The Island

Story Bunny provided by KenyanCougar – this story is for you!
"Would love to see your take on what would happen if Slade took Oliver, Felicity, Lance, Laurel, Sara, Thea, Digg and Moira to the island to relive Oliver's personal hell."

Chapter 1 – The Amazo

AN: Thanks go primarily to KenyanCougar for the wonderful plot provided for me to play with! (Especially as it was provided the day before my birthday lol.) Rennie75 thank you as always my friend for your wonderful beta job & for giving me ongoing confidence. Hope you all enjoy my present to you all on my birthday :-)

AN2: Whilst this fic starts with just Sara & Oliver's POV it will go on to include many others too.

Disclaimer: I do not own Arrow or anything related to it in any way shape or form, all legal rights to Arrow belong to CW. I am only playing in their sandbox and take no profit but pleasure from this fic.

Sara's POV

Sara hated this place more than any other. The Amazo. This was where she had come closest to losing her entire being. Despite everything she'd done since then this was the place it had all begun, where Ivo had twisted her, and where she had let him.

She knew from the second that she recognised the Amazo that they were in trouble. Slade was in control of the freighter, had been for years now. That place had been a living nightmare with Ivo in control and she knew that Slade would only have made it worse. Sara was worried for Oliver, it was taking him longer to come round than the rest of them; but then she knew that Slade would have given him more of whatever sedative it was he'd chosen to use this time. Slade knew as well as she did that Oliver had a high tolerance to medications and he would have adjusted for that.

Sara was also worried about the effect that being back in these cells, again, would have on him. Sara knew that Oliver wouldn't even have told Diggle and Felicity much about what had happened on the Island, let alone what had happened here. But she knew, she was there with him for some of it, she saw the aftermath in his eyes. Oliver had been tortured here by Ivo; and it was also where he first went up against Slade and was tortured by him.

Sara would never forget the sounds of Oliver screaming over the radio as Slade had tortured him using the generator for the electricity. That was the first time she had truly had to decide if one person's life was more important than another's. She remembered that to start with she had refused to do it, to make the trade. Sara had lied to Slade about the engineer making safely to the Island. But Slade had heard the lie in her voice and in response had turned up the electricity, she still blamed herself for that. Sara had had nightmares of Oliver's screams for a long time afterwards, still did at times now if she was being honest – and being back here certainly wasn't going to help. And it will be even harder on Oliver, Sara thought darkly.

Just because she wasn't together with Oliver any more didn't she didn't still care for him. Sara would always care for Oliver, just as she knew he would always care for Laurel. But all they really had was the past. She and Oliver had both come to accept that they couldn't move forwards until they let go of the past. The one thing that Slade was incapable of doing it seemed.

Oliver was taking too long to come round now and Sara could see that Felicity and Diggle were thinking the same. Felicity was closest to him and Sara couldn't help but wonder if that was by design. They had still been unable to discover if Slade knew that Felicity was Oliver's heart.

Oliver's POV

Oliver came to in a metal cell on a freighter, again. He was getting really fed up of regaining consciousness only to discover he was stuck in a cell.

"Oliver!" Wait, that was Felicity's voice what was Felicity doing here? This place looked familiar. It only took him a minute to realize this was the one cell he really did not want to wake up in, he was back on the Amazo - and he wasn't alone. He looked around and saw that Felicity, Diggle, and Sara were also in cells, but far enough away from each other that they couldn't reach one another.

Apart from them though Oliver could only see guards with bigger builds than Diggle. Oliver knew all too well though that size was not the important thing in a fight, speed and skill were. You only had to go up against Sara once to learn that! Before he had a chance to say anything however Slade walked in, surrounded by his mirakuru enhanced army. He was shocked by who else was with them though as first his mom, then Walter came into sight, being pushing forward at gunpoint.

"I told you I would make you completely despair kid, before I killed you." Slade took a step to the side as he spoke revealing Thea standing behind him, tears running down her face. "Sara, you brought Ivo to this Island in the first place, you are part of the reason she is dead." Slade roared at Sara, making Thea cry all the more. Slade called to the guys standing by the doorway "Bring hers in too." He instructed them before turning to stare at Sara.

"Sara!" Lance cried out in relief as he saw his younger daughter.

Oliver knew that Lance was worried about Sara being caught up in this too, but he could understand the Detective's relief – after all, Lance knew what Sara was capable of. Oliver knew that if he was in Lance's place he would be relieved to see Sara too – heck he was relieved to see her. Much as he wished she wasn't caught up in all this Oliver knew that she was as much a part of it as him and that their chances for escape were much better together than alone.

"Oh and I almost forgot..." Slade gave a smile that truly scared Oliver before he nodded to the guys at the door again and Laurel was brought in at gunpoint. "You nearly wore that photo of her out kid staring at it all the time, did you think I'd forget?" Slade was laughing then.

At one time Oliver would have done nearly anything to make the man he'd called brother laugh, but now he despaired of the sound. It took every ounce of self-control he had not to react or respond to Slade beyond the initial half-pace forward he'd taken on seeing his family stuck in this place too. One place and time he had never wanted them to know about.

"Just like I didn't forget what happened the first time we were on this freighter together. I'm sure you can remember the feel of the electricity coursing through your body Oliver." Slade continued revealing things Oliver had never wanted his family and friends to know about.

Oliver stayed quiet, refusing to rise to Slade's bait, his taunts.

"Or maybe I'm wrong? Maybe I need to refresh your memory kid. I see from Sara's face she hasn't forgotten the sound of your screams. Perhaps we should treat the rest of your family and friends to the joys of that particular sound too kid. Shall I get the generator brought down here?"

"You can do what you want to me Slade. Leave them out of it, this has nothing to do with them it's between you and me."

"Wrong! It has everything to do with them!" Slade shouted back angrily. "You care about these people. I told you that caring makes you weak, makes you vulnerable. But you wouldn't listen would you kid. So this is all down to you! You brought them into it. I told you you would not die until you have known true despair – well that time is getting closer my friend. You might have managed to survive here on your own, but let's see how good you are at keeping all of them alive too." Slade finished ominously.

"It's time for you to go back kid … to Lian Yu."

AN3: OK so this first chapter was basically an establishing one, sorry – but it was needed to set up the rest going forward. I really hope that you will stick with this fic, it is going to have a complete mixture of angst, friendship, hurt/comfort, team fic, family, & if the Muse is willing – Olicity fluff :-D Please do let me know what you think, fav, follow, & reviews are all very wonderful to me! Thank you!