Chapter 6.

It'd been at least an hour since they'd been dragged into the warehouse and tied back to back on the chairs. Addison knew this because she had been counting in her head while they waited for their capture to leave the room. It had started out with two men in the room, speaking in a language she wasn't sure she'd ever heard before. A third had half an hour after they arrived standing just far enough back that his face was still hidden by the shadows.

"Oliver Queen's daughter and his sister, honestly I was only expecting my men to bring me one of you."

"What do you want?" Thea asked a sharp edge to her voice.

"Mr. Queen is become an object of interest to us due to his possible ties to the Arrow." He said.

"My dad doesn't have anything to do with the Arrow, he's a business man not a crime fighter." Addison lied.

"Oh my dear sweet girl, your father is connected somehow and I'm sure he'll be more than willing to tell us in order to get you and you're sweet aunt back." He chuckled. "Now if you ladies will excuses me I have a previous engagement I must attend too." With that he and the two men walked toward the door.

"Addie?" Thea's voiced had calmed from what it was just moments ago. "You wearing the bracelet I got you for your birthday last year aren't you?"

"Yeah I always wear it." Addison nodded, "Is that really important right now though."

"Yes, because that bracelet was specially designed by your mother's friends down at Star labs." Addison could feel her Aunt Thea's hand grasp her wrist. "It's got a tracking devices in it that activated when there's a sudden or extreme change in your pulse, if it undergoes an extreme shock, or if you know where to push." Thea fingers grasped the bracelet and seconds later Addison heard a light buzz and the bracelet vibrate against her wrist for a moment.

"You snuck a tracking devices onto me?" Addison asked.

"You, and the boys, they have those Arrow chains they love to wear." Thea sighed. "That just sent an alert to your parents. Felicity should be able to track the signal to here."

"No one thought maybe I should know about this incase I was in this situation alone?"

"At the time it would have brought to many questions and in all honesty I had forgotten about it until just now." Thea told her. "For a minute I was afraid you wouldn't be wearing it."

"I only take it off at night." Addie shock her head. "That and the necklace grandma gave me. That's not a tracking device too is it?"

Anytime Felicity and Oliver's phone's went off at the same time her heart would sink a bit. Nothing good came of both of them being contacted at once and this time it was no different.

"The Star labs bracelet Thea got for Addison just switcher on." She said her voice shaking and her hands trembling.

"She was supposed to be with Thea today wasn't she?" Oliver asked and she nodded in response. He dialed his sister's number but there was no answer. "Damn it!" he growled.

"I need to get to the foundry so I can trace this Oliver."

"Let's go, I'll call everyone on the way." The pair headed to the elevator grabbing Diggle from where he was standing outside the office on their way. Fifteen minutes later all of Team Arrow was in the Foundry waiting for Felicity to finish tracing the signal.

"Thea must be with her." Roy said as her threw his phone down on the desk. "She's still not answering, she always answers."

"They're in a warehouse down by the docks." Felicity said drawing everyone's attention to her. "I can't get a visual on it, I don't know if they're okay."

"Felicity we're going to get them back." Oliver told her. "Roy, Dig, JD let's go now. Felicity keep trying to get some sort of visual on them, let us know if they move." She nodded and moments later watched as the Arrow and he's team ran up the stairs.

Oliver couldn't move fast enough as they headed toward the address Felicity had given them. Someone had taken not only Thea but his daughter. His only daughter that he loved more than life itself. Whoever had done this was going to pay when they found him.

"Take a right up here." Felicity shaky voice sounded in his earpiece, he knew this was her worst nightmare come to life. "You'll turn left by the dock and it looks like it'll be the third warehouse on your left. I'm not sure if it's guarded or not."

"Two men at the door." JD said moments later, he had been running a bit ahead of the others.

"Take them down." Oliver said, "But don't approach until we've caught up with you." When the rest if they had caught up to him the two men had already crumpled to the ground one of JD's arrows in each of their legs.

"They haven't called for backup and no one else has come out." JD told the elder men.

"That doesn't mean there aren't more inside." Oliver said. "Let's go, but keep a look out." The four ran up to the door and made their way in, meeting no resistance as they entered. Oliver caught sight of the two figures tied up in the center of the room.

"Addie, Thea." He said as he ran over to them.

"You're here." Addison sighed as he knelled in front of her. "You found us." Tears were starting to fall down her cheeks.

"I will always find you." He smiled and began to untie her as Roy did the same with Thea.

"Oliver this is too easy." Diggle said glancing around.

"They didn't want them." Oliver turned to face his friend as he helped Addie out of her chair. "Whoever took them was sending me a message, they wanted me know I'm being watched. That someone's showing interest in me. That's why they only had two guards at the door."

"Who would do that?" Addison asked looking at her father.

"We'll figure that out later, right now I need to get you and Thea to the Foundry so Diggle can look over the two of you."

"We're fine Ollie." Thea sighed. "They didn't hurt us."

"I still want you two checked out." Oliver said as the group headed back to the Foundry. Felicity wrapped her arms around her daughter as soon as she made it down the stairs.

"Oh you're okay." She sighed running a hand through her daughter's hair. "I was so scared we weren't going to be able to get you back, or that the bracelet had just fallen off."

"Mom, calm down." Addie smile. "I'm fine, we're fine." Diggle did a quick check of both Addie and Thea and gave them a clean bill of health.

"So any ideas as to who took the two of you?" JD asked.

"They weren't from here, they accents and spoke in different language most of the time." Addison shrugged.

"Welsh, they were speaking welsh." Thea spoke up. "A girl I went to school with spoke it. I don't know what they were saying but I recognized a few of the words."

"Sounds like our new friends." Roy crossed his arms over his chest. "But why would they take you two?"

"They wanted to know what dad's connection to the Arrow was. They said they'd been tipped off that he has some sort of ties to him." Addie said.

"I want extra security on Thea, Felicity, Addison, and the boys until we figure out what they want." Oliver turned to Diggle. "Only bring in people you absolutely trust."

"I'm on it." Diggle headed upstairs as he pulled out his phone.

"You're off Hood duty until further notice." Oliver turned to his daughter.

"Like hell I am." She snapped. "You can't keep me locked up because what happened today scared you."

"Addison you were just kidnapped because they thought your father was connected to the Arrow." Oliver said. "What do you think they'd do to his daughter?"

"You either let me go out with you guys or I swear I'll go out on my own. I can protect myself when I'm out there, and I'll have JD with me at all times." Addie argued.

"Oliver don't take this away from her." Felicity stepped up behind her daughter. "This has me just as scared for her safety as you are but we can't do that to her." Oliver sighed.

"Fine, but you will stay with JD, Diggle, Roy, or myself at all times, do you understand me?" Oliver looked at his daughter.

"Yes sir." Addie nodded.

"Good, now come here." Oliver pulled her into a hug. "If you ever get kidnapped again, I will have to lock you up in the Queen manor."

"The sad thing is I believe you." Addie laughed.

Addison was really beginning to dislike the man who Diggle had hired to be her bodyguard. It's not that there was anything wrong with him, it's just that he was always there. Even at school, Oliver had told the principle about the kidnapping and they had agreed to let the bodyguard follow Addie from class to class. So he was always there, waiting the second she left her classroom, following three paces behind her. Of course the other students would point and stare, starting rumors about the reason why he was there.

"It's driving me insane." She sighed as she sat down next to JD at lunch. "I can't keep this up much longer. It's been a week since the kidnapping does he really still need to be here?"

"Addie your dad isn't gonna pull back on the security until he's sure you're safe, and besides Collin's not that bad."

"That's easy for you to say he's not there every time you turn around." Addie frowned. "He's not like your dad either. He doesn't talk or joke, he just stands there and watches."

"Let's talk about something else get your mind off of it." JD smiled. "When you text last night you said you were thinking about finally talking with your dad about the whole Ava thing."

"Yeah," she nodded, "I just think I'm ready to hear him out with a clear head now." She told him. "I was angry before, I wasn't sure what to think. I needed to take a step back look at things from a different perspective, and realize that I don't know why they split. I know what it looked like to everyone on the outside, but it just doesn't make sense to me."

"My dad's always told me never to believe the papers, especially when it comes to your dad." JD told her. "He said they see what they want to see, and sometimes that's not exactly what's going on."

"Whatever it was, I'll find out this afternoon," she sighed, "I don't think dad would lie to me about. I think he and mom are tired of having to lie to me about it."

"When are you gonna do it?"

"I'm going to meet him at the office after school, I called this morning and made sure his schedule was clear."

"Good luck." He smiled.

Diggle was once again waiting for her when she walked out of the school doors, and while normally she would greet him and they would chat on the drive she sat in silence. It was nerve wracking wonder what exactly her father would tell in regards as to what actually caused her parents to split but she knew that it was time to have this talk with him. Diggle of course had to walk her in since they split with Collin at the school, he gave her a smile before nudging her through her father's door.

"Hi daddy." She said causing him to look up and smile at her.

"Come in, have a seat." He said motioning to the chair in front of his desk. She walked over and took a seat chewing on her lower lip as she glanced up at her father.

"Why did you and mom split?" she asked after a moment. "I'm ready to hear you out about it, and I need to hear it from you not mom." Oliver sighed and nodded.

"It took me awhile to marry your mom, even after I realized how I felt for her. I wanted to make sure that any threat that would come from being attached to me was taken care of." He told her. "I thought they all were, it seemed that way until a little over a year before your brother was born. Your mother was getting threats, they were threating you, and your brother when he came into the picture. Nyssa's father was one of the biggest threats, I didn't know it was him at the time though. He…likes to have me in his back pocket if he ever needs the extra help. Ra's apparently thought being part of a family was making me slow and weak. I started getting letters saying that if your mother and I split the threats would stop."

"So you just divorced her instead of trying to fight it?" Addison asked the hurt clear on her face.

"No," Oliver shook his head, "we tried to make it work. I was doing my best to keep you all safe. When your mom was pregnant with Tommy, we started having to keep as many of the threats from her as we could because they we're putting too much stress on her, she always found out of course; and then she would be angry because we were keeping things from her. The last two months before Tommy was born I told her everything had been taken care of when it wasn't. After Tommy was born she got a visit from one of the people Ra's had sending the threats in the hospital. They just wanted to let her know that they were still watching, and that they knew Tommy had been born." Oliver sighed.

"After that, things were strained with us. Your mother was angry with me for lying, she was stressed because of the threats, Tommy was a extremely difficult newborn, and I was never home because I was out trying to take down anyone connected the group threating my family. In the end it was all the lying and stress that made us decide to end things. The papers started circulating that I was cheating, and we just let them run with it."

"You stopped the threats though right? Because that seems like something I would have noticed since joining the team."

"Yes, Nyssa and Sara eventually figured out what Ra's was doing, and the three of us had a chat with him." Oliver gave her a small smile. "By that point your mom and I had already been split for a year, and things seemed to be working out for the best that way. You three were safer if I was separated from you a bit and it was easier keeping the Hood a secret from you and Tommy."

"I can't say that I'm thrilled that's what happened, but I'm glad Ava wasn't right." Addie smiled.

"I would never have cheated on your mother Addison, she means too much to me for me to hurt her like that."

"She's still talking to that Jones guys." Addison huffed, "I don't like him, he seems off." Oliver chuckled.

"Felicity is a smart woman." Oliver told his daughter. "If she's still speaking with Mr. Jones then she must see something good in him."

"You don't like it either." Addison roller her eyes. "I need to head home, I've got tons of homework to get done before we head out tonight." She walked over and kissed his cheek. "Bye."

"Bye Addie."

Thea enjoyed the time she got to spend with her son and nephew. It was always interesting to see what kind of games and stories their little minds would come up next. Today Carson and Tommy were running around Verdant while they waited for Moria to come and pick them up for a movie night. Roy had dropped them off and had apparently made a stop to get toy bow and arrows for them to play with. So of course the pair were in full superhero mode, chasing down and invisible bad guys.

"Momma?" Carson said skidding to a stop in front of where she stood taking inventory.

"Yes baby?" she asked looking down at him.

"Do think the Arrow needs more sidekicks?" he asked as his cousin ran over and stood by his side. "I know he's got Arsenal, and the Blue Archer, and now the girl; but do you think he'll still need help?"

"I think when you're enough, the Arrow would be crazy not to put you and Tommy on his team." She smiled at the two. "But, you'll have to be sure that you're doing really well in karate lesson, and in your archery lesson with Oliver."

"We try really hard aunt Thea!" Tommy smiled. "Carson can almost hit the bull's-eye."

"Yeah, I was like this far away." Carson held his finger up in an attempt to show how close his arrow had been.

"I'm very proud of you my two little superheroes." She laughed. "Did you two know that we're having a superhero party here at the club?" They shook their heads. "Well I'm sure if you're really good, the next couple weeks I might be able to get you some cool costumes and sneak you in." The two boys started to cheer and jump up and down, Thea couldn't help but smile.

Addison was happy that her vigilante schedule had been pretty relaxed the past week because the set up for the Superhero night at the club had been crazy. The closer the night got the more, nervous her aunt seemed to get. She felt sorry for the vendors who were unlucky enough to make a mistake on the orders and felt the wrath of Thea Queen-Harper. When the night finally came, her Aunt was nothing if not frazzled.

"Here." Thea said as she shoved a bag into Addison's arms. "Your costume, as close to Sarah's as I could find." She smiled.

"Thanks," Addie smiled back as she peeked into the bag.

"Go change, we've got about an hour and half until the others will start to get here, and then doors open an hour after that." Thea turned her toward the bathroom. Addison changed into the costume and slipped the mask on before looking at herself in the mirror. Seeing herself as the Black Canary was a bit odd, but her Aunt Thea had done an excellent job on the costume. When she walked back out the bathroom her mother was talking to Thea and Carson and Tommy were running around in their Arsenal and Arrow costumes. Tommy ran over too her and skidded to a stop.

"You look just like the real Black Canary." He said.

"And you look just like the Arrow." She smiled, and he shook his head.

"I'm not tall enough to be the Arrow, but Aunt Thea said this costume almost exactly like his." He grinned before running back off to join his cousin. Addison walked over and stood next to her mother.

"If I didn't know any better I would have thought you were Sara." Felicity said when the boys were far enough away that they wouldn't hear.

"I'm going to have to send her some pictures." Addie smiled. "Are you guys going to be dressing up?" she asked looking between her aunt and mother.

"Not tonight, it's harder for kids to take you seriously if you're in a costume." Addie turned to see her father walking up behind her. "So I'm afraid you will not get the pleasure of seeing your Uncle Dig dressed up as Batman."

"Darn, that was going to be the highlight of my night." Addison laughed. Moments later Roy, Diggle, Lyla, and JD had joined them. "Arsenal really?" Addie asked as she notice JD's hood was red and not blue.

"I'm too tall to actually be mistaken for him so it seemed like the best choice." He smiled. "You on the other hand could be Sara's double."

"It's pretty great isn't it?" She smirked.

"Okay," Thea clapped her hands drawing everyone's attention to her, "doors are going to be opening in about an hour. The bartenders know that no alcohol is to be served tonight, and I've booked extra security along with you guys, just in case. I know what Starling Prep kids are like, so just keep an eye out for anything that may be illegal."

"Are you imply that my fellow students will smuggle drugs in?" Addie mocked shock.

"I'm doing exactly that." Thea smiled.

When the doors opened the students of Starling Prep began making their way into the club. Verdant was soon filled with Batmans, Supermans, Arrows, and a number of guys dressed as the Flash. It was a bit hard to tell who some of the girls were supposed to be as they dressed more to gain attention of the boys than to look like superheroes. Felicity and Thea had the boys in one of the secret lair themed VIP sections that looked a lot like the Foundry and the look like they were having a blast.

"Well I have to say this isn't quite as lame as I thought it would be." JD said as he and Addie stood close to the part of the bar Roy was working at.

"I'm glad you had such faith in my plan." She rolled her eyes.

"I was just afraid it'd be real cheesy." He smiled at her. "Admittedly some of the costumes are, but the party itself is pretty cool."

"I'm sure Aunt Thea will be glad you approve of all the work she's done. She's been driving herself crazy worrying about all this."

"Well all the worrying definitely paid off." JD told her. "Come on, mom wants pictures of us having a good time to send to Sara and Nyssa. Let's dance." Addison shook her head but let JD pull her into the crowd on the dancefloor.

The next day the fundraiser at Verdant graced the front page of just about every newspaper. They headlines read that the goal amount had been raised and was accompanied by a picture one of the photographers had managed of Addison in her costume standing next to her aunt. It was the talk of the Queen Manor when the family went over there for lunch.

"Well I'm glad that Addison's first fundraiser was a success." Moria was nothing if not proud of her granddaughter. "A rather large part of being a member of our family is throwing evens to benefit the charities and less fortunate of Starling City."

"The superhero theme was a brilliant idea, especially with Starling's fascination with our so called vigilantes." Walter smiled at Thea and Addison. "You two did a wonderful job."

"I couldn't have pulled it off without Addison." Thea glanced at her niece. "She kept me from having a panic attack many a time this week."

"I just followed Aunt Thea's lead, she's the expert when it comes to things like that. I was just there to learn." Addison smiled.

"We'll have to be sure to leave a spot for Addie on the next QC gala committee, right Oliver?" Moria looked at her son.

"Yes, I think that's a great idea." Oliver nodded. "Get her accustomed to how the company handles its charity events."

"I'd like that." Addison grinned. "I've really enjoyed learning more about QC and how things work there recently. I think it's helped me realize what all I need to be prepared for when I decide it's time for me to join the family business."

"It's always good to have an idea of what actually goes on at a business before you decide to commit to them." Walter told her. "And I must I've only heard good things about you're work there at the office."

"She does wonderful." Moria smiled. "Every time I see her she seems to be busy."

"That's because Addie's like her mom she always wants to keep going at the office, get as much done in a day as she can." Oliver grinned at his daughter. "Between her and Felicity I always manage to feel a bit under accomplished." Everyone at the table chuckled, until the boys who had grown tired of the adult conversation began telling about the fun they had the night before.

A/N: Yay another chapter! Remember to review please and thanks for sticking with my oddly timed updates.