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Ten

"One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong."

Sitting alone underneath a tree at the back of Queen Manor, Scarlet found herself in the company of a redhead with a British accent. This weekend was the weekend of the annual Queen-Harper-Allen gathering and whilst everyone was having fun and catching up, Scarlet was hiding in the backyard with a history book doing her homework.

The girl was only a few years older than Scarlet but she had this air about her that was…haunting. "You must be Scarlet," she smiled, "I'm Tessa Morgan-Lance. History homework on a day like this?"

Scarlet shrugged. "Like you said, one of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong." That morning when she'd arrived at Queen Manor Scarlet was in complete awe at the size of the house that Oliver Queen lived in with his family. It was about the same size as the high school she went to.

"It's pretty big hey?" Tessa laughed. "I grew up in a few places, all smaller than the kitchen in that house. But don't judge the family on their wealth, they're good people."

"So how do you know everyone?" Scarlet wondered.

Tessa grinned. "Laurel Lance-Morgan is my wife."

Scarlet paused. "Hang on…" She'd met Laurel Lance, she was in fact on of the first people she'd met when they got here, she was with her daughter Dinah who was only a few years younger than her. "Are you like the second wife?" she asked her.

Tessa laughed. "No. Laurel and I have been married for sixteen years. You'll never notice though. Maybe someday I'll explain it to you but for now the less people that know the better."

Scarlet frowned. She closed her eyes and focused on Tessa for a split second only for an atomic bomb to go off in her brain. Scarlet screamed and clutched her head, her nose bleeding like a tap.

Tessa shook her head. "Yeah probably not a good idea to ever do that again. Know River Tam from Firefly? Well I can actually kill you with my brain." She handed Scarlet a tissue. "To be perfectly honest I don't know why they didn't suggest I teach you-I would have been better."

"Starla isn't teaching me," Scarlet objected, cradling her head. "She's counselling me, not teaching me."

Tessa grinned. "Well today is your lucky day. On your feet," she ordered, getting up.

Scarlet stood up and wiped the blood away. "What are we doing?"

"Come with me," Tessa smiled. The two girls made their way down to the bottom of the property where they could be without distraction. Tessa took Scarlet to the little gazebo and lake that signalled the edge of the property. "So I want you to fling every bit of telekinetic strength at me that you have," she instructed Scarlet. "Every bit. Don't hold back."

"Um-okay," Scarlet frowned. She closed her eyes and focused on Tessa in her mind. Focusing her breath, her eyes snapped open and she threw everything that she had at the woman in front of her.

Tessa smirked at the pale wall of blue energy and shattered through it like it was nothing. She flung her arm out and a wall of energy slammed into Scarlet, sending her flying across the grass and straight through the wall of the gazebo.

"Well oops," Tessa muttered. She walked over to help Scarlet up out of the rubble. "I'm so sorry about that," she apologised.

Scarlet shook her head. "No. Don't be. I want to learn to do that."

She grinned. "Awesome. Now let's do this again and you're gonna wear this," she told her, pulling a neck tie from her pocket.

"Why do you have a neck tie in your pocket?" Scarlet asked her.

"Why not?" Tessa shrugged. She tied it around Scarlet's eyes, cutting off one of her senses. "You're going to have to rely on sound and scent. Too long you've been relying on your sight. Time to sharpen the rest of your senses."

"But what about Starla?" Scarlet asked her.

"A telepath should teach a telepath, a telekinetic teaches a telekinetic," Tessa replied.

"Thanks, Yoda," Scarlet frowned.

Tessa laughed. "In the spirit of Yoda, do or do not. There is no try." She patted Scarlet on the back and walked off. "Alright, Psi. Again."

-XXX -

Starla found Barry and Bart out by the pool. She was looking for Scarlet in the hopes to introduce her to Moira and Shado Queen, Oliver and Felicity's twin girls who were the same age as her. "Have you seen Scarlet?" she asked her boyfriend.

Barry shook his head. "Nope. She said she was going to work on her history homework."

"I saw her wander off with Tessa," Sara announced. Sara was helping Robert Queen with the food prep for the night.

"They probably went down to the property line," Robert answered, cutting a pile of onions for the BBQ.

"If you're looking for mum she is with Scarlet," Dinah Lance-Morgan announced from beside the pool. "I think Katie went and followed them." She spoke of her little sister, Katie. When it came to Laurel and Tessa, Dinah had been birthed by Laurel and Katie had come when Dinah was seven, she was Tessa's child and as magical as her mother.

Starla sighed.

"Relax, Star," Barry grinned, "it's the weekend and we're getting away from everything. Me work, you promised you'd drop the teacher's attitude and leave it for the weekend.

"Yeah mummy!" Bart grinned.

Starla sighed. "You know I worry."

"Promise you won't worry about Bart like this when he's a teenager," Barry laughed.

Starla went to open her mouth to answer when a large explosion rocked the south side of the property. Barry grabbed her and the two of them took off towards the location of the explosion.

Scarlet was pulling herself out of the lake, her blue sun dress in tatters. Her nose was bleeding and her arm was dangling uselessly by her side but she was grinning.

Tessa rushed to the edge of the lake to help her out of the water. "This will hurt a little," she told the teenager. She grabbed her arm and gave her no notice before she popped it back into place.

"What the bloody hell is going on?" Starla snapped.

Tessa waved her off. "Relax, princess. I'm helping her."

"Look what you've done," Starla growled.

"I did that," Scarlet proudly boasted.

Tessa nodded. "She did."

"I'm starving," Scarlet frowned.

Starla turned to Barry with a frown on her face. "And you told me not to worry about it. Of course I'm going to bloody worry."

Barry shrugged. "You act like you're the only one to ever worry about anything," he told her. "My nineteen year old sister went travelling through time with a criminal genius because she loved him. This is nothing."

-XXX-

Standing on the roof of Queen Manor, River Harper shook her head with a frown on her face. "I don't understand this at all. I really don't. Scarlet would have been better placed with someone like Tessa or even myself."

Oliver sighed. "Bruce must have had a good reason to suggest Starla in the first place. It was his idea, maybe you should talk with him."

"Tried that," River replied. She leant over the railing, overlooking the property. "Something's going on here Oliver and that girl is the key to everything. She just doesn't know it yet. Human with just a splice of alien in her DNA cocktail, it's like she was designed…I don't like it at all..."

Oliver shook his head. "I don't ether. We'll just play it like we always do."

"By ear?" River asked.

"By ear," he replied.