Chapter 4:
A few minutes later a young women face appears on the screen. She smiled happily in a Yale medical school ID badge. Her dirty blonde hair is short, falling to just above her shoulders in lose curls. Her eyes; big and beautiful bright blue, just like her mothers.
"She's beautiful." Dig commented from beside him.
Oliver nodded feeling numb, he scrolls down. This is his daughter and he is so unsure how to feel about that fact.
He reads as it gives him a rundown of her education. She graduated high school early with early admission to Yale University before moving on to the medical school.
Oliver can't help the proud smile that comes to his face.
Dig's low whistle of appreciation tells Oliver he is feeling the same thing.
"That it?" Dig asks.
Oliver scrolls down but the rest of the page is blank.
Oliver nods, frustrated.
"How can that be it?" Oliver asks, scrolling down again hoping to find out more but the screen is still blank.
Oliver can't help but feel truly disappointed and he scrolls back up to Katya's picture. He may not know enough about his daughter but at least he now know what she looks like.
"What now Dig?" Oliver asks.
Dig puts a hand on his shoulder.
"Let's start with her school and work form there." Dig suggests.
Oliver nods, knowing there is no other option.
Nurse Jackie Williams walks into patient Jane Doe's room. Jane was admit about a week ago bruised and broken, with no form of identification. They took bloods and check dentals but they couldn't find a record for her and since Jane still hasn't woken up yet they can do nothing but wait.
"Good morning Jane." Jackie says with a small smile on her face.
They tell you to talk to coma patients, that it helps to reassure them that someone is there waiting for them to come back. Jackie knows that her voice probably isn't what Jane wants to hear but any voice has got to be better than none.
Jackie checks Jane's vitals, she starts with her temperature before moving on to her pulse and then blood pressure.
When she's done Jackie takes out the hairbrush she left in the draw a few days ago and gently begins brushing Jane's silky blonde hair.
"I have hair like yours it's such a pain to untangle isn't it?" Jackie asks, she knows she won't get an answer but it makes Jackie feel better to ask anyway.
The bruises on Jane's face are healing nicely fading to a dark yellow instead of the horrible black and purple that in once was. When Jackie first started working Jane's room her bruises had made her face swell up really badly but now Jackie can see Jane must be in her late forties. Maybe she had a husband who is missing her or children what need their mother.
"Maybe I'll check with missing person's to see if I can find your family for you." Jackie offers.
Deep down Jackie knows it's a long shot but she has become attached to Jane, because it makes her sad that Jane has no one. She wishes to could find out Jane's real name so that when Jane wakes up, she surrounded by the people that love her.
Jackie sighs as she puts the hairbrush away.
"Well Jane I'll check on you later." Jackie says.
She makes one final check of the room before heading out.
"Bye Jane." She calls over her shoulder.
Oliver walks into his building rubbing his head, Dig following closely behind.
"It's not over Oliver." Dig promises.
Oliver stops and looks over at his friend.
"You heard what the school said Katya hasn't been there in days and we can't get any of her information without either her or Felicity's permission." Oliver reminds his friend.
Dig sighs.
"You're forgetting about the letters." Dig points out.
Oliver begins walking again.
"The next one should be here soon." Oliver adds.
Dig nods as they wait for the elevator to arrive.
Oliver hates to wait but he knows it's their only option.
"If only we could find out who her attorney was then maybe we could get whatever Felicity was going to send me sooner." Oliver wonders aloud.
Dig nods again in agreement as they get out the elevator and walk towards his front door.
Dig freeze.
"What's wrong?" Oliver asks instantly alert.
He may not be the arrow full time now but he still notices when something doesn't feel right.
Dig nods towards the door and Oliver can see it's already open.
"The alarm should have gone off." Oliver whispers fiercely.
Dig takes out his gun and Oliver opens the door slowly preparing himself for a fight.
When the door swings open Oliver can't see anything out of place but he looks towards the alarm fully functioning and still running.
"Looks like whoever it is knows the code." Dig comments.
Oliver nods in agreement but doesn't relax completely. They walk around the apartment together clearing rooms, finding nothing out of place.
"Maybe you forgot to shut the door." Dig offers.
Oliver frowns, he was egger to get rid of Thea he could off but he has never done it before so it still leaves Oliver feeling unsure.
They move in to the living room last.
"Guess I did forget the door." Oliver says when they find nothing.
"Maybe not." Dig replies pointing to the sofa calmly.
Oliver moves round the room to stand beside Dig, to see what he sees.
Oliver can see an unfamiliar laptop on his coffee table and a pair of black and pink converses that are far too small to belong to him. Oliver stands next to Dig and can finally see what his friend sees. A young women is curled up a sleep on his sofa. She is short no more than 5'3 with dirty blonde curly hair that is covering her face.
Oliver sucks in breath.
"You don't think…" he mumbles aloud unable to finish, Katya's image appearing in his mind.
Dig has already moved towards the girl when she moves and they both freeze. Her hair falls away from her face and Oliver can see even without her opening eyes that she is the girl from the photo earlier.
"That Katya found you?" Dig finishes for him.
"Yeah, yeah I do." Dig adds.
Dig moved his hand as if to wake her up.
"Don't." Oliver said.
Dig looks over at him confused.
Oliver takes a deep breath, this is all happening very fast and he needs to prepare himself before he can speak to her.
"She is obviously tired, we should let her sleep." Oliver reasons.
Dig nods although Oliver is pretty sure Dig can see through his crap but he lets it go anyway.
A banging sound brings Katya out of her sleep. She blinks awake trying to remember where she is.
"Shit." She mutters as she remembers, breaking into her father's apartment.
She looked around the room. It wasn't what she was expecting it was simple. When her mother had told her who her father was she expect big and extravagant.
Katya sat up slowly, looking around for her phone. She found it face down on the floor.
Katya picks up her phone to check how long she has been asleep for.
"Dam it." She groans notice the four miss text from Jay.
Kitty Kat I know you want to do this on your own but call me if you need anything- J x
How is it going with you dad? Come to my place when you're done and we can figure out where to go from their- J x
Katya you ok?- J x
:) You fell asleep didn't you Kitty Kat? Haha text me when you wake up- J x
Katya quickly types a reply as she hears noise coming from the kitchen.
Nobody likes a smartarse, will call you soon K x
Katya moves away from the sofa slowly.
"You're awake." A deep voice comments from behind her making Katya jump.
Katya spins round on her heal to find her father standing there, he is different then she imagined he was taller and stronger. His hair was starting to go grey unlike her mother who was still dying it her father seemed to be going grey gracefully and it suited him.
"Hi." Katya stutters.
She has seen pictures of him before but they are nothing when it comes to seeing him face to face.
Oliver smiles and Katya can't help but smile back.
"How did you get in here?" he asks looking generally intrigued.
"Snuck past the security guard, picked the locks then hacked the alarm. I would say your security system needs some work but I am just good at what I do." Katya replied she couldn't help the smug smile that came to her face. Her mother really was a bad influence when it came to hacking.
Oliver laughed.
Katya smiled again.
Oliver had let her sleep, even given her a blanket by the looks of it. Her being here didn't seem to surprise him.
"You know who I am?" she asked.
Oliver nodded slowly.
Katya frowned.
"How?" she questioned.
"Felicity wrote a letter." Oliver replied, saying her mother's name like it hurt.
"What letter, can I see it?" Katya asked quickly.
Maybe the letter could tell her more about where her mother was now or what was going on with her when she disappeared.
Oliver sighed.
"How about we talk over dinner?" Oliver offered.
Katya shook her head.
"I'm not hungry." Katya replied instantly, she didn't mean for it to come out as bitter as it did.
Katya's mind was running over all the information her mother could have left in that letter.
"Katya I just want to talk to you that's all." Oliver reasoned.
Katya eyes darted to his she could see the truth in his words and as much as she wanted to give him the chance to get to know her, she knew she wouldn't be able to until she knew her mother was safe.
"I can't." she whispered.
She could see the disappointment on her Oliver face and she hated it.
"I'm sorry." She added.
Oliver sighed.
"You came her for a reason?" Oliver reminded her.
Katya nodded she swallowed back her emotions.
"I came to ask for your help." She replied.
Oliver face to serious ready for action.
"What do you need?" He asked.
Katya began pacing. Maybe she wouldn't have to ask for his help just yet.
"My mum's in trouble and letter might help me help her." Katya reasoned.
Oliver shook his head.
"I don't see how." He reasoned.
Katya stopped pacing and she looked over at him.
"Please." Katya begged.
"I need to help her." Katya added.
Oliver nodded before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a crumpled envelope. He slowly handed it over to her.
Katya took the letter and read it, hope slowly dying in her until she got to the last paragraph, her attorney. Katya didn't even know her mother had an attorney.
"Did you get the next letter?" Katya asked looking back over at Oliver.
Oliver shook his head.
"Not yet." Oliver replied.
"Dam it." Katya muttered in frustration.
But if Oliver didn't have the letter then that meant it was still with her mother's attorney, but attorney client confidentiality would keep her for getting the letters. Which left her with two options wait for Oliver to receive the next one or track down her mother's attorney and break in to his office. Waiting was not an option.
"I have to go." Katya said quickly gathering her stuff.
Oliver grabbed Katya's hand stopping her from moving.
Katya looked at her hand in her fathers.
"You not leaving until you tell me what's going on." Oliver said determinedly, his jaw set as if he wasn't giving her room to argue.
Katya shook her head.
"I don't have time." She reasoned.
"Katya, I just find out your my daughter I can't just let you go." Oliver replied desperately.
Katya took a shaky breath. He was everything like her mother had told her he would be and so much more.
"My mum is missing and that letter gave me an idea of how to find her." Katya confessed.
Oliver face turned serious.
"What happened?" he asked.
Katya shrugged.
"I don't know but I'm going to find out." She replied.
She moved away from her father towards the door.
"Katya talk to me let me help you." He pleaded.
Katya opened the door.
"I promise you I will come back and tell you everything." Katya swore.
Oliver opened his mouth to argue but Katya left her feet pounding down the stairs.
She dialled a familiar number and Jay picked up on first ring.
"How did it go?" he asked.
Katya ignored his question.
"How do you feel about breaking and entering?" she countered.