An hour after the two had returned back to Queen mansion, it was an hour before the party should begin. Slade had told Oliver about Malcolm Merlyn picking him up in the alley way. At first, Oliver didn't believe it, but after hearing Slade describe the room he was in and realizing that Slade would never lie to him, Oliver relented in the interrogation of his lover.

"I'll think about his offer." Oliver commented to the Aussie.

What kind of man was Malcolm Merlyn? It seemed that he wasn't the kind of man to be picking up random men in alleyways, but now it seems as if the man is highly trained and may be able to assist Oliver in his endeavors

Diggle had forced the two to get into the car, not allowing them to perform their disappearing act by taking a backseat.

"I call side seat." Both alpha males had called for the seat away from the nuisance. In the end, Slade couldn't go against the puppy eyes and sat in the middle seat bump. Cursing throughout the whole ride, Oliver could tell that Slade was going to ride his ass the next chance he could.

Insane. That was how the welcome home party could be described as. The noise was obnoxious and overbearing, but both Slade and Oliver had to bear it. Tommy had gone up to the two and handed them both a shot of tequila. Slade didn't drink after the island when he figured out that the dreams he had while drunk could never be escaped from. Slade would rather spend a sleepless night awake than a restless one trapped in his nightmares. Unfortunately, Oliver believed that his dreams were a sign of what things could have been if Slade were to have "died" on Lian Yu, he believes that these dreams were a repentance and happily accepted them. He took the tequila after Slade's absence.

Quietly leaving the party after Slade had lifted drugs of Thea's person and throwing it into the trash where it belonged, Slade took Thea to a person who would take her home. She may not respect her brother, and Oliver may take a hands off approach to his little sister, but Slade had no reservations on a little tough love. That was the way he approached the arrogant playboy when he had first arrived on Lian Yu and that was the way he would approach said playboy's reckless sister as well.

Oliver had tried to leave the party; however, Diggle had followed the man and nearly stopped Oliver from going after Adam Hunt. A skirmish with Slade Wilson changed Mr. Diggle's mind.

That night Adam Hunt's office was attacked by The Hood. Many people died, mostly by friendly fire and The Hood escaped just in time through breaking through a window and using the rope to glide down back to the party. Mr. Diggle was taking a little… nap in a closet and Slade spent the rest of his night in the men's bathroom allegedly making out with Oliver Queen.

The SWAT team had quickly entered the party building, stopping the music and bringing a miffed Oliver out into the open along with his partner Slade, who's hair looked as if someone had run their hand over it multiple times, like a lover would if they were… doing illicit activities.

"Search the building. Roof to basement. Find him!" Detective Lance barked out orders to the SWAT team as he marched right to Tommy Merlyn, Oliver Queen, and the mysterious man from the island.

"Roofie anybody tonight, Mr. Merlyn." It wasn't a question that Detective Lance said to the man. Oliver was surprised, he expected the detective to be furious with him, but he never expected the detective to extend his hatred to Tommy.

"Detective! It's a private party." Oliver said, a goofy smile on his face as he were just having sex. Slade's face looking very similar, although it would've been impossible for him to have had sex with the Emerald Archer between the time it took for the man to change out of costume, including green paint grease and hairspray, and the time it took to swing down to the building.

"Well there was an incident at Adam Hunt's building. You know anything about that?"

"Who's Adam Hunt?" Oliver was at a deserted island for five years, how should he know?

"He's a millionaire bottom feeder, and I'm kind of surprised you don't know him." retorted the detective.

Slade bristled at this accusation. Oliver was a pure and kind person. Never hurting the defenseless. Slade knew that Oliver had a rather bad past, but the Oliver Queen standing in front of everyone was the same Oliver Queen that saved Slade's life over three times already, and Slade wouldn't let anybody refute that.

"Hey, bub." Slade put himself between his lover and the hostile detective, "Wanna back away from the kid?"

"What you got yourself a bodyguard now, Queen?" Detective Lance hated this boy. This was the boy that ruined his family. Cheated on his oldest daughter with his youngest and then got Sara, his little girl killed! This man deserved to die. Spend a hell of a lot more than five years on the island.

"No." Slade had enough of this man, "He got himself a lover."

What?

"Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to be going back to that party and pash all night." Slade took his lover through the crowd, and into a backroom, leaving the detective, his partner, the SWAT team, Tommy Merlyn, and a whole crowd of people to their own thoughts of former straight playboy Oliver Queen being gay for the tall, dark, ex-military man with an Australian accent.

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The backrooms in the club building weren't very posh, but they had a sofa for the two to sit on and pash, so that was enough for the irritated Deathstroke and Archer.

"It's been way too long since we've done this." Slade said as he quickly undressed Oliver for maybe the fifth time that day.

"Pash, really?" Oliver teased as he fumbled with his zipper.

"Just slipped really."

Slade looked at Oliver's chest, arms, and hands seeing the many scratches from the glass. "Maybe you can get some compo?"

"Not working silly." Oliver said as he kissed his lover, "How long do you thing we have until my mother finds out about the both of us?"

"Well it's not going to be the back of Bourke, that's for sure." Slade grouped his angel's well formed arse.

"What does that even mean?" Oliver would never become accustomed to his lover's home slang.

"It means she'll probably hear about us by the time we get back to your place." Slade said, already accustomed to Oliver not understanding the his small idioms.

"Well, we can deal with her tomorrow?" Oliver was doing a slow strip tease with the rest of clothes he had on left.

"Yeah." Slade ogled at the boy's body. Every scar, every tattoo, and every defined inch of muscle Slade loved about Oliver. The scars were not to be pitied upon, but admired. They told the story of Oliver's loyalty to Yao Fei. The tattoo's spoke of the loyalty Oliver had gained from others, as well as stories of Slade's betrayal. "I'm sure she can handle not seeing us for the night.

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It was past noon when the two had returned to Queen mansion and Oliver had just officially come out of the closet to his family.

Moira was beyond livid. How could her son be gay. He was to be the heir of Queen's Consolidated. He would need to have children to pass down the family line! This was the final line for Moira. Either Slade Wilson goes, or Oliver has to leave. She would leave him an ample amount of money, if only because he was her son, but that was all that she would give the boy if he were to choose that, that, that barbarian over his family.

Walter Steele wasn't that surprised really. Anybody who went out with that many girls was obviously hiding something. Besides, Walter had made good friends with Slade. He could tell that Slade was a good man, just trying to be the best he could be for Oliver Queen, his best friend's son. That was enough for Walter.

Thea couldn't believe this! Her older brother was gay! This might be the best thing ever. Now they could ogle at men when they went to the mall together! Wait, Oliver was dating that hunky Slade guy… Thea was sure Slade wouldn't mind. He was a pretty cool guy. Nobody had really looked after her after Oliver and her father had died. Well, now it was just her father. Moira was too scared to use the law against Thea, Walter couldn't be her father, he was more of an uncle, Oliver couldn't be the older brother he used to be before the incident and Thea was fine with that. She had changed. Everything at home had changed, so she didn't expect for her older brother to be more understanding. Slade was different. He wasn't afraid of giving her some tough love and after five years of having a laissez faire as the law of the house, she missed having someone actually guiding her away from what she had become.

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Oliver and Slade took a look at the Merlyn mansion. It actually looked a little bigger than Queen mansion. Tommy opened the front door in surprise at seeing his best friend and lover at his home, unannounced.

"Hey." Oliver smiled at his best friend, "Can we have a talk?"

This was gonna be good. Slade wondered how his angel would convince the wizard to allow them into his home.

Tommy gestured for the couple to enter the home's living room. Sitting in the fancy sofa, Slade never felt more out of place. "So, what's the problem?"

"The problem Tommy, is the fact that my mother is this close to disowning me." There wasn't a space between his fingers.

"Because you're gay?" Tommy didn't think it was that big of a deal. I mean, after coming back from the dead, you'd think the woman would let him rebound?

"Your mother plans to what?!" Malcolm Merlyn entered his living room to see two men he views as his sons chatting along with the trained soldier. Actually, Oliver was sitting… on top of the soldier.

"Yeah, she found out I was dating Slade." Oliver tested the waters with the mysterious man.

"And so the grand wizard arrives." Slade mumbled as he pushed his face into the back of Oliver's fluffy head.

"Wizard?" Tommy asked.

"Yeah, it's what Slade's been calling you ever since I told him about you guys on the island." Oliver explained to both men.

" I prefer the term, 'magician'." Malcolm quipped back at the young man, "How about the two of you stay here for awhile?"

"Really?" Oliver asked the man. He knew this is what he wanted in the beginning, but Oliver wondered why the man thought that Moira would hurt him.

"Of course, Oliver. I owe you many things due to your disappearance." Malcolm smiled at the young man that was obviously in love.

"I do?" Oliver was confused, what did he do that made Malcolm Merlyn owe him a favor?

"Indeed Oliver," Malcolm toke a seat across from the couple, but next to his son, "It was because of your disappearance that allowed me to bridge the gap between Tommy and I."

"It did?"

"Indeed."

"Yeah, Ollie. You could say that your death made my father realize the error in his ways, so he apologized."

"No son, I realized how mortal you were and I knew how prideful you were back then, so I made a decision." Malcolm tried to not show too much emotion in front of company.

"Sure dad." Tommy knew it was just a façade.

After Oliver's death, Malcolm showed Tommy the final message his mother gave to his father. A final message of how his mother was left in an alley to die with people just walking past her. Not helping her as she bled out on the cold and unforgiving pavement. After that, Malcolm showed Tommy his plan, but then Tommy convinced his father not to go through with the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people. In the end, Malcolm relented in his plot, but instead Moira took up the torch of destruction and since then Malcolm has been trying to end Moira's reign of terror.

AN: Bet you didn't expect that didn't you?