Hello dear readers, I know it has been a crazy long time since I posted a chapter on this story, I just had a major case of the writers block, but now I am cured, and I decided to finish this chapter! Hope you like it, this is the last Oliver centered chapter, because, like the title said, he is going back home! Yay! So this is before the Bonds chapter named Return (I think), just to keep you on the timeline. Ok, so on with the story!
Disclaimer: I still don't own any DC show!
Chapter 14: Russia and Return
After Oliver promised Taianna to go to Russia if she died, and Reiter was taken care of, so he made right to his promise. ARGUS gave him a ride to Russia, and left him there, where he found the last person he thought he would see in that city of Russia: Anatoly Knyazev. The Queen fought in illegal fighting clubs. However, something went wrong, when he beat a very big, and very strong man. Apparently, he was a fighter for the Bratva, Russian mafia, where Anatoly was, as well.
After getting ambushed by the Bratva, Oliver saw Anatoly, who got him out of his mess, by dislocating his thumbs. "What are you doing in Russia?" Anatoly asked, as they walked outside.
"I made a promise to a friend of mine, Taianna, that I would find her parents, and tell them what happened to her and her brother, and take down Kovar, and his government. I didn't know you would be in the same city," Oliver said, just as shocked as his Russian friend.
"Small world," Anatoly said, and they continued walking in silence for a few minutes, until he broke it. "I am sorry about your friend."
"She wasn't just my friend, Anatoly, she was the love of my life," he countered, knowing exactly who he meant. "I loved Kara, and she took a bullet for Shado so that we could live, knowing that led would poison her."
"I did not know how she died. It must have been hard to watch. I am sorry for what happened."
"Thanks Anatoly. I just hope that she found love," Oliver said, looking down, only to receive a pat on the back from his friend.
After getting Anatoly to help him get Kovar, he was taken to the Bratva, where the other brothers were, and Oliver turned to Anatoly. "So, if I survive this, I'll be in the Bratva?" he asked, and the Russian man scoffed at him.
"No, if you survive this, you get in process, of becoming Bratva," Anatoly corrected to younger man. Oliver sighed, and went towards the men, and when he did he started getting beaten up, falling on the ground, and the men continued to punch him, repeatedly.
After surviving the beating, he was brought to a warehouse, to try and get into the mob, with other young men. The exercise was hard, they had to ring the bell, but they had to pass the fighter. They were getting their asses handed to them, until Oliver realized something: they had to work together to get pass the man, and ring the bell. However, when Oliver rang the bell, the Bratva men shot the other boys, shocking the man. "Why did you do that!?" Oliver asked Anatoly.
"Follow me," Anatoly said, and Oliver nodded, so he followed his friend towards a house, where the two Russians talked, Anatoly showed the woman a picture of a dead body, one of the men that helped Oliver ring the bell. He assumed the boy on the picture was her son, but what he didn't expect the woman to hug Anatoly and thank him. After asking him why, Anatoly tells the archer that the other boys in the initiation were all criminals, and the woman asked him for revenge, so to get them all together, the boys were promised initiation to the Bratva.
A day later, Anatoly brought the young man to the Bratva captains, who accepted to hear his reasons for wanting to enter the Bratva. After accepting his reasons, he had to go through a test of trust, and let his new Bratva brothers cut him, and trust that they don't kill him. After becoming a full-time member of the Russian mob, he was given the nickname 'Kapot', since they didn't use their real names.
At a party, at a bar, to celebrate Oliver's acceptance in the Bratva, Oliver didn't feel like celebrating, feeling bad about Kara not being there with him. He saw a woman get out by the back door, so he wondered where she went. "Is everything?" one of the Bratva members, asked, concerned for his new brother.
"I'm fine," Oliver said, waving him off. "I just need some air," he said, going outside, following the woman. "Hey, are you ok?" the blond American asked the woman.
"It isn't her you should be worried about," a voice came from behind, and Oliver was attacked by someone, who was punching him repeatedly. When he was about to use a shiv to stab him in the stomach, another man joined the fight, taking the shiv, and hitting the attacker repeatedly, until he fell down. Oliver was on the ground, and saw who had saved him: the man who talked to him earlier.
"Are you alright?" the man asked, helping the blond up.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Christopher Chance," the man said, his Russian accent disappearing as he talked, revealing an American one. "I was hired by Anatoly Knyazev to protect you, in case you were in danger."
"Thanks."
"Do you know who would want to kill you?" Chance asked, turning to the dead, or unconscious, man that tried to kill his client.
"Viktor didn't seem to like me too much, so… might be him," Queen suggested, thinking about the Bratva members that might want him in danger.
"Could be," Chance said, shrugging at the idea.
Thanks to Chance's intel, Oliver talked to Anatoly about Viktor, but he doubted Oliver's intel, and the reasons why he would tell him that.
However, Oliver found out that it was the Pakhan that they needed to worry about, but Anatoly didn't trust him on that, either.
In the end, Oliver was in Russia for one reason, take care of Kovar, and tell Taianna's parents how she and her brother died. Oliver was all dressed up as his old rich playboy self and with a bodyguard that was actually a member of the Bratva. However, things didn't go according to plan, and Kovar took him with him, to his home, to be eventually tortured.
Oliver was tortured for many days, and he didn't know how long he had been in that basement for, but when he saw the guards fall, dead, in the stairs, he thought he was hallucinating. When he saw who had caused the death of those men, Oliver looked shocked. "Shado? Weren't you in Australia…?" he asked, before going out cold. The last thing he saw was a woman he didn't know in Shado's place, bow and arrow in hand. "Who… who are you?" he asked, before falling unconscious.
Talia knew who he was. She had pictures of him, when he was in Hong Kong, in Coast City, basically every time he wasn't on the island. She even knew about his other identity. "You need you give the monster an identity. Distance yourself from it, or your two lives will intertwin and everything will fall apart," she had said, when she gave him the Hood, with a green leather vest, and pants. He took the uniform, and his own bow and quiver.
Oliver used the Hood, for the first time, to kill a man and prove to Talia that he was who she knew he was. That man was on his father's list, so he did kill him. After that, Talia told her student to go a ask his friend to leave the Bratva and go back home and help cleans his city of the evil that is spreading. The younger man agreed.
When he went to ask Anatoly, he found out that Gregor, their Pakhan, had him beaten up, so he was at the hospital.
Oliver went to see Anatoly at the hospital, and was talking to him about Gregor, when he figured something out. "What is it?" Anatoly asked, confused.
"We are being listened to. There is a nurse… he keeps walking past us… it's been four times already. He's probably listening in for Gregor," Oliver told Anatoly, who thought for a moment.
"Then we should leave," Anatoly said, and Oliver looked at him like he was crazy.
The two managed to get out of the room, but as they get out of the hospital, the duo is attacked by Gregor and his men. Before the group has the chance to kill them, Anatoly yells out two words that stop the whole fight. "Spros dopros." Gregor and his men left, but not before accepting the trial, so they could prepare. If Anatoly won, he would be the new Pakhan, and if he lost, he would die.
Before the trial, however, Oliver broke into Kovar's home, and found the bank transference between Kovar and Gregor, and he came back in time for the trial.
In the end, after seeing the evidence Oliver had brought, the Captains of the Bratva – most of them, anyway – went on Anatoly's side, making him the winner.
However, it went wrong, because Gregor's men opened fire, killing most Captains. Gregor didn't care, since he planned on promoting new ones anyway.
Anatoly, his loyal Captains, and Oliver – as the Hood – confront Gregor and his Bratva members, at the arena. During the fight, Oliver badly injures Gregor, almost killing him, so before he died, he told Anatoly about Kovar's plan to overthrow the Russian government.
To learn more information, Oliver kidnaps one of Kovar's men, and torture him for information, which shocked both Anatoly and Viktor. What they found out, however, was of more pressing matters. Oliver found out that Kovar was planning on using some kind of toxic gas at the casino to kill the government officials and the military men that were present, so he told Anatoly and Viktor, so they can plan something with the Bratva. However, what they didn't expect, was to have Viktor betray them, and help Kovar leak the gas. Gladly, the rest of the surviving Bratva, which included Oliver and Anatoly, managed to prevent the gas from leaking too much, and got everyone out of there safely, and barely harmed.
In that confrontation, Oliver went to find Kovar, and they fought. The battle took a while, but Oliver finally managed to kill the man, leaving him there, before joining Anatoly and the others, telling him the news.
As a thank you for everything that he did for them, Anatoly promoted Oliver as Bratva Captain, and they went for a tattoo, to officiate it; Oliver getting the black sun tattoo to represent his status in the Russian mob.
After the tattoo, Oliver asked his Pakhan to take him back to Lian Yu, so he could get rescued and brought back home, which the older man gladly accepted.
"Why would you go back to this place?" Anatoly asked, as they exited the plane, bringing out Oliver's case. "Why not have me bring you back to Starling City?"
"Because, the world has to think that I was stranded on an island for the past five years. My family doesn't need to know where I was," Oliver explained, an Anatoly nodded, before heading to the graves he had made, for everyone that had died there. He had made a grave for Kara, after the one for Taianna, since he never had time to make one before. He never found his girlfriend's body, so he just placed some rocks, and the wood with her name. There was also his father's grave, and the others. Anatoly approached Kara's grave, feeling sad that she had passed; it explained her absence in the raid of Ivo's boat. He hadn't asked about it, fearing the answer, but now he knew. "I am sorry about Kara, Oliver," Anatoly said, bending at the grave, and looking at Oliver's father's grave. "And your father."
"Thank you, Anatoly," Oliver said, nodding at him. "They are why I do this… my father asked me to write his wrongs, and after she died, I promised Kara I would do it… for her… for my father…" he added. When he made Kara's grave, he had kneeled in front of it to promise that he would right his father's wrongs, for her and Robert.
After that, Anatoly gave him a backpack, which he opened to look at the content. "There is a long wig and fake beard, and a watch that is programmed to ring in 48 hours, for when the fishermen will be close," Anatoly said, as Oliver grabbed what was inside, and placing them back into the bag.
A few minutes later, Anatoly left the island on the helicopter, and Oliver went to make his bonfire. A few hours after, when he was finished with the bonfire, he felt a presence from behind him, so he turned around. All he saw, was Kovar's face, and he felt pain on his head, and someone knocked him out.
When he woke up, his head hurting from being knocked out, he looked around to see that his wrists were chained to the ceiling, forcing him to stand. A little further away, he saw a face he thought he would never see again; Kovar. He remembered he saw him before going unconscious, however. "How are still alive? I killed you!" Oliver asked, confused, and causing the man to turn around.
"Oh Mr. Queen. Nothing really dies," Kovar said, scoffing. He then took a syringe, and injected the liquid in the younger man, right in his Bratva tattoo.
"What is this…" Oliver asked, confused, and he started to feel strange.
"An interrogation drug, that will wake all your old scares, awakening the pain like when it first appeared," Kovar explained, smirking.
"I'm going to kill you… and I'll make sure that you are dead this time," Oliver said, as he started to feel his old scares.
"No Mr. Queen, you will want to kill yourself, pretty soon," Kovar said, shaking his head. "I believe that pain is not a new experience for you."
"Stop wasting my time, Kovar," Oliver spat, but when Kovar touched one of Oliver's scares, which gave him flashbacks of the time he got that particular scare, and reliving the pain.
Kovar sent Oliver into one of the cages, every time he touched one of his scares, he felt the pain of his scares. Then, Kovar threw a gun at Oliver, which had only one bullet. Kovar told the younger man, who grabbed the gun, that he could either kill himself, or Kovar. Before Oliver could make a decision, Kovar left, so he could make a decision.
During that time, Oliver hallucinated Kara; he felt guilty for what happened to her. "I'm sorry," he told his deceased girlfriend.
"Why?" Kara asked, sitting next to him.
"For what happened to you," Oliver said, in a matter of factly.
"It wasn't your fault, Ollie, Ivo was going to kill me anyway, you saved Shado from suffering from the same fate. Thanks to you, Shado is alive right now, and she is happy with Slade."
"But I still chose…"
"You wanted to save both if use… but Ivo wanted to kill one of use, so he chose me, and you blaming yourself won't bring me back. It won't bring Taianna back, or anyone that you lost in the last few years."
"But if I come back home, they are going to blame me for what happened to you…"
"They'll understand that you tried to save me, it was my choice to come with you on that trip, no one forced me to go with you. But like I said, blaming yourself for our deaths will not bring them back," Kara explained, and at that moment, Yao Fei also appeared.
"But at least you can save them by sacrificing yourself like I did for all of you," Yao Fei said, and Oliver placed the gun on his head, preparing to kill himself. He had forgotten that Kara was there as well, even as a hallucination. She grabbed the gun, blocking him from shooting at himself.
"You have to survive, Oliver. You have to come back…" Kara begged. "If you don't survive, then mine and your father's deaths would be for nothing," After that, both Yao Fei and Kara disappeared, and Oliver got his act together – sort of – and used the gun to open the door.
After he escaped, Oliver was chased by some of Kovar's men. When he finally lost them, the younger man found himself in front of Kovar, who seemed wounded. The two fought for a while, until Oliver had enough of it, and need to go get ready for the fishermen to come, so he made a swift motion, and broke Kovar's neck.
He looked at his watch, and saw that the 48 hours had passed, so he ran, as fast as he could, and went to his backpack to get the wig and fake wig on. He took off the watch, and took his bow, and fired a burned arrow at the bonfire, setting it on fire, catching the attention of the fishermen. The boat changed course, and sailed towards the island, while Oliver ran to the bonfire, where the fishermen met him there.
Oliver fell to his knees, and the men helped him get up, and got his things on the boat, and Oliver sat on a bench. One of the fishermen gave Oliver a towel, and some hot tea so he could heat himself up.
He was coming home…
A/N: Finally, Oliver is going home! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review, I appreciate the comments you write on here. I might not be able to post for a while, I am going on a trip, and I have no idea if I will have Internet or not, so just a warning, if I don't post for the next few months, I'm not dead or on a writers block, I am just on a trip, unable to post anything! I leave next weekend, so maybe I will manage to post on another story, but the same warning will be said, so until next time!