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So, as the title suggests, there is a death in this chapter. For those of you who read my original story that suspect that Sara has a personal hatred for White…well, you're about to find out why.
Abandoned Argus base
Afternoon
"We should wait a few days, let Sara recover. Then we move out." Maseo told Oliver and John as Sara introduced baby Shado to Tatsu and Akio.
"I'll cover for you, tell them you just disappeared." John assured them.
"Why don't you come with us?" Oliver suggested and the older man looked at him surprised, "I know about your family. My family has connections, powerful connections. We could make sure that Waller goes near you again; you could be with your family again. You could explain to them why you had to leave, don't you want that?"
"More than you'll ever know. But I have come to terms that to be free of Amanda Waller is not something that I will ever be. If I cannot be free, then I can help your families be free of her." John said sadly as he looked between the two men.
Before Oliver could respond, a noise began to echo throughout the base. It was like a humming, only it was loud and getting louder. Everyone looked around confused except Sara, who was instantly on guard. She clutched Shado to her chest protectively as she sat up.
"Someone's coming down the elevator." Sara warned them.
"What?!" Oliver demanded as they shot up.
"That's the noise the elevator makes whenever it comes down. You and Akio usual go up the elevator and you were too worried about me to pay attention when the others got here." Sara explained as Tatsu helped her stand and Oliver took Shado.
"This is bad, Sara can barely stand. We need to move." Maseo said urgently.
"There's a secret exit that ends downtown, come on let's go." Oliver barked as they moved.
At the entrance, the elevator doors opened. China White and several of her men walked out, looking around. Seeing no one around, White signaled to her men to move out.
Oliver led the others down a hallway and carefully peered around a corner. Seeing the cost was clear, Oliver led the group of five adults, one child, and one baby over to the next hall.
"There's a room down on the right," Oliver quietly began as they moved, "inside the room, there's a lever that reveals a hidden chamber. There's an elevator there that will take us back up to the city."
As Oliver finished talking, they rounded the corner and came face to face with one of White's men. He raised his gun and John placed himself protectively in front of Sara and the children as Oliver and Maseo whipped out there guns. Shots were fired and the man dropped dead. Knowing that it was only a matter of time before White's men got there, they rushed to the room. As they neared the door, the rest of White's men arrived. John led the women and children into the room as Oliver and Maseo played defense. As their adversaries fired, the two men ducked. Oliver ad Maseo used their new position to their advantage. Firing three shots, the two each took down three of White's men. They stood up and rushed into the room just as John pulled the lever, causing part of the wall to open up, jest as Oliver had said.
"Come on, let's go!" Oliver shouted as they all rushed inside when he noticed that John wasn't following, "John, what's the hold up? We need to go!"
"You do, but I won't. White is coming Oliver, allow me to buy you some time." John told him.
"You'll die!" Oliver shouted trying to reason with him.
"For almost twenty years, I have lived by Waller's decision. This is my own, and if I die today, then at least I am dying on my term, not hers. This is where I make my stand." John said as he returned the lever back to its original position.
The wall replaced itself, cutting John off from the others. John turned around as, a few seconds later, China White walked into the room. She eyed him skeptically, knowing he could not have been the one to kill her men. Eying the gun in his hand, she knew that he had not used it.
"Put the gun away, we both know you would have used it by now if you were going to." White sneered.
With a noticeable lack of fear, John dropped the gun. White aimed her gun at him as she looked around the room. She walked closer to John, putting her gun in his face and still he didn't show any fear. White was impressed.
"Tell me where Oliver Queen, Sara Lance, and the Yamashiro's are, and I may let you live." White offered.
"I wouldn't tell you where they are if you tortured me." John said courageously.
"Well that's a shame." White said as she aimed the gun at his chest.
On the other side of the wall, as the elevator doors closed on them, a gun shot rang out. Sara, her arms holding her baby, buried her face in Oliver's shoulder as she started to cry. Oliver wrapped his arm around his family as a single tear slide down his cheek. Maseo lowered his head in respect for his friend.
On the other side of the wall, John laid on the floor, a bullet wound in his chest. As blood poured out of him, John looked up at White and did something that she didn't expect: he smiled.
"Thank you…for freeing me." John told her as he took his last breath.
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