lydon's computer screen was showing up with red, meaning her virus was working. He won't be able to do anything unless she removes the virus which she won't until her work is done.
"Fuck you!" She heard Lydon scream at his computer as his controls were Jammed. Felicity grinned at this. Luckily she was wearing headphones therefore enabling Diggle from listening to the camera footage.
"Oh Lydon, you shouldn't have said that!" She whispered to herself as she saw Amanda entering Lydon's room which was actually a small office.
Noticing that all the rooms in ARGUS's building are electrically monitored, she devised an evil prank that would surely scare the shit out of Lydon and hopefully Amanda. After all she's in need of some humour.
She quickly locked their doors, locking each and every agent inside a room in the building before intensifying the electrical input in their systems. She quickly came out of their systems just as it shut down with other stuff.
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Meanwhile at the ARGUS base, the whole building was on its guard as a red siren blared throughout the halls. It turns out just as felicity increased the electrical input, all the computers had shut down immediately just as various lights around the halls and rooms shattered due to the high electrical power, leaving the whole building in a massive blackout.
Amanda Waller ducked just as the mainframe system beside her exploded, sprinkling sparks all around the side of the dark room.
"What the hell happened, Mr. Lydon?" Amanda screeched as she avoided another group of sparks from her left side. Miles looked scared as Amanda's face came into his view.
"Our mystery hacker was hacking into your systems again. I was just tracing them when a virus attacked my systems. It broke all our security and I'm guessing the mystery hacker told it to destroy our entire main frame causing all this blackout. The hacker is more skilled than I thought." Miles said as he ducked under the table.
"Agh!" Amanda screamed as she banged her fists on the table. SHIELD is going to pay for this...
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Felicity grinned to herself as she thought about the aftermath of ARGUS after her little stunt. It's going to take Amanda days to get her systems started up again. She quickly looked through the files she had copied from ARGUS. It turns out ARGUS has been tracking Deathstroke as well. Felicity could see reports of his various sighting in his armour on the files. The one that interests her most was the picture of Deathstroke talking to a tall brown-head women with a long fur coat. ARGUS has described it as a 'unknown suspect' but felicity could have sworn that she had seen that lady somewhere. If only she could get a image of her face... Unfortunately, the image was too distort for her to zoom in therefore leaving her with a deadened.
"What are you looking at?" She heard Diggle's voice come closer to her just as she quickly closed the window and locked her account.
"Oh nothing.." She said innocently.
"You sure? You seemed pretty concentrated on that screen. Please don't tell me you were watching porn." Felicity was caught off guard by that.
"Wh..what? I.. Wasn't.. No.. You-you... Dig, do I look like Oliver to you?" She asked finally, unable to comprehend what he just said. That's when diggle laughed.
"I'm joking, felicity."
"This isn't funny, dig!" Felicity exclaimed playfully as she pushed him in return. That's when Oliver came in the foundry with an injured Sara.
"Oh my god, Oliver. Is she okay?" Felicity exclaimed as she helped Oliver carry Sara to a empty table. She should have known. League if assassins equals to death.
"She's fine. Dig pass me the box." Oliver ordered just as Diggle handed the medical box to Oliver.
It was seconds later when felicity got to see Sara's scars. They were all blade marks. Felicity remembered how she has a similar map on her back and her front behind her flower dress. It was miracle that felicity didn't get any serious scars on her hands or arms, otherwise it would be a nightmare explaining all the scars. She could cover legs one with her stockings but arms would have been a big problem.
"You're not even flinching when he.." Felicity started.
"Pain and I came to a little understanding few years back." Sara said with a strong voice but felicity could see it was wavering a bit. Yeah, it hurts like shit.
"Done." Oliver said just as he finished stitching up Sara's wound. While felicity was handing Sara her shirt, she could see that Oliver and Diggle were talking about something.
"We need to protect the Lances." Oliver declared. "I'll take Laurel." Of course you would...felicity thought bitterly. Why is she feeling so bitter towards laurel all of a sudden? Felicity shook her head and listened to the conversation.
"What can I do?" Sara interrupted.
"Nothing. You're hurt, and you need to stay here." He's right, Sara.
"What about my father?"
"I'll go talk to Detective Lance. Tell him he needs to get out town for a couple of days." Felicity interjected. She needs the fresh air.
"Please don't tell him about me." Sara pleaded. Felicity couldn't help but feel pity for Sara.
"I can keep a secret. Just ask him." Felicity winked before she left the foundry to talk to Detective Lance. Felicity is a pro at keeping secrets.
Soon enough she was at SCPD headquarters.
"Hey, shortie." She heard a voice behind her. She turned around to see Bobbie standing there with her SCPD badge and her gun.
"Hi, Bobbie." Felicity said as she hugged her friend and her partner.
"What brings you here?"
"I'm looking for Detective lance. Have seen him?" Felicity asked.
"Yeah, he just left for his home. Should be on the smith street by now."
"Thanks." Felicity said as she headed back towards the front door.
"Is everything ok?" Bobbie asked worriedly. Felicity looked at her watch and then Bobbie. She shrugged off her shoulders and came closer to Bobbie.
"His life is in danger. I'm just going to warn him to leave the town for few days."
"You know that's not gonna happen, right?" Bobbie said with raised eyebrows.
"I know, but I can still try." Felicity said.
"Ok, but call me if you need help." Felicity nodded as she moved away again but Bobbie stopped her by grabbing her arm.
"By the way I love your work. Amanda must be furious after the stunt you pulled few hours ago." Bobbie whispered as she looked around. Felicity stared at her friend in shock.
"How..?"
"We got a report of a blackout on the 5th street. The whole block was plunged into darkness. I knew it has to be you." Felicity grinned as Bobbie winked at her before letting go of her arm. "Stay safe. I'll talk to you later."
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"Hey. How'd it go?" Diggle asked her as she walked into the foundry.
"Badly." Felicity said as she thought about Detective's ignorance to the issue. She might have accidentally grabbed him too hard. "He either didn't believe me or didn't take me seriously. In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have led with League of Assassins." She said again as she pulled off her coat.
"What do we do now?" Diggle mused before he saw Sara picking up her jacket.
"What are you doing?"
"Oliver told you to stay put. I thought you didn't want your father to know you're still alive." Diggle said as he saw Sara heading towards the basement door.
"I don't. But it's better than him not being." Sara said felicity watched the whole exchange.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sara asked as Diggle got her gun out too.
"With you. I'm not going to let you go out there without any back-up." Diggle said with determination. It's funny how in just matter of few hours, they started to consider Sara as one of their own. Felicity could see that Sara was thankful.
"Dig, you may be a three tour Special Forces veteran, but I was trained by the people that make the Special Forces look like a kindergarten class." Sara said again as felicity agreed. League of assassins is not some military army. They're training is similar to SHIELD's training but with an more evil side to it. Even ARGUS is no match. Nor for SHIELD or the league. You need exceptional training in order to beat one member. Look at how far it got Oliver with Malcolm Merlyn. He was beaten twice before he finally finished him off. "So step aside or get put down."
"It's your funeral, Sara." Diggle said after few seconds of starring.
"Won't be the first."
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Felicity was glad that Al Owal was finally dead. It turns out, detective lance was the assassin's target. Luckily, Sara was with the former detective at that time and was able to protect her father when the league attacked them. At first felicity really thought that she was a goner while Al Owal was here in starling. Luckily her worries are over for the time being. She knew that the league would come back even though Sara has already left this city. It's just a matter of days. For now, felicity was happy that she has nothing to worry about.. Well except Amanda of course. That women was being a pain in the ass for felicity.
The blonde agent shrugged off her shoulders as she headed inside Oliver's office. Oh great they're fighting again... Felicity thought as she saw Isobel pouncing at Oliver with her words.
"Where were you?" Isobel screeched.
"I have other interests outside of this company."
"I don't." Taking this as her que, felicity tried to signal Oliver.
"Mr Queen?" Felicity said but Oliver waved her off.
"I thought you were serious when you said we were partners." Isobel screeched over Felicity's voice. The blonde agent was really starting to hate the tall women.
"Isabel, I missed one meeting."
"This week. Last week it was two meetings."
"Mr Queen." Felicity said again this time a little louder. But still Oliver shrugged her off.. Oh that's it Oliver.. Felicity thought as anger build up inside her. She's working her ass off as his secretary and he's not even listening to her.
"Companywide revenue is at double digits since you and I took over."
"Oliver!" Felicity screamed loudly causing both of the owners attention on her.
"Yes?" Oh, so now you hear me, huh?
"I'm sorry to interrupt your Grr!" Felicity with her hands innocently. "Um, I need to talk to you about your plans for this evening. With mr. Harper?" Isobel and Oliver exchanged a look before Oliver stood up.
"You'll have to excuse me."
"We have work to do." Isobel ordered. "It's important."
"So are my evening plans. I'm sorry." Oliver said as he came out if his office leaving a frustrated and possibly a furious Isobel behind.
"We are going to have to work on your excuses." Felicity suddenly gave him a death glare.
"You're the one to talk, Mr 'I-ran-out-of-sports-bottle!" She scoffed at her boss. Oliver turned around to gave her a look.
"What? I'm telling the truth." Felicity exclaimed as she over crossed Oliver and entered the elevator before pressing the 'close' button shutting Oliver out.
"BOO YEAH!" Felicity fist pumped in the air happily.
