Mira Kuru


Going back to Starling city after her father's funeral had been like waking up from a nightmare. Veronica had been thankful for her friends' presence by her side when she sorted through all of her father's things and she had appreciated the fact that they had known when to leave her alone as well. She was especially grateful for Oliver who stuck by her side the entire time, even when she wasn't very good company and had felt like hitting everything that came near her.

As soon as they arrived in town, Veronica rented a storage unit to place everything she had brought back from Neptune. She'd sort through it all and decide what to do with it later. She had given some things away to her father's friends, given some to charity and packed everything she thought she might want some day. She didn't want to look through it right now but she knew she would some day so she kept it all.

"How are you feeling?" Thea asked Veronica as soon as she stepped in the Queen's family home.

"I'm planning on tasering the next person who asks me how I'm feeling." Veronica replied with humor, tired of being asked the same question over and over again ever since she learned that Keith had had an accident a few days ago.

"Sorry. But you're okay, right?" Thea asked her.

"I will be. Don't worry." Veronica told her as she hugged her before she joined Oliver in their bedroom to empty their bags and change clothe before they went to the office.

"I'm surprised Laurel and Tommy came to Keith's funeral. I didn't think they'd have the time. Especially Laurel, I know she's on a big case right now." She told him once the door was closed.

"I know, but she wanted to be there for you, her friend. She knows you'd be there for her if roles were reversed." Oliver replied.

"Don't you think we should tell her about Karma and Arrow? She's the only one in our closed circle of friends and family who doesn't know and it doesn't really seem fair. We both know that she'd keep the secret." Veronica argued.

"I know, but I don't know how she'll react to the truth..." He shook his head.

"Well, why don't we both think about it? We'll make a decision later." She suggested.

"Good idea honey. Now, I don't want to be tasered so I won't ask how you're feeling but if you want to stay here and rest or if you feel sad, you know you can talk to me, right?" He asked her, taking her in his arms.

"I know. And I love you. But right now I think going to the office will make me feel better."

"Alright then, a dose of normalcy it is. Let's go." He nodded.

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As soon as Veronica and Oliver arrived at Queen Consolidated, they were told that someone had broken into the applied sciences department during the night and that they needed to meet with the cops immediately. They met up with Detective Lance and quickly toured the place to see the damages before a young man who introduced himself as a CSI from Central City named Barry Allen told them that he was investigating something similar and could help them. As soon as he was introduced to veronica, he started acting like he knew her.

Apparently, he had read about a lot of her past cases and articles she had written in the past. He seemed to know a lot about her and acted as though he was in the presence of his favorite actress.

"I think he's lying when he says that he's investigating something similar but he's telling the truth when he says that he can help us." Veronica whispered to Oliver.

"Do we trust him to help then or not?" He asked her, knowing that her instinct int his was flawless.

"We trust him." She replied.

At this point, Mac arrived to bring them the surveillance footage and so Veronica asked her to help Barry in his investigation and asked of them to bring them everything they found.

Right after Lance left, Barry explained to them how the thief had been alone and super strong. He showed them how he could tell from the evidence left behind and of course Mac's surveillance footage showed that he was right.

"It shouldn't be hard to get a name now that I have a picture of his face." Mac told them.

"Why would they need a centrifuge though?" Veronica asked.

"I don't know but in this town, it can't be good." Oliver shook his head.

"Now before the two of you go... Barry, I'm pretty good at telling when someone's lying to me and I know that you lied when you said that your captain sent you here because you were working on a similar case. I also know that you were telling the truth when you said you could help us. Before we let you help, we need to know why you lied and why you want to help us so badly at the risk of being in trouble with your captain." Veronica stated.

"I guess that's why you were such a great PI. When I was a kid, my mother was murdered and everyone thinks it was my father. It happened in the middle of the night, I came down because I heard noises and saw a man in a yellow blur moving very fast around my mother. Next thing I knew, I was standing in the middle of the next street, away from my house. I know it sounds impossible and nobody believed me. They all thought I was lying to try and innocent my father. The impossible killed my mother and ever since I've been chasing leads about impossible cases, hoping one day I'd find the truth about the man who killed my mother." Barry replied, hoping they would believe him.

"You think the man who stole this might be linked to your mother's murder?" Oliver asked him.

"No, but it sounds impossible and maybe, one day, while chasing one impossible story, I'll end up discovering something that will help me free my father. Legally I mean. But I'd still like to help you." Barry replied.

"Alright. Mac will show you where you can settle. If you really help us and show that you're trustworthy, maybe I'll look into it and try to see if I can find something to help you prove your father's innocence." Veronica replied, touched by this guy's story.

"Really? You'd help me? You, Veronica Mars? That's great! I mean, not that you got robbed, but the fact that it helped me meet you and that you offered to help me with this... It's... " Barry started babbling and Veronica cut him off with an amused smile:

"Why don't you follow Mac for now."

Barry nodded and he followed Mac away with the samples they wanted to test.

"He sounds like a fan boy." Oliver whispered to her.

"Jealous?" She asked him, amused.

"Nah, I have no reasons to be." He smiled back.

He knew that when she said 'maybe', she'd look in this case, because she loved a good mystery and he could already see that she wanted to help Barry Allen.

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In the middle of afternoon, Barry and Mac came back in Veronica's office with the identity of the thief and the location where he could be hiding. Barry was about to go and give it to the cops but Veronica intervened and told him that she'd take care of it. Then, she distracted him by asking Mac to take him out for some dinner on the company's account, which she was all too happy to do.

"Cyrus Gold. That name sounds made up." Veronica commented while she and Oliver got dressed up as Karma and Arrow.

"Maybe it is, right now I'm more worried about catching him. He was able to carry that centrifuge on his own, we'll need to be careful tonight." He told her.

"I know." She nodded, looking grave, before John informed her that he was going to go with them in the truck, just in case they needed back-up.

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Going after Cyrus Gold without a well thought out plan had been a bad idea.

Karma and Arrow had been lucky that John had decided to come along, he had been able to carry them to the truck and drive them back to their lair once they had been hurt. Veronica was mostly hurt in the legs and couldn't walk much for now, though she knew it would be better after some rest but Oliver had tried to protect her from their enemy and had taken most of the blows. Knowing that they couldn't take him to the hospital, she allowed Mac and John to get Barry Allen, tell him the truth and let him heal her love.

Of course, Barry was very excited to find out who his favorite heroes were but he managed to act professionally until Oliver was well enough to stand on his own.

"I hope I wasn't wrong in putting our trust in you Barry. You need to keep this secret." Veronica warned him.

"Yeah, of course. Don't worry about that." He replied before he started throwing ideas to improve their outfits.

A few hours later, Mac called them all to warn them that more blood had been stolen from the blood bank.

"By the grave look on your face, this means something special to you." Veronica told Oliver.

"When I think about this and everything else that's happened lately, I can only see one reason to link it all... Someone is trying to make Mira Kuru, the serum I injected Slade with back on the island." Oliver told her, knowing that John, Mac and Barry could ear as well and would need more explanations than Veronica because they didn't know as much as she did about his past on the island.

"That's bad... We need to find out who it could be and why they're doing it. We need to stop them before whoever is doing this manages to mass produce the serum and destroys this city, if not more." Veronica shook her head before she went on the computer to try and look for answers while Oliver told them everything they didn't know.

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Thea was worried.

Roy had just been done donating blood and was on his way to the club but he hadn't arrived yet and it had been 3 hours. Roy was never late to work or to meet up with her and she was getting worried. Very worried.

"Hey Veronica, I know that you and Oliver are a bit busy with what's happening in town but... I'm worried for Roy. He's 3 hours late and not answering his phone." Thea announced as soon as Veronica answered the phone.

"Roy's missing?" Veronica asked before she put the phone on speaker so that Oliver, John, Barry and Mac could hear her.

"Yes. He was supposed to donate some blood and he called me right after, telling me he was done and on the way back. It was over 3 hours ago." Thea explained.

"Maybe he ran into someone on the way back." Oliver suggested.

"No, he would have found a way to warn me. It's not like him to act this way." Thea replied and they could all hear the deep worry in her voice.

"Okay, I'll look into it, Thea, don't worry. We'll find out what happened." Veronica told Thea to reassure her before she hung up.

Immediately, Veronica started trying to locate his cellphone.

"If he's not answering, his phone might be off or out of battery, you won't be able to locate him." Barry stated.

"I placed a tracker in all of our phones. Moira, Roy, Thea, Laurel, Tommy... They all have trackers in their phones." Veronica replied.

"I guess it's a good thing you're always ready for anything that could happen." Oliver said before he kissed her in the neck.

"Barry, are we both good to go?" Veronica asked their new friend as soon as she had a location.

"Well, I know better than to tell you two to stay put but with the injections you both had, I guess you're good to go as long as you rest later." Barry nodded.

"Good, let's go then. Thanks Barry." Oliver nodded as he and Veronica stepped into the dressing room to change into their hero outfits.

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This time, they used the same motorcycle, Arrow's, and drove as fast as they could. They had a bad feeling about this. Indeed, they had heard of a few other young men that had been found dead. It had been declared an overdose and the one thing they had in common was that they were blood donor. Laurel had told them about it over dinner a few days ago, friends of the victims had told her that they didn't believe their friends had done drugs because they donated blood regularly.

They were afraid that Roy might be the next one on the list and they wanted to arrive before it was too late.

They entered the building as quietly as possible and arrived as a man in a skull mask injected Roy with something. Karma immediately used her whip to knock the syringe out of the man's hand but it was too late, it had been injected in Roy. Not willing to get caught, the man in the skull mask threw a smoke grenade in their direction and used the distraction to make his exit.

"Roy! Roy wake up!" Veronica called out, trying to make him open his eyes.

"It's Mira Kuru. They made Mira Kuru and injected him with it." Oliver realized when he saw the blood running from Roy's eyes.

"Why isn't he waking up? Is he going to die too?" She asked him.

"The serum takes time. It will either kill him or change him, we can't know yet. Either way we won't know right away." Oliver shook his head sadly.

"I'll call Thea to reassure her, you call John and ask him to come with the van. We'll take Roy back to the lair and see what we can do." Veronica decided.

"Take the empty syringe, maybe there is some Mira Kuru left inside that we can analyse or something." Oliver suggested and Veronica nodded.

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Once they took Roy back to their lair and took some of his blood to analyze it, they decided to wait until he was awake and that they were sure he wasn't working with the man in the skull mask before they told him who they were. They'd keep an eye on him until then and make sure he was fine and in control. So far, he seemed to be stable and they believed that he would survive.

"I called Thea and told her we'd keep her informed." Veronica told Oliver.

"I think Roy's going to be fine. He'd be dead already if he wasn't going to make it, we should probably drop him off at his place and wait with him there to explain what happened to him." Oliver replied.

"You're right. You go with him as Arrow and I'll go stay with Thea until Roy can call her." Veronica smiled.

Oliver kissed her before he carried an unconscious Roy back to the boy's home.

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Barry left town the next day, eager to go back to Central City in time to see the particle accelerator being turned on. Before he left, he worked on new and improved masks for Arrow and Karma, something the two heroes were grateful for.

Mac, who had gotten close to Barry during his stay with them, had asked for a few days off to go with him. She really wanted to see the particle accelerator being turned on and, as she told Veronica, she wanted to see scientific history being made. She had planned on staying only a couple of days but, when the particle accelerator exploded and Barry went into a coma, she stayed in Central city a couple of weeks to try and wait for him to wake up or at least be there for him and his family, Jo and Iris West.

After one week, Barry was transferred into Star Labs, who believed they could help him and monitor his changes better. There, she became friends with Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon. She even got to meet one of her personal hero: Harrison Wells. Despite her worry for her friend, Mac enjoyed her stay in Central City and knew that she'd keep in touch with her new friends.

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While Mac was away, watching over Barry Allen and keeping in touch with them, Veronica and Oliver had come to a decision: They were going to tell Laurel about their true identities. At first, Oliver wanted to wait for a while but Tommy came to them, informing them both that Laurel was often putting herself in danger.

"She came home with bruises yesterday and the cases she takes on are more and more dangerous. She investigates dangerous cases because she feels the need to be like the vigilantes. I mean, she didn't say it like that but I know that's why she does it." Tommy explained to them.

Tommy had been working out with Oliver a few times a week. He had agreed to play Arrow one night, so that Arrow and Karma could be seen in the same place, at the same time, as Oliver Queen and Veronica Mars. Sara would play karma, which Tommy didn't know. He just knew that they had found someone to play the part. He personally was excited to help out Oliver and to get a taste of what it was like to be the Arrow, although he was starting to realize that it was harder than it looked.

"Is she really putting herself in danger that often?" Oliver asked.

Veronica didn't say anything. She understood why Laurel would do it, she, herself, had done it often enough. She wasn't in any position to judge Laurel, especially since she had often helped her and showed her how to proceed, long before Oliver came back in town.

"Yes. I know that you have your hands full right now but do you think you could do something about it? She starting to investigate Sebastian Blood and it doesn't look good." Tommy asked his friend.

"We've been thinking about telling her about who we are, you know, at night. We've been discussing it a lot lately. But maybe telling her would only push her to put herself in dangerous positions more frequently." Oliver replied.

"I know that the two of you love Laurel and that you worry for her but you need to have some faith in her. She knows what she's doing. Helping others is in her blood and she does what she thinks she needs to do in order to help the people of this city. She knows that we, the vigilantes, are out there but she also know that we can't always be behind her. She's been taking self defense classes." Veronica tried to argue to defend her friend.

"I know that you taught her a lot when you two first became friends Veronica but she's not being careful like you were. She wants to do too much too fast and she puts herself in danger, she exposes herself." Tommy argued.

"Listen, why don't we start by telling her the truth about us, then we'll try to make her understand that sometimes, being careful and taking longer to investigate something can be beneficial." Oliver offered.

"Alright. Thanks. My next option was to involve her father and that would have set a bad precedent in our couple." Tommy smiled.

"Because you think you two would still be a couple if you involved her father for something like that?" Veronica smirked.

"Right. Well, hopefully she'll calm down." Tommy nodded while Oliver chuckled.

"We'll tell her tomorrow." Oliver suggested.

"Good. Well, thank you. I should go or I'll be late for a meeting. Actually, I think I'm already late." Tommy replied with a smile before he waved and left.

As soon as Tommy left, Oliver walked to Veronica and took her in his arms. He loved having her in his life and he couldn't even come close to imagining how his life would be without her in it. She was perfect for him and he couldn't wait to have the perfect occasion to propose to her.

He was going to do it soon but now, with her father's death, Barry being in a coma and the Mira Kuru problem, he felt like it would be best to wait for a while. He kept the ring he had custom made for her in a fake book in his mother's bedroom. Moira was more than happy to hide the ring and keep it safe for her son. She loved Veronica and already considered her like part of the family anyway.

"So, I was thinking, as soon as this Mira Kuru thing is over, maybe we could go and look for a dog?" Oliver suggested as he kissed her neck softly.

"Really? that'd be great!" She exclaimed, turning around in his arms and giving him a real kiss.


I hope you liked it. Next chapter is called: Off with your mask. Can you guess who's mask we're talking about here?

I know that I don't update as often as I did at the beginning but the writing is coming slowly now.

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Lorelei Candice Black