I was currently out at night because I had heard that one of the most dangerous hitmen in the world, Guillermo Barrera had landed in Star City. I didn't know why he was here, but I assumed that it was for the purpose of killing someone. Just after his chopper landed, I shot his phone out of his hand. I was going to say that he had failed this city before I realized that it wouldn't make any sense because he was not from the city and couldn't have possibly failed it. Instead, I just stared him down with my bow drawn at him.
"You know you've built quite the reputation around here." He told me. "Isn't it past your bedtime?"
"You should have stayed overseas." I replied. I was pissed at that remark. It wasn't even 8:00 yet.
"I thought about it, but then I remembered that I have a reputation too." He countered. He pulled out some knives before he started to fight with me. He even started to get the upper hand before there was a bright flash of light. I used the distraction to stab him in the chest with an arrow. I heard the police sirens and then that I would need to make my exit. Luckily, Courtney was very good at getting me out of there.
I was glad that I had been able to take out a dangerous assassin, but I was also concerned about who his target was. I didn't remember it off-hand. I felt like I probably should have but I didn't. Wait a minute. I was suddenly hit with an idea. I was pretty sure that I knew who had been after. The only problem was I didn't know if anyone would believe me. I didn't even know if the person that I thought was the target would believe me. Though I couldn't figure out why he would be the target because my mom had been the one to put out the hit and I was sure that she did not want to kill her husband.
I then watched as Courtney and Iris started to spar with each other. I wanted to say that she was getting better, but I didn't know if I could.
"Why are you so intent on me learning how to fight?" Courtney asked as she got up off the ground.
"I told you that you might not always have your staff and you don't want to be helpless without it." I reminded her. There was also something about a strong girl that turned me on, but I didn't want to say that. Of course, the woman I married could not really handle in a fight. I may have had a type and she was the exception to it. I was at least starting to figure out why I was attracted to Courtney. I didn't know if I would be able to keep resisting that attraction, but I wanted to.
"So you should be celebrating killing a dangerous assassin." Iris replied. "How about we get some pizza?"
"I don't know if that's appropriate considering that I wasn't able to figure out who he was here to kill." I declared. The thing was even if I was pretty sure, I couldn't tell them that because there really wasn't a reasonable way for me to have reached that conclusion. "Actually, that sounds like a great idea. There's nothing else that we can do tonight."
Initially I was going to hang out with Tommy and Dinah but I had a feeling that it would be pretty awkward since it was a date for them and I didn't really want to be the third wheel. The three of us went to Mateo's Pizza Buffet. It was somewhere that I could where I wouldn't get ant weird looks for getting a lot of food. I had weighed myself a few times but it was actually to making sure that I was eating enough. I didn't want to be losing weight.
"So why do you have to have so much food again?" Courtney asked me as I brought out a plate with five slices on it. The slices were at buffets were usually smaller than the average pizza. I then took a seat.
"Basically my cells are rapidly regenerating which makes me metabolism go crazy." I explained.
"So there's something that I wanted to know. I recognize that this may be a little hard to talk about, but can you tell me about Sara?" She inquired.
"What do you want to know about her?" I replied.
"Did you have a crush on her?" She asked. I couldn't help but blush at that.
"Courtney, we were 11." I replied. It probably wasn't too young to have a crush, but thinking about it made me uncomfortable. I actually hadn't seen a picture of Sara because I didn't feel that I needed to. If she was alive, I would see her then. "She was Dinah's sister and my best friend. We grew up together. I don't have much else to say."
Suddenly, my phone rang. It was Malcolm.
"Hi, Malcolm." I answered. Part of me wanted to call him Dad. That was something that people sometimes did with their stepparents, but I felt it would be too uncomfortable.
"I need you to come to Tommy's with me." He stated. It was Tommy's birthday. "I feel that he may be more receptive if you're with me."
"Are you sure showing up at his place unannounced is a good idea?" I challenged.
"Well I don't think he would talk to me if it was announced." He pointed out. I knew that I would have to do it. Perhaps I could find out what the issues between the two of them were. The only problem was I would have to leave Courtney.
"Give me a few minutes. I'm in the middle of something right now." I declared before I hung up. "So I'm going to have this short. Malcolm wants me to go to Tommy's with him."
I went and paid the bill, knowing Courtney would be able to get home using her staff. I felt bad for having to leave her. I then had Iris take me to Tommy's apartment where I met Malcolm.
"This seems like a really bad idea." I commented. I hoped Tommy wouldn't be mad at me for doing it.
"It'll be fine." He assured me before he knocked on the door.
"Olivia, what are you doing here?" Dinah asked me.
"We wanted to surprise Tommy." I improvised. He would definitely be surprised.
"Dad, what are you doing here?" Tommy inquired.
"I wanted to give you something." Malcolm declared as he pulled out a box. "Happy birthday."
"Can you give us a minute?" Tommy requested.
"Of course." Dinah declared as he took us into the living room.
"Did you really think that bringing Olivia would make this better?" Tommy asked.
"I just wanted to invite you to something. I'm being honored by the Star City Municipal Group. They're bestowing me with their annual Humanitarian Award." Malcolm explained.
"Did literally everyone else say no?" Tommy quipped. I did wonder what humanitarian work Malcolm had actually done. In fact, I didn't even know what his company did.
"I would really appreciate it if you were there." Malcolm declared.
"I'll probably be performing a surgery then." Tommy stated.
"Tommy, please." I requested. I didn't know if I would still tell him. Last time it didn't go very well.
"Olivia, sometimes the people that you want there the most, aren't." Tommy remarked. "My dad taught me that multiple times. You shouldn't trust him because he's going to let you down too."
The thing was I still didn't fully trust Malcolm. I really wanted to but knowing all of the people that he killed made me reluctant to do so, even though this wasn't the same Malcolm. I had preconceptions about everyone that were hard for me to get past.
Part of me thought that I should be trying to figure who was trying to kill Malcolm just as much as stopping Zoe from killing him. That was pretty important, even though it wasn't as important as keeping him alive.
At school, I was trying to hack the phone myself. I wasn't particularly good at it. I wanted to see if I could figure out who the financier was.
"Why don't you just take this to the AV club?" Courtney asked me. I did wish that I could ask Felicity to hack it for me but there was a major problem with that. I wondered if I should still try to get her on the team, but I didn't know how I would go about doing that and I also didn't know if I would be able to convince her in time.
"Because I can't exactly explain how I got an assassin's phone." I pointed out. "I want to find out who hired him as much as I want to find out who the target is. I got something. I found the last number dialed. It's the Jade Dragon."
"He wanted takeout?" She asked me.
"Jade Dragon is a front for the Triad." I pointed out. "And before you ask, no I do not have any contacts there."
"So what are you just going to burst in?" She inquired.
"No. We're going to go on a date." I remarked. I then realized what I had said. "I mean not a real date. You just need a reservation to dine at this restaurant and I would like you to come with me."
I was a little bit nervous about this. Going on a date with anyone, even if it wasn't a real date, terrified me. Not to mention, to everyone else it would be a real date. On top of that since I needed to treat it like a date and I didn't know how teenagers dressed when they went on dates, I would have to ask Thea for help, which meant that she was going to tease me about it. I was not looking forward to it, but it was something that I would not be able to avoid.
"As much as I would like to do that, maybe you should take your brother instead." She suggested. I felt a little disappointed, but she was probably right. "You can do a makeup birthday dinner or something. Also what are you doing about your sister as in the not-Thea one?"
"I wanted to see about inviting her to my opening next week and maybe we can do something there." I answered.
The nice thing about going out with Tommy was that I didn't really to dress up any more than I normally would going to the place. I was glad that he was willing to go with me.
"So I'm sorry about last night." I told him.
"It's not your fault that my father manipulated you." He declared. "Are you sure that you're going to eat all of that?"
"Yeah I was feeling hungry." I explained. I wished that I could tell him about my powers because it would make things easier. Unfortunately, I couldn't do that. "So do you think that maybe you haven't been fair towards your dad. I know that you two aren't really close but it couldn't have been easy after your mom was killed."
"Well it wasn't really that easy for me either." He pointed out.
"I'm not defending him, but he is still your dad and he still loves you." I explained. I was pretty sure that he did regret that his actions led to Tommy's death.
"So this happened before you were born, but he left after her funeral. He was gone for about two years and when he came back, he was pretty cold. Your mom was pretty much the only person he got along with. He took care of me, but I always felt closer to your family than I did my own father."
"My dad made a lot of mistakes." I pointed out. "There's something that you need to know. My dad cheated on my mom."
I considered bringing up Emiko, but I wasn't sure. It didn't feel like the right time to do so.
"I don't even know if he loved my mom. Your dad does and he loved your mom too," I added. "You should at least give him a chance to make up for his mistakes."
"You know you are really good at this little sister thing." He commented as I noticed someone with a Triad tattoo walk in.
"So I have to go to the little girls' room." I announced.
I made my way to the backroom. I didn't know if the Triad were the ones who made the hit on Malcolm. I also wasn't sure why they couldn't just do it themselves. Were they not confident in their abilities to kill someone? Then again, they had failed to kill Dinah, who had a much lower profile than Malcolm did. I began to fight with the men. I squirted some hot sauce in a guy's eye. I didn't know why they had it in the office, but it was a useful weapon.
"The Triad put out a hit on someone. I want to know who." I declared in Mandarin.
"I don't work for the Triad." He stated. "I don't know who it is."
"But you know something." I pointed out.
"All I know is that is it supposed to happen tomorrow night." He told me.
With that I went back to the table.
"Sorry the line was a little long." I told Tommy.
I couldn't help but wonder if I should try to contact the police, I didn't know what use it would be considering that they were pretty much useless. Instead, I called Courtney.
"So what did you find out?" She asked.
"Well I didn't find out who the target was, but I did find out that whoever the target is they're planning killing them tomorrow night." I explained.
"I don't know how useful that is considering that there's over a 700000 people in this city." She remarked.
"Well it's a start. I'm going to keep working to see if I can find out more." I lied. It was a good thing that I already knew where it was going to be. I even thought about trying something. There were a few issues. I didn't know if I could convince Malcolm not to go considering how much he seemed like he wanted to.
That night, I started to get dressed for the event. I knew that I had to go to it. If Zoe was anything like her father, she would want to minimize casualties and would only try to shoot at Malcolm. He said that he wasn't being paid to kill anyone else. I hoped that would remain true for her. I also didn't know why I needed to wear a new dress to each of these events. Couldn't I just reuse some old ones? Was anyone going to care if I wore the same dress more than once? The dress was pretty simple. It was navy long-sleeved turtleneck dress. At least I didn't need a new pair of shoes. I just happened to have heels in several different colors.
I supposed the thing was designers were very anxious to dress me because I was the heir to the fortune. I didn't know why they prioritized me over Thea. Maybe it was because I was the more famous of us. It also meant that I had to wear expensive jewelry as well. I had to be sure that I didn't lose any of it. Also if I wore it with my costume, people might be able to identify me.
The good news was that I convinced Tommy to come. I had promised myself that if the chance came up, I was going to tell him. I realized that I should probably find a way to tell Thea too. In fact I should find a way to tell all of my family, but it may have been a better idea to keep them in the dark for a little while because I didn't want them to worry about me. They may have already knew anyway.
The party was packed with people in fancy outfits. It turned out that I was not allowed to invite Courtney, so she would have to be nearby and ready. Iris was still able to be there since she was my bodyguard. I needed to be alert, but I wasn't entirely sure what was going to happen.
I was really nervous that all of this was going to go wrong. I was probably the only person under 18 who was there since Thea had recently had her birthday. I wanted to be able to protect all of them. I was kind of surprised that Tommy didn't bring Dinah with him because his invite did include a plus-one.
At that point, Lieutenant Pike started to introduce Malcolm. I couldn't help but wonder why he was there. Had Malcolm chosen him to introduce him or was it just a coincidence. It was weird being at this thing, considering that I wasn't there the first time. I had to keep an eye on any suspicious Chinese individuals. I wished that I could do it without racial profiling, but the Triad were entirely Chinese.
"So do you wish Courtney was here with you?" Iris asked me.
"No," I lied.
"You know you're a terrible liar." She remarked. "You should tell her that you want to go on a real date and maybe she'll actually say yes."
"I don't have time for something like that right now." I stated. I wished that she understood how difficult it was for me to deal with feelings for someone other than Felicity. Even kissing her once felt like a pretty big betrayal. Part of me thought that I should treat it like all of the people from old left were dead and I was the only survivor, even in reality, the opposite was true. It was too bad that I couldn't ask Felicity what she thought. If she died, would she be okay with someone else? What if I found out that she wanted to date again? Would I be okay with that?
At that point, Courney called me. She could have been just trying to say hi. I had my phone on vibrate as to not interrupt the speech, but I took it outside because I had a feeling that she had figured out that the Triad were targeting Malcolm. I wondered if I would ever find out who made the hit. I only found out because Mom had told me.
"Hello?" I answered once I was in the hallway.
"So you're really not going to like who the target is." Courtney told me.
"Just tell me where I need to be." I stated. I was pretty sure that I knew what she was going to say next.
"You're already there." She stated. "The target is Malcolm. You need to get him out of there right now."
"I don't think I can do that." I pointed out. "It's a good thing that I made sure to have my hood in the car though."
We were also parked by somewhere with no visible cameras. I told Iris to do so just in case I needed to make an unexpected change.
I went back inside and Malcolm was talking was his ex-wife. It was a little bit awkward, but then he began to talk about my mother and how she was also a great humanitarian. I didn't know how true that was. It was touching for him to talk about Rebecca, especially with Tommy there. He also used part of the speech to address his failure towards Tommy. I hoped that he was genuine in his desire to make the city better and hopefully in a way that didn't involve destroying the Glades.
As soon as he had finished, the fire alarm went off. I went off with Iris because I knew that it was time for me to go into action. I wished that I had been able to deal with the Triad, but my main priority was saving Malcolm from Zoe. Come to think of it, the cameras would be disabled by the fire alarm going off, so we didn't need to park so far up, but I didn't know that the fire alarm was going to go off. I started to look around. I sent Mom a text saying that I was with Iris and I was safe. I didn't see him outside. I then headed up and noticed the Triad were firing at him and Tommy. I still didn't understand why they couldn't just kill him without trying to involve outside help. I took out the gunmen pretty easily because they weren't prepared for me.
"Go somewhere safe!" I ordered.
There were a lot of Triad thugs. I couldn't help but wonder how many there were. I couldn't help but wonder why they were all still fighting me when Malcolm had already gotten away. I seemed like they were willing to die for nothing. It wasn't the easiest not to use lethal force when they were trying to kill me. At least these were bad people and not just people who were hired to do a job, so I didn't have to feel as guilty if I did end up killing them. They might have ended up killing themselves to avoid being caught by the police anyway. Once they were all taken care of, I noticed the woman in charge.
"Why do you want Malcolm Merlyn dead?" I asked her.
"I'll settle for you." She declared. I knew that there was no chance that she would tell me who had ordered the hit on Malcolm. I did consider that maybe the other archer wanted to kill him, but if he was going to do that, wouldn't it make sense just to do that himself? It seemed like he didn't have a problem getting his hands dirty.
The two of us began to fight each other. You know I was a little surprised that it had taken me this long to get into a catfight, but this was more worse than your normal slapping and hair-pulling. I thought about pulling her hair a little, but I didn't think that would be particularly effective. I was also pretty sure that her main objective was to prevent me from getting to Malcolm and I had to make sure that she did succeed in that objective. I wished that I had some help at the moment, but I didn't know if Courtney would be able to get inside.
I was about to take a shot before the police showed up and I knew that I had to make my escape. I would have to get to Malcolm anyway. I had already been delayed enough. If I was lucky, I would be able to get there before Zoe could make her shot. Though, I was pretty sure that that would not be the case. I ran off because I wasn't afraid of getting shot. I pulled out a smoke arrow and began to make my way up. When I got there, I saw that Tommy was leaning over Malcolm's hopefully just wounded body. It didn't look like he had been hit anywhere crucial.
At that moment, Tommy pulled out a gun.
"Stay back," He ordered.
"I'm not here to hurt you or your father." I told him.
"I said stay back." He repeated.
"It's curare. Your father has been poisoned. An assassin named Zoe Lawton laces her bullets with curare. I've dealt with her before." I explained. "I can help him, but you're going to have to trust me."
"How are you going to help him?" He challenged. I had an idea. I didn't know if it would because Barry had never told me about doing anything like it, but it was my only chance.
"I have the ability to heal from any injury. I might be able to give him some of my blood to heal him." I stated.
"WHY SHOULD I TRUST YOU?" He shouted. I knew what I needed to do. I removed the hood.
"Because he's my father too." I remarked.
"Olivia…" He declared in shock. I didn't know what else he would try to do, but I had to act quickly.
"I can explain this later. You have to let me save him now." I stated.
I grabbed the first aid kit and ripped it open. I really hoped that this would work because if it didn't, I didn't know if his body would accept my blood since I didn't know his blood type or my own.
I stabbed myself and watched put it into him. As soon as I pulled the needle out of me, the wound started to close up. Malcolm was breathing heavily. I wasn't sure if I wanted him to know this, but I supposed if he did, there was no avoiding it.
"You're the vigilante." Tommy declared. "Why?"
"Tommy, this really isn't the time for this." I pointed out. "I really hope this is going to work."
"Thank you." He stated.
"Like I said, he's my dad too." I remarked. I didn't know if he was behind the Undertaking, even though it would probably be better for me if he was because I would able to stop it. I knew how Malcolm wanted to do it, but if it came to someone else, I wouldn't be able to predict their patterns or know where they were going to set it up, but I just didn't want it to be Malcolm."
"Can you do me a favor and not tell him. I want to do this on my own," I stated before I left. "I have to go. The cops after me and I need to be gone when they get here."
I wanted to find out where Zoe was, but I didn't exactly know where to look and I had a feeling that she would already be gone. Even though I had failed to stop her and I had no idea who had ordered the hit, I was still glad that I managed to save Malcolm's life. It turned out that my blood worked.
I headed back to the club where I was met by Courtney and Iris.
"So is he going to be okay?" Courtney asked.
"I think so." I answered. It kind of made me wish that I had used my blood to heal Courtney, but I hadn't been thinking about it at the time. I only did this because I literally no other choice. "Iris, there's something that I need to tell you. You're not going to like this. The bullets were 7.62 mm rounds that were laced with curare."
"What does that mean?" Courtney asked. I forgot that we hadn't told her about Deadshot and what happened to Joe.
"It means that this was Zoe Lawton also known as Deadshot. She was here before in Star City and I thought I killed her, but I was wrong." I explained. "She's the one who killed Iris's father. I'm sorry, Iris."
Courtney went over and tried to give her a hug, but she didn't seem to be in the mood for it. I supposed that it was a lot to process. Maybe it would be best just to let her process it.
I then decided that it would be a good idea to go Malcolm's hospital room. He probably didn't need to be there, but it was probably a good idea for him to be considering he had been shot. I found that Tommy was there along with my mom and Thea.
"I'm sorry that it took me so long to get here." I lied. Well it wasn't a lie. I just hadn't told them what I was doing beforehand. At that point, Malcolm woke up.
"Do you think that I could talk to Tommy outside for a minute?" I requested.
I took Tommy out into the hallway. I didn't know what I should say to him. I decided to let him talk first because I was a little lost for words.
"So how did you get the ability to heal like that?" He asked.
"I don't know. I just knew that my blood could heal curare-poisoning because I first found out about this when I was shot with it." I explained. "I didn't think that she would come back because I shot her in the eye. She's the same person who shot at him during the UNIDAC auction."
"You know I should have realized this by the way you different, but I thought you were just different because you were a child when I last saw you." He admitted. "Does anyone else know about this?"
"A few people: Iris and Courtney." I answered. "I don't want to tell my mom or Malcolm or Thea yet. I only told you because I felt like I didn't have a choice. I don't want them to worry about me."
"I wasn't sure what I saw, but you killed those guys who kidnapped us, didn't I?" He asked. I didn't know if he was awake for that. He looked like he was a little bit afraid of me.
"I've may have done some things that I shouldn't have. It's hard for me to tell anyone about this. I don't want people to think of me as this sort of ruthless killer. I've tried only to kill people when it's necessary and I only really want to kill bad people. I just wanted to right the wrongs in the city. I want to punish the people who have hurt it. I don't expect you to understand. I just want you to know that I'm trying my best to save the city. Please don't hate me for it." I remarked. There were tears in my eyes as I told him this.
"I don't hate you." He declared as he gave me a hug. I knew now that I needed to do whatever I could to save him.
So I decided to end this on a sweet moment between Tommy and Olivia. So is Olivia going to be able to save Tommy? What's going to happen between her and Courtney? Please don't forget to review.