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Chapter 03: Counting The Days

Eighteen months later and Thalia was going between living in Starling City and living in Los Angeles, most of her time in Starling City was spent making sure that Oliver stayed out of trouble. Thalia took it upon herself to make sure that Roy and Thea behaved themselves as well. Thea called Thalia one night worried about Roy, while Oliver called her that same night as he was worried about Laurel.

"Thalia, come home please. I know I only call you when I need you but I need you, we need you," Thea told Thalia once her older sister had picked up the phone. "My boyfriend... he isn't himself and I don't know what to do,"

'Speedy, calm down. I'm already mid-way home,' Thalia was calling her from the back of her of one of her SUV's. 'I'll be home by morning,'

"Thalia, how far away are you?" Thea asked, sitting in the corner of her sister old bedroom.

'Around five hours away, T did you move into my old room?' Thalia questioned, motioning for her driver to go a little faster.

"Maybe, why? What's in here?" Thea was curious now how did her sister know that she was in the bedroom.

'Go to the bookshelf, there's a book there that I think you might like,' Thalia laughed, listening as Thea stood up and walked over to the bookshelf. 'Did you find it?'

"A book on the history of designers, and wait a minute this ones by you?" Thea grinned as she saw the book that her sister was talking about. "You left me a copy?"

'Yeah, its the first copy of the new book,' Thalia paused before she told Thea that she had another call coming in. 'I'll see you in the morning, I promise. I have to go now, I have another call on my other phone,'

Thea and Thalia hung up, with Thea taking the book and going back to the corner of her sister's room and sitting down readying herself to read the book. Thalia put one phone down and picked up her other phone, she'd given both Thea and Oliver the two numbers in case one line was busy and they wanted her. Thalia picked up her phone looking at the screen and seeing Oliver's name flashing at her.

"Ollie, what's up?" Thalia questioned, leaning her head back against the seat and closing her eyes.

'I don't know what to do, I'm worried about Laurel. She's not listening to me or her father,' Oliver told her trying to explain what was going on with Laurel without his sister getting to annoyed or angry at him.

"Oliver, I'm already half way home. Meet me at my place in the morning with Thea, Laurel and Roy?" Thalia replied, hoping that it would give her enough time to think about how to help both her siblings at the same time. "Does Roy know about you?"

'Only just,' was Oliver's reply, Thea and Laurel knew nothing about who he was and what he did. 'Does Thea know about you?'

Months later and Isabel Rochev believed that she had taken full control over Queen Consolidated, Thalia's own fortune was completely separate from the rest of the Queen money. Thalia had repurchased back Oliver's shares in the company and part of Isabel's. She walked into Queen consolidated and stood before Isabel with a smirk on her face.

"Security remove her," Isabel's security moved to remove Thalia from the boardroom.

"Give it a rest Ms Rochev, Queen Consolidated is back where it belongs," Thalia told her, motioning with her head for her boys to move in.

"You have no say in here," Isabel retorted, as Oliver walked in behind Thalia and took her hand.

"Actually she does. Isabel this is Thalia Queen, my sister," Oliver paused allowing Isabel to process what he had just said. "If you'll all take a look at the current share holders, you will see that Thalia is the majority holder,"

A few days later and Thea had been kidnapped by Slade Wilson and then released turning up at the police station, the only person that she wanted to call was her sister. Quentin Lance had other ideas and called Moira and Oliver in as well, Thea stood leaning against the wall in one of the offices. Thea yelled at her siblings and her mother as they had lied to her about who her father was.

"Thalia you don't understand how could you?" Thea questioned her older sister, Thea glared at her mother and brother before pushing past them.

"Thea, it doesn't change the fact that you are my baby sister! And I love you no matter what," Thalia called after Thea as she ran from the police station. "Ollie, mom. Stay here I'll talk to her," Thalia walked out after Thea and met up with her as she was walking past her car.

"Go away Thalia!" Thea wanted to scream at her sister but didn't.

"Thea, I didn't know. Look me in the eyes and tell me that I'm lying," Thalia forced her to look her in the eyes as she spoke to her. "You and Ollie are the only ones that have ever been able to tell T,"

Thea looked her big sister in the eyes and suddenly ran her wrapping her arms around her tightly. Thalia pulled her little sister closer and rested her head on her shoulder. Thea and Thalia stood there for a few minutes before Thalia's driver motioned that they should get in the car.

"Thea, I'll never lie to you," Thalia whispered in her ear hugging her tighter than before.

"I know," Thea leant her head against Thalia's as Moira and Oliver walked out of the police station and were met by Diggle.

"Dig, take mom to her house. I'll get Jackson to text you the location of one of my apartments," Thalia told him, she was planning on taking Thea home with her.

"Lia, you can't order Dig around," Oliver stated, though Diggle had already agreed to do what the older Queen had told him.

"Sorry Ollie, but being the older sibling I kind of can, besides Diggle already agreed to it," Thalia stuck her tongue out and motioned for Thea to get in her car. 'Alex, did you have Jackson run the sweep like I asked?'

'I did, and he said that he found something unusual and sent it to Miss Smoak,' Alex replied, he and Jackson had remained in the house monitoring the computer and surveillance systems of two cities. 'Want me to encrypt a phone for Thea?'

'Yeah, encrypt it. I think my little sister will be leaving town one day in the future,' Thalia told him, causing Thea to look at her sometimes she wondered just what her sister knew about her. "Baby girl, I love you and you need to trust me," Thalia told her, as Jackson and Alex worked on encrypting a phone for Thea.

"Never leave again?" Thea questioned as Thalia nodded and wrapped an arm around her and pushed her into the car.

Joshua drove Thalia and Thea to her house and had her stay with Jackson in the security room so she could help him monitor what was going on. Thea knew the reason behind her sister leaving and returning so often was because she had become a vigilante. Thalia left Thea and went to meet Oliver, Diggle had done the complete opposite what she had told him to do. Oliver had managed to convince Diggle to take him back to Verdant, Thalia knew exactly where he was and went straight down the stairs.

"Miss Smoak, did you get Jackson's email?" Thalia questioned, walking over to the younger girl as she sat hunched over her computer. "Don't tell Ollie about it just yet," Thalia whispered in her ear, Felicity nodded though she hated not telling Oliver things.

"What are you two talking about?" Oliver was curious as to what they were discussing, even if Felicity wasn't entirely sure of it either.

"Nothing Ollie. Ollie give Thea time to trust you and mom again, she loves you but she also hates you at the same time...and I know exactly what that's like,"

Five months later and Oliver was mad at Thalia as she had missed their mothers funeral, and Thea had left the city and was who knows where. Thalia met with Laurel and Sara one day for lunch, Sara knew more of what Thalia's secret was then what Oliver knew, Thea knew most of what her sister kept from Oliver. Thalia had talked with Ray Palmer and asked him to take control of Queen Consolidated, even though it would put Oliver out of a job and he would hate her for it.

"How long are you back for this time?" Sara asked, hugging the older girl tightly and then letting her own sister hug her.

"As long as I can, until either I get called away or I feel the need to write another book," Thalia answered as Laurel wrapped her arms around her. "I've missed you two ladies,"

"How many books is that now?" Laurel questioned, she had read most of them and was interested in knowing what happening next.

"Six, and I haven't decided on the next one yet – well I have but I haven't at the same time," Thalia paused pulling out her phone to see if Thea had decided on answering her. "Is it wrong that I'm giving Ollie access to my account?"

"You're giving him control of your account?" Sara was slightly confused over what Thalia was doing. "You know he'll go through it quickly,"

"Partial, only enough to survive," Thalia stuck her tongue out at them and glanced at her phone as she saw the screen flash. "I have to take this,"

'Thalia, Ollie keeps calling me and I can't get him to stop,' Thea sounded desperate on the other end of the line though Thalia could tell something was up.

"I'll talk to him, how is everything going?" Thalia needed to know that Malcolm Merlyn was taking good care of her little sister.

'I'm learning more,' Thea looked at Malcolm as she spoke, he knew about Thalia.

"Put him on," Thalia stood up and walked away from the table and towards one of the windows of the restaurant as Thea handed the phone to Malcolm. "If you hurt my kid sister, there will be hell to pay Malcolm," Thalia hissed into the phone.

'Threatening me Thalia? What's that going to get you?' Malcolm questioned, forgetting about the older Queen's history.

"Remember who you're dealing with, you teach my sister and I won't kill you," Thalia took a deep breath before she continued to speak. "You know why he let me leave? His son, the father of his grandchild was killed and he didn't want his grandchild growing up without both parents," Thalia told him quietly he had to have known that. "Keeping you secret is against everything that I believe,"

'Your sister is learning,' Malcolm answered before hanging up leaving Thea wanting to talk to her sister more.

Thalia contacted Oliver it was time that she told him where Thea was and about the family that he didn't know about. Oliver and Thalia met at her house in the basement, the best place for her to tell Oliver about the part of her life that he didn't know about. Thalia was waiting for him on the floor of the basement.

"Ollie, we need to talk," Thalia motioned for him to sit on the floor with her.

"Lia? What about?" Oliver sat on the floor opposite her cross legged.

"Ollie...you have a nephew, he's seven years old," Thalia took a deep breath pausing before she continued. "He's with my partner in Los Angeles. I can't have him here not till we know it's safe, Ollie you have to understand this,"

"I have a nephew and you didn't tell me?" Oliver was slightly furious at what Thalia was telling him.

"If his grandfather ever finds him, Oliver his grandfather will take him from me he said as much the day that I left," Thalia didn't know how to tell Oliver that her son's grandfather was Ra's Al Ghul.

"Are you scared of him?" Oliver questioned, taking a deep breath as he looked Thalia in the eyes and saw the smallest amount of fear in them.

"Ollie, you would be too if you knew who he was," Thalia hated admitting when she was scared of something. "Promise me that you will stay away when I tell you who he is,"

"Thalia I can't promise you anything," Oliver took a deep breath as he listened to what Thalia was tell him. "Does Thea know you have a son?"

"She does," Thalia didn't want to tell Oliver who was her son's father or grandfather was. "His father is dead, he was murdered before he was born,"

"I'm sorry Thalia. Who is his grandfather?" Oliver questioned, watching as Thalia stood up and headed straight for her bow and arrows.

"His grandfather is Ra's Al Ghul...Leader of the League of Assassins...Oliver they recruited me into the League after I left Starling, when his son died I begged to be let go from the league. Nyssa told them that she couldn't bare to see another family member die, they allowed me to leave," Thalia rambled, she couldn't believe that she was actually telling her baby brother about her child's father. As she was talking she was firing arrows one after the other. "Ollie please don't," Thalia turned around and aimed her arrow at Oliver.

"Thalia, how could you?" Oliver stood up and walked over to Thalia grabbing hold of the arrow and pulling both it and the bow down at the same time.

"Oliver, I love you and Thea. You have to know that, his son saw me at the hospital after one my appointments and followed me to one of my martial arts lessons,"

Oliver and Thalia talked a little more before proceeding to spar one another. Now that Oliver knew about Thalia, he understood how she was able to do what she did. As they fought they received a phone call from Laurel telling them that Sara had been murdered.