Title: We've Been Through the Worst (And We Came Out the Other Side)
Words: 3037
Genre: Comfort/Romance
Pairings: Sara/OFC, Felicity/Laurel brotp, Team Arrow brotp, Laurel/Oliver
Status: Done

Summary:
Felicity comes over for a movie night to find Laurel kidnapped. This leads Team Arrow to search for her. What they find is that Laurel has a secret that she's been keeping.

Laurel smiled as she took her keys off their hook and went to get groceries like she did every Wednesday at Five in the evening when she ran out of pre-prepared meals for herself. She lived in the frozen section of the grocery store. If she could put it in the oven and forget about it till it was finished, that was enough for her. That was the extent of her cooking.

Felicity was supposed to be coming over for a movie marathon, Harry Potter, she said. A couple of them. Not all of them. Although that was no doubt on the menu eventually. That would be fun, she thought. Felicity doing a Hagrid voice "YER A WIZARD, HARRY," god, even the mere thought made her laugh. Felicity was definitely more fun to watch movies with than Sara was. Not that Sara wasn't delightful company, especially since she'd met Alex who was just as much of a nerd as Felicity was but with punky hair and went to Yale to be an artist, where she broke the hearts of a lot of girls.

She put her key in the ignition and put her hands on the steering wheel and was about to drive out of the parking garage.

Then a rag came across her mouth and she tried to scream, but no noise came out and the scent coming from rag, pungent and sweet, clued her in. There was no escape except to struggle and whoever it was had her pinned down. There was no point. She fell unconscious.

Felicity parked in Laurel's parking garage where she had a semi-permanent spot and got out of her car. She locked her car with the remote and went to go to the elevator.

She saw Laurel's car though, doors swung open, lights on, everything that Laurel was very careful not to do. She called Laurel's buzzer. No answer. She called Laurel's cell phone and hoped that Laurel would pick up. "Come on, babe, just pick up. Please for me." It rang full blast in her car. Oh that was never good. Laurel never went anywhere without her cell phone. And she clearly wasn't at home. The next to call was to Oliver, if he didn't pick up she was going to flay him.

"Hey, what's up?" He said in a jovial voice.

She chuckled sardonically in his ear. "I think Laurel's in trouble. I came over for a movie night and her car doors are flung wide open and all of her lights on in it. And," She went and picked up Laurel's phone and looked at the missed notifications. "She hasn't touched any of her notifications since five. That was like six hours. You know Laurel." She told him.

And he did. "I'm gonna round up the team. You stay there." He told her. She looked through the car and it didn't have the keys. Must have taken them. Meant that her battery was probably gonna die about the morning's coming.

She sat in Laurel's car. Five was the time she usually went to the grocery store. Laurel's predictability was not very often, but that was one of those things that she did every week at the exact same time. She looked for any tracks and she saw some to another parking space, but she couldn't do anything without her computer and currently there was no way to get into all of the databases because the parking garage did not have internet.

Sara and Diggle arrived and gave her a hug. She guessed that they thought she could have been taken too. But she wasn't. She came and it was too late to be any use. "Ollie and Roy are gonna be here any minute," Diggle promised her.

"Thanks," Felicity replied and looked to Sara, "So Alex mad that you had to ditch her tonight?" She asked.

Sara shrugged. "Alex doesn't know the specifics of my job but she knows that it's complicated and she doesn't usually make too much of a fuss. Last time was because it was her birthday," She told Felicity with a smile. That smile meant that she had thoroughly made it up to Alex and there was a reason that Alex usually didn't get too mad. Felicity was proud of them. Having a healthy sex life was important. Everyone on Team Arrow got some because it was a way to relieve stress in the most basic way.

"Sorry," Ollie said as he practically dragged Roy in. "Someone was busy and didn't want to stop." He gave Roy the side eye.

Roy to his credit looked both embarrassed and pissed that Oliver had walked in on him and Thea's canoodle. "Let's just find Laurel," Roy muttered.

"Someone needs to take me back to the cave," Felicity injected in the conversation. "I need to get to the security feed in here and I can only do that where there's internet, because it looks like she was dragged from the driver's seat to that spot," She told them, pointing to the far side. "I should be able to get a license plate number and be able to track them, so I don't care who it is, rock paper scissors this shit," She told them.

They were never to be alone anymore. Being alone meant that someone could corner you in a really unfortunate way. Sara and Diggle shepherded her back to the cave and she went to work, trying to find the plate. It was easy enough to hack into Laurel's parking garage, there security was surprisingly lax. "Shouldn't it have been harder?" Sara asked as she looked at the computer just popping up.

"Oh, it should have," Diggle said to her, "It should have been a lot harder. Especially considering how many time Laurel's apartment has been broken into. You would think they would have that place locked down like Fort Knox,"

"Say What?" Sara asked, jaw on the floor.

Diggle turned to her and just kind of turned his lips up at her. "Ya know, you and that boy need to learn how to communicate in a really desperate way." He just shook his head. Damn kids.

"How come no one ever told me that my sister was practically living in a kidnap central?" Sara demanded of them. This wasn't right. No wonder she was gone.

Felicity didn't look up from her computer, searching the security footage and making sure to zoom in whenever she thought she saw something. Unfortunately, it was taking longer than she though. "And how would that have helped? You think you were gonna get her to move? Your father couldn't get her to and I love you, sweetie, but she's got a better relationship with him than with you." Felicity said as she smiled and found what she was looking for. "Besides, Laurel knows how to take care of herself. She has a gun. And we have a plate."

"Okay," Sara said, "So now what?"

Felicity took the license plate number put into the Starling City DMV records and checked out who it was registered to, "Oh, well crap," Felicity panicked and typed faster, getting the cameras to the city online as she raced to find the guy.

"Felicity, what's going on?" Diggle asked her immediately concerned.

She put her finger up at him, "Don't speak. Either of you. Just make sure that we are safe and that you can be on the move at any time. Because our car to a Mr. Sebastian Blood, now it's probably not him in the car, but they clearly want to send a message and this time, it's clear, they want to take Laurel." She processed information quickly and looked at the cameras trying to find the last address that the thing had been at. "Now, it looks like a car with that plate had an the cops called on it for speeding at Lexington and North and then it fell off the planet. That's where you need to start," She told them. "That's all I have. The cameras don't run past North."

"Got that Oliver?" Sara asked into her headset.

He nodded into his headset. "You need to stay there. Roy and I will get her. I promise," He told Sara, because he knew that Sara wanted to kill and that there was blood on her hands from before, but he wanted to keep them clean as long as he could.

Diggle also left, because the girls needed Laurel back as soon as possible and while they had to stick together, having more people out there looking for Laurel would be good.

He stayed beside Roy, "How's he holding up?" Diggle asked, nodding to Oliver.

"He's been better. It's a little more real though. Since Thea just got kidnapped a couple of months ago, you know?" He asked.

Diggle nodded. The kid loved more deeply than he ever thought he did. He made this city better because his father asked him to, but also because he saw what it did to the people he loved. Saw how jaded they became when they were the victims. "He'll be fine," Diggle hoped.

Oliver combed the streets and found the car and went into the building that it was parked in front of. "Come on, we're losing valuable time," Oliver ground his teeth.

Diggle took a flashlight and his gun out and let Roy and Oliver go the other way. Roy could handle Oliver if he got too out of control. He knew how Oliver could be when it came to people messing with Laurel and this didn't seem any different.

He searched the rooms but there seemed to be no one here. And he was about to rally up with Roy and Oliver when he heard a door rattle up ahead. He straightened his posture and went forward in a stealthy manner.

He got closer and closer to noise and he steeled himself, as he flashed his flashnight on the door and saw Laurel, beat up and desperately trying to get out. He unlocked the door. These people were gonna just leave her here to die if no one came to save her. He unlocked the door and she fell instantly into his arms, "It's okay, you're safe," Diggle reassured her.

She closed her eyes. Oh no good. "Oliver!" He shouted. "I found her."

And he heard Oliver's big feet clomping down the hallways and as he turned the corner, Diggle looked up and saw the shock of horror on his friend's face. "She's gonna be okay, but we need to get her to the hospital. Call 911. And Roy, you go opened the back door, it'll seem more plausible that we came in that way because heard someone screaming for help," He said and he looked to Laurel, she looked so peaceful, not like she had in the few moments of consciousness that he saw from her today. "Oliver, you need to change into regular clothes. Go back to the cave. And get the girls. And go to the hospital." Diggle instructed him and the cops were already practically there as Oliver skipped away on the roofs.

"You handle him well," Roy said, impressed. "Makes me wonder why you're not the leader of the group."

Diggle shook his head, "It's his mission not mine to clean up the city. I just wanted to see him not kill himself doing it." He said, cradling Laurel's head. Oliver changed a lot since he brought Diggle on. He changed for a lot of reasons, but he knew that the biggest one was the woman in his arms.

Quentin got there first, "Oh my god," He cried as he saw Laurel in Diggle's arms.

The paramedics rushed in right after him and Roy and another cop restrained him to make sure that Laurel could be helped without him smothering her. "She's gonna be okay. They're taking her to the hospital now. Shhh," Roy said trying to make Quentin settle down. "She's gonna be fine. But you have to let her go on the ambulance. You need to go clock out and tell your boss that you need to leave work tonight," Roy said.

Quentin fought this for awhile, but Roy wore him down. "Felicity will call you, okay? She'll give you all the information." He told him and Quentin just nodded as he blindly headed for a door.

"Tough night," Diggle said. "You did a good job, kid."

And then they were off. Back to the car. To the hospital. Roy drove the car. Which was a mistake, Diggle surmised, because he was about to give Diggle himself a heart attack. He got them there though. No one could argue with that result. Starling was a big city and they got their within the hour including traffic and parking, which at the hospital was a nightmare.

They got to the emergency room entrance as Felicity and Sara came from one direction and Oliver came from the other. Quentin would no doubt be on his way, but there was forms and stuff that he had to do. "Ready, guys?" Felicity asked them and they all nodded quietly. Felicity lead them into the emergency room and went up to the desk. "We're looking for Laurel Lance," She asked.

"They just took her up," The lady smacked her gum and casually typed at her computer, "Room 2401, are you her family?" She asked.

"Yes," Felicity said without room for complaint or ask for ID as she steered them toward the elevator up to the 24th floor and to Laurel.

When they got there they saw a doctor come out of her room. "Is she okay?" Sara blurted out.

The doctor nodded, "You must be the family. She's fine. She's awake, they're just getting her cleaned up finally. I'll be back in a minute. I just need to get something from a lab." The doctor told them. "Let me ask if she's wants visitors after that."

The nurse came out and the Doctor went back in and came back out after about five minutes. "You can go on in. She also said you may all come in as a group. Don't be too rambunctious though. She's still fresh,"

They all went in and Felicity sat on the edge of the bed, Sara stood in the corner of the room, Diggle sat in the chair, Roy stood by the door, and Oliver perched beside her. "Hey," He said to her as he smiled for the first time that day and cupped her cheek and the whole group smiled to him.

"Ollie," She cried a little as she pulled him down for a hug, "God, I never thought I would see any of you again."

Felicity shushed Laurel, "Don't worry, we're never gonna let anything happen to you for too long," She soothed as she ran he hand over Laurel's leg.

"Yeah," Sara agreed, "You may live in a death trap, but you have a group of angels who need you."

Laurel softened a little, but then cried a little more. "You're not mad?" She asked them.

It was Diggle's turn to reassure her. "This was not your fault. We're mad, but never at you. Not for something like this. We're mad at your kidnappers. It looked like they roughed you up pretty bad," The concern in his voice was evident. He was the one who found her.

Roy laughed. "If it helps, they didn't get very far. I had to keep Oliver from killing them all. It's a good thing he was wearing gloves at the Arrow, because he could have gotten himself some serious trouble had he not,"

"Is that true?" Laurel asked Oliver.

Oliver shrugged. "I was upset they took you. Couldn't focus on anything but finding you,"

The group laughed a little and they made sure to make Laurel as comfortable as they could. Of course, Detective Lance came in and shooed them all away so he could spend five minutes with her making sure she was okay.

Quentin walked out of the room looking relieved and he turned to Oliver and just laughed. This was weird to Oliver, but he never asked with Quentin anymore. He knew better.

The group recounted best day/worst day stories. "Laurel what was your best day?" They asked her.

Laurel sighed, smoothed the blanket over and looked to the group. "My best day is today, because I can be surrounded by all the people I love as I tell them something life changing." She looked back down to the blanket and smiled. "I'm pregnant,"

"Seriously?" Felicity squealed in the high pitched voice that she did whenever she was excited by a new Doctor Who episode which would no doubt make her angry, but it was her purest form of excitement.

Laurel giggled and nodded. "Seriously," She assured her.

"How far along are you, big sis?" Sara asked with a smile so big, it could light the sky. She was going to be an aunt. God, that was exciting.

Laurel blushed, "About four weeks," She said in a low voice.

"You mean?" Oliver said, taking the information.

Laurel nodded, "Yep," She said. "This baby is half you, mr. vigilante."

He went over and kissed her. His kid. His kid was growing inside of her. Her kid too. God, they were gonna be parents.

Roy looked at the both of them a little confused. "Since when have you two been doing the do? They only broke up a couple of months ago," Roy said pointing to Sara and Oliver.

Sara chuckled, "Roy, It's Laurel and Oliver. Always has been. Always will be. I was just the stand in. Besides, I got a kick ass girlfriend two months ago who I adore."

"Team Arrow welcomes a new family member, baby Arrow." Diggle said in that wise voice of his as he kissed Laurel on the head, "Congratulations Laurel." And he ushered out Felicity, Sara, and Roy, so that Laurel and Oliver could have some time alone with the news.

Felicity smiled. "They're totally getting married," She told them.

"It's been a long day kid, let them just enjoy the moment," Diggle smiled back to her.