The Hero In the Dark

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Olivia woke up early and cleaned up even changing into some clothes that she had taken from a suitcase outside one of the motel rooms, lucky it had been a womans clothes, but they were a few sizes to big making her shirt hang loosly off her. And tie the pants around her tighter with a shoelace in the back. 

Her patch job on herself would hold for a while longer but not for too long. She was going to the Arrow base and anyone there would be able to repatch her if not do a better job than what she could do on herself. She was already bleeding through to the badage a little.

She made the room look just as before she walked in then gathered her things and started making her way to the base she grew up in as a child. The one she use to run around in, colour on the glass round table, and learn to fight in. She remembered the way like a computer programming. Her body knew where it was going before she even really knew. When she got to the empty show building she smiled. The building had held many events one of which was a holiday party that ended with alot of her family being kidnapped and nearly killed by a man she was lucky enough to never meet.

Olivia walked to the back wall and pressed the hidden button that someone could only find if you looked hard enough The wall seperated in two revealing an ellevator. She stepped in and pressed the down button before leaning on the walls feeling weak. The doors closed and she felt as the elevator started to move down. It wasn't too far down but it gave her enough time to take a few deep breaths before she came face to faces with her parents. Her parents she saw dead not too long and would now be younger and alive. When the door opened she was met by guns, arrows, and flying small balls that had T's on them. She didn't do anything but step out of the elevator hands up as far as she could, which still wasn't much. She didn't react anymore than that. No fear appeared on her confusing most.

Diggle looked to Oliver confused that a young girl had found her way to very well hidden base and was unfazed by the many ways to kill her. Oliver glanced at Felicity that sat at her chair clearly worried. "Guys," no one flinched even though it was her angry voice.

"Wait..."Oliver looked at her closer, rememebr her from the night before. "Your the girl from last night."

"That's her?" Felicity asked.

"I'm-...Lauren." Everyone put their wepons down and Oliver looked at the girl infront of him. Not trusting and clearly on edge. It hadn't escaped the fact she was going to say something else before Lauren. "I'm from the future." Diggle let his shoulder hang down.

"I can't..."Diggle walked away and Olivia smiled a little remembering his reaction to her powers as well as the stories Barry had told them after they had gotten their powers. Diggle has never done well with Meta's and Aleins. Even after all her years he still vomits when Barry runs with him.

"Well..I can." Felicity stepped off the platform and made her way closer to Olivia only Oliver pulled Felicity back so she was closer to him. He pulled her close enough and whispered so Olivia couldn't catch but a little of what she was saying.

"Felicity...we don't know her."

"Oh please, Olivier she's no more than like 15." Felicity smiled as she turned.

"I'm 16 and a half. And I'm not here to spill your secret, or hurt you, or what ever. I'm here for help." Olivia stepped forward. Her hand snapped to her side feeling the pop of her stitch. She knew the thread wasn't gonna last. "In the future...We're a lot closer than you think."

"How long in the future?" Flicity was clearly eager. If anything Olivia knew what she really wanted to ask. Tech. What was the tech like.

"17 and a half years." Olivia pulled her phone, that didn't really work anyway, out of her pocket and tossed it to Felicity. It was the size of Felicity's smart phone today but it was more see through and could even project 3D images. Felicity smiled and looked at the girl infront of her. "You'll meet me not to long from now...Me and my brother."

"How?"Olivier asked. He was ready to grill her. Like one of his suspects when he's in his hood and arrows ready to shoot. "Why?" Olivia smiled. Her story she created last night before finally falling alseep. She came expecting everything. She knew her father all to well mainly because she was just like him in most ways.

"You save me and my twin brother, only you didn't save my parents in time. We were put in the foster system but since no one would take us both...You and Felicity took us in when we were 4. Felicity can talk you into pretty much everything." Felicity smiled knowing Olivia was right. Olivier hung his head a bit knowing and realizing it was true. She's the love of his life and it was hard to say no to her. Felicity always made the best points.

"I need more power in my corner to save my brother now." Felicity stepped to Olivia finding a kind of unexplainable kin ship with her. "See there was a second partical accelorator and me being around you and Barry made me stay in tuned in the science world. TJ and I snuck out to go see it. We got hit with the dark matter wave giving us both powers. You weren't to happy about it either. When we were 13, some men broke in and kidnapped TJ. I tried to stop them but they got away after knocking me out. We've been looking for 3 years."

"Why come back now?" Oliver asked. DIggle returned standing by his best friends side. Felicity still stood close. Glancing between her parents Olivia saw it all over again.

The crashed cars, Felicity on the ground dead. Fire all around her as she ran to find Oliver only finding her father with a sword in his chest at the hand of her twin brother. But it wasn't him. Those eyes weren't her brothers. That wasn't that boy who held her tight everytime she had a nightmare as children. That wasn't the brother that got in trouble with her no matter how much he didn't want to. "He came back, brainwashed. The middle of the night on the highway. A black van shooting at us made us crash. Umm that's when...Felicity died in the crash." She looked at her mothers face wishing she didn't say the truth only...it was they only way they'd take it serious. "Oliver..You got out but you died when TJ pushed a sword into your chest." Oliver remembered the feeling the first time it happend. He was lucky to be alive today after that. "I only got away because Barry came and sped me out of there."

"Did Barry bring you back in time too?" Diggle asked.

"No. Cisco finds a way to go back intime in the future. I had to convinced them to bring me back. I know whoever this is who took TJ tried to kidnapp us when we were younger. Us having powers later I think was just a bous considering what he can do they only took him."

"Why?" Olivia looked in her mothers eyes. Eyes she shared with her. Her face still showed the realization she wouldn't make it to 60 sitting on the porch with her husband watching as grandkids ran around the front yard. "If they were after you both aft first why only take one of you? You both have powers."

"He can do anything he imagines. Granted we found out because he wanted a pizza and one fell right infront of him but that also includes..imagining the same swoard that stabbed your father once before in the chest now I guess." Oliver put his bow down and crossed his arms.

"Olivier?" Felicity question as she looked back.

"We're not evil. The men that took him did something to him. When you two took us in, you taught us to be good. To help people. Save people. You're all I remember. He could hardly hurt a fly, yet he killed you? I know my brother. And they did something to him."

Oliver contemplated it. It all sounded truely believable. It all sounded like something that could happen with Felicity being who she was. She could see it as something true. She also was better at listening to her gut. At the moment it told her to listen to The girl in front of them.

"Don't trust me?Fine. Shoot one of those arrows at me just like you did to Barry the first time you trained him. Of course, I don't shoot people in the back. Go on, I dare you..double dare you, Triple dare you." Olivier was fast. But Olivia was just as fast.

"Oliver!" Diggle and Felicity yelled at the same time.

He shot the arrow at her only she had enough time to put her force field up. The arrow bounced off shooting across the room. She put her forcefield down then force herself to turn invisable. She waited a moment watching their faces. She made herself visible again.

"I've been pushing your buttons for years." She said with a bit of guilt. "Especially the last couple."

It took everyone a moment. The first one to speek was Felicity and Olivia could feel what it was going to be before she opened her mouth.

"Oh my..Lauren you're bleeding." Olivia looked down seeing the blood soak through her baby blue shirt.