A/N: I forgot to give a few words at the start of my story! Thanks for reading chapter one and coming back to two! This is my first Arrow fanfiction and I hope you enjoy it. I treasure your reviews and they keep me going in the writing process, so please drop one if you don't mind. Also, it goes without saying but I'll say it...I don't own Arrow or Roy Harper. Enjoy!

Chapter Two

Sin and the City

Roy stood quietly on the subway into the city, barely staying awake as it was very early, but such is the life of someone who had a 7 am shift at the car shop. He was definitely not a morning person, and every morning part of him very much missed his previous job at the Verdant Night Club in Star City.

Roy took this time to watch the other folks on the subway. Paragon was very metropolitan, and the citizens were always buzzing around pushing through each other and in their own little worlds. Roy looked as businessmen spoke loudly into their cell phones, or homeless people slept on the chairs, or women sat and read magazines. Everyone was minding their own business, and Roy preferred it that way. As his eyes wandered the shuttle, they stopped on one familiar face. She smiled at him with her arrogant and mischievous grin.

"Sin?" Roy spoke, never in a million years thinking he would see his old friend on this train.

"What's up Abrocrombie?" Sin said as pushed through a couple strangers to stand next to him. She had on her same leather jacket, black shirt, and leather pants as always. Roy was beginning to think those were the only clothes she owned. "Long time no see?"

"What are you doing here?" Roy asked, lowering his voice hoping that nobody heard them. They were fine, nobody was listening.

"Me? Oh I'm just taking some vacation time to visit a friend here in Paragon. Now I can say I'm visiting two friends. I'd ask what you are doing, but I already know. It's all making sense now. Roy, the Arrow, sent to prison then died in jail, but here you are….You and your friends faked your death didn't they? Good job, man….everyone bought it! So if you're here...who's the guy in the green hood who shoots arrows back home?"

"Shhh…." Roy hushed Sin, as he looked around to see if anyone caught what she had said. Again, nobody was paying attention. "First of all, I am not the Arrow...it was just...oh forget about it."

"I always figured you were the red guy anyway." Sin said with a shrug, "Hey man, you picked a good city to move to. They could use a vigilante. This place is real messed up. Drugs, gangs, you name it….kind of like home, right?"

"No, I'm done with all that…" Roy responded, "I'm looking to have a normal life...under the radar, and without any trouble."

"Whatever." Sin shrugged as the subway stopped, "That sounds really boring. But hey, it's your life! Well, this is my stop. What's your address man? I'll come by tonight and show you your new city. Paragon's nightlife does it big, yo!"

Harper wrote his address on a scratch piece of paper he had in his jacket pocket and handed it to Sin as she exited the subway. Despite the fact that she has the world's biggest mouth, Roy was overjoyed to have seen his old friend.

At work, Roy had finally built his rep as a solid car repairman so the other workers would leave him alone. For his first week, Alan insisted on always having one of the veteran mechanics assisting Roy, but they all had taken note that he was good with cars, and now trusted him to do his own business. Roy was at peace under a car doing repairs, he was able to enter his own little world and think about nothing more then the task at hand.

His peace was soon to be interrupted by the boss, when suddenly all throughout the car shop Alan's booming voice was heard. "All right everyone, stop what you're doing and get out here right Now!" The former military man's voice was loud enough to wake the dead.

Roy fell in line with the rest of the mechanics as they all came to the center of the garage, none knowing why they had to stop working. Alan opened up the garage door, and almost blinded by the light, Roy could see two figures entering the car shop.

Immediately he recognized the smaller one as Eric, his nerdy neighbor who he had saved from being beaten up a week ago. The other was a tall man with long sleek jet black hair tied in a pony tail. He wore a fine black suit, that probably cost more then the garage they were standing in. Behind the two men, came a few other men rolling in a very strange looking engine. Roy noticed that this engine looked as if it was from the future or some kind of alien technology. Inside the tubes that made up most the engine was sky blue energy that swirled and sparked around. All the mechanics were absolutely fascinated.

"If you got a working TV then you know who this man is." Alan spoke to his employees as he pointed to the sharply dressed man. "Derek Widener, CEO of Widener Corp and one of the most powerful men in Paragon. Remember this day, boys, cause it ain't every day someone like this comes slumming it with folks like us, am I right?"

"I am just a man..." the billionaire CEO's voice was smooth and full of= false modesty. "Just a man whose company has just created the single greatest invention of the 21st century. Fellow car enthusiasts, I give you the Siliconian Engine. Now, I could tell you that this wonderful device runs off virtually no gas, and completely by self sustaining energy but that may not catch your attention. For men like you, and honestly myself as well, I am very excited to tell you that with this engine your cars will be able to faster then ever. I hate to put numbers on such magnificent science, but I believe we could call this engine a V100 engine. It's safer, cleaner, and faster, then any engine that is currently on the market."

The garage was filled with awe and side conversations of disbelief, as Alan raised his hand to address his workers once more. "Listen up! Mr. Widener brought his tech guy here to straighten you all out on how to install these things in the cars. Let me be real with you all. These engines are going to make us a lot of money. Thanks to my military connections, I was fortunate to get our little car shop on the list of Widener Corp's trial run with these engines. They will be expensive, people will buy them, they will be worth it, and more people will want to buy the engines. Needless to say, this is a big deal...so don't screw it up!"

Roy was the first to walk over to Eric, who smiled warmly at him when he recognized his neighbor. "Small world eh?" Eric said to Roy.

"Wow, so you work for the biggest corporation in Paragon." Roy replied, impressed.

"And the sixth biggest in the world." Eric corrected, a habit he could never break from. "It's a good job."

"You'd think with a boss like that you could afford a better apartment then where you live." Roy responded with a smile.

"I use a lot of money to take care of my younger sister's magnet school and health bills." Eric replied, "By living in a cheaper place, we can eat better you know? Well, I better get to explaining to everyone how to install these engines. It's really cool, I think you'll really like it!"

"Whatever you say." Roy replied with a shrug, not nearly as fascinated with technology as his geeky friend was.

After a long day's worth of learning how to install the engines, repairing more cars, and working hard, Roy returned to his home to rest and watch the few channels that his TV had to offer. As he sat, enjoying his boredom, there was a hard knock at his door. Roy stood up and went to answer the door.

"Yo, you ready to go?" Sin pushed through the door as Roy only slightly opened it. She looked around the room and at the bed and turned to Roy. "Wow, you've really gotten back into slumming it since Thea dumped you eh? We need to get you a new girl….hey maybe we will tonight!"

"Where we going?" Roy asked, still adjusting to Sin standing in his apartment.

"Don't tell me you forgot?" Sin rolled his eyes at Roy's spaciness. "I'm giving you the tour of Paragon, Sin style! Serious bro, this city's the shit!"

"If you say so." Roy replied, never as enthusiastic as Sin about anything. "I got nothing else to do!"

The two went out and Roy had his first fun night out in Paragon. Sin took him to a fantastic barbecue joint not far from where his apartment was, and then they went to a loud and hopping night club and danced and drank. Both enjoyed some beverages, but both had their drunkard days in the teenage years so getting plastered had completely lost it's luster since then. As they were sitting at a table in the club, Sin told Roy she had yet to take him to the coolest part of Paragon's night life. Upon leaving the night club, Sin caught them a cab and gave the driver the address she wanted to go.

The driver took them far into the other side of the city and drove under some highways to some other roads. As they went under a bridge, even with all windows up, Roy began hearing incredibly loud techno music. The two friends got out of the cab to see a raging scene with a big crowd. Sin had taken Roy to the drag racing scene in Paragon. In their earlier years, both were pretty into racing themselves, and so she knew he'd appreciate ending the night watching a good race or two.

The cars did not disappoint. There were several muscle cars that reminded Roy of the one he had back in Star City, and there were also nicer cars. Sin and Roy found themselves a great spot to watch the cars as the race began to start.

"Yo, check out that blue one over there." Sin said as she pointed at the car. "Just watch it go when they start. If you were a betting man I'd tell you to put all the money you have on that sucker!"

When the race started, there was no competition. The blue mustang jetted off faster then any of the other vehicles. It was finished before they were even halfway complete. When the car made it to to the finish line the driver got out of the vehicle and raised his hands in victory as the crowd went wild. Roy recognized him as one of the thugs that he got in a fight with a week ago.

"Who is that guy?" Roy asked.

"I don't know." Sin said as she applauded for him, "But based on that leather jacket he's wearing with the wolf head on it...He's part of the Wolf Pack Gang. They're the most dangerous guys in Paragon. You don't want to mess with them, they run the slums."

"I bet..." Roy said, looking back at the guy's mustang. "If I didn't know any better I'd say they were using one of those fancy engines we got in today at the shop...but they haven't even hit the market yet, so there is no way that these thugs would have gotten a chance to steal them yet."

The two stayed and watched more races as the night drug on. Not to far from where they were standing, in the middle of the crowd, in a carnival tent, Derek Widener sat in the shadows with Alan Trevit, and the two looked out at the drag racing scene.

"It was a good idea to put these engines to the test out here." Derek said to Alan, as as both men smoked cigars.

"Sure, a few people had to die in the process." Alan said smiling, "But it's the hazards of the job right?"

Alan Trevit emerged from the and looked into the distance and caught sight of his new employee Roy Harper. He grinned to himself thinking he might have a possible new partner for his side business, which was actually his real business.