A/N: This was a plot bunny that wouldn't stop bouncing around in my head until I wrote it down. I kind of like how it turned out. Enjoy and read and review! Let me know if you want me to continue it!

Music played loudly through the stereo, assorted lollies, cheeses with crackers, shot glasses and wine glasses were set out on the coffee table while a bottle of wine and a bottle of vodka sat in buckets chilling. Felicity took off her dress and pulled her hair out of its usual ponytail and pulled on a tank top and sweat pants. She was ready for a girl's night. It had been a while since she had had anything like this planned, and it'd been never since she had hung out with just the girls from Team Arrow outside the lair. Felicity was excited and giddy as she downed a shot to calm herself.

Felicity had no idea what they were going to do that night – watch movies? Play drinking games? Just eat and talk? She liked to think that she was prepared for anything at this point after working with Oliver. Not a lot scared her anymore. Felicity had been kidnapped and held at gunpoint, stitched up wounds and had become like her own personal hero. She thanked Oliver silently every day for making her just a little bit braver.
Knowing the billionaire had changed her in such a short amount of time, he made her feel things she didn't know she could, bravery was the obvious one; he also brought out a fierce longing within her. At first, she tried to ignore it knowing that such feelings were a distraction and with what they did every night in the lair it was not something she welcomed. Yet when she would get home, take a shower and get into some comfy clothes she would think about these feelings.

Felicity wasn't a hormonal teenager anymore, her body had grown and changed into that of a young woman and at 25 she knew everything about it. Except one vital part that scared her and fascinated her at the same time. Sex.
All her friends teased her in jest about being a virgin, it was all in good fun she knew but some of the things they would say hurt her:

"God, you're like a unicorn!"
"You'll figure out what you're missing, just look at porn!"
"What are you some kind of prude?"

Felicity would shrug off their comments but they stayed with her at night when she was trying to sort out her feelings for Oliver. She knew arousal was normal, the slight wetness between her legs sometimes was just her body getting ready for it whenever she saw someone that excited her. Nothing happened though. She would go on dates with men but once they found out she was a virgin they would clearly either be only after sex or run for the hills.
When Felicity would lie in bed she would think about Oliver. He had been with probably hundreds of girls and knew what sex was. Had he ever been with a virgin? No. The kind of life Oliver Queen was used to was all loud music, loose women and booze, with him it just happened.

When they came back from Russia and he tried to explain himself with 'It just sort of happened, it didn't mean anything'

Felicity was confused by his off-hand comment about it. Wasn't sex supposed to mean something? It was important in a relationship and helped two people grow closer together. Whenever she said something like that to her friends while they were out, they would all giggle at her and would say that she would grow up and give it away some day.

Now that she was working closely with Oliver and the Team, she hid this part of herself from them all. They didn't giggle about sex or talk about it over a bottle and for that she was thankful. They had no idea she was a virgin and she intended to keep that part of herself private. Tonight was all about fun and if they played any sort of game that prompted her to tell them anything sexual about herself she would lie.

A quick knock at the door brought her out of her musings, Laurel and Thea followed by Sara came in and they all hugged and marvelled at her house "It's beautiful"

"We should totally hang out here more often" Sara smiled and took a seat and reached for a bottle of wine "tonight we party!" she giggled ecstatically

"And I bought just the thing, it only came out on DVD yesterday!" Thea reached into her bag and mischievously pulled out a DVD and all except for Felicity howled and cheered. Felicity felt her blood run cold any movie but that one! She silently freaked out but hid her fear with a smile and a glass of wine in front of her face. If it had been Magic Mike Felicity wouldn't have minded as much, half naked men she could handle but this movie was something else. 50 Shades of Grey.
All her friends had tried to get her to see it but she always found an excuse not to go, now that it was in her house she felt like she couldn't escape.

Sara and Laurel begged Thea to put the vile DVD in the player and she jumped up eagerly, Felicity tried to distract them "Thanks for bringing it Thea but do we have to watch it now? I mean, why not wait until later when the alcohol and pizza kick in?" she nodded

"God no!" Laurel protested playfully and helped Thea "we watch it now and have the alcohol to cool us down!" the girls fanned themselves suggestively. Felicity took another gulp of wine and went to order the pizza, she felt Sara looking at her and when she was done with the phone Felicity could have sworn Sara looked away with a look that said 'sorry'. Did the blonde assassin know she was uncomfortable? Maybe the IT Girl should stop drinking lest she let her guard down. No more shots.

The pizza lay half eaten in its box, the wine bottle was drained of its contents and the bottle of vodka was following behind. The movie was in full swing and Felicity hugged a pillow protectively when she found the only thing she could relate to in this movie was being a virgin and nervous around a man she was attracted to. Thea and Laurel were oblivious the whole time; their eyes glued to the screen.
Felicity felt her cheeks burn when the first sex scene came on and her brow crinkled when the actor said "Going to rectify the situation" was that seriously what he called taking a woman's virginity? Sure the scene was…good but there didn't seem to be any real love there, to Felicity anyway.

Then the black leather, the moans and sighs erupted from the screen followed by Thea and Laurel cheering and fanning themselves. Felicity made an excuse to leave the room and Sara followed, truly concerned about the IT Girl "You okay?"

"Yeah, totally! Just getting another drink" Felicity filled a glass with water trying to stop shaking, one more scene of watching people tied up with all the thrusting and whipping and Felicity didn't think she could stop from crying "really, I'm fine" she said again and turned away from Sara who clearly didn't believe her. Only half an hour to go and Felicity would be free.

"SO much fun!" Thea sloppily hugged Felicity as the last few drinks she had were finally starting to hit her and leaned against her blonde friend "we seriously need to do this again!"

"I'll keep my calendar open for you" Felicity smiled and hugged the small girl back "get home safe!" she called to them and waved the retreating car. Felicity regretted going to sleep.

Nightmares came to her that night. Felicity tossed and turned fearfully as images of a man slowly approaching with a leather belt plagued her, with the first strike of leather on her skin the dream changed to her fully naked on a bed with a faceless man above her. He bit into her neck playfully and Felicity screamed when he started thrusting.
Felicity woke up screaming and sweating, she felt sure there was someone in her room with her waiting to hurt her or worse. She reached for her phone and punched in Sara's number but then stopped herself – what would the badass assassin think of her if she couldn't handle 50 Shades? No, she couldn't bother Sara with this and put her phone away.

Felicity would try her best to deal with this. She didn't get any sleep that night.

Oliver smiled when he saw the picture messages from Thea, they were of the night before and it looked like the girls had had a good time. There was Thea taking a selfie, Laurel and Thea getting ready to go to Felicity's, a group photo with all the girls in their pyjamas ready to watch movies, Oliver frowned when the next photo was of Thea and Felicity taking a shot each and hoped they didn't drink too much as Thea was still underage. Oliver then chastised himself, Thea was with Laurel, Sara and Felicity and all of them get along great. They were all as safe as could be.

Hearing familiar clicking of heels and the smell of hot rolls brought up a feeling in Oliver, it was like coming home, such a beautiful feeling and it seemed to erupt inside him when he laid eyes on Felicity. Oliver's usual greeting died on his lips when he actually focused on the blonde in front of him, her hair that was usually brushed nicely and curled was pulled haphazardly into a pony with strands sticking out. Felicity's makeup was different, a little too pink on the cheeks, the lipstick didn't match and there were unmissable shadows under her eyes. Oliver greeted her warmly and noted that she only offered him a small smile in return "Felicity?" Oliver came forward and felt his heart jump when Felicity visibly flinched from his touch "Felicity, it's me" he said kindly with a hint of concern, as if he was comforting a scared child "are you alright?"

"Oliver…I just…you scared me" Felicity's excuse was poor at best and she refused to look at him "did you want to go over todays meetings or would you rather bump up your 10 o'clock for now since we have time?" she was avoiding any more talk between them as she moved to her desk but Oliver followed her like a puppy, she both loved it and hated it right now.

"Actually, how did the girls night go? Thea sent me photos, it looked like it was fun" Oliver showed her his phone and scrolled through the photos for her

Felicity glanced at them for a second before going through several files on her desk, trying to distract herself from thoughts of last night "I didn't get a lot of sleep last night" her voice was shy all of a sudden "it went later than I expected"

After more prodding Oliver noted that Felicity didn't want to talk and he really wanted to know why. Didn't she have fun last night? From what Thea showed him the night looked like it was a success so why was Felicity acting like it wasn't? Oliver made a mental note to keep an eye on Felicity and he behaviour for the time being.

Throughout the week Felicity tried to hide the fact she wasn't sleeping, and made excuses why she wasn't eating at the lair like 'I ate before I came here' or 'I had a huge lunch', which Oliver knew were all lies, and she still flinched when Oliver made a move to touch her shoulder affectionately and smiled in her direction. Felicity heard him whisper to Sara and Laurel and even Thea for an explanation but none of them could offer one for her behaviour. This made Oliver more worried than before.

Felicity made a point to work extra hard, working her fingers to the bone until they ached and her eyes became strained from looking at the screen so much. This was her plan, to exhaust herself so much in the lair looking for their current bad guy, a man named Steve Merrow, that when she got home she would collapse into bed and wouldn't dream. It was fruitless however. No matter how exhausted she was the nightmares always came and now they were changing and mingling with her feelings.

Oliver sat at his desk going over paperwork and sighing here and there, putting numbers in and putting initials where needed before he would always ask for her to come in. Felicity stood in his doorway admiring his suit before Oliver would get up with the forms and give them to her with a hungry look in his eyes and one request on his lips "Sign here and we can get started".
Felicity would always try to stall with questions, making Oliver angry and then he kissed her heatedly, it was a kiss only her imagination could come up with. Felicity would try to get away when his hands would get to grabby and this only made Oliver angrier and then the dream would change.

They were in a dark room, the sound of metal on wood scared her but not as much as Oliver's hungry lustful look. He would bring out a leather cat-o-nine-tails ad slowly drape the ends over her skin saying how beautiful she was and that he couldn't wait to punish her. Punish her he did. Felicity would try to scream as Oliver assaulted her again and again, the leather on her shackles tight and biting, her voice seemed totally gone as Oliver said over and over "You're mine" in a seriously sensual tone that confused her.

Only then would Felicity wake up screaming and sweating as if she had run a marathon. Always reaching for her phone and putting in the only number she wanted to call – Sara's – before deciding that Sara probably didn't want to talk about her stupid overreaction. Felicity knew that she could deal with this on her own even if she had to turn to pills to help her sleep.

Oliver knew that Felicity was getting worse and now he was in full 'worry mode' and watched Felicity like a hawk. His IT Girl was now looking like a poor copy of her former self and her work in the lair and at QC reflected that. Twice she had gotten times for meetings wrong and dropped all the paper work on the ground.
Working in the lair she messed up locations several times and given Oliver and the Team the wrong address or house number or the amount of goons that had to take care of wrong. Oliver was more concerned than angry with her and when he confronted Felicity about her behaviour it didn't go as planned.

"What happened?!" Oliver growled as he and Team Arrow walked in, he put down his bow but continued his verbal assault "Felicity, seriously there is something going on and it has almost cost us our lives several times!" he knew Felicity was fragile right now and felt Sara's hand on his shoulder to steady him but he rudely pushed it off "explain Felicity!"

Felicity felt her heart race as Oliver gave her the same angry look as he did in her dreams "I…I" she tried to get the words out without crying as Oliver came forward again , she looked away but he grabbed her arms and made her look at him. Something inside her snapped and she reached her hand back to slap him hard across the face "get the hell off of me!" she shrieked before tears welled up and she started to cry out of pure fear.
The rest of Team Arrow rushed to Felicity's side, Diggle was the first to reach her but she shrunk away from him too "No! Not you either!" she screamed childishly as Sara protectively stood in front of her, gently stroking her arms where Oliver had held her "Sara…I can't–"

"I'm going to take her home" Sara used her tone to also say silently to Oliver that there was no room for argument and that he was not to talk to her anymore tonight. Both blondes left the lair quickly leaving them all confused and worried about Felicity. Oliver was still fuming.

"Now we don't get an explanation!" he shouted angrily and threw his quiver down

"Are you fucking kidding me Ollie!?" Thea roared as her own bow and quiver were put away in haste "clearly something is wrong with Felicity, we've all noticed how she's changed" she looked to each member in turn before continuing "and instead of asking if she is okay, you yell at her until she cries!" she pushed her brother but he hardly moved despite the power she put behind her attack

"Did you ask what was wrong?! You're her friends too! If something is wrong with her isn't it some sort of girl code to ask what's wrong?" Oliver looked from Thea to Laurel waiting for an explanation, both girls looked away each knowing they hadn't noticed and hadn't been good friends to her. Sara did notice though. Thea and Laurel left in defeat while Diggle stayed to try and calm Oliver down.

Once back at Felicity's house, Sara sat with her friend on her couch with a blanket and a mug of hot tea. They didn't speak for some time and all Felicity did was cry. Sara didn't push her to talk but kept refilling her mug with tea until she was warm and stopped shaking. Felicity didn't mean for it to come out, it was private but the thought jumped into her head and her mouth followed "I'm a virgin" she said softly

"What?" Sara prompted clearly she hadn't heard her properly "Felicity?"

"That night when you guys came over" Felicity began in a shaky voice "we watched…that movie…" she trailed off not wanting to say the name

"You mean 50 Shades?"

"Yeah…I didn't want to watch it. I'd always made excuses so I didn't watch it with my other girlfriends, I hated that movie so much. I'm a virgin Sara!" Felicity started to cry again and didn't object when Sara held her and rocked her back and forth "I've had nightmares ever since! I can't look at Oliver anymore and tonight when he grabbed me I…oh god, Sara I hit him!"

"That's okay, I've hit him plenty of times. Why didn't you say anything on the night? We could have watched something else" Sara asked wiping away a tear from Felicity's face.

"I didn't want you guys to think I was a prude or something"

"Felicity we would never think that! Putting yourself through that movie has seriously hurt you! Nothing is worth more to us than your health, we need you" Sara reached for her phone and texted Oliver "you're going to have a few days off, no questions. I'll help you"

Felicity nodded and now really wanted to go to bed, Sara lead her to her room and tucked her in "You never have to worry about a man treating you like that, and if one does well they'll have to deal with me" Sara vowed sternly and closed the door and made herself comfortable on Felicity's couch.

A few days went by too quickly and Felicity was back in the game. They found Steven Merrow where he usually hung out, a local underground brothel in Starling. Felicity gulped as she pulled up more information on him, Steven was known for his taste in women. Nothing was off limits to him. He frequented the brothel called 'The Smoke House' and sampled the women, sorted them from what he liked and didn't like and then what he considered 'the best' went missing.

Oliver guessed straight away it was a human trafficking ring and scanned Felicity's screens.

"We're a little light staffed tonight" Diggle pointed out "Laurel is sick, Sara is out to dinner with her dad and I don't think you're going to let Thea set foot in that place"

"Oliver Queen wouldn't walk in there either and neither would you Dig" Oliver passed a glance at Felicity, he didn't want to ask, especially since how she had been a few nights ago but this was the only real chance they had at finding Steven.

"Hell no!" Diggle seemed to reach the same conclusion as Oliver and protested strongly "what are you thinking of sending Felicity into that place?!"

"It's not like I'll be sleeping with anyone, I know a little self-defence" Felicity shrugged "and you guys will have my back won't you? Come on this is the first real chance we have of finding this pig and stop him from hurting anyone else"

Oliver felt conflicted and wanted to call Sara but she wasn't answering her phone, Sara could handle this. After a few deep breaths, Oliver nodded to Felicity "if any of those men touch you, we'll be right there"

Felicity left to get ready.

It was dark and cold outside the brothel, the lights from the stairs lit up the sidewalk faintly before disappearing into the unknown. Felicity had been fitted with a microphone, given a knife and a gun by Diggle and instructed only to use either of them only if she feared for her life, Felicity nodded and started to shake but didn't protest when Oliver again said that they could wait another night for Laurel to get better so she could go in.
The lights made Felicity look paler and her sequinned dress shone, Oliver swallowed as she slowly walked away from them. If she didn't come back in half an hour they would go in a get her.

Just ten minutes after Felicity surrendered herself, Sara called Oliver "I'm at the lair, where are you guys?"

"The Smoke House, we found Steven Merrow" Oliver answered quickly "we should have him in half an hour"

"Thea wouldn't go in and Laurel…wait" Sara's blood went cold as ice as she realised that Felicity was there, Sara wouldn't be able to keep her promise if she went in alone! "Why didn't you wait another night!? I could have gone in with her! She can't go in there by herself Oliver! She's…she won't leave!"

"Yes she will, either she leaves on her own or we rescue her!" Oliver explained tightly

Sara swallowed thickly and silently hoped that Felicity wouldn't hate her for telling her secret but she had to protect her friend "Oliver you don't understand! Felicity is a virgin! We have to get her out of there NOW!"

A/N: Wow! I wanted this to be a one-shot but now I really want to continue it. Will Oliver rescue Felicity in time or will she be sampled?