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From 2.01 "City of Heroes", in the conference room, Oliver stood in front of the board.

Oliver: (voice over) "My name is Oliver Queen."

From 2.16 "Suicide Squad", in the warehouse district, Jill aimed one gun at a man behind her, and another gun at Alexi in front of her.

Jill: (voice over) "I'm Jill Wright."

From multiple episodes and flashbacks on the island, there were flashes of Oliver and Jill running, fighting, explosions, etc.

Jill: (voice over) "After five years in hell..."

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", on the freighter, Oliver and Jill were fighting with Slade.

Jill: (voice over) "We have come to Starling City with only one goal."

From 2.08 "The Scientist", in the warehouse, Oliver/Arrow and Jill/Sapphire were fighting with Cyrus Gold and Marcus Black.

Jill: (voice over) "To save the city."

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", in the foundry, Oliver, Jill, Skylar, Amy and Sara were suited up. John and Justin were aiming their guns at the League. Felicity was watching them.

Oliver: (voice over) "Now others have joined our crusade."

From 2.17 "Birds of Prey", in the foundry, Oliver, Jill, Justin, John, Skylar, Amy, Sara, Felicity and Roy were here.

Oliver: (voice over) "To them, we are Oliver Queen and Jill Wright."

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", in the tunnel, Raven, Kira/Viper, Aurora/Glacia, Logan/Guardian, Roy (wearing his hoodie and mask), Oliver/Arrow, Jill/Sapphire, Skylar/Athena, Justin, Amy/Ruby, Sara/Canary, Karma/Cobra, Nyssa and the men from the League were walking toward the Mirakuru men.

Oliver: (voice over) "But to the rest of Starling City, we are someone else."

From 2.12 "Tremors", in the warehouse district, Skylar and Roy followed Oliver/Arrow away with Jill/Sapphire in his arms, leaving the flames of an explosion behind them.

Jill: (voice over) "We are..."

From 2.01 "City of Heroes", in the foundry, Jill looked at the knife in her hand. She morphed into Sapphire.

Jill: (voice over) "Something else."

Oliver looked at the arrow in his hand. He morphed into Arrow.

➣ ➣  

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", on the island, Oliver, Jill, Amy, Raven, Nyssa, Skylar, Justin, John and Felicity were here.

Oliver: (voice over) "Previously on Sapphire Arrow."

From 2.01 "City of Heroes", in the foundry, Oliver, Jill, Justin, John and Felicity were talking.

"This city still needs saving," Oliver told them.

From 2.20 "Seeing Red", on the road, Oliver/Arrow and Jill/Sapphire were driving on one motorcycle while Skylar (identity hidden) was driving on another.

Oliver: (voice over from 2.01 City of Heroes) "But not by some vigilante who are just crossing names off a list."

From 2.01 "City of Heroes", in the foundry, Oliver, Jill, Justin, John and Felicity were talking.

Jill took a few steps away, picking up one of her knives. "It needs heroes."

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", in the foundry, Oliver and Roy were talking.

Roy opened the box to reveal a red mask inside.

"If you survive a crucible, you grow stronger for it," Oliver told him. "This is to remind you of that."

From 2.21 "Streets of Fire", in the clock tower, Skylar pulled her suit out of the box, seeing that there was a purple compound bow with dozens of purple, black and white arrows inside, smiling a small smile, looking at Oliver and Jill. "It's about damn time."

Oliver and Jill smiled small smiles, nodding.

"You've waited long enough, Athena," Jill told her.

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", in the Queen Mansion, Skylar/Athena, without her mask or hood on, and Justin were talking.

"I love you," Skylar told him. "Which means that I can't let you get hurt because of Slade, because of me. Do you understand?"

"Yes," Justin answered. "And you understand that I can't let anything like that happen to you, because the same reasons that you can't let that happen to me." He stepped closer until he was in front of Skylar, kissing her slowly and passionately, pulling away. "Because I love you."

From 2.03 "Broken Dolls", in the warehouse, Amy/Ruby landed on the ground in a crouch, drawing her Sai knives, holding them out to either side of her.

Raven: (voice over from 2.13 Heir to the Demon) "Maybe we'd just like to tell her the truth that you're too afraid to tell her."

From 2.13 "Heir to the Demon", in the warehouse, Jill, Amy and Nyssa were talking, all suited up.

"Tell her how I am your cousin," Nyssa told her. "Tell her how your entire lives have been a lie. Sean Wright was not your father's real name. Your father had ties to the League that no one else could possibly imagine. He was known by Chaos al Ghul. Your mother, Pride, named herself as Angela. Adric, your brother, Austin." Nyssa looked at Amy. "Annalisa." She looked at Jill. "Alyanna."

From 2.13 "Heir to the Demon", in the foundry, Jill was in workout clothes, talking with Oliver. "My parents and my brother are dead, and I'm just beginning to realize who they were. And I'm not who I thought I was. My real name's not even Jill Wright. It's Alyanna al Ghul."

"That may be your birth name," Oliver told her. "But that's not who you are."

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", in the foundry, everyone was here, suited up. Jill pulled Amy aside to talk to her alone. "Whatever they promised you, it comes at a price. It doesn't matter that they're family."

Amy turned to face her. "You don't have to worry about it, because I've already done it."

Jill looked at her in confusion until she realized. "You agreed to go back."

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", on the ferry, Sara walked away from her family.

"She'll be okay," Jessica told them.

"Yeah, I know she'll be okay, but okay at what is what bothers me," Lance told them, starting to groan in pain.

"Dad?" Jessica asked worriedly. Lance fell to his knees, starting to cough up blood. "Dad!"

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", the group was on the island.

Amy, Raven, Nyssa and Jill were standing together.

"No one in the League will let anything happen to Amy," Raven told her.

"Just because I said that if you wanted me to have anything to do with the League if you played by my rules last night does not mean that I want anything to do with it," Jill told them. "Don't expect me to come knocking on your door."

Nyssa smirked knowingly. "I'll see you around, cousin."

From 2.23 "Unthinkable", in flashback, the men brought Jill outside to meet Amanda.

"My name is Amanda Waller, Miss Wright," Amanda told her. The man behind Amanda opened the car door for Jill. Jill hesitantly walked closer, getting into the car. "Welcome to Hong Kong."

➣➣

Jill / Sapphire: 

Skylar / Athena: 

Day One

Night - Train Tracks 

A truck was driving by.

Oliver/Arrow was running along the tracks.

Felicity was in the foundry beneath the club Verdant.

"Got him," Oliver told them. "Coming up 52nd Street, heading east."

"Copy that," Felicity told him. "Or is it roger? I never know the difference. Jill, there's an illegal shipment of RPG's headed your way."

Jill/Sapphire was driving down the road on her motorcycle. "Roger. I'm on it."

Felicity nodded. "Oh, so it is roger."

Oliver jumped off of the tracks to land on the moving truck beneath him, flipping from the load to the cabin, shooting an explosive arrow into the load, making it fall from the back of the cabin.

Jill stopped behind the load, getting off her bike, walking toward it, opening the door, looking inside. "RPG's are secure. I've got eyes on them."

Oliver was still on the truck. "Roy, Sky, we're coming to you."

Oliver lowered himself to the door on the truck, punching through the window, shattering it, punching the driver in the face, taking control of the wheel, making him turn into a warehouse district.

Skylar/Athena flipped over a trunk, landing on the ground next to her motorcycle, aiming her bow and arrow at the semi truck, firing two arrows into the tires, making it pull over. She ran to get onto her motorcycle and start driving down the road.

Roy was suited up in red without a superhero name yet. 

The driver aimed his gun at Oliver, trying to shoot him.

Oliver jumped back off the truck, falling to the ground.

It started to rain.

Roy pulled the driver out of the truck, throwing him to the ground. He smirked.

The driver stood, running away through the warehouse district.

➣

Warehouse District 

The driver was running away.

Oliver ran after him.

The driver ran around a corner.

Jill was waiting for him around the corner, holding out her arm to make him run into it, spinning to kick his legs out from underneath him, making him fall to the ground. She looked at him, smirking. "Vincent Steelgrave..."

Oliver stood next to Jill. "You have failed this city."

Oliver used his bow to punch forward.

➣ Sapphire Arrow ➣  

Verdant - Foundry 

Justin, Felicity and John were in the foundry, watching the news.

Man: (on news)"The Arrow and Sapphire just took down another one of this city's most wanted. There's no denying that the city's crime rate has plummeted in the past five months."

"You're welcome," Felicity told him.

Justin and John smiled.

Oliver, Jill, Skylar and Roy walked in, still suited up, but without their masks or hoods.

"Take another off the board," Jill told them.

"We keep this up, there will only be two types of criminals left in Starling City," John told them. "The ones we put away and the ones that are running scared."

Justin looked at a nearby plant. "What's that?"

"A fern," Felicity answered. "It thrives on low light. I thought since you're living here, the place could do with a little sprucing."

Skylar's phone buzzed. She looked at it. "Another text from Thea."

Skylar showed Oliver.

"Where is she now?" Justin asked.

Oliver sighed. "Amalti Coast. We keep telling her to send photos."

Roy was uncomfortable, walking toward the stairs. "I'm gonna go do a patrol. Clear my head."

"Hey," Jill told him. Roy turned back. Jill looked between Skylar and Roy. "You did really good tonight."

Skylar smiled a small smile.

Roy nodded, walking out, leaving.

Felicity started to gather her things. "I think I'm gonna head out, too. I have to pull an early shift at work today. Which may be the most depressing thing I've ever said."

"See you," Oliver told her.

Felicity walked out, leaving.

Justin turned to Oliver and Skylar. "So, you ready to turn into corporate, masters of the universe?"

Oliver chuckled, nodding. "Yeah."

"Those board members are gonna be begging to sell Queen Consolidated back to you and your backers," Justin told them.

"I'm gonna roll out, too," John told them. "Lyla has me trying to build the bassinet from hell."

Jill smiled. "That reminds me." She grabbed a box from the table, opening it, pulling out a necklace with a wooden trinket that looked like a throwing star as the pendant. "I figured since you and Lyla are having a girl..."

John took the pendant. "I see that you found your family's pending shares from back before..."

"I found out that we're actually spawned from the League of Assassins," Jill finished. "No need to sugarcoat it, John. But I wanted to get you that. For your daughter."

"Well, it's beautiful," John told her. "Thank you."

Oliver smiled. "Congratulations, John. And not just on the baby. You and Lyla are happy."

"You guys don't seem to be doing too bad for yourselves, either," John told them. "Though, I'd take at least one night off to have to yourselves. Thanks again."

John walked out, leaving.

Oliver and Jill / and Skylar and Justin looked at each other, smiling small smiles.

➣

Flashback - Five Years Ago

Hong Kong, China

Day - Streets 

Jill was running through the city of Hong Kong in the streets, taking a phone from a man nearby, running as fast as she could. She stopped in hiding for a moment to dial a number on the phone.

A man fired a gunshot as a warning, running toward Jill.

Jill ran away through the crowd, jumping over a box and pushing tables and chairs out of her way along the way. 

➣

Alley 

Jill ran into an alley, making the phone call to 911.

The man made it to the alley, shooting the phone out of her hand, grazing along her skin in the process, making her groan in pain. Jill turned to face him, sighing. The man tried to punch her. Jill raised an arm to block the move. The man punched her twice. Jill spun to kick him in the back.

The man punched Jill twice in the stomach, kicking her in the chest, making her fall, speaking indistinctly in Japanese.

Jill responded in Japanese. "I told you to speak to me in English." She started to speak English. "My Japanese's a little rusty, Maseo."

"And I told you, if you tried to escape again, I'd beat you senseless," Maseo told her.

Jill glared at him.

 ➣

Now

Day Two

Morning - Courthouse - Outside 

Laurel and Justin had invited Skylar, Oliver and Jill to a press conference outside the courthouse building, talking to them now.

"Steelgrave took a plea for 15 to 20," Laurel told them. "His lawyer folded after I hit him with the evidence that Team Sapphire Arrow gathered."

"Good work," Justin told her.

"You catch them, I cook them," Laurel told them. "Did I say that too loud?"

"No," Skylar answered. "You're fine."

They walked toward the press conference, where Jessica and Lance were waiting.

"Did you ever think we'd end up as partners?" Laurel asked.

"Is that why you invited us down here, Laurel?" Jill asked. "To see Mr. Steelgrave sent off into his new life?"

"No," Laurel answered. "I have a surprise for all of you."

Lance was in a police captain's uniform.

"What's Jessica and your dad doing here?" Oliver asked.

Laurel smiled. "You'll see. I'll be right back."

Jill nodded. "Mm-hmm."

Laurel walked toward Lance and Jessica. "Dad. Jess. Hi. How are you?"

"Hey," Jessica told her. 

"If they'd told me press conferences came with the promotion, I would've told them I prefer getting shot at," Lance told them.

"Good thing your doctor isn't giving you a choice," Jessica told him.

"You know, you could try to hide the fact that you're glad I can't get out in the field anymore," Lance told them.

"I can't hide that I'm glad that you're safe," Jessica told him.

Laurel smiled, walking back toward Skylar, Justin, Oliver and Jill.

"What's all this?" Jill asked.

"Your surprise," Laurel answered.

Lance spoke through the mic. "Thank you all. Excuse me. Thank you for coming. Five months ago, this city was under siege. And the SCPD rallied behind a man in a hood and a girl with swords, and the masks that they work with. Well, I ended up with a captain's rank, and they didn't even get a thank you. But today, they do. Today, the Starling City Police Department is formerly recognizing the individuals known as Viper, Cobra, Glacia, Guardian, Ruby, Canary, Athena, Sapphire and the Arrow. And I'm using my new position to disband the anti-vigilante task force charged with capturing them."

Justin, Skylar and Oliver and Jill smiled, looking at Laurel.

"Thank you," Oliver told her.

Laurel smiled.

"Now, make no mistake," Lance told them. "Vigilantism will never be tolerated. But I refuse to hunt, in the name of this city, the heroes who saved it."

Skylar and Justin walked along the square, listening to the speech.

"So, the task force gets disbanded, we get a little bit more breathing room, and we're doing all this before your meeting tomorrow," Justin told her. "How fun is this?"

Skylar chuckled. "I know that you're not talking about serious fun."

"What gave you that impression?" Justin asked sarcastically. He stopped walking. "Skylar..." Skylar turned to face him. "Would you like to go out to dinner with me?"

Skylar was surprised at the question. "You mean like an actual, official date? Our first official date since we took a break after the Mirakuru nightmare last year, that doesn't involve training, fighting, or catching criminals? Like an actual date? Like a... date-date?"

"Yeah, the dinner would implicate that," Justin told her.

"Usually Felicity's the one talking in sentence fragments, but now I am starting to see some of the sibling similarities between you two," Skylar told him.

Justin chuckled, nodding. "Would you like to go to dinner with me?"

Skylar smiled. "Yes."

They were both clearly excited yet nervous, given that even though they did have a date before (in book 1), this was the first one since taking a break last year after Skylar was cured with Mirakuru, after she nearly became a killer, and needed the following months to grieve her mother and recover from the madness of Mirakuru properly.

 ➣

Warehouse 

A group of criminals were watching the news.

"Shut that crap off," Man 1 told them. "Less heat on the vigilantes means more heat on us."

"And the ATF now has our shipment of grenade launchers," Man 2 told them.

"They got our shipment already?" Man 3 asked. "What are we paying bribes to the cops for?"

Man 4 walked in. "We have a more pressing concern. Lack of leadership. I nominate myself. Any objections?"

"Yeah, a few," Man 1 answered.

"Oh, illuminate me," Man 4 told them.

"Where do I start?" Man 1 asked. "It's not just that you talk funny. You don't know the first thing about business. You're just a low level street dealer, a pill pusher."

"Oh, those pills I push?" Man 4 asked. "Are known as Vertigo." He threw a dart into Man 1's throat. "The Count is still apprehended. I tinkered some with his formula. Introduced an additive produced y certain mushrooms." Man 1 was starting to hallucinate. "My Vertigo reveals the face of your greatest fear." Man 1 was hallucinating a big, blue monster. Man 4 stabbed him in the neck with a knife, killing him, letting him fall dead. "As I was saying..." He turned to face Man 2 and Man 3. "Lack of leadership. I nominate myself. Any objections? Our course of action is straight as an arrow or a blade. Gentlemen... we're going to kill the vigilantes."

 ➣➣

Night - On the Road 

Jill/Sapphire and Skylar/Athena were driving down the road on their motorcycles.

John and Justin were driving in a car. 

"Calvin Nico just knocked over a liquor store," Justin told them.

"Nico's in Steelgrave's crew," John told them.

Oliver was running across rooftops that were close together. "Send his photo to Roy. Get me Felicity."

"You got it," Justin told them, hitting a button on his Bluetooth headset to include Felicity in on the call.

Felicity was working in a tech store. "I can't talk right now. I'm at work." She looked at her customers. "Could I ask you guys just to wait one minute? Someone is calling for tech support." She walked into the customer service center to get to the computer. "You are gonna get me so incredibly fired. Okay, I'm hacked into the city's database. I'm running facial recognition now."

Jill drove past the building Oliver was on on her bike.

Justin was speaking to Skylar. "You like Italian?" 

'What?" Skylar asked.

"For tonight," Justin told her. "You like Italian? Everyone likes Italian."

Skylar smiled in amusement. "Justin, we're in the middle of a high-speed chase."

"I'm multi-tasking," Justin told her.

John smirked in amusement, pleased with the thought that Justin and Skylar were getting back together after what happened.

Skylar chuckled. "Yes, I love Italian."

Justin smiled.

Oliver and Jill were both smiling in amusement, happy that they were getting to be happy again.

"I got him," Felicity told them. "He's in the sewer. I'm picking up his cellphone. He's at the corner of Grand and Ames. Detective Lance is also in pursuit. You are welcome. I have to go."

Felicity hung up, running to return to the job at hand.

 ➣

Tunnels 

Nico was running from Jessica.

Jessica used her flashlight to hit Nico in the face, making him fall to the ground, drawing her gun, aiming it at Nico.

Nico drew his gun, aiming at Jessica.

Skylar/Athena and Jill/Sapphire stepped out of hiding next to Nico.

Skylar grabbed Nico, flipping him to the ground.

Jill smirked, turning to Jessica, disguising her voice. "Detective, thank you."

Jessica shrugged. "You had it handled."

"For what you and your father did today," Jill told her. "I know that wasn't just Captain Lance behind those words. That was you, too."

Jessica smiled, chuckling. "Yeah, well... He doesn't listen to me very often, but he listens when it counts. Most of the time. I wish I could do more."

Skylar disguised her voice. "You've already done more than enough. And be careful, Detective. You're getting to be so comfortable around vigilantes that it's almost as if you know who we are."

"I have a pretty strong intuition," Jessica told them. "I just haven't said anything, because I don't want any harm to come to any one of you."

Jill and Skylar smiled small smiles.

Skylar cleared her throat. "I've got to go. Someplace I have to be."

Skylar turned around.

"You got a hot date or something?" Jessica asked.

Skylar continued to walk away, smiling.

Jill smiled in amusement.

 ➣

Flashback

Day - Warehouse 

Jill was sitting in a warehouse in Hong Kong with Amanda Waller and Maseo.

"So, this morning makes how many escape attempts in the last five months?" Amanda asked.

"Nine," Maseo answered.

"What we have here is a failure to reach an understanding," Amanda told her.

"Oh, go to hell," Jill told her.

"So, this is my reward for saving you from drowning off the coast of Lian Yu?" Amanda asked.

"Yeah," Jill told her sarcastically. "Why'd you do that?"

"That's need to know," Amanda told her.

"And what about Oliver Queen?" Jill asked. "You let him die on the freighter? No, wait, let me guess. That's also need to know."

"You're a smart girl," Amanda told her. "Suffice it to say, I have need of a woman of your capacity."

"I don't care," Jill told her. "I don't care about anything except going home."

"And where is your home, Miss Wright?" Amanda asked. "After your family died, I would assume that you have no home to return to."

"Screw you," Jill told her.

"You should know it's extremely easy to kill someone the world already thinks is dead," Amanda told her.

"Kill me, then," Jill told her. "I don't care."

Amanda looked at Maseo. "We're gonna have to try this another way, then."

 ➣

Now

Night - Tech Village 

Felicity was working, talking to a man. "Hi. Thank you for waiting."

"Oh, no problem," the man told her, showing her a box. "I just want to buy this."

"This is a satellite frequency communicator TX40," Felicity told him.

"Yeah, I'm trying to breach a torsecured firewall, and I need something to help me piggyback off a keyhole hexagon satellite, so..." the man trailed off.

"I did that once," Felicity told him. "Hacked a public WiFi signal, piggybacked using crowd-sourced stealth processing."

The man smiled. "Huh. You're Felicity Smoak." Felicity nodded. "Formerly of Queen Consolidated. Do you mind if I ask you something? Why are you here?"

"How do you know who I am?" Felicity asked.

"I know a guy who might be interested in hiring someone with your expertise," the man told her. 

Felicity sighed. "I'm not actually... looking for a new job right now. God help me. But I can help you buy this. Unless I can't. I mean, I shouldn't. You shouldn't buy this."

Felicity started to walk toward more store items.

The man turned after her in amusement, chuckling. "Okay. Clearly you don't understand how this whole sales thing works."

"The next gen model, the TX50, comes out in a few months," Felicity told him. "I got to touch one last year. Pure bliss. And if you want to breach tor-level security, you should really deploy a remote administration tool." She grabbed a device, handing it to the man. "I have a good one. Here's the URL."

"Thanks," the man told her.

"Happy hacking," Felicity told him.

"I certainly hope so," the man told her, walking away.

Felicity watched him go.

 ➣

Starling City General Hospital - Lyla's Room 

Lyla was heavily pregnant now, laying down.

John was pacing nearby her.

The doctor stood next to them. "False alarm."

"Are you sure?" Lyla asked. "These contractions..."

"Just Braxton-hicks," the doctor told her. "You're not even four centimeters dilated."

"I feel like an M1-A1," Lyla told them.

The doctor looked at them in confusion.

"It's a tank," John told him. "Think a big, big tank."

"You did the right thing coming in," the doctor told them. "You don't want your husband--"

"Ex-husband," Lyla corrected the same time John said, "We're not married."

"To be delivering the baby on the side of the freeway," the doctor told them. "You can get dressed now."

The doctor walked out, leaving.

John sighed. "All right."

"Are you okay?" Lyla asked.

"Yeah, yeah," John answered. "I'm not the one that's nine months pregnant."

"You look a little scared," Lyla told him.

"Honey, please," John told her. "I've thrown down with the Taliban, Malcolm Merlyn, and a host of Mirakuru-powered human weapons. I'm terrified."

Lyla and John both smiled and laughed, starting to kiss.

 ➣

Italian Restaurant - Outside 

Skylar/Athena shot an arrow with a zip line into the roof of the restaurant, sliding over the wire to get to the roof. 

 ➣

Inside - Hallway 

Skylar/Athena, arrived to a restaurant hallway, deserted except for her. Her compound bow retracted into something unrecognizable. She sighed, making sure that there were no cameras nearby, pulling off her hood, revealing that her long hair was in a ponytail so that it didn't get messed up, taking off her mask, putting it into her bag. She unzipped her jacket, pulling it off, putting it in her bag, revealing that she was wearing a nice, pink dress underneath, continuing to walk, unzipping her leather pants while doing so, pulling them off, fixing the skirt of her dress, putting the Athena suit pants into the bag, stopping next to a door, taking off her boots, pulling on high heels. She put the bag in a hiding place where only she would know where it was. She walked downstairs of the hallway, without stopping.

 ➣

Main Restaurant 

(Song:) Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Greig 

Skylar walked into the restaurant, toward the waiter. "I'm meeting Justin Smoak, party of two."

"Yes, right this way," the waiter told her, leading the way toward the table.

Justin was sitting down, seeing Skylar coming, smiling, standing. "Hey."

"Hi," Skylar told him. They embraced, pulling away. "What?"

"Nothing," Justin told her. "I'm just..."

"Nervous?" Skylar finished.

"Yeah," Justin answered.

Skylar smiled. "Line forms behind me."

Justin kissed her on the cheek. "You look beautiful." They smiled, taking a seat. The waiter walked closer. "Scotch, neat."

"Just some water for me, thanks," Skylar told him.

The waiter walked away.

"Are you--are you sure?" Justin asked. 

"Yeah," Skylar answered. "Just because I'm a... vigilante at nights, does not make the fact that I just literally turned 20 go away."

Justin smiled, chuckling. "Am I being crazy? I mean, what do we have to be nervous about?"

"Well, we've already exhausted every topic that a couple would talk about on a first date, and a second date, and a third date, and every date, actually," Skylar told him. "And I've already seen you shirtless. Multiple times. And 'working out together' doesn't come close to everything that we've been through."

The waiter walked closer with their drinks.

"Thank you," Justin told him.

The water nodded, walking away.

"And the last real conversation that we had uninterrupted by our nightly activities was on the island the night after we defeated Slade and I told you to stay away from me until I got cured by the Mirakuru," Skylar told him. "After Slade kidnapped you to kill you and make me lose control. And I am so sorry about that, by the way."

Justin shrugged. "Well, I did get to hit Slade with the cure. And we took him down, without killing. And you did save me. And cured yourself. And I told you that I would be there for you for whatever you needed. You just... never really forgave yourself for going after Slade like that."

"I almost killed him," Skylar told him. "I would have, if you hadn't been there. You helped me stay true to myself. You helped bring me back to me. You made sure that I didn't lose myself like everyone else."

"I told you then, and I'll tell you again," Justin told her. "I will always be there. Even if it's just to give you some space, like you needed me to after what happened. That's one of the main reasons why I was nervous about tonight."

"Because you didn't know if I wanted more time and space, or if I was ready to move on," Skylar realized. Justin nodded. "Well, I'm ready. If you are."

Justin nodded. 

Skylar smiled a small smile, nodding.

(Song Ends)

➣

Outside 

The men from the warehouse were tracking Skylar/Athena through her suit that was inside the restaurant at the back.

"GPS shows her in the restaurant," Man 2 told them. "Athena's definitely in there. If we're going to find her, we got to get in close."

"We're close enough," Man 4 told them. "We try to kill Athena, we hurt her, and Sapphire and Arrow will come for us, right to our trap."

Man 4 aimed a bomb device, whistling.

➣

Restaurant

Skylar and Justin heard the bomb getting closer, looking toward the window.

Justin threw the table aside to reach for Skylar, the same time that she reached for him as they grabbed each other protectively, Skylar more worried about Justin given his health issues.

But neither of them had time to duck before the bomb went off, as flames erupted into the restaurant just behind Skylar and Justin.

The explosion threw Skylar and Justin through the air to the floor.

➣➣

Skylar and Justin were unconscious on the floor.

Skylar was waking up, mostly unhurt. She looked around, seeing a few people dead and others that weren't trying to make it out of the restaurant. She saw Justin unconscious on the floor and bleeding from the head profusely, crawling closer, holding him in denial. "No. Justin!"

➣

Verdant - Foundry 

Oliver and Jill helped Skylar carry Justin inside, laying him on the table.

Roy, John and Felicity walked closer worriedly.

"Is he okay?" Roy asked.

"He's knocked out," Oliver told them.

"I think it's his heart," Skylar told them. "His--his heart condition, and--"

Felicity walked closer with a syringe of medicine. "It's okay, Skylar. I got it. This is what I have to give him every time something like this happens."

Felicity injected it into Justin.

John walked toward the computers. "It's all over the news. Police and fire on the scene."

"Yeah, I didn't think it was best to stick around and answer questions," Skylar told them.

"I don't think the two of you and an explosion at the same place is a coincidence," John told her.

Roy walked closer with Skylar's bag from the restaurant, showing them a device. "Hey, check this out. It's a GPS tag. I found it on your jacket. It's wasted now."

"We took out one of Steelgrave's crew earlier," Jill told her.

Oliver sighed. "It was a setup. So they could plant that thing on Skylar."

"And I didn't even notice," Skylar told them. "I lost my focus."

Oliver helped Skylar clean the blood off her head. "Hey, it's not your fault. It could have happened to any one of us."

"Then why Skylar?" Felicity asked.

"Not as Sky, but as Athena, to draw me and Oliver out as Sapphire and Arrow," Jill answered. She pulled out the phone that was linked to the burner phone that they had given Jessica, calling her, disguising her voice with the app. "Detective, the person we took down earlier is working with whoever's responsible for the explosion."

Jessica was sitting at her desk at the precinct. "Another one of Steelgrave's crew, I'm guessing."

"I need to know who's at the top of that organization now and where I can find him," Jill told her.

"I'm on it," Jessica told her, hanging up.

Jill hung up, turning back to the others worriedly.

Justin gasped awake, sitting up, looking defensive and ready to attack.

Felicity held his shoulders gently to calm his down. "Hey, hey, hey. You're safe. We're safe."

➣

Assassin!Jill:

Warehouse 

Oliver/Arrow and Jill/Sapphire were walking together. They heard footsteps, turning around, aiming their weapons to see Jessica walking closer.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Jessica told them. "I'm on your side."

Oliver disguised his voice. "We got this handled, Detective."

"These guys blew up a building," Jessica told them. "You think I'm sitting this out? Suspect's name is Werner Zytle. He's a real head case."

"Keep your head on a swivel, then," Oliver told her.

They walked through the warehouse.

Zytle popped up behind Jill, throwing a dart into her neck, injecting her with his version of Mirakuru. "I'm Werner Zytle. You can call me Vertigo."

"The Count's in Iron Heights," Jill told him.

Oliver walked closer, aiming his bow and arrow at Zytle.

"Somethings never die," Zytle told them. "You, for example. It's frustrating. Just means I have to try a little bit harder." He tried to punch Oliver repeatedly. Oliver used his bow to block the blows, punching him hard in the face. Jill was incredibly affected by the different version of Vertigo, having a tough time standing. "The Count might be imprisoned, true, but his glorious narcotic lives on. With a few enhancements that will reveal to you your greatest fear." Jill started to hallucinate, shaking her head to try and clear her head. "Like gazing upon truth itself."

Man 2 walked closer, but Jill hallucinated him as another version of herself in female League of Assassin gear like Nyssa al Ghul and Raven Evangeline. Man 2/Assassin!Jill tried to punch Jill repeatedly. Jill was slower because of the Vertigo in her system, but she was able to block all of the moves and add a few of her own.

Oliver kicked Zytle repeatedly, punching him. Zytle tried to punch him in the face. Oliver caught his arm, backhand punching him in the face, hitting him in the side with his bow, punching him in the chest, kicking him in the stomach, flipping Zytle to the ground.

Jill was getting slower and weaker as the Vertigo took more affect on her. Man 2/Assassin!Jill punched her in the face. Another man grabbed Jill in a chokehold from behind, aiming a gun at her head to stop her from fighting back.

Jessica ran closer from behind a shelf, shooting at the two men trying to kill Jill. "Get away from her or get put down!"

Man 3 threw a dart of Vertigo at Jessica. Jessica ducked, barely avoiding getting injected.

Jill was able to break free because of the distraction, breathing heavily and deeply, backing away.

Oliver ran toward Jill as she started to collapse, picking her up, running away so that she could recover.

Jessica fired at Zytle and his two men repeatedly, shooting Man 2 in the shoulder, making him fall, while Zytle and Man 3 got away. Jessica ran toward Man 2 to arrest him, looking toward Oliver and Jill, nodding.

Oliver nodded in return, taking Jill out of the warehouse.

  ➣➣  

Verdant - Foundry 

Justin and Skylar were sitting on the table, recovering from the explosion.

John, Felicity and Roy were with them.

Jill and Oliver walked toward them.

"Are you okay, Jill?" Felicity asked. "That was a pretty strong psychotropic Werner hit you with."

Jill cleared her throat awkwardly, turning to Justin and Skylar. "How are you?"

"Believe it or not, we both have had worse days," Justin told them.

Skylar nodded in agreement. "You know that."

Oliver turned to face Roy. "Hit the streets. Werner's agenda can't stop with trying to kill Skylar, Jill and me. I need to know what he has planned."

"On it," Roy told them, walking out, leaving.

John pulled on his jacket. "I'll back him up."

"Roy's got it," Jill told him. "Go home to Lyla."

"Jill, if this is about what happened, risk is part of the job," John told her.

"John, it's just intel gathering," Jill told him. "Roy can handle it."

John nodded, walking out, leaving.

Felicity waved goodbye to Oliver and Jill, walking out for the night.

Skylar turned to Justin to help him finish cleaning and bandaging his wounds. "I know we need to talk."

"About our dinner or our dinner getting blown up?" Justin asked.

"Both," Skylar answered.

"It's okay," Justin told her. "We'll talk about it after we catch this guy. We should probably get some sleep, though, if we want to make it to the board meeting in the morning." He looked from Oliver to Skylar. "That is, if you two still want me and Jill to go."

"You think you're up for it?" Oliver asked.

Jill nodded. "Yeah. Definitely."

➣

Flashback

Day - Yamashiro House - Bedroom 

Jill was lying unconscious in a bed in a foreign house in Hong Kong.

A woman was applying a wet cloth to her cut temple, speaking in Japanese.

Jill sat up, speaking in Japanese. "When are you people gonna stop talking to me in Japanese?" She spoke in English. "I'm much better at speaking in English."

"Clearly," the woman told her.

"You speak English?" Jill asked.

"Better than you speak Japanese," the woman answered.

"Where am I?" Jill asked.

"Our home," the woman answered. "Mine and my husband's."

"Your husband?" Jill repeated.

The woman nodded.

➣

Kitchen 

Jill stood, walking into the kitchen.

Maseo was cooking, holding a bowl toward Jill. "Welcome to my home. Dinner?"

➣

Now

Day Three

Morning - Queen Consolidated - CEO Office

Skylar, Justin, Jill and Oliver walked in.

"And I just spoke to Ned Foster," Oliver told them. "He said the board is primed."

"So, you just have to go in there and wow them, which I am pretty sure is a business term," Justin told him.

Ned Foster walked toward them. "I'm afraid we have a situation. There's another bidder for the company."

"Really?" Skylar asked. "Who?"

The man that had talked to Felicity at Tech Village walked in. "Ray Palmer." Justin, Skylar, Jill and Oliver turned to face him. "Nice to meet you." Ray shook Oliver and Skylar's hand. "Love your company." He shook Jill's hand. "Loved your and your sister's 'coming back from the dead stories'." He shook Justin's hand. "I met your sister last night. Great gal." He walked into the conference room. "So sorry I am late." 

Justin, Skylar, Jill and Oliver were stunned with how fast he was going, walking into the conference room to join the board. 

➣

Conference Room 

Everyone was talking.

"Traffic was terrible, which is why I took my helicopter," Ray told them. He looked at Oliver and Skylar. "I parked on your roof. I hope that's okay. You guys validate, right?"

➣

Later 

The meeting was in progress.

Everyone but Oliver was sitting at the table.

Oliver was standing in front of them, giving a speech. "Two years ago, the people of Starling City thought I was dead. I came back. And so can Queen Consolidated. With Starling National Bank's new investment, we can take QC out of receivership, and into the future. I mean, this company is my family. And as my mother always said, 'There is nothing more important to me than family'." Skylar smiled a small smile. "Thank you."

Oliver walked toward Skylar, Justin and Jill to take a seat next to Jill, across from Ray.

"That was a good speech," Ray told him. "Hard to top." He stood, looking at the others. "Thank you all for coming out today. I promise to be brief, if not a little entertaining." He pulled down a screen, noticing a woman was wearing a watch. "Oh, that's one of my new smart watches. I'm very proud of those. You like it It works for you?" The woman nodded. "Yeah, good. Anyway, science. Numbers. I like numbers." Ray showed them a slideshow on the screen. "These numbers show QC's performance under Mr. Queen's management. I'm using that term extremely loosely, BTW. Also BTW, these numbers aren't sanitized for Wall Street. This is raw information from your company's servers."

"How'd he get into our computers?" Skylar asked.

Justin shrugged.

"But the truth is, this company's woes are a symptom of a much larger problem," Ray told them. "And that problem is Starling City. Queen Consolidated can't hope to survive if the city it's located in is dying. And guess what? It is. Nobody wants to live here anymore. And after two terrorist attacks, who can blame them? This city still needs saving. And that is my vision for this company. To not only see it rise from the ashes, but to take this city with it to that new horizon. And that new day has a name."

STAR CITY appeared on the slideshow.

The board members clapped.

➣

Outside 

Oliver and Jill walked outside down the stone stairs.

"Oliver, I'm sorry," Jill told him. "I really thought it was gonna go our way."

"So did I, but maybe the company's better off with Dr. Palmer," Oliver told her. "I couldn't make time for QC last year. Trying to get the company back now is selfish. It's something that the old me would have done. If the past 12 hours have reminded me of anything, it's that I made the decision to put Oliver Queen aside and be the Arrow. It's not a choice I can unmake."

"I get that," Jill told him.

"I know you do," Oliver told her. "Jill, ever since last night when you got hit by the Vertigo, you've been acting off. We know pretty much everything about each other, but we don't know everything. There are some things that we haven't talked about. Like the time that you weren't on Lian Yu, but I still was. When Amanda Waller had us separated to try and... bring the things she thought was our best qualities out to the surface."

Jill sighed. "Yeah. I was in Hong Kong, for one. And I have been thinking a lot recently about... my time there. The choices I had to make."

"We went through hell when we were together on the island, Jill," Oliver told her. "But we also went through hell when we weren't together. And the entire time that was going on, I could never... completely trust someone. And when that goes on for so long, you stop... seeing people for people. You see... threats. Or targets. The only exception to that... was you. You were the only person that I could see as a... a person. A friend. And I saw you as... more than a friend... for a while before things changed between us. I just knew that you needed time to heal after everything that happened. And so did I. Though, I probably had waited a little too long."

Jill shook her head. "Hey. You might have waited too long, but you were never late."

"Then, please, whatever is bothering you, tell me," Oliver told her. "I don't want you to think that there's anything that you can't get through without help."

Jill sighed. "When Werner hit me with the Vertigo dart, he said that his formula, it shows us our worst fear. I saw myself, but not as Jill. I saw... Alyanna al Ghul, in a uniform like Nyssa and Raven's."

Oliver frowned in confusion. "You don't really think you're afraid of yourself, do you?"

"No," Jill answered. "Not as Jill, anyway. I'm afraid of what might happen if I turn into Alyanna. Like Ra's. Like Nyssa. Like what my parents wanted me, Amy and Austin away from."

Oliver realized where she was going with this. "You're afraid of turning into a killer like them."

Jill nodded, looking down.

➣➣

Verdant - Foundry 

Oliver and Jill walked into the foundry to join Justin, Skylar, John, Felicity and Roy.

"What did we find out?" Oliver asked.

"You know how we got the number of crime bosses down to three?" Roy asked. "This new guy Werner wants to make it zero."

"Take out the competition," Jill told them.

"Mikhail Petruv, Luciano Costa, Shintaro Shimosawa," John told them.

"What are their locations?" Justin asked.

"I'm not getting anything off their last addresses," Felicity told them.

"Werner could be moving these guys right now," John told them.

"It's not like these guys walk around with little GPS's attached to them," Felicity told them. "Unless they do. Petruv, Costa, Shimosawa, they're all on parole or out on bail."

"Ankle monitors," Skylar told them.

Felicity typed away. "Can't be right. They're all in the same location."

They looked at the location.

"Rockets Arena," Roy told them.

"The heavyweight title fight's tonight," John told them. "There'll be, like, 20,000 people there."

"He's willing to blow up a restaurant to take down one person," Skylar told them. "He'll blow up a stadium to take down three."

"But an RPG won't do it," Oliver told them. "I need you looking for a large explosive device. Roy, suit up." Roy nodded, walking away. Skylar and Jill turned to give Oliver a look, sighing. Oliver shook his head. "No, don't give me those looks. Skylar, you barely made it out of the explosion yesterday, and Jill, you got hit with Vertigo that is still messing with your heads."

"We're fine," Skylar told him. "A little concussion could never slow me down. And Jill should be used to getting hit with Vertigo by now."

"Thanks, Skylar," Jill told her sarcastically.

"I'll go with," John told them.

Justin sighed. "You really want to be in the field right now?"

"Why not?" John asked.

"You're about to be a father, John," Justin answered.

John chuckled. "Justin, you've known for the past five months I was gonna be a father, so I'll ask you this... what changed?"

"Our risks can't be your risks," Jill told him. "That--Diggle, you have a life. You have a new life. It's..."

"I get why you're all worried," John told them. He looked at Justin and Skylar. "You were caught in an explosion. People died. Either one of you could have. But you didn't. You can't let that shake you. I'm my own man who makes his own decisions. I've given the past two years of my life to your crusade. I don't know what that's earned me, but at least the right to make my own decisions."

Justin sighed. "Okay. I just... just be careful, all right? More than you've ever been."

John nodded. "Of course."

➣

Rockets Arena 

The three men were in the stadium to watch the wrestling match.

Zytle set up the bomb, walking toward four men. "Timer's set for five minutes."

An arrow was shot into Zytle's shoulder, making him fall.

Skylar/Athena jumped down to the floor behind Man 1. Man 1 turned to aim his gun at her. Skylar caught his wrist, twisting it to make him drop the gun, using her bow to shoot an arrow into his shoulder to make him fall.

Jill/Sapphire walked closer. Man 2 drew a knife.

Jill tilted her head skeptically. "Seriously? You're gonna draw a knife on the girl in blue with swords and knives?"

Man 2 tried to stab her. Jill caught the blade, jumping up to wrap her legs around his neck, flipping him to the floor, landing in a crouch next to him, holding him in a backstand to punch him in the throat, making him fall, unconscious.

Roy, suited up, punched Man 3 repeatedly, spinning to kick him in the head, making him fall unconscious.

Oliver/Arrow shot an arrow into Man 4's shoulder, making him fall. He stood, looking at Jill and Skylar, turning to see that Zytle got away, speaking into comms. "Go."

"I've isolated a frequency spike consisted with an incendiary device," Felicity told them. She was still in the foundry at the computers. "It's in the maintenance tunnel underneath the stands."

"John, Just, you hear that?" Skylar asked.

John and Justin were walking hidden through the crowd to the stands, underneath to get to the bomb.

"Yeah," Justin answered. "We'll get the bomb. Get the son of a bitch."

➣

Hallway 

Roy and Skylar ran down the hallway.

➣

Amy / Ruby:

Outside 

Zytle and two men walked outside.

Jill/Sapphire and Oliver/Arrow were waiting for them.

"Back for more?" Zytle asked, throwing a Vertigo dart into Jill's chest. She wasn't as affected by it as she was before. Her vision was blurring slightly around the edges. Zytle walked closer. "It's as if you've developed an addiction to Vertigo."

➣

Inside 

Justin and John had found the bomb.

Skylar and Roy ran toward them.

➣

Outside

Jill saw the form flickering from Zytle to Assassin!Jill. She closed her eyes, sighing, opening her eyes. She still saw Assassin!Jill though it was flickering between Zytle and the assassin version of herself. "I've made my choice."

Jill took the dart out of her chest.

Oliver punched Man 1 repeatedly.

Zytle tried to punch Jill repeatedly. Jill saw Assassin!Jill trying to punch her, raising both of her arms in a blur of motion to block the moves, spinning to kick him/Assassin!Jill in the head, making them turn away. Assassin!Jill looked at Jill, with the cloth no longer covering her face. Jill wasn't surprised, though she was bothered, punching Zytle in the face.

Man 2 ran away, trying to get away.

Amy/Ruby stood in his way, her Sai knives drawn in her hands. She smirked.

Man 1 tried to punch Oliver repeatedly. Oliver ducked and dodged, turning to restrain the man from behind.

Amy spun her Sai knives around, spinning around to slash Man 2 across the cheeks, slashing toward him again. Man 2 ducked, trying to punch her. Amy ducked, slashing a Sai knife across his side, making him groan in pain. Man 2 tried to punch her. Amy ducked, spinning around to kick him in the face, making him fall.

➣

Inside 

Justin, John, Roy and Skylar were trying to figure out a way to deal with the bomb.

"Guys, we're running out of time here," Roy told them.

"Okay, this is a collapsible circuit design," Justin told them.

"Justin..." Roy trailed off.

"Cut the yellow wire," John told him.

Roy looked around. "There is no yellow wire."

"Okay, new plan," John told them. "Look around. There should be insulated piping pumping the arena's AC system. They're pumping Freon. You want to break one off, aim it at the bomb. We're going to freeze the thing."

Skylar looked up at the piping.

➣

Outside 

Zytle/Assassin!Jill was trying to punch Jill repeatedly. Jill ducked, dodged and raised her arms to block the moves, jumping up to punch him in the head, making him back away, spinning to kick him in the legs, slashing a knife against his leg to make him fall to his knees.

Oliver swung his bow toward Man 1. Man 1 ducked. Oliver spun around to hit him in the head with the bow, making him fall.

➣

Inside 

Skylar jumped up a beam along the piping, spinning around it to get to the top like a spiderling, ripping off the piping, making sure that she didn't get hit or frozen, swinging with it down toward the boys, who all ran away from the bomb, so that she could aim the Freon at the bomb and freeze it. 

They were stunned that that had actually worked, looking at each other in relief and happiness.

The crowd was cheering from the fight inside the ring.

➣

Outside

Amy spun around to slash her Sai knives against the cheeks of Man 2, kicking him in the head, making him fall unconscious.

Oliver used his bow to hit Man 1 in the head, shooting an arrow into his shoulder, making him fall. He walked closer, punching him in the head hard enough to knock him out.

Jill was still fighting Zytle/Assassin!Jill, spinning to kick him in the head with both feet, making him fall off the steps they were standing on, jumping down to land next to him.

Amy stood up on the steps, flipping one of her Sai knives through the air before catching it.

Zytle stood, trying to punch Jill from behind.

Oliver shot a wire cord around Zytle, pinning him to the building wall behind him.

Jill looked from Amy to Zytle. The hallucination of Assassin!Jill faded completely.

"Tie me up and lock me down, it doesn't matter," Zytle told them. "There will always be a Vertigo, always someone to pick up the mantle. You have given it the power. Don't you see? Don't you see?"

Oliver punched Zytle in the head, knocking him out.

Jill turned to Amy in surprise, smiling. "Amy."

"Don't look so surprised, Jill," Amy told her. "I haven't been gone for that long."

Jill and Amy smiled, walking toward each other to embrace.

➣➣

Amy, Jill and Oliver were talking.

Oliver looked at Amy. "You look well. How's Nanda Parbat?"

"Hot," Amy answered. "It's good to see you, Oliver."

Jill chuckled. "Is Sara back in town, too?"

"Yeah," Amy answered. "She went to see Jessica and Laurel."

Jill chuckled, turning to Amy. "Is this permanent, you being back? I hope so."

Amy smiled. "We'll see."

➣

Starling City General Hospital - Hallway 

Felicity was walking through the hallway, running into Ray on the way.

"Hey," Ray told her.

"What are you doing here?" Felicity asked. "And the answer better not be stalking me."

"Well, that depends on whether you consider pinging your phone's GPS stalking," Ray told her. "Okay, guilty. But you know how I know a guy who would be interested in hiring someone with your expertise?" He pointed at himself. "Yeah, turns out I could really use it. Seems somebody hacked my cellphone and my laptop and my desktop."

"Gee, that's too bad," Felicity told him.

"All my data's been replaced by audio files of porcupine flatulence," Ray told her. "And so I was hoping that whoever did it might be willing to undo it if I apologized for misleading them in any way."

"That would probably work," Felicity told him. "Oh, unless, of course, you did all that to steal that person's friend's company, in which case I would suggest getting used to the sound of spiky rodents farting."

"I didn't steal anything," Ray told her. "Okay, maybe a little, but as it turns out, I didn't even need the data. I mean, I gave a pretty good speech."

Felicity turned to face him in annoyance. "My friends just had a baby, so if you don't mind, there's another slimy little human that needs my attention. Oh, and BTW, you might want to check your tablet while you're at it."

Felicity walked away.

Ray smirked, chuckling in amusement.

➣

Lyla's Hospital Room 

Lyla and John were in the hospital after having the baby. Justin and Skylar were already there.

Felicity had just gotten there. "Oh. She is scrumptious."

Oliver and Jill walked in.

"We could come back," Oliver told them.

"No, come in," John told them.

Oliver and Jill walked closer.

John walked toward Justin and Oliver.

Skylar and Jill walked toward Felicity and Lyla to look at the baby.

Skylar smiled. "Oh, she's perfect."

Oliver looked at John. "Congratulations."

"Thank you, Justin," John told him.

Justin turned to him. "For what?"

"For being right," John answered. "The second I looked at her, everything changed. My whole universe, it changed. You were right."

John shook hands with Justin and Oliver.

John offered his hand to Jill. Jill shook her head, smiling, embracing John. John returned the embrace. They pulled away.

Jill looked at the baby, smiling a small smile.

➣

Flashback

Day - Yamashiro House - Living Room 

Jill was looking outside. She turned to face Maseo. "How do I get out of here?"

"You can't leave," Maseo told her.

Jill walked toward the door. "Well, why don't you try to stop me?"

"You've already learned I can," Maseo told her, following her. "Repeatedly." Jill turned to face him in annoyance. "Amanda Waller wants you working for her. And she will have her way."

"Too bad for her, I'd rather die," Jill told him.

"Which is why it's not your life she's threatening," Maseo told her. "I'm responsible for you. And she's found the proper way to motivate me. Akio." The small boy walked into the room. Jill looked at Akio in surprise. "She's threatened my family. My son, Akio, and my wife, Tatsu. She'll kill them if I let you go." Jill sighed in frustration, confused on what to do. She wanted to leave, but she didn't want to get them killed. "My father had a proverb he was once fond of. 'A man cannot live by two names'."

"What does that mean?" Jill asked.

"In your case, I believe it means not having any choice," Maseo answered.

Jill looked at him expressionlessly.

➣

Now

Night - Starling City General Hospital - Hallway

Oliver and Jill walked into the hallway of the hospital.

"They look really happy," Jill told him. "She's beautiful."

Oliver nodded in agreement. "She is. Can I talk to you?"

"Me first," Jill told him. She stopped walking. Oliver turned to face her. "I saw it again. Me. Alyanna, me. Like it was what I would be if my family had stayed with my uncle and cousin in Nanda Parbat. I guess that it was telling me what we already knew. I'm afraid of my actual bloodline. Because it comes from blood and death, and you know me, Oliver. I hate blood and death. I've barely taken any lives, and when I've been forced to, I've hated myself for it."

"You reformed me from being a killer into being a hero," Oliver told her. "You're already well on your way to doing the same thing with your sister."

"That's a me from another world, Ollie," Jill told him. "I'm wrestling with who I am and who I was born to be. But you... you think that you can't be Oliver Queen and the Arrow. But you're wrong. You're not a killer, Oliver. You've always been a hero. And the reason why I'm able to be both Jill and Sapphire is because you're always there. I love you, Ollie."

Oliver looked at her in a moment, placing a hand on either of her cheeks, kissing her deeply and passionately for a moment, finally pulling away. "This is why I love you."

Jill smiled a small smile, wrapping her arms around his neck. They continued to kiss slowly and passionately.

➣

Rooftop 

Sara/Canary was standing on the rooftop, without her mask or wig on.

Laurel and Jessica walked toward Sara, smiling.

"And here I thought that you used up all your League of Assassin vacation days," Laurel told her.

The three sisters laughed, embracing tightly for a moment, pulling away.

"You look great," Sara told them. "How's Dad doing?"

"The same," Jessica answered. "He hates that he doesn't get to go out into the field anymore, but we love it, because it means that he's safe."

"As opposed to you, Jessica Lance, because you're going out into the field with the help of the vigilantes," Sara told her. "You even saved Sapphire and Arrow last night."

Jessica shrugged, chuckling. "I just did what anyone would have done."

Laurel shook her head. "Not everyone, Jessie. You're something special. You're a hero."

Sara smile. "How are you guys doing?"

"We're... working through a few things," Laurel answered.

"It's good to be home," Sara told them. "And it's nice to know that our family is a family of heroes. A little advice, if you two ever plan on taking it to the next level. We're not our masks. And we need people in our lives who don't wear one. Listen, I don't want Dad to know I'm in town, not just yet."

"You don't want him to know you're in town, or you don't want him to know why?" Laurel asked.

"Both," Sara answered. "This life, it... it's complicated."

"We didn't want you to choose it," Jessica told her. "Not for us."

"I know," Sara told them. "I chose it for me."

Jessica's phone beeped. She took it out, looking at it. "Team Sapphire Arrow busted someone who tried to blow up Rockets Arena. And Dad wants us to head to the station to backstop the interrogation. And just so you two know, I have a pretty strong suspicion on who the vigilantes are in this town, without anyone telling me who they are."

Sara smiled. "I'm sure you do, Detective. Your investigation skills are unmatched. But you don't want to expose them, and you don't even want to come out and say that you know who they are. You just want them to be who they are, without any say from you. Laurel and Jessica Lance, always trying to save the world."

"It runs in the family," Laurel told them. The sisters embraced. "Love you."

Laurel and Jessica walked away, leaving.

Sara pulled on her wig and mask, walking toward the edge of the roof. 

She heard a disguised voice. "Hello, Sara."

Sara turned around, looking confused and suspicious. "What are you doing here?"

Three arrows were shot into Sara's chest before she could move, shocking her.

➣

Alley 

Jessica and Laurel walked down the alley toward Jessica's car.

Sara fell from the rooftop toward them, landing on the dumpster in front of them, rolling off to the ground. Her mask and wig fell off. She was bleeding profusely from the chest and head.

Jessica and Laurel were in shock and horrified, kneeling next to their little sister, devastated and in denial.

Jessica started to cry, in agonizing devastation. "No! No! Sara!"

Laurel screamed her name in devastation. "Sara! No, no!"

Laurel held both Jessica and Sara close to her, while the two older sisters were crying over their little sister's body.

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3.02 "Sara" Promo 

From 3.02 "Sara", in the foundry, Laurel had brought Sara's body and Jessica here. They were both coated with Sara's blood.

Felicity: (voice over from 3.02 Sara) "Our friend was shot with arrows and fell off a rooftop."

From 3.02 "Sara", in the cemetery, Jessica was crying at Sara's grave. Laurel was embracing her.

Amy: (voice over from 3.02 Sara) "I don't have the luxury of falling to pieces."

From 3.02 "Sara", in the foundry, Oliver, Jill, Amy and Felicity were talking.

"You're still a human being, Amy," Jill told her. "You're allowed to have feelings."

From 3.02 "Sara", in the cemetery, Oliver, Jill, Amy, Skylar, Justin, John, Roy, Jessica and Laurel were at Sara's grave.

Jill: (voice over from 3.02 Sara) "Life is precious. And you deserve so much more than this."

From 3.02 "Sara", in a warehouse district, Skylar/Athena was fighting.

From 3.02 "Sara", on the road, Jill/Sapphire and Amy/Ruby drove their motorcycles after a van.

Oliver/Arrow and Skylar/Athena stood in the middle of the road ahead, shooting arrows into the van's tires, making it pull over.

From 3.02 "Sara", in Queen Consolidated, Jessica was aiming a gun.

Amy: (voice over from 3.02 Sara) "One of thee days, it's gonna be me."

From 3.02 "Sara", in John's house, John was standing next to his daughter's crib.

Amy: (voice over from 3.02 Sara) "This life that I've chosen..."

From 3.02 "Sara", in a mansion out of Starling City, masked people were training.

Amy: (voice over from 3.02 Sara) "It only ends one way."

From 3.02 "Sara", in Queen Consolidated, Oliver/Arrow, Jill/Sapphire, Amy/Ruby, Skylar/Athena and Roy, suited up, were fighting with men.

Oliver: (voice over from 3.02 Sara) "We're gonna catch whoever killed her."

➣ Sapphire Arrow ➣