Thea was sparing against Laurel when the attorney flipped her sister over her shoulder. It was the exact same move that Ted Grant had used and taught her years earlier. And like her mentor, she had her fist inches away from her student's face, as soon as Thea hit the ground.

"Fighting is about adapting to the unexpected."

Thea grinned, before adopting a faux-scared demeanor. "Well, can you back off a little? You're scaring me."

Both girls grinned as Laurel helped her sister up to her feet. "We have been going at this for most of the day." She then checked her watch. "I have a bit more paperwork before I have to shower and do our night job."

Thea's mouth dropped. "You mean?" She noticed Laurel smiling.

"First official night on the streets? Yep."

The younger girl jumped and pulled her surrogate sister into an embrace. "I promise, that I will make you proud."

"Make yourself proud," Laurel said, calmly. She then smirked. "Time to see if I'm a good teacher."

"I know you are," Thea said assuredly.

It was Thea's first night suiting up. Her suit, like her sister's, was essentially the same, except where Laurel wore a protective wig and mask, Thea wore a dark golden hood and a black mask, and instead of a cry and a baton, she had a bow and a quiver of arrows.

They were both on a rooftop, standing next to each other. Not as a hero and sidekick, nor as mentor and student, but as partners, as equals.

As they were monitoring the city, they heard over the radio that Quintin had given his daughter to unofficially assist the police. A gunshot was reported and the police were chasing the criminals on foot.

A small group of thieves was trying to evade their pursuers. During the escape, one was tackled by a cop. Only for the officer to end up at gunpoint.

The criminal then was swiftly pulled into the darkness of the adjacent alley and was knocked out.

As the cop walked closer to the alley, he saw a figure dressed in black with a golden hood, as she climbed her way up the fire escape. She had left the runaway thief zip-cuffed to a steel bollard.

Speedy grabbed her radio as she ran across the rooftops. "Canary, this is so cool. I just saved a police officer."

In a nearby restaurant, the Black Canary grabbed one of the runaway criminals and proceeded to punch him in the face and disarm him, before tying the man to one of the legs of the closest kitchen bench. She then turned and faced one of the kitchen staff members. "Call 911."

She then pursued the other two criminals. As she heard her sister on the Comms. "Careful, Speedy."

"I thought I told you to call me Golden Archer, or Artemis."

She preferred Artemis, that way she would be similar to Laurel and her sister's mentor, who both took on animals as their name. Artemis was the god of the hunt and of wild animals.

"That seems tacky. And you will always be Speedy to me." Black Canary responded with a hint of teasing lacing her tone.

Speedy eventually found the last two men evading arrest. She pulled out her bow and arrow as the man tried to hijack a car. She fired and hit the man in the shoulder and caused him to hit his head on the windscreen, knocking him out.

She jumped down to the driver. "Call an ambulance and wait for the cops to pick him up." The middle-aged woman nodded quickly and pulled out her phone. While Speedy ran off following her sister who had continued to pursue the final assailant.

Black Canary followed the man and his hostage into an indoor basketball court.

The woman was pleading for someone to save her for, anyone to help her.

"Shut up bitch! Or I will blow your brains out!" The thug threatened his hostage, who was being roughly manhandled, as she sobbed.

It was then that a high pitch sound emanated through the court and destroyed all the lights. The man shot his gun from the location the sound had come from.

Then in the darkness, he saw the silhouette of his pursuer. The infamous Black Canary. She walked slowly towards the duo. She all of a sudden darted out and grabbed his wrist and twisted it, relieving him of his firearm. She then sent a round-house-kick to knock the man out and then she quickly escaped to a nearby rooftop.

Speedy and Black Canary watched as the SCPD stormed the indoor sports center and took the unconscious man into custody, and later led out a distraught woman with a silver blanket around her.

Speedy looked over to her sister who was panting. "What now?"

"We go home, have a shower and get ready for tomorrow, I have been planning something. A small business retreat to Central City."

Speedy snorted. "Somehow, I doubt that spas and massages are in our future."

Once they had reached Central City, Thea followed Laurel to an old ratty gym, that looked very similar to the one that they had been using since just before her sister took down Brick.

Laurel didn't even knock, she just walked into the gym and straight into the back office, as if she owned the place. Thea just remained close behind her sister. Despite her becoming accustomed to walking through a gym, she had not yet become used to the smell of stale sweat.

They eventually found a middle-aged man sipping coffee cleaning and maintaining an assortment of weapons, from nunchucks, knives, bows, clubs, knuckle busters, and swords.

"Wow, you have a nice arsenal of toys," Thea said in amazement, spotting a small arsenal of weapons, some she knew, and others she didn't.

Ted kept his head down, wiping some oil on one of his brass knuckles. "These." He said with a jerk of his head to the assortment of weapons. "Are not toys, they are weapons."

Laurel then tapped her mentor on the shoulder and dramatically cleared her throat. He looked up in surprise. "Dinah?"

Thea crinkled her nose at the name. "Dinah?" She can't even remember when Laurel had ever been called by that name, it has always just been Laurel. Just Laurel. She still recalled when Laurel first met her parents, Moira had tried to call her that and was quickly corrected by Laurel, herself.

Laurel rolled her eyes. She had long given up correcting the man. "Hey Ted, I was wondering if you could do me a favor?"

"That's what friends are for. What can I do you for?" He asked as he placed the busters on the table and took a sip of his coffee, eyeing his former student and friend with curiosity.

Laurel walked over and behind her sister, and slightly guided Thea forward. "This is my new partner in crime, and my baby sister. I was hoping that you could help her out. Find out what suits her the best."

The former Marine smirked, as he bobbed his head in agreement. "That I can do. Where will you be?"

Laurel simply smiled and gave a nonchalant shrug. "Around. I have to meet someone." She then left, leaving Ted and Thea in the gym.

He stood up and carried his coffee and walked past Thea. When she didn't follow, he called out to her. "You coming, Dinah's sister?"

The young woman ran out to find no one around. Then all of a sudden, she felt someone grab her from behind. She panicked for a few seconds before she spun around, using her shoulder to dislodge his grip and was prepared to deliver a strike to her attacker's face.

She stopped a few inches from Ted Grant's irritatingly smug face. "What the hell?"

He shrugged as he walked over to recover his coffee, seemingly amused by the test. "Had to see if Dinah actually saw potential in you or was just picking up a stray, or was feeling a bit nepotistic. She certainly didn't disappoint." Thea huffed as she followed the man, wondering how Laurel could tolerate the man.

He seemed the antithesis of who Laurel would associate herself with.

He then directed her to a pair of old plastic chairs. Once they were seated, he stared at her for a few uncomfortable seconds, as if he was evaluating her. "You're not related to Dinah." He finally said, breaking the awkward silence.

Thea then returned the smug grin he had given her earlier, it provided her with a slither of revenge. "Never said I was."

It was Ted's turn to smirk. "Clever girl." He said with a slight chuckle and a look of pride on his face. "She was always a clever one. She called you a sister, and yet you are of no relation."

He then recalled what he once told Laurel.

"Family is more than what's in our blood. It's about people who care and take care of each other."

Always the lawyer, playfully using his own words against him.

"Nope. But I have known Laurel for most of my life. My brother and she were together for a while before…"

Ted was silent for a few long moments. The petite girl in front of him was; Casanova's sister. He would have to hold his tongue about her brother, for Dinah's sake.

Thea felt as if she said the wrong thing to Laurel's friend and mentor. It was a strange concept, Thea never felt like she had to censor herself around Laurel, nor, her friend Jo, before she was murdered. Hell, even Lance had warmed up to her and accepted her.

But this guy was different, she had expected someone bubbly or someone similar to Laurel, not a gruff old man, who judges her based on her blood. On her family. On Ollie. She unknowingly found herself clenching her fist.

"Before the Gambit." He finished for her. "You're Thea Queen." He finished for her; his voice became firmer and his Icey blue eyes were locked on her.

Thea gulped; this is certainly not how she expected when she met Laurel's mentor. The man that Laurel saw as something akin to an uncle, a man that she admired. The man that had helped Laurel guide Laurel through her hardships in the last five years.

The look Ted Grant was giving her, was the look she had seen many times in her youth, whenever Quintin had seen her brother close by.

Her eyes darted around to see if Laurel was watching. She was hoping this was some kind of sick joke. "Yeah, and you…"

He took another sip of his coffee, still watching her every movement. "I helped Dinah with her rage and grief. To do that she had to trust me and tell me what was weighing her down."

Thea nodded but felt uncomfortable. The only thing she knew about this man in front of her was that Laurel trusted him and that he owned this gym.

"So, what brings Little Miss Queen to live the life in the muck instead of living in her ivory tower, with platinum spoons?"

Thea bit her cheek in annoyance. What was this guy's problem with her?

"Laurel saved my life. Both as the Black Canary and as herself. I asked her to train me so that I could help her and protect her as she does for me. That's what family does!"

Ted gave her a softer look, before nodding his approval. Her love and respect for her surrogate sister must have slightly changed his perception of her. "A noble goal." He then left to grab some weapons. "What previous training do you have?"

"A few months of training with Laurel, I also do archery and I recently quit fencing."

Ted looked over his shoulder and motioned her to come over to him, with a slight jerk of his head. "What has Dinah taught you?"

"Mainly Boxing, Savate and other things like weapons training and holds, grappling and throws." Ted hummed, acknowledging Thea's answer. "Oh, I was out in the field as well, and has started The Marine Corps fighting techniques."

"I suppose that it's time to see what Dinah is like as a teacher." He cracked his neck, as he moved towards the table near the boxing ring and through her some boxing gloves and picked up a pair of focus mitts. "Down the hall, to the left are the changerooms." She nodded and started walking to the changerooms.

She heard him calling out after her. "None of that fancy yoga crap either. If you need training gear, I've got some."

She hollered back. "Already came prepared, Grant."

Laurel walked over to STAR Labs to find Caitlin and Cisco working on some sort of technology. As she walked over to them, Caitlin smiled. She walked up to her friend and savior. "What brings you here?"

Laurel gave a small calming breath. "I am taking on your advice about being more careful and less reckless. Our mutual friend has found someone who can ground her and look out for her. But she needs a suit that can protect her. I don't want this one to endure what the Canary of Starling City had to endure."

Caitlin nodded, as Cisco walked over. "Who's your friend Caitlin?"

Laurel held out her hand to shake his hand. "Laurel Lance, and you are?"

"Cisco Ramone."

Laurel smiled. Working dual identities was a strange thing to behold, Laurel Lance the attorney never met Cisco Ramone, but Black Canary had. As amusing as this was, she mentally noted that she would have to remember who has come into contact with either the Canary or her.

"Caitlin told me that you have made a protective suit for the Black Canary."

Cisco looked hesitantly at his friend before looking back at the lawyer. "And if I did?"

"Our mutual friend would like you to create another suit for someone else." She noticed that Cisco still didn't look convinced. "CNRI worked with The Canary of Starling City during Brick's Gang War. She then pulled out one of Thea's hoodies that Laurel had given her sister, only with Wild Cat's logo removed. "In this sort of design, and with the same, if not more protection you gave The Canary."

She would ensure that if Thea were to go out into the field, she would adequately be protected. She seemed to take fighting like a duck to water. At least, she could rest a little easier knowing that she was going to be well equipped. Both in fighting and with the best protection Laurel could find and trust.

Cisco then took the measurements. "I can do something with this. Tell our mutual friend to give me a few days."

Laurel started to walk away before she looked over her shoulder. "Canary said that her partner likes red."

Laurel returned to Ted's gym to see Thea sparing with Ted. She silently walked over to one of the pillars and leaned against as she watched her sister and her friend fight.

Thea was maintaining her distance from her foe, sending the occasional roundhouse kick or jabs at Ted before backing off.

She noticed her mentor's amusement at Thea, who avoiding his attempts to grapple. "Come on Girlie, stop dancing and fight."

Thea gave a shirk nod of the head before she stood at the ready, her fists close to her face and chest.

Grant chuckled. "Let's dance."

Each part received and traded jabs and blows before Ted pulled her and tossed her over his shoulder.

Laurel watched as Thea, jumped back to her feet before delivering a sweep kick to Ted, sending him to the ground.

Ted turned his head to see Laurel observing the spar. "And only in a few months?" He asked with surprise.

Laurel smiled and nodded. "She already has had training in archery and fencing. Her family can afford the best trainers."

Ted smirked. "Following in my footsteps huh? Finding a lost girl, who needed guidance and already possessed both the moxie and foundation to learn how to fight?"

Thea was helped up by Ted, who was still grinning. "You did good, kid. Took Dinah a while to learn to avoid being dazed after being thrown."

Thea smirked. "Maybe cause, Laurel constantly tossed me over her shoulder."

Laurel walked into STAR Labs to see Cisco waiting for her in the lobby. "Ms. Lance." He greeted.

"Mr. Ramone."

Cisco smiled as he handed her a lightweight steel briefcase. "I made our mutual acquaintance's partner's suit. I incorporated some high-density mesh along with the Kevlar weave to make it stronger and less prone to wear and tear."

Laurel opened the case and gave a knowing smile. Thea will love this. "I appreciate the assistance. I will be sure to tell her that you were invaluable."

Cisco preened. "I also have a new suit with the same sort of protection in the works for Starling's Canary. It will take a while for the materials to come in though. And I also provided her with a ranged weapon, that is a lot quieter than her scream, bolas. This weapon will have high tactile strength in the cord."

"You didn't have to Cisco."

He handwaved her words. "She saved Caitlin, and stopped The Gang War in Starling."