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XXXII. Tinged Ends & Yellow Tips

XXXII. Tinged Ends & Yellow Tips

Oliver kept looking at his watch, probably for the same reason that I was looking at mine. The Arrow told V (me) that there was to be an attack on him tonight, tonight also happened to be our first date.

So he was discreetly tense as he looked around, the attacker was a new Vertigo dealer, he wanted the Arrow out of the picture, I was still trying to figure out how they were tracking him.

I looked at him, maybe his pockets? There was a slight indent where he kept his handkerchief, he must've been too distracted by me to notice. Where would they have put the tracker on him? The most logical time would be this morning while he was on assignment, they  could've slipped it in his pocket whilst fighting. That means he's been walking around with the tracker for four hours or so.

I fake sneezed and he quickly handed my handkerchief and the tracker bug slipped out of him pocket. He looked at it wide eyed and looked around and saw something I did. His target. He dropped the bug to the floor and crushed it.

They knew we were at the restaurant. Not good. Too many civilians. The smartest and most effective way to take out Oliver would be a bomb, guns or snipers are too risky.

I had to find the bomb. Oliver was ordering our meals as I looked around the restaurant, there were eyes on us, mostly because he was Oliver Queen, but the eyes that caught my attention were the eight eyes pairs with the four men covering the exits. They had buzzed hair, jacked physic, tanned skin meaning the worked outdoors, dirty finger nails,so they were probably the henchmen.

I looked up and saw the Oliver must've noticed the same thing I did, but I didn't think he knew about the bomb, I decided he'd take care of the henchmen and I take care of the-

The bomb was in the kitchen! I suddenly realized. Yes, yes, very clean and it would never trace back to the doer. C4 and maybe lye on top, pour water mixed with saliva next to a gas fuse next to the fridge and the police would just assume it was an accident.

Smart, but I was smarter.

"Oliver, I've got to use the silvered hair girls room."

He smiled at me," yeah, I'm gonna step outside." Meaning, I've gotta go put some arrows in some fools.

I nodded, and walked to the back of the restaurant headed toward the bathroom to change into my V clothes.  I did so quickly before sneaking to the kitchen. And I was right of course, behind a leaking fridge was a contraption containing the lye and saliva bucket, but I was wrong about the C4 but it was still some type of flammable powder. 

I had to be careful while cutting the bucket from the lye, one wrong move and Ka Boon.

Slowly with a steady hand I used my dagger to begin cutting.

"Hay! Whose back there?!"

"Fuck." I whispered to myself.

The women worker neared and I thought for sure I was caught, something worst happened, one of the henchmen cane and knocked her out.

"Step away from the bomb."

I tried to keep cutting but he ran up to me and threw me against the wall but by then I had successfully removed the lye.