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Big Belly Burger

Morning

"I'm glad you agreed to meet me Sara." Dinah said as she and Sara sat across from each other at a table.

"I just came for one reason: to tell you to stop," Sara said coolly and Dinah looked dismayed, "stop calling me, stop calling Oliver, stop calling dad and Laurel. For months you've had the opportunity to reach out and make things right, but no calls, no emails, nothing. You just show up here and expect me to accept whatever half assed apology you have? I don't think so."

"Hey, you two ready to order?" Carly asked as she stepped up to them.

"She is, I have to get to work." Sara said as she stood up and walked out before Dinah could call out.

Starling City Police Department

Same time

"So nothing new to report then?" Quentin asked Hall.

"Nothing yet, but I've got some time off, so I'll head to Oliver's club opening tonight, see if I can find anything." Hall told him and Quentin nodded as he looked at her gratefully.

"Thank you." Quentin said as his phone went off.

Quentin scowled before pressing ignore. Hall noticed and gave him an inquisitive look.

"It's nothing, my ex-wife's back it town and Sara's not particularly pleased." Quentin explained.

The Foundry

Afternoon

"Hey Dig, how you doing?" Oliver asked as he walked into the room.

"You want an honest answer to that?" Diggle asked glumly as he pulled up a video file, "I think you'll want to see this."

Oliver stared at the screen stunned as a man was held at gun point with a crossbow wielded by a very familiar face.

"Helena." Oliver breathed stunned.

"I checked the hospital records, apparently she woke up and busted out of Starling General Weeks ago. The SCPD must be covering it up; this was taken at alley cats, the strip joint. The police report lists the guy's name as Gus Sabatoni." Diggle said as they watched Helena put the arrow in Gus.

"That's Bertinelli's lawyer," Oliver recalled as he turned away from Diggle, his mind racing, "why would she kill him? It's not like he did a good job, her father is serving three consecutive life sentences without parole."

"I don't know. What do you wanna Oliver?" Diggle asked as he looked towards his friend.

"Reach out to our contacts in the Bratva. I want to know where Helena is. She can't just want Sabatoni dead; killing him is all part of a bigger plan." Oliver said as he walked away.

Queen Consolidated

Late afternoon

"Ollie, what are you doing here?" Sara asked as her husband walked briskly into her office.

"Helena is awake." Oliver said and Sara's blood ran cold.

"What?" Sara asked in shock.

"She woke up weeks ago and the police covered it up. I went to the mansion and she was there. She wants our help killing her father and she made a not so veiled threat against our families if we don't cooperate." Oliver told her and Sara became enraged.

"Then you know what it is we have to do." Sara said coldly and Oliver nodded.

"What I should have done instead of handing her over to your father." Oliver said in the same voice.

Verdant

Early night

"She was in my family's home Diggle, made threats against our family. I want extra security on my mother, sister, Quentin, and Laurel." Oliver told Diggle as they and Sara stood in Verdant as it prepared to open.

"Already on it." Diggle said as he walked away while dialing a number on his phone.

Oliver sighed in relief but noticed Tommy at the bar. After an encouraging glance from Sara, Oliver walked over to the bar. Sara watched the conversation and it didn't seem to be going well. Tommy walked off and Oliver stared after him dejectedly.

Lian Yu, five years ago

Day

"One of those missiles has a range of over twenty-four hundred kilometers," Slade told Oliver and Sara as the trio stared down at Fryers camp, "we're not going anywhere until we find out what Fryers is planning."

"Wild guess: he's planning on blowing something up." Oliver said sarcastically as Slade looked at him annoyed.

"One of those could do that but this," Slade shook his head as he looked back at the camp, "this is about starting a war."

"With who?" Sara wondered.

"It doesn't matter. We need to stop Fryers before he kills thousands of innocent people." Slade said grimly.

"There are dozens of soldiers down there and even if we get through all of them, we can't exactly steal a missile launcher." Sara told him.

Slade put the binoculars to his eyes and saw the soldiers carrying boxes of explosives. Slade put the binoculars down, a plan forming in his mind.

"Who said anything about stealing?" Slade asked.

"So what's the plan, ambush?" Oliver asked.

"Impossible, we can't take out all six without one radioing for backup." Slade dismissed.

"We need to get all the soldiers in one place." Sara suggested and Slade looked at her impressed before looking over at Oliver.

"You're right." Slade agreed as he got an idea.

Verdant

Night

"You and I need to talk Tommy." Sara said as she walked over him at the bar.

"Everything I needed to say, I s-" Tommy began but was cut off when Sara slapped him.

"How dare you," Sara snarled as he held a hand to his red cheek stunned, "how dare you judge us. You have no idea the hell that Oliver and I went through on that island. You know, when I first came home, my dad and Laurel acted like I was on some island resort. I guess you think that to, it wasn't. But I guess it's easy for you to stand on your pedestal and judge us, I mean you've had a silver spoon in your mouth your entire life. You may know struggling, but you do not know suffering Tommy. When the day comes that you know suffering, and I pray that that day never comes, then you have the right to judge us. In the meantime, get over yourself and listen to what Oliver has to say."

"Hey, what's going on?" Laurel asked as she walked over.

"Your boyfriend is being a dick to my husband." Sara said before walking off.

Sara met Oliver at the stairs and the two were about to head one to the dance floor when a server walked up to them.

"They said it was urgent." He said as he handed Oliver a piece of folded paper.

Once he walked off, Sara and Oliver exchanged a look before Oliver unfolded the paper to see a message. 'Meet me down stairs. – Dig' was written across the paper. Exchanging another look, Oliver and Sara walked off, unaware that they were being watched by McKenna Hall. The couple walked over to the basement, Oliver punching in the code and opening the door, before they walked down the steps. Turning the corner, they stopped short at the sight of Helena holding Tommy against a table, bending his arm at a painful angle.

"Let him go or I swear to god I will kill you before you can move." Sara growled.

"My father is a mobster and a killer, it's not like you have not killed men like that before!" Helena shouted.

"What you failed to understand is that we only kill if they are a threat! Your father is not a threat to anyone right now!" Oliver shot back.

"He will always be a threat! One thing he taught me was to find leverage, find my enemies weaknesses and exploit them," Helena said as she twisted Tommy's arm and he cried out in pain, "There's a whole club full of leverage right above us. Oliver, Sara don't make me do something we'll all regret."

"Okay, you win. Now let him go!" Oliver snarled.

Helena stared at them impassively for a moment before twisting Tommy's wrist again. Tommy cried out in pain from his broken wrist as Helena released him before she walked away.

Verdant, the lair, next day

Morning

"How did she even get in?" Diggle asked them frustrated.

"Part of a bigger plan Dig. She's been watching us almost as long as she's been awake." Oliver explained as he ran a hand over his face.

"So why are you letting her blackmail you into killing someone?" Diggle wondered.

"We're not," Sara said after making sure Helena wasn't around, "it's a set up. Helena thinks we're helping her get her father, but we're getting her to drop her guard. The moment she has, we'll kill her."

"Am I interrupting?" Helena asked as she walked in, thankfully not having heard Sara "and you are?"

"No one to you." Diggle said roughly.

"We haven't been able to find the FBI safe house where they're keeping your father." Oliver told her to get on with business.

"I can help with that, I've been dying to hack into the FBI's security system." Felicity said as she walked in.

"Felicity, get out." Sara said not wanting her friend to get involved with Helena.

"This is a private thing Felicity. Please leave." Oliver told her as Diggle stepped up to the younger woman with a 'do it' look.

"Oh, okay. See ya I guess." Felicity said as she turned around and walked away.

"Who's she?" Helena asked curiously.

"She's no one either." Sara said roughly.

"Like I said, we don't know where your father is," Oliver interjected, "but what we do know is the Marshall Service is taking your father to a hearing at the Justice Department tonight. There's a problem though. There's two vans, one of them is a decoy."

"Well I guess it's a good thing there's three of us then." Helena said nonchalantly.

"It's not too late to call this off." Oliver said trying one last time to reach her.

"I think we all know it is." Helena said roughly.

Lian Yu, five years ago

Day

"Hey!" Oliver, in his soldier uniform and mask, walked up with a seemly bound Slade, "I found an intruder while I was circling the perimeter!"

Oliver shoved Slade to his knees as the six guards approached.

"It's Wilson. You killed a few of my friends you son of a bitch." One soldier said.

"And I'm gonna kill a few more." Slade said as he brought his hands out from behind his back to reveal two pistols.

Oliver dropped down as Slade opened fire. In no time at all, Slade had killed all six soldiers with one shot each. As Oliver stood up, Sara ran up behind them from the woods. Slade looked over at them with a grin.

Starling City

Night

As Helena moved her motorcycle in the opposite direction of The Hood and Canary's, the two vigilantes made their move. The Hood threw a flechette at her motorcycle and it hit the rear tire. There was an explosion of air and Helena was thrown from her motorcycle. As she landed on the ground The Hood notched an arrow and The Canary took out a baton. The two got off their motorcycles and began to circle Helena as the wounded woman looked at them, hatred in her eyes. Oliver was preparing to fire when two squad cars neared them from opposite directions, one of the cops from each car. Growling, The Canary slammed one of her sonic devices on to the ground and the cops dropped their guns. The Hood grabbed Helena and the two Vigilantes took off on their motorcycles.

The trio drove for ten minutes until they were sure that they had lost the police. Pulling into a deserted parking lot, Oliver and Sara put the motorcycles in park before they all got off.

"If you were planning on killing me, why'd you take me with you? The police were there?" Helena demanded.

"We couldn't have you tell the police about us." Sara said coolly.

"The police know you're tracking your father, you're never gonna get another chance at him." Oliver told her.

"So just give up. This is your last chance, because we believe in second chances. I don't think you're evil Helena, I think you're lost. And I know a little something about being lost," Sara said as she thought of her obsession with China White in the year following Hong Kong, "leave and never come back. This is your last warning. Next time, we will kill you."

With Helena watching, Oliver and Sara got on their bikes and drove away.

Lian Yu, five years ago

Day

Slade opened a crate of explosives and handed some to Oliver and Sara each.

"Place these around the launcher. Do it quickly, their back up will be here any moment." Slade said as they went to work.

"Sixty second back and we'll launch." A voice came over the radio and their hearts froze as they put the explosives around the machine.

"Set you're charges and we'll blow it!" Slade shouted at them.

"Wait, I think I have a better idea." Oliver said as he saw an access panel.

Opening it, Oliver saw what he was looking for and grabbed it.

"What are you doing?" Slade growled as he took it out.

"I stole the circuit board. Computers won't work without them and neither will this." Oliver said as he held the device out to Slade.

"Leverage." Slade smiled before the trio took off.

Oliver and Sara's loft

Later

"Do you think we made the right decision?" Sara asked as Oliver closed the door behind them.

"I don't know," Oliver admitted as he looked at her, "she just reminds me so much of…"

"Me?" Sara said and he looked at her surprised, "you can say it Ollie, she's just like me after Hong Kong, focusing all her grief and rage on one thing. I think that's why we show her so much mercy, because she reminds us of that time. But if she blows this chance, we can't do that."

"We can't." Oliver said before his phone went off and he answered it, "hello? Felicity, slow down I can't…oh my god, we'll be right there."

"What happened?" Sara asked worriedly he hung up.

"Helena just blew her last chance." Oliver growled.

Queen Consolidated

Later

"Felicity?" Oliver called out as he and Sara walked in to Felicity's seemingly empty office.

"Over here." Felicity called out and they saw her foot behind her desk.

The pair ran and saw Felicity, her phone pressed to her ear, with her hands tied behind her back. Quickly untying her, Oliver helped the younger woman sit up, Felicity obviously shaken, as Sara stood up with a knife but it was just Diggle. As Sara lowered her knife, Diggle walked over to them.

"I got your call, what happened?" Diggle demanded.

"Helena." Sara growled.

"She wanted the address of the safe house her father was at. I sort of hacked the FBI database. I'm sorry guys." Felicity said.

"It's not your fault." Sara assured her friend.

"Sara, let's go." Oliver barked as he and Sara started to leave.

"Where you going?" Diggle demanded.

"To finish what the police interrupted tonight." Oliver growled.

FBI safe house

Not too long after

Helena was on the stair case, having killed multiple FBI agents and was about to kill another when an arrow intercepted her bolt. She fired two shots, forcing the vigilantes to take cover as she kicked the door in. seeing the empty room, Helena growled before jumping out the window to pursue her father. The Hood and Canary followed her, seeing her staring after her father's retreating figure.

"Helena!" The Hood barked in his mechanical voice.

She turned around, aiming her cross bow at them. The Hood had an arrow trained on her and The Canary had a baton in one hand and a knife in the other.

"You two won't kill me, you're not murders, right?" Helena said mockingly.

"You're a threat to innocent people. We let you go, we might as well be killing those people ourselves." The Canary sneered.

The Hood fired but she caught the arrow, to the two vigilantes' surprise. She smirked at their expressions.

"I practiced that move, I had a feeling I might need it someday." Helena bragged.

"Well did you practice protecting yourself from this?" The Canary demanded as she threw her knife.

Helena dodged it but the pair moved it. The Canary swung her baton at her but Helena blocked it with her arm. She kicked The Hood as he approached, sending him to the ground. Helena wrapped her arms around The Canary's throat in a choke-hold but The Canary flipped her over. It went back and force for a minute between the two women as they fought for dominance before The Canary back off as The Hood trained another arrow an Helena.

"Enough!" he barked as some exited the house.

"Freeze!" Hall said as she aimed her gun on them, "put down your weapons!"

There was a tense moment before The Hood reluctantly did as she asked. The moment he did, Helena picked her fallen gun off the ground and took aim.

"No!" The two vigilantes shouted in union as Helena fired.

McKenna was hit and Helena was forgotten as The Hood and Canary rushed to her side. The bullet had hit her in the waist and McKenna was unconscious. Hearing sirens, the two left, knowing McKenna would get to the hospital.

Starling General Hospital, next day

Morning

"I loved being a cop." McKenna told Quentin as he sat by her bedside.

"You'll still be a cop. You just need to take some time off, to help you recover." Quentin told her understandingly.

"I'm moving to Coast City, it has the best physical rehabilitation facility in the country." McKenna told him and he nodded.

"We'll miss you." Quentin told her.

"About Sara and Oliver-"

"Don't even worry about it." Quentin cut her off.

"No, listen. The other night at the club, I followed them. There's this room at the basement, it has a deadlock with a security code. I asked around, no else has any idea what it is, I think that whatever you're looking for…is in that room." McKenna told him.

Verdant

Same time

Oliver was sitting at a table alone when someone sat down across from him. Looking up, Oliver was surprised to see Tommy.

"So, Sara pointed out to me, rather bluntly, that I don't have any right to judge you when I don't know what you've been through. If you're willing to talk, I'm willing to listen this time." Tommy said and Oliver nodded.

"It all started when the boat went down. Sara and I were pulled into the life raft by my father and the first mate…"

Lian Yu, five years ago

Night

Oliver, Sara, and Slade were hidden behind the ridgeline they had first spotted missile launcher as Fryers and his men searched. Slade handed Oliver the radio.

"Your plan, your call." Slade said simply, to which Oliver nodded.

"Fryers." Oliver called out after activating the radio.

"Mr. Queen, I thought I might be hearing from you." Fryers angry voice came over the radio.

"We have the circuit board." Oliver told him.

"You are making a grave mistake. My men are scouring the island for you," at this, Slade looked back through the binoculars towards the camp, "when they find you, they will kill you and Ms. Lance. Slowly I'm afraid."

"If your men kill us, then you'll never know where the circuit board is. And after that, we both know all you'll be left with is a really ugly piece of modern art." Oliver said causing Slade to smirk in amusement and Sara to giggle quietly.

"Then what would you purpose?" Fryers asked and the trio knew they had beaten him.

"A trade." Oliver told him.

"And what would you want in return?" Fryers inquired.

"I want a way off the island." Oliver demanded.

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