Amazo: 2006
For a while Oliver still held onto the glimmer of hope he held, that this was just for ransom which his family would pay and then he could go home and just think of this as a horrible nightmare that he could eventually forget that hope was shattered though
after the bullet wound healed to a sufficient standard of his captors and the torture and experiments started in the name of medicine. Well that's what Ivo said anyway, he was looking for a cure.
When the blond mention that he came from money and his parents would pay any sum to get him back the man had shrugged and simply said. "I don't care about money, I have enough to do my experiments. You are more use to me as a text subject." Oliver had
argued more and tried to convince him to just let him go home but his attempts to sway them man were to no avail. Ivo was purely concentrated on finding a cure to a decease he had yet to mention to Oliver.
For months Oliver and the other prisoners suffered the experiments of Anthony Ivo the only breaks the had were when they were recovering from a test that failed and needed time to recover to full health, a lot of the time they never recovered. Throughout
the previous months most of the faces in the other cells have changed multiple times. The only face he knew from when he first arrived was the Anatoly the man in the cell next to him, who he found out was the leader of a Russian mob called the Solntsevskaya
Bratva. At first Oliver seemed intimidated by him, the man had a posture and elegance that even locked in a cage, promised violence and pain if you crossed him. If he ever escaped, Ollie wondered what he would do to Ivo. The man never had a chance
to fight against Ivo he was always sedated before he was taken out of the cage and returned in the same way.
After a few days being looked up beside him with nothing much else to do the ended up talking, Oliver found out that he was betrayed by his second in command and that was how he ended up trapped and captured, eventually being handed over to Ivo in much
the same why Oliver had. He had also been here for about three months before Oliver arrived.
Over time, they began to form a strange sort of friendship based on comradeship, they had spent a lot of time trying to figure out plans to escape but all their attempts so far failed. On days when there was nothing left to talk about Anatoly would teach
him bits of Russian, it had started after Oliver heard Anatoly swearing at the guards in Russian and asked what he was saying to them.
Then all of a sudden the experiments had been put on hold, due to Ivo stumbling over some old documents containing the location to some type of miracle serum that were rumored to grant someone with great healing abilities alongside other various abilities
but Ivo was only interested in the healing part. Though Ivo never mentioned it Oliver had the strong suspicion the man was doing all this for a loved one that was sick and could not be cured by normal medical methods, in a way Oliver could understand
where he was coming from but kidnapping people and illegality experimenting on them was the part Ollie just could not agree with.
Apparently from what Anatoly and Oliver had overheard from the guard and Ivo himself the serum was located on a small island in the north China sea called Lian Yu. So a week after finding the documents had the Amazo docked just off shore with crewman
leaving everyday to search the island.
That is until one day, when gunfire and loud explosions were heard on deck and two men wearing black stormed in they both wore masks half black and the other half was orange.
Starling City: 2012
Laurel sat in the queen manor's kitchen with Tommy sat beside her and Oliver sitting across the table looking at her expectantly. She was a little hesitant to start, she just didn't know how to say it. Even though it happened two years ago it still seemed
fresh in her memory, and in a way she still didn't believe it but that was a stupid because she had seen it was with her own two eyes. That though gave her the courage to just spit it out and hope that Oliver wasn'tdisgusted by it, like her
father had been at first but thinking back on it now her father reaction might have been out of shock, now he regretted it because it drove her away.
She took a deep breath and said, "Okay, you wanted to know were Sara is but first I have to tell you a couple of things so that you understand why she left." Oliver looked at her his eyes expression a question, She left? Laurel continued without
answering the unspoken question she would get to that later.
"Oliver, Sara was gay."
"She left because she was gay?" Oliver asked with a expressionless face like he didn't even hear what she had just said but it was clear that he had by his question. "Yes and no, I think she left more because of our reactions to her coming out." Maybe
it was just Tommy's imagination but he swore his best friends hand twitch like he was fighting the urge to clench his fist. He ignored it though because his next sentence was spoken calmly and Oliver was never good and hiding his emotions or lying,
he still remembered some of the excuses he tried to feed his parents when they were younger. "Your reactions?" Laurel looked down at her lap in shame as she remembered her own reaction to Sara's confession, if she could she would go back and change
it.
"When she came out, we didn't react well. We were surprised because she went out with so many men and never in the slightest did she seem interested in other women, for god sake she even dated you."
"So you reacted badly and now she had fled from starling city? and I told you before we never dated." Oliver shook his head and reminded laurel that he never went out with Sara like he had told her many times before he was taken. Laurel paused a small
frown in her face. "Could have fooled me, I saw you both walk into that hotel room together and how are you so relaxed about this I just told you Sara was gay." a small smile appeared on Ollie's face, if he recalled correctly he had said something
similar to Sara when he had come out to her. The smile faded as his thoughts returned to the conversation at hand. Which unsurprisingly Tommy hadn't participated in at all, he just sat their looking from his girlfriend to his best friend as sentence
after sentence revealed something new to each party at the table.
"Again I remind you that isn't what you think it was and I'm calm because I already knew." Laurel just sat there gobsmacked, imitating a fish out of water she keep opening and closing her mouth like she wanted to say something but didn't quite know what
to say. It was eventually Tommy who spoke.
"Knew what?" He asked not because he was slow or didn't realize what Oliver meant, he asked it more because he needed to be sure that he understood correctly, he needed to hear the actual words and he had the sneaking suspicionthat thewoman
sat beside him needed the same confirmation.
"I knew she was gay." Laurel regained herself and now she was angry Oliver had been gone for six years how could he possible know there was only two options, One he had been in contact with Sara since he got back, but then that would make this conversation
pointless which left the other option whichwas what was making her angry. Sara must have told Oliver before he went missing which meant her sister had told her ex boyfriend about her sexually preference four maybe five years before she told
her family.
"Why did she tell you before her family, it doesn't make any sense." Oliver just looked at her like the reason why was obvious.
"She was afraid to tell all of you, she was afraid that you would reject her or you would think of her differently. Which by the looks of it seems to have happened because she isn't here, by the way were did she go?"
Laurel couldn't really argue with that but that didn't mean she was any less angry. "I don't know where she went, she never mention exactly where she was going only that she was running away with her girlfriend, Nyla- Nys- oh I don't remember it."
"Nyssa?"
"Yes that's it." She paused and her gaze narrowed, "How do you know?"
"They were together, when I got taken. She introduced me to her once, actually that night at the hotel is when I met her, which is why I never told you what happened in there because I was not about to reveal Sara's secret."
They ended talking a little bit more about Nyssa and Sara but soon they were leaving and Oliver was left to wander around the house thinking of what to do, eventually he ended up deciding to go on his computer and look for a place that he could set up
his base of operations. After about half an hour he had stumble upon his fathers old steelworks building in the glades, it seemed perfect but he would need an excuse to be hanging around an old abandoned factory. Maybe remodel it into something, but
what was the question. What would be the perfect cover for a playboy millionaire to be spending his days and nights at, Nightclub. Yes that was perfect he could open up a nightclub and he could have his base underneath. A nightclub wasn't what his
mother mother wanted him to do, Moira probably wants him to start working for Queen Consolidated but he wouldn't know the first thing about that and if he did that would most probably take up most of his time and not leave him any to pursue his fathers
list.
The he could mange the nightclub but he could then hire other staff to handle most of the club, so he didn't have to do much. He could use it as a cover and do whatever he pleased. He would go check out the steelworks tomorrow and see if it was a suitable
site for his plans.
