Thea's Encounter

Disclaimer: I own nothing but what you see here. Thought this idea up awhile back and started thinking about it some more and wound up coming up with this. This is a cross over idea with the Zenescope comics character Robyn Hood. So if you're familiar with her, then cool, if not, s'all gravy!

Summary: A bad date for Thea leads to an encounter she wasn't expecting to come across.

Six weeks into her sixteenth year for Thea Queen and things were pretty sucky for the girl as it had been since after the loss of her dad and big brother. Her mom had wound up being too wrapped up in her own grief over their deaths and the damage had been done by the time Walter had pulled her out of it. Thea had become something of a rebellious party girl in order to try and rid herself of the pain she felt over losing two people she cared so much about. Tommy had tried to be there for her but it just wasn't ever really enough as he also mourned quite a bit and handled it in ways that weren't exactly healthy and Laurel just wasn't an option considering her past with Ollie. And tonight, her hot date pretty much went down the drain when the jerk dumped her off after she pretty much refused to put out for him.

Hell she might be a little wreckless now a days but she isn't about to sleep around with some twenty something year old guy she barely even knows. Course it would have been nice if the jerk hadn't of dropped her off in the Glades a few blocks away from the proper part of the city. Not because she had anything against poor people or whatever, its just she didn't want to get robbed or worse by some of the more unpleasant types that lived in the area. So she tried to walk as quickly as she could to get the heck out of the Glades but it wasn't exactly easy thanks to the heels she had on. Unfortunately for however, luck was not about to be on her side as four thug looking guys approached her with wolfwhistles and cat calls.

"Well look at what we have here boys, a little hottie all on her lonesome!"

"You want an escort lil cutie?" One of the others asked in a baby voice, causing his friends to laugh.

Thea was nervous and honestly scared in that moment as she wasn't sure what the guys would try and do next. "Um… I'd rather just be left alone you know? I've already had a bad night and I really don't need you guys adding to it."

"Aww, the lil cutie's had a bad night guys! Why don't you let us help make it all better?" Asked another of the thugs with a leer that made the daughter of Moira and Robert Queen's skin crawl at the sight of it.

"No thanks you creep!" The thugs scowled over that and made to go after her, which scared Thea even more and made her start running away from them in the hopes she'd escape them.

However, because of her heels, she didn't get far as she wound up tripping and falling hard to the ground with a groan. Thea was then grabbed roughly by the hair, causing her to cry out in pain. "We gonna have fun tonight girlie!" Laughed the thug who grabbed her as his friends surrounded the two of them.

"NO! HELP!"

Her hair got pulled on again in the same rough manner. "Ah shad up girlie, no one's gonna care what happens to ya!"

It was then that one of his buddies fell to the ground in a heap with an arrow sticking out of his back. "I would care asshole." Came what definitely sounded like a woman's voice while being covered by a hood.

"Eugene!" Called out Thea's would be rapist, and he, along with his two remaining friends charged at the mysterious newcomer and quickly found themselves very dead for their troubles.

Thea, who's fear had been building up, screamed and crawled away from the scene, only to back up agaisnt a wall. The figure walked up to her slowly and Thea started to cry as she knew that this person was probably going to do more then just rape her. "Hey, its okay kid. I'm not gonna hurt you."

Slowly, the young Queen lowered her arms and saw an older woman with blonde hair that was graying. She had one blue eye and an oddly golden one that seemed to glow with a scar down the eye. "See? Its okay now. Those sick f**ks got exactly what they deserved." Robyn Locksley had long hated men like that ever since Cal King had raped her and then cut out her eye with a piece of his broken windshield when she was a teenager.

And she always handled so called men like that with extreme prejudice as well. Something her long time friend Britney Waters had an issue with but thankfully it never came to a serious thing unlike the first time they had met. Standing up, Robyn extended a hand to Thea. "Come on, I'll take you home."

Thea wasn't sure why, but she felt like she could trust this woman and tentatively took her hand to stand up. "Who… Who are you?" She asked as she was led to an old beat up red colored pick up truck.

"Robyn. You?"

"Thea Queen."

"Name sounds familiar." Was all the older woman said as she unlocked and opened the passenger door for the teenager.

After getting in on the driver side and positioning her bow and quiver before starting up the truck, Thea turned her head towards the older woman once she got them going. "It should… We're pretty well known." The loss of her dad and big brother only increased that too unfortunately…

"Huh, oh well. I don't pay attention to much these days unless its real important." She honestly had pretty much been adrift through life for the past seven years since her wife Marion had died from a poison's effects. And unless it was something Myst related or someone of the supernatural on Earth needing some kind of help, she didn't pay a great deal of attention to anything else.

Thea had to admit it was kind of nice to not be recognized. Well, by someone who rescued her anyway. Those creeps back there were a different story altogether. Thea gave her the address to her home as they drove out of the Glades while admiring the bow. "That's a beautiful bow there if you don't mind me saying."

"Heh, thanks kid. Had her a long time now." The wooden green colored recurve bow had been something Marion gave her as a birthday gift long before they'd gotten together while living in New York and running Nottingham Investigations together in the late 80's.

Marion had also charmed it so that it would be unbreakable and so far that bit of magic was still going on strong nicely enough. It'd actually been one of her first major spells to be successfully cast after she managed to get her magics to start working properly again. Things were silent for while as Robyn drove them until Thea broke it. "Could, could you teach me?"

"What? The bow?" Asked Robyn while looking at the younger girl for a moment before putting her attention back on to the road.

"No! Um, I mean I already know archery. I uh, I meant whatever you did when fighting those guys."

Robyn was honestly a little surprised by that as the girl clearly screamed rich kid vibes to her. "No offense kid, but a rich kid like you learning that kind of thing seems out of place." Not to mention her skills were harsh ones to learn and she didn't exactly think the girl could handle learning them.

Thea sighed agitatedly at that. "I just, I don't EVER want to be in a situation like that again. So I'll learn what I have to in order to make sure that doesn't happen." Spoke the teen strongly.

Hmm… Can't say I didn't warn her. Besides, might help keep my mind off Marion…

"Alright then kid, if you think you can handle it. I'll teach you. But the minute I hear you are mis-using those skills in any way, the deal is off. Understood?"

Thea nodded her understanding as she could tell the fact the older woman wasn't to be messed with on that one. "Read you loud and clear. And by the way? My name's Thea. Thea Queen."

"Ah, you seem more like a Kid to me." Replied the woman and surprising Thea with the joking tone she had, though she couldn't help roll her eyes over the whole thing.

By the end of the night, Robyn had found herself the new bodyguard of Thea Queen after a grateful Moira insisted on it due to saving her baby from a horrible fate. Which suited the two just fine considering the training Thea wanted. Though Robyn certainly proved to be no slouch as she was a harsh trainer, especially where punishments were concerned when it came to Thea getting herself into trouble or being caught with certain things. Robyn would even go a step further and have a good long talk with Moira over her actions involving Thea. She nearly had been fired after that but the talk led to good things for the two and it helped prevent her being fired. But then in 2012 came the news of Oliver's being alive, which brought about a few interesting things with his return.

Author's Notes: While a vast majority of Zenescope's covers for their comics is pretty much T and A, their stories are pretty damn great. Robyn Hood's been a favorite of mine for awhile now even though I have trouble keeping up a lot of the time. Her fight with Britney 'Red Riding Hood' Waters was pretty damn epic too in my view! If you guys are interested in seeing more of this, I may do a follow up in the future. R and R!