The Arrow

4

Queen's Mansion
Scarlet's POV

Thea and I were watching the news when Oliver comes down.

" Couldn't sleep either?" Thea questions her brother.

" No." He says and sits beside me so I was stuck between the two Queen's " What are you two watching?"

" Peter Declan." I answer him

" Hmm?"

" A guy who killed his wife." I explain further as the two of us look at each other.

" Right this guy killed his wife in there baby's room. Psycho." Thea comments.

" Camille was everything to me. I couldn't kill her anymore than I could kill myself." The tv beams.

" So why can't you sleep?" Thea asks, lowering the sound of the TV.

" Bad dreams" He answers

" About?"

" Laurel."

" So why don't you make a play?"

" Thea" I say

" I mean she came over here just to make sure you didn't get shot."

" There are reasons." Oliver says

" Mm what are they?" Thea asks " Besides you sleeping with her sister, and her sister dying and her father hating your guts and you basically being a jerk to everyone since you came back?" Oliver look at her " Those are only the top ones"

" I feel like this is a private conversation so I'll go" I say standing but Thea pulls me back down " Or not"

" I know that it might not seem like it sometimes, but I'm not the same person I used to be." Oliver says.

" So show her. Be yourself. I mean your new self" Thea says then leaves. Oh so she's gonna- okay.

" Why can't you sleep?" Oliver asks turning to me.

" Nightmares" I say throwing some popcorn in my mouth and then looking at him. 

" About?" He questions me the same way Thea questioned him. I stay silent for a second my gaze returning to the popcorn. My mom, my dad, lifeless eyes, torture, screams, blood. I sound like a psychopath.

" I don't remember" I lie giving him glance.

Oliver P.O.V

I could tell she was lying. The shirt she was wearing was really baggy on her. You could see a-bit of her shoulder. It had two big scars and there was a bit of makeup covering her neck but I could tell there was a bruise from strangulation and then on her collarbone was a purple spot which looked forced.

She takes her phone out and the first thing I notice was the miss calls that littered her screen. They all came from Wesley who if I'm correct is her brother and two of them were from iron heights prison.

" I should go" She states and gets up. She grabs her bag that was on the ground. When she grabbed it, the bag opens a bit more to show medical things like bandages, gauzes, medicine. She gives me forced smile