Chapter 6:

Oliver paced in the foundry, as he waited for Roy to come back from their latest mission. Normally he would have accompanied Roy as backup but he had been too distracted and sent Dig instead. It had been almost two days since in last heard from Katya and he was getting worried. She had promised to return but what if she didn't. He need to find her.

Since Felicity had been gone Oliver had got better at the computers but he was no Felicity. That left either asking Roy or Sara for help and since Sara had left a few years ago that left Roy. Roy was a quick learner and had always been intrigued in what Felicity did, so when he asked for some lesson Felicity had been happy to oblige. They had become friends quickly, even when Roy still fought to control himself Felicity was never afraid. He had lost count of the amount of times Felicity had argued with him when it came to Roy. Felicity had a skill for calming Roy down, it used to scare Oliver but after a while he realised Roy would fight anyone even himself when it came to protecting the people he cared about.

Flashback

Oliver circle Roy. It had been overly quite today and it had put him on edge so instead of having criminals to fight Oliver was left sparring with Roy. He knew it was a bad idea from the moment Roy suggested it. Oliver had been angry all day after a run-in with his mother, and on days like this he really wasn't the best teacher, but he had gone along with it anyway.

Roy threw a punch but Oliver dodge before dropping to the ground and swiping his leg to take out Roy's legs bringing him to the ground.

Oliver stood up as Roy hit the ground with a thud.

"Dam it." Roy grunts.

Oliver can tell Roy is mad and he knows he should stop pushing so hard but he doesn't, part of him likes sparring with Roy because he doesn't have to hold back so much as he does with Sara or Diggle.

"Try again." Oliver says helping Roy to his feet.

"Oliver." Diggle voice calls over as a warning but Oliver ignores his friend.

Roy attacks him then throwing punches left, right and centre but Oliver dodges them all with ease which just makes Roy madder. Oliver can tell Roy that he is losing control.

"Ok that's enough." Oliver says calmly but still Roy keeps coming.

"Enough." Oliver shouts.

Roy stops but Oliver can see it took him a lot of effort.

Roy is breathing hard and deep, and Oliver can see Roy physically fighting to stay in control.

"Roy fight it." Oliver ordered.

But Oliver can tell he is only making it worse.

"Roy." A soft voice calls from beside him.

Oliver looks to his left and is surprised to find Felicity standing there, he hadn't even heard her approach.

"It's ok." She says her voice still soft and calm.

Felicity takes a step towards Roy but Oliver grabs her arm and stops her.

"Felicity." Oliver warns but she glares at him.

"You shouldn't have pushed him." Felicity said before moving out you're his reach and stepping towards Roy.

"Please….don't." Roy says through gritted teeth, his breathing still hard and ragged.

Felicity shakes her head.

"Take a deep breath." Felicity orders softly.

Her voice is completely calm.

To his surprise Roy does exactly as she asks.

"Good now let it out slowly." She says.

Roy does as she asks, it's almost like they've done it before.

"That's it Roy keep going." Felicity orders.

Oliver has never seen Felicity as calm and despite the situation as she continues moves towards Roy.

"I don't want to hurt you." Roy says as he lets go of a deep breath.

Oliver can tell he is calmer but he is still not happy that Felicity is that close to Roy when he is still so angry.

"You're not going to hurt me." Felicity replies, without looking at her Oliver can tell she is smiling softly at Roy.

"You can't know that." Roy argues.

"Yes I can." Felicity points out.

"You are strong Roy I don't just mean burley muscles strong I mean you do have big arms, I mean big big arms, I am not saying your arms are fat. Oh god 3….2…1," Felicity spoke quickly.

Oliver can't help smile and he can see that Dig is too.

Felicity sighs.

"What I mean is you are strong Roy and I know that you don't want to hurt me so you won't." She says.

Felicity is now standing in front of Roy, Oliver hadn't even seen her move. She must have done it while she was babbling.

"I am going to hug you now ok." Felicity said.

Oliver watched intently waiting to take action at any sign that Roy might hurt her but he didn't. Roy was stiff at first then after breathing deeply for a few more minutes Roy hugged Felicity back.

END OF FLASHBACK

"Hey, you ok?" Roy said, his voice bringing Oliver out of his memories.

Oliver looked over at Roy as he put down his bow. Oliver couldn't help but smile at the familiarity of it.

"I need your help." Oliver stated.

Roy looked over at him a confused frown on his face as he waited for Oliver to continue.

"I need you to help me find someone." Oliver added.

Roy nodded and made his way over to the computers.

"Who?" Roy asked over his shoulder.

Oliver took a breath.

"Her name is Katya Livy Queen, she's my daughter." Oliver replied.

Katya slammed down her hand in frustration. There was nothing, not one single thing.

She and Jay had spent the last half an hour looking through all the files belonging Thomas Hector her mother's attorney but there was nothing on her mother.

"How is that even possible?" She mumbles allowed.

Jay was looking at all of Mr Hector's paper files while Katya was working her way through all his online files.

"How is what possible?" Jay asked coming up beside her.

Katya whipped a hand over her face.

"There is nothing, on my mother in these files." Katya explained.

Jay frowned at her.

"Nothing?" he asked and Katya shook her head.

"If I didn't know any better I would say that my mum either wasn't a client here or she whipped everything." Katya added.

Jay sighed.

"What do you think?" he asked.

Katya shook her head, she had no idea anymore.

"I don't know." She said softly.

The reality of this situation finally getting to her. Her mother was gone and she had no idea whether that was by force or whether she left on her own free will. The longer her mother was gone the more it felt like she didn't even know who her mother was and that hurt more than she cared to admit.

Tears pricked her eyes.

Katya swallowed hard, now was not the time for tears.

"Did you find anything?" she asked.

Jay frowned at her, she knew he could see through her walls better than anyone she just hoped he would let it go.

"You mother has a file but its empty." Jay said.

Katya blinked.

"Nothing at all?" Katya asked and Jay shook his head.

Katya opened her mouth to reply when her phone pinged. She had set it up so the when the security camera's saw someone enter the building she would get warned.

"Looks like it's time to get out of here." Jay said.

He grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet. They ran towards the back of the building.

"There is a fire escape at the back of the building." Jay informed her in a hush whisper.

They ran towards the back of the window.

Jay let go of her arm to open the window that led to the fire escape. As soon as Jay pulled the window up the fire alarm began going off.

"Shit." Jay muttered.

"Whose there?" someone shouted from the hallway.

Katya looked back.

"Move." Jay shouted moving her out of the window.

Katya climb out Jay following closely behind.

"I thought you hacked the security feeds." Jay asked.

"I did." Katya argued.

"But that doesn't included the fire alarm." She added.

Jay sighed before taking hold of her hand again and running down the stairs.

They pounded down the steps quickly.

"Hey stop." Someone shouted from above.

"This is taking too long." Jay muttered.

He pulled to a stop and look over the railing, they were two flights from the ground floor.

"Now what?" Katya asked.

Jay looked at her and smiled.

"We jump." He replied.

Katya glared at him before shaking her head, he couldn't be serious.

"Hell no." she muttered.

"Don't worry I'll catch you." He added before Jay jumped over the railing with ease and fell to the floor almost gracefully.

Jay landed with is knees bent and looked up at her.

"Come on." He called.

Jay stood up and looked around.

"The answer still no." Katya yelled back.

Jay shook his head, before looking up at her again.

"We don't have time for this, just jump." Jay ordered.

Katya shook her head.

"When have I not caught you?" he asked absently.

Katya glared at him and Jay laughed, he should know better.

"I was twelve and scrawny that doesn't count." Jay reasoned.

"Just cause you 22 and hot doesn't mean you'll catch me now." Katya argued.

"Stop." Someone shouted above, their voices getting nearer.

"Dam it Katya now." Jay shouted.

The desperation in Jay voice made the decision for her. Katya took a deep breath before she took a leap over the railing and jumped, she closed her eyes and waited for the painful impact of the floor but Jay's arms came round her tightly and keeping her from falling any further.

Katya slowly opened her eyes.

"I knew you thought I was hot." Jay said smugly.

Katya stood up and pulled away from him.

"Really?" she replied rolling her eyes.

Jay laughed before they took off running again.

Oliver sighed as he caught sight of his sister barging her way into his office. Ever since Roy had failed to find any more information on Katya then he had, he knew it would be long before Thea would turn up demanding answers.

"You have a daughter." Thea screeched at the top of her lungs.

Oliver wince.

Thea strode right up to his desk.

"When were you going to tell me?" she demanded.

Oliver took a deep breath.

"When the time was right." Oliver reasoned.

He wasn't about to shove his family at Katya when he didn't even really no her yet himself.

Thea glared at him as she sat down heavily on a chair opposite his desk.

"You have a daughter Oliver how can you be this calm?" Thea asked.

Oliver was anything but calm, all he could think about was Katya and Felicity. It was killing him not knowing what was going on.

Oliver looked up at his sister, he opened his mouth to reply when his assistant knock on the door.

"I'm sorry to disturb you Mr Queen but a parcel arrived and the courier said it had to be you that signed for it." His assistant Charlotte called.

Charlotte was the assistant that Felicity had arranged before she left. She was efficient, polite and discrete. She never asked question, did everything Oliver asked. Charlotte was a few years older than he was with almost white blonde hair and warm hazel eyes.

"It's ok Charlotte." Oliver replied.

He stood up slowly and buttoned his jacket before making his way over to the courier who could be no more than 19, he hand long black hair that hide his face.

"Mr Queen?" the boy asked.

Oliver nodded, frowning.

"Can you sign here please, I'll just get your parcel." The boy replied.

Oliver took his clipboard and signed as the boy pulled out a box the size of a small shoe box out of his bag.

Oliver took the parcel.

"Thank you." The boy replied and before Oliver could reply the boy was already moving.

Oliver looked down at the parcel as he made his way back towards his office. He froze at the familiar handwriting.

"Felicity," he breathed.

He looked for an opening on the box but couldn't see any, realising he needed something sharp he hurried to his desk.

"Oliver don't you think this is something we should talk about?" Thea asked annoyance in her voice.

Oliver ignored her as he sat down hard on his chair he found his letter opener and slowly opened the box.

He took a deep breath as he popped the lid, he saw an envelope with his name on it. He picked it up and underneath he sure a pile of pictures. He took out the first picture it was of Felicity looking tired and warn out but she had a beautiful smile on her pale face as she looked down at the small bundle in her arms. He started at the picture, Katya was so tiny. He swallowed the lump in his throat his hands shook.

"Ollie?" Thea called her voice soft and filled with worry.

Oliver turned the picture over. In Felicity's neat writing it read.

Welcome to the world Katya Livy Queen.

Oliver put the picture down slowly, he knew inside the box there would be so many more like that one and he wasn't sure he could deal with the feelings that would bring just yet so he picked up the envelope and tore it open.

Dear Oliver,

By now you have probably been going insane not knowing what to do with the knowledge of our daughter, you're probably searching for her. Maybe you got Roy or Sara too you were never really that good with computers. I mean I know the island didn't have Wi-Fi but really Oliver get with the times.

Oliver couldn't help but smile at how much she knew him even after all these years, and how easily Felicity could get off tract.

For security purpose I made it so no one who wasn't supposed to saw information about Katya. I just wanted to keep her safe.

I wrote a letter to you every year from the day Katya was born sometimes more than one letter a year but I could never bring myself to throw them away so I transferred them to an email account for you to read.

The email is KLivy QueenConsolidated .com

The password is purequeen20

I wanted these letters to be as secure as they could be so I hacked QC mainframe and added an email account that will leave no record of ever being there to anymore but the person who had the email and the password.

But promise me Oliver, that you will only open this email account from the lair.

Oliver knew that Felicity was always careful when it came to keeping the people she cared about safe but her fear was evident in her words and that worried Oliver, he didn't understand why she so afraid.

The emails will appear to you one at a time and It will not give you access to the next email until you have read the first.

I hope they show you how incredible our daughter is. I know that letters and pictures can never make up for not telling you about her but I hope in some small way that they make you feel part of her life. You were always part of her life Oliver. Always. She knows everything you, even the arrow. I'm sorry for telling your secrete but I wanted her to understand how truly amazing you are Oliver and to understand the type of man you really are and not what the press makes you out to be.

Once you have activated the email, look in the contact details and it will give you a way to contact Katya if she hasn't found you already. She really is too smart for her own good. Take care of her for me Oliver.

Love Felicity.

Oliver frowned, why did it sound like she was saying goodbye?

Hey guys just wanted to say thank you for your reviews I love reading them and sorry that this chapter took longer than the other chapters my final project for uni is due soon and I just haven't had the time to write, I will try not to keep you waiting too long for the next chapter. Anyway thanks for reading. :)