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"Can't have you dying yet." Slade said with an evil grin on his face. "There are more people for us to have some fun with." Slade said as he turned to the door. It opened a moment later and two people were brought in. One was tied to the chair that Thea had recently vacated and the other was chained up where Detective Lance had just been.

"Enjoy your alone time." Slade said as he left the room, slamming the door behind him.

"Sara? Felicity?"

Chapter 26 - Intel

Oliver had been ready to give up, to accept his fate, to allow Slade to do whatever he wanted to him. That was until Slade brought Felicity into the room. The moment when he saw her, unconscious and at the mercy of Slade, he knew that he could not give up yet. He had to find a way to get her out of there. If he succeeded at nothing else he would succeed in this.

Sara was hanging on one side of the room and Felicity was occupying the chair on the other side of the room. It had been several minutes since the women had been brought in and Oliver was now doing the only thing that he could do. He was waiting for them to wake up. Finally, after what felt like an eternity, he noticed a subtle change in Sara. He knew that she was starting to come to but that she was wary of the fact that Slade could be in the room.

"Sara." Oliver said quietly. "It's just us." He wanted her to know that it was safe to open her eyes and talk to him.

"Oliver!" Sara said with relief as she looked up to see her partner. She was happy that she was finally able to be close to Oliver and see how he was really doing. However, the sight before her made her heart sink. She could see that he was in an incredible amount of pain and was barely hanging on. She suspected, however, that having Felicity here would strengthen his resolve and help him to hold on until they could find a way out.

"Do you know what happened to your Dad, Roy, and Thea?" Oliver asked, hoping that she had at least a bit of information that she could share. He only knew that they had been moved from the room.

"They are all safe." Sara responded carefully, not knowing if Slade was listening in. "They were all dropped off at the Bank that we busted the dealers at. They are fine."

Oliver breathed a sigh of relief. He had hoped for the best, but could not help but suspect the worst had happened. He was happy to know that they were all safe, at least for the moment.

"Dad's pretty beat up but it's nothing that some rest won't take care of." Sara said. She had decided to give Oliver a quick rundown of how everyone was doing so that he wouldn't worry for at least a little while. "Roy is a bit weak right now, but he should be fine once he gets used to it. Thea is doing good. She's pretty shaken but being safe with Roy will help that."

Oliver nodded slowly. He heard everything that Sara was saying out loud, and some things that she wasn't. Lance was obviously injured, but nothing life threatening. His suspicions about Roy were apparently true and he had been cured of the Mirakuru, which left them with an interesting discovery. Thea was pretty shaken but she would be fine. Sara was obviously uninjured, for the moment, which meant she may be able to help him out of here. Diggle had not been mentioned so he had to be safe, and well too. The fact that she didn't mention Laurel, his Mom, or Walter meant that they were still safe as well. That left Felicity.

"Felicity?" Oliver asked as he looked towards her, knowing that Sara would hear all the unasked questions in that one name.

"As good as can be expected." Sara answered quietly. "She's been through a lot, knows more than any of us, and yet she still presses on. She hasn't once given up looking for you."

Oliver was about to respond when he noticed that Felicity was starting to wake up.

"Felicity?" Oliver called to her. He was afraid that she was going to freak out when she finished coming to and he didn't want her to hurt herself in any way.

"Oliver?" Felicity said groggily. She thought she had heard his voice but couldn't tell around the pounding headache that she had, again. She knew she had been taken by Slade for a second time as this was exactly how she had felt the last time he took her. "Oliver, is that really you?" She asked as she started to look around, taking in her surroundings.

"Yes. It's really me." Oliver said with a slight chuckle. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Felicity said, not realizing that she had just used Oliver's favorite word. "My head feels like it's about to explode, but other than that I'm just peachy." She finished sarcastically.

Sara almost laughed at the conversation between Oliver and Felicity. She at least knew that Felicity wasn't injured, or her sarcasm would be lacking. Sara watched as Felicity took in her surroundings and knew the moment the other woman looked in the mirrors in the back of the room. They had seen everything from the video feed that Slade had broadcast to the lair, but seeing it in person, like this, was a whole different matter. Sara had to work to keep her own expressions from showing her true feelings when she had glanced at the mirrors. The sight of Oliver's injured back had made her sick to her stomach, and I'm not even the one in love with him. She thought.

"Felicity!" Oliver called to her, knowing that she had just looked in the mirrors behind him. "FELICITY! Look at my face." He knew that if she didn't look away from those mirrors now then she would lose it.

"Oliver, your back." Felicity said quietly, tears welling up in her eyes as she turned to look at his face.

"I'm fine Felicity." Oliver said, putting as much emphasis into his words as he could. "It will heal. Really, I'm fine!"

"Slade..." Felicity started trying to explain everything to Oliver but was interrupted as the door swung open and the man in question entered again.

Once Diggle helped Roy onto the medical table he began to look over his young team mate. He knew that there had to be some lasting effects from the large amount of Tibetan Pit Viper Venom that had been delivered into his blood stream, not to mention whatever side effects the cure would have on the kid. After a few minutes of checking his vital signs and making sure there were no injuries Diggle concluded that Roy would be fine, he simply needed some rest to allow the rest of the venom to leave his system.

When Diggle was done with Roy he moved back towards the computers where the Detective and Laurel were sitting. He pulled up the comms and listened as Sara gave Felicity a pep talk. He knew that Felicity was having a hard time dealing with everything that was happening and was pleased when he heard her determination return.

Sara kept them updated on their progress in the Bank and he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that they had found the router. However, his relief was short lived as he heard the distinct sound of a smoke grenade hitting the floor. It was only a moment later when the comms went dead. Diggle immediately pulled up the GPS trackers for both Sara and Felicity and was furious when they too went dead. Slade probably had them destroyed, just like everyone elses. He thought as he did his best to pull traffic camera feed up on the computers. Felicity always makes this look so easy. He thought after his fifth failed attempt to get them to come up.

"What's wrong Digg?" Roy asked from across the room where he had been sitting, talking to Thea.

"Sara and Felicity have been taken and their trackers have gone dead." Diggle stated with frustration.

"Yeah, he did that to me too." Roy said quietly as he carefully stood and made his way over to where everyone else was seated as Thea followed closely behind.

"Do you remember anything that happened?" Diggle asked, hoping that the kid would know something useful.

"Not a lot." Roy started to explain, knowing that the information that he could remember would be important to the Team. "I had walked outside to do a perimeter check when I was ambushed. I fought off a few guys before Slade showed up. We fought for a few minutes before Slade managed to knock me down. He must have thought I was unconscious because they then loaded me into a van without tying me up or anything. I did my best to let them think I was out. Didn't want him to actually knock me out."

"What did the van look like?" Diggle asked, digging for as much intel as he could.

"I think it was a black van." Roy said after a moment of thought. "I'm not sure though."

"We were dropped off at the bank in a black van." Thea said quickly. "Do you think it was the same one?"

"Probably." Diggle answered, knowing that the chances that they would have multiple vehicles were slim. "Do you remember anything else about the van?"

"No, I don't. It was dark inside is all I remember." Roy said, feeling as though he had let the Team down with the lack of intel that he had gathered. "Besides, the injected me with something not long after we started moving. It knocked me out."

"If it was the same van then the windows were blacked out." Thea supplied, relying on her memory of the van in question. "It looked like a fifteen passenger van, with the two doors on the side and the two in the back. There weren't any seats, just carpet in the back."

"Do you remember anything about your trip to the bank?" Diggle asked Thea, hoping that she had remembered something.

"Umm, it didn't take long to get there." Thea said as she thought carefully. "We started out in a garage. When we came out we took a couple of sharp turns. I only know that because it knocked me off balance. I think we crossed some railroad tracks but I'm not sure." She was silent for a couple more minutes before she sighed. "I'm sorry, I don't remember anything else."

"That's fine Thea." Diggle reassured her. "That has helped narrow it down some. Don't worry, we'll find them!"

"Guys!" Laurel said with concern evident in her voice as she pointed at the video feed on the monitor. "Slade just walked back in."

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