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"Father, how did you meet Mother?" young Olivia Jane "Oli" Queen asks as she finishes carving the last arrow for her new bow.

"Well...it is a long story that requires little girls to get ready for bed if it is to be told properly." Robert says, smiling at his dark-haired little girl, the spitting image of her mother and grandmothers before her. He lets Oli down and the little girl runs for the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face.

Soon enough, Robert sits in the chair by Oli's bedside.

"So, Father, how did you meet mother?" Oli asks again.

"She was trying to kill me." he answers simply.

"Why?"

"Because I killed her father." Robert answers again.

Oli considers this before asking her next question. "Why did you kill her father?"

"Because he tried to kill me, first, my little wolf. There is nothing wrong with killing a man who tries to kill you first. If he is worthy, you will die. If his not, he will die. That is the way of things, now and always." Robert tells her.

Olivia nods, remembering what her father and mother always tell her about life and death.

"Do you remember what she first said to you?" Oli asks with a smile.

"Yes, I do. She said 'You are a liar, Robert Queen.'" Robert says, smiling at her as his mind travels back down the years.

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Robert pulled himself out of the water and thought he would bleed to death right there on the shore. Well, if infection didn't take him first, that is. He had no clue who the woman was that tried to kill him, but he vowed to find out if he didn't die.

As luck would have it, he found her again in Star City two months later. Ironically, she'd been sent to murder /his/ father, Oliver Queen...and Robert himself was too late to stop it. A small part of Robert died that day, grieving for the father he'd never known. Keith and the others had inherited everything Oliver had, and Robert was left with exactly what Oliver gave him in life.

Nothing.

Still, Robert chose to dedicate himself to finding Oliver's killer, if only to avenge his father and make the pain go away.

"When I found her, she was surrounded by the Seven Men of Death, Oli. Her cousin, Henry, had already killed her brother Damien, and though I did not know it at the time, my brother Joseph. He'd killed and replaced the Demon's Head.

Now he was trying to remove the Demon's Fang from the equation." Robert tells his little girl.

"What did you do, Father?" the little girl asks, listening with rapt attention.

"No one takes what is mine, Oli...not even my kills." Robert says, reminiscing once again.