AN: Here you go... another chapter. I hope youall enjoy is as you have told me you have the last 49 of them! Can you believe we're to 50?

Mic RiddyBanon and WolfOfHiddenMoons, thank you both for your help with this chapter! It is a huge help being able to run ideas past you guys and to have you assist as beta! You both are invaluable.

Disclaimer: I do not own Arrow :(


"Roy, relax. I'm just messing with you." Oliver laughed at the look on Roy's face. "I know that you love my sister, you've proven that you would do anything for her, to protect her. The only thing I'll say is if you hurt my sister in any way I will come after you. Not just as Oliver the older brother, but as a pissed off Arrow. Do you understand me?"

"Yes." Roy whispered. He knew that if Oliver came after him as an angry Arrow then there was no place in the world he could hide. "I won't hurt her!"

"I know." Oliver smiled as he reached out a hand to Roy and they shook.

"I think I'm going to need a raise. For a ring." Roy commented after he shook hands with Oliver.

"About that. I have an idea." Oliver smiled. "When you're feeling better you can ride with me to the bank. There's something in our family vault that I want to show you."


Chapter 50 - Brotherly Bonding

The next morning dawned bright and beautiful at the Queen Mansion. When Roy woke he saw a still sleeping Thea next to him. She had come in sometime in the middle of the night, laid down next to him, and quickly fallen asleep. Roy took that to mean that the women had had a good time out last night and he was happy that they had been able to enjoy some time together. He carefully pulled himself out of bed, trying his hardest not to wake Thea, and headed out the door. He met Andrew in the hallway.

"Morning Roy." Andrew greeted his younger brother with a smile. "How are you feeling?"

"Tired of people asking me how I'm feeling." Roy grumbled as he and Andrew began the climb down the stairs at a slow pace. He was still trying to be careful not to move to quickly and end up injuring himself again. "I'm a lot more rested and I'm starving." He finally admitted.

"I think we can handle that." Andrew said with a smile. He was beyond pleased that Roy was feeling better.

"Where is everyone?" Roy asked as the mansion seemed to be quieter than usual at the moment.

"Oliver, Diggle, and Barry are in the basement getting in a workout." Andrew told the younger man. "As far as I know the women are all still asleep. They were out until about two this morning partying according to Oliver." He said with a laugh.

"Sounds about right. Especially with Thea helping call the shots." Roy replied with a bit of a laugh.

The brothers walked in easy silence to the kitchen where Raisa provided them with a delicious breakfast of made to order omelettes and toast. Roy had never been more thankful to be pretty much living in the Queen Mansion than he was the last couple of days. Everyone had treated him like family and taken very good care of him.

The boys ate quickly and quietly, each enjoying their own meals. Andrew had some things that he wanted to ask Roy, but at the moment his food was too good. He knew he would get the chance sooner or later.

"You wanna go downstairs and check on Oliver, Barry, and Diggle?" Roy asked once he was done eating. He wouldn't mention that he was itching to be able to get back to training because he knew that they wouldn't let him do anything for a while. That didn't mean he couldn't watch the other men though.

"Sure, sounds like fun to me." Andrew answered, curious as to how things went when Team Arrow trained. Just as they were turning to head to the stairs to the basement Sara entered the kitchen.

"Hey guys, what are you up to?" Sara asked curiously as she saw Andrew and Roy together in the kitchen.

"We're just headed downstairs to watch Oliver and Diggle train. Don't worry, I'm staying off the mats." Roy told his Teammate.

"And off the Salmon Ladder. And away from the dummies, and the weights, and the punching bag."

"Okay Sara, I get the hint." Roy said irritably. "I'm just going to sit and watch. Promise."

"You better, or I'll let Thea kick your butt." Sara said cheerfully as she led the way downstairs.

"How is it you're up before all the others?" Andrew asked, wanting to ease the tension between the two by changing the subject.

"I can handle alcohol a lot better than I used to be able to." Sara explained. "I don't drink as much as I used to either. I don't allow myself to indulge too much to where it impairs my judgement and fighting ability." She told them honestly.

It was about all the group could do to not bust up laughing at the scene that came into view as they came to the bottom of the stairs. All three men were on the mats and Oliver currently had Barry in a head lock and the speedster looked like he was about to scream.

"Remember Barry, this is defense training. You're not allowed to use your speed!" Diggle reminded Barry who looked like he was about ready to run away and never come back.

"Oliver! What are you doing to our guest?" Sara asked, attempting to hide her smile.

"We're just working on some fighting techniques." Oliver commented as he let Barry go. "He needed some training so here we are."

"Why don't you let me take over for a few so you don't accidentally kill him." Sara commented as she joined the men on the mats.

"Finally, some relief!" Barry said under his breath as Oliver walked away from him.

"I wouldn't say that Barry." Diggle chuckled. "She may look smaller but she's faster, and very skilled. You can speed up with her but she's still going to beat you."

"Whatever." Barry commented with a smirk.

"Are they always like this?" Andrew asked Roy as they sat on a bench in the gym.

"No!" Roy answered as he met Andrew's eyes. "We don't get a chance to act like this very often. Usually we move from one mission to another without much rest."

"It must be exhausting."

"Sometime it is." Roy said quietly.

The brothers sat in silence for a few moments as they watched Team Arrow and the Flash training. Diggle had been right, Sara was kicking Barry's butt in sparring. But, the speedster was learning quickly. Diggle was watching, giving pointers as Sara and Barry sparred on the mats and Oliver put himself through a workout on the Salmon Ladder.

"So, tell me, how did you meet Thea?" Andrew asked curiously. He had been dying to hear the story and he figured now was as good a time as any.

"I stole her purse." Roy admitted a bit sheepishly as he looked down at his lap.

"You what?!" Andrew asked with a bit of a chuckle.

"I stole her purse. She was walking down the street with Laurel and I just grabbed her purse and ran." Roy stared off at the far wall as he recalled the story, a small smile on his face. "She followed me but couldn't catch me. My 8 ball key chain caught as I vaulted over a chain-link fence and she used that to track me down. The rest is sort of history I guess you could say."

"She loves you, that much is obvious." Andrew commented. He looked at Roy and they both smiled. "Now, tell me how you came to join Team Arrow."

"How much do you already know about me?" Roy asked, wanting to know what Andrew knew before he told the story.

"I didn't know anything about you. Dad was very specific on what he had me research. I spent a lot of time trying to hunt down your lair and tracking Felicity, but he didn't want me looking too deep into the Team. He figured that if we found the IT Tech, or the lair, we'd find the rest of you easy enough."

"Well, there was a guy that called himself the Savior. He was taking people and killing them on a live feed sent to the news stations." Roy started as he adjusted his sling. "He took me and was going to kill me but Oliver found me first. He saved my life that night and every night after that Thea, Sin, and I worked to find him. I felt like I owed him." Roy took a breath as he glanced at Oliver, who was now doing inverted crunches on the bar of the Salmon Ladder. "He wanted us to stay out of all things Arrow, but we wouldn't listen. He even put an arrow in my knee one night because I insisted on trying to go out and help him. I think he got an intense amount of satisfaction from pulling it out later as Oliver."

"Probably." Andrew laughed quietly as he noticed a smirk on Oliver's face at the comment. "What happened next?"

"The case he was working on at the time involved a man named Cyrus Gold. He had been injected with something called Mirakuru that made him stronger, healed him faster, and increased his rage. Apparently he was one of many test subjects and one of the only ones to survive the injection." Roy then looked down at his hands in his lap again. "I was captured again and injected with the Mirakuru as well. I would have died again that night if Oliver hadn't showed up. After that he took me under his wing and started to teach me how to control the drug."

"Is that when you found out he was the Arrow?" Andrew asked, noting the look of pain in his brother's eyes. Roy clearly still remembered the experience.

"No, it wasn't until we found a device like the one that initially leveled the Glades that I learned who the Arrow really was." Roy explained. "He had asked me to accompany him to the docks where the device was. We ran into a couple of guys and I was so blinded by my rage as we fought that it took Oliver talking to me as Thea's brother to pull me from it. I had almost beaten a man to death with my bare hands as Oliver tried to get into a shipping container to stop the device from detonating. Once my head cleared we were able to break into the container and blow up the device. Since then I've been working with him in some way or another."

"So how does the Mirakuru affect you now?" Andrew asked curiously.

"It doesn't." Roy answered quietly. "Slade Wilson made sure of that."

"Slade?" Andrew asked, more curious now than he had been before.

"You knew he had been in town. Did you know what he did while he was here?" Roy asked, now curious.

"No." Andrew answered honestly.

"He abducted Thea, Lance, Felicity, Sara, Oliver, and I. He cured me of the Mirakuru in front of Thea, who didn't even know about it until then, or the fact that I had been working with the Arrow. He beat Detective Lance with a thick, knotted whip leaving him bruised. He tried to drown Sara. Felicity got a tattoo thanks to him. Then he tortured Oliver with a long blade, his fists, and then whipped him. Slade would have killed Oliver if Felicity hadn't managed to get his own cure and use it against him." Roy told his brother who looked at him shocked.

"Who killed him?" Andrew asked quietly.

"No one killed Slade." Oliver commented as he walked towards the brothers. He had been half listening to their conversation and figured now was the time to step in as he and Diggle were the only ones that knew what had happened to Slade. "He is alive and well. He is simply in a prison, a long way away, where he can't hurt anyone."

"You mean Dad and David's vendetta was for nothing?" Andrew asked as he stood and faced Team Arrow. "I knew he was twisted, but this..."

"Andrew, how much did you know about what he did?" Roy asked, clearly referring to their dad.

"Not much, only what he wanted me to know." Andrew told them as he slowly paced in front of Roy and Oliver. "He threatened my family if I didn't do what he wanted. I learned that the more excited I seemed about what was going on, and the more closely I followed his instructions, the less he would threaten my family. So, I threw myself into the work completely and pretended that I was excited to do anything he asked of me."

"You were just protecting your family." Roy commented.

"We respect that." Oliver added with a small smile.

"Roy?"

Roy turned as he heard Thea's voice at the top of the stairs. She must have finally woken up. He thought with a smile.

"I'm down here with the guys." Roy called, not bothering to even get up from his place on the bench.

A moment later Thea, Sin, and Caitlin reached the bottom of the stairs.

"I woke up and you were gone. I was worried." Thea told Roy as she leaned down to plant a kiss on his cheek.

"I'm fine. I just didn't want to wake you up so I came down here." Roy told her gently, with a hint of a smile.

"Oh, Oliver. Felicity is looking for you upstairs." Thea told her brother as she looked around the basement. Everyone she needed to talk to was down here, all they had to do was get rid of Oliver. Thea knew that Felicity was the perfect way to get him out of the gym.

"Thanks Thea." Oliver said with a smile as he pulled his sister into a hug before heading up the stairs in search of his almost wife.

Once Oliver was out of earshot, the entire group gathered around the bench were Roy and Thea were sitting. They knew they needed to nail down a couple of last minute details and Thea had effectively made it to where they had a couple of minutes to talk freely.

"Okay guys, let's talk final details for their bachelor and bachelorette parties tomorrow." Thea started with a smile.


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