chapter 7: 2x05 League of assassins part 1

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Lacy's POV: (Five years ago)

Yesterday was my test and today is my first official day as a member of the league of assassins. I am racing into the training room when suddenly I smack into someone.

"Sorry," I say as I get up to see a man with brown hair in a bobble.

"Wow manners in the league," he says as I pat down my training gear. "Thats something you do not see everyday. My name's Chase."

He holds his hand out for me to shake and I do.

"Lacy," I say to him. "Nice to meet you Chase."

(Present day)

I sit up gasping. Just my luck I dream about Chase. I get out of bed and look around my old room. It feels so weird being back here.

Oliver said that both Sara and I can stay here as mum was in prison for stupid choices she made and Thea is always with her boyfriend. I decide to head downstairs.

When I get down there I see Oliver sat on the sofa.

"Hey can't sleep?" He asks me gently.

"Nope," I say deciding to sit down on the sofa besides him. "You?"

"Same,"he says and then Sara joins us after a minute of silence. "You can't sleep either?"

"I don't do well with my eyes closed," Sara says before glancing at me.

I have avoided getting to close to Ollie these last few days as I am scared I'll loose him again if Sara and I have to leave again.

"Hey thanks for letting us stay here," I say.

"Yeah thanks," Sara agrees. "We know you've got a lot going on with your mum."

"Thea's mostly staying with her boyfriend," Ollie tells us. "So don't worry about anyone finding out you're back. Plus Lacy you live here."

I glance around rubbing my arms. It doesn't feel like home anymore.

"Thanks for understanding," Sara tells Ollie.

He shrugs. "I don't understand. You know not a day goes by that our family misses you Lacy and your's misses you Sara."

"Yeah?" Sara scoffs. "How do you know?"

"Because I missed you both," he says and I look at my feet.

"I don't think they'll be as happy to see me as you think," Sara tells him from where she is leaning against the wall.

"How can you say that?" He asks her. "I know how hard it is to come home after you've been gone so long."

"Yeah but you weren't a child when you left," I point out. "And a teenager when you came back."

"Plus I'm guessing my father and Laurel weren't happy to see you," she points out.

"No," Oliver chuckles and I smile a little. "No not at first."

"I wasn't sure if you and she ever got back together," Sara tells him.

"We tried," Oliver explains before shaking his head. "It's too much."

"I guess some things you know its better off left in the past," Sara tells him.

Sara walks away and Oliver turns to me. "You know just because you came back older doesn't mean you can't be the girl you would have been."

"A lot has happened to me in six years Ollie," I tell him looking at a picture of me when I was younger. One of the last pictures ever taken of me. "I can't be the carefree little brat I once was because she died a long time ago."

I then also leave.

Later on Sara and I are looking at photos of my family. I also see a picture of my mother and Walter Steele. I glare at it. That guy had married my mother not long after all went to hell.

"You know I don't know if I can leave again," I point out to her. "I want so badly to reconnect with my brother, my sister and maybe my mother. But then we may have to leave if the league turns up."

She places a hand on my shoulder for comfort.

Then Sara picks up a photo of the gambit and it brings back bad memories and I move away. I begin to think about the day I met Chase.

(6 years ago)

"Hey Nyssa," I say as Nyssa and I finish our training. "What's that Chase guy's deal?"

"Oh," she laughs. "He's my cousin. And lets just say he's a pain."

I roll my eyes. "I'm sure he cannot be that bad."

She begins to tell me about him being a bit of a playboy.

"Talking about me again cousin," Chase says entering the room. "Ah the lovely Lacy. I've heard some rumours about you."

"Nothing good I suppose," I say and I see Nyssa rolling her eyes at us. "I have a reputation to uphold."

(Present)

"Sara! Lacy," Oliver calls out and I snap out of my trance to see that Sara must have also been having a flashback. "You both okay?"

I ignore his question. "How did everything go with mum?"

"I ran into Laurel," he says and I share a look with Sara. "She's working on the case."

"You didn't tell her..." Sara begins cautiously.

"No," Oliver reassures her. "I know a little something about keeping secrets and respecting them... even though I don't... totally understand why you two are keeping yours. Is this... Is this because of what happened on the island Sara and whatever happened to you Lacey."

"No," Sara reassures him. "After. There were things that I did... that Lacey and I did..."

"Things we had to do to survive," I say as I think back to all that has happened over the last six years. "Things that there's no forgiveness for."

"Well that's the thing about forgiveness guys," Oliver says gently. "You can't get it till you ask for it."

Suddenly there is a smash and the three of us turn to see an assassin named AL-OW-AL bursting through the window. He leaps over the balcony and lands in front of us.

"Merlyn?" Oliver questions not knowing that its not only Merlyn who wears that outfit.

He swings his sword at us and we all dodge. Oliver and Sara kick him and I punch him in the chest making him stumble backwards. He swings again and we all duck. Oliver steps in front of us as the guys sword hits the wall. Then he grabs the mans arm. Then the three of us begin to fight him.

We kick and punch him multiple times. I kick him again and then Oliver grabs my hand and the three of us go running out of the room. Oliver throws a chair in the way but he rolls over it. Sara grabs a piece of wood from the doorway and I grab a lamp and break it.

Now we both have a weapon.

We both swing at the man before moving backwards to avoid his sword but it clips me on the arm. Oliver grabs the man and yanks him away from me before hitting him.

The man kicks him back and Sara and I run forwards again.

He slices straight through our weapons. He then hits Oliver and hits Sara and I until we are on the ground. Oliver fights him and as I move to get up the man kicks me in the face.

Oliver throws him through a table and then takes off his hood to reveal to him that it isn't Merlyn.

"Who are you?" He demands.

"Just a warrior," he tells him. "Like you."

He turns and glares at Sara and I and we both stare at him in pain from his attack.

"Why are you dressed like Malcolm Merlyn?" Oliver asks and gets annoyed when the man doesn't answer. "Huh? Who sent you?!"

The man throws something that hits the lampshade above me. I quickly roll out of the way and why Oliver and Sara are looking at me the guy disappears.

As I lean on my good arm Sara and I share a look. This is not good.

We head with Oliver to his new base where Oliver tells me to sit and take my top off. I hesitate not wanting to show him my scars.

"That wound needs stitches," he says being adamant.

He doesn't say anything when he sees my scars and I am grateful. He brings over the kit and I barely flinch as he stitches up my arm.

"Thanks," I say when he is finished.

"No problem," he says smiling at me and I give a small one in return.

I see Sara staring at the hoods suit and I walk over to her. "I remember the first time I saw this hood. Shado was wearing it. This is quite the set-up that you got here. Where your launching you're one man war for Starling."

"I'm not one man," he says just before a man and woman enter. "These are my friends. This is John Diggle and Felicity Smoak. Guys this is Sara and Lacy."

"Welcome home you two," John says to us.

"I was happy to hear neither of you are dead anymore," Felicity tells us and I smile. "I mean I didn't know either of you before you didn't die the first time. I'm still glad your both alive."

Sara and I try not to laugh.

"We just had an uninvited guest in the queen mansion," Oliver explains to them. "Trained, highly skilled and he was dressed like Merlyn."

"Well the last I checked Malcolm Merlyn was dead," John points out. "Courtesy of an arrow jammed through his heart."

"It wasn't him," Ollie says. "It was a follower, an underling. Bent on revenge. Whoever it was... he knows who I am?"

He hands an evidence bag to felicity.

"Gee I didn't get you a bag of dirt," she jokes as I send a look Sara's way.

"I found it in the house," Oliver explains. "Copycat Merlyn trampled it in. I want you to analyse it. Hopefully it'll lead me right to him."

"Then what?" Felicity asks.

"If this pretender wants to follow Merlyn so badly," Oliver explains. "He can follow him right into a grave. Sara, Lacy! We'll find this guy."

Sara and I had turned away deep in thought.

"We don't want you to," Sara says as we finally turn around.

Ollie turns to us. "What do you mean?"

"He wasn't after you Ollie," she says.

"He was after us," I finish rubbing my arms.

Oliver walks towards us and stops right in front of us.

"Who is he?" He asks.

"He's called Al-OW-AL," I explain to him. "The first. And he's a member of the league of Assassins."

"Wait, wait," John says sounding confused. "The league of assassins? I thought they were a myth."

Ollie had taken a deep breath and moved away. My eyes followed him.

"Whats the league of assassins?" Felicity asks. "And please don't say its a league made up of Assassins."

"No its an urban legend," Diggle tells him. "I heard about them in Afghanistan from a tribal leader. He claimed there was an ancient sect of Assassins. Deadly warriors that killed and vanished like ghosts. Thought he was smoking what he was selling."

Oliver glances at Sara and I before turning away again.

"I tried to tell you Ollie," Sara points out. "But you wouldn't listen."

"That's where you Sara have been the last four years," Oliver says to her before turning to me. "And you? You were there the whole time. An Assassin from the age of 10. That's where you both learned to fight. You are both one of them."

We both nod along with what he is saying.

"When the gambit went down..." I begin as I turn around. "I washed up on the island of Nanda Parbat. I was injured, scared and alone. One of the members of the league found me. She managed to get me a place in the league. Where do you think all my scars came from."

Sara then speaks up. "After the freighter both Lacy and a member of the league rescued me. They took me in and brought me to Nanda Parbat. They remade us both into what we are."

"We both swore our allegiance," I continue.

"Why are they kicking down doors trying to find you both now?" Dig asks us.

"Because we left," Sara says turning to look at Dig but I keep my eyes on Oliver. "And there's only one way that you leave the league."

"Is that why you didn't want to see your families?" Oliver asks us both.

I nod.

"A year ago we was in Guyana," Sara explains. "We were sent there for a guy named Suarez he was a local diplomat and I slit his throat in his bed... and his kids found his body in the morning."

"Do you have to give them all the details?" I ask before turning to my brother. "We're murderers Ollie. You think that our families will be happy to see us? Mum? Thea?"

Oliver doesn't answer as his phone goes off. Thea text him.

"I have to go to iron heights," he informs us. "Felicity I need you to find this AL -OW-AL."

He heads out and Sara and I share another look.

Sara and I watch as Felicity does some stuff with the dirt.

"Sorry if we upset you before," Sara says to her.

"We all join clubs we wish we hadn't," Felicity tells us. "It took me a year to get out of that gym membership."

Sara and I chuckle.

"Thank you," I say to her and I glance at Dig.

"For what?" She asks.

"Not making us feel like what we are," I say standing at her side. "My brother is lucky to have friends like you. And trust me when I say he hasn't always had the best luck in that area."

Oliver walks in and he does not look happy.

"How'd it go with your mother?" Dig asks and I look round at him.

"Not well," he says.

"Why?" I ask worried.

He ignores my question. "Have you found somebody for me to hit yet?"

"Could be," Felicity says to him as we approach. "Spectro analysis of the dirt from your house had trace amounts of aldicarb in them."

"What?" Ollie asks.

"Its a pesticide," she explains to him. "Starling city used to have its own aldicarb plant but per the era it was shut down three years ago?"

"What's it being used for now?" Ollie asks.

"Nothing," Felicity tells him. "Its abandoned. But my guess is its the home base to one of the league of Assassins."

Oliver heads for his bow.

"He will kill you," Sara says as we both head over to him.

"Like you two I am not easy to get rid of," he says harshly and I wince at his tone.

"This is our fight," I tell him.

"He made it my fight when he came into my house," Oliver says sternly. "And when he threatened two people I care about."

He then walks away.

Chelsea2019:

Ive decided I'll split one episode between two chapters so updates are more regular.