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Chapter 02: Sometimes Love Just Isn't Enough

Months later and Oliver still hadn't told his family about who he was and what he did. Thalia had found out as she knew there was something that her baby brother wasn't telling her. She wasn't happy with what he was doing, but she figured that it would give him piece of mind. She didn't have the heart to tell him that she was doing the same thing he was only in a different part of the world. Thalia would tell him one day, when they were both ready to hear it.

One afternoon several weeks later and Thalia received a phone call from Thea who was frantic as the boy that she had gone to see had been hurt saving her from a mugging. Thea didn't want to call Oliver, she thought that her sister would understand better. Thalia turned up at the hospital, and walked into the room that Thea and the boy that she liked was in.

"Lia, you came," Thea smiled as her big sister walked over to her and wrapped an arm around her.

"T, I'll always come when you need me," Thalia hugged Thea and then looked behind her and saw the boy that her little sister was seeing. "Hi Roy, Thea you may want to do a little distracting," Thalia winked at her little sister who in turn went over to Roy and poked fun at him for being scared of needles before kissing him as he was given a shot.

"Thalia, how do you know Roy?" Thea questioned, not taking her eyes of Roy as he was stitched up.

"I helped him out a few times here in the hospital before I moved away," Thalia told her, the first time Roy had been in the hospital was when she had first been found, he was only twelve at the time. "Told him that we all have secrets,"

"Have you seen Laurel since you've been home?" Thea asked as she and Thalia helped Roy leave from the hospital.

"Haven't really had time. T, take care of Roy – he's a good kid sometimes," Thalia smiled at her little sister as she spoke. "I have to go Thea, I'll be back soon. I promise but there's something I need to take care of first," Thalia told her, as she pulled out her phone to check the messages that she had received while they were in the hospital.

"How long will you be gone for?" Thea questioned, as her and Thalia loaded Roy into the car. "Well, how long?"

"A week at the most," Thalia paused and looked at Roy who was completely silent. "Roy, let Thea take care of you. She has a heart of gold,"

Thea laughed at what her sister said about her. She only had a heart of gold when it suited her. Thalia had one of her drivers take Roy and Thea to Roy's while she went to her home to pack the rest of her things that she would need for the time that she was away. As she was finishing putting the last of her things in her bag, Thalia heard a noise inside her house one that should have been there but she knew the foot steps.

"Ollie, it's no use sneaking up on me kid," Thalia spun around quickly shutting her bag as she came face to face with Oliver. "Especially not in my own home,"

"Thalia, what have you got there?" Oliver questioned, walking up to his older sister and grabbing her arm, Thalia yanked her arm away from him surprising him.

"I know your secret Oliver, you can't hide things from me forever," Thalia told him, avoiding answering his question as she zipped the bag shut.

"You know my what?" Oliver was taken back, he didn't think that anyone would be able to figure out who he was.

"Ollie, I know that you're the Hood...don't try and deny that you're not," Thalia smiled at him, she loved watching her younger brother squirm. "I told you Ollie, you don't have to do this alone. Come with me? I want to show you something," Thalia grabbed his hand yet again, this time he pulled his hand back from her.

"I'm not the Hood, Thalia," Oliver stated adamantly as he followed Thalia down the hallway past what looked like a security room and to the top of the basement stairs.

"Jackson, I'm taking Oliver to the lower level. Use the intercom if you need me," Thalia told one of the men that was with her all the time.

"Yes Ma'am," the man replied without turning from the computer screen that he was looking at. Like Felicity, Jackson was Thalia's computer genius.

"Down here, we have no phone signal. Just the way that I like it," Thalia grinned, opening the door and switching on a light at the top of the stair case lighting up the room.

As they neared the bottom of the stairs Thalia jumped from midway down the stairs grabbing onto a bar that seemed to be randomly positioned. Thalia stuck her tongue out at her baby brother and swung to another bar. And stayed swinging there for a few seconds watching to see what Oliver would do. Oliver watched his sister and then did what she was doing.

"Thalia, you did all this?" Oliver questioned as Thalia jumped down and landed beside a punching bag.

"A little bit, Ollie this is how I keep myself sane," Thalia explained, before she saw that Oliver's eyes had landed on her rack of Japanese katana's. "Yes, I still use them – remember I'm the one that wanted to take martial arts lessons at the age of ten,"

"What was that guy doing up there in what was it a computer lab?" Oliver questioned swinging down and landing beside her.

"Close. It's security room, Jackson is my version of Felicity only," Thalia answered before grabbing one of the katana's and throwing it at Oliver. "I met him just after I left Starling City, he decided that I needed someone to keep an eye on me. Also I think it was more dad's doing than his own," pausing again Thalia thought of a way to get Oliver to reveal who he was to her. "If you're not the Hood, Ollie show me," Thalia smiled at him, she had seen him fight when he saved Laurel's father.

Thalia and Ollie started to spar, and that was what convinced her that he was who he said that he wasn't. She knew her brother well enough to tell when he was lying to her, and he knew better. Thalia studied Oliver's movements and jumped as he swung one of the katana's at her legs grabbing onto the bar above her head.

'Miss Queen, you're wanted in Los Angeles,' Jackson's voice came over the intercom, interrupting Thalia and Oliver's sparing session.

"Los Angeles?" Oliver questioned, landing a hit on her side as Thalia let go of the bar.

"Yeah, I have to go. I've already told Thea that I'll be back at the end of the week," Thalia smiled at him before noticing that Oliver's eyes had been looking around the room and landing on a bow and arrow. "Go for it, Ollie,"

Oliver walked over to where the bow and arrows were sitting and noticed that they had no dust on them unlike some of the equipment that lived there. Oliver picked them up and saw that there was a pole at the far end of the basement that had holes in one section only. Raising the bow and arrow up to his eye line, not noticing that his sister had stopped at the top of the stairs, Oliver released the arrow and it sailed straight into one of the pre-existing holes. Thalia smiled to herself and walked the rest of the way up the stairs but stopped again giving one of the stairs a little tap that released a small crossbow from a hidden pocket in the wall. Crouching down Thalia aimed the crossbow at the arrow Oliver had shot and released hers splitting the arrow down the middle.

"Thalia?" Oliver called, placing the bow back in its place before jogging up the stairs behind her. "How did you know? And how the hell did you just do that?"

"Ollie, just little things...and I may have followed you one night with one of the boys," Thalia paused taking a deep breath before she continued. "You don't remember the summer I took up archery? Oh that's right you were too busy with Laurel,"

"You can't tell anyone who I am. Promise me that Thalia," Oliver placed his hand on her shoulder stopping her from moving anywhere.

"I promise kiddo, if you promise to keep mine. Now I have to go back to Los Angeles, and like I said I'll be back at the end of the week,"