Teamwork

Chapter 14 - Guilt

The Team watched as the men came and removed Detective Lance from his cell right before Slade turned and sneered at the camera. Knowing that Slade had taken the Detective was one thing, but seeing it with their own eyes made everything even more real and infuriated them to the point where Diggle, Sara, and Oliver all let out a string of curses in English, Mandarin, and Russian.

Felicity jumped when she heard the sound of an arm being taken off another training dummy. She turned slowly to see who the culprit was and was not surprised to see that it was Oliver, in his rage, who had amputated the arm. As she looked around she could see Sara trying to comfort Laurel who was crying again. Oliver moved over to the training mats and was walking in circles with his hands in fists. She could see the rage rolling off him in waves. Then there was Diggle, he was clearly upset but only his teammates would notice as he was the stone cold silent type right now.

Turning back to her computers Felicity let out a gasp as she noticed that the video feed had changed. It now showed a large room that had metal manacles hanging by metal chains in the center of the room.

"Guys!" Felicity called worriedly to gain the attention of everyone in the room. "You might want to see this!"

"What now Felicity?" Oliver growled as he walked back towards her computers.

"The video feed just changed." Felicity said as she tapped furiously on her keyboard. "It looks like this is a live feed."

"What makes you think that?" Diggle asked curiously. He knew that it could very well be a recording and was curious why Felicity thought it was live feed.

"It's not a saved file." Felicity responded as she worked furiously on her keyboard. "If it was recorded then the whole thing should be saved onto the drive. This is just a link that he is streaming the video through. Besides he never had time to do this before you found the drive on Laurel's counter top."

"She's right man." Diggle said as he turned to Oliver. "There wasn't enough time between when Lance was taken and when we found the drive for Slade to get this to the apartment. It had to have been planted while he was there."

"Dad!" Laurel cried as she spied people walking through the door in the room. Her Dad was being dragged in, fighting, by two strong men followed by Slade. They brought him to the center of the room and hung him from the chains, ensuring that his feet were able to reach the floor but it still looked incredibly uncomfortable. They were all shocked into silence when they heard sound from Felicity's computers for the first time.

"Are you comfortable Mr. Lance?" The group heard Slade ask.

"Oh yeah, real comfortable." Sara winced at the tone from her Dad as he replied to Slade. She knew that sarcastic tone of voice well and hoped it would not get her Dad in even more trouble.

"How does it feel? How does it feel to know that everything you have worked for, your family, your career, even your city, have all been destroyed by Oliver Queen?!" Laurel gasped at those words. She didn't know exactly how true they were, but it got her to thinking about everything that had gone wrong in the last several years and what had caused them to happen.

Oliver swallowed his emotions at Slade's words. He knew that they were true, everything that had gone wrong in the last several years was because of choices that he had made. And now Lance is going to be forced to suffer, again, because of me. He thought darkly.

"It wasn't Oliver that took those things from me. It was Malcolm Merlyn and you who took them from me." They heard Lance reply with great fervor. 

"Mr. Lance, if only you knew the real story. Oliver is the one that was dating the lovely Laurel before he left on the Gambit, isn't that correct? In fact, I'm sure it was as he wore out a picture of her during his time on Lian Yu. But it wasn't Laurel that was on the Gambit with him now was it? In fact, it was your younger daughter that was with him on that boat. Oliver had invited her to go with him instead of Laurel whom he was dating at the time. How did your daughter handle that? Knowing that her playboy boyfriend was on his yacht with her younger sister instead of her. Oliver Queen destroyed your family when he left on the Queen's Gambit. You all believed he killed your younger daughter! He broke your oldest daughter's heart, drove your wife away, and he drove you to drink. How can you not blame him for the destruction of your family?!"