I know I've been on a roll the past couple days with updating this, but now I have to focus on a few other stories.
Arrow lair
Night
Laurel walked into the liar and stopped cold. The lair was a mess, suits, weapons, and destroyed tech all over the place. Oliver sat on the steps, a defeated look on his face. Worry pierced her heart as she walked over to him.
"Is it Samantha?" Laurel asked, fearing the worst.
"No, but it's only a matter of time," Oliver said grimly, "And I don't know how to stop my son from losing his mother...just like I did."
"Ollie, we still have time. We will find her. And you're not alone." Laurel said as she sat down next to him.
"You think that's the problem?" Oliver asked and she looked at him confused. "My first year back, I went out, got the job done. No one knew who I was, I did what I had to do, alone. And now...it feels like everyone I let in, I just create another target."
"We're not targets Ollie, we're your friends, your family. Stronger together, right?" Laurel told him.
"Stronger until Chase turns it into a weakness. Look what happened with Samantha. That could easily happen with Thea, with you...it could have easily happened with my son. You all make me vulnerable." Oliver sighed.
"Ollie, if you think you can just stop caring bout people, you're wrong. It's why you decided to put on that hood in the first, because even at your most detached, you cared about the people f this." Laurel said and Oliver was silent for a beat.
"Why don't you hate me?" Oliver asked as he looked over at her. "You should. I cheated on you, I lied to you. All the pain and suffering in your life, I caused it."
"You didn't cause it. Everyone affects someone else's life in a different way. Maybe my life would be better of without you in it, maybe not. But you know what? Despite everything that came with it...I don't regret meeting yo, falling n love you, fighting along side you. I don't regret a single thing about it." Laurel said as she out a hand to one side of his face.
They stared at each other for a moment before they, almost without thinking, began leaning in. However, before there lips met, Oliver's phone rang. Almost reluctantly, Oliver pulled back and pulled out his phone. Seeing it was Lyla, Oliver answered.
"Yeah? Got it, tell John to call me, I need him to do something for me," Oliver hung up before looking over at Laurel, "Lyla knows where Chase is keeping Samantha. Tell Roy and Thea."
"Okay, what do you need John to call you for?" Laurel asked as they got up.
"Because if I'm gonna beat this guy, it will be by playing his game. And I know someone who makes him vulnerable." Oliver told her.
Star City
Later
"This is where Prometheus is holding Samantha?" Arsenal asked as Team arrow, minus Spartan, stood outside a seemingly abandoned building.
"It was when he shot that video. There's dozens of heat signatures inside, most likely decoys. We'll split up, canvass the building floor by floor. Arsenal and Speedy, you're together. Black Canary, you're with me."Green Arrow ordered and they nodded before moving out.
Bows drawn, Arsenal and Speedy made there way down a hall. Arsenal kicked a door in and the pair walked n cautiously, aiming for any moving target. Arsenal walked over to a close and saw at explosion, the timer about to reach zero.
"Shit!"
Arsenal said before he jumped back, tackled Speedy to the floor before it went off in a small explosion.
Green Arrow and Black Canary, hearing this, exchanged a worried glance.
"Arsenal, Speedy, do you copy?" Green Arrow asked.
"There was an explosive. We're alright, but we're trapped." Arsenal said as they stood up, looking at the debris that blocked the door.
"Wait, what if those heat signatures are explosive." Black Canary asked and Green Arrow growled.
"Get them out of here, I'll find Samantha." Green Arrow ordered and she nodded.
"Be careful." She told him.
"You to." The archer said before they split up.
Green Arrow walked down the hall and it didn't take him long to find Samantha. She was in an elevator in a chair, looking absolutely terrified. She looked p, relief coursing through her when she saw him.
"Oliver!" She exclaimed.
"Having suspected that Adrian would have told her, this did not throw him. So Green arrow walked n, got behind her, and pulled out a flechette, starting to cut the her ropes around her hands.
"Are you alight?" He asked.
"Yes, this man, Adrian Chase-"
"I know." He told her as he cut the ropes off her hands.
The elevator doors closed and Samantha jumped up as the elevator began moving.
"What's happening?" Samantha asked fearfully.
"Chase is controlling the elevator. You need to get out of here, this building is gonna explode." Green Arrow told her and she whipped her head around to stare at him in shock.
"What?!" Samantha exclaimed.
"Chase is after me, you're no longer his target. Go home to our son." Green Arrow told her as the elevator stopped and opened up.
"wait, what about you?" She asked.
"I'm gonna finish this. Take the elevator upstairs, get out of here." Green Arrow said as he stepped off the elevator. As the doors closed, the archer glared at Prometheus.
"Hello Oliver." He said in his disguised voice.
"Are you guys okay in there?" Black Canary said as she ran over to the blocked door that her teammates were trapped behind.
"We're fine, just get us out of her!" Speedy told her.
"Okay, stand back." Black Canary ordered.
Once she heard them stop moving, she screamed. Her Canary cry tore through the debris, freeing Speedy and Arsenal.
As Green Arrow stared at him, Prometheus took off his mask, revealing Adrian's face underneath.
"I'm glad Talia told you," Adrian said, "I prefer it this way, face to face. There's an honesty to it."
"Well, honestly, I'm gonna keep us both here until this building comes down on top of us." Oliver told him and Adrian scoffed.
"Then you'd be dead. Adrian pointed out.
"so would you!" Oliver sneered and Adrian smirked.
"Do you really think I'd let that put," Adrian pulled out a small device and pushed a button, Oliver had a feeling the bombs were disarmed, "remember, I'm always ten steps ahead of you."
"If that were true, you probably would have seen this coming." Oliver told him.
Adrian was confused until Spartan came around the corner, Mrs. Chase with him. Adrian stared in shock as his wife looked at him in horror.
"You shouldn't be here." Adrian told her.
"How else was I supposed to find out the truth? You killed all those people!" She said in disgust.
"It's not that simple." Adrian defended.
"You killed them, it's simple. I know baby, this can't be you. It isn't." She said tearfully as she walked over to him, taking his face in her hands.
Adrian seemed to break, taking her into his arms as he ran a hand through her hair.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Adrian glared at Oliver, accusation on his face, "why did you ake her come here?"
"to get you to stop," Mrs. Chase said as she stepped back slightly, "you have to stop. You have to turn yourself in."
"I can't." Adrian said immediately.
"You have to. Whatever you're doing, it's over." She told him.
"You'd tell the police?" Adrian asked.
"No, you ell them." Mrs. Chase said and he sighed.
"You're right. I'm sorry, I'll take care of this." Adrian assured her.
There was the sound of metal piercing flesh and the two vigilantes watched n horror as a bloodied knife fell to the floor. Mrs. Chase stumbled back, shock and pain written across her face, a small wound seeping blood on he stomach.
"John!" Oliver cried.
Spartan grabbed her, taking off as Oliver and Adrian rushed each other. They exchanged blows, flipping each other over, they got to there feet, throwing there weapons t the floor before rushing each other, preferring a physical fight. Oliver tackled Adrian to the floor, sending a series of punches to Adrian's face but Adrian blocked him before shoving him off of him. The two jumped to there feet and Oliver tackled Adrian again, breaking through a large wooden board as they continued to exchange blows.
"Oh my god." Laurel said a Diggle brought out Mrs. Chase's bleeding form.
"Oliver's in there with Chase. Go help him, now!" Diggle barked and they didn't need to be told twice.
Oliver threw Adrian onto a wooden table, and Adrian grabbed him, dragging him down with him. The table block and they both fell to the floor. THey both stood up, stumbling as they glared at each other, Adrian smirking with his bloodied face.
"I told you Oliver, I'm not gonna kill you and you can't kill me." Adrian told him and Oliver sneered.
"Yes Adrian, I can!" Oliver shouted.
Before he could do anything, an arrow hit him in the leg. Oliver went down to the floor, feeling the effects of a sedative. He looked up to see Talia lower her bow before it all went black.
Not long after, Black Canary, Arsenal, and Speedy rushed in, seeing no sign of either Adrian or Oliver. Seeing something on the floor, Arsenal walked over and picked it up. With an uneasy look on his face, he turned around to show hi worried teammates Oliver's bow.
Arrow lair
Later
"Okay, we have to assume Chase has Oliver," Diggle said as Team arrow stood in the lair, "what about Samantha and Chase's wife?"
"I got a call from Quentin. Samantha's at the precinct, but Chase's wife passed away in the ambulance." Roy said and there was a silence as they realized how bad this was.
"Okay, how do we find Oliver?" Laurel asked, feeling helpless.
"I don't know." Diggle sighed, feeling completely defeated.
Star City Police Department
Same time
Quentin was leading Samantha, wrapped in a blanket, into the precinct when the ran into, of all people, Adrian. Samantha fearfully stepped behind Quentin as he took a protective step in front of her.
"Good evening Ms. Clayton." Adrian greeted as Quentin glared.
"Stay away from her." Quentin sneered.
"Please, I'm in mourning," Quentin raised an eyebrow, "haven't you heard? The Green Arrow killed my wife tonight. And I can't get in touch with Oliver. You wouldn't happen to know where he is, would you Quentin?"
"Give me a reason why I shouldn't arrest you?" Quentin sneered.
"Because you don't want your friend back i pieces," Adrian said as Quentin and Samantha stiffened, "Right?"
Adrian walked off and Quentin glared hatefully but knew he could do nothing to stop him.
Unspecified location
Same time
Oliver stood in a cell, in chains. He looked up as Adrian and Talia walked in.
"I don't believe I taught you how to escape from shackles." Talia said as she approached him.
"Your father was an honorable man," Oliver told her and she raised an eyebrow, "you've allied yourself with a psychopath, and he's be ashamed of you."
"Well, when it comes to shame of fathers, I shall bow to your superior expertise," Talia said sarcastically before turning to leave, "just make sure he suffers."
"That was always the plan." Adrian said as she left.
"My team will find e," Oliver told him, "they make me stronger."
"That's sweet, " Adrian said amused, "but I'm running out of ways to tell you that I'm not interested in killing you."
"Then what the hell is this all about?" Oliver demanded in exasperation.
"When I had Samantha as my guest, I told her that you helped e discover who I really am. And that's what I'm gonna help you do Oliver." Adrian promised him as Oliver looked at Adrian in confusion.