Star City April 2016.
Numbness. That was all Laurel could feel right now. Numb over the fact her father gave up his own life to save hers and the fact that it was Andy, John's own brother who tipped Damien Darhk off about the deal the SCPD captain made with the District attorney Nemz and broke him out of SCPD lockup. How did she find out about this? Felicity caught him by using the CCTV cameras, he was seen outside the D.A.'s office making a phone call to Damien Darhk the day he agreed to testify. He's been a double agent. Diggle was pissed and rightfully so. He also felt immense guilt of that a police captain, a father died on his watch. Diggle wondered how the hell could he be so blind? Oliver reassured him that they all have blind spots when it comes to family. He knows it better than anyone.
"You ok?" Oliver asked concered as he was standing by her right side.
"Are you?" Laurel hissed, showing contempt towards the man who had a hand in her father's death. "I know what I'm gonna do now. I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch."
Oliver closed his eyes while letting out a big sigh of resignation. He figured that it would her reaction. Just as her reaction when Sara was killed last year in which she left Star City to travel to Asia to become Black Canary a year and half ago. And the truth was he was going to help her doing it. He tried to do the right way, but it didn't work. Damien Darhk proved to be too dangerous to live killing Quentin right in front of Laurel. He's gonna pay for what he's done.
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Laurel was hitting the punching bag hard letting her anger out at the training area in Arrowcave wearing her work out clothing. All she could think about was how her father must've felt when he took that bullet meant for her. Did he felt regret of his part of getting in bed with Darhk? Did he regret shunning her mother and herself after The Gambit got shipwrecked? She didn't know and she was never going to find out.
"What on earth did that bag do to you, Sis?"
She stopped suddenly, slowly turning to see her little sister standing next to where her Black Canary suit was stored. "Sara?"
"You're seriously gonna go through with this, are ya?" Sara stared at her as if it was the most absurd idea that she ever heard. "Killing Darhk? That's not the Laurel I once knew."
Realizing that Sara was just a figment of her imagination, Laurel returned to the punching bag ignoring her voice. "That was then, this is now. I'm not that naive girl who graduated from Law School anymore."
"Maybe so but the Laurel I know wouldn't resort to cold blooded murder. That's my specialty or was."
"Well, you haven't been here the last four months, so you're not in the position to judge!!" Laurel snapped, reminding the imagined Sara that she was with the Legends with Bucky. "Dad died! To save me. Andy, John's brother tipped Darhk off about the deal Dad made with the D.A.'s office."
"So in an attempt to make up for not saving Daddy, you thought that "Hey if court can't convict him, why not kill him?" Sara said sarcastically. "That would solve a lot of problems except it doesn't."
Laurel scoffed as she continued to hit the punching bag. "You don't understand."
"Yes I do. I've been here." Sara said knowingly. "I know what killing does to you. It changes you. How it tears pieces of your soul until there's nothing left. You've been through enough tragedies to last a lifetime. If you kill Darhk, it's gonna push you over the edge."
"The only difference between me and you, Sara, is that you killed because you were trained to do." Laurel declared strongly. "Me? I want to kill because I have to, he's too dangerous to live. And trust me, once I find the bastard, he's a dead man."
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White Wolf (Laurel Lance)
AcciónA former assassin turned vigilante is approached by Rip Hunter to be a part of a team called Legends to protect history. Can the man who was once known as the Winter Solder earn redemption he so desperately yearns? Slight crossover with Marvel and L...
