"I caution you all; the one you lost, might not be the one they found."

That's what Dr. Lamb said to Oliver's parents. I wasn't in the same room as Oliver and I didn't have any parents or relatives so I was pretty much didn't have any visitors in my room. All I could do was wait.

After a while, I decided to go to Oliver's room. As I stood in front of the room, I knocked. Everyone turned their eyes to me, and then they blinked. Robert was the one out of his stupor. "And you are?"

I smiled at him. "I'm Kyle Kennedy. I was stranded on the island the same as Oliver when I was on a voyage on boat but my boat went down, and I was ashored in the same island as Oliver."

I was in Queen Mansion now. Oliver had requested that I should be invited to the Mansion for our homecoming dinner. I got my own room and I liked it. It gave the classic vibe. I would be staying here for about a week before I needed to go back to my company.

I was thinking of buying some share of Queen Consolidated and took over the Applied Science Department and hooked the QC building with Kennedy, Inc. techs. Maybe I could talk to Robert regarding this one.

A knocked at my door got me out of my inner thought, and the door opened revealing Oliver. "Kyle, I want you to meet with someone. Come on."

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There stood Thea Queen. And she just got back from the school. "Ollie! I knew it. I knew you're still alive." And then they were hugging. It always touched my heart to see a siblings bond.

Oliver smiled and hugged her back. "You were with me the whole time. Thea, I want you to meet Kyle Kennedy, my fellow survivor."

I smiled at Thea and she's very beautiful. I might had a crush on her. A freaking 25 years old fell for a 17 years old girl, yeah that would be the gossip of the decade. "It's nice to finally meet the person Oliver has told me multiple times in person," I shook her hand and then whispered with not subtlety at all, "and I'd love to tell you all of Oliver's embarrassing moments while we were there."

That got her to laughed. "Yes of course. I'd love to, and I hope it's all good things Ollie told you."

And then Oliver coughed, breaking our conversation short. "If I didn't know any better, I would assume you were flirting with my little sister right away as we got back."

"Am I flirting with you, Ms. Queen?"

Thea got my gesture and said, "Not at all. He was just being gentleman."

That got Ollie a good one. And I would never allow him to see the end of it.

"Raisa wasn't lying when she said this place hadn't changed a bit since." Ollie remarked, and he looked to the photo albums on the table. "I've been missing a lot since I was gone."

"At least you don't have to worry about having a new bed." I shotted back at Oliver.

The door opened. And behind it revealed the man me and Oliver took so much time investigating to.

"Hello, Robert. Sorry for dropping by so unexpectedly. When Tommy and I heard the news, we canceled all our appointments and drove here as fast as we could." Malcolm Merlyn made himself known to me and Ollie. I took a glance at Ollie to signal 'there would be the time and place, but not now.'

Robert shook his head negatively. "No. Not a problem at all."

From his gesture alone, it seemed I was right to tell Ollie that his 'supposed' godfather sabotaged the Gambit to kill Robert originally. But instead, he didn't take into account that Robert wouldn't be on the boat and killed Oliver in his place. And Robert never intended to forgive him for it.

"I assume you and Tommy will be staying for dinner?" Robert continued his good-will intention forcefully.

In response to that, Malcolm just smiled back. "Of course, I'd love to."

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Ollie and I greeted the Merlyns very much not oblivious to the tension between his parents and Malcolm. I was introduced to Tommy. He was pretty nice and too bad he died too soon. It was because of the sins of the father. I'd make sure he stayed alive during the Undertaking. Maybe after Malcolm died, I'd buy the Merlyn Global as well.

Soon, it was dinner time. I sat beside Oliver to his left. And Tommy in his right. The parents were sitting on the other side of the table amongst themselves. Dinner was quiet at first, though Tommy tried to rise up some conversations with Oliver, and by extension, me. He talked about sports, NBA champions for the last 5 years, SuperBowl champions, the president, and so on. I only nodded at that, because I wasn't supposed to know those infos eventhough it was 2018 on my original world before I got transported here.

And then Tommy turned his attention to me. "So, you were stranded on the same island as this doofus for 5 years?" with a jab of his thumb towards Oliver, his best friend. "I imagined you had to keep him from doing things. Stupid things," and he finished it with a chuckle. I wouldn't even imagine what was in that head of his, but I decided to humor him.

"Ohh yeah. You could not imagine how many stupid things he did while we were there. At one time, we were very hungry at the island and couldn't find any foods on land. So, we decided to look in the water. Oliver didn't even care anymore and just decided to head first into the first fish he spotted. But bad luck happened. It was a shark that he spotted. And I shouted, 'Oliver! That's a freaking shark! You'll get shredded to pieces!' but he wouldn't listen and I decided to jump in to save his butt from being turned into a fish food."

The rest who heard my story laughed, and saying something like 'Ollie the shark hunter'. That wasn't a real story at all. Just made that up to chill the tension at the table.

"Ollie, that was really stupid!" Thea said to him after she was done laughing. Oliver just glared at me from the embarrassment I bestowed upon him. That was gold.

"Come on, guys! You really believe his story? It wasn't even happening in the first place."

"Whether the story was true or not, it was a good one, Ollie. What happened to your humor sense, bro?" Tommy wrapped his arm around his neck to make Oliver to relax. And relaxed he did. And then Oliver smiled and made up another story about me to get revenge at me.

And that dinner was full of mirth with our 'embarassing stories'. Ohh if only they knew what we were going through on the island.

"Mr. Queen, can I talk to you for a sec?"

"I told you to call me Robert, Kyle. You are family-"

"- I appreciate that, Mr. Queen. But this is about business. I'll be blunt, I want to buy some share of your company from one of the board members and supervised the Applied Science sector. You know my own company, Kennedy, Inc. is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, technological company in the world. Even your phone is from my company I believe. I also will install the most advance security system to the QC building. Whether from a terrorist attacks, or cyber attacks. And you might want to look into this," I handed him a file that contained a list of the current supervisor of the Applied Science Dept. One look from his face told me all the answer he would give me.

"I accept your proposal. I am glad you brought this to me and I am grateful. I don't want any corruptor in my board member."

"Thank you, Mr. Queen. I'll immediately act."

Seemed like I played my cards right. And I'd make sure the QC will continue to exist. "Ohh and one more thing, Robert."

He turned to me again. "What is it?"

"Don't worry about the Undertaking. I'll take care of it and get you and your family out of it."

After that I decided to leave Robert to his own thoughts. He was shocked surely. But hopeful at the same time.

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Me, Ollie, and Tommy were in a car. Driving in the city adjusting ourselves back to the city.

"So, anywhere you got in mind, survivors?" Tommy asked us as he drove the car.

I looked to Oliver and he nodded. "There is someone that I need to see." Tommy seemed to understand what Oliver was implying.

Now, we were standing not far from Ollie who were having a conversation with Laurel Lance. I could hear what they were conversing and then they stopped walking.

"Why are you here, Ollie?" she asked.

"To apologize. It was my fault, I want to ask you not to blame her."

"For what? Falling under your spell? How could I blame her for doing the same thing that I did?"

"I never meant-"

"- She was my sister. I couldn't be angry because she was dead, I couldn't grieve because that's what happens when your sister dies while screwing with your boyfriend," okay that was harsh.

I could see the pure anger in Laurel's eyes, but not even an ounce of hate. She really loved Oliver to the death of her in season 4. Another person I need to made sure not dead. And then she continued, "We buried an empty coffin. Cuz her body was at the bottom of the ocean, where you left her. It should have been you."

"I know that it probably too late to say this but I'm sorry."

"Yeah, I'm sorry too. I'd hope that you rot in hell a lot longer than 5 years," after saying that, she walked towards our direction and approached Tommy and said, "How did you think that was gonna go, Tommy?" and she's not even stopping for a sec to greet me. Damn Ollie. You fucked her life up very bad.

"About like that," he said to her retreating figure.

"She didn't even spare me a glance, dude. Just how bad did Ollie mess her up?"

"She was his girlfriend. And he took her little sister, Sara, on his voyage to China. He cheated on her with her own sister. That's how he fucked her life up."

"He was being stupid. She's beautiful. I wouldn't even think of cheating if I had her as my girlfriend. She's good person,"

We now walked towards the car that was parked not far from the CNRI building. In some shady alley.

"Okay Ollie. Just say when and where."

"For what, Tommy?"

"You came back from the dead! This calls for party. I'll take care of it."

And then we laughed before a sound of a van was heard. I knew this was coming and activated my red sun radiation wristband. And several men came out of the van with guns.

"What the hell?" and then they shot us with somekind of tranquilizer, knocking us out.

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"Mr. Queen! Did your father tell you anything?" ah the interrogation had started. I think I should sit this one out and let Ollie took care of it. But this seemed off. Oliver never knew of the List. Unless…

The man tasered Oliver again and stopped when Ollie began to laugh and stepped back looking at his partner. "How long did you awake?" he asked to me. And I began to laugh following Oliver. They might think of us crazy.

"Yes. He did tell me."

"What did he tell you, Mr. Queen?" the same man asked again before Oliver smirked and showed them his two free hands, and then stabbed the man right in the head with the knife he always brought with him.

Thankfully, Tommy was still unconscious. Oliver didn't stop there as he yanked his knife from the man's head, used his body as a shield when one of his partner opened fire. Seeing this, I broke free from my shackles and then kill the man who opened fire. The last man however, attempted to ran away.

"Go! I'll take care of Tommy."

And then there was a scream ringing through the place. After the scream died down, he came back. I touched Tommy's neck like Yao Fei did and several moments later Tommy regain his consciousness, none the wiser that his best friend and I just slaughtered three men armed with guns, with just a knife and our bare hands.

Later at Queen Mansion, we – Ollie, me, Tommy, Moira, and Robert – sat in the comfort room with Detective Quentin Lance, Laurel and Sara's father. And God help, that man really hated Oliver with a passion. He shot Oliver a dirty look as Ollie just finished his story telling about a man wearing a mask and hood saving me, him, and Tommy from the 'kidnapping' earlier.

"So, that's your story?" Quentin really didn't believe a word Ollie just said. His instinct as a detective was really good. "A guy in a hood, and mask covering his face flew in and single-handedly took out three armed kidnappers? I mean, who is he? Why would he do that?"

"I don't know. Find him, and you can ask," replied Oliver. I could see it in his eyes that he didn't like being treated like this, but it seemed that this was a way of redeeming himself with the father of the family he had wronged.

"What about you? You saw the hood guy?" Lance asked Tommy who shook his head.

"I saw nothing. I was unconscious with Kyle here. When I woke up the guys were dead, Oliver was zip tied to the chair, and that's it."

Lance nodded before he glared at Oliver once more. "It's funy isn't it? One day back and somebody's gunning for you. Aren't you popular?"

"It's both a gift and a curse," Ollie said to him. As the conversation going so far, I hadn't said a single word to Quentin, nor he asked me specifically about the recent accident.

I saw Lance was going to shout at Ollie but Moira spoke. "Were you able to identify the men?"

"Scrubbed identities. Untraceable weapons. These were pros," Quentin's partner answered Moira question.

"Yeah. They figured you'd pay a king's ransom to get your boy back. Or a Queen's ransom, as it were. After all, a parent would do anything to keep their child safe," that was the snarky remark as Lance kept glaring at Oliver.

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"You really messed his family up, you know. No wonder he's all cynical to you."

"I don't need a reminder of my sins, Kyle. We'll go to the steel factory I told you about to set up our base." I almost forgot about it. We should prepare it for our ops. I didn't want anyone to suspected anything.

I nodded. "I almost forgot about it, Ollie. We'll go tomorrow," Oliver shook his head in affirmation. "Hey, wanna bet that you'll get a bodyguard after this little fiasco?" I asked him and he smirked at me saying I was being silly.

"Why would I got one? We weren't harmed."

"Something in my gut tells me you'll get one." I smiled and then I got out of his room. It's time to have another conversation with Robert.

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KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

"Come in," I heard Robert said. "Ohh, Kyle. What can I do for you?"

"Did you tell Malcolm about our previous conversation or anything implying that you won't play to his term again?"

"What are you talking about?" I heard his heartbeat was getting faster.

I slammed my fist to his desk, cracking it slightly. "Don't play dumb with me, Robert. You don't want to know what the island did to me."

"Yes, I did tell him that I won't take part in his plan anymore. But that's all. He threatened me with the safety of my children again, and I told him to worry about himself."

I released a sigh. I rubbed my temple and looked at Robert again. "You still have parts to play, Robert! I didn't think you'd be so stupid about it. Now that you've done it, he would be forced to move up his time table," I released another sigh and calmed myself down.

"Now what are we going to do?" he asked me. Did he say 'we'?

"Not 'we'. I am not letting you spill another mistake. I'll call some favors, be prepared to take in Tommy when the time comes. He will be an orphan. Don't worry, I'll make sure to keep the Queen name out of it."

The next day, me and Ollie were walking outside of the Mansion and then Moira called us.

"Oliver, Kyle, I want to introduce you to someone, Lyla Michaels. He'll be accompanying you from now on." I smirked at Ollie and he looked back at me. His expression was priceless.

"Um, Mom, I don't need a babysitter and we can take care of ourselves." What the hell? Lyla? She's not married to Diggle? I had enough control of my emotions to not show any reaction.

"Ms. Michaels, a pleasure to meet you," I took initiate and offered her my hand. She shook my hand with a smile.

"Pleasure's all mine, Mr. Kennedy." Then a looked to Oliver to sent him a message 'let's go' and then we got into the car with Lyla attempting to take the driver's seat.

"Ah, Oliver, I think we shouldn't let a lady drove us. It'd look bad," come on Ollie catch my message.

"Sure. I'll drive," that's it Ollie.

"I apologize, Ms. Michaels, but it's not that we underestimated or belittling you as a woman. None of that. But I think me, and Ollie insist. Shall we get in the car?"

Now we were far enough from the Mansion, I could do what I want to do the moment I set my eyes on Lyla.

I took out a drink, and offered her but she refused. So, I'd just get on with it. "So, Ms. Michaels, what does Amanda Waller want with Oliver, or me?"

She was shocked and tried to pull out the gun she brought with her, but I disarmed her with my superior physical strength. "Ah, ah. None of this thing. I am not going to asked a third time, Ms. Michaels, or I could just send you to Waller in a bodybag. What does Amanda Waller want with Oliver, or me?"

"A.R.G.U.S suspects that the both of you weren't always on the island when you both were supposed to be dead for the last 5 years. After A.R.G.U.S operation with Fyers was compromised, Fyers mentioned once that you knew our whole operation just before you and Mr. Queen here blew up the entire base," damn it. I never expected Waller to be this good. It was also my fault that I was too cocky and slipped some info. "How did you know our ops anyway, Mr. Kennedy?"

"I'm the one asking questions here, Ms. Michaels. What does Waller want with us?"

"She deems that the both of you are very dangerous. To the point, if we ever get an order to exterminate you both, we need to deploy every fighting forces. Because we suspects that you both were trained by the League of the Assassins," Waller really lived up to her reputation. I underestimated her greatly. But then, she spoke again. "We didn't manage to gain much info about some new recruits in the League because the League just revolutionized their whole organization and was much more difficult for us to have access. But we managed the names Al-Maut, and Al-Sahhim. You and Mr. Queen we assume. It seems that you confirmed our suspicions."

I laughed at her explanation. "A.R.G.U.S have done their homework very well. I assume Waller got wary after the League gave her a very powerful ancient relic without some drawbacks?"

"How did you… Of course. It was you who gave it."

"You're very smart, Ms. Michaels. No wonder Waller has you as second in command," I complimented her.

"We also spotted you in Russia, Mr. Queen. Taking down a warlord Konstantin Kovar himself with the help of Bratva eventhough you are one of the Horsemen of the League," that got Oliver raised his eyebrow at her.

"What are we gonna do to her, Kyle?" I was thinking of wiped out her memories of this and made her my spy in A.R.G.U.S, but that wasn't my style.

"We'll take her in. I'll be blunt with you, we'll take you in because we don't need a leak in our ops. Besides, we need more man power in the field. Ms. Lyla was a former soldier, and a good one at that. And don't worry about us being a threat to the country, I give you my word."

"What's this op you guys keep talking about?"

I smirked at her question. "You'll see. We're here."

There, I could see the legendary foundry that would become our secret lair in the mission to keep the city safe.

We had finished setting up the place, thanks to my super power and use of super speed. Lyla was shocked when she saw what I could do. I brought several 'workers' from Kennedy, Inc. and helped us setting up the equipments.

"Not only you have super strength, you also got super speed."

"You got that one perfect, Lyla. And please, don't tell Waller about this. I trust you not to do that. I'd hate to kill you. Because no one can know this." Thankfully, Lyla nodded but I'd still keep an eye on her. Just in case.

"Also Lyla, maybe you could tell Waller that instead of spying on us, why don't we and A.R.G.U.S make somekind of an alliance. But before you got anything about controlling us, throw those things away," Oliver said after activating the whole computer for our crusade.

"I'm listening, Mr. Queen."

"Please, it's Oliver. I hate those craps. We're friends, and my mother doesn't know. So, we will work together. When you guys can't capture some warmonger, you can call us as long as it won't make us at disadvantage. You know what, rather than be enemies, let's just be friends. That's what I'm tryna say," not bad Oliver.

"I'll make sure to tell Director Waller."

"Good. Now we got Adam Hunt to take down," how did Oliver know about Hunt? He didn't even have the list.

"Why him though?" asked Lyla.

"Because he is the one who Laurel trying to prosecuted. And he always got away. I'm trying to help her anyway I can," I smiled at that, and went to the main computer.

"Okay, suit up. I'll be your eyes and ears from here. Call me Quarterback when on mission," that suited me just fine. Quarterback.

Lyla shook her head in disbelief. From her face alone, she couldn't believe herself that she was in front of two of the most dangerous people in the world. And they're acting not living up to their reputation. "You have codename already? What's yours, Oliver?"

"People called him the Hood. I think that suits him."

Lyla widened her eyes, "I knew it! Your appearances back when you still 'dead' were to avoid suspicions."

"Glad you figure it out." Oliver kept his trademark smile, and then his cloth was changed into his Arrow suit. Like the one in canon, but with my interferences. Making it a very badass suit.

"What is that suit? I've never seen it before. Even A.R.G.U.S doesn't have the technology yet."

"Like what you seeing? That's my creation, Lyla. Seems like A.R.G.U.S ain't so 'advance' like they say huh?" my smirked made Lyla even more shocked to my capabilities.

"5 more guards to your left, Oliver. And your right. That's all his guards. Hunt should be at the top floor." I told Oliver via our comm-links. And then I heard the trademark declaration from the comm.

"Adam Hunt, you have failed this city."

"How do you even managed this kind of feat, Kyle. Creating something that would revolutionized every technologies!" now she worshipped me like I was the Messiah of revolution.

"I didn't get all my titles because I was being stupid, you know. And before you ask, no I don't intend on selling that tech. Never. I never trust the government."

On the comm-link I could hear Oliver was getting his way with Adam Hunt so he returned all the money, 40 million dollars, who he had wronged back to their owner by 10 p.m tomorrow. If not, Hunt would be a dog food. He was giving him a chance it seemed, like in the canon. And then Oliver left him.

"What do you think, Quarterback?"

"I don't trust him to follow your order. He just doesn't strike me as that kind. Let's have our homecoming party next to his building so we can pay him a visit, shall we?"

"I'll give Tommy a call."

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We walked into the party and I checked my phone to see there was another hour before the time limit was up. In the middle was Tommy Merlyn under the spotlight before it moved to our direction, making us the center of the attention. Tommy walked towards us and the DJ cut off the music. "Everybody, hey! The Men of the Hour! And ladies, please, give them a proper homecoming."

We smiled as 4 beautiful women led us to a table as We Are the Champion played, Oliver got on the table. I didn't join him because I didn't want to. Ollie smirked like he was possessed, "Thank you very much, everybody!"

Then Tommy handed me a glass of liquor, and to Oliver as well. "God, have I missed Tequila!" Oliver really liked to party like in the story. I smiled at that and then Oliver raised his hand towards the DJ and shouted, "DJ, play the music! I've been gone for 5 years and I have a lot to catch up on!" everyone cheered at that. He really the showman.

As the rest of them were dancing, I took a glance at the building across here using my X-Ray vision. I saw the building was stationed by several police cars, and inside, there were around 30 guards on the top floor alone. There must be where Hunt was.

I was so caught up with Hunt until I didn't realize someone approached me. "Kyle Kennedy I presume?" that brought me back to the party.

"Ohh. Sorry, I was dozing off. And you are?"

"Laurel Lance."

"Oh yeah, yeah. The infamous Laurel Lance. What do I owe this pleasure tonight, Ms. Lance?"

"Is there somewhere more quiet where we could talk?"

"Sure. This way," I led us to somewhere quiet. The upstairs. "I take it you don't really enjoy the party?"

"I'm not really the party type. That's Oliver," I couldn't believe myself that I was talking to the Laurel Lance herself. "I believe we have met before. You were with Oliver and Tommy that time, right? I'm sorry I didn't notice you back then. So emotional and all."

"That's quite alright, Ms. Lance."

"Call me Laurel," she said with a smile. I smiled back at her.

"Only if you call me Kyle."

"Agree."

"So, Laurel, I know I don't know you as well as Tommy or Oliver in that matter, but, I'm sorry for your loss. I heard Sara was very kind and cheerful," if only you knew Laurel. She's alive and well.

"No, it's fine. You don't know it anyway."

"If I may be so bold, Oliver really has changed. For the better. I was there with him those 5 years, and I could tell whatever remains of your relationship with him is close to nonexistence. But, give him a chance to redeem himself. The Oliver you know back then, probably a different Oliver now."

"How old are you anyway? You seem very mature beyond your age," I laughed slightly at that.

"I never know why women are so sensitive when being asked about their age and weight. Yet, here you are, asking me about it. I'm 25, by the way."

Laurel raised her eyebrow at that. "And how many titles you have behind your name again? I recall 2 PhDs and a doctorate. How?"

"Well, I'm just awesome like that, Laurel. Enough about me, let's talk about you and Tommy," that caught her off guard as she never expected me to ask her that. "Come on, it's written all over his face when he saw you."

"Tommy and I have known each other for a very long time," and that's the start of our conversation. Lovely conversation. I looked at my watch and was shown the 10 p.m. And there's still no money being transferred to the account. I sent a message to Oliver discreetly that told him the time was up.

"You still need to patch things up with Ollie, Laurel. Grudge will do nothing but destroy a person."

Laurel seemed to be thinking about my words very carefully and then I left her with her thoughts.

I returned to downstair and Oliver was nowhere in sight. Probably he already in Hunt's building. I looked to it, and I saw a fight was going on between Ollie, and Hunt's thugs. Oliver could take care of himself without me Quarterbacking him.

And then I saw Thea. She shouldn't be here. What's going on? I thought Moira and Robert raised her more properly than they did with Ollie, especially after what happened to him. The worst part was, she was a drug addict and attempted to buy some drugs with several of her friends from a dealer. I'd stop it. Whether she liked it or not, and she may hated me for this.

I walked towards their direction, and I grabbed the dealer's hand and broke all the bones in his hand. "AHH!" and then I took the drugs that he intended to give to Thea

"Yeah, shout. Because I don't care if you run out of sounds. I give you three options; one I call the police and tell them you were giving drugs to minors who shouldn't be here in the first place; two you get the fuck out of here right now; three we walk outside and I beat you until your mother can't recognize you ever anymore. Please choose option three," I growled still holding his hand and pulling his hair back.

"Okay man, chill. I'll leave," I was disappointed at his choice. But nonetheless, Thea was safe. And the dealer left the building.

"Thea, who let you in here?" I asked.

"Look, Kyle, I know you were with my brother on an island for 5 years. But that doesn't make you my family as well. You don't have the right to dictate on how I live my life."

"You're right I'm not your family, and I shouldn't even confronted you about this. But I made a promise to your brother, a promise that I intend to keep til my last breath. If he couldn't make it back home, I was to tell your parents and protect you with everything I have," I was a little angry with Thea about what she said earlier to me. I couldn't help it if my emotion was a little uncontrolled.

"But my brother's back. You don't need to keep your promise to him."

"It doesn't work like that. Come on, I'll drive you home."

I texted Ollie that I must took Thea home. And told him what just happened. I took out my remote to my car, and pushed a button. A few moments later, my car arrived right in front of us.

"Is it just me or did your Lambo just drive itself from the parking lot to here? I swear I haven't taken anything alcoholic or a drug."

"Yeah it drove itself here," the doors were opened automatically, "after you, Thea."

We left the place and drove to Queen Mansion. Along the way, we were having a light conversation.

"A beautiful lady such as yourself shouldn't be a drug addict, you know. You have a bright future ahead of you."

"That's easy for you to say, Mr. I-got-PhDs-and-a-doctorate-titles-at-20-years-old. Besides, you don't know what it feels like to lost a family member," that jab was expected from her.

"My parents were dead when our boat went down back then. At least your brother came back from the dead. My parents? They are at the bottom of the sea," that's not true at all, but that lie didn't hurt anyone right?

"I'm sorry, Kyle. I shouldn't have said that," she said and then she fell asleep because our conversation escalated from light to full of emotion. At first she asked me how did I built this car and added some cool features, and then it went to this. Damn.

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"Hello?"

"Is Thea alright?"

"She's sleeping in her room. Don't worry she's safe. How about Hunt?"

"I got the money. And he's not happy about it. I already transferred all of it to the rightful owner, don't worry."

"Where are you anyway? Still at the party?"

"Yeah, you wouldn't believe me. Detective Lance just showed up and accusing me of assaulting Adam Hunt. He couldn't be more right, but I managed to fend him off," I really couldn't believe just what grieve could do to a man. Quentin and Malcolm were the prime examples.

I smiled at that. "Okay then. I'm going sleep. Have a nice party, Oliver."

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