Thank you for the reviews :) There is a few more secrets to reveal yet. Also I do believe this is currently the longest chapter.
Chapter 04: Don't Make Me Choose
By December 2014, Thea had returned home and only Thalia knew her secret, she had decided to keep teaching the younger one everything that she knew. She loved her little sister, and keeping Oliver's secret from Thea and Thea's secret from Oliver was tearing her apart on the inside. Thalia and Oliver both moved in with Thea they didn't want to lose each other again, even if Thalia's moving in was only when she was in town.
"Ra's Al Ghul, you will not kill my brother," Thalia had followed Oliver to Nanda Parbat, even after Oliver had told her not to follow him. "Your son didn't teach me everything I know. Oliver, I'm sorry I had to come," Thalia told him Oliver as she stood between Ra's and Oliver. "I will give you your grandson, just please don't kill my brother,"
Ra's Al Ghul didn't listen to Thalia's pleas even after she told him that she would give him her son. Thalia watched as Ra's seemingly murdered her brother, she lashed out at Nyssa who had not realised the connection between Thalia and Oliver until Thalia had spoken about Oliver being her brother. Nyssa looked between them before watching what Thalia was about to do.
"Nyssa! I know that Sara is dead, but you just allowed your father to seriously harm my brother," Thalia yelled at her before running and jumping over the cliff's edge to search for Oliver. 'Ollie, don't you die on me little brother,' Thalia thought to herself as she landed on a ledge and found Oliver lying in what could only be described as an extremely awkward and painful position. "Ollie, you have to stay with me," Thalia crouched beside him and checked his pulse breathing a sigh of relief when she saw that he was still breathing. 'Malcolm, I know by know Thea's told you that she's worried about Oliver,' Thalia had called Malcolm on a satellite phone that she carried everywhere in case of emergencies.
'What do you know?' Malcolm questioned as he left Verdant. 'How are you contacting me?' he had been in Verdant to talk with Thea who wanted very little to do with the older man.
"I know where Ollie is, you can't tell Felicity or the others," Thalia told him pausing before she continued to talk. "Long story. Just don't tell them please. Make up some shit and I'll explain to them later,"
'Thalia, where is he?' Malcolm walked to his car and drove straight to his private air-strip.
"Safe, with me. I gave up my son..." Thalia stated as she stayed by Oliver's side watching as his life hung by a thread. Thalia hung up her phone and stayed sitting with Oliver, even if the cold was slowly getting to her as well. "Ollie stay with me, please,"
After a few days Maseo had returned to the side of the cliff and found Thalia and Oliver. Thalia had managed to do what she could for her baby brother, and knew that Maseo wouldn't let Oliver die. As Maseo carried Oliver to a small log cabin, Thalia held onto her brother's hand not about to leave him any time soon. She stayed by his side as Tatsu worked on him, Oliver having little to no idea why Thalia had followed him and put herself at risk after everything he had said.
"Ollie, you have to let her help you. We need to go home, and then you can fight him again...but you have to let her help you," Thalia turned to Tatsu and glanced back at Oliver who was struggling to stand up. "Please Ollie, just do as I say,"
"What are you doing here Thalia?" Oliver questioned, wincing slightly as he stopped to lean against the door.
"Ollie, I gave up my son to save you. They probably have him by now, John wouldn't have let him go easily though," Thalia told Oliver, as Tatsu looked at her, questioning why such a smart woman would do such a stupid thing.
"Why would you do that?" Oliver was furious that Thalia gave up so easily, knowing that she would have fought for him.
"Oliver, he's my life. You have to understand that Ra's Al Ghul is his grandfather, the only reason he stayed away from us is because I asked him to and Nyssa threatened to leave the League," Thalia told him before walking outside and sitting with Maseo. "Sarab, you know they will see that Oliver isn't dead," While Thai was sitting outside talking with Maseo they heard movement in the bushes causing Thalia to tun inside to Oliver and Tatsu.
Thalia and Oliver stood to one side of the cabin hidden out of sight as Ra's Al Ghul's men entered and confronted Maseo over whether they had found a body or not. Thalia held Oliver up with one hand and a sword in her free hand. Oliver moved to grab it from her but Thalia forcibly pushed his arm backwards causing Oliver to fight back a groan. Maseo killed Ra's men and then injured himself so that Oliver and Thalia could escape. A day later and Thalia and Oliver had to leave, they couldn't stay in the cabin much longer as Ra's men would be back.
"Ollie, we have to go now," Thalia helped Oliver up, and made for the door.
"And, how are we going to get home?" Oliver asked, as they limped towards the door. Oliver stopped leaning against the door frame before he continued moving again.
"I called in a favour," Thalia told him, as they walked out of the cabin and started to head down the mountain. "Don't worry I haven't told Thea or the others I know where you are. I can't," They walked further down the mountain, this time in partial silence. As they got further down the mountain Tatsu was behind them and helped Oliver once again. "Tatsu, stay safe please. I'll look after Oliver I always do,"
Thalia and Oliver bought their way back to civilization, with Thalia keeping a close eye on Oliver the entire time. Thalia decided it was time to contact Thea, pulling out her satellite phone once again she called her younger sisters number leaving her the most random message that she could think off. Once they had arrived back in Starling they discovered that the Glades were being over run. Thalia went straight to the house, leaving Oliver to do his thing as the Arrow.
"Thalia! You're home, did you find Ollie?" Thea jumped off the couch and wrapped her arms rightly around her sister, Thalia nodded and kissed the top of her head before they sat on the couch and were quickly joined by Malcolm Merlyn. Not long after Malcolm joined them Oliver opened the door and both sisters were quick to wrap their arms around Oliver. "I missed you Ollie, where have you been?" It took Thalia everything inside her not to hit the older man and have him move off her couch.
"Bludhaven, I may have just spent the last two weeks in a small jail cell," Oliver told her, glancing at Thalia and then looking at Malcolm who stood up and shook his hand.
Thea shook her head, before moving to go and make some hot chocolate and coffee for them all. Thalia followed Thea into the kitchen to help her baby sister. Thea looked at Thalia she knew instantly that something was bothering her. Something that she wanted to know so that she could help in any way possible.
"Lia, what happened?" Thea asked, leaning against the counter and looking at Thalia who was absent-mindedly staring into space.
"T, I did something that I really didn't want to do," Thalia pulled out a photo of her son and handed it to Thea. "Speedy, I'm never going to see him again,"
"Lia, what did you do?" Thea held onto the picture of her nephew as Malcolm and Oliver walked into the kitchen as Thea walked around to the opposite side of the counter and hugged her sister. "You'll see him again, I know you will,"
"Thea, I told you about Ra's al Ghul," Malcolm said, as Oliver put his arm around Thalia and looked at Malcolm and then at Thea and Thalia. "He's after my family, your family,"
"Ra's Al Ghul is the grandfather of my son," Thalia said, this fact shocked both Malcolm and Thea, Thea's shock wasn't nearly as much as what Malcolm's what. "Malcolm, Thea already knows that I was in the League. Thea knows everything about me,"
"What?" Malcolm turned to face Thalia. "How?"
"I was married to his son, his son was murdered months before my son was born. Ra's Al Ghul released me from the League," Thalia took a deep breath before she continued. "I had the choice to leave or to stay. I chose to leave, moved to Los Angeles where I met Jackson, Alex and Joshua...actually that's a lie Jackson I've known since school. Alex grew up in the League of Assassins, he was released when I was. It's a long story, one that doesn't need to be told now," Malcolm knew that to be released from the League was something very rare.
Thea and Oliver wrapped their arms around Thalia simultaneously. Oliver still couldn't believe that their sister had given up her own blood to save his life. Weeks went by and the Queen children trained with Malcolm and Thalia, Thalia on most days pulled Thea to the side and trained her separately wanting her sister to know everything that she did. Thea turned Malcolm into Ra's after finding out that he had drugged her while he had initially trained her and forced her to kill Sara. Oliver told Thea that she would regret it if she was the reason that her father died, she may not like it but he was her father.
"Ollie, think this through please!" Thalia begged Oliver to think about what he was doing. "I will go with you if I have to, to stop you doing something stupid,"
"Thalia, you can't go with him. I don't want to lose you as well," Thea stood opposite both Thalia and Oliver in the basement of Verdant. Roy, Felicity, Diggle and Laurel stayed out of it the best that they could.
"I'll go with him," Diggle said, as Felicity, Roy and Laurel went back to doing what they had been doing before Thalia and Thea had followed Oliver into the basement. "I'm sorry Thalia but I'm yet to see you fight," Diggle had never seen Thalia fight – she had always had her boys keep him away while they trained.
"Diggle, Thalia can fight – she's been fighting longer than what Ollie has," Thea told the older man, as Thalia grabbed Roy's bow and one of his arrows. "So much longer than what Ollie has,"
"This is just one thing that I do with my eyes shut," Thalia closed her eyes and focused on her surroundings. "Over behind Ollie's work out apparatus, there's a small crack watch it," Thalia aimed at the crack and released the bow without looking. "I was in the League of Assassins and that's all that you need to know,"
"Thalia was doing martial arts when she was a child, she's been doing it for the like twenty years," Thea looked at Thalia and then at Diggle and continued speaking again. "She's my big sister and she can kick serious butt,"
"Diggle, why do you think I go between Starling and Los Angeles?" Thalia questioned, putting Roy's bow and arrow back. "When I was in the League of Assassins I killed people, when my husband was killed in front of me I vowed that I wouldn't kill again. Nyssa your brother loved you," Thalia turned to Nyssa in the cage as she spoke. "Is my son safe with your father?" As Thalia spoke she grabbed hold of Oliver and forced him to fight her. "Nyssa, he's your blood too help us,"
"He is his blood, Thalia. My father plans on training him," Nyssa answered, looking at Thalia and then at Diggle as she did so. Nyssa watched as Oliver and Thalia fought before Thalia had Oliver landing flat on his ass with her foot on his chest forcing him down. "I wish that I could help, I don't know where they have taken him,"
After a few seconds of catching his breath, Oliver stood up and walked away from them going up into the alleyway beside the club. Thea smiled at Thalia, she loved when her brother was beaten by their older sister.
"I took him to get away from all of this," Thalia took a deep breath and found Thea's arms wrapped around her yet again. "Diggle go with him,"
While Oliver was in Nanda Parbat, Thalia and Thea did their best to stay calm having refused to go with him instead searching for Ollie. Roy and Laurel did their part in being vigilante's. Thalia prayed that Oliver wouldn't do anything that would ultimately end up getting him killed. After a couple of weeks Ray Palmer discovered Oliver's secret, Felicity told Thalia what happened and hoped that the older Queen would be able to help somehow.
"Ray, I know that you know about my brother. You think that he's a killer, I can guarantee you that what I can do, would destroy you. You are also supposed to be my friend!" Thalia stood before Ray, she didn't generally like threatening him but she had to. "I don't care that you have a military grade suit, the fact that you have a vendetta against The Arrow because you believe that he's the reason that your fiancée is dead," Oliver was standing with Thalia as she spoke. "That is just plain stupid, you know that as well as I do,"
"You really have no idea what you're going up against," Oliver and Thalia walked from Palmer Technologies with Ray saying that he was going to stop it. "Was threatening him really necessary?"
"Ollie, you've known me for my entire life. You know that I would never let anyone hurt you," Thalia told him as they walked back to her car. "Joshua, take us back to Verdant, and tell Alex that I need him to come now,"
"Will do Thalia, what about Jackson?" Joshua questioned, as both Thalia and Oliver sat in the car and he headed towards Verdant.
"Get him in contact with Felicity, maybe they can work together on finding what is going on," Thalia answered as they continued towards the club. "Ollie, we will figure this out,"
When they arrived back at Verdant, both of them being greeted by Thea and Roy. Thalia smiled at her and then looked at Roy as if to say I know that you're back together. The four of them headed down to the basement while Joshua made the call to Alex. Ra's Al Ghul's men kidnapped Captain Lance and told him that Oliver was the Arrow, Thalia's friend Jackson had hacked into the SCPD police lines.
"We need to go now!" Thalia grabbed the three of them by arm and ran. "We need to go to my house, they don't know about it and I plan on keeping it that way,"
"What's going on?" Thea questioned, looking at Thalia, Oliver and Roy. "Thalia?"
"Captain Lance knows that it's Ollie and he hates him," Thalia told them as Oliver separated from them.
"I'll meet up with you I promise," Oliver told them and the three of them ran with Alex arriving at the club as Thalia, Roy and Thea exited.
"Alex, stay on Ollie's tail and keep him safe please and stay out of sight," Thalia ordered her friend, hoping that it would be the answer and that Oliver wouldn't get caught she couldn't have it happen.
"Joshua, take them now," Alex nodded, before running after Oliver to see what he would be doing.
"Thalia, will this work?" Thea questioned, she wanted to know what her Thalia was planning on doing.
"Thea, it will work. Do you trust me?" Thalia replied, as they climbed in and Joshua sped them towards Thalia's house.
"Of course," Thea looked at Roy as she spoke wondering if he trusted her sister as much as she did.
"Then trust that Ollie knows what he's doing, at least I hope he does," Thalia sighed looking at Roy and Thea as Roy pulled Thea closed to him. "Roy, promise me that you will stay close to Thea no matter what,"
Roy made the promise to Thalia even though he knew that he wouldn't keep it, he trusted her but he wanted to help Oliver too. After half an hour Roy, Laurel, and Felicity went to Diggle's apartment as they figured that was where Oliver would go. Thea opted to stay with Thalia, the girls wanted to blow off steam. Thalia and Thea were oblivious to what Roy was planning on doing to help Oliver, they didn't find out until they saw on the news that he had managed to get himself arrested by saying that he was the Arrow.
"Thalia can you do anything?" Thea and Thalia were sparring in Thalia's basement as Jackson told them the news.
"I might be able to, I can probably get him a lawyer," Thalia answered, as Alex walked down into the basement to join them. "Alex, what's the go?"
"Roy turned himself in said that he was the Arrow, Oliver was released," Alex told them grabbing Thea as she attempted to run past him. "Relax, your sister knows what to do,"
"Thalia, you can't...you can't let Detective Lance know that you're home," Thea grabbed at Alex as he stood before her. "Stop Thalia!"
"I know," Thalia sighed, but she had to do something to stop Detective Lance. "Jackson, call Felicity and tell her that Joshua is on his way to pick them up,"
"Thalia said you were in the League with her," Thea muttered, looking at Alex and then at Thalia as she spoke.
"Thea, don't," Thalia knew that Alex would tell Thea about it one day but now was not the time.