Oliver closed his eyes. He was not mad, not at Laurel, but how did Felicity know about Laurel sleeping with somebody else. Did Felicity have Team Arrow under surveillance? "Felicity? How would you even know that?" Oliver asked her gently. "Are you spying on Laurel?"

"Uh-no!" Felicity raised her voice defensively. "Laurel is spying on me. She followed me to the gym and she and my boyfriend had an affair".

"Felicity. What're you up to?" Oliver said cooly, he was trying not to freak out on her.

"What- what do you mean, Oliver?" Felicity cried out. Oliver's phone began ringing and he saw it was Curtis and excused himself from the confrontation.

"H-".

"You need to get to The Arrow-cave now" Curtis urged Oliver. "Your wife got in over her head and she's in bad shape. Felicity's new crime-lord boyfriend sexually assaulted her".

Oliver walked inside after hanging up the phone and he found that Felicity was gone. He grabbed his jacket and he went to the Arrow-cave. As soon as he got there, Laurel stood up and ran to Oliver and hugged him. He held her close and kissed her forehead. "Hey, hey, Laurel, you're okay." Oliver cried out and he rubbed his wife's back.

"Ollie, I am sorry, but Felicity shifted allegiances. She is working with Caden James. But Caden is not the mastermind. The crime lord, Ricardo Diaz is" Laurel informed Oliver and Curtis.

Oliver smashed his lips against Laurel's. "It's fantastic that you found that out, Laurel," he said, "But is Ricardo Diaz the one who raped you?"

Laurel shrugged as tears welled up in her eyes. "It wasn't rape. I led him on, strictly for Intel, but I didn't stick around because I was in pain and I was scared".

"Did you tell him to stop?" Curtis asked.

"I screamed for him to stop. I begged him" Laurel confessed.

"Then it was rape" Oliver cooed and pulled his wife into a deeper and more protective hug. "Ricardo Diaz dies".

Felicity went to find were her new team so they could make their next move. "Felicity", Caden smiled when he saw her.

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"Hi," Felicity said. She honestly was beginning to have second thoughts about working for him. Especially, now that she thought she knew what side Black Siren was really on. "Where is Ricardo? I need to talk to him".

"I haven't seen Ricardo around in the last 24 hours" Caden confessed. "But Caden did have me generate a city-wide cyber-attack to release tomorrow at 7:00 am. I would like you to look the coding over and tell me if you like what you see".

Felicity nodded. She looked through the coding and she said: "This looks good, Caden. But why are we doing it?"

"I am going to give the mayor a chance to do the right thing and if he doesn't, the attack will happen. If his resistance to comply continues after that, then we continue the attack until Ricardo says otherwise" Caden revealed. " If you will excuse me, I have a meeting at City Hall".

Oliver went to City Hall to take care of mayoral business. Quentin walked into Oliver's office. "Oliver, Caden James is here to see you".

"Send him in," Oliver said stiffly.

"Mayor Queen" Caden James greeted the mayor coldly.

"What do you want?" Oliver fired back.

"You are either going to publically admit you are the Green Arrow and have justice hand your ass to you, or you will transfer 10 million dollars of the cities money into this off-shore account each night," Caden told Oliver.

"And if I don't" Oliver challenged.

"I have cyber-attacks ready to be unleashed on Star City" Caden stated.

Oliver's expression hardened. "Star City does not negotiate with terrorists. Why are you doing this".

Caden exhaled. "Because The Green Arrow killed my son". As Caden James turned away to leave Oliver with his thoughts, Oliver called out for him: "Mr. James, I am not The Green Arrow and I did not kill your son".

Caden just looked sadly back at Oliver and left.

Oliver walked into City Hall with a crowd of reporters following him and snapping photos. It had an hour and forty-five minutes since the cyber-attacks in three locations in Star City had thirteen innocent Star City civilians. Oliver made to his office which Thea and Quentin were waiting in. "Ollie, Quentin and I have been working on your speech" Thea quickly informed her brother.

"We think we hit a home-run!" Quentin added.

"I don't know, guys" Oliver shook his head. "The magnitude of what happened. I shouldn't have doubted Caden just because the bomb was a bluff. Technology is his thing. And now Captain Pike and twelve other innocents have paid the price of my thoughtlessness".

"Ollie, please" Thea argued. "You were faced with an impossible choice and you trusted your instincts. I am proud of you".

"This was a situation where my instincts could not be wrong and Speedy, they were" Oliver countered, shaking his head.

Oliver delivered a press conference saying all the usual about the strength of Star City and how the city was going to rise up, strong and united. After a long day, Oliver went home and watched the baseball game with his son but the whole time he thought about what he could do to save his city. He also wondered why Laurel was not home...

Laurel had gone to the base of Ricardo Diaz's operation looking to end her husband's pain. She strode in to face Caden James, surprised at the appearance of the cyber-criminal. He was tall and thin with light brown hair and tiny spectacles. Felicity emerged behind him, and Laurel immediately knocked her down with a cry. "Why?" she demanded of Caden. "Why are you attacking Star City?"

"The Green Arrow needs to pay for killing my son" Caden James fired back.

Laurel took Caden down with a few swift moves and held him in the position to snap his neck. "Show me proof" She growled.

Caden showed Laurel the video Ricardo had shown him. "That can't be possible" Laurel thought out loud. It couldn't be, Laurel knew that from the date and time on the video. It was the night Oliver had captured and rough-fucked her, she had been with him all night. All of a sudden, Laurel was struck with two bullets, one in her arm and the other beneath her chest. Adrenaline kicked in and Laurel swiped the video and ran. She texted her father once out and Quentin took her to the hospital. The doctors removed the bullets and she insisted on going to see Oliver.

She met her husband in his office at City Hall. She showed him the video and he scratched his head. "I was with you all night," he said.

"I know. Something is not right about this" Laurel agreed.

It was nearing midnight and Oliver glanced at his watch and then his wife and shrugged. "Transfer the money. We can't let more people in this city suffer and die".