Buffy holds on tightly to Oliver as he lowers them both into the subway, "This way." She tells him leading him down a small tunnel, she could hear the train coming, and it was coming in fast.
As they get to the end of the tunnel Oliver and her stand side by side as the train begins moving past them "We need to get on that thing now."

"How?!"

Buffy sighs and as the end of the Train gets closer she closer her eyes "Do you trust me?" Oliver frowns but when Buffy sighs he watches her for a moment and thinks about everything since the moment he had met her at the hospital. The way she had helped him with his missions despite telling him she wanted no part of it. The way Diggle trusted her like family. The way she fought for her friends and comforted them…and to be honest for the first time in a long time he actually did trust someone…he trusted her.

"Yes."

Buffy smiles "Close your eyes." Without another word he closes his eyes.

Once his eyes were closed Buffy grabs his hand and just as the end of the train comes into view she leaps forward and grabs onto the handle with such quick speed that even if Oliver's eyes had been open he wouldn't have spotted it.

Holding onto Oliver tightly she kicks open the door into the final carriage and throws the two of them inside causing Oliver to land on top of her with a grunt.
Oliver opens his eyes and they instantly widen and he stares at her in utter shock and amazement "How did you…" He whispers in confusion spotting the door currently next to them.

Buffy merely smiles and shrugs before wincing as Oliver helps her up "You okay?"
Buffy nods, the kick had taken a lot out of her, but she didn't have time right now "Let's go."

The two of them make their way through the carriages before they spot him, Buffy moves to step forward but that's when Oliver spots it, her leg was covered in blood, her stitches must have torn when she got them on the train.

"Go get Roy." He tells her when she goes to argue he grabs her "Go."

Buffy groans in annoyance but she was weak and that kid needed help, so reluctantly she watches as Oliver all in his Hood getup launches himself at Joseph tackling him to the ground.

As the two of them struggle Buffy runs over to Roy "Hi Cutie." She smiles before ripping off the metal from his wrists and catching him as he drops into her arms "How did you…"
Buffy groans "Metal was rusting."

With that she throws his arm over her shoulder and luckily for her the camera was on the ground, she really did not need to explain super-strength to the whole of Starling City.

Helping Roy up her eyes widen as she spots Oliver and Jospeh arguing "Jo!"

Jospeh frowns at the familiar voice before turning around his eyes widen at the sight of the blood covered blonde. This wasn't possible she was supposed to still be in Bulgaria "Amelia?"
Buffy smiles sadly "I know you miss Emma…you met me after I lost Lincoln….you saw how angry I was…I did a lot of things I regret…I don't want that to be you."

"He deserves it!" Jospeh argues glaring at Roy who was still in Buffy's arms "He's just like the gang bangers who gunned her down. Now I get to gun him down."

At Jo's words Buffy pushes Roy behind her "Don't make me do this Jo…" She begs of him and as he fires at her she pushes Roy downs just as Oliver yells and releases two arrows right into his back while Buffy's knife goes flying into his neck.

Buffy's eyes widen and she runs over and catches Jo as he begins to drop lowering him down into his seat she sighs sadly, for the first time in a while…she felt guilty about killing someone.

Xander sits in his car watching Moira and Frank speak, he was smart-ish…okay he had begged Felicity to make him a bug so he could spy on their conversation.
He needed to find out exactly what was going on in this company and what it had to do with The Glades, the demons and Wolfram and Hart.

"Malcolm knows. I had no choice but to turn over what I discovered." At Moria's words Xander frowns in confusion, where the hell was she going with this "The evidence of a wire transfer, the money that you paid The Traid to assassinate him."

Xander's eyes widen in horror, while he thought Moira was bad…this was beyond what he had imagined, she had set Frank up to take the blame for everything, before he could even blink his eyes widen as Moira gasps, two arrows had just embedded into Frank's stomach.

However instead of The Hood appearing another archer appears all dressed in black "Mr Merlyn thanks you for your loyalty. You've done well. Now Chen's family will share his fate."

Xander's eyes widen in horror he couldn't seriously be going to hurt this little girl, thankfully Moira seemed to have a soft spot for kids "Chen betrayed us, but his daughter didn't . Tell Mr Merlyn I want her to live. Amanda nearly lost her life in The Glades. Now she's lost her father. I think she's suffered enough."
"We must send a message."
"We have."

Xander watches at The arches nods before he grabs Franks jacket and quick as the wind he dissapears, Xander sits back in his chair in horror but before he could even contemplate what to do or say the archer's voice comes through the bug "Hello Mr. Harris don't worry you're safe… you see Al-Qa-Til is an old aquantence of mine. Why don't you tell her I'll be paying her a visit soon enough."

Xander who was frozen in horror and fear gulps as he listens to the terrifying voice threatening him, the man had known the entire time that he had been spying on Moira, had know everything but one thing was making him pause "Who is Al-Qa-Til?" He whispers to himself only to be shocked as an answer comes through the bug "Buffy Summers. Tell her I can't wait for the reunion."

Buffy walks out of the Lair in some nice new clean clothes, she was so ready to go to bed but alas she had to go meet Dean.

Sighing she walks into the alley way and pulls on her red leather jacket as she moves to head to car she pauses as she spots Oliver standing looking very dejected as he watches Laurel walking away from him.

"Hey Robin Hood." The blonde calls as she walks over, Oliver frowns and turns to face the blonde "You wear a lot of red."
Buffy chuckles as she glances down at her red leather jacket "Hides the blood."

Oliver smiles before watching the blonde for a moment "Are you okay? You've not killed in a while."
Buffy shrugs before smiling "Well technically we don't know which one of us killed him."
"Fair point." The billionaire chuckles before he watches the blonde curiously "You get used to it…don't you."

"Yeah." She breaths out as she looks up at him, killing once upon a time to her she would have never done, but slowly it had become second nature and now that guilt was starting to come back. And she wasn't sure how she felt about it, being a killer was the easy way out for so long "Guess we can't take the easy way out forever."

Oliver smiles as he watches the blonde who was still favouring her left side "So Amelia?" He teases with a chuckle making Buffy groan in annoyance and shake her head "It's a long story."
Oliver smiles "One I hope to hear."
"Maybe." She laughs before waving to say goodbye, as she does Oliver clenches his jaw and hesitates for a brief moment before he calls out to her "Hey Buffy!"

Buffy doing her famous hair flip spins around to face him, her hair moving gracefully around her as she does "Yeah?"
Oliver gulps slightly before smiling "If you ever need to tell someone about your day, you can tell me."

Buffy arches a brow for a moment at his words before realising what he meant, he knew how hard it was keeping secrets from someone you cared about, and how you were forced to keep everything in all the time, and he knew the struggles.

Smiling at him the blonde feels herself maybe actually gaining a bit of trust in the archer "Ditto."

After his chat with Buffy, Oliver walks back into the lair with a rare smile on his face, however his smile quickly falls as he catches sight of the map on Willow's computer "What is that?"
Diggle sighs "It's an old map of a decommissed subway line, runs underneath the low rib addition of the city."

Oliver's eyes widen before he grabs his father's book and there it was, the exact same map, it had been right in front of his face for over 5 years!

"I've seen that map before." Pausing he hands Willow the book and there it was on the very first page the exit same map "It was right in front of our faces the entire time. My father, the other archer, the undertaking, whatever the plan is it's all connected to the Glades.

Willow stares at it however what makes her pause is a certain symbol "You need to meet the Woman in Red."

Oliver frowns causing Willow to sigh and she hands Oliver back the book "She's been going after members connected to Wolfram and Hart, that symbol underneath the map. It's their calling card. Whatever all of these people are planning in the Glades. I have a feeling Wolfram and Hart are running things."

"Hey what's the what?" Buffy questions curiously as she walks into Dean's apartment, the sexy Doctor smiles at his beautiful girlfriend and kisses her check before taking her hand and walking her over to the couch.

As they sit Buffy arches a brow as he goes uncharistirically quiet, lauding she sits up and taps his forehead "What's spinning in that head of yours? Spegitti? Or you moulding clay?"
Dean chuckles before he takes her hand and entangles their fingers together, pausing he watches her for a moment as though trying to summon his courage "I got a call today…" Taking a shaky breath he finally looks up his eyes connecting with hers "I got afford the head of emergency surgery at Central City General."

Buffy's eyes widen and she stares at him in shock before letting out a little gasp of air, that was his dream, what he had worked for his entire career "Oh."

Sighing she tucks a strand of hair behind her hair but when she she goes to speak she is cut off as Dean cups her cheek in his hand and kisses her strongely, Buffy holds onto his wrist tightly before pulling back and leaning her forehead against his. Taking a few shaky breaths she closes her eyes tightly as she speaks "You need to take it." She whispers before pulling away and standing.

Dean's eyes widen and he stands watching her, he couldn't, while yes this was his dream, he just…he couldn't imagine his life without her, he didn't want a life without her "Buffy…"
"No." She whispers wiping the tears from her face trying to be strong in this moment, she had to be, she couldn't hold him back, this was everything he had ever worked for. She couldn't be the reason he didn't achieve everything he had ever worked for "This is everything you've worked for Dean. I won't let you turn it down. You can't."

Dean sighs before moving towards her and wrapping his arm around her, as she tucks her chin into the crook of his neck she holds onto her emotions as they claw at the surface. Holding on tightly she couldn't help but be grateful for the time they did have together he had somehow wormed his way in and opened her back up again. Opened up a side of herself she thought died in Italy five years ago.

Pulling back she leans her forehead against his and sighs "I should go." She breaths, Dean nods cupping her stunning face in his hands "I love you." He reminds her probably for the last time before he kisses her holding onto her tightly for their last moments.

Buffy leans against her front door the second she steps inside feeling completely defeated. Taking a shaky breath she pulls herself together before wiping any sign that she had been crying from her eyes. Summoning herself together she limps into the living room and spots Felicity currently at the computer.

The blonde haired hacker turns to her cousin and sighs at the look at her face, that look was all she needed to know that their plan had worked. It had gone off without a hitch.

"Are you okay?"

Buffy sighs and runs a hand through her hair "I feel like jelly when it's been left out too long." The Slayer jokes before she lowers herself onto the couch a she does she looks up at her cousin "Thank you."
Felicity merely shrugs as she hands Buffy a glass of water before moving to sit beside her "For what?"

Buffy shakes her head in amusement, ever the actress this one was, that's was growing up in Vegas does to you "For getting him the job in Central City."

Felicity smiles sadly as she watches her cousin, she could see how much it hurt Buffy to do this, but it was also kind of nice to see Buffy expressing any form of emotion "Yeah turns out hacking into the central city hospital…not that hard."

Buffy chuckles in amusement before leaning her head against her cousin's shoulder, for once she was feeling vulnerable and turns out a sad Buffy still liked being comforted. Even if it had been a while since she had accepted the comfort from anyone other than Diggle.

Felicity smiles and strokes Buffy's hair before she pauses as Buffy's phone buzzes, Buffy groans "No." She mumbles causing Felicity to chuckle and pick up the phone however her eyes widen as she spots the message from Willow "Get dressed you're meeting the Hood tonight. We have something in common with your case. No more not working together."

Buffy sighs as she wait in the alleyway for Oliver or The Hood to arrive, she was so not in the mood to be in a tight ninja outfit right now, all she wanted to be doing was watching bad romantic comedies and eating ice cream, was that so much to ask! No! But no Oliver had to be all pushy and demand they meet tonight.

Pausing the blonde goes quiet as she hears Oliver's bike pulls up, looking down she spots him climb off the bike in his full Hood gear while she watched from this family's small balcony.
"Ugh maximum effort." She moans in annoyance before jumping down from the balcony landing gracefully behind him, well okay not gracefully she was still really injured forcing her to favour her left side, but still more graceful then a normal person.

Oliver grabs his bow and spins around facing the woman only for the first time actually realise she had blonde hair, all the times he had seen her she had been covered and darkness and at one point he could have sworn her hair was a bright strawberry blonde.
Buffy sighs and she steps towards him, placing her hand on the tip of the arrow she lowers the bow "I'm not here to fight. And even if I was…we both know you would lose."

Oliver scoffs before hesitantly he places his bow down and faces the assassin watching her curiously, this was the first time he had seen her in a any form of light and there was something…so familiar about her. He just couldn't place it. To be fair she had beaten him up a lot.

"It seems like our missions are crossing paths." He starts causing the blonde to nod as she circles him, Oliver watching her like a hawk as she does.
"As I've heard. And I'm here because? Just went through a break up so my plan tonight was big with ice cream but no I'm here because somebody with a unhealthy obvious with the colour green needs a favour."

Oliver frowns before he watches her for a moment, sighing "Tomorrow, I'll have one of my people send you the details to our Lair…I need everything you have on Wolfram and Hart."
Buffy arches a brow at that before nodding "Fine. I'll help but you gotta give too. If our two enemies are teaming up…then this isn't going to be pretty."

Oliver clenches his jaw before stepping towards the assassin type woman and holding out his hand towards her "We have a deal."

Buffy smirks underneath the cloth and takes his hand "See you tomorrow Robin Hood."

And with that the blonde jumps onto the bin before reaching for a nearby fire-escape and heading towards the roof of the building beside them. However as she goes Oliver remains motionless his eyes wide in shock and anger, the blonde hair, calling him Robin Hood yes coincidences but her obsession with wearing red…and the way she was favouring her left side…it was exactly like another blonde he knew.

"Xander calm down!" Felicity exclaims as he continues pacing back and fourth in her apartment, he had literally shown up and started mumbling and yelling and a whole lot of glaring and then jumping. It got really weird at one point.
Sighing she runs a hand through her hair, which was actually down for a change, to be fair she had been getting ready for bed when he showed up.

"Xander start again."

Xander sighs and pushes his hair back his hands clutching onto his strands of dark hair tightly for a moment as he tries to replay "Okay so after this archer guy killed Frank this archer…he knew I was watching…and then he said Al-Qa-Til."

Felicity arches a brow, this was his fifth time explaining and this was normally the point where he started mumbling and huffing in frustration "Okay what does that mean?"

Xander shrugs "I don't know…but it's like he could see I was confused…so he explained…it's what he calls Buffy. She lied to me/ She told me she had a whole Slayer dream about him but he knew her, she knew his name the second it was said and it seems like this was her name."

"So how does she know him?"

Xander sighs honestly he had no idea and he knew Buffy wasn't going to be up talking about it, it was part of her darker days after Lincoln's death it had be. It took them almost a year to find her after Lincoln died, and god knows what she had been up to "I don't know…but I now one thing…he's coming for her. I don't exactly think they're the best of buds."

Buffy groans as she replaces the bandage on her leg, honestly it was looking good, her healing was kicking in, her ribs were even feeling better. Bout damn time she just wanted to get back into her mission, find the rest of the demons find out what The Triad and Wolfram and Hart want with The Glades…then she wanted to go back to bed.

Leaning back on the couch happy to have the apartment to herself for a little bit the blonde grabs her ben and jerry's ice cream and switches one netflex ready for a chill night. There had just be so much drama and pain tonight that she needed a detox.

However just as she settles in under her blanket she jumps as her living room window shatters and in comes flying Oliver still in his Hood gear.

What the damn hell was he thinking! Those windows weren't cheap!

"Oliver what the hell—-" Buffy is cut off as Oliver kicks her in the chest sending her flying backwards and crashing onto the floor causing a nearby side table to shatter to pieces as her body lands on it.

Groaning in pain she glares up at him and pulls herself up but before she could speak he had an arrow aimed at her heart "We need to talk…Red."

As he hisses out the word Red she winces, this was not good "Oh fu—"