Secrets and Lies

(Authors Notes: I don't own Arrow, which is owned by The CW, and I don't own Green Arrow and these characters, which are owned by DC Comics)

Chapter 2: Home

Oliver finished taking a shower and got fully dressed, went downstairs when he noticed a photo of him and his father.

"What did I tell you? Yachts suck." Tommy makes a show as he walks towards Oliver.

"I missed you Tommy." Oliver said as they hugged and walked towards the dining room, arms over each other's shoulders.

"I missed you too, buddy." Tommy with a big green

(Everyone is seated in the dining room for dinner)

" OK, what did you miss? Super bowl winners... Giants, Steelers, Saints, Packers, Giants again. A black president, that's new. Oh, and "Lost," they were all dead...I think. Tomorrow, I have made plans for you. We're going to the city. You've got a lot to catch up on." Tommy

"That sounds like a great idea." Moira

"Sure, can we stop by the Lances? I want to say something to them personally before the media makes it worse." Oliver

Tommy contemplated and said " Fine, don't think it'd be a good idea though."

"What was it like there?" Thea interrupted abruptly.

Oliver noted how the room got super quiet and tense in anticipation. He glanced around the dinner room and saw the worried look on his mother and Walter, curious looks shown on Thea and Tommy's faces. He remembers what it was like thanks to his memories of Oliver. He didn't want to ruin the mood though, and he remembered how standoffish Oliver had been when he came back on the show. So he decides to meet them in the middle, tell them how he got to the island.

" The island was unforgiving. After the crash, dad and I tried to look for Sara for hours on the lifeboat but we couldn't find her anywhere. It was just the captain, dad and me who we thought survived the crash. We had been drifting for days, the food and water was near empty, and we hadn't seen any sign of land yet. We were left with the last ration when dad and the captain started arguing over the food. Dad ended up shooting the captain."

Thea and Walter gasped in shock, Tommy looked sick, Moria looked pensive.

"While we were still on the raft, dad told me some family secrets before he told me to survive, to do better than he did, to do right by our family and the city." Oliver

Thea started crying, and Oliver got up to go hug her. He started whispering to her that it was going to be okay. Moira and Walter started hugging each other, looking over their family.

"What kind of family secrets?" Thea asked.

Oliver looked over towards Tommy then back to Moira before his sight landed on Thea and said "He told me a couple of years after I was born he had an affair with a woman by the name Kazumi Adachi and had a daughter by the name Emiko. He told me, he abandoned them shortly after she turned 11, and that if I ever make it back to Starling City, to take care of, love and do right by them. I'm going to start looking for them shortly."

Moira went pale and gripped tightly the arm chair, not noticing how Walter looked at her weirdly.

"I'm going to start looking into them and see what we can do." Walter

Oliver looked at him gratefully and said " Thank you Walter, it'll be a big load off my mind."

"He also told me that Thea was my half sister, that mom had an affair with Malcolm after Rebecca died, and that Malcolm is Thea's birth father, but I was always her dad. I loved and raised her like my own, I was the one that read her bedtime stories, spoiled her and I wouldn't have done anything differently.

Tommy was staring at Moira in shock while Thea pushed her plate forward as her whole life flipped upside down. To find out she had an older sister and that she had another brother. Tommy that she had a crush on was her half brother. Her face color changed from pale white to red to green in a second.

Thea started stammering out, "So, Dad wasn't-wasn't-"

"No I'm so sorry honey," Moira said. "He loved you very much, but Robert was not your father. Though he always thought of you as his daughter."

Thea's hazel eyes flashed over to Tommy, who was still looking at her in surprise and shock. "So, that means that-that Tommy's my brother, too," Thea managed.

"That kinda makes sense to me, Speedy," Tommy said quietly, finally speaking. "I've always seen you as a little sister, I guess now it's just more official."

"O-Okay," Thea said before she got up and walked away.

Moira went up to chase her but Walter grabbed her arm and said " wait, just give her some space and we'll be there for her when she needs us."

"Why did you never tell me or dad?" Tommy looked at Moira.

"I didn't say anything when he came back because he became colder, he wasn't the same after Rebecca died and I never told you because you were always family. You and Ollie were like twins growing up and when I finally had Thea you treated her like a little sister nothing would've changed except how you looked at your dad and me." Moira

"And he probably would've just used that against me or Robert" she thought to herself.

"Yeah sigh, I guess you made a good point. He was distant afterwards." Tommy looked lost in his memories. "Do you guys mind if I call it a night?" Tommy

"No, it's okay, just remember we are meeting up tomorrow." Said Oliver as they hugged each other before he led him out.

Walter helps Risia pick up the plates and Moira stays seated. Contemplating how everything was going to be different and if there was anything else that Oliver knew. She just hoped that was all that Robert told him.