I have up to Chapter 7 of this written, and part of Chapter 8 - after I post chapter 7 there may be a short hiatus as I'm a little behind on Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and Legends - I need to catch up on al of them before I can continue with the story.

Chapter 06: Playing With Fire

A couple of weeks later Thalia, Oliver and Thea found themselves sitting in what was Sebastian Bloods old office when he was running for Mayor as Oliver had decided to run. Oliver didn't know if what he was doing was the right thing to but both of his sister convinced him that it was the right thing to do. Thalia often stayed in with Felicity when her siblings, Laurel and Diggle went on missions – she wanted to stay out of it unless it was completely necessary for her to join it.

"Oliver, can you please stop getting stabbed already," Thalia said as she stitched up his back, she had taken over the job of fixing them up as Diggle was often out in the field with them.

"Hazard of the business," Thalia rolled her eyes at the words that were leaving Oliver's mouth. "Are you?"

"Lia, what's he talking about?" Thea asked noticing that her sister had briefly stopped in the stitching.

"I may have gotten stabbed in the side late last week when I went home to sort out a few things," Thalia replied, finishing up with the stitching before she lifted up her shirt to show the bandage on her side.

"Thalia!" Thea laughed, she knew that neither of her siblings would ever stop getting themselves injured.

The following week and Thalia had found Sara alive without letting Laurel know that she had been keeping track of the younger Lance. Thalia couldn't believe that Thea and Laurel had been so stupid to take Sara's body there without telling her. Laurel didn't understand the consequences of her actions. Sara was out for blood, Thea's blood. She didn't tell Quentin either, as she didn't know what else to do, aside from calling her friend John. Thalia hadn't talked to him since her son had been with the League. They may have been in a relationship but it was tumultuous one.

"Thalia, Laurel and Thea when were you planning on telling me?" Oliver stood before the girls reprimanding them for not telling him. Thalia glared at her brother putting her foot down before she spoke.

"Get off your high horse Oliver. Look I've been trying to keep track of her, the only way I know how and that's using what I learnt in the League," Thalia took a deep breath before she continued to talk. "Laurel, Thea go. I need to talk to Ollie alone,"

"We're not finished here," Oliver said as Thea and Laurel started to walk away from them.

"Laurel, Thea go," Thalia urged the two girls to go, as soon as they walked away Thalia turned to Oliver. "Ollie, I know someone who can help Sara. I know you do too," Thalia glared at her younger brother it was her turn to be stubborn. "They thought that they could handle it, and they were wrong – they know that now and you going off at them isn't exactly going to help the situation,"

"Back up a second. How do you know that I know someone that can help?" Oliver was confused as to how his sister knew the man he had met on the Island. "John Constantine?"

"Yes, he's my John," Thalia smirked at Oliver as she spoke a light shining in her eyes at his name. "He's who I left Ollie with earlier this year. The one who wouldn't have given him up without a fight,"

Not long after Thea and Laurel left, Thea went to the apartment to get some rest while she was there she was attacked by Sara. The attack left Thea in the hospital where the younger Queen was attacked by Sara again. That was when Thalia decided that they really needed John's help on this so she urged him to contact him. Why she didn't call him she didn't know.

"Ollie, call him now," Thalia shoved her phone in her brothers hand as they stood in the Arrow cave.

"Call who?" Thea looked at Thalia as did the rest of Team Arrow.

"John Constantine, he's my partner..." Thalia muttered, before Oliver pulled out his own phone and called the older man. "He's a little bit on the eccentric side," as Oliver and John talked Thalia explained exactly what John was. "He deals in the occult, magic. He's kind of enigmatic when he wants to be and also total idiot at times,"

'Was that Thalia in the background?' John questioned, looking around the alley that he was standing in.

"She just said that you were her partner," Oliver avoided giving him a straight answer as he listened to Thalia explaining who John was. "She's my sister,"

'Your sister is one tough girl, she can take care of herself.' John told Oliver, completely ignoring Oliver's partner comment. 'What did you want?'

"Anyway, I'm calling in that favour. How fast can you get to Star City?" Oliver questioned, watching as Thalia walked over to her where she kept her knives and picking one up before throwing it at the target on the opposite wall.

John made it to Star City and helped to restore Sara's soul with John telling Thalia that one day she was going to have to have the confidence and courage to use what he had taught her. Thalia shook her head, she didn't want to dabble in the occult world, but at the same time she knew that she would have to. After John had healed Sara's soul Thalia hugged the older man and kissed him, she had missed him more than what she thought.

"John, I'm sorry I had to give them Ollie...it was the only way to save my brother," Thalia said as they got in the elevator to leave the lair. "I've missed you more than what I thought I would,"

"I know, I've missed you too. But, Thalia, you can't blame yourself for everything," John told her, he had told her multiple times in all the time that he had known Thalia.

"I know, this time I had to. John, I told you about my time in the League of Assassins. Giving Ra's Al Ghul my son, his grandson was the only way to save Oliver," Thalia took a deep breath as she told John about what she knew. "I may be a skilled fighter, but taking on a master assassin was not on the agenda,"

"You could get your son back in an instant and you know that," John shook his head at her, sometimes she was stubborn and he honestly didn't know what to do with her.

"Not this time, John. My sisters father has him now," Thalia muttered, she had neglected to tell John that the new Ra's Al Ghul was her sisters father.

"What aren't you telling me?" John questioned, raising an eyebrow at her as Thalia wrapped her arms around him.

"Thea's father is the new Ra's Al Ghul, " Thalia took a deep breath before she continued to talk. "Well technically Ollie, I mean Oliver is but Thea's dad and Oliver made a deal. It's a long story. Short version, he went back on the deal Oliver made with him and refused to hand my Ollie back, "

"Thalia, love, please take care of yourself," John kissed the top of her head, Oliver had mentioned Damien Darhk to him and John made told him that it was best if they all leave town.

"Always,"

Come December 2015 things had drastically changed, Damian Darhk was their biggest problem, Sara had left Star City, Thea was still trying to get a handle on the changes from the Lazarus Pit. Felicity and Oliver became engaged and right around Christmas Felicity was severely injured in an attack by Darhk's men. Ra's had died at the hands of Oliver leaving Thea's bloodlust unbearable.

"Oliver, stop avoiding Felicity. I'm telling you what John tells me on a daily basis. It's not your fault and it never will be," Thalia had grabbed Oliver and was holding her baby brother up against a pole in his 'Arrow Cave'. "Felicity getting hurt, no one could have seen that happen!"

"I have to find Damien Darhk," Oliver stated pushing Thalia's arms away from him and moving away from her. "He's the one that did this to her,"

"Ollie, I love you. But you keep avoiding her and she's going to start blaming you, so please go and see her. I'll do what I can to track him down," Thalia stated, closing her eyes and opening them again. "Jackson and Alex are on the way from the house, and Joshua is on his way back from LA,"

"You really do trust them with your life," Oliver was still refusing to see Felicity.

After a few hours, when they were getting ready to interrogate one of Darhk's followers, Thea received a text from Felicity's mother Donna telling her that Felicity was out of surgery and it didn't sound good. After telling Thalia the message she had received, Thea asked Thalia to make Oliver see Felicity. Once Thalia had arrived to where they were holding Lonnie Machin she took Oliver to the hospital to see Felicity. Oliver stayed at the hospital and while Thalia went straight home to Thea and sat with her, both girls waited to see what news Oliver had.

"Lia, what if Felicity won't be the same again?" Thea sat resting her head on her sister's shoulder.

"I don't know Speedy, but what I do know is that you need to talk to Roy – he misses you," Thalia told her, that was the latest on what Joshua had told her. "I think it's Ollie that we need to worry about. I worry about Felicity too, we all do,"

"I'm always worried about Ollie, and how can I talk to Roy if I don't have his number?" Thea sighed, her head was still resting on her sisters shoulder as Thalia wrapped her arms round her. She didn't know about the phone that Thalia had given Roy the last time that she had seen.

"I have a solution to that...I may have given him an encrypted phone and told him to keep it charged at all times," Thalia handed Thea a phone and told her that all she had to do to talk to Roy was go in to the phone book and dial nuts. "You call him, I need to talk to your father about my son,"

Thalia and Thea made their respective phone calls, Malcolm telling Thalia that she would not see her son until Thea was made safe, all Thalia wanted was her baby. Thea left a message for Roy as he refused to talk to her, not wanting her to get hurt any more. Felicity was handling being paralysed, while Oliver still blamed himself for what had happened to her. Thalia helped Oliver to modify most of the places that they would frequent such as the lair, Thea's old apartment so that it was easily accessible for Felicity. Thea had moved in with Laurel, not being able to handle being around Oliver, while Thalia had moved back to her house – figuring that Oliver and Felicity needed space.

"Oliver, the only way that my Ollie is coming home is if we can save Thea," Thalia told him, she wasn't about to tell Oliver that she could do what John had taught her.

"What aren't you telling me Thalia?" Oliver questioned, as the sat in Laurel's apartment with Malcolm.

"Malcolm, could I have a minute with Oliver?" Thalia looked at Malcolm and then at Oliver. "Please, I don't know go sit with Thea," as soon as Malcolm walked out of the room and into Thea's Thalia spoke again. "Oliver, John has taught me things, things that not even Malcolm is capable of,"

"What sort of things?" Oliver questioned, looking his sister in the eyes to see if she was lying to him.

"The sort of things that he can do, I'm not about to do them unless things turn desperate. Look I know Thea's in a bad place right now, but until I know exactly what I'm dealing with I'm not doing anything," Thalia told him, she had to get a hold of things before she did any rituals to her baby sister. "Look, I hate Malcolm just as much as you do. And if I hurt him I may never see Ollie again,"

"Just how many secrets do you have up your sleeves?" Oliver looked at Thalia and then glanced into Thea's room hoping that Malcolm and Thea hadn't heard what they were talking about.

"Only a few more, but like I said Thea knows the majority of them. She knows about this one, and she doesn't want me to use it..." Thalia explained, it was true Thea knew just about everything about her big sister, ever since Thalia had taken her to Los Angeles the first time.

Thea had heard them talking, and she was starting to want her sister to what she could. Thea called her sister into her room and asked for Malcolm to leave the room so she could talk to her alone. Thalia walked into Thea's room and sat right beside her on the bed, and pulled her into her arms. Thea just wanted her big sister to comfort her like she always did.

"Lia, can you do anything?" Thea queried, resting her head on Thalia's shoulder, as the older girl wrapped her arms tightly around her before pulling away slightly.

"I love you T, and I might be able to stem the effects a little bit but not permanently," Thalia smiled at her taking a deep breath as she put her hand on her sister's chest where Ra's had stabbed her.

"Do it, Can it at least make me not exceptionally tired?" Thea asked, Thalia nodded and took hold of Thea's hand and did a small spell that would temporarily quell the tiredness.

"It'll take effect in the morning, hopefully," Thalia kissed the top of Thea's head and the two sisters laid down. "Want me to spend the night?"

"Please," Thea still had her head resting on her sisters shoulder. "You'll get Junior back,"

"I know,"

During the night the spell that Thalia had cast on her sister didn't last and she fell into a coma, Oliver and Malcolm found out when Thalia screamed that Thea wasn't waking that morning. Thea was in a coma for a a couple of days while Oliver, Malcolm and the League fought in the streets on Star City. The fighting cost Malcolm his hand, and Nyssa took over the League and quickly disbanded it. While Thea was in a coma, Thalia never left her sisters side. Thalia was the one to get Nyssa to agree to give Thea the cure for her bloodlust, after seeing just how pain the older sibling was in seeing her sister in pain.