Sara's Decision

Chapter 25

The next couple of weeks had gone by with the team training a lot and stopping bank robberies and general stuff like that. They were really starting to clean up the streets and the team needed to start getting ready for when Slade showed up in the city, if he hadn't already.

"All of you archers need to start keeping some injection arrows in your quiver in case we run up again Slade or some of his men." Sara said.

"That is a good idea. Do you think he has found another way to create Mirakuru since we destroyed the other machine?" Oliver asked.

"It wouldn't surprise me. He did in the other timeline." Sara said.

"Ok, we need to be prepared so Thea, Roy, and Emiko, load up on the cure just in case." Oliver said and the other three archers nodded as they got to work on their injection arrows as Oliver did the same.

"Ok, let's head home for the night. Barbara when you get in tomorrow see if you can pull facial recognition for Slade Wilson." Oliver said.

"I have it running now. If it catches him anywhere during the night, it will alert all of us through our phones." Barbara said.

"That is a good idea. Thanks for doing that." Oliver said and Barbara nodded.

The next afternoon the team was in the lair getting ready to train and Oliver's phone rang. He looked at the caller id to see that it was his mother calling. "Wonder what she wants?" Oliver asked as he went to answer the call.

"Hello." Oliver said

"Oliver, I have someone coming to my house to talk about being a donor to my campaign and I think that it would be good for you and Thea to be here as well, so it at least looks like we are still a family." Moira said.

"We will be there. No matter how much we don't like you right now, we both agree that you would make a good mayor." Oliver said.

"Thank you. I will see you at four then." Moira said as Oliver hung up and told Thea what was going on.

"So, we have to go to some boring meeting for mom. That sounds like fun." Thea said sarcastically.

"It won't be that bad and once it is over, we can head home. We need to be there in an hour though." Oliver said.

The siblings went home to change into some nicer clothes and then they headed to Queen Mansion. Once they were there, they let themselves in and went to the sitting room where Moira was talking to a man they could not see because he was facing the other direction.

"Oh good, you made it. I would like to introduce you to one of my donors. This is Slade Wilson." Moira said.

Oliver froze for a second as he saw his old friend turn towards him. He then walked over and shook Slade's hand and said "It's nice to meet you Mr. Wilson. I am glad you are trying to help my mother's campaign out."

"It's no problem. I like what I am seeing from your mother so far. So, it would be a pleasure to help her out." Slade said.

"This is my daughter, Thea." Moira said as she introduced Thea to Slade.

"Nice to meet you Mr. Wilson." Thea said as she smiled at him.

"I have to make a call. I will be right back." Oliver said.

Oliver went upstairs so that Slade would not hear him and called Sara. "Sara you need to get here now. Slade is here. Get Emiko and Roy as well. We will need the cure." Oliver said.

"We are on the way. Just keep him busy until we get there." Sara said and then hung up so that she could get the rest of the team ready.

Oliver goes back down to the sitting room and sees that everyone is talking happily. "Hey mom, don't you think it would be a good idea for us to have a drink with Mr. Wilson to celebrate him being a donor to your campaign?" Oliver asked.

"That sounds like a wonderful idea. I will go tell the staff to bring something in." Moira said and left the room.

"What are you doing here Slade?" Oliver said.

"I made you a promise kid and I intend on keeping it. I didn't think that you would talk like this in front of your sister though." Slade said.

"Thea is part of my team and she knows about you, so it is not a problem for her to hear this." Oliver said.

"Ok, well at least she knows she does not have much longer to live." Slade said while looking at Thea with his one eye.

"You won't get the chance to do anything." Thea said.

Right as Slade was about to say something else the front door of the mansion opened, and Sara and Laurel walked in. "Hey Ollie, I know we had that date tonight, but we wanted to come by and hang out for a while. Hope that is ok." Sara said.

"That's fine. You remember Slade, right?" Oliver asked acting as if Sara didn't know everything that was going on.

"Yeah he was on the island with us. How have you been Slade?" Sara said.

"Well it is good to know that you are alive as well Sara. And you must be Laurel. The kid had a picture of you that he looked at all of the time when we were together on the island." Slade said.

"That would be me." Laurel said.

"Well it will be a pleasure to kill all of you, because I owe it to you sister as well because she is only alive because Oliver picked her over Shado." Slade said.

Right then Moira walked back in with the liquor that Slade had brought as a gift. "Sara and Laurel, I was not expecting to see you here. Would you like some as well?" Moira asked.

"Sure, I can never turn down a drink." Sara said and Laurel nodded in agreement.

Right as everyone was about to sip their drink, the lights turned off and the windows broke in the sitting room and two vigilantes entered and shot injection arrows at Slade. He caught them both and dropped them to the floor. Oliver then attacked Slade to keep him busy while Sara snuck up behind Slade and jammed a syringe in his neck and injected him with the cure. Slade was so surprised at this that he lost his concentration on Oliver which allowed him to knock Slade out.

"Would someone please tell me what is going on here." Moira said.

"Slade was on the island with me. He was like my brother, but something happened, and he turned on Sara and me. He was here to kill everyone that I care for, so I had to take him down." Oliver said as he picked up his phone and called ARGUS telling them that they needed to pick up Slade and take him to the prison on Lian Yu.

"So, who are those two?" Moira asked.

"They are the newest members to our team. You can show yourself. She will not tell anyone." Oliver said and the two archers came forward with their hood down.

"This is Roy Harper and I am sure you have heard of our sister Emiko." Thea said.

"I didn't know that you would try to bring Robert's daughter into this." Moira said.

"Well it is kind of like a family business, so why not?" Thea asked.

"Fair enough. Anyways, I need to get this place cleaned up so if you could take Mr. Wilson outside so I can have the staff do that, it would be nice." Moira said.

"We will take care of that. See you later mom." Oliver said as the team walked out of the mansion and waited for the ARGUS transport to arrive.