Abducted

Chapter 2 - Detective Lance

Lance POV

Lance walked into his apartment, exhausted from the recent events. Not only had Thea Queen been abducted by Slade Wilson, but he had arrested the man on the recommendation of the Arrow and then been arrested himself for doing so. While he was doing time for the Arrow he had suffered quite a beating from a fellow prisoner that he had helped put in prison. Lance could still feel the effects of that in the way his ribs hurt every time he moved.

Lance didn't regret his decision at all though. He had arrested the right man regardless of who told him to do so. The D.A. had been trying to get him to tell who the Arrow was, all they wanted was a name. What they didn't realize was that Lance wouldn't give up the name even if he did know who it was, which he didn't. Lance had told Laurel that just an hour ago. The man kept his identity a secret for a reason, there were people he was protecting, and Lance would not be the reason that secret was revealed.

He moved to the kitchen looking out the window and noted that the storm clouds had finally decided to open up and it was now pouring down outside. As he turned to his fridge to grab a drink he felt the unmistakable feel of cold steel on the back of his head.

"To struggle is useless" said a deep voice behind him.

As he turned and looked at the reflection in the window he saw a man with a black mask standing directly behind him. Suddenly, a cloth was placed over his mouth and his world started to go dark.

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Mixed POV

Felicity was sitting at her computer watching Oliver on the salmon ladder, again. She was waiting for her babies to come up with some results from all of the searches she had running after Walter's disappearance, choosing to distract herself by watching Oliver work up a sweat during his workout.

At the same time as Oliver reached the top of the salmon ladder she heard Sara and Diggle come through the door at the top of the stairs, obviously in a deep discussion about what Diggle had brought for dinner. As they reached the bottom of the stairs Oliver silently dropped to the floor to grab his bottle of water sitting next to Felicity on the desk.

"How's your dad?" Oliver asked.

"He's fine. His ribs are still sore but other than that he's good." Sara replied.

"Who's hungry? I brought some Big Belly Burgers!" Diggle stated as he placed the take-out bags on the medical table where they usually spread out to eat.

Everyone gathered around and began to dig in to the burgers that Diggle brought, content to eat in silence after the stressful events of the last few days.

Just as Felicity was taking her first bite of her wonderful burger there was a beep from her computers, her searches had finally found something. Felicity rolled her desk chair over to her computer to bring up the results. The search through the video feeds around Starling National had come up with something. Felicity's breath caught in her throat as she pulled up the picture.

"Um, Guys!"

"What's wrong Felicity?" Oliver asked as they all walked over to her computer. Placing his hand on the back of her chair Oliver leaned over to see the picture.

Right at that moment Sara's phone rang and she became agitated quickly. Noticing this Oliver turned her direction to see what was wrong.

After a few short moments she hung up and turned to Oliver. "My dad's missing!" Sara stated.

"Oliver, you really need to see this!"

The urgency in Felicity's voice caused him to turn suddenly and actually focus on the picture before him. It wasn't a very clear picture but it was good enough for him to recognize the man in the photo.

"I killed him." Oliver stated as he turned to Diggle in disbelief.

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Mixed POV

Walter looked up as he heard a sound from the door. He watched as a couple of guys in masks dragged in an obviously unconscious Lance. They took him into one of the cells and cuffed his arm as they had done to Walter before leaving, never saying a word.

After a few moments Walter noticed that Lance was starting to come to groaning each time he moved.

"Are you alright Detective Lance?" Walter asked the man.

With a groan Lance sat up and looked around, holding a hand to his ribs. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just a bit sore is all."

"There's no point in trying to move around too much, they have chosen to chain us to the wall for good measure." Walter stated, nodding to the chain connecting the cuff to the stone wall.

"Any idea why we are here?"

"Not at all. No one has said a word since they knocked me out. Whatever the reason is though I'm sure that it's not good." Walter replied.

"You've got that right." Lance said, groaning when his ribs protested. "Well, we might as well make ourselves comfortable until either they decide to tell us why we are here or we are rescued."

Walter agreed. Neither man knew how long it would take for them to find out why they had been taken.

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Third Party POV

A man was sitting at a large wooden desk watching video feed of the cell block. He gave a chuckle when Walter and Lance mentioned being rescued.

Surely they were talking about the Arrow coming for them.

He was counting on it!