I have changed the rating to mature as in this chapter there is mention of torture. You have been warned! Hope you all had an amazing Christmas! And if you don't celebrate it then I hope you had a good Thursday! Here is the next chapter and this will be the last chapter that is posted in 2014! It seems so crazy writing that! I shall see you in 2015 with the next chapter Have a great New Year!
Chapter 6
Oliver pretty much ran out of the foundry and to Sophie's apartment, he had to end their relationship. He couldn't be with her and be in love with someone else, it wasn't fair and he deserved to be with the women he loved.
After about 10 minutes he made it to her apartment and for some reason, the thought of ending this relationship felt like it was a long time coming. He knocked on the door and she opened it shocked to see him.
'Oliver? I wasn't expecting you back for another couple of hours!' she leant up to kiss him but he took a step back which confused her.
'I need to talk to you about something; can we go and sit on the couch?'
'Sure' she seemed very confused and she led them to the couch. They both took a seat and he thought that he just needed to get to the point.
'I can't do this anymore Sophie; I can't be in this relationship'
She took a deep breath before speaking 'You're in love with someone else aren't you?'
He looked up with shock written across his face and Sophie giggled a little before continuing. 'You're in love with Felicity' the shock continued to grow on his face and then Sophie carried on. 'Oh c'mon Oliver I'm not stupid. You two were clearly more than friends before she went travelling. Its ok I was planning on talking to you about it. But obviously there is no need anymore'
'So you're not mad?'
'No, I'm a little pissed that it took you 4 months into another relationship to figure out you are in love with someone else' she paused and then continued. 'But I've done the same thing in a previous relationship and I understand that you can't help who you love'
'I'm sorry. I should've told you sooner'
'Yes you should've but it's ok. I'm going to go and visit my parents in New York and won't be back until way into the New Year. But when I'm back I expect you and Felicity to be happy and together'
He laughed at that and gave her a hug and then headed back to the foundry. He was shocked that she took it so well but she was a good and understanding person. Now he needed to go and tell Felicity how he felt.
He walked down the steps of the foundry and realised that it was too quite. He got to the bottom of the steps and saw that the majority of the foundry had been destroyed. The first thing he did was call Felicity's phone.
'Hello Oliver' his face paled at the sound of his voice, he didn't expect to hear his voice ever again.
'If you lay a finger on her I swear to god I will break my vow and kill you'
He laughed through the phone which made Oliver sick to his stomach. 'I was wrong when I said your Felicity wasn't strong. She did put up quite the fight, I know I don't have mirikuru in my system but I'm still stronger than her but she proved to be a good warrior'
'Slade what have you done to her, where is she?' he practically screamed down the phone.
'I once promised you that I would take away the women you loved. I was surprised when I returned to find you were in another relationship. I had thought about taking Sophie, but then I saw the way you and Felicity acted around each other and the feelings were still there. And that kiss sealed the deal. I keep my promises kid, and trust me, your beloved will suffer a long and painful death. I promise'
With that Slade ended the phone call and Oliver felt and though someone had just stabbed him in the heart. He then called all of team arrow telling them to get to the foundry ASAP.
They all got there around the same time and Nyssa also walked into the foundry which was useful because they were going to need all the help they could get. Dig and Roy followed them in and then they all were shocked at the state of the foundry.
'What happened down here?' Sara started to scan the room as she spoke.
'Slade has Felicity' he thought he would get straight to the point. That stunned the whole team into silence and all of their faces where pale with the sound of his name.
'How did he escape?' Roy took a step towards Oliver.
'I have no idea, so Dig I need you to ask Lyla to find out from Waller about what happened and why the hell we weren't informed about his escape!' Dig nodded and turned around whilst getting his phone out to call Lyla.
'When did all of this happen? Tell us all that you know' Nyssa was calm as she spoke.
'After what happened in the bar, Felicity came down here and she punched me in the face after what I did and then we talked and then I kissed her. I left straight after to go and break up with Sophie because I am done denying my feelings for Felicity. When I got back she was gone and the foundry was like this, I rang her phone and Slade answered it'
'So Felicity put up a fight but Slade still managed to take her' Sara ran a hand through her hair. She turned to Nyssa and whispered 'We promised her that nothing like this would happen again'
'Sara what are you talking about?' Roy spoke up and he beat Oliver to the punch because he was also very curious.
Sara took a deep shaky breath and then spoke 'When we were training Felicity, we took her on a simple mission to give her some experience, she got taken by a group of rogue assassins and she was tortured for information on the league' a tear slipped down her face and then she continued. 'I don't think I have ever seen her so broken and I promised her on my life that nothing like this would happen again, she even has a few scars that will remind her of that forever and it was my fault. She called me last night but I didn't answer because Nyssa has just got to town, maybe if I would've picked up and heard Slade then we could've been here to help. I let her down again'
'What happened in Nanda Parbat could've been avoided but you can't blame yourself and definitely not for this, this is all Slade' Dig always spoke wise words and was reasonable. 'Lyla said that Slade escaped 3 weeks ago and as it was an Argus matter that Waller wanted to keep that way, Lyla didn't have a clue otherwise she would've warned us'
'Does she have any lead about where he might have been or any clue as to where he has taken Felicity?'
Dig shook his head and Oliver turned and punched the table. But then Felicity's monitors started flashing which grabbed the team's attention and they all surrounded the area. Then they see Felicity. She was chained to the ceiling (very similar to what merlin did to him before the undertaking) and her feet where just touching the floor.
She has had water poured over her and you can see the scars that Sara was talking about. Oliver was shocked because some of them were as bad as his. She had a large one on her abdomen, and a few on her shoulders, similar to his. There were two camera angles being shown in the foundry and in one you saw Slade enter the room along with a lot of tools and he had a couple of men in the room who were setting some machine up.
Slade walked up to one of the cameras smiled, and then threw a bucket of ice cold water over Felicity to wake her up. She looked around to gain her bearings and then Slade grabbed her face and twisted it to face one of the cameras.
'We have an audience' he then slapped her across the face and then turned to face the camera.
'I promised you kid that the women you love will suffer for what you have done. So I have come up with the perfect way for you to remember you past, as will Felicity here' he pointed back to Felicity smiled and then continued. 'You are going to be watching your dearest Felicity suffer from all of the torture that you once suffered' He gave a signal to the two men who got what looked like a tattoo kit and started to move it closer to where Felicity was hanging. He got passed a sword by one of the other men in the room and he created another deep wound on her abdomen just like the very first one he got on the island.
Hearing Felicity scream in pain made the whole team wince, Oliver knew that they had to start the search otherwise when then found Felicity, she would be dead.
'Sara you know how to use a computer, you need to look to see if there are any clue and try to trace her position. I put a tracker in her phone see where its last location was, he will have to be near there'
Sara nodded and she and Nyssa moved towards the other computers whilst the three boys stood in a triangle trying to think of what to do next.
'Roy, suit up and search the glades, he has to be close. Ask around and to see if anyone saw anything' Roy nodded and headed out and then Oliver finally turned to Dig.
'Call Lyla and find out if they put any kind of tracker on Slade or have any known locations that he used before the siege'
The whole team got into action and Oliver suited up and then went straight back to the computer to watch and see if there were any clues to her whereabouts.
Felicity looked straight into the camera when he went to make another wound on the front left shoulder and she winced and then looked to the right and then straight back at the camera and winked. She was giving them a clue.
'Sara enhance on Felicity's eye when she looked to the window just then'
Sara did as she was told and there was a logo of a building in the glades. It was the same place that Merlyn had taken Oliver to torture him for information. Sara and Nyssa moved to go and suit up and Oliver called Roy back in and Diggle re-entered the foundry with no Intel from Argus.
Then they heard even more screams from Felicity. Slade had left the room and Sara zoomed the camera in to where the two men were doing something to back of Felicity's left shoulder. They were adding a tattoo, Shado's dragon tattoo.
