I cried and paced that whole night after Thea went to bed. I knew how much this campaign meant to Oliver, Felicity and the city and my dumb mistakes of the past might've cost him everything. I had to fix it. I just had to. I finally slumped down onto the couch and fell asleep.
The next morning cake way to fast. Thea woke me with a kiss and some pancakes. I poked at them until Thea said "you eat those or I'm calling Damien myself" she said.
"You know that little bow legged mamas boy who came in yesterday leaked that story. And plus it's something most people of Star City already knew. We can use this though. Imagine this, you go on national tv and talk about your alcoholism and bout with depression brought on by the death of Tommy and the destruction of The Glades. You then go on to push issues like depression and mental health." Thea said. She bounced over to the nearest coffee table and started writing ideas down on their notepads. By the end there were sticky notes and paper all over the place. Thea sat down, put her arm around me and we both just relaxed and held each other for a couple hours. All I knew was that Jacob was going down.
Alex was gracious enough to get me a national televised news conference for first thing in the morning. I went in to find an outfit. I couldn't find one until Thea brought in this beautiful black and gold dress with matching earrings, belt and high heels. I hugged her. "Your my guardian angel" I said. She smiled and said "I know, now let's get you to bed" and with that Thea led her to the bedroom and closed the door.
The next morning I stood in front of at least one hundred supporters, reporters and camera men. I looked at Thea who gave me the thumbs up and cleared my throat.
"Thank you all for coming. I am sure by now you have all seen the picture of me drunk and getting arrested and as hard as it is for me to admit those are real. I fell apart after the devastating attack on The Glades by Malcolm Merlyn that inadvertently led to the death of my boyfriend and his son Tommy Merlyn. He saved me that day. I wouldn't be here without him, I just wish he was as well." Taking a deep breath and keeping myself from crying I continued. "I started drinking, taking medicine I shouldn't and tore my professional and personal life apart. If it wasn't for my dad, Captain Quentin Lance and the help of the people at my AA meetings I wouldn't be here to talk to you today. So in thanks to those who helped me I want to promise that if Oliver Queen in elected mayor of our wonderful town that we will put money towards helping others fight off this terrible disease and possibly make sure they get help before it gets as bad as mine did. Thank you all for coming and remember in the election on Tuesday vote Oliver Queen for mayor".
I walked away from the podium listening to the applause and chants for Queen as mayor and felt proud. As we got into our limo a strange fear came over me. I grabbed Thea and ran just before the limo exploded in a huge ball of fire. I held on to Thea as the fire crews put out the fire and checked on us. My dad ran over and made sure we were both ok. As soon as he was assured we were he got an officer and told him to take us home and stay for protection. Both Thea and I tried to argue we could take care of ourselves but he wouldn't have any of it.
I hugged my dad goodbye and followed the cop to his car. As soon as we were in the car, the cop looked back, lifted his head and smiled. It was Damien Darhk. We tried to get out but the doors were locked tight. "Don't worry ladies, we are going to have so much fun together" he said and drove off. I pulled Thea close and hoped that they could get out of this.