So, here's exactly what happened to me.
I started posting my fanfiction, and was starting to get into it. Then I had slipping grades and got grounded from anything fanfiction for two weeks. After that I got really busy, and I haven't been able to get back into posting since. I tried to get into it again a few years ago and as you can see that didn't happen. I understand how horrible it is when an author stops writing a fic, and then doesn't do anything after saying they're back. So, I dug up everything I could find that I wrote on this, there's just over 2,000 words. I can't see myself continuing this story. As much as I would love to, I fell out of watching Arrowverse content just after the first really big crossover, due to many reasons. So, here is everything else I didn't post.
"Where could he be?" Thea asked frustrated. She was at Camp Half-Blood now, and it was a camp meeting. Everybody had been told to tell their Chiron, Percy, Annabeth, or Thea if they saw Oliver anywhere, but there had been no reports. Thea had flown back to Starling for half a day, and found out he hadn't been there either. She hoped he was still here though, because his bodyguard Mr. Diggle had flown down.
"A hotel maybe? We could check near the airport, see if he or Mr. Diggle show their faces coming in or out of any of the hotels." Annabeth suggested. Thea sighed and nodded. Percy squeezed her hand reassuringly.
"We'll find him." He said.
Three days later, Thea found herself camped out in front of the third hotel on the watch list with Percy, Annabeth, Clarisse (who had insisted on coming to escape the boredom of camp), Piper and Jason.
"Nobody but a teenage girl, business man, and a tiny blond with glasses." Jason said, bored. Thea blinked. That last description, it sounded familiar. Then it clicked.
"What?" she said, and peered into the milling crowd. Sure enough, she saw Oliver's IT girl entering the building.
"That's Oliver's IT girl, what would she be doing here?" She asked.
"It can't be a coincidence." Annabeth said. She saw her answer her phone, maybe talking to Oliver. The IT girl, Felicity?, scanned the crowd, obviously looking for someone. Thea was guessing it was her. She sneakily walked around the crowd, seeing if she could get closer.
"I don't see her anywhere Ollie, so should I continue sitting in our hotel room or meet up with you?" she asked. Felicity paused. "Ok, give me twenty minutes." she said and hung up. She then called a cab. "Take me to the strelka peshchery warehouse please." she said. Thea frowned. Wasn't that abandoned? What was Ollie doing there.
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Oliver was repeatedly pulling himself up and down the salmon ladder he had made in the abandoned warehouse he had found. He didn't like sitting in a cramped room all day, and he still felt he should keep his skills honed, especially if Thea's friends were hostile. "Are you going to do that all day?" Sara called from the ground. Oliver looked down at her.
"Do you have something else in mind?"
"It's a wide open space Ollie, so would you like to spar? We certainly have the room." she suggested. Oliver dropped off the ladder and walked towards the center of the room. Sara figured that was answer enough. She followed, and after about a minute of it Felicity walked in. She noticed the salmon ladder.
"Darn, missed the salmon ladder." Sara heard her comment under her breath. She held back a laugh. Oliver and Felicity's crushes on each other were very obvious to everyone but them. As she dodged one of Oliver's kicks, she heard a second car pull up. Diggle and Roy were already here, silently watching, so who… "We've been found." she said, even though she knew Oliver had already come to the same conclusion. Everybody sprinted towards the back door, everybody but Felicity grabbing weapons from their makeshift table. Oliver and Sara heard quiet footsteps approaching the front door. "Hide." Sara hissed, and everybody split up in different directions.
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As Thea entered the warehouse, she noticed the salmon ladder and makeshift table set up. "What in the world?" she muttered as she walked over to look at them. What had Ollie been doing here? Her friends followed her. "I see you found me." came Oliver's voice from behind her.
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"I see you found me." Oliver said from above the door. The entire warehouse was lined with rafters, and only the front half of them and the warehouse were lit up. Diggle and Felicity were in the back of the warehouse, while Sara and Roy were on the rafters hidden in shadow. Oliver was the only one Thea could see, and he saw her eyes glance at the compound bow in his hands. It was his black bow that he would use if his green one ever broke. "Do I get an explanation?" He sat down into a crouch, balancing easily on the narrow boards. "I mean, I was already filled in on all of this by a friend, but it would be nice to know if you were going to fill me in." he continued.
"How did you even get up there Ollie?" Thea burst. Oliver was happy she was in the dark now.
"I climbed." he said. "So were you going to explain, or were you going to attack me? I can assume you're all armed, based on how you reacted to the monsters in his kitchen last week." he said casually, nodding at Percy. "Even though I wouldn't recommend it."
"We can attack if we want too." said an angry looking girl that had come in with Thea.
"You can, I just wouldn't recommend it." Oliver responded.
"We could take you on, you're alone." She said, not backing down.
"Who said I'm alone?" Oliver asked, as Sara and Roy emerged, Roy pointing his bow and Sara casually yet expertly twirling a dagger.
"You're surrounded." she called down, her voice modified. Her and Roy had both changed into their vigilante suits.
"You don't scare us." the girl said, seemingly feeling they were no threat at all. "We should." Oliver responded in his 'arrow voice', as Felicity called it, and raised his bow.
"You're the vigilante?" Thea asked, the doubt evident in her voice. He gestured at the scars lining his torso, on display because he hadn't had time to pull his shirt back on.
"You may notice some new ones. Including," he said, pointing to a new one just under his collar bone, "where mom shot me when I broke into her office." You could of thought he was joking the way he said it, so casually.
"Who are they?" she asked, nodding towards Sara and Roy.
"I don't think you're in the position to ask that Thea." he said.
"I don't care who you are, you're not" the angry girl started, who was then elbowed by the other girl he didn't know, who had a single dagger and braided hair.
"A demigod like you guys?" he asked, finishing her sentence. They looked at him shocked. "I told you I was filled in by a friend." he said. The angry girl looked like she was about to attack. "It's three against five." she stated.
"We can count." Roy said, voice disguised like Sara's. Thea pulled her sword off of her necklace. Oliver noticed a silver trim. "You changed your blades so they could hurt us?" Sara asked, amusement evident in her voice.
"Of course we did, we're not idiots." the angry girl snapped.
"We didn't come here to fight." Thea reminded the girl.
"No, we came here to capture him." she said back.
"I'm not going anywhere." Oliver said.
"If you come peacefully we won't have to capture you." Annabeth said.
"I don't think you heard him, we're not going with you." Roy said. Oliver gave him a grateful nod. He had asked Roy ahead of time if he was willing to have possibly to fight Thea. He had responded that she had lied to him too.
"We're going to take you with us." the angry girl said. She seemed to want a fight.
"I'd like to see you try." Sara shot back. Oliver gave her a glare. Apparently the angry girl wasn't the only itching for a fight.
"Here it is then!" she said as she launched the spear at Sara. Sara barely moved to dodge it, and flipped down on her long black cloth. Within seconds they were engaged in a fighting match which Sara clearly had the upper hand in. Roy and Oliver both shot bolo arrows at the two boys, momentarily restraining both of them. Oliver grabbed one of his darts Star Labs had made for him that knocked enemies out, and hit Percy with one. Thankfully, it worked. The other boy got free of the bola before he could throw a dart at him though, and the boy started creating a whirlwind around him. Oliver mentally sighed. This was a job for Barry, people with abilities were his thing! If it hadn't been Thea, he would have called him already.
"Diggle, call Barry." he said as he jumped down from the rafters with ease. Diggle would be able to hear him through the coms.
"Felicity's on it, I'm busy with the knock out gun star labs gave us. It doesn't seem very effective though, I can't shoot with that guy's whirlwind messing everything up!" he said.
"Wait for Barry then, he'll fix it." Oliver told him. He tried to shoot an arrow into the tornado, and failed. "One of the first things he did was unwind a tornado."
Suddenly Barry arrived. "I'm here." he said in his suit. They he took stock of the situation. "I'll take the tornado."
"There's a guy inside. He's making it." Oliver warned him.
"Doesn't matter. I did it last time, I'll do it again. Besides, this is easy now."
As Barry started to unravel the tornado, Thea sighed and twirled her sword.
"I guess that means it's me and you, huh?" she said with dry humor.
"You can back out." Oliver offered. He didn't want to do this anymore than her.
"I can't do that Oliver." she said with a sigh, and readied herself.
"Well, maybe I'll learn a new fighting style from watching you." he said as her blade clashed with his bow.
"How does your bow not break when it hits my blade?" she asked surprised.
"Ever since Malcolm and the undertaking I've made sure to be prepared for nearly any weapon."
"So, I assume you can fill me in on why Slade kidnapped me?"
He dodged a wild swing and hit the back of her knee. As she rolled with the fall, he responded. "He has a personal vendetta against me. Blames me for the death of someone, while he also got shot up with a super soldier serum that saved his life. Well, it saved his body. It destroyed his mind."
Barry finished with the guy in the tornado, and Sara finished fighting the angry girl. Both of them beat the demigods. Annabeth had charged Diggle, who was now dodging a dagger while trying to get some punches in. Barry sped over and got her, while startling Diggle.
"I will never get used to that." he muttered.
"Nice to see you too." was Barry's more cheerful response.
Oliver backed up and shot Thea with a bola arrow. With her tied up on the ground, he turned to Roy. Roy had beaten the other girl early, who had a dagger like Annabeth. She wasn't as skilled though, which is why she'd been the first to go down.
"Who's hurt." Oliver asked. He didn't need to raise his voice because of the coms.
"I have a few cuts and scrapes, besides that I'm good." Diggle reported.
"None." was Roy's response.
"All good, just a cut on my back." Sara said.
"I need to get back to Central City, but I'll come again if you need me." Barry told him.
"Thanks, I don't think we will though." Oliver told him. "Thanks for coming."
"Anytime." Barry told him before speeding away.
Everybody stood there in silence now. "So, now can I ask who they are?" Thea asked Oliver, gesturing to Sara and Roy with her head.
"Only if they say ok." Oliver told her, knowing Roy and Sara would hear that part and understand what the conversation was about.
"I'm ok with it." Sara said. "I'm dead anyways.
Sara walked over, spinning her staff and then clicking the button that retracted the ends. She slipped it into her belt, and removed her mask.
"Sara?" Thea asked, eyes wide. "How are you alive?" Then she looked at Oliver. "You lied about her being alive?"
"I didn't know for a year." he said. "After that, I understood it was her choice, and so far she's chose not to tell anybody."
"I'll tell her." Roy said to Oliver privately. He turned away from Thea, so she couldn't hear his response.
"Are you sure? I mean, you're a lot closer to her then Sara Roy. You're her boyfriend."
"And you're her brother."
"I had to though. You don't."
"I'd be a bit of a hypocrite if I was mad at her for never telling me about her secret life and I never tell her about mine. At least this way I can say I voluntarily did it."
Roy walked over, and looked at Oliver. He gave him a nod, telling him he understood. Roy reached up and turned his voice modifier off. Then he pulled his mask off, and put his hood down. Thea didn't seem extremely surprised though.
"Well, I wondered why you stopped searching for the arrow." she said. "I guess I know now."
"Oliver!" Diggle shouted. "I just got a call from Lyla, Waller wants to talk to you."
"Why can't she just call me? I know she has my number."
"You'll have to ask."
With a sigh Oliver walked over to where he'd hidden his bag. It contained his phone, a spare set of clothes, and his green kevlar suit that he used at nights. He pulled the phone out and called Amanda.
"Hello Amanda. You wanted to talk to me?"
"I happened to notice you were in New York Mr. Queen."
"Do you need something Waller?"
"Actually, I do. I have a situation at the Red Hook Grain Terminal, can you take care of it?"
"Do I have a choice?"
*Click*. Waller had hung up. Oliver sighed and reached into his bag for his suit. "Waller wants us to take care of a situation at the Red Hook Grain Terminal. I am under the impression that we have no choice." he called over his shoulder.
"What about your sister?" Diggle asked over the coms.
"She and her friends are resourceful. She'll get out."
"Don't you think that's a bit cold?" Felicity asked. "I mean, she is your sister."
"Yep. And she's lied to me for a very long time. I'm sure this makes it up."
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"So, isn't this place like, haunted or something?" Felicity asked as she sat in their hotel room.
"Not every abandoned building is haunted Felicity." Oliver told her while peeking around a corner.
"No, but with our luck this one will be."
"Felicity, building aren't haunted. And besides, you're not even here. Why would you have to deal with it?" Diggle asked, turning the corner, pointing his gun.
"Well, I can be a little superstitious if I want to Diggle. Besides, I don't want you guys to be hurt." Felicity protested.
I hope that was helpful. I wish I could continue this, I really do, but I know that when I'm not passionate about something anymore it just doesn't turn out good, and I'm miserable while writing it. I hope you enjoyed what was left of it!
Happy Reading,
LeiaKasta