Athena and the League of Assassins (An Arrow: Season 3 Fanfiction)

Chapter 18: Secret Identities Must Remain Secret

Moments later (after the fight at ARGUS)... 

Lyla Michaels, John Diggle, Roy Harper, and the suited up Queen siblings made their way down to the Arrow hideout. Felicity, Caitlin and Cisco turned to see them, Barry having sped off moments prior for some sushi. Felicity stood from her chair. 

'Are you okay?' she asked with concern flashing in her eyes. 

'Can't work for ARGUS without making a few enemies,' Lyla replied pointedly. I went over to the rack to put my daggers away and walked back over to the desk where Diggle had pulled out an evidence bag and poured the shattered remains of a weapon onto the table. At least what remained of one of Digger Harkness' lethal metal boomerangs. Lyla looked around at all of us. 'I'm sorry to involve all of you in this. Is that ARGUS property?' We all looked at the shattered remains of the boomerang. 

'It's evidence,' Diggle replied pointedly. Just then Barry zipped back into the room, landing in the chair, wearing his Flash suit, holding a container of sushi in his hand. 

'Hey!' Caitlin hissed at him. 'Secret identity?' 

'They're married,' Barry defended himself, gesturing to Diggle and Lyla. 

'We're not married,' Diggle and Lyla replied bluntly in unison. 'Or together.' 

'Whatever. He told her about me.' Barry frowned when Diggle didn't give the affirmative on that fact. 'You didn't?' 

'I keep secrets for a living, man,' Diggle replied. He let out a sigh. 

'Ah. My bad.' Lyla's mouth was open, shock present on her face. 

'You're - you're the -' 

'Flash. Sushi?' he asked with a goofy smile, holding out the tray. She shook her head slowly, still in shock. I let out a short laugh as we turned back to the desk holding the remains of the boomerang. 

'We need a location on the man who's after Lyla,' Oliver said. 'His name is Digger Harkness.' Barry stood. 

'The first step is to work the evidence -' 

'Barry,' I said sweetly, looking at him, 'can we speak to you for a moment, please?' Oliver, Barry and I walked away, towards the back of the room. 

'We appreciate your help back at ARGUS,' Oliver said to him, 'but we have this handled.' 

'You don't want to team up again?' 

'Things work differently here,' I spoke up. 'Starling City is meaner.' Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Cisco holding up his phone, presumably recording our conversation, but then Caitlin put her hand over the phone, saving us a modicum of embarrassment. 

'I seem to remember helping you two pretty good last year,' Barry shot back, trying to defend himself, 'and that was without powers. I've been practicing everything you and Oliver taught me. I'm - I'm casing new environments, I'm not running in blind.' Oliver and I sighed collectively. 

'We do this my way,' Oliver replied. 

'Yes! This is going to be awesome. Okay, what's our first move?'

'We need to reassemble the evidence,' Oliver said, but Barry beat him to the punch. 'It will take some time, but -' speeding over to the desk and reassembling Harkness' boomerangs, then brought them over, '- it'll be worth it.' Cisco picked one of them up. 

'Rad! These are a bit more teched out than the one you guys brought to Central City,' Cisco said excitedly, holding it in his hands. '3D printed polymer with a circuitry weave.'