I'm back! After a year my masters is finally complete and I'm now looking for a job but I was able to squeeze some time in to finally get back into writing. Honestly I kinda needed this. After applying for a dozen engineering or business jobs and getting rejected, I needed a chance to come back to writing and make something that made me feel good again.
This chapter is more than just Oliver's interaction in Season 3. The end half was one of my toughest writing assignments ever but I felt like I wrote all the Character just as well as we've seen on screen.
I apologize for such a long delay. I honestly was this close to just giving up but I'm back and I hope you enjoy this new chapter.
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Chapter 15: The Fanatical
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L-Corp Underground Lab
"It's a biolistic delivery system. It usually used for overriding genes in crops but Reign's cells are more like plants than animals." Lena remarked.
"Part of how Kryptonians process sunlight." Oliver remarked getting Lena to give him a look of mild shock. "I read up on Kryptonian biology."
The apparatus in Reign's cell administered the drug however the computer responded with a rejected payload.
Lena sighed in frustraction. "Damn it! I just need more time to get this right."
"That's right." Reign snarled. "Give Lena more time. She doesn't have much left. Because, when I'm free, I'm going to rip out her spine…
Lena pressed a button on the console and Reign's cell was covered by a black force field and her voice was silenced. "We don't need to hear that."
Lena then went back to work and the rest of the team took that as the cue to leave her be. Kara, who had hung to the back, left without uttering a single word. She did however give a glance to Lena, a glance Lena intentionally ignored.
"Still angry at her?" Oliver asked already knowing the answer.
Lena scoffed. "Figure that out by yourself?"
Oliver sighed. Lena's attitude reminded him of Evelyn's annoying stubbornness. "And you're angry at me too now."
"You knew who Supergirl was but you didn't think I deserved to know?" Lena asked.
"In my defense, I didn't even know who you were until a few months ago." Oliver replied. "Besides, it wasn't my secret to tell."
Lena meanwhile still looked pretty upset. "You know, I get hiding it at first. You can't just walk around telling people you're Supergirl."
"Then what's the problem?" Oliver asked hoping to get Lena to open up more.
"Kara was quite literally my only friend in National City. I have been open to her from the start but clearly she hasn't." Lena remarked. "Why would she continue to lie to me after all this time?"
"I don't know." Oliver admitted. "Maybe you should ask her yourself
"What good would that do?" Lena asked.
"Let me tell you a story. Several years ago, my sister learned that she and I didn't share a father. My father was the man she thought was hers and her real father was former League of Assassin's member and the man who led a terrorist plot to destroy a part of Star City. When she returned home, my friends, Diggle and Felicity told me not to ever tell her I was the Arrow. However, I still told her. To my surprise, she was incredibly understanding and we reconciled." Oliver explained.
"How does this apply to Kara and I?" Lena asked.
"I know Kara had a good reason for keeping the truth from you. But she did tell you herself and that has to count for something. But you still need to know why she hid the truth." Oliver explained.
"And if I don't like her excuse?" Lena asked.
"I doubt that. She's your friend despite everything that's happened." Oliver answered. "And friends like the two of you are a rare find indeed."
Oliver's phone suddenly buzzed. When he looked at it, his face fell. "I've got to go."
ARROW/SUPERGIR.
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CatCo Building
Evelyn and Thea had finished their business at the County Clerk's office and they were heading to CatCo to meet up with Oliver for lunch when they heard gunshots. Running into the office, they saw James and Eve standing over a wounded guard.
"What happened?" Thea asked.
"Followers of a Kryptonian Cult came in here and kidnapped a former member. They're heading to the parking garage." James explained.
"Keep an eye on the guard." Thea order as she and Evelyn ran in pursuit of the kidnappers. Once in the abandoned lot, they pulled out their bows and quivers from their bads and put on their masks before continuing the chase.
They followed the screaming voice until the girls saw the kidnapped woman get shoved into a car. Evelyn fired an arrow at the tires just as the car took off. It swerved and headed into an abandoned building.
Evelyn and Thea gave chase eventually cornering the kidnappers. The girls engaged the cultists by firing arrows at point blank range that took down the larger two kidnappers. The two vigilantes then split and engaged the remaining cultists. Evelyn used her small size to slip under a guy's legs using her bow to trip him. Thea meanwhile jumped on another cultist's shoulders using her legs to put him in a chokehold.
However, Olivia, the female cultist took aim at Evelyn's head and fired. Evelyn stumbled back as the round had only grazed her.
But neither side was able to continue once a loud voice screamed through the building. "Freeze!" A group of cops yelled.
The cultists used the pause in combat to make a break for it. Thea grabbed both Evelyn and the kidnapped woman's wrist as she led past the cops, out of the building, and to safety.
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DEO HQ
"Olivia was so innocent when I found her. And now she's a cult leader." Kara exclaimed. "I can't help but fell that this is my fault."
"Hey." Oliver closed the distance between them and put his hand on her arm, rubbing it gently. "This isn't your fault. Olivia was lost long before you saved her and then joined a cult. You saved her."
"But after she saw me vulnerable she became disillusioned and now she's out there doing Rao knows what." Kara sighed taking a seat.
"Kara, you can't be everything to everyone. Olivia thought you were a God and she felt let down. But that's not our fault. You didn't fail her." Oliver replied back to Kara as he took a seat next to her.
"He's right." Evelyn replied as she, Thea and Roy came walking into the DEO. "You did everything you could for her."
Oliver got up from his seat and wrapped Evelyn in a hug. "You ok?" Oliver asked as he started to fuss over her bandage.
"Kara." Lena said with a hint of chilliness in her voice. "Come up here."
Kara silently departed as Oliver continued to fuss over his daughter. "How deep was the wound? Alex used disinfectant when she washed it right? Your ears aren't ringing anymore are they? How's your hearing?"
"Not deep, yes, yes, all good." Evelyn responded to each of Oliver's questions with an eye roll.
Thea meanwhile found the entire situation hilarious. "Oh my God you look just like dad now."
"Excuse me?" Oliver asked.
"After I broke my arm on that horse he fussed over me for days." Thea explained. "Like you're doing with Evelyn."
Evelyn meanwhile had turned her attention to the photo of Olivia on the main screen. "She's our cult leader?" She asked.
"She is." Oliver replied. "After reading her file, she reminded me a bit of you before we came to this Earth."
Evelyn then took a seat by Winn on the table. "You mind if I read up on her file?"
"Knock yourself out." Winn answered.
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Cultist Hideout
Eventually the team agreed on a plan. They let Tanya, the kidnapped woman be taken by the cult in order to lead them to her base. Oliver, Roy, Thea and Evelyn followed them and were now positioned in the rafters inside the warehouse.
"With this, I will be the fourth." Olivia proclaimed.
Mon-El tried to charge her but she quickly grabbed him by the throat. Team Arrow took this as their cue to jump into action, dropping from the rafters with Kryptonite arrows notched.
Then the fight broke out. All of the archers fired their arrows, weakening the young woman. Then the cult sprang into action. Mon-El, Oliver, Thea and Roy split from the team on crowd support while Kara and Evelyn jumped in to engage Olivia.
"This isn't you Olivia." Evelyn tried to appeal to her. "The girl Supergirl saved was a good person."
"That girl was weak." Olivia replied before taking Supergirl and throwing her against the wall but she quickly recovered.
Roy and Thea, despite not having fought together for a while were a deadly team today. They quickly coordinated their strikes together as they began engaging one group of cultists. Thea would go low strike at their legs and groin area while Roy made sure to use his bow to keep their fists and firearms out of the fight.
Kara blocked an attack Evelyn couldn't dodge and the two girls teamed up to flip Olivia on her back in order to allow Kara to removed the Harun-El. However, the extraction was painful. Kara was on the grown after touching the stone.
Olivia took the chance to try and strike however Evelyn blocked her path. "Wait! You don't have to do this. You don't have to let fear and darkness control you."
"This is all I know now." Olivia shot back.
"I know what that's like. After I lost my parents I felt alone and I became sad and fearful but mostly angry. Angry at people I thought were responsible for what happened to me. But, I learned that I don't have to let my anger and sadness control my life. I can help you find your own place in the world. But you have to let me, let us help you."
Evelyn outstretched her hand and Olivia did as well. Evelyn let Olivia set her hand in hers while Kara quickly removed the Harum-El from Olivia's other hand. By this time the blonde girl was crying.
As Evelyn looked over to Oliver, she could see under the shadow of his mask him smiling.
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Oliver's House
"I'm glad to hear things went well today." William said.
"You can thank Evelyn for that." Oliver said with a giant smile across his face. "She was able to convince Olivia to stand down. If she hadn't been there, we would've had a massive fight on our hands.
"Lets hope this is the last we hear of Coville's crazy Kryptonian cult." Roy requested as he took a sip of his wine with his arm wrapped around Thea.
Oliver smiled seeing how happy the two of them were. Thea hadn't stopped smiling since she and Roy had come back from the mission. It had been great to have the two of them together again.
"Team Arrow really kicked ass today." Alex complemented before taking a swig of her glass of wine as well.
"Well there hasn't been many chances for Roy, Speedy and I to all be in the field at the same time. The last time I remember was when the Thanatos Guild came to Star City." Oliver remarked.
"Thanatos Guild?" Kara asked.
"League of Assassin offshoot made by my dad after Ollie kicked his ass and removed him from the position of Ra's, the head of the League." Thea explained.
"Ah." Kara nodded after the explanation. She would definitely ask Oliver more about that later though.
"But still, Evelyn, you did a great job out there." Oliver praised raising his wine glass. "You saved a lot of lives today."
Evelyn meanwhile had blushed deep red from all the praise. "Ok guys I get it." She replied trying to avoid being the center of such gushing praise again.
Once everyone had gotten their praise of Evelyn out of the way, everyone broke to serve themselves dinner. Oliver then spoke. "Thea, we're almost out of wine. Could you go get a bottle from the wine cellar?"
"That's ok I'll get it." Kara said as she turned towards the wine cellar. As she was heading back after getting a bottle, she heard the doorbell ring and she went to open the door.
Standing just outside was Lena and James, arm-in-arm. "Kara." Lena replied with surprise in her voice.
"Lena… uh… I didn't think you were coming." Kara said honestly as she turned to see Oliver observing the three of them with a smile. "Of course." Kara thought.
"Oliver invited me." Lena answered. "I hope that's not a problem." She said without a hint of malice.
"No. No. Not at all. Come on in." Kara bumbled out.
"Uh James why don't you go in and say hi to Oliver and the rest. Kara and I need to talk for a minute." Lena said in a tone that implied that it was not a suggestion.
James quietly broke from the two girls as they moved down the hall and away from the party. Once Lena was sure they were out of sight, she spoke. "Kara I'm sorry."
Kara's mouth hung open. This was the last thing she expected. "Wh… What?"
Lena sighed and took a deep breath. "Kara, when I got mad at you, I accused you of trying to manipulate me and pretending to be my friend. However, the truth is you've been a better friend to me than any friend I've ever had. What I said to you was uncalled for and wrong and I'm sorry."
Kara had managed to recover from her shock. "Lena, I'm sorry too. I know how you feel about people lying to you and I should've been honest with you sooner. I shouldn't have hidden my identity form you for so long. I needed to know if I could trust you. I hope you understand."
"I do actually." Lena admitted. "I get trying to protect yourself and your family. Lying to me was wrong but you did it for the right reasons so I can easily forgive it. I wish you'd trusted me sooner though."
"I did." Kara admitted. "I've trusted you since you stopped your mother from wiping out every alien with that virus."
"Then why didn't you tell me then?" Lena asked.
"Honestly? I was scared. You hated liars and every day that pasted it just became easier to justify hiding the truth from you rather than take a chance and admit it." Kara admitted fully letting her guard down for her friend.
Lena just smiled and nodded. "I can forgive that. Kara, let's just promise from here on out to always be honest with each other."
"In the spirit of honesty, did Oliver set this up?" Kara asked.
Lena smiled knowingly. "He came to me and helped calm me down."
"Well he told me to tell you that I'm Supergirl." Kara said. "From what Barry tells me about him, this seems like his kind of move."
"He is something else." Lena replied as they walked back into the party room.
Kara smiled and watch Oliver smile as he watched his family enjoy themselves in their home. Kara let her thoughts travel to the events of a few weeks ago when she and Oliver had shared a brief kiss. Neither of them had spoken of it since but it had been running through Kara's mind a lot since then. She wondered if Oliver felt the same.
After dinner, Thea and Evelyn convinced the group to get the ice cream out of the freezer and enjoy a nice dessert. While everyone filled up their bowls, William and Evelyn briefly snuck out and returned to the room with a wrapped present in hand.
"Ok everyone, I want to say something." Evelyn said getting everyone's attention.
She took a deep breath and spoke. "When Oliver and I found ech other almost a year ago, I didn't think I'd ever be worthy of redemption. But Oliver convinced me that I could atone for my past and be worthy of being a hero again. If it wasn't for him, I'd probably be dead in an alley at Star City now. And so as a thank you, I got you something… but it's totally up to you if you don't want to…
"Evelyn…" Oliver began.
"Please… Just open it." Evelyn said softly.
Oliver took the present and opened it. Inside was a formal document. Oliver began reading it. By the end, Oliver was crying.
"Oh my god is he crying?" Alex asked in shock.
The entire room was in shock that some simple piece of paper had reduced the Green Arrow to tears.
Oliver couldn't stop crying. He just passed the paper to Kara. Kara quickly read it and she began crying as well. Kara began to read the paper. "It's a petition for adoption!"
By then the entire room erupted into a combination of tears and clapping as Oliver stood up and engulfed his daughter and son in a deep hug. Evelyn was also crying as well as she embraced her new father. Both of them couldn't stop crying but they didn't care. They were now a family.
A few hours later, everyone had left after giving the new father and daughter their congratulations. However, Kara had stayed behind to help clean up.
"Thank you for your help." Oliver said.
"I figured after everything that happened tonight, you might need a extra hand cleaning things up." Kara replied.
"You didn't have to stay this late." Oliver replied.
"The truth is I kinda wanted to stay." Kara admitted. "Your family is so amazing and I always taken away with how much you care for each even if they aren't blood relatives."
"My family's got a checkered history in that department but I've always tried to be there for them when they need me." Oliver admitted. "Being a parent is hard but it has its rewards, especially tonight."
"I can imagine." Kara replied. "You know, since Alex broke up with Maggie over her being a mom, I often wondered what kind of mother I'd be."
Oliver smiled at her as he walked towards her. "Kara, I think you'd make a great mom."
Kara started to blush closing the distance between them. "You're just being kind."
"I'm serious. People like Evelyn and Ruby admire you. They see you as an inspiration as the kind of people they aspire to be." Oliver answered further closing the distance.
By now, both of them were so close, they could have kissed again if they wanted to and they both desperately did. Kara however took a step back. "I just wonder if there is such a guy out there for me. With Mon-El married to Imra, I don't exactly have many options."
"They're a man out there for you Kara. Someone who deserves you." Oliver answered.
"But what about you?" Kara turned to face him. "Do you deserve me?"
Oliver gave small laugh laced with resignation. "Kara, I… I've messed up too many people's lives whenever I was with them. Sara, Laurel, William's mom, Felicity… If I start another, it'll only end the same away.
Oliver tried to turn away but Kara stopped him. "Oliver, after all the sacrifices you made, you deserve happiness just as much as anyone else does."
"I wish that was true." Oliver replied.
"Why can't it be true?" Kara asked closing the distance between the two once again.
"Because after everything I've been through and everything I've done. If you knew, you'd see me differently." Oliver fully admitted.
Kara surprised Oliver by wrapping her arms around his neck. "Oliver, I know exactly who you are. You're the man who'll travel to a different Earth to protect a scared teenage girl. You're the man who will join the fight against Nazi invaders from another earth to protect a home that isn't even yours. You're the man everyone turns to when its darkest because we trust you to be our light in the dark." Kara replied.
Oliver was shocked by her words. Kara didn't even know her as well as Barry but here she was, coming to his defense and saying how highly she thought of him.
Oliver allowed his arms to wrap themselves around Kara's waist. "I just don't want to hurt you. You're special and very important to me."
"You can't hurt me. I'm bulletproof." Kara joked causing Oliver to laugh.
"You ok if we take things slow at first? There's still a great deal about each other that neither of us know." Oliver requested.
"I agree. We'll take it slow. Just know this, I'm not going anywhere Oliver, I'll always be by your side." Kara replied.
"I wouldn't have it any other way." Oliver smiled as he brought Kara's face close to his and the new couple embraced in a quick but passionate kiss.
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