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"Moira Queen, you have failed this city!" The Hood yelled. Moira was about to reach her phone as the vigilante snarled at her. "Stand still!"

"Please, don't kill me." Moira begged with tears forming in her eyes.

"Do you know anything about your husband's disappearance?" The archer demanded.

"What?"

"Is Walter Steele still alive?!" He shouted.

"I don't know where my husband is. I swear." Moira whimpered as the vigilante neared her.

"Do you know anything about the Undertaking?" The Hood asked another question as Moira reached for something on her desk. "I said 'don't move'!" He bellowed.

Moira knelt down, holding a picture of Oliver and Thea in front of her like a shield. "I… I'm a mother." She begged. "I have a son. Oliver. A daughter, her name is Thea. She's just a teenager. Please, don't take me from my children. They lost their father. They can't lose me too. Please, whoever you are, please."

The Hood took a breath and slowly lowered the bow. "OK. I'm not going to hurt you."

Moira reached for a gun she had hidden in her desk and the Hood crouched on instinct and hissed, feeling that he had been hit in the shoulder. As he fled the scene while the Queen matriarch was calling security, he didn't notice the bloodstain he left behind.

As the Hood was limping down the car park, he was suddenly leaning onto someone.

"Easy, Queen. Natasha sent me."

Oliver relaxed as he was passing out.

The Foundry

Diggle and Natasha were watching the news report on an attack at the Queen Consolidated before they heard someone shouting.

"Hey! Need a hand here!"

They both whirled around and relaxed, when Bobbi appeared, while they put Oliver on the table.

"You did the good thing by asking me to keep an eye on him." Bobbi said.

"What exactly happened?" Natasha asked.

"Lowered his guard because it was his mom, then she used the opening to shoot him." Bobbi explained and Natasha sighed.

"Of course he did." Natasha muttered as Diggle was examining Oliver's wound.

Diggle examined the wound on Oliver's shoulder. "Oh, damn it, he just missed a carotid." He covered the wound with a white cloth. "It's a zone two wound. Press there." He ordered to Natasha, while picking medical tools and supplies and a pulled out some of Oliver's blood from the refrigerator.

The heart monitor was bleeping rapidly as Oliver was going into seizure.

"Oh, no." Bobbi groaned.

"There's a syringe labeled 'Ativan', it should stop the seizure!" Diggle ordered as Natasha did as was told but then, Oliver's heart stopped as the monitor flatlined.

Quickly acting, Bobbi grabbed shock pads, placing them on Oliver's chest before grabbing a defibrillator. "Do you know what you're doing?" Diggle asked.

"I studied biology and I have some medical training. There's no power in this thing." Bobbi said before she pried open the casing of the defibrillator and looked at the wiring, trying to fix the machine. "Clear."

Natasha placed the paddles on Oliver's chest, jolting twice before his heart jumpstarted again as they all relaxed.

Oliver woke up as Diggle and Natasha were standing beside him. "So, I guess I didn't die. Again." Diggle shook his head in annoyance. "Cool."

"Does this happen often with you, Mr. Queen that you almost get yourself killed?" Bobbi quipped as Oliver chuckled, recognizing her as the agent, who was interviewing him in Russia.

Oliver looked at the wound on his shoulder with a mirror. "It's not bad, how am I gonna explain this one?"

"Hickey gone wrong?" Diggle quipped.

"You left your blood at your mother's office." Bobbi said and Oliver paled. "Don't worry." She pulled out a fake FBI ID with her photo. "I went there to "investigate" a case and swiped the samples, the Hood is going to be now ID'd as some elderly man from Idaho."

"Thank you." Oliver nodded gratefully.

"Look, Mr. Queen, Fury thinks you're getting yourself in over your head and he thinks we should keep a closer eye on you, considering that this mission you're onto, goes deeper than we had thought." Bobbi explained.

"So, you're going to help me?" Oliver asked.

"Let's just say our paths are going to cross more often than you think." Bobbi said before turning to Natasha. "I'll see you around, Nat."

"Thanks, Bobbi." Natasha shook her hand with her before Bobbi left the Foundry. "Oliver, what happened tonight?" Natasha asked him. "Did your mother shoot you?"

"She was scared. She was defending herself." Oliver said.

"No. I listened to what happened." Natasha said, talking to Oliver as if he was a little boy, who needed educating. "She manipulated you into lowering your guard, people, who try to bring up their own children, do that. Besides, you know she knew about the Gambit going down."

"We don't always know why people do what we do." Oliver argued. "But what I do know is that when I was standing in her office, with an arrow aimed at her heart, she begged me to spare her, all on behalf of me and Thea. Now, I've taken down a lot of bad people. None of them brought up their kids…"

"Are you that naïve or are you so blinded by your feelings towards your Mom that you can't face the facts?" Natasha scoffed. "To sum up the facts; your mother had the copy of the List, she lied to you and she knew about the Gambit being sabotaged. I understand you want to give her the benefit of the doubt but people change, Oliver. She's not the same person you remember from five years ago. Like it or not, she's not innocent."

Oliver sighed and considered. "Even if you were right… what would you have me do? I can't confront her as the vigilante any time soon; by now, she'll have tripled security in Queen Consolidated, so it's not gonna be that easy anymore."

"Oliver, I understand you want to trust your own mother but… sometimes, family can disappoint you. I've been there. Trust me." Natasha said. "Just tell me honestly, do you really believe she's innocent or are you afraid to face the possibility that she might be guilty?"

Oliver was silent, not sure if he wanted to know the answer.

Starling City

"Frank Chen recommended you." Moira said as she stood in front of China White. "He said you could help me with our problem. He appreciates you agreeing to meet with me."

"Anything for a friend." China White said.

"How can we help you, Miss Queen?" Jade said upon appearing.

"Malcolm Merlyn. I want you to kill him for me." Moira said.

Jade considered before her phone went off as she answered the call. "Yes?"

"It's confirmed. Natasha Romanoff is in Starling City."

Jade smirked. "Thank you." She hung up before turning to Moira. "Consider it done, Miss Queen."

Her and White internally laughed as they both eyed Moira, looking forward to having their revenge on Oliver as well.

I'm skipping the Dodger episode, since while it was a fine episode, it just doesn't work for this story for me and besides, some people might get flashbacks and get ticked off by Felicity locking Oliver in the Foundry because of her prejudice towards him and thinking he was gonna kill Ken Williams, just because he was a father, which did not justify him ripping off innocent people. The Dodger plot still did happen but I am not going to cover it.

Frankly, while I understand it, I hate how Oliver had that big of a blind spot towards Moira to the point he was in complete denial regarding her involvement, not sure if I fixed it here though. Oliver knows she is involved in something but he also knows he can't confront her like he did as the Hood, so he's trying to consider other options.

So, what do you guys think?

Please review and let me know if you have been enjoying this and want for me to continue.