Sapphire (Book One, Arrow)

chapter 13 ⚔ Betrayal

John, Oliver and I were in the hideout.

Walter had found a book just like Robert's, saying that it had belonged to Moira. He had been looking into the book and the list when he disappeared, so Oliver thought that the book was what caused him to disappear.

I was holding Robert's book. "So, this book consists a list of names of the guys we've been hunting." I held up Moira's book. "And this book, your mother's, has the same list of names."

Oliver nodded, taking Moira's book from me. "It's identical."

"So, where'd your mother get her copy, Oliver?" John asked. "For that matter, who gave it to you?"

"Felicity Smoak," Oliver answered. "She said that Walter found it in their bedroom."

"And now he's missing," John told us, taking a seat.

"She's my mother," Oliver told us. "She's not the kind of person who would--"

"Have her husband disappeared?" John finished. "Because that's really the question, isn't it, Oliver? I understand why you would believe your mother over your stepfather, but I tend to believe the innocent party is whoever's missing... and presumed dead."

I looked down, sighing.

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Flashback

Oliver and Jill were walking through the cover of the woods, following the map that Yao Fei had given to Jill.

"I don't get it," Oliver told her. "Is he good? Is he bad? Is he trying to hurt us, or trying to protect us?"

Jill looked up from the map. "Yao gave me this map, Oliver. I think that he's just undercover at the camp. I don't know how else to explain it." They reached a clearing. "We're here."

They approached a crashed plane that had been dismantled in the fall.

Oliver and Jill walked into the crashed plane, seeing it was set up like a hideout, looking around.

A man jumped down from the ceiling, grabbing Jill from behind, putting a blade to her neck.

Oliver turned to face them worriedly.

"Twitch, and I will open her throat," the man told him. "How many more are you?"

"What?" Oliver asked.

"You have ten seconds to tell me something I believe because I cut out her voice box," the man told him.

"Wait, wait, wait," Oliver told him. "Yao Fei sent us here, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't so you could kill either of us."

The man took the blade away from Jill's throat.

Jill stepped away, turning to face him.

The man aimed the blade at them. "What?"

"Yao Fei," Jill told him. "He gave me directions to your... plane."

The man looked at them critically, still keeping the blade raised.

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Oliver had gone to his mother about it, saying that Walter had given it to him before he disappeared, asking about it.

Moira had told him that it was a list of people who had owed his father favors, even though they were very bad people. She told Oliver to stop looking into it before throwing the book into a fire and letting it burn.