A month after the Vigilante's secret computer hacker became his even more secret lover, Oliver was sitting in his office when Roy barged in, straight past Felicity who followed quickly after. "Sorry, Oliver, I couldn't stop him," she apologized. No one could really stop him since the Mirakuru had altered him.

"What can I help you with, Roy?" he asked. Roy was a reluctant member of Team Arrow, clashing with the true identity behind the hero and relation to Thea.

"It's Thea."

"What about her?"

"She went to lunch with your mother yesterday and she never came back. I figured she was at work last night, after our… shift I went home and she still wasn't there. Maybe she stayed at Verdant, but she's not there now."

"Felicity, check the security tapes, see if she was there at all." Oliver turned to Roy, "She's probably just blowing off some steam." Neither Queen child was talking to Moira anymore. Thea had moved in with Roy, Oliver spent most nights after his alter-ego's shift with his alter-ego's girlfriend.

"She's been off for months now."

"Roy, give her a break. She's found out her father isn't her father and her boyfriend is sometimes somewhat aloof and secretive. She'll deal with it in her own way."

Felicity re-entered the room with a worried look on her face. "I think I've figured out how she's dealing with things."

"What?" both men asked in unison. Felicity's face changed to one of apprehension as she turned the pad around to them and pressed play. The video from Verdant clearly showed Thea being handed something from an unknown male figure as she looked around her suspiciously. Felicity started another file on the pad, a video from the toilets in Verdant. Not the staff toilets, the public ones. Again, it clearly showed Thea preparing to take drugs. Oliver took the pad from Felicity's hands and placed it screen down on his desk before any of them could watch Thea take the drugs. It was obvious that she did.

"So where is she?" Roy asked.

Felicity shrugged her shoulders. "Video shows her leaving Verdant soon after. I can try and use street cams to track her, but at the time of night it could take ages. I'm searching for her in live streams though."

"And the guy?" Oliver demanded. "Find me him."

"I got his face from another camera, the search is running. Oliver, there's something else." He raised an eyebrow at her. "The guy giving her the drugs, he's the guy who shot her and at your mom."

The Queens were most definitely under attack.

ARROW-HOOD-QUEEN

There was no trace of Thea, or the mystery man that Felicity was searching for also. The only theory was that Thea had been dragged too far down in the drug world, even Roy could not find any leads on her despite it being his sole mission in the world. Oliver tried his hardest to keep Thea from the forefront of his mind all of the time, it would do no good to be totally consumed with trying to save his sister. He had other people to protect and he still had a city to protect. Still, at least three times a day he would ask Felicity if she had found anything on Thea or the person who had clearly tried to kill her.

"Any luck?" he asked for the second time that day as he left his office, putting on his jacket. Felicity shook her head as she turned her computer off and he held out her jacket, helping her put it on.

"I've been thinking though," she said as they walked side by side to the elevator. He raised a cheeky eyebrow at her. Shaking her head at him, Felicity pressed the call button on the elevator and then continued. "What if our mystery man was never trying to kill Thea?"

"He shot her."

The doors dinged open and he waited for Felicity to enter before following her and pressing the basement button; Diggle should already be waiting for them. "Yes, but it wasn't that serious. Oliver, those masked men were questioning where daddy is and said that your mom was wrong. What if they meant Malcolm? What if this isn't about you, but about Malcolm?"

"He's dead, too. I killed him."

"The world thought that you were dead."

"I killed him. Killed. He's dead."

"Maybe they were trying to get your mom to reveal the truth then."

"How did they know?"

"I don't know, but nothing's happened to any of us since. What if it was all about getting Thea to go off the rails and turn to someone for drugs, the same someone who shot her and could, potentially be behind the Queen break in?"

Breaking cover slightly, Oliver kissed her on top of her head, both of them smiling. "Do you have an image of this guy?"

"Yeah, right in here." Felicity started going through her papers as the doors opened and they both exited on the basement level. Oliver stopped and Felicity continued on a few more steps, trying to find the image until she noticed he had stopped. "Oliver, what is it?" She looked at him and then around the basement, recognizing his worried face. His Spidey-senses were clearly tingling.

"What's wrong?" Diggle asked, standing by the open back door of Oliver's car. A familiar noise whooshed through the underground parking level and Felicity jumped as an arrow splintered into the concrete behind her, perfectly in the middle of her and Oliver. Oliver was already moving toward her, moving her to behind the nearest car, acutely aware of Diggle drawing his gun and moving to a safer position.

Before he had Felicity safe, the blonde paused looking at the source of the arrow. "Oliver," she grabbed his wrist. "That's him. He shot Thea." He followed her eyes and his world dropped away from him.

"Hello Oliver."

"Slade?"