I do not own Arrow or any of the characters in any way just the storyline. Everything else but that is owned strictly by DC comics, and the CW. Please enjoy, and please leave postive commets only thank you! This will also be my take on season 4. This is also my first story ever on Thea, and I've been thinking of doing this for a while now, and putting my own spin on her feelings after her revival. Hope you enjoy and as always please leave positve reviews only!
Author's Note: This Chapter in particular will be told from both Oliver and Thea's Point of View, at least for now...If you enjoy the story being told more like this between both Thea and Oliver then please let me know, but for now hope you enjoy it and as always please leave positive reviews only!
Bold - Hallucinations/Visions/Memories
Italics - Thinking
"My name is Thea Queen, a girl who went from being a spoiled little rich kid who got everything she wanted, to a girl who now had to fight for survival after everything and everyone in her life was taken from her. Now I fight beside my brother and his team in order to help keep our city safe from Damien Dhark, but in order to do so, just like with Ollie I had to become someone else...I had to become something else...
Previously on Driven To Murder - "Thea, I know this is hard, but I need you to tell me what's going on." He said gently in a soft voice as he nodded toward the other two officers to leave. I shook my head and drew in a shaky breath full of air as the air around me suddenly grew cold as ice and the sound of blood rushed through my ears thanks to the pounding of my racing heart against my ribcage. "I-Idon't know." I admitted guiltly as I turned my gaze away from him now and stared down at the floor.
"Thea, you have just confessed to killing John Diggle's wife and baby daughter." Detective Lance replied softly. "Do you have any idea what kind of reprecussions that could have on your record? You could possibly never see the light of day again." "What difference would that make?" I said coldly. "I'm a killer so what? My entire family's full of killers. My mother, my father, even my brother. What's one more going to do? Our family's reputation already tarnished enough as it is."
"I know you're not a killer Thea." Detective Lance replied kindly. "But I can't help you if you don't tell me what's going on." I shook my head and looked down at the ground again taking in slow small breaths in and out trying to keep myself from losing anymore control over my emotions. "I already told you, I don't know anything about what happened." I admitted shaking my head. "Then why did you confess to the murders?" Lance asked.
"If you don't know anything about what happened, why did you confess? Do you know what happened? Were you a whitness? Thea Please, talk to me." I stared at the ground unable to find the right words to say. Then again, what would I say? That Damien Dhark murdered me in order to get to my brother, and my psycho father had me resurrected by using the mystical waters of the Lazarus Pit which had somehow turned me into a killer? Yeah that's real good Thea. I thought shaking my head. Tell them the truth and you might as well be in the eternal flames of hell.
a sudden stab f pain shot through my chest causing me gasp as I began to struggle for breath. "Thea? Thea!" The sound of Detective Lance's voice sounded far away now as my vision began to waver and the pain in my chest began to grow. "Thea what's going on? You okay? Talk to me!" I tried to anser by no words would come as the blanket of darkness began to engulf me and all at once I began to experience painful memories and flashes of my mother, and Robert holding out their arms toward me. "M-Mom?" I heard myself manage weakly as I looked into her warm smiling face and saw her blue eyes twinkle as she said in a soft yet loving voice, "Time for you to come home my baby girl." The blanket of darkness swirled over me now and I soon found myself drifting off to sleep as I passed out...
"Thea? Thea, are you alright sweetheart?" Upon hearing the soft concerned voice of a women calling to me, I opened my eyes slowly to see my mother staring down at me wearing a blue suit that matched the color of her eyes. "Mom? What's going on?" I asked slowly as I began to sit up. "Easy sweetheart." My mother said gently as she held me back down. "Everything's okay Thea. You're home now." I blinked my eyes in confusion for a second as I stared at her in disbelief. "What? What did you say?" I felt my mother wrap her arms gently around me embracing me in a warm loving hug, as she whispered, "You're home my baby girl."
NOW...
Chapter 6 - Second Chances
{Oliver's POV}
I paced back and forth in the Arrowcave, wondering what to do next as the thought of losing my little sister ran through my mind. "Oliver? You okay?" I turned my head at the sound of Felicity's calming voice, and just shook my head as I dropped down into a nearby chair with a heavy sigh. "John told me about what happened to Lyla and baby Sara." Felicity said in a soft voice as she walked over and placed a hand on my shoulder. "Well actually, he didn't exactly tell me just like that I mean, he was beyond furious and he bassically yelled well practically blurted it but still that's-" I let out another sigh and let my head drop forward into my hands immediatly cutting her off. "I don't know what to do." I replied softly. "I feel like everything I've worked so hard for is now falling apart." I felt Felicicty beginning to rub my shoulder for support but it didn't help. "I've let Thea down. I should've been there to protect her from Ra's."
"Oliver, you need to stop blaiming yourself." Felicity replied softly and I could tell she was trying to make feel better, but to tell the truth it really wasn't helping it was only making me feel worse. "Thea's my baby sister." I said lifting my head up now to look at her. "I'm supposed to be the one to protect her, and I couldn't even do that. I failed in keeping my family alive." "Oliver-" I cut her off and stood up now from the chair.
"Do you have any idea what's like to be out floating on the sea and watch as your own father shoots himself in the head in front of you so that you could live? or to watch as your mother sacrifices herself for you as a madman murders her in front of you and your little sister?" I saw tears starting to well up in Felicity's eyes from behind her glasses as she shook her head. "My parents may not have been the ones that Thea and I thought they were, but they didn't deserve to die the way they did. And I'll be damned if I'm going to just sit around and watch as my little sister is executed in a damn jail cell, because of something that happened that was out of her control."
I started walking away when I felt my cell phone go off. Reaching for it I looked at it and saw Lance's Id at the top. "This is Oliver." I said greeting him. "Oliver, it's your sister." The tone in Lance's voice nearly made me fall to my knees. "What happened?" I asked urgently. "Is she okay?" "I don't know." Lance replied in sorrow." She fell unconcsious, and wasn't responding or breathing. I think she's in some kind of a coma."
{Thea's POV}
There I was, drifting back and forth down the halls of the Queen Mansion as if I had never left. Time around me seemed to slow down as though I was still that same insecure girl who was always up late at night wondering if her big brother was alright and when he would come home. My legs seemed to carry me throughout the hallway as though I was somehow locked inside an entirely different world, I heard a voice that made me nearly stop dead in my tracks. "Thea?"
Turning my head in the direction of the voice, it was then and there that I saw Tommy smiling at me just like he always did. I couldn't believe it. Tommy was alive? How? What in the world was happening here? The last I had heard from Ollie was that Tommy had died during the Undertaking along with the other unlucky 500 innocent people that got caught in the crossfire of Malcolm sick and twisted plans to avenge the death of his wife.
"I was just looking for your brother." Tommy continued as though I was listening. "Have you seen him?" I shook my head to clear away the memories of that horrible night, and tried to focus on other things. "You okay Thea?" Tommy asked in a concerned voice. "You seem a little distracted or something." I tried to nod my head, but an overwhelming nausiating feeling began to overtake me nearly causing me to fall to my knees. "Thea!" I heard Tommy's voice calling out my name as I felt him catch me before I could fall to the ground.
"Hey, you okay? What's wrong?" I tried to answer, but I could suddenly feel the overwhelming urge to kill again hitting me like a ton of bricks. No! I thought trying to fight against it. Not again! No! I won't do it! I won't harm my family! My vision began to grow blurry, and my head began to pound with aching tension. The more I tried to fight against it, the more viscious the urge to kill became. "Thea? Thea, can you hear me?" Looking up at Tommy now through my hazy vision of pain, I realised now that no one was holding on to me as everything around me seemed to almost fade away as though I was somehow locked inside a really bad nightmare. "No! Not again!" I cried out loud as I clutched my head in my hands as a stream of tears began to run down my cheeks. "I've already killed Lyla and baby Sara! What more do you want from me?! Why me?!"
{Oliver's POV}
"Come on Thea," I whispered silently as I sat down in the chair beside her hospital bed and wrapped my hand in hers. "Please wake up sis, I need you. The team needs you. Come on Speedy." I let out a sigh and leaned back in the chair trying to obviously wrap my brain around what could possibly be happening to her, but then a thin line of blood suddenly appearing on Thea's chest caught my eye. "What the?" Upon closer examination I could immediatly tell that it was a self inflicted wound as though Thea was trying to harm herself. "Come on Speedy!" I whispered to her urgently praying that somehow she could hear me. "You can do this. Come on Thea, Fight! Don't let it win against you!"
Suddenly I could see the wound on her chest beginning to grow and the blood now began to seep out onto the bed. I could hear her breathing starting to become shallow and labored, and immediatly I began to panic as a wave of fear ran through me. Intensified only by the sudden alarm in her heart moniter spiking, and I felt the blood in my veins rush cold with terror as a group of doctors and nurses now began to swarm inside the room to aid her. Their voices became distant and my vision began to waver almost as if I was far away from them. "Sir, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave now." Said a nurse with long blonde hair as she led me outside the door of the room. "We'll come and find you in the waiting room once your sister is stabulized."
I ignored her and tried to move away from her but she kept insisting that I leave. "Please, I can't leave her." I said pleadingly. "I'm sorry Mr. Queen, but I can't authroize that." The nurse continued as I took a glance at my little sister's lifeless body, and could see the steady rythym of her heart moniter beginning to slow before finally ceasing all together as a steady hum reached my ears. "No..." I felt every bit of my body inside slowly turning numb, as the thought of losing the only family I had left in the world had just about killed me. Right now all I could think about was, God why can't that be me lying in that damn hospital bed? Why does it have to be my baby sister? Why Thea?
{Thea's POV}
As I felt Tommy's grip on me suddenly loosen I now began to get the sinking feeling that something wasn't right as my vision began to blur and all at once I found mysef now floating above my own body lying motionless inside the ER of the hospital witha bunch of doctors and nurses trying to resistate me back to life.
"We're losing her!" One doctor called out and immediatly my thoughts turned to Ollie. I couldn't leave him. He was still my big brother and I knew that I had to be strong and face whatever justice was waiting for me for the crimes I committed. Flashes of Lyla and baby Sara shot through my brain now followed by a hallucination of Tommy floating above me with his hand on my shoulder. "It's not your time sis." He said gently. "Tommy I-" I began but Tommy cut me off and gently rubbed my shoulder comfortingly. "I know that you blame yourself for everything that happened Thea, but none of this was your fault. Your mother did what she had to do to keep you and Ollie safe, and I did what I had to do to keep not just Laurel safe, but you and Ollie as well. You guys were always more like family to me compared to living life with dad."
Tears began to flodd inside my eyes and as much as it pained me to admit it, Tommy was right. It wasn't my time yet. Ollie and I needed each other to get through this. It was Team Arrow against the world, and nothing was ever going to change that.
"I love you Thea." Tommy said as a blinding flash began to overtake me. "Take care sis, and keep Ollie in line for me would you?" I nodded and smiled a sad smile as the blinding flash of light consumed me and when I opened my eyes I found myself surrounded by several doctors and nurses all staring at me with wide expressions etched on their faces. Complete and utter disbelief. "How is this possible?" One doctor asked. "I could've sworn she was dead." "Someone go and get Mr. Queen and get him in here right now!"
TOO BE CONTINUED...What will happen to Thea now? Will she have to serve jail time for Lyla and baby Sara's death? Wil Roy make a surprising return? Stay tuned to find out more. Also So Sorry this took so long to update, but I hope you are still enjoying the story and I hope to continue this fairly soon. Any Ideas and suggestions you have please feel free to PM me and let me know.
