Arrow and Shadow

Damaged

My name is Ashlee Merlyn. For 5 years, I was stranded on an island with my best friend, Oliver Queen, and one goal- survive. Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city. To do this, we must become someone else. We must become something else.

Previously on "Arrow and Shadow"

Still holding each other's hands we managed to swim to the surface before someone pulled us into a raft.

"Oliver Queen." We turned as Oliver's name was called out after the door was slammed open.

"What is this? You can't just barge in here." Walter said.

"Yeah? Well, I got a badge and a gun that say different." Detective Lance said.

"Hey, what the hell's going on?! Detective Lance—" Oliver said as the three of us walked into the entry way.

"Oliver Queen, you're under arrest on suspicion of obstruction of justice, aggravated assault..." Detective Lance said while arresting Oliver.

"What is going on?" Oliver's mom asked.

"Walter, stop them!" Thea called out from upstairs.

"Trespassing, acting as a vigilante..." Detective Lance continued.

"Are you out of your mind?!" Oliver asked him angrily.

"And murder. You have the right to remain silent. Give up that right." Lance told him leaving us all to stand in the entryway stunned by what had happened.

We stood next to the Chinese archer as he shot down a rabbit.

"Dinner." He said said motioning for us to go collect it.

"Ah, come- hey, I got an idea, why don't you let me shoot that thing and you can go pick up the bloody, dead, disgusting animal." Ollie said to him. He held the bow out to him and Ollie looked at the man confused. "What?"

"Try." He told him. "Breathe. Everything, breathe. Breathe, aim fire." He said demonstrating how to use it. "Here." Ollie took the bow and an offered arrow. "Aim that tree. Breathe." Ollie aimed for the tree and let lose an arrow, missed the tree. The archer said something in his native language and I sighed.

"What does that mean?" Ollie asked him.

"You will die badly." He said taking the bow from my friend. "Get." The two of us went to collect dinner and Ollie's lost arrow. I was about to grab the dead rabbit when someone came up behind me and covered my mouth so they couldn't hear me screaming. Another man came in front of me and tied my hands together before they gagged me. They dragged me through the forest to a cage in the ground they were also putting Ollie in. "Ahh!" they shoved him inside followed shortly by me. "Ahh! Ahh! Ahh! Wait, wait! You can't leave me here! Don't do this to me, please!" Ollie begged him holding onto the bars. They used the buts of their guns to hit his fingers making him fall back into me. "Oh-oh! No! Please! I didn't do anything!"

The police think they know who Oliver is. They think he's the vigilante. The man in the hood terrorizing the city's criminals. They also think they have him trapped. That he has no way out. They're only half right.

"I want to see my son." Moira said as Walter and I followed her into the interrogation room.

"I'm in the middle of an interrogation here!" Detective Lance told us.

"Detective Lance, I know you hate my family, but I had no idea that you'd go so far to arrest my son without any grounds whatsoever!" Moira said angrily.