Chapter 9
Laurel made it to the police station in record time, still sobbing. She dialed her father immediately.
"Yeah, this is Lance," he gruffly answered after seeing the station on his caller ID.
"Daddy?" Her voice was broken and desperate
"Laurel, sweetheart, are you okay?" As he asked the question Sara nudged him lightly. Digg and Lyla had already patched her up and left-attempting to get to the coordinates in time to help. He knew she was asking him to put it on speaker so she could hear; looking around he noticed the call had peaked Roy and Nysa's interest as well. He silently agreed and Laurel's manic voice filled the room.
"He took me, and he already had her, and then arrow was there to save me, and then it all went blank. He saved me, and I thought I saw Malcolm Merlin, and she..." Her voice was cut off by her own sobbing.
Sara chimed in, "breath Laurel, what happened, who took you, where?"
"Slade Wilson, city hall, he said we were waiting for him to choose."
Sara's voice cracked in return, "waiting for Ollie to choose who lives and who dies?" With a deep breath she sighed out, "not again" rubbing her hands over her face as Roy and Lance stared at her in shock, Nysa rubbing a hand through her hair. "Wait! Felicity! What happened to Felicity? Where's Ollie?"
"He's still there, they were fighting. He told me to run. Slade was hurt, had an arrow in his arm, but he was still so strong, he was like Cyrus Gold."
Sara let the silence sink in, but when her sister didn't continue she had to ask, "what about Felicity, where is Felicity?"
"She told him to pick me, to save me, but by then things went blurry. As I ran out I saw her in a pool of her own blood, she died for me, she died for me..." The uncontrollable sobbing took over again.
"We're coming baby, just stay there." Lance's voice was broken as he hung up the phone and turned toward Roy- you feeling up to hot wiring a car?
Despite the devastation evident in his features a slight smirk graced his face for just a moment as Roy made his way to his feet.
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Digg's voice broke the silence in the car, at least for Roy and Sara as the comms crackled to life again, "Lawton took a kill shot, there has been no movement, we just got inside, it's quiet."
Roy and Sara glanced at each other, acknowledging the information without saying a word.
"Oh my God..."
"What is it?!"
Roy's eyes went wide at the sound of Thea's voice and Digg's quick response, "Thea, take out the comm link, we will send detective Lance to get you." He was stern, not allowing for any arguments.
Silence
No one knew if she complied or if she knew how to mute the comms, but she seemed to be gone so he continued. "I see them, there's a lot of blood, Felicity is in his arms, neither one is moving."
He ran to them and was able to steady himself enough to take Oliver's pulse. As soon as his hand was within an inch of his throat Oliver's arm shot up and grasped Digg by the neck, instinctively and defensively choking him. It only took Oliver a few seconds to register what he was doing but it was a long enough gargling sound that Roy and Sara were demanding to know what was happening.
Dig responded horsely, "he's alive."
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AN- sorry guys, it's short but the next chapter should be up within the next few hours, hopefully done before the show tonight!