The Darkness: 3

Part 9

Italics- Lydia's voices/visions

Lydia

Lydia had her back on the swivel stool, spinning around and staring at the ceiling. "What are you doing?" Felicity asked. She stopped spinning to see the ceiling was a little dizzy and controlled her eyesight.

"I'm just keeping myself busy," she explained. She was trying to keep herself busy, just from Sara haunting her and everything with Oliver.

Lydia lifted herself up to sit straightforwardly when the rest of the team came in. "Take them down?" Felicity asked all cheerily. "Yeah, it was easy," Roy explained, hanging up his bow.

"Hi everyone!" Someone exclaimed and Lydia looked over. "Cisco, Caitlyn!" Felicity clapped her hands, giving them a hug. Lydia made eye contact with Oliver and they both rolled their eyes.

"So this is the Arrow Cave," Cisco said with his arms wide. "We don't call it that," Oliver said, crossing his arms and eying Felicity. Lydia made a small wave at Cisco and Caitlyn before going over the workout area of the hideout.

"I have to stay busy," she whispered to herself. Lydia removed her shirt, revealing her sports bra and put her hair in a ponytail. She jumped onto the bar of the salmon ladder and began doing pull-ups. She removed the bar of the hooks and jumped up to the next hook.

Digger Harkness

Her face went pale from the whisper as she continued doing the pull-ups.

Lyla Michaels

Just as she was about to do another one, the voice filled her head, causing her to miss the hook. The bar attached to one of the hooks and the other pulled her down.

"You okay?" Oliver asked, bending down next to her. "Digger Harkness wants to kill Lyla," Lydia said softly, glancing at Diggle. "Suit up," Oliver said, looking at Roy and Diggle.

Lydia got up and stumbled over to the table. "So is that a normal thing?" Cisco asked. "Yes." "Wow, the supernatural. Never would've imagined it," he smiled. "Imagination is greater than knowledge," she told him.

"So what did you find on the evidence I sent on Sara's killer?" Felicity asked. "Well," Caitlyn began, connecting her tablet to the screen, "this is what we got." Lydia moved to see the screen and her eyes went big in disbelief. "Oliver killed Sara?" Felicity asked with a frown.

Lydia exhaled, going back to the area where she was. "I don't believe it," she said, tugging on the drape that was hooked to the ceiling. She swung herself onto it and began Aerial drape dancing.

She twisted herself into the air and spilt her legs, twirling down fast. She stopped, holding her arms on the drape to control her breathing.

"Lydia," she heard and turned her head, pulling herself upwards. "You know Oliver didn't do it," Sara said. This time, she was holding onto her arrow wounds and blood was running down her arms.

"Thea killed me and you're letting her get away with it," Sara said slightly angry. 'Malcolm manipulated her' Lydia thought. Sara pulled the arrows out of her chest and threw them at Lydia. One of them struck her in the chest and she felt the pain course through her body.

Lydia snapped out her trance and was falling down the drapes. She quickly stopped herself with heavy breaths and saw that her head was an inch from the mat.
She untangled her legs from the drapes and sat down on the mat to meditate.

Her calmness was broken when the team clustered into the hideout. "What happened?" Felicity asked and Lydia got up. "Digger is after me because of what happened back on the field," Lyla explained.

Lydia's attention switched when she saw someone in red following Oliver and she narrowed her eyes. "Uhm..." she trailed off and Oliver turned around, pulling off his hood. "It's me, Barry," he explained, taking off his mask. He sighed once he saw Lyla was watching then shrugged it off.

"Yes!" Cisco clapped his hands, taking a step forward. "Team Arrow and Team Flash. Memories." And he took a picture with his phone. "No, we don't need your help," Oliver said firmly. Barry scoffed, "But I just saved you." "And we really needed it," Roy added, getting a glare from Oliver.

"Also," Lyla spoke, pulling out a bag, "we need to put this back in pieces to find out where Digger gets his boomerangs." "Captain Boomerang," Cisco said slowly, looking off into his own world and most of the team smiled.

Lyla laid out the pieces on a stand and sighed, "How are we supposed to do it?" Barry stepped forward and used her super speed, replacing all of the pieces. "Done," he glanced at Oliver.

Lydia went over to the boomerang and hovered her hand over it. She slightly grazed a finger over it and a shiver went down her spine. She pursed her lips, picking it up. She chucked the boomerang across the hideout and everyone ducked as it came back around into her hand. "Klaus Markos," she said softly, "He's the supplier."

She set down the boomerang and stepped back with wide eyes. "I have to go. You guys will be fine," she said with a pivot, before leaving the underground room.

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Lydia entered her dimmed down apartment and set down her bag. She walked around the living room waiting for something before she paused.

She turned around and saw him standing right in front of her. "What do you want psycho?" She asked. "I'm not, you are," Malcolm said, taking a seat on her couch. She tilted her head and stared at him before sitting down across from him.

"Why'd you do it?" She asked. "You know," he said, unbuttoning the first button of his suit. "I needed to eliminate the target that was following me," he explained. "Well, you should've at least held her captive. Not kill her!" She exclaimed. "Well it wasn't me," he said. "But you manipulated your own daughter," she whisper shouted. "That is sick! Not even Peter would go that low."

Lydia leaned back and sighed at him with a glare. "What are going to do now?" She asked, "The League will soon find out and Ra's would do anything for his daughter." "Simply just wait it out," Malcolm said, spreading his lips. "And let them kill Thea?" "Tell them," Malcolm said firmly, "that Oliver did it."

She felt her heart sink from the sentence that escaped his mouth. It was absolutely incomprehensible that someone would think so low. He would let Oliver take the fall for something he didn't do. Malcolm probably was the one who placed the evidence Caitlyn showed.

There was a slow blink of stupidity that she gave Malcolm. "Then he'd go to combat with Ra's. If Oliver wins or dies, the bounty on all of us is gone," he explained. "I'd rather tell them you did it," she said with anger, leaning forward. "But then they'll know I had Thea do it, and they'd kill the both of us," he said.

"Did you plan this out?" She asked, narrowing her eyes. There was no response and he just stared at her and she knew it was a yes. "You just want Oliver to die since you didn't get a chance the first time," she told him, "But if you killed him, you'd never get to see Thea again."

"But you'll tell them anyway," Malcolm spoke and she gave him a look, "even the plan." "Not the plan, just what you did."

Lydia looked past Malcolm's shoulder to see Sara giving her a nod. She lifted her head and her body finally drifted away.

Malcolm got up and she stood up and faced him. "You are every bit as crazy as me," she told him. "But I do it better," he smirked, leaving her apartment.