Birds of Prey

Felicity Smoke didn't think her day could get any worse, first she loses contact with Oliver, just as Helena shows up in the Arrow Lair threatening her life. Luckily Sara decided to make her return to Starling. So with one thing in common can the three women work together to save Oliver?

Ch 2

Sara had entered the basement of the club quietly when she heard voices, threat from the unknown female voice and fear in Felicity's. She she moved through the place and picked up Ollie's wooden bow in the brown box he kept it in. She pulled the arrow back on the bow, aimed and hit her target.

Felicity kept glancing down at Helena expecting her to jump back up and continue to attack her as Sara walked over to them.

"Who's this?" Sara asked. From the little bits of conversation she picked up, it sounded like Felicity knew this woman.

"Helena Bertinelli, Ollie's psycho killer ex…I mean you're a killer too…but…you're not a psycho…I like you" Felicity finished with a grimacing smile cursing herself for not knowing when to shut up.

Sara just looked at her and nodded. She swiped the first aid kit from the shelf she saw the first time she was here and went to the fallen woman. She opened it and took out a sedative, injected the woman with it. "Where's Oliver?" she asked as she went to work removing the arrow and dressing the wound.

"Oliver!" Felicity screamed out suddenly. She ran back to the computer. He should've been here already. She looked for his blinking green dot, it wasn't there. She brought her hand to ear. "Oliver, do you copy, Oliver are you there?"

Sara looked up hearing the worry in Felicity's voice as she was securing the binds on Helena.

"He's not answering" Felicity said her breath coming in shaky rasps. "His tracker is gone; it's supposed to be on…"

Sara went over to her. "Felicity, calm down. His tracker could've fallen off and been stepped on."

"But he's not here and if he's not here then…something happened. We have to go find him" She was ready to leave now, her mind flashing back to when they found him unconscious and unresponsive when he went after Cyrus Gold.

"What was he doing?" Sara asked.

Felicity took a breath. "He was checking out a warehouse in the Glades, looking for a serum gives people super strength…and…"

Sara stepped backwards and sucked in her breath. "Someone is producing Mirakuru in Starling." She said more than asked. She breathed in deeply trying to soothe her anger at hearing that.

"Right, you…were on the island too" Felicity said as she watched Sara's reaction. Maybe she'd give them more information on it than Oliver has. She knew Oliver was still hiding things from them, things he didn't want to talk about. But how could they help him if he didn't tell them.

"As anyone already been injected with it?"

"Yes"

"I should've watched the news more; I would've been here sooner if I had known" Sara took a breath, this was not good. What happened on the island could not be recreated in her city, not while she was still breathing. "Where's Diggle?"

"He's on vacation with his ex wife" Felicity replied. "I tried calling, but I think they are still on the plane" Felicity dialed his number again and got the voicemail. She shook her head, her worry growing by the minute.

"I'm going to go check it out" Sara told her.

"I'm coming with you" Felicity said standing up.

"It's too dangerous. I've been trained to be a ghost, no one will see me." Sara told her. This is a recon mission, I will not engage if there are people around, I need you to be my eyes" She knew how much Felicity cared about Oliver and he for her; she could see it the moment she saw them together. Oliver probably doesn't realize how much but that's one part of him that hasn't changed. He's still blind to obvious. If she let anything happen to Felicity...not after what happened to Shado. Oliver didn't need that. Felicity didn't have any training, she didn't know why they weren't teaching her. When she found Oliver she'd talk to him about that. Or teach her, herself. Every woman should know to defend themselves, especially in this line of work.

Felicity sighed and nodded and glanced warily at Helena, Sara had tied her wrists and ankles to salmon ladder. "She won't get out of that" Sara said as followed her gaze. She looked on the floor and picked up the crossbow. She walked back over to Felicity. "Lock the arrow in, pull back, point, aim and shoot"

"Did you learn archery on the island like Oliver?" Felicity asked she was trying to keep her mind focused on other things, because she had to keep telling herself Oliver was fine. Sara would find him and they'd walk in here together.

"No, after" Sara replied.

Felicity nodded, she guessed that's all she'd get on that. Her and Oliver were not much for talking. Felicity handed Sara a tracker and an earpiece and added them to the program. The green dot with Sara's name over it popped up. "Okay, we're..." she said and spun around, Sara was gone. "Ghost, right" she said to herself and looked back at her monitors. Recon, engage. She was definitely more Diggle than Oliver. Then she repeated her mantra of Oliver being okay.

Sara shut of the engine of her Ninja and pushed the motorcycle underneath a window of the warehouse, pointed in the right direction in case she needed a quick getaway. She climbed up some pipes on the side and made it the roof. She ran across it silently until she reached the skylight. She peered inside and listened. It was quiet and she couldn't see any movement.

She carefully removed a pane from the window, then lowered herself down onto the scaffolding. The place was a mess, there was definitely a fight here. She made her way around the perimeter. Once she was on the lower floor she inspected the damage. She took a deep breath, if the serum wasn't here, someone that had taken it was. The metal beams had a person sized dent in them, along with splinters of broken wood from the crates. She walked further until her eyes caught something, she ran over it to it.

Felicity watched Sara's tracker move around the warehouse, she moved quickly. She'd look away for a second and the green dot moved from one spot to across the room. She told her that Oliver said he found a package in a office somewhere. That's the last place he was.

"So he just shot me and left you here alone."

Felicity reached for the crossbow, spun around and pointed it at Helena.

"Someone has gotten more moxie than last time" Helena said with a smile. She tried to pull on the rope that bound her. It twisted tighter digging into her wrist. She cried out and stopped moving. "Where did Ollie learn his bondage skills from? You? It's always the nerdy ones" she said with a laugh.

She was looking forward to seeing Oliver, she was disappointed that he didn't even think she was worthy of staying for. "Like the new place" she said eyeing the new equipment. "Did he spend all this money for you?"

They were both startled when a bow and quiver were suddenly on the table in front of them. Felicity looked at it; it was Ollie's compound bow. Sara then held out her palm with pieces of Ollie's tracker in it. "He wasn't there" Sara told her.

"Who are you?" Helena asked eyeing the masked blond women in leather up and down. Sara ignored her and went to stand next to Felicity.

Felicity reached out and touched his bow and looked at Sara. "Where is he then? Oh, God..."

"He's not dead, Felicity" Sara said putting her hand on the woman's shoulder.

"How do you know?" Felicity asked looking up at her.

"Because he's not that easy to kill" She replied.

Felicity nodded, Sara was right and she knew that. Oliver was strong. Whoever took him wanted him alive. They just needed to find who took him. The Arrow made a lot of enemies and then there were those he didn't want to tell them about. "If Mirakuru is from the island, then it has to be someone that was with you guys. I mean how many people were on the island with you?"

"You were on the island with Oliver?" Helena shouted in surprise from behind them.

Sara just turned around looked at her and turned back to Felicity. "Ollie mentioned a Doctor" Felicity began.

"Ivo" Sara finished for her. "No, he's dead"

"Are you sure? I mean Oliver said you were...dead and you're obviously not" Felicity told her.

"He's dead, I made sure of that" Sara said balling her fists not wanting to think about Ivo. When she joined the league she forced herself to forget all that, that was someone else's life. It couldn't be Anthony, but then only one other person came to mind, the question Ollie refused to answer, the person that hunted them both, the man that killed her.

Slade.

Tbc...