"I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity."

― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Katie made a promise to herself this morning. She was going to be happy. She was not going to think about Damien Darhk, or freaky abilities, or even the darkness coursing through her veins.

Because today, Katie was getting married...again. Today was the day of their official wedding and both she and Oliver were very excited it was finally here. The night before the couple was dragged away by their friends for bachelor/bachlorette celebrations. But since Oliver wasn't a bachelor, and Katie wasn't a bachlorette, the celebrations weren't as wild.

John and Bruce took Oliver out for a night of drinking which they all seemed to enjoy. Given their age, they weren't looking for any wild parties which they were sure was the opposite thinking of the girls. They did however do a little late night crime fighting just to give the night some kind of adventure. They never figured out how the women spent that night, but they had the feeling they probably wouldn't want to know.

At the moment, Katie was alone in the bride's room, which she knew wouldn't last long. Thea and Felicity were moving about like chickens with their heads cut off ensuring that everything was happening as planned, but she knew they'd be back soon once again smothering her with attention and questions, and suggestions. Katie was just impressed how well the two women were functioning after the previous night's adventures.

Her make up was done, and it looked flawless and she smiled because she truly was looking forward to this day, and the man waiting for her at the end of that aisle. Her eyes then turned to the dress that hung from closet door and she sighed. That dress was perfect. When she mentioned to Felicity and Thea about wanting a yellow wedding dress, both seemed the think the idea was strange, but then they saw this dress. This off the shoulder, pale yellow dress, with a lace and beaded bodice was completely breathtaking and she knew it was the dress the moment she saw it.

The door suddenly opened and a smile came to her face at the sight of Gloria who had Robyn on her hip. Katie stood to her feet and walked over already extending her hands for the baby.

"Aw, you're so cute in your dress." Katie says pulling the baby into her arms, and looking down to the pale yellow and white dress she was wearing. She reached up and straightened the flower headband on the baby's head before placing a kiss to her cheek.

"We thought you'd like to see her before the ceremony began." Gloria said and Katie looked over and gave a nod.

"I've missed my little one." Katie kissed her cheek once again and hugged her to her chest as she walked over to sit on the couch near the window. "How was she last night?" Gloria chuckled walking over to take the seat across from the woman. Katie and Oliver had called numerous times last night just to check in and Gloria just found them both adorable with their worry.

"She was perfect. We played with blocks, and we had her favorite dinner, peas and carrots."

"She hates peas and carrots."

"I know, but we are going to work on more veggies in her diet, because she is going to live a long healthy life, isn't that right little bird." Gloria said, smiling down to the little girl.

"Little bird?" Katie said, and Gloria simply laughed with a shake of her head.

"Your guards are pretty talkative when you and Mr. Queen aren't around." Gloria chuckled. "The consensus is, they fear you more than your husband."

"Then my work is done." Katie replied placing a kiss to the top of Robyn's head, just as a knock sounded at the door. Gloria stood to open it, but the person simply walked in without another word... because it was Thea and she had no sense of privacy sometimes. She rushed in, her eyes going wide at the sight of Katie sitting in a robe, little Robyn in her lap.

"Why aren't you dressed?!" Thea shook her head before coming over and plucking the baby from Katie's arms, placing a kiss on her cheek and handing her back to Gloria. "The wedding is going to be starting soon, you two should go get your seats." Gloria chuckled but stood with the baby and made their way back out to their seats.

"Thea, did you really just bust in here, take my daughter from my arms and then send her away?" Katie asked standing to her feet.

"I did, because we can't be late." Thea said turning and plucking the dress from the hook and handing it to Katie before reaching down to pull open the rope of her robe, but Katie pushed her hands away.

"I can dress myself Thea." Katie shook her head before stalking off behind the folding screen. "And I find it hard to believe that I'm the one you're worried about making us start late. How is your brother coming along?" Thea muttered something that Katie couldn't quite hear. "What?" Thea opened her mouth, only to be interrupted by the newly up and walking Felicity Smoak who came rushing in. Once the implant was inserted into her spine, Felicity Smoak took on physical therapy like a champ. It had only been a few weeks, but she'd made extensive progress. At the moment she wasn't supposed to be pushing herself, and she knows she'll hear another lecture from her fiancé, but there was a wedding happening and she was going to make sure it went off without a hitch.

"What's going on? Is she ready? Because she needs to be ready like now, where-" Felicity turned to the folding screen, and both her and Thea's eyes lit up the moment Katie stepped from behind the screen dawned in the pale yellow, sleeveless wedding dress. "Oh my god, you look-" Thea wasn't an overly emotional person, and honestly she'd seen the woman wearing the dress dozens of times before, but there was something different about this time. It was real. This moment was real, and for some reason she felt tears in her eyes.

"Thea, don't, no crying you can't-" she turned to Felicity whose eyes seemed to be glistening as well and she just shook her head. "We are not crying now, because crying takes time and you two keep telling me we don't have enough of that. Now what did you say about Liver?" Thea and Felicity shared a look before turning back to Katie who looked between them with a quirked brow. "What the hell was that look? What's going on?"

"Everything is under control." Felicity said taking a step forward and placing a comforting hand to Katie's arm and smiling. "Oliver is...well he's-" Felicity glanced over to Thea who slumped her shoulders knowing she was going to have to tell the truth.

"Oliver isn't here." Thea finally said, and Katie's eyes almost popped out of her head. "Yet! He's not here yet! I just talked to him, and he's driving like a bat out of hell to get here. There was a possible lead on Darhk, but it was just a few HIVE flunkies that got away."

"Kind of expected a lie right now Thea!" Felicity groaned through her teeth, before turning a smile back to Katie. "Look everything is-"

"No, everything is not under control because my husband decided on our wedding day to go chase after Damien Darhk." Katie said folding her arms over her chest. "He thought today of all days, that was the perfect thing to do?" Katie spun around searching for her phone. "Where the hell is my phone?"

"Hey, this is a happy day, Ollie is literally seconds-" Thea's phone beeped and she looked down to it, smiling wide. "Scratch that he is in the building and rushing off to get dressed." she looked up to Katie who still didn't look happy. "It was a last minute lead, mostly everyone was here and he thought-"

"He'd play the hero on our wedding day." Katie shook her head before turning and stalking out of the room.

"Hey, no, no-" Felicity and Thea went rushing after the woman.

"Hey, where are you going?!" Thea called.

"I'm going for a walk." Katie replied and Thea groaned.

"But the wedding-"

"I know, but if Oliver can just go out on a whole villain search I can go for a walk to decide if I want to marry him today." Katie replied before stalking out the back door.

"This is so not good." Thea muttered turning to Felicity who stared at that back door with wide eyes before turning to Thea. "What do we do now?"

"I'm thinking." Felicity sighed.

John Diggle would be glad when this day was over and the happy couple would be off on their honeymoon. He and Oliver just rushed through the door of the groom's room where they both were trying to get into their tuxedos.

"We got five minutes Oliver!" John called quickly pulling on his jacket before grabbing his bow tie.

"I can't find my shoes!" Oliver snapped angrily, rushing from behind the folding screen, pants on, but shirt unbuttoned and no shoes on his feet. "Where are-" John turned spotting the black shoes before quickly grabbing them and handing them to Oliver. "Thanks." Oliver rushed over to sit, slipping his feet into his shoes before beginning to button his shirt. "Twinkie is going to kill me if I'm late."

"We're not going to be late, just breathe man." John says and Oliver stood to his feet taking a deep breath. He began tucking his shirt in as the door burst open and in ran his sister.

"Speedy we're almost-"

"We have a new problem!" Thea said rushing over and grabbing the bow tie from the table and pulling it around her brother's neck. "So remember when I told you that if Twinkie asked about you, that I would tell her the truth-" she looked up seeing her brother's dark eyes. "You were supposed to be here an hour ago-"

"Yes, but I told you to just stall." Oliver says pulling away from his sister before grabbing his tuxedo jacket. "She's upset, isn't she?" he turned back to his sister and let out a huff. "Speedy?"

"She left." Thea said, and Oliver stopped moving.

"What do you mean she left? Left where? Where is she?"

"After I told her about your mission which I told you not to go on, she was expectantly upset, but I told her you were here and getting ready, and she was still grrr." Thea shook her head. "She said she was going to go for a walk to decide if she wanted to marry you today."

"Thea, I told you to stall!" Oliver said once again before turning and stalking out of the room.

"Hey, you said stall, not lie!" Thea replied as she and John rushed out of the room to catch up to the man. "Where are you going?"

"To find my wife."

"Oliver we're literally supposed to be out there right now." Thea said rushing to stand in front of her brother. "The Twinkie situation is being handled."

"How?"

"I called in the big guns, now let's-" she brought an arm around her brother. "Let's get you into place."

Katie sat on the limestone bench that was placed in front of a large sculpted water fountain that looked absolutely gorgeous with it's lights this late evening. She was supposed to smile at the sight, but she was still angry.

"Oh, thank god." a voice spoke from behind her, and she turned with a quirked brow to see Quentin Lance looking pretty snazzy in his suit. "Everyone's going crazy trying to-" the man moved in front of her, finally able to see her completely in her dress. "Wow, you look beautiful." he noticed the look on her face was not the look of a happy bride. "You found out about Oliver's last minute adventure, huh? It really was just another attempt to finally get rid of this bastard."

"I get that, I really do." Katie replies standing to her feet and letting out a deep breath. "It's just for some reason today I thought was just going to be completely perfect." she walked over to the fountain and watched as the cascading water poured from the statue. "Darhk is still out there, and I'm still-" she sighed before turning back to the man and just shook her head. "This is stupid. This wedding, and all of this is stupid. It's an act, and it's not real it's-" she continued to shake her head suddenly hit with the urge to cry. "It's a fantasy, and when you realize a fantasy isn't real it's the worst pain you can ever feel."

"Hey," Lance walked over raising a hand to comfort her, but he doesn't. He drops his hand back to his side. They were a bit cordial, nice even, but he wasn't sure she truly forgave him and he didn't want to push. "Look I remember the day I married Dinah. I was wreck. I kept thinking about all the ways she was ruining her life by tying herself down to me." Katie lifted her eyes to the man who shrugged. "Then I realized something. I loved her, more than anything, and that single thought trumped all those insecurities and fears."

"Did you really just give me advice based on the wedding to your now ex-wife?" Katie asked, and Lance cracked a smile.

"I know, probably not the best example, but it was true at the time. Look you and Oliver are already married, so yeah maybe all of this is just a show and dance, but at the heart of it is two people who are crazy about each other wanting to show the world." Katie took another deep breath as Lance felt his phone vibrate. He pulled it from his jacket pocket and looked down with a shake of his head. "It's Felicity, and it's a message in all caps." he looked back over to the woman. "Look in the end it's up to you." Katie gave the man a nod.

"Ok, ok-" she looked down to her dress smoothing it out a bit before looking back up to the man. "Can you give me five minutes? I just need a little bit more time to just breathe without all the eyes on me."

"Sure." the man gave a nod before turning to leave.

"Quentin-" the man stopped and looked over to the woman who he doesn't think he's ever heard her call him by his first name. "Thank you. And if the offer still stands, would you mind escorting me down the aisle, I can be clumsy, and I don't want to fall down today." A smile broke out across Quentin's face, and he swallowed the sudden emotion that hit him in this moment.

"It would be my honor. I'll meet you up there." he said and Katie gave a nod before watching him finally leave.

The woman let out another deep breath before turning back to the fountain. She lifted her eyes to the sculpted bushes and just shook her head.

"I guess you're the reason I even know you're out there, just watching me creepily." she waited for a moment, but heard the slight rustling before Jacob walked from them. "For a dead man, you sure like to show up at the most crowded of places. The whole city is practically on the other side of this garden."

"Well today is my daughter's wedding." Jacob said with a smile as he walked over to her, getting close, but not too much. "And nothing was going to stop me from seeing her on her big day." he looked her over, and he placed a hand over his heart, his chest filling with so much emotion at the moment seeing his daughter, a bride on her wedding day. "I couldn't miss this." he looked up meeting her eyes, but she turned away from him with a shake of her head. "I wish I could be the one to walk you down the aisle."

"Oh, don't you-" she shook her head, turning about to walk away, but she stopped and turned back to him. "You were supposed to walk me down the aisle. You were supposed dote on your granddaughter and play peek a boo with her, you were supposed to give Oliver a hard time because even though you know he's a good guy, you just don't think he's good enough for your daughter." she took a step toward him. "You're supposed to come over for family dinners every Sunday night and tell old stories about you and mom, and you're—" she stopped because her own words were breaking her heart. "You were supposed to do a lot of things dad." she looked up to his eyes and shrugged. "But you didn't and now we're here." she nudged her head behind her. "I have to go do this wedding thing, and you have to-" she sighed. "Do whatever it is you do." she began backing away from the man before finally turning and walking away.

Jacob stood there, wanting to just fall apart at his daughter's words because he knew how true they were. He made choices, choices he couldn't take back even if he wanted to. And because of those choices, he wouldn't be able to give his only daughter away at her wedding. He lifted his head and turned with a huff.

"I didn't need back up for this Martin." Jacob grumbled as he watched Martin step out from the bushes. He shook his head, turning back to the spot his daughter once stood. "Even after all this time, she hates me, and I deserve it. I deserve all of it."

"She called you dad." Martin said, and Jacob turned to the man with a quirked brow. "In the middle of her little tirade, she called you dad. So yeah, she's still upset which is expected given what's happened, but that doesn't mean all hope is lost." Jacob slid a hand over his face before his eyes looked over to the fountain. "And despite what you believe, I'm not here because I thought you could use back up." Martin said, and Jacob looked back over to the man. "We've just gotten a status on your niece."

"Please tell me-" Jacob's question was interrupted by Martin's phone suddenly ringing. He pulled it from his pocket and glanced down with a quirked brow before looking back over to his boss. "Who is it?"

"Clark Kent." Martin replied before pulling the phone to his ear. It was then he heard news he just couldn't quite believe.

Katie heard the soft sounds of music and for some reason her heart starts ramming in her chest and she doesn't even know why. She spots Quentin whose just buttoning his blazer when he turns and spots her.

"Great." he takes a step back and gives a thumbs up, before walking back over to her. Soon the music changed, and Lance looped his arm with hers and began leading her toward the aisle, but Katie stopped.

"My bouquet—" she pulled away from him. She pointed behind her toward the main building. "It's back in the bride's room, and I can't get married with without a bouquet." she turned about to once again flee, but she stopped. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before turning back to Quentin who just stared at her waiting for to make another move.

"Hey, hi, what's happening?!" It was Felicity's voice that urgently whispered as she rushed between Quentin and Katie. "There's a wedding that's supposed to be happening right now. What's going on?"

"I uh, I don't have my bouquet, I was just going to go grab it and come right back." Katie says inching back. "Just five more minutes."

"Hey!" Thea appeared from around the corner, away from the eyes of the crowd. "What's going on? Ollie is freaking out." she looks over to Katie. "Why are we not walking down the aisle?"

"She doesn't have a her bouquet." Felicity said moving in closer to the woman. "It's just the guy standing back there at the end of that aisle doesn't care if there are flowers in your hands right now and-"

"Oh, I know!" Thea said quickly before rushing off, and a few seconds later returned with flowers she'd just plucked from a nearby flower patch. "Here you go!" she held the flowers out to Katie who looked at them for a moment before shaking her head.

"Smoaks is right, I don't need flowers." Katie said before turning to Quentin. "I can do this." she shooed Felicity and Thea back down aisle before looping her arm with Quentin.

"You sure you want to do this?" he asked her and Katie closed her eyes and thought about Oliver and a smile came to her face. She was being neurotic and crazy and none of it mattered because there was this guy who'd take all of it, and she wasn't going to make him wait any longer. She opened her eyes and gave a nod.

"You know I think I am." Soon they rounded the corner and spotted the entry way to the ceremony. The moment their feet stepped onto the white carpet that lead all the way down the aisle, they stopped. Both pulled on a smile. "I'm so going to kill Thea for inviting the whole city." the woman grit through her smile before her eyes turned to the man who was standing at the other end smiling at her. She gave him a smile before looking over to Lance. "Seriously, make sure I don't fall." he chuckled but gave a nod before the pair started down the aisle.

Oliver Queen could usually handle any situation he was thrown into. He could be at the center of an attack, and usually not even feel even a little nervous. But at this moment, where the woman he loved wearing this beautiful yellow dress walked toward him, something happened. Even though they'd been actually been married for a few months now, right now, this moment he just couldn't really believe that this was happening, that after knowing this woman for years, after pretending that the feelings he was having just weren't there, after making the mistake of thinking they couldn't work, and breaking up with her...here they were.

The moment she was standing in front of him, he took her hand in his, his eyes looking to hers, and suddenly they didn't feel the eyes on them. It was just the two of them, with two big stupid smiles on their faces.

"You know I think I've lost count of how many weddings I've actually officiated. It's been a lot." Pastor Troy said, getting laughs at the statement. He looked between Oliver and Katie and a smile came to his face because he could see the couple were too wrapped up in each other at the moment. "But I think this wedding I will remember. You see the tale of Oliver and Katherine is very intricate, and by intricate I mean totally and completely crazy. Because standing before you are two people who are already married, already man and wife, already interlocked totally and completely to each other. And if I remember correctly, their first ceremony was held in a hospital room not too long after the birth of their daughter." the pastor chuckled glancing back out to the crowd. "And when I first heard that part, I was reluctant to do this. To officiate this "real wedding" because I assumed what this was. I assumed the couple standing in front of me were trying to create that spark that happens when a man and a woman become husband and wife. I assumed that Oliver and Katherine were trying to force themselves into the molds of the people they thought they should be. But I soon learned that these two people don't fit into any molds. There's a drum playing that only they hear, and they seem to be dancing to the beat of it. But I had to know the reason. Why marry so soon after having a baby, when emotions are so high, and you know what they told me. They said because they had to, because nothing made more sense in that moment, and you know what I believed them." the pastor looked back to the couple in front of him and smiled at the way they seemed so enamored with each other. "The truth is marriage is hard, it's a battle, and when you fight in that battle you're gonna need someone there by your side to keep you from getting knocked down. I believe the couple in front of me has already been through some battles, have already gotten knocked down a few times, but have found their way to come together to help each other get back up. But enough of the ramblings of this old man, how about we hear from the people of the hour. I believe the two of you have vows." eyes turned to Oliver and Katie who didn't seem to acknowledge that someone had spoke to them. "Eh-hem—"

It took Thea to take a step forward and nudge Katie's arm to break the trance the couple seemed to be stuck in. Katie turned to Thea with a quirked brow.

"Yeah, still a wedding happening, so let's try not to get stuck in Twiver land right now." Thea whispered, before turning to the crowd with a laugh, and they seemed to chuckle as well. She turned back to the couple. "Vows, you have to say your vows."

"Oh, um, right." Oliver said turning back to Katie with a smile before looking over to Pastor Troy. "Sorry." he looked back to Katie and just shook his head. "You know I could probably think of an infinite amount of things I could say right now about why the love I have for you compares to nothing in my life. I could recount detailed stories of moments where I absolutely knew that I wanted to spend the rest of my life as your husband. But I won't because I don't think there's enough time in the world. What I will say is, I met you at a dinner party when we were kids, and I shook your hand, and I just knew-" Oliver dropped his forehead to Katie's, suddenly overcome with so many emotions at once. He took a deep breath, before he lifted his head and reached forward to dry the stray tears from her eyes. "I knew that you were special." Oliver placed a gentle kiss to her hand. "You have brought me an immense amount of joy, and I never-" he dropped his head again, because he was getting choked up with emotions again, but he really wanted to say these words. He took another deep breath before lifting his eyes back to the woman. "I never thought I would have anything like this, and now that I do, I promise you I will do everything in my power to never let it go. I promise you whatever direction our lives go, no matter where it takes us, we will do it together. Because you and our little girl are the reason I breathe, you're the reason I wake up in the morning, you're the reason I fight for this city as hard as I do. My life will be spent in devotion to you and our family, and there is nothing in this world that will change that."

"If he only knew the truth."

Katie didn't want to hear the sound of her uncle's voice now. Not this moment when the man she loves is saying such beautiful things to her.

"He has no idea the destruction wrapped up in that pretty wife of his."

Katie closed her eyes and took a deep breath using whatever will power she had to block out the voice. She felt Oliver's hand give hers a squeeze, and Katie looked up to the smile on his face.

"Katherine, do have words?" Pastor Troy asked, and Katie glanced over to him and gave a nod before turning to Oliver.

"You know I tried to write something down for this moment, tried to come up with something that really captured how I felt about you, Liver, and everything I wrote was just bad." Oliver seemed to laugh at her, and she just shook her head. "And it was bad because it didn't truly say what I wanted it to say, and I don't think anything could. I mean there are billions of words in various languages, and none of them could truly convey the love I have for you. So I decided I was going to wing it, despite Thea's objection to the idea-" she glanced over to Thea who chuckled even though tears were pouring from her eyes. Katie turned back to Oliver and bit the corner of her lip before continuing. "Ok, so for the majority of our high school life I was taunted and teased with the nickname Twinkie." Oliver laughed, but gave a nod. "A name I found out you were the source of." the crowd just laughed at the revelation. "You see I hated that name. I hated the underlying insult when people said to me, or when they would write it on my locker." Katie shook her head. "My only comfort in life was that one day I would graduate, and I would never hear that horrible name again." she looked up meeting Oliver's eyes and smiled. "And then years later, I see you again, and the first thing you say to me is, "You're Twinkie." she dropped her eyes, swiping away stray tears. "And I so wanted to hit you, and I would've if I wasn't getting over the shock of realizing that you were alive." she looked up to his eyes still on her, and she let out a sigh. "But when you said it, I didn't hear an insult, and I didn't hear you teasing me. I heard something else. Something I heard every time you said it, something I didn't recognize at the time. But whatever it was made me not grimace every time you called me Twinkie. What ever it was made me get stupid butterflies when you called me your Twinkie. Now don't get me wrong, I still hate that nickname, and this is in no way me condoning-" she glanced out to the crowd. "Any of you to call me Twinkie, but-" she turned back to Oliver, sliding her hand from his grasp and placing them on this chest, smiling at the feel of his heartbeat against her fingers. "This is me saying that no matter what happens to us, no matter where life takes us, I will always be your Twinkie, and I will make you pancakes that actually look like pancakes, and I will drive you crazy in a way that only I can," she smiled wider slowly closing the distance between them. "I'm going to have more of your children, and I'm going to tease you relentlessly until we're old and gray." she placed a hand on his cheek, her thumb wiping away a tear from his eye. "Now this is your last chance, Mr. Queen. Are you sure-" Oliver's lips captured hers because he couldn't wait any longer, his patience was slowly running out and with every passing word that came out of her mouth he just wanted this. Pastor Troy cleared his throat and the crowd seemed to laugh.

"And yet another reason I don't think I will ever forget this wedding." Pastor Troy sighed with a shake of his head. "Mr. Queen, Mrs. Queen, as you celebrate your renewed commitment here today, and as you reflect on your life together as husband and wife, do you now wish to reaffirm the vows you took, what was it-" he looked over to Thea. "A few months ago?" she gave a nod and the man chuckled before turning back to the couple who were still kissing. "And I guess that is my answer. Mr. And Mrs. Queen—" he sighed once again. "Will you two stop for a minute." the couple pulled apart and looked over to the pastor who chuckled with a shake of his head. "We're almost done, don't worry. Oliver and Katherine, today you have renewed the vows you made to each other on your blessed wedding day. You have symbolized the renewal of your union by the joining of hands, the taking of vows, and by the wearing of your rings. It is with pleasure that I conclude the ceremony of renewing the vows of marriage that joined you and binds you as husband and wife. Please celebrate this renewal of vows with a kiss!" he gestured for Oliver and Katie to kiss. "Now you can kiss." Oliver turned to Katie with a smile, his arms wrapping around her before once again bringing her lips to his, neither even hearing the roar of applause and cheers.

There was a big, stupid smile on Katie's face as she stood off to the side of the dance floor and watched as Oliver swayed to the music, Robyn in his arms.

"That's the look I like on you." Katie turned her head to see Bruce as he pointed to her. "That smile on your face, I think that was what that husband of yours was hoping for." he walked over to stand beside her, and smiled at the sight of Oliver dancing with the baby. Bruce lightly nudged Katie's shoulder. "So how you feeling, Robins?" the woman chuckled and turned to the man. "Sorry, but to me, you'll always be Robins, that girl who use to follow me around and beg to hang out with me."

"Well that's a lie. I never wanted to hang out with you, and now I'm stuck with you."

"Damn right you are." Bruce laughed, looking over to the woman to see that big bright smile on her face as she stared out to her family. "You know that Robyn looks like a great dance partner, I think I might try to cut in." Katie looked over to the man in confusion and before she could question him, he was already headed across the dance floor. She watched as Oliver stopped, and Bruce said something and both men looked over to her. She quirked a brow as she watched as Bruce held out his hands to Robyn who latched on to him in a fit of laughter. Bruce and Robyn began dancing, as Oliver headed over to her.

"You didn't have to stop, I was actually enjoying watching you two." Katie says as Oliver arms slid around her, pulling her to him. "I think the photographer got you two on camera. Those pictures are definitely going on the fire place." Katie felt the man tugging her with him as they came out onto the dance floor. "What are you doing?"

"Dancing with my wife." Oliver replied with a smile. Soon the pair seemed to just sway, neither knowing what song was playing. In this moment, there was no music, no people around them, it was just the two of them. "How many kids you do want to have?"

"What?" the question seemed so random in the moment. "Where is that question coming from?"

"From your vows, and you telling me that you planned on having a couple more of my children." Oliver looked down to the woman and couldn't get over how lucky he was. He wanted nothing more in this moment than to kiss her, and so he leaned in and pressed a kiss to her lips. "So how many is a couple?"

"I don't know, I-" Oliver's lips trailed along her jaw, and then the crook of her neck and the woman fought the moan that nearly came slipping from her mouth. "Thought we'd play it by ear, you know."

"Five." Oliver said suddenly, and Katie burst into a fit of laughter. "What?" he pulled back and looked down to her with that same smile that always made her heart flutter. "Five is a good number."

"Not when my body is the one having to house those five kids." she replied before turning in thought. "Two." she turned back to him with a smile. "So one more, fingers crossed it's a boy, but if not that'll be fine too."

"Four." Oliver counters and the woman shook her head as she laughed, and he couldn't help but to kiss her again, his lips falling to her neck again. "Final offer."

"Three." she sighed, her eyes fluttering closed, practically melting into the feel of his lips. "My final offer." his lips once again threatened to take all rationale out of the room. Soon a throat cleared, and the couple pulled apart to see Bruce who still held Robyn in his arms, with Gloria beside him.

"They have numerous rooms you two can go maul each other in you know." Bruce said before nudging his head to Gloria. "It's getting late and Gloria was going to head home and thought you two would want to say goodbye." It was Katie who plucked the baby from Bruce's arms and pressed her lips to the baby's head.

"Aw baby, mommy is going to miss you so, so much." Katie said, smiling at the child who she could see was already starting to fall asleep. She looked over to Oliver who pressed a kiss to the baby's head as well. "I hope this surprise honeymoon doesn't include me having to spend long periods of time away from my daughter."

"I'm not saying," Oliver took the baby from her arms, and pressed another kiss to her her head before turning to Gloria. "I'm going to walk you out."

"I can do that." Bruce offered and Oliver turned a quirked brow to the man. "I just assumed you two would want to-" he glanced over to Katie who glared to him.

"That's alright, I want to-"

"Lecture your security guards, I got it." Bruce once again took the baby in his arms. "I'm much more scarier than you are anyways, and I'll-" he glanced over his shoulder and spotted Felicity. "I'll even take Ms. Smoak. She's even scarier than I am." he turned back to the couple and smiled. "Go, go be newlyweds. Little Robyn here will be taken care of."

"Fine," Katie says turning and smiling to Gloria. "Make sure you call if you need anything, or if she gets fussy. She's not a Lil Jon fan anymore, but she likes Jay z, there are a couple of songs I think-"

"I got it, Mrs. Queen." Gloria said placing a hand on the woman's shoulder. "We're going to be just fine. You two have fun." and with that the couple waved goodbye to the nanny and their daughter.

"You know what I'm starting to realize?" Oliver says turning to his wife. "Our daughter is inheriting my taste in music when I was in high school." Katie turned to the man and laughed. "It's so weird."

"It is, but it's also adorable." Katie replied as Oliver's hands slid around her once again.

"You know, Bruce was right, there are some rooms we could probably sneak away to."

"Oliver Queen this is our wedding reception, we can't just disappear."

"We won't be gone long, just five minutes, I promise." Katie looked up to his eyes and shook her head.

"Five minutes?"

"Yeah, five minutes, ten tops." Oliver said, and Katie could feel the man pulling her with him off the dance floor. She absolutely knew this man wouldn't be satisfied with five or ten minutes, but she also knew right now she didn't care.

"Fine, but I'm so throwing you under the bus if your sister comes looking for us." Katie replied as Oliver took her hand. They began glancing around, before finally slipping away from the party.

It was Thea's day off from running Oliver's campaign, but with the amount of movers and shakers of the city at the wedding reception, she knew she couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk up Oliver. It would've been perfect if he was actually around. She'd sifted through the party, a smile on her face hoping her annoyance wasn't showing too much. She soon spotted Felicity and Bruce, who were chatting up John and Lyla.

"Oh, hey, have you guys seen the happy couple?" Thea asked, before once again turning to scan the crowd. "Their wedding is literally busting at the seams with people who would look good backing Oliver's campaign and he's no where to be found."

"I would assume you wouldn't want to find your brother right now." John said lightly chuckling and Lyla swat his shoulder laughing as well. "You might find him in a compromising position." they all laughed but Thea who frowned at the thought before turning to the crowd once again.

"C'mon, Thea, it's their wedding." Felicity said bringing her glass of champagne to her lips. "They were practically all over each other at the alter." they all laughed again.

"And on the dance floor." Bruce added.

"I'm sure they'll make an appearance soon." Felicity said.

"You're uncharacteristically calm right now." Thea said looking over to the blonde.

"That's because we did it. We finally got Twiver to the altar, they took their pictures, they did a little dancing, and now all is right with the world." she smiled looking over to Bruce. "I mean this wedding is beautiful, but ours will be incomparable."

"Oh, absolutely." Bruce replied bringing and arm around the woman, and placing a kiss to her lips.

"I will give them five more minutes, they still have to get a picture of them cutting the cake, and Oliver seriously needs to have some face time with some of these people." Thea muttered in frustration before diving back into the crowd.

"You know I haven't seen my mother in a while either." Felicity said, her eyes looking out into the many faces, before looking over to Bruce. "You don't think her and the captain are..."

"Well I wasn't." Bruce sighed, emptying the remnants of his drink before sitting his glass on the bar, and turning back to Felicity. "We should get you off your feet."

"Bruce, seriously-" Felicity complained as the man pulled her arm, and since she was a bit tired, she only let him.

Oliver Queen's lips were not helping in this moment. Katie's back had fallen against his chest as he continued to press kisses along her shoulder and neck. A moment of clarity struck her, and she quickly stood up straight.

"You're supposed to be zipping me up, not trying to get this dress back off." She said, glancing over her shoulder at the man. She couldn't help the ever present smile on her face, even as she lightly scolded him. She shook her head before walking over to stand in front of the mirror, and she sighed trying to run her fingers through her hair. "How did a promise of five minutes turn into almost an hour. Everyone is probably looking for us." she glanced up when the man appeared behind her, his arms wrapping around her waist.

"Well some things just can't be helped, Mrs. Queen. And I was not planning to wait until our honeymoon to get you out of this dress." Oliver's hand took the zipper and eased it down, but Katie grabbed his hand to stop him.

"Oliver, would you stop." she laughed, which didn't help in convincing him. "We have to get back out there, now please, zipper up." she heard him groan, but he pulled the zipper of her dress up before dropping his chin to her shoulder. She looked up to him with a smile as she reached up a hand, placing it on his cheek. "We really did it."

"We did." the man smiled, placing another kiss to her shoulder.

"Despite your little pre-wedding adventure." she added and he groaned once again burying his face in her shoulder. "We should probably talk about that, right?"

"I would rather not. The lead didn't get us close to Darhk. It only made me late which I promised myself I wouldn't." he lifted his eyes to look at her in the mirror, "I just thought this would be even more perfect if at the end of the day I could tell you that he was gone, and that we would never have to worry about him ever again." he placed another kiss to her neck. "I just look forward to every second I'm your husband, and being Robyn's dad, and I don't want to waste anymore time searching for that bastard." he pressed another kiss to very sensitive spot behind her ear, eliciting a gasped moan from her lips. "Do you forgive me, Mrs. Queen?" another kiss and he felt her body easing back to his.

"Uh-hm." she hummed as his lips continued their own mission. She felt his hand as he began once again lowering the zipper of her dress, and she already knew she wasn't going to stop him.

The knock on the door would do it though.

Oliver groaned looking over to the door with a shake of his head.

"Ollie, Twinkie, I know you're in there!" came Thea's voice. "It's been almost an hour, put your clothes on and get back out here. You have an entire honeymoon to do whatever it is you're doing there." Oliver and Katie didn't say anything in hopes that maybe she would just leave, but she only banged on the door again, "Ollie!"

"Thea, we will be out soon!" Oliver called in annoyance, his hand reluctantly pulling the zipper back up on Katie's dress.

"She's right, we have been gone too long." Katie says walking over and slipping on her shoes before looking over to Oliver who was buttoning his shirt. "You know you haven't actually told me where we're going on this honeymoon." Oliver looked over to her with a smile, and she narrowed her eyes. "Just tell me." he slipped on his tuxedo jacket and walked over to her, and leaned in close.

"Not on your life, Mrs. Queen." he pressed a kiss to her lips and she sighed with a smile. "Are you ready?"

"Uh no, I have to fix my make up, and make it look like I haven't spent the last forty five minutes having sex." she said with a shake of her head before giving the man a nudge. "Just five minutes Twinkie." she mimicked the man. " I promise." she shook her head, before turning, and his lips were once again pressing against her neck. "Your sister is going to-" knocking once again interrupted the moment and Oliver dropped his head to her shoulder. "I will meet you out there, go before your sister decides to come in here and drag you out."

"Fine, but don't take too long." with another kiss, the man turned and finally walked out to see his sister.

"You two are so nauseating." Thea grimaced looking over her brother with a shake of her head. She reached up to clasp a few more buttons of his shirt, and pull his jacket closed. "Where's your tie?"

"I have no idea, Speedy," he grabbed her hands to stop her. "And I don't care. Right now I am really happy." she looked at her brother and smiled. "Thank you for helping pull this together."

"Yeah, well if anyone deserves a fairy tale wedding, it's you and Katie."

"I couldn't agree with you more, which is why I'm going to tell her that and-" Oliver turned to go back into the Bride's room, but Thea caught his arm.

"Oh no you don't. There is wedding reception outside filled with some very influential-"

"Speedy, I told you no campaigning at my wedding."

"C'mon," she looped her arm with his and began pulling him toward the door. "Just shake a few hands, do that thing with your eyes." she looked over to the annoyed expression on his face and pointed. "Don't do that."

Katie touched up her lipstick before pinching her cheeks trying to get rid of that after sex glow she had going on right now. She chuckled with a shake of her head and decided to give it up.

"Whatever." she said with a smile. The door opened behind her, and she figured it was Thea coming to round her up. "Speedy, I'm done, lets-" Katie turned, her eyes going wide at the sight of someone she didn't expect. "Lois?" Katie looked over the woman who stood in socks while wearing an over sized coat that covered a hospital gown. "What—" Katie shook her head now realizing how truly long it's been since she'd seen or heard anything about the woman. "How—" she sighed looking up to the woman's eyes, now noticing the dark circles. She took a step closer. "Are you alright?"

"I have to pass along a message." Lois said, her voice a bit breathy as if she'd been running. "He says I have to give you a message."

"He, he who?" Katie was confused, and trying to keep up with the woman and this bizarre situation. "Lois, maybe you should sit down. Is Clark here, is he with you?" Katie took a step for the door, but Lois moved to block her. "Lois, I'm going to get you some help."

"He said I have to pass along the message, or I'll never have any peace." Lois dropped her head, her hands sliding through her hair. "It won't stop." she bumped the side of her head with her fist repeatedly. "and I need it to stop."

"Ok, ok." Katie took a step forward, grabbing the woman's hands to stop her. "Lets make it stop. Tell me the message."

Lois looked up to the woman and sighed. "He says you're inside of him, and he's inside of you." Lois slipped her hands from Katie grasp and placed them on the sides of Katie's face. "He says he knows who you are. You are his." the moment the words slipped from her mouth, Lois' eyes fluttered closed, before falling to the floor unconscious.

Katie stood there frozen for a moment. The woman's cryptic words causing a strange sensation inside of her. Katie took a step back, unsure what was happening to her in this moment. Suddenly the door opened, and in rushed Martin who looked from Katie down to the unconscious woman on the floor.

"Are you alright?" Martin asked, before crouching down and placing his hand to Lois' neck glad to feel a pulse. "What did she do?" Katie didn't say anything, because she suddenly felt herself slipping from the moment and she has no idea why. Lois' words on their own meant nothing, but there was something behind them, something Katie felt when they were spoken. And even though she doesn't know what that is, it puts a fear in her that she can't even explain.

"Lois?!" both their eyes turned at the voice of Clark who came into the room with a rush of wind. His eyes looked down to Lois and he dropped down beside her gathering her in his arms, before looking over to Katie. "What happened?"

"She-"Katie stuttered not sure why she couldn't even form a sentence. "She just said things that...that didn't' make sense." she looked up to meet the man's eyes. "What happened to her?"

"She was in a coma." Clark said, looking down to the woman who slightly stirred in his arms. "And I only stepped away for a minute, and when I came back she was gone." he looked back over to Katie. "She woke up from a coma, and the first thing she did was come here to you. I need you to tell me what she said." Katie turned away, and just shook her head before rushing out of the room.

Katie needed to find Oliver. She needed him to wrap his arms around her and make the sudden stirring happening inside of her stop, because she felt it. The darkness was there as if it were sleeping and now was slowly stirring awake. She pushed the door that lead outside, and she lifted her head seeing the lights and hearing the music in the distance.

"Oliver," she whispered wanting nothing more in this moment then to find him.

"Katherine!" a voice spoke, and Katie turned, her eyes going slightly wide at the sight of one of their head lawyers. "Thank God." he hurried over to her and let out a deep breath. "I've been looking all over for you."

"Craig?" Katie looked up to the man, before looking back across the large garden to the lights and music. "I'm sorry, I have to-" she needed to get to Oliver quick.

"We have a problem." Craig said, and Katie stopped and turned back to him. "It's about Ari." he had her full attention now. "She's-" the man was suddenly nervous, dreading this moment.

"She's what?!" Katie asked taking a step toward the man, her hands unconsciously clenching into fists at her side.

"Twinkie!" it was Oliver's voice that called and she turned looking over her shoulder to see Oliver walking toward them. His eyes looked from the woman, to the lawyer. "What's going on?" Oliver and Katie turned back to Craig.

"What's going on with Ari? Did you talk to Ms. Sandburg?" Katie asked and the lawyer shook his head.

"Look I know this is your wedding, and I'm so sorry about doing this, but -" the lawyer lifted his eyes, and he pales at the sight of the two officers that walked over. He was too late to be the one to break the news. Oliver and Katie turned their confused gaze to the two officers.

"Mr. and Mrs Queen." one of the officers spoke taking a step forward. Oliver turned to Katie noticing the slight shake of her hands, and he took her hand in his before turning to the officer. "We're going to need you to come with us."

Happiness wasn't a constant state of being and Katie hated it. She'd just been consumed with so much happiness that she actually forgot the fact that it usually didn't last. She realized that at this very moment.

And in this moment, Katie could smell it. That familiar scent of blood and death. Even here where she stood leaning against her car, as red and blue lights flashed around her. She'd changed out of her dress, now in a pair of jeans and a sweater she'd packed in her away bag for the honeymoon. She was just across the street in this typical suburban neighborhood as police and EMTs scrambled in and out of the house. Her eyes looked over to where Oliver and Craig stood, in what looked like a very serious conversation.

Katie should be nervous, because she knew whose house this was. She knew the implications of what was happening could mean, and yet she just stood there glancing from them back to the house.

"Twinkie?" Katie turned to see Oliver now standing in front of her. She wasn't sure when he'd walked over, but at the moment it didn't matter. She dropped her eyes from his, looking down to his clothes, wishing he'd changed out of his suit, which was now just an unwelcome reminder of the moments they couldn't get back today. "Hey—" he touched her shoulder and she jerked out of his touch and she has no idea why. "Hey Twinkie, look at me." her eyes moved to his and she hated the look he gave her. That sad, pathetic guilt ridden look. "Craig said there was a letter." Oliver moved to stand in front of her to make her eyes look at him. "Hey, you need to stay calm."

"Calm." she looked at her husband, before glancing over to the house and letting out a sigh. "Stop." for some reason she just knew when she spoke the words everything would stop, and it did. No one moved for as far as she could see. She glanced back over to Oliver who stood frozen in place as well, before turning and walking over to the house.

Katie slipped passed the officer, who was frozen in place at the door, inside the house where the smell of blood only got stronger. Her eyes looked around seeing how completely wrecked the house was with everything thrown about, glass shattered everywhere and blood streaked across the walls. There was a crowd of officers in what looked like the dining room, and so Katie moved around them, and she grit her teeth at the sight of Vanessa Sandburg sitting upright at the table, her eye balls gone and replaced with two black stemless roses. In her head she kept telling herself to look away, that this scene was gruesome, and not something she'll want to remember, and yet she couldn't tear her eyes away. She moved around the table noticing the sheet of paper sitting in front of the woman, an evidence marker right beside it. Katie moved in as close as she could, attempting to read letter, but it was a bit illegible. The ink was smeared, and blood seemed to stain the edges.

"You already know what the letter says." Katie lifted her head to see the ghost of the demon standing on the other side of the table. "Your little web has gotten your precious cousin tangled up with a monster who won't even hesitate to hurt her."

Katie let out a deep breath before moving back around that table, and heading out the door. She walked back over to her place in front of Oliver. She opened her mouth to speak, when another sudden instinct made her lift her hand, and with a simple wave, everything was moving again.

"Yes, you need to stay calm. There's a letter-"

"Saying that Ari is dead, that Vanessa and her husband killed her and buried her body." Katie said with a shake of her head. "The police think her husband turned on her, and killed her as well." Katie looked back to Oliver's concerned eyes. "Ari is not dead. Darhk has her, and now he wants me to find her. Which I will." Katie turned to get back into her car, but Oliver grabbed her shoulders and pulled her back to stay in front of him, and she almost shoved him away, but she simply breathed through it. "Let me go, Oliver."

"I'm not going to do that, because I know what's happening right now. It's what he wants, and I'm not going to let it happen." Oliver dropped his forehead to lean against hers. "I need you to fight this Twinkie. We are going to get Ari back, but I need you to stay with me ok?" he placed a kiss to her forehead. "I've already called the team, they are going to meet us at the hideout. We're going to find her." he lifted his head, and looked down to the woman who didn't say a word, but gave a nod.

Katie didn't say anything the entire ride to the hideout, and Oliver didn't quite know what to say either. He could see it though. That total shift in her demeanor after finding out about Ms. Sandburg and realizing what was happening with Ari.

When they arrived into the hideout, no one was there. Oliver had gotten a message about traffic and how they were on their way.

"I'm going to get changed." Oliver says turning to Katie, bringing his arms around her and hating how unresponsive she was to his touch. "Hey-" he dropped his head slightly to meet her eyes. "We're going to find her." Katie once again only silently nodded before watching the man turn to get changed. Once he was gone, she turned back for the elevator, fully prepared to get out of here, but apparently they weren't the only one's here.

"Hey," Katie stopped and lifted her head before turning to see Laurel standing there. "I got Oliver's text, are you-" Laurel walked over to Katie. "Are you alright?"

"You weren't at the wedding." Katie said suddenly and Laurel looked slightly confused figuring that topic didn't take precedent at the moment.

"Yeah, I thought-" Laurel shook her head. "I just thought it would be for the best. Is there any lead on Ari, do we even know what happened?"

"You don't even know." Katie says suddenly laughing as she looked over to the woman. "You should feel it, right?" Katie began taking steps toward the woman. "Like this feeling in your gut that something isn't right. You should be feeling that right now, Laurel."

"Katie, what-" Laurel noticed the woman getting closer and she did suddenly get the feeling that something was really wrong.

"You keep talking. Just talk, talk, talk, and it's like your voice is the match trying to strike to get the fire started." Katie took one final step now standing in front of Laurel. "And now you've done it." Katie suddenly tossed a fist at the woman, but Laurel quickly blocked it before pushing Katie away.

"Katie, what are you doing? What's wrong with you?" Laurel asked now inching away from the woman already trying inch closer. "I don't know what's happening, but you need to calm down. I don't want to fight. We need to focus on finding Ari." Laurel lifted her head. "Where's Oliver, is he-"

"Don't you dare even say his name, you bitch!" Katie kicked a leg, hitting the woman in the ribs. Laurel let out a grunt as she stumbled back, but lifted her own fists seeing the woman was not going to let up.

"I don't want to fight you, but I will." Laurel grimaces, but standing tall.

"I've always admired that fight Laurel." Katie says, the women now moving in a slow circle watching each other closely. "What I didn't admire was how much of whore you are." Katie threw another punch, but Laurel caught her arm and twisted it behind Katie's back, pulling her forward. Katie tossed her head back and Laurel's grasped relinquished before Katie turned grabbing the woman's shoulders and jerking her knee up to the woman's ribs. If they weren't cracked before, they probably were now.

"Katie, don't do this." Laurel groaned now hunched over cradling her stomach.

"Oh, Laurel don't beg. You don't beg for anything, you take it. What you won't take ever is my husband." Katie tilted her head and smiled. "Look at me, Laurel." Laurel was in too much pain as she tried inching away. Katie shook her head, before extending her hand and with a slight tilt Laurel's head jerked up, her eyes going wide as she looks to Katie. Katie watched as the woman seemed to strain to move away, to do anything her brain was telling her body to do, but it wasn't. Katie walked over to stand in front of the woman, placing a hand on her cheek. "You should've stopped talking." Katie clicked her tongue before turning away.

Laurel thought it was over, but soon she felt herself being pulled from the floor by her neck. She lifted her hands, but there was nothing there, and yet the oxygen was not making it in her lungs.

Katie watched with a wide smile as the woman hung in the air slowly dying, not even hearing the sound of the elevator opening behind her.

"What the hell?" it was John who was the first to run forward, his eyes looking over to Katie before up to Laurel.

"Oh, my god, Laurel!" Thea ran to John's side as they both grabbed the woman's waist trying to pull her down, but it was as if whatever holding her up was too strong.

Felicity's wide eyes looked over to Katie speechless as Katie stood watching with a smile on her face, before she turned to Bruce who walked over to stand in front of the woman.

"Hey Robins, can you look at me?" Bruce asked, but the woman didn't even hear his voice.

"Katie's doing this." John says eyeing Katie as he starts to move in closer. "Katie, put Laurel down, now." Katie's eyes dropped to John, and he let out gasp when he noticed her eyes had suddenly changed and were now a cold black. "Katie?"

"Shss?" Katie says placing a finger to her lips. "I can't hear her heart slowly stopping." a smile came back to Katie face as she lifted her eyes back to Laurel whose eyes were now closed, and her limbs dangling limply in the air.

"Twinkie!" Oliver's voice called and he ran over pushing Bruce aside, and he froze the moment he saw his wife. "Twinkie, I need you to hear me. Listen to my voice, you can't do this, you can't-"

"We have to stop her, Laurel doesn't have much time." John says now inching behind the woman.

"Just give me a minute, John!" Oliver snapped turning back to Katie, and taking a slight step closer. "Twinkie, I know you're in there. You promised me you would fight this, and right now I need you to fight."

"Oliver we can't wait any longer." John says glancing over to Bruce and slightly nudging his head for him to move to the other side of the woman. "We have to stop her now."

"Will you just wait-" John and Bruce didn't even let Oliver finish the thought before the two men went to tackle the woman, but neither even got close before an invisible force tossed everyone across the room.

Katie planted her hands on her waist as she watched Laurel's body simply drop to the floor with a hard thud. She walked over and crouched beside the woman tilting her ear over her chest, and groaned at the faint sound of the woman's heart beat.

"Why won't you just die already." Katie brought her hand to Laurel's throat, but stopped when the elevator doors once again opened. The hairs on the back of her neck stood, and she whipped her head around standing to her feet. "Constantine, don't you dare!"

"Molles somnos, somno iam." Constantine uttered, and he watched as she stumbled back, placing a hand to her head, before suddenly the spell won out, and she was collapsing unconscious to the floor. Constantine glanced around the hideout watching confused and angry people push themselves back to their feet. His eyes looked over to Oliver who stood his eyes immediately going to his wife before taking a step toward her.

"Oliver!" it was John's angry voice that stopped him, and when Oliver looked up he saw the eyes on him waiting for an explanation he wasn't even sure how to begin. "You are going to tell what the hell is going on, right now!"

The first lucid thought that came to Katie was whatever she was lying on was hard and cold. A deep breath escaped her lips when she opened her eyes and found herself lying on the floor surrounded by candles. She let out a groan before flipping over to lie on her back.

"First thing I'm going to do when I get out of this damn circle is rip your tongue out." Katie muttered placing a hand on her head. A headache seemed to creep up on her, and she let out another groan.

"Still got the evil in that head of yours, huh?" Constantine asked peering over to the woman. She turned her head to look over to him. "You did a number on your friends out there."

"I don't care." she muttered closing her eyes and letting out a deep breath. "Have they found Ari?"

"Well they're a little bit preoccupied grilling your husband about his wife who went all Jeckyll and Hyde back there." he said. "You could've killed them. You could've killed Laurel a lot quicker if you wanted."

"Your point?" she asked turning her eyes to the man who crouched down, just outside the circle of candles so his eyes could meet hers.

"My point is, it hasn't won yet, because if it had you wouldn't be trapped right now, and your friends, and your husband would all be dead. You need to pull yourself back up. It hasn't beat you." Katie glared at him and just shook her head.

"If anything happens to Ari while I'm trapped in this stupid spell, I will kill them, and you." she turned away from him to lie on her side before wrapping her arms around her knees that were pressed to her chest.

Oliver stood, his arms folded over his chest. John was saying something to him, had been since they carried his wife into the room they usually only held bad guys in. Oliver still couldn't believe it. After all of Constantine's warnings about this moment happening, he still just couldn't believe it.

To see Katie in such a way, to not recognize her at all, to this moment was still just unbelievable. His eyes glanced over to the far corner, knowing she wasn't far and that Constantine said he had a way to keep her contained. The man told Oliver to stay away, and give him some time to try to get through to her, but it was the last thing Oliver wanted to do. He told her that she wouldn't have to go through this alone, and right now the only thing he wanted was to be by her side to help her through this.

"Oliver!" Oliver's eyes snapped back to the angry glare of John Diggle. Right now the room was filled with a mixture of emotions from his friends. John was clearly angry, Felicity and his sister seemed to be in a mild state of shock, and Bruce was sort of hard to read. He didn't seem to be as angry as John which makes Oliver believe that he too seemed to expect this. "Oliver, are you even listening to me? Do you even understand what just happened, and the position you've put us in, our families in by not telling us what was happening? You've had a ticking time bomb strolling in and out of here and you didn't even tell us." Oliver seemed angry at the man's words even though he knows they're true. Right now, this moment, he didn't want to hear that he'd made stupid choices, or put anyone at risk, right now he only wanted to see his wife, and so instead of answering John's questions, he simply stalked off. "Are you seriously not going to tell us anything?! After what happened tonight, Laurel is in the hospital, she could've died." Oliver turned back to the man. "And your wife did that." hearing those words out loud made Oliver drop his eyes for a moment and let out a deep breath. "Oliver?"

"I hear you John." Oliver whipped his eyes back to the man trying his best to keep a cap on his own raging emotions. He knew he had to, he knew right now there was only two things important. Finding Ari, and making sure his wife made it out of this situation still his wife. " I hear everything you're saying, and you're probably right. Maybe I should've told you, but I didn't and that won't change."

"Ollie-" it was Thea who finally found words in the fuzziness in her brain. "Just tell us what's happening." Oliver let out another deep breath before looking over this shoulder to the corner still hoping Constantine would come around it and tell him that Katie is better and back. "Ollie, I know this isn't easy for you, and I can see you're struggling with what just happened just like we are, but I also know you have more information than we have." Oliver turned back to his sister. "Just tell us."

"Katie-" he dropped his head for a moment before looking back up to the eyes waiting for answers. "Grace Robins apparently was more than any of us ever knew. According to Constantine she was apart of a race of humans called Homo Magi. And because of that, it means she could do things. Mysticlal things." he saw the shock in their eyes and he shook his head. "And as it turns out, it's a trait that's inherited."

"So Twinkie has mystical abilities?" Thea asked, and even speaking the words didn't make them seem real. Thea's eyes widen at a sudden realization. "Wait, Robyn, is she-"

"We don't know." Oliver sighed sliding a hand across his face. "We weren't-"

"You were ignoring it." John said and Oliver looked over to the man. "You thought if you didn't pay attention to it, and you didn't tell anyone about it, that maybe it would just go away. But it didn't go away Oliver, we saw that tonight."

"You don't know anything John. We didn't ignore it. We were dealing with it, trying to find out what was happening."

"Wait, so these abilities, they make her-" Thea dropped her eyes emotions now attempting to take her words. "They make her like that?" she looked back over to her brother. "What she did to Laurel, that-"

"That was Darhk." it was Bruce who spoke the words, and they all turned to him in surprise. "That night with the rose pedals under the door." he shook his head and sighed. "They were a gift from Darhk."

"How do you know that?" Felicity asked finally speaking and looking over to her fiance.

"Jacob." Oliver says looking over to Bruce who met his eyes, and Oliver suddenly realized that Jacob probably knew more about this than any of them, and they haven't even thought to ask.

"Wait, so you're talking to Jacob Robins now? You're not also on his payroll are you?" Felicity asked turning to Bruce who turned to her and shook his head.

"It's not like that. I just came into some knowledge that I needed Jacob to verify and I put two and two together."

"Knowledge? What knowl-" Felicity's eyes seemed to widened. "Wait, Richie? That night he came over acting weird. No, Barry-" she turned to Bruce and shook his head. "He needed to talk to Jacob about something, and so he came to you. Was it about this?" Bruce sighed, and turned away, and it was answer enough. "It was, wasn't it?"

"Barry?" Thea asked still confused by all the new information. "What does Richie and Barry have to do with this?"

"Right now it doesn't matter." Bruce stated firmly before turning to Oliver. "Right now we deal with what triggered all of this."

"Ari." Oliver sighed. "We were pulled from the wedding by the police. Ms. Sandburg was murdered."

"Ari's caseworker?" Thea asked and Oliver nodded.

"There was a note that detailed some plan about she and her husband holding Ari for ransom, but getting scared and killing her instead."

"Oh my god," Thea looked at her brother and shook her head. "She's not-"

"It was a smoke screen." Oliver said. "Ari is alive, and I'm pretty sure Darhk has her. He hasn't actually admitted to this, which is kind of strange. One would think he'd be gloating."

"Wait, none of this explains what we just walked in on." John says glancing from Oliver to Bruce. "You said Darhk had those pedals slipped under door. And what are they doing to her?"

"We're not quite sure. We just know that her touching them did something to her. Changing her. It was happening slowly at first, but the longer it's been in her system, it's become noticeable."

"Noticable how? This isn't the first time she's gone homicidal?" John asked, and Oliver turned a glare to him. "I'm sorry Oliver, but I'm really just trying to understand what we're playing at here. I can't be the only one here who feels out of their element with this."

"And I get that John, I really do, but that-" Oliver shook his head. "That wasn't my wife, that was something that Darhk did to her, but we're going to figure out how to get it out of her."

"And that's possible?" Felicity asked, and Oliver turned to her. "Does Constantine know how to bring her back from that?" Oliver didn't say anything, and they knew what that meant. "He doesn't, does he? So there's a chance she won't-"

"No." Oliver shook his head. "I'm getting my wife back out of this. There is a way to save her, I'm sure of it, we just have to figure out how. Look right now we need to find Ari." he looked over to Felicity, who stared for a moment before giving a nod.

"I will comb through any footage I can find of her last moments, maybe we can see where she was taken." Felicity sighed, before walking over to her computer. Bruce attempted to take her hand, but she only pulled out his grasp.

"I'm going to the hospital to see how Laurel's doing." John muttered before stalking toward the elevator. Oliver let out sigh as he watched the man leave before turning to Bruce and walking over to him.

"We need to talk." Oliver said, and Bruce gave a nod already expecting this conversation.

Soon Bruce, and Oliver found themselves standing in the back alley behind the campaign office. Oliver turned to Bruce and shook his head.

"This whole time, you knew?"

"At this point does that really even matter?" Bruce asked with a shake of his head.

"It does if you have information that could've helped us. What did Jacob tell you?"

"No more than what Constantine told you." Bruce lied turning away. There was still the truth about Darhk's true connection to Katie that Bruce really wasn't sure he should reveal just yet.

"I want to talk to Jacob." Oliver said, and Bruce sighed. "I want him to tell us everything he knows about what's happening to her. This whole time he's been breaking his back trying to keep Katie and Darhk apart, and I think this is why." Bruce looked over to the man. "He knew this was possible."

"Maybe, but I don't think he would've tried so hard to keep them apart if he knew how to fix this if it happened." Bruce rubbed his tired eyes. He too expected a moment like this, but now that they were in it, he wasn't sure what to do.

"Yeah, but he has to know something."

Both men's senses seem to pick up on the fact that they were no longer alone. They turned, quite surprised to see Damien Darhk appear from the shadows.

"Oh aren't you two cute." Darhk said with a smirk on his face. It would seem just the sight of the man was enough for that ugly beast inside of Bruce to rear his head because before he knew it, he was stalking toward the man, but Darhk lifted his hand, and suddenly an unseen force was holding Bruce by the throat.

Constantine's eyes were closed as he continued chanting, when suddenly Katie sat up. His eyes looked over to her just as she stood to her feet, and lifted her eyes to the ceiling.

"He's here." she said turning to Constantine, her eyes seeming to suddenly change to cold black as she let out a growl. "Darhk is here."

Damien Darhk seems to chuckle at Bruce's attempt to break free.

"Aw, someone's still upset about the limo. I apologize for the limo, it couldn't be helped. But right now isn't about that!" with a twitch of his hand, Bruce is released, and he drops to his knees trying to breathe. Oliver grabs his arm and helps him back to his feet.

"You know you're never gonna get away with this." Oliver said glaring over to the man. "You have know idea the people you're dealing with."

"I tried to bring you into the fold, Mr. Queen, I tried to kidnap your nearest and dearest, I tried to kill you, but none of that took." Darhk clicked his tongue with a shake of his head. "But maybe the fourth times a charm." Oliver felt his phone suddenly vibrate in his pocket and looked over to the man in confusion. "Go ahead, take a look." Oliver pulls the phone from his pocket and his eyes go wide at the sight of Ari sitting in front of a fire place, her eyes glancing around ever so often before looking across at something. Bruce glances down to Oliver's phone and shakes his head before the camera seems to pan out, revealing a boy sitting across from the girl, and Oliver's eyes widen before he looks over to Darhk. "And that was the look I was hoping for. The young Ms. Locke is feisty I tell you that, but I haven't met a challenge I couldn't conquer," he chuckled, "And the young William thinks I'm friends with his mother. Funny right?" he laughed even more as he looked upon the dark looks on him. "Anyhoo, 6:00 on Friday, you're gonna hold a press conference and drop out of the mayoral race. Oh, that's 6 pm, by the way. I will be at home watching you from my brand-new television. The moment it happens, we will set up an exchange for Mr. William." Oliver seemed to notice the man's omission. "And as for the fiesty Arianna, the moment you make the announcement, I will set up an exchange with that wife of yours. Me and her have had a long overdo conversation." Damien glanced over to Bruce and gave a nod before turning and walking away.

Bruce made to follow after him, but Oliver grabbed his shoulder to stop him.

"That bastard," Bruce shook his head before turning back to Oliver whose eyes were on the phone. "Whose the boy Oliver?" Oliver lifted his eyes to Bruce and the silence seemed to answer Bruce's question. Bruce let out a sigh, before placing a hand on Oliver's shoulder. "Let's go tell the others we just got our confirmation."

When the pair returned to the hideout, neither expected to find Felicity and Thea both standing, with wide eyes. Oliver and Bruce took a few steps before they heard the yelling that carried. They looked over to the far corner, unsure what was happening. Oliver shook his head before stalking in the direction of the yelling.

"Ollie, Constantine said not to go in there." Thea called after him, but she should've known nothing would keep him from going to check on his wife.

Outside the door, Oliver hesitated for a moment. He heard the yelling more clearer now that he was close, and he knew it meant the woman on the other side still wasn't completely his wife and he wasn't sure he was prepared for it. He also remembered his promise to her, and that meant his feelings right now didn't matter, and so he opened the door and walked in. Katie stopped yelling, and she turned to Oliver walking toward him, only to stop at the invisible barrier that trapped her.

"Tell me he's dead." she said looking over to Oliver. "Darhk was here, he was close. Tell me you killed him."

"You shouldn't be in here, mate." Constantine said coming over and placing a hand on Oliver's shoulder nudging him back toward the door, but Oliver turned to the man who sighed. "This will not happen the way you think it will. She wouldn't want you here to see her like this."

"And I wouldn't care." Oliver says turning back to Katie, her eyes still that dark shade of black that he doesn't think he will ever get use to seeing. "I wouldn't care, because I love every side of her, even the one staring back at me right now."

"And you're delusional." she said with a shake of her head. "This won't be solved with love, and kisses, and pointless weddings you think will overcome what this really is. This is happening, now where is Darhk?"

"He's gone." Oliver said and Katie growled before hitting her fist against the invisible barrier. "Twinkie, I promise-"

"What?!" she snapped before she turned and began to pace. "What do you promise? You told me she would be ok, that me doing nothing was the best thing that I could do for her." she glanced over to Oliver with a shake of her head. "And now he has her. Is that why he was here, to gloat?"

"He wants me to drop out of the mayoral race." Oliver said, and Katie stopped walking and turned to him. "He has both William and Ari, and he says once I drop out of the race he will give them back." Katie looked at him for a moment before bursting out into a fit of laughter. Oliver and Constantine both looked at her in confusion, before she turned and began pacing again.

"He took Ari, and your secret love child with her for good measure." she shook her head and sighed. "He is a real bastard." she stopped and looked over to Constantine. "I can find him. You saw it before. There is a connection between us, and I can use it to find out where Ari is."

"That's not happening, love." Constantine said with a shake of her head. "The only woman stepping out of that circle is the one who won't try to kill her friends."

"Laurel wasn't my friend." Katie said with a smile before turning to Oliver. "She's a whore who should be dead right now. Please tell me she is." Oliver had to look away because his wife would never say something like that. "Aw, did I hurt your wittle feelings." Oliver turned back to her with a glare. "Well buck up, because you need to find Ari, because if you don't-" she walked over to the edge of the barrier once again. "If she dies, this whole city will burn and I'll make sure you get to witness it." Oliver swallowed the lump in his throat unable to hear the words from her mouth before he turned to leave. His hand had only touched the doorknob before he stopped and looked back to her.

"You'll never see her you know. Not this-" he looked over her. "I know you're in there, I know my Twinkie, my wife, the love of my life is buried in there refusing to fight because she thinks you can win this fight. I will do anything to get her to see the truth, but in the event that she can't, I think you should know you'll never see our daughter. She'll never look into those eyes." Oliver turned to leave, but stopped.

"Oliver-" he turned back to her. "This and Robyn will never be in the same room, understand?" the flash of her eyes turned back to normal, and Oliver turned walking back over to her, but she turned away from him and began pacing once again.

"Hey," Constantine placed a hand on Oliver's shoulder, and the man sighed before letting him finally pull him from the room.

"Did you see that?" Oliver asked looking over to Constantine. "She's in there, I could see it, right there. This thing hasn't totally taken over, there has to be a way to pull her back."

"Hey, I'm working on that, but you need to be working on finding that girl." Constantine says and Oliver sighs. "She's the trigger, and I think the moment she's safe, pulling your wife back will be that much easier." Oliver gives a nod, his eyes looking back up to the door. "Hey, you're right. She's still in there, a piece of her is still fighting." he placed a hand on the man's shoulder. "But you have to fight for her too." Oliver nods again before turning and heading off.

The moment he walked over, Bruce, Felicity and Thea all turned to him, before Felicity took a step forward.

"You have a son?"

Jacob was pacing. It wasn't something he normally did. It's something Grace would do when she felt stuck in a situation. He often teased her about it, but now it would seem it was now his solace.

"Sir," Martin's voice didn't seem to stop the man as he paced. "Ms. Lane is awake and alert."

"Why did she go to my daughter?" Jacob asked with a shake of his head. He'd been trying to think of an answer to that question and he still had yet to find one.

"She doesn't remember what she said, or even how she got there." Martin replied and Jacob stopped and let out a deep sigh. "Darhk-"

"We never rescued her." Jacob looked over to the man. "We thought we found her, but he left her for us. She had a purpose, and whatever she said to my daughter was that purpose." Martin simply gave a nod. "Have we got a location on Arianna?"

"No, but there is now another problem." Martin sighed, walking over to his boss. "Our bug in Mr. Queen's base has just picked up that Damien has another child. William Clayton." Jacob let out a huff, turning and letting a hand slide across his face. He was very much aware of Oliver's child even before the man himself knew about it. He'd been very aware of the situation even as it happened, keeping and eye on Moira and the woman. The situation didn't translate to any kind of harm to the city, and so Jacob didn't see a reason to get involved. "He wants Oliver to drop out of the mayoral race."

"And it all comes back to putting his wife in that seat." Jacob shook his head before turning back to the man. "I want to know what he's planning." Martin gave a nod before turning. "Martin-" the man stopped and turned back to Jacob. "Find those kids." Martin gave a nod before turning and leaving.

Alone once again, Jacob continued to pace. His phone rang and given his luck it was probably more news he didn't want. He pulled the phone from his pocket and saw the familiar number of Bruce Wayne, and he cursed under his breath. He knew it was a bad idea to give the man his direct number, but he had little choice.

"What do you want, Bruce?" Jacob listened to the news of how the situation had affected his daughter and now Oliver wanted to see him. Jacob was silent after a moment, but silently nodded. "I'll be right there."

At the moment there wasn't anything for Oliver to do. Felicity was doing her best with the search, but given how long Ari has been gone, it was turning up nothing. Oliver found himself sitting outside the door, his wife on the other side. He wanted to go inside, to keep talking to her, keep trying to get through to her, but it was hard. Oliver had hope that Katie could pull herself out of this, and that he'd get his wife back, but when he saw her, and he heard the awful things she said, he just felt that hope dwindling. His eyes were closed as he leaned his head back against the wall, but they snapped open the moment the door beside him opened. He jumped to his feet the moment Constantine stepped out.

"What's going on? How is she?"

"Well she isn't threatening the apocalypse anymore." Constantine chuckled, but stopped noticing how tense the man was. "How's the search going?"

"We still have nothing." Oliver slid a hand across his tired eyes and shook his head. "What if we don't get Ari or William back?" he looked up to the man and shrugged. "I'm not prepared for that." he shook his head not even able to fathom the thought of two children that he cares a lot about not making it out of this fucked up situation. "I don't think I can prepare for that."

"Hey, you won't have to." Constantine said and Oliver looked to him in confusion wondering where that confidence came from. "Look, I have to use the facilities, and I know you want to, but don't go in there." Oliver gave a nod before watching the man turn and head for the bathroom. The moment he was gone, Oliver turned back to the door, and sighed. He was very tempted to disregard Constantine's request because he needed to see her, and for her to see him and know that he hasn't left her. Oliver glanced over his shoulder to see no one was there, and so he shook his head before turning and walking inside.

Katie was lying on the floor, still trapped inside the spell. She didn't even stir when he walked inside.

"Some honeymoon, huh? You shouldn't be in here, Oliver." she said, not even turning to face him. He walked over, and lowered himself on the floor to sit so she could see him. Her eyes were closed though, and he let out a sigh. "Have you found Ari?"

"Not yet, but we will." Oliver replied hating so much that he couldn't touch her. "We're going to find you too."

"He hasn't told you yet, has he?" Katie said, still not opening her eyes to look at him. "There's only one way to stop this. I know it, and Constantine knows it. He hasn't been out looking for some save Twinkie cure. He's been looking for the only way this will end."

"What are you talking about?" Oliver asked, and Katie groaned in annoyance before she flipped over to lie on her back.

"The darkness is growing, and it's spreading, and it feels good." she smiled turning back to Oliver, her eyes opened letting him see the darkness in them. "It feels so good and soon your pal Constantine's spells won't work. This little trap won't keep me contained, and when that happens there's only one way this will end." she sat up, and folded her legs in front of her as she looked over to him. "You should've let me go, you know that. I could be on some island right now, without a care in the world, but nope-" she shook her head. "You just had to pull me in. This is all your fault." Oliver dropped his eyes from hers, not expecting those words that were already replaying in his own head. "This is all-" she closed her eyes, and began groaning as she clutched her head, a sudden wave of a pain making it feel like her head would explode.

"Katie?" Oliver looked over to her, forgetting everything he is supposed to do in this moment, and sliding into the circle of candles, placing his hands on her shoulders. "Hey, what's wrong?" the door to the room suddenly opened and Oliver glanced over to see Constantine.

"No, no, mate!" Constantine rushed over. "You can't be in there, you need to get out, right now."

"Constantine, shut up!" Oliver snapped turning back to his wife "Something is wrong, something-" soon her eyes opened, and she looked back to Oliver with those brown eyes that he so dearly missed. "Twinkie?" she glanced over to Constantine, before turning back to Oliver and he saw the tears begin to swell in her eyes.

"What did I do?" she asked shaking her head. The tears seemed to pour from her eyes as the realization of everything she's done rushes to her.

"Twinkie, it's alright, you're-" he brought his arms around her, but she pushed him away.

"No, it's not alright!" she slid back away from him and stood to her feet. "You need to get away from me. You need to get far away from me." she shook her head before bringing her arms around her self because it felt as if she was going to burst out of her own skin. She looked over to Constantine. "You need to get him away from me, keep them all away from me." Constantine saw that look in her eyes, that guilt and shame and knew the woman seemed to pull through.

"Twinkie-" Oliver took a step toward her, but she continued to back away.

"Oliver you should go." Constantine says crossing into the circle as well, and moving to stand in front of the man. Oliver shook his head, his eyes looking over to Katie who looked completely distraught, and he wanted nothing more than to hold her, and let her know that she was alright. "Pretending that this wasn't bad won't help her." Oliver looked down to the man. "And you can't do that. I don't think you're wired to do that with her, so just give me some more time." Oliver wanted to push the man out of the way, but he knew he couldn't. He knew in this moment, Katie needed more than to be reassured, she needed no holds bar honesty about this situation. And so he turned and headed for the door.

Oliver stepped out of that door, too tempted to walk right back inside, so he went over to see if there were any leads. He'd been on his way over to Felicity, when he spotted Bruce walking over to him.

"He's here." Bruce said, and Oliver nodded just as the elevator opened and out walked John, and Captain Lance. Quentin didn't look happy at all as he stalked over to Oliver.

"You mind telling me why the hell my daughter is lying in a hospital right now?" Quentin asked angrily.

"Captain, I know you're upset-"

"I'm more than upset!" the man snapped before glancing around. "Was it Darhk? Did he somehow get to Katie, make her do those things."

"Yes, and no, it's a long story that I will explain, but right now-"

"What's going on?" John asked taking a step forward, and seeing the look in Oliver's eyes.

"She's back. Twinkie is back to normal," he replied glancing over his shoulder wanting nothing more that to see her right now. "She's not taking any of this well."

"Well I would hope not." Quentin said with a shake of his head "So is it fixed or will she try to kill more people?"

"We're still trying to figure that out." a voice spoke, and they all turned, quite surprised to see Jacob standing there. "But given the unknown nature of this issue, it's been kind of difficult." Jacob walked over and stood right in front of Quentin who stared with wide eyes. "So yeah, I'm alive and it's good to see you again." Jacob looked over to Oliver. "You have questions." he glanced around to the eyes on him. "You all do, and I wish I had all the answers, but I don't. All I had was a warning."

"A warning from who?" Oliver asked, and Jacob turned to him.

"From my wife. With her last breath, she warned me to keep our daughter far away from Damien Darhk."

"So she knew this would happen?" it was Thea who asked the question, a glare now fixed on her face. "You knew this would happen. All this could've changed if you told her what was going on?"

"No it wouldn't Ms. Queen. Some moments are just destined to happen, and there isn't a thing in the world that can change it."

"Is that what you tell yourself instead of admitting the truth?" Oliver asked shaking his head at the man. "If you were honest with her, with us, we would've done more, we would've-"

"Not come back to Star City? Not run for mayor? Oliver you knew Darhk was here, and you knew there was a reason I was keeping he and my daughter apart, but you thought you could beat him, and maybe you can. But before you beat him, he's going to beat you, over and over, and over again."

Katie was shaking. She kept seeing it. Everything she'd done, and everything she felt. It kept playing on repeat in her head.

"Hey, luv." Constantine placed his hands on her shoulder and gave her a slight shake. Her eyes lifted to him.

"What did I do? I almost-" she closed her eyes and shook her head. "It's not supposed to get that far." she lifted her eyes back to him. "You're not supposed to let it get that far. When that happens you end it."

"Look, I can't-"

"You have the blade." Katie said suddenly and the man looked at her in surprised. "It's like I could feel it when you were near, but I know you have it, and I know it's the only thing that will stop me when this gets too bad. You should've-"

"I knew you were still in there, ok. That blade is a last resort and we haven't gotten to it. As long as I know you're still in there, we will never get to it." Katie dropped her head once again. "I know you want to fall apart, and cower away from what you did, but it won't make it go away." she let out a heavy breath and looked back to him. "You did what you did because there is something very dark inside of you, and until we figure out how to get it out you are going to have to fight extra hard to stay here. I don't care why you fight, if it's Oliver, or your daughter, or your friends, but I need you to fight and not drop out when the tough gets going."

"Ari-"

"Ari is alive, and she needs you to find her, not that thing you think will get the job done. You can't fall apart, because there are two children who are in serious danger." Katie brought her arms around herself, and turned her back to the man.

"It's no use." a voice taunted and Katie lifted her eyes to see the demon standing just across from her. "It will consume you, and no one will be able to stop it."

"Just go away." Katie muttered dropping her head. Constantine looked over to the woman in confusion before glancing over to the empty space across from her. "Please just go away."

"Who are you talking to?" Constantine asked, and Katie looked over to him, before pointing across the room.

"He's here, the demon, he's-" she turned and looked over to the ghost and just shook her head. "Won't shut up." Constantine quirked a brow as he took a few steps forward. Katie watched as the man closed his eyes, and muttered something under his breath before opening his eyes and looking over to the woman.

"You see him, right now?"

"Yeah, he's standing right there behind you." Katie says and Constantine turns before letting out a deep breath. He walks back over to Katie and stands in front of her. "What?"

"There are no spirits in this room."

"What are you talking about he's right-" she lifted her eyes and could clearly see her uncle with that condescending smile on his face as he stared at her. "He's right there."

"Look at me." Constantine watches as the woman brings her eyes to him. "Trust me when I say that I would know if there was a spirit in this room, and right now there isn't." Katie looked confused, her eyes lifting, only this time the demon was gone.

"That-" she shook her head still not able to believe this. "He feels real. Like when I see him, I know it's him." she looks back to the man in front of her. "I thought this was part of the messed up gift I have. Seeing the dead. I saw my mother, and I saw Tommy, and I saw that bastard."

"I don't really know the scope of what your abilities are, but what I can tell you is that there are no spirits in this room. Whatever you saw wasn't real." Katie lifted her eyes once again and shook her head.

"He's a hallucination." she dropped her face to her hands. "Not only am I going psycho, but I'm going insane as well. That's just perfect."

"I don't think you're either. I think he's a manifestation." Katie looked up to the man. "From the darkness inside of you." Constantine lifted his head in thought. "I have an idea." he turned back to the woman. "I know someone who might be able to help you, but I have to go."

"No, you can't go. What if it comes back?" Katie looked completely frightened at the thought, and Constantine could see it in her eyes.

"The only way it won't come is if you keep fighting it. It only wins when you stop." the man turned and pointed toward the door. "That door will be open, and the moment you're ready to start fighting, you can go." Constantine placed a hand on her shoulder before walking over to grab his jacket. Katie watched nervously as he stepped out of the door, and left it wide open.

Oliver only glanced over by chance, and spotted Constantine who was now wearing his jacket as if to leave. Oliver rushed over to him.

"What's going on?" he looked behind the man in hopes of seeing his wife. "Where is she?"

"She's still in there, but she'll work up the courage to finally come out." Constantine replied, looking over and seeing Jacob. "I was just about to call you." Constantine walked over to the man. "I have an idea, and I can't believe I didn't think about it before."

"Does this idea have to do with Katie?" Thea asked taking a step toward the man. "Because if it does, we need to know what it is. No more secrets." she glanced over to her brother, "She is my sister and when something is wrong with her, I deserve to know about it."

"Thea-"

"Thea is right Oliver." Felicity spoke up, looking over to the man as well. "She's your wife and the mother of your child, so you thought you would fix this all on your own, but you don't have to. We are a team, we are a family, and when one of us needs help, then we all help. You can't forget that."

"You're right, you're all right, and I'm sorry. We should've told you what was happening, and it won't happen again." Oliver turned back to Constantine who was now speaking with Jacob in hushed tones so none of them could hear. "What's your idea?" Constantine turned back to him.

"There's someone who I know who may have a little knowledge of your wife's situation."

"And you're just bringing this up now?"

"Well there are existential circumstances." Constantine turned back to Jacob. "That our resident dead man is going to help me with. Isn't that right, mate?" Constantine gave the man a friendly pat to the shoulder, and Jacob turned his head and looked over to the man's hand in disgust.

"Don't touch me." Jacob pushed the man's hand from his shoulder before looking over to Oliver. "You will have the complete resources of ARGUS to find William and Arianna." Oliver wanted to refused the help, but at the moment would take any resource that would help him, and so he just gave a nod in affirmation. Jacob turned back to the others who were still watching him. "None of you will ever understand why I had to do the things that I have done, and that's fine. You don't have to, but just know that everything I have ever done has been because of the love I have for my daughter." and with that the man turned and left the room. Constantine glanced over to Oliver, before lifting his eyes in hopes of seeing Katie, but she's still hasn't worked up the courage yet.

"This may seem like a very difficult thing for you to do, but-" he turned back to Oliver. "Let her come to you. You can go in there and tell her all the things she already knows and it won't make a difference unless she believes it." Oliver didn't say anything because honestly he doesn't think he could make such a promise. Constantine could see it, but he wouldn't beat a dead horse, and so he gave a nod before heading out after Jacob.

The room was quiet after the two men left. No one quite knowing how to fill the silence.

"So Jacob Robins is alive?" Quentin spoke and they all turned to him.

Ari had it down to a science. She'd memorized all of the faces of Damien's guards whenever she walked past them. She'd glance over to the clock whenever one of them would walk into a room during their rounds. Nora had run off to use the bathroom, leaving Ari and William alone. The boy sat watching a cartoon, and Ari looked over to him before glancing over to the guard that was posted near the door. She'd been trying to tell him for a while now what was happening and the danger they were in, but it was rare that they were ever alone. And then Ari had an idea. She stood to her feet and walked over to the guard, who glanced down to her.

"Uh, is Mr. Darhk here?" she asked and the guard's cold stare should've made her run away, but there was too much at stake right now.

"What do you want?" he grumbled, and Ari scratched the back of her neck before glancing up to the man.

"Something happened. I uh, I got my-" she dropped her eyes from the man and mumbled something he couldn't quite hear.

"What?!"

"I said, I got my period, and now I need stuff." the guard looked slightly nervous as he looked down to the young girl, but he gave a nod.

"Oh, uh-" he glanced around the corner hoping to spot someone better suited to handle this situation. "I'll be right back." the guard turned and rushed out of the room, and the moment he did, Ari was already headed to William. She dropped in front of him, blocking him from the television and he looked at her in confusion.

"Will, I need you to listen to me." she glanced over to the door, knowing she didn't have much time. She looked back to the boy. "Damien Darhk doesn't know your mother. He's a bad man who took you, and he took me, and now he's keeping us here and not letting us go."

"What do you mean, he says my mom told him watch me until she got back from her work trip."

"He lied Will. He's a really bad man, and we need to figure out a way to get out of here." The boy stared at her for a moment in silence, and Ari watched him waiting for him to say something.

"Ok." a voice spoke from behind her and she stood to her feet to see the guard standing beside the cook who Ari never really saw outside of the kitchen. The older woman looked confused as the guard pushed her further into the room. "I told her about your uh...situation."

"And I told you that there's nothing I can do to help her." the cook says looking back to the guard. "You need to send someone to a store and-"

"Well can you go?" he asked and the woman sighed, but gave a nod. "Great." he reached into his pocket and pulled out some cash before handing it to the woman. "Get whatever she will uh need and then come right back." the woman gave a nod before turning to leave. "Wait!" she stopped and looked over to the guard who turned to Ari. "You don't want like a cookie or anything do you." Ari looked at the man as if he'd grown a third head.

"No, I do not want a cookie. Just get me what I need and I'll be fine." he just nodded before waving the cook away. Ari took the seat beside William, and glanced over as the guard took his place back at the door. She suddenly felt a hand grasp hers and she turned to William who gave her a nod.

"How do we get out of here?" he whispers, and Ari bites the corner of her lip as she glances around the room her eyes turning to the guard whose now looking down to his phone before slipping it back into his pocket, and just like that she has a plan. She looks back over to William.

"How good of an actor are you?"

Katie pressed her back against the wall furthest from the door. She was crouched down on the floor her eyes on the open door and she felt anxious. As if stepping out of this room would some how make her revert back to that thing that had taken over her body. She lets out a sigh and closes her eyes and tries to focus on something else.

"You have to be getting lonely in this room." Katie opened her eyes surprised to see Thea standing at the door. Katie stands to her feet.

"Thea you need to get out of here, you need-" Thea did the opposite and walked further inside. "Thea, please, just don't. I don't want to hurt you."

"You won't hurt me, Twinkie." Thea said with the utmost certainty before walking closer to the woman and watching as she moved further away. "I know you won't."

"You don't know anything." Katie shook her head. "I almost killed Laurel. If you guys didn't show up when you did, she'd be dead, and if that happened-"

"But it didn't." Thea took another step, and Katie continued to move away from her.

"Please don't Thea, just stay away from me."

"Well I can't do that, because you see, you're my sister and I love you." Thea took another step and this time there was no where for Katie to move.

"Thea there's this thing inside of me and it's dark and it's evil and-"

"Been there, done that." Thea commented folding her arms over her chest. "I was injected with some drug by my father and I killed Sara. I died, was brought back to life by some magic waters, and then wanted to kill people. I know what it's like to have that darkness moving under your skin, whispering in your ear to do the one thing you don't want to do. I nearly died because of it." Thea dropped her head and she felt tear trickle down her cheek. "I nearly let go." she looked back up to the woman. "I thought it would just be easier if I just let go, but I couldn't." a smile came to Thea's lips. "Because when I was dancing that line between life and death, I heard my brother's voice." Thea took another step before reaching out and taking Katie's hand. "I heard your voice. You talked a lot." she laughed, and saw the small smile on Katie's face. "I don't quite remember everything you said, but I remember you telling me that I had to keep fighting, and so I did. I hung on, and I kept fighting. You know what I've always admired about you? That despite all the shit that's happened to you, you always get back up and you don't let it keep you down. Right now we need you to fight. All of us. Your husband and your daughter need you to keep fighting." Thea brought her arms around Katie who couldn't fight back her own tears as she returned the hug. "We're Queen women, there is nothing we can't handle."

Oliver, and Bruce were talking about possible plans for finding Darhk. Bruce wanted to go out and find Darhk's HIVE in hopes of beating a couple of them until they talked. Oliver shook his head not sure it would work. Damien's men have proven to be completely loyal and he didn't want to waste time. They needed a definite link to Darhk.

"It won't work." Oliver muttered sliding a hand over his face. "We need-" he looked back to Bruce whose eyes were no longer on him, but something behind him. Oliver turned following his eyes, surprised to see Thea walking hand in hand with Katie who looked at the eyes on her.

"Twinkie-" Oliver walked over to, engulfing her in a tight hug. He felt like it had been ages since he's been able to truly touch her, and hold her. He pulled back and looked into her eyes. "How are you?"

"At the moment, I'm me." she glanced over to the others who were still staring at her, and she couldn't take the look in their eyes. She looked over to Quentin, and she felt the guilty all over again.

"Captain Lance-" she took a step, and to her surprise he took a step back. He didn't mean to do it. He knew what happened wasn't completely her doing, but he also knew his daughter was lying in a hospital bed all broken and bruised because of her. "I'm sorry." she looked over to the others and shook her head. "I'm so sorry." she turned to Oliver and placed a hand on his arm. "I think I should go."

"Twinkie, no, everything's just-" he looked over to his friends and he knows he shouldn't be upset at their reactions. He knows they haven't had the experience with all of this, and so of course they would be nervous, maybe even a little scared.

"Oliver's right." it was Felicity who walked over to the woman. "What happened before was kind of scary, and beyond crazy, but we know that wasn't you." Felicity brought her arms around Katie in a hug as well. "But you should've told us what was going on." Felicity pulled back to look at the woman. "You should've told me. Best friend, remember? That means you don't get to have some dark doohickey living inside your body, and I not know about it. Got it?"

"Got it." Katie replied, her eyes looking over to John who remained in his spot as he looked over to her. She knew that look in his eyes. He was upset, probably for a variety of reasons and she can't blame him. Suddenly he walks over to her bringing his arms around her in a hug, that she returns. "I got it."

They were eating a late snack before they would have to turn in for bed. Tonight it was cookies and milk that they got to eat in front of the television. Nora and William split their attention between the television and the pictures they were coloring. Ari had walked back into the room, walking over to sit on the couch in front of them. William glanced over to her, and she looked over to the door, slyly smirking when she saw the guard return to his post near the door. She looked back over to William and gave a nod.

William placed the crayon down before taking another bite of his cookie. Immediately after the bite he started coughing, his hands moving to his throat. Nora's eyes go wide as she look up to him.

"He's choking!" she yells standing to her feet and glancing over to the guard. "Do something, he's choking!" the guard rushes over before Nora and Ari crowd around to look down to William. The guard drops down to one knee and hikes William up, spinning him around before wrapping his arms around his middle and trying the Heimlich maneuver. William continued to gasp, and cough until Ari appeared in front of him, and then the chunk of cookie went flying out of his mouth.

"Here Will, drink." Ari handed him the glass of milk, and gently rubbed his back. She looked over to the guard who continued to look at the boy. "Good job sparky. Maybe you're not completely warped." the guard glared over to her.

"What the hell is going on?" they all turned to see Damien who walked into the room and seeing the grim looks on everyone's face. "Graham-" the guard stood to his feet, spine straight as he turned to his boss.

"Uh the kid was choking sir, but I helped him and he's fine now." Darhk walked around the man to where William stood beside Ari, his head leaning into her side before looking up to him.

"How you doing there, William?"

"Better Mr. Darhk, sir." William looked around to the guard who looked over as well. "Thank you." the guard simply gave a nod before walking back over to his post. Damien stood there for a moment looking between William and Ari, noticing how close the two were standing, and he narrowed his eyes over to the teenager.

"I think it's time for bed." Darhk says before looking to William. "And you young man, I don't care how good the cookies are, remember to chew." he mussed the boys hair, before turning and placing a kiss to Nora's head and watching she and William head out of the room. Ari was about to follow, but Damien took a step to block her, and she lifted a dark glare to the man. He didn't say anything for a moment, hoping the coldness of his stare would make her cower in nervousness, but she met his eyes without the faintest sign of the fear he knows she feels. "You are peculiar, Ms. Locke. You absolutely know you should do nothing to upset me, and yet-" he places a hand on the side of her face and she jerks away. "Remember your actions have consequences."

"I think you're the one whose forgotten." she said before moving around the man and heading for the bathroom.

"You misconceive my patience with you." she stops and looks over to him. "I have no qualms with killing children, and I think I would take particular pleasure out of killing you." she looked at him, her entire body tensing at his words. She felt as if she should cower in a corner somewhere, but she didn't. If she learned anything from her father, it's that there is no one bigger or better than you are, and anyone that thinks they are, just needs to be knocked down a peg or two.

"Lets not pretend here. You need me alive and kicking because you want something from my cousin. You're not going hurt me."

"You know you're too smart for your own good." he walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder, and suddenly started squeezing causing her yelp in pain. "Have no doubt the moment I don't need you, I will rip that smart ass tongue right out of your mouth." he released her shoulder and she backed away, her hand pressed against her now sore shoulder. "Good night, Ms. Locke." she turned away and ran out of the room.

Ari stepped into the room where she found Nora and William already asleep in their beds.

"You should be getting to bed, Ms. Locke." the girl turned to see another guard standing behind her.

"Have to pee." she muttered before stalking into the bathroom, and locking the door. She walked over to stand in front of the mirror before pulling her shirt down a bit and grimacing at the dark pink bruising appearing on her shoulder. She shook her head before slipping her hand into her pocket and pulling out the cell phone she'd snagged earlier. "You should win an Oscar Will."

There was nothing. No lead, no clues, they had nothing. It was the dead of night, and they were all running on fumes.

Oliver stood watching his wife who'd been pacing for the past couple minutes. He wanted to walk over to stop her, and make her sit. He actually wanted her to sleep, but she'd refused that request earlier. He was about to walk over to try to convince her again, when suddenly the sound of a phone ringing played around them. They all looked around trying to find the source.

"I think that's mine." Katie says walking over, before spotting her bag. She plucked her phone, and looked down to the unknown number, and she looked down in confusion before bringing the phone to her ear. "Hello?"

"Katie?"

Katie's eyes went wide as she turned to see Oliver staring at her. "Ari?" the moment she said her name, everyone came rushing over. Katie pulled the phone back and placed the call on speaker phone.

"Felicity!" Oliver called and the woman nodded already understanding the request to track the call.

"Ari, are you alright?"

"I would be better if I wasn't with a lunatic." Ari whispers. "You have to find me."

"I will, I promise I will. Do you know where you are?"

"No, we're in some kind of penthouse I think. It's super fancy, but all the windows are blocked out so we can't see outside."

"We? Who else is there with you?"

"Oh, there's this kid name William. Damien kidnapped him too, I just don't know why."

"Is William alright?" Oliver asks.

"Is that Oliver?" Ari asks.

"Yeah, and I promise we will find you. How is William?"

"He's alright I guess. He helped me snag this phone with superb acting skills." Oliver smiled and let out a sigh. Suddenly they heard banging. "Oh shit, someone's outside."

"Ari, hide the phone somewhere." Katie said quickly. "Call me back when it's safe, ok?"

"Ok, Katie, please, just find me."

"Ari listen to me. I know you're scared, but you don't have to be. I will find you, and I need you to really believe it. Stay close to William. We will get you both out of there." she waited for Ari to respond, but the line suddenly ended and Katie growled in anger. Oliver brought his arms around her.

"Hey, stay with me." he whispered and Katie lifted her eyes to him.

"I'm still here, just really pissed off." she glanced over to Felicity who sighed with a shake of her head.