Destiny Rewritten

Chapter 68

When Ra's men returned with the Ghost, Oliver was only half surprised when he recognized who it was and he had to resist the urge to put an arrow in him now. That would come later, though it probably wouldn't be an arrow.

"No way." Oliver said.

"You know this man?" Ra's asked, surprised.

"I know his brother. His name is Andy Diggle and he's supposed to be dead." Oliver said.

"Well, once he gives us what we need, we can correct that error." Ra's said and Oliver had no problems with that call, since it had been this son of a bitch that had gotten Laurel killed before and he had no intention of letting history repeat itself.

"Wait, Oliver, shouldn't we let John know? I mean Andy was his brother." Thea said.

"We don't even know where John is right now and it would take too long to try and find him. Besides, Andy has information we need now." Oliver said.

"Still, this is his brother. Maybe there's a way John can convince Andy to turn on Hive." Laurel said.

"No. Andy's loyalties to Hive are too great. We can't risk that we might be wrong." Oliver said.

"It's John's brother." Laurel protested.

"No he's not." A familiar voice said and they all turned to see John Diggle standing at the entrance of the lair.

"John, not that it isn't good to see you, but what are you doing here?" Oliver asked as Laurel and Thea went to hug him.

"Got a few days off from the job, but I suck at vacation, so I thought I'd see if I could be of use here. Imagine my surprise when I find out that my brother is alive and apparently working for the same organization that ordered the hit on him." John said

"Wait what?" Roy asked, since this was news to everyone but Oliver.

"In my downtime, I've been looking more into Andy's death, especially after I found out that his killer is a man with aim almost as good as Oliver's. Turns Andy was the target and it turns out that that the reason he was targeted is because his own criminal actions interfered with Hive's." John said angrily as he approached his brother.

"John, you got it all wrong." Andy tried, but John wouldn't have any of it.

"You were dirty back in the day and you're dirty now. Only now you've gone from corrupt military operatives to actual terrorist organizations." John said, disgusted that he'd once been proud to call this man his brother, but this time, Oliver wasn't going to try to talk him down.

"Think you can get him to squeal?" Oliver asked.

"I'm guessing that Hive trains their recruits to resist torture?" John asked, this question directed at Ra's, who nodded.

"Depends on how close to the League's methods Damien got." Ra's answered.

"Well, I say we find out just how resistant to torture he is." Oliver said and Ra's looked pleased by Oliver's attitude, while the others looked surprised.

"Oliver, are you sure about this?" Laurel asked.

"I don't like it, but sometimes you have to do things you rather wouldn't and cross lines that shouldn't be crossed to get results. Trust me, I learned that the hard way." Oliver said.

"I'm just making sure you're not going to do something you'll regret." Laurel said.

"I never said I was going to be the one to torture him. Ra's agents have already started, only right to let them finish the job." Oliver said.