The Next Archer

Chapter 2

8:38am

May 3

The Arrow cave

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 The next day in the Arrow cave Felicity was talking to John Diggle, when Oliver, in his grey suit, came down the stairs followed by the 16 year old girl, Artemis Crock who had her hair down and was in ripped jeans and a navy blue dress shirt she looked over at Diggle and Felicity who's eyes were wide at the sight of the bandit from last night.

"Felicity, John, this is Artemis Crock, Artemis, this is John Diggle and Felicity Smoak, my friends" Oliver said smiling already putting on his "nice face" for his meeting as the CEO of Queen Consolidated his family company started by his father all those years ago, as the beginning of his crusade as "the Arrow"

 Felicity smiled and decided to say something to the teen "Hello Artemis, did you actually know your name has the origin of-“

"The Greek Goddess, Artemis the Goddess of archery, war, production and the moon" Artemis quipped at the older blonde and Felicity shut up and looked down, shut down by the teen.

Oliver looked over quickly at Artemis, glaring at her. “Artemis. Please we made an agreement, you have to behave” 

“Okay, Felicity Im sorry its been along night shouldn't have said that”

“Its fine Artemis, i like your name” Felicity said feeling a thought of awkwardness in the room. 

“Artemis will be apart of this team until further notice she's a good archer and she's determined to help us take down the league of assassins eventually and without Roy here for a while she’ll make a good substitute” he explained making sure both parties understood.

John Diggle and Felicity Smoak exchanged glances before nodding.

There was then an alarm that went off on Felicity’s computer notifying them all there was a break in at Starlings General Bank of authority. “Artemis stay here with Felicity, I will be able to handle this alone, and John please go check on Lylla, she cant be constantly alone with an infant child and you need to be there for her”

Artemis and John opened their mouths to protest but Oliver cut them both off “Listen i need everyone to learn to trust me okay? and John i know you have responsibilities here but you also have them with Lyla also i don’t want you hurt before the babies a little older, comes am i understood?”

The two nodded and Oliver went to go change into the leather, fabricated suit.

Oliver left the “Arrow Cave” and Felicity linked up with him through the coms and began to read coordinates “Oliver its at Starlings General Bank, about 8 hostiles and one hostage, the hostage doesn't have a timer on his head luckily but they want a ransom, but you'll give them something a little more than they were suspecting” Felicity said then let Oliver respond before giving more instructions about what he was getting himself into.

In the back of the “arrow cave” Artemis looked at Oliver’s bow carefully examining it before grabbing the quiver of the carbon lined arrows and walking over to where the training floor was and raising the bow, alining the arrow to the string and pulling back her arm not strained but calm and steady.