++++++ I do apologize if this has some grammar or spelling mistakes...I may have consumed a bottle of wine whilst I was writing. In all fairness it was a pretty bloody good bottle of Pink Rose Moscato. Three glasses and gone...oops...my not bad.

Anyway...reviews:

- Stormrunner74: I sent you a copy. If you have any suggestions...please feel free to let me know.

- highlander348: I do hope that this is enough...the second part of this will be in the next chapter. And yes-that argument will be a fun one.

- Ravenmore45: She does this data hack thing that freaks River out. Her head mines data and she can store it thanks to the nanites. The shield thing she could do she didn't know about. The electrical thing is how she revived Roy-also new.

I hope you enjoy.

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Twenty-Six

There was a limo waiting outside as it poured down with rain. I was starting to come off my serum induced high but every cell in my body was still on full alert. In the back of my mind I couldn't believe that I'd actually attacked Felicity. I could have killed her. I could have killed all of them.

And what was with that electricity? Since when did Felicity have superpowers?

"I see you haven't changed at all," Slade spoke, cutting through the silence. "You're still quiet when you think. I must confess I found it funny when I saw the news after your return. A man in a hood and his companion in the shadows? I knew it had to be you two."

"What's your point?" I snapped. "Why did you send your solider to come and get me? What's the pint of all this?"

He laughed. I remember a time where Slade Wilson used to joke about things and tell me tales of his country Australia and how hot it was and laugh about his son Joe-that laugh was so different to this laugh.

"I saw that newspaper article about Shade stopping a truck and walking away," he replied. "I had to know so after sending Cyrus out I asked him to report back. It wasn't Oliver so it had to be you."

I remained silent as I climbed in the limo. "Got any booze in this thing?" I asked, opening the mini bar. "Oh-hello Craig!" I sat in the back of the limo with a bottle of whisky, drinking it as our driver took us wherever it was we were going. "You know my mum taught me to never accept rides from medically enhanced psychopaths. But from past experience if the booze is good then hand me a lollypop, sir."

"When you and Oliver blew up the Amazo you weren't this strong," Slade spoke. "Did you inject yourself?"

I laughed and shook my head. "No. This isn't the Mirakuru. Can't say it's much better than it." I shifted in my seat and took swig out of the bottle. "When you asked me to take a walk I assume you wanted to talk to me-ask me a question. So ask me the question or let me out so I can continue on my way."

"Your way to getting shot and killed," Slade smirked. "I would assume better of Wintergreen's last student. Even with you getting triple teamed by Oliver and his two girlfriends."

I looked out the window with a smirk. Despite being mortal enemies-he was making me chuckle. "Is this the part where you tell me your evil plan and ask me to join you?"

Slade paused. "River-you were the one out of the two of you that has that streak. Working with Fyers and Wintergreen-it was you who could have taken everything."

"You tried to kill me," I grumbled. "Well-actually you did but you strangled me and threw me over a cliff." The limo came to a stop and seconds later the door was opened. I climbed out still with my bottle of Craig in my hand. I looked around with a slight frown, wherever we were-I had no idea where we were despite it being outside of the city. "Can I ask you something? Have you seen your son? Joe? What about your wife-Lisa?"

And so he hit me, knocking me to the ground after he broke my nose. I frowned at my broken bottle then I picked myself up. I crinkled my face with a wince, feeling the cartilage repairing itself.

Slade looked at my face and smirked. "What does it feel like? Repairing itself?" he asked me. "I find it's the oddest sensation. The Mirakuru doesn't allow for body parts to be regrown-it's how I lost my eye. Can you can you regrow a limb?" I frowned, not really liking where this was going. "Let's test that theory."

And there it was.

I was grabbed from either side and my hand slammed down on a table as Slade drew his knife again. "You fudging touch me and I'm gonna fudging kill you!" I shouted when he put pressure on my hand to extend my fingers outwards. I struggled, trying to get myself free but to no luck. The blade touched my flesh and a screamed through gritted teeth as Slade cut off two of my fingers. "You fucking son of a bitch!" I shouted.

He cleaned his knife off on a piece of rag before tossing it over to me. "Take those samples to get looked at," he ordered.

I wrapped the rag around my fingers, grimacing in pain. "Touch me again and next time I'm gonna cut o your fucking dick-let's see if that grows back." The same familiar feeling I usually got when my muscles regenerated or bones healed wasn't there. Somehow I doubted that I'd grow a couple of finger back. Just great.

"You'll listen to my business proposal now," Slade assured me, walking away, forcing me to follow, clutching my bloodied hand to my chest. He pushed open a set of double oak doors to reveal a finely decorated office. The old décor just made me want to hit something-preferably Slade Wilson. "Don't worry about that," he told me, pointing to the corner.

My eyes widened when I saw Suki lying on the ground a bit bloodied up and unconscious. "Suki!" I yelled. I rushed over to her and checked her pulse. Stead. I tapped her face repetitively. "Suki! Suki!" Her eyes fluttered open like she was just getting up from a nap. She gasped and sat upright when she realized I was there. "Suki, what happened?"

"She wouldn't answer any questions," Slade answered. "What kind of daughter disobeys her own father? Not to worry, I've plans for that as well."

Suki looked around, panicked. "Where's Roy? He was showing me the library at Binan and then the lights went out. They separated us-" she stopped talking when she saw the look on my face. "He's not okay, is he?" she whispered.

I stood up. "No-he's not."

"The boy was of no consequence," Slade told me. "Another cog in the wheel as it moves along."

"That boy of no consequence," I growled, "was my fiancé."

Slade looked up from pouring himself a drink. "Well-that certainly changes things doesn't it?" he spoke.

"Yeah it does," I snapped, moving around Suki. "His name was Roy Harper and I was going to marry him. But I'll settle for killing you instead."

"River, no!" Suki yelled as I leapt over the desk at him.

He blocked me immediately and punched me in the throat. Slade grabbed my hand and twisted it until the bone snapped.

I groaned and he hit me in the chest sending me flying into the wall.

"Slade, stop!" Suki yelled, standing in front of me.

He advanced on her and when she tried to block him, he slammed her head against the bookshelf and threw her across the room. "You women test my patience! Nothing but trouble."

I cracked him in the back of the knee and pulled his leg out from underneath him before jumping to my feet. Suki stood up, ignoring the trail of blood running down her face. "Come on partner," I told her, "the night is young."

We attacked on both sides. My healing injuries and her inexperience didn't equate to too much but we were holding our own. Slade hit my broken arm, snapping the healing bones once again. He kicked Suki in the side of the knee and slammed her head into his knee before he threw her through the double doors.

Slade grabbed a chunk of my hair and dragged me over to the wall where his swords hung on the wall. "You try my patience River. My one-time offer just expired." He raised his sword only for a green arrow to knock it from his hands and imbedded itself into the wall.

"Let her go." The Hood stood there in the doorway with an arrow loaded in his bow with the Black Canary holding her bo staff and Cypher with her Katana in one hand and holding Suki up in the other.

"Well hello Oliver," Slade smirked. "That's some team you've put together. I look forward to seeing if it can withstand what is about to come." He pulled me up and threw me across the room. He dropped something on the floor and it exploded into flames.

The Hood grabbed me under my arm and dragged me out to the waiting car where Diggle and Charlie were in the front seat. Barry and Peter were in another SUV. "They'll take Suki to the hospital. You're coming back with us."

I snorted. "Yeah just drop me off at the next corner," I ordered him.

"Sorry, River," Charlie answered. She turned around in the front seat and stabbed me in the knee with something. "Night princess. That's enough to knock out a herd of elephants. Don't be angry, I volunteered to drug you."

My head hit the window with a soft thud and I'm pretty sure I started to snore.