"Diggle she's gone. Somebody took her." I yelled into my phone after going back to the lair to try to make the jumbled thoughts in my head make sense. "I'll be right there. Don't do anything stupid Oliver!."
Diggle needs to come here quick or else I'm going to explode. Suffering a mental breakdown right now won't bode well for Felicity. I have to be in shape in all forms to find her.
She was definitely the brains of our operation, and losing that, losing her right now doesn't bode well for her, or for us. For me. I didn't know how much I needed her until she was off in Central City with Barry.
I never knew she was that important to me until I wasn't seeing her face, that smile everyday. I have taken her for granted, and that stops now. I won't go back to my selfish ways of using her for my operation.
The team's goal of helping this city is what drives me, what drives us. We are a unit and we help each other in need. She would do everything in her power to find me if the time called for it.
Diggle finally came into the Foundry, and raced down the stairs. "What did you find Oliver?" Dig asked me after he found me with my hands grasping my head. "This." I passed him the note and he read it quickly.
"Who would want to take Felicity? Do they know about us Oliver?" Dig inquired while pacing back and forth in front of me. "Digg I don't know! I'm so lost." I yell and Digg tries to comfort me, but it's not working.
"Look man, we will find her. Just calm down. We will make a plan. We just need to think. We need to think as if we are Felicity." Digg suggested and I snorted. "We have to think like Felicity? She's not even here to help us! Who is doing this to her, to me!"
Diggle let out an exasperated sigh, and brought another chair close by towards me. "You need to get yourself together. We can't very well work with you being a jackass, and feeling hopeless. You need to think Oliver. I know you can do this."
I think back to the times Felicity called me on my bullshit, and she never backed down trying to get me to see certain things her way. "Felicity, she set up a GPS system in her car.
I'm sure we can find something on her computers that tells us where she was driving off to." I started to finally make sense in my own head, and out loud. Digg pushed me away from the computers and started doing a wide search on each monitor to find out where the GPS system was located.
Felicity liked her computers do each take care of different aspects of the plan. It was no surprise that the computer with the panda background was the one where he found the locator software for her vehicle.
She had installed this system after the many times she was taken from us from the low lives I was going after. She always thought things through, and for that I'm grateful right now.
"It says she drove six miles south from here. She ended up in the middle of nowhere Oliver." Digg told Oliver. "Why would she drive herself to a secluded area?" Digg tried to make sense of this fact.
"Because she saw Sara and I. She saw us having sex." Oliver said looking at the ground. Counting the ways in his own mind how many times he's fucked up."
"You what? Where did she find you two? So help me God Oliver, if you say here I'm going to..." I looked him straight in the eyes, and he knew. I made a horrible mistake and I will pay for it for a long time starting from the point she found us.
"I know Digg. I fucked up. I'm a screw up. This won't be the last time I do something stupid either. It's just what I do." I commented on how that's just my M.O.
"I make a mess of things and wait for them to fix themselves. Which never works because I never try to fix things that I wreck." I confide in Digg to get some feedback from him.
"You need to man up. Felicity needs our help right now. She isn't going to wait forever. Neither is the person or people who have her. Get with it Oliver."
Digg and I leave the lair and drive towards the area Felicity abandoned her car. We could see in the monitor that her car was stationary. Suggesting that she was taken at the edge of the city, and not her home.
The note was a clue, but her house was a decoy. The person who took her just wanted us to take more time searching her apartment and wasting time looking in the right areas.
"You can see here that there's two different sets of shoe prints. The size of the second set is definitely male prints. Felicity's are here. She was approached from behind." Digg was crouched down recounting what happened when Felicity was taken by the captor. Digg's military background came in handy when searching for clues.
"I'm going to check her car." I say as I'm heading towards it in a hurry. I check everywhere imaginable. The cup holders, underneath the mats, the glove compartment under the seats. The last place I check is the trunk of the vehicle. "Digg there's another note!"
I take it out in a hurry and read it out loud.
"You will not succeed against me. So stop trying Oliver Queen." I stare at Diggle. "It someone with a vendetta Oliver." Digg makes the connection.
"They want to see you hurt man." Digg tells me when he walks closer to me. He grabs my shoulder trying to offer reassurance.
"They don't know how pissed off I am right now, Dig. I will find her."
"Why are you doing this to me? Why did you take me?" I scream towards the camera that's trained on me. I never liked being watched and the fact that someone his size, with his power is watching me gives me an unsettling feeling.
A voice came over the room. "Felicity Smoak. You will listen closely to me. My name is Slade Wilson. Oliver Queen destroyed my life. He injected me with the mirakuru. He played God with my life. He knew the serum would either save my life, or make it a living hell.
He decided anyway to take the situation into his own hands. This is something you know being his partner, being his secretary." Slade barked out a laugh.
Slade Wilson. The man who Oliver was on the island with. Slade found out another way about how Shado died. He blames Oliver.
"What do you want from me? I'm nobody." I say as I look around trying desperately to find any escape, or anything to help me to get out of here.
"I have been following you around for quite some time now. I can give you an alternate to the double life you live with Oliver. He doesn't see you the way you want to be seen. I see the way you look at him. Diggle sees it, and so does Moira Queen. My dear Felicity. Even Oliver is trying to mask his feelings. He wants to have you all to himself. Just like Shado. He thinks he owns everyone." He says to her after he turns on the light in the opposite room he's in.
"I don't know what you mean. I don't like Oliver in that way." I tell him lying through my teeth. I just now have come to terms with my feelings. I know Oliver will never give into his feelings for me after giving me the speech about how he can't be with someone who he really cares about.
"I'm here to offer you something you can't refuse. You see if you say no I will kill the people you care about. I'm giving you no choice Felicity. I will make them suffer just the way I suffered on the island. He left me there on that island. Oliver Queen will pay for his mistakes. He will regret the day he met me."
He came out of the room and was now standing in front of Felicity.
"You will become mine. You will make everyone believe in your life that you work for me now. Oliver will not stop trying to get you back. You need to give your best performance of the century. This won't be easy. I won't make it easy for you if you defy me." Slade bent down to be to her level.
"You are so beautiful." He says as he takes off her glasses. Her shield.