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Me, wait, what?!

Tommy's POV

It turned out that the 'job' Oliver had for him was planting a bug in his father's office. While he was doing that Oliver, Diggle, and Felicity would be breaking in and implanting a virus straight into the Merlyn Global mainframe. For some reason it wasn't possible for Felicity to hack it remotely so a virus needed to be physically uploaded, she had explained it in a technical manner but he was pretty sure he wasn't the only one who hadn't followed the explanation.

Tommy was less than happy with this plan, but he had agreed on the basis that at least they would be able to get the information to prove that his father had nothing to do with the plan to wipe out the Glades. After all, it was Queen Consolidated that had bought Unidac Industries – not Merlyn Global as he'd pointed out bluntly!

Oliver had agreed but it was clear that he didn't share Tommy's sentiments and nor did it change the plan. The Team split up to handle their respective business and Oliver had gone to see Thea as she'd sent him a text saying she needed to talk. Oliver had asked Felicity to prep the tech whilst he was gone. Diggle had also left saying he needed to change his plan with Carly and AJ for this evening. Tommy had left then too, needing some time to think.

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Once the job was over with they had all met back at the lair as he'd taken to calling it now. Unsurprisingly a Plan B had been needed as his father had seen Oliver; and Felicity had nearly been caught out too. Thankfully they had all made it out of there in the end with the bug planted and the virus uploaded, so all in all he supposed it could have gone worse. Nobody was injured this time – even if Felicity had chosen a really bad time to discover she was afraid of heights!

The virus had paid dividends too – much to his dismay in many ways! Felicity had discovered not only that there was an earthquake machine but had found the location of it, which is why they were all back here now. Oliver was ordering Diggle to steal the machine whilst he confronted Merlyn – but Tommy was less than happy with that!

"You might be willing to have an arrow point conversation with your own mother, but this is my father and I get a say in this!" Tommy insisted angrily – to little effect. Both Diggle and Felicity had agreed with Oliver (little surprise there he thought bitterly) and Oliver had stormed out fully geared up refusing to listen to anything Tommy was saying.

"Oliver! I'm still talking to you! You can't just go after my father like that!" Tommy couldn't believe that Oliver was ignoring him and leaving whilst he was still talking! Oliver would never have done that before the Island so how could he do it now?!

"Five years Tommy" Felicity said quietly after Diggle had quickly followed Oliver out to capture the machine.

"What?" He snapped angrily making her jump. He took a deep breath realising that this wasn't really Felicity's fault. "Sorry. What?" He said again, gentler this time.

"He was gone for five years Tommy, five years! We only know a tiny bit of what he went through in that time and what he has said is bad enough don't you think?"

She had a point. Much as it was hard for him to admit, she did have a point. Oliver had still said so little about what had happened and where so many of those scars were from. He sighed, it wasn't fair to judge him on who he used to be. He took another few deep breaths and nodded slowly knowing that Felicity understood he was acknowledging her.

They both went back over the computers and she activated the comms putting them on loud speaker so that Tommy could hear what was going on too. Both Diggle and Oliver confirmed they were at their respective locations but then everything started going wrong again, causing Tommy to wonder (not for the first time) why they even bothered to have a Plan A sometimes! The machine wasn't there, the warehouse was empty.

"No, wait, it can't be gone, the file said it was there!" Felicity insisted worriedly looking in horror at her computers as if they had betrayed her.

"Computer information can be out of date Felicity." Diggle responded, but then stopped as they could all hear sounds of a fight over the comms. A big fight and from the sound of it things weren't going Oliver's way.

Tommy couldn't help but feel conflicted. He didn't want Oliver to be hurt – but he didn't want his father hurt either! The sound kept crackling and breaking up, Felicity was trying to clear it back up but it wasn't working. Then just as she finally got it clear they heard a small explosion.

"Oliver, Oliver!" Felicity cried, but it was too late, Oliver's comms were dead. Tommy was stunned. He'd seen Oliver fight, how could anyone beat him – even this Dark Archer, regardless of whether or not that was his father?! Oh no! The last words Oliver had heard him say had been in anger – please don't let them be the last words he got to say to his friend he thought panicking. Oliver would be okay, he had to be okay – didn't he? He looked at Felicity but her face gave him no comfort, she was just as concerned as he was.

"Oliver, Oliver respond!" Diggle kept trying to raise Oliver on the comms whilst racing to Merlyn Global to rescue him and find out what the heck had happened. Tommy knew Diggle was ex-Special Forces, but it was beyond him how the man could stay so calm?!

"He's not here."

"What?" Felicity and Tommy both answered at the same time.

"He's not here Felicity, neither of them are." Diggle answered and this time a small amount of concern could be heard in even his voice.

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