DISCLAIMER: Arrow and The Flash belong to DC Comics and the CW Network. I am merely borrowing these wonderful characters to satiate my plot bunny's wild ideas.

TIMELINE: Post-S3E17: "Suicidal Tendencies" with some AU moments right from when Ray Palmer found out about Oliver's secret and completely AU S3E18: "Public Enemy" of Arrow. As for The Flash, it's an AU post- S1E17: "Tricksters."

SUMMARY: Felicity was fatally wounded by the arrow Maseo aimed at her after the Mayor was shot. When she awoke at the hospital she had no recollection of ever being involved with either Oliver or Ray, but she remembered Barry and felt more comfortable and safe with him than with the other two.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I've been thinking about writing an Arrow or The Flash fanfic for quite some time now, but the ideal story plot never materialize until out of the blue an idea for this particular fic was formulated, thus resulting in the creation of this fanfiction. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

I. Wrong Place; Perfect Timing

FELICITY SMOAK FELL INTO STEP beside the second handsome billionaire she found herself entangled with. Right now she wasn't sure where she stood with him; they just had their first big fight since they became a couple, and the situation was pretty tense. She knew Ray's vendetta against the Arrow, blaming him for what happened to his fiancée last year when Slade's Mirakuru men attacked the city, but she also sworn her loyalty to Oliver and the rest of Team Arrow to keep the vigilante's real identity a secret. She had no idea Ray finished working on the A.T.O.M. suit and actually used one of her techs to make a positive scan match of the vigilante even though he was hidden under the hood.

Mayor Castle called a meeting after the attack at SCPD. Ray's presence was needed since he was the one who announced on television that he would pool in all of his resources in capturing and apprehending the Arrow. Now that Ray knows who the Arrow is under the hood, Felicity's never been this worried about Oliver's safety since his initial face-off with Ra's al Ghul over two months ago.

Laurel was already in the boardroom standing beside her father, Captain Lance, who was dead-set on capturing the Arrow as well. He felt betrayed by the Arrow for not revealing Sarah's death months ago. Right now the animosity between father and daughter stemmed from Laurel keeping the truth from him as well and for masquerading as the Canary these past few months.

Laurel was doing a great job holding her own in ensuring that nobody makes a move in capturing the Arrow, but with her father – and Ray – ganging up on her, Felicity felt compelled to voice out her two-cents and side with the DA. But before she could do so much as utter one word, a familiar high speed zipping sound shattered the window and hit its intended mark: Mayor Celia Castle.

Pandemonium soon followed, with everyone rushing to aid the fallen mayor. Felicity unwittingly stepped in to the line of target, her worry over Oliver's safety and the mayor's survival rooted her on the spot, making her fall deaf to another high speed zipping sound as it shot through another window and its tip imbedded itself the same location where the mayor was shot; the only difference was the arrow didn't pierce the blonde tech's heart. But it was still fatal if not attended to right away.

"Felicity!" Laurel screamed, catching Ray's attention, as she scrambled towards Felicity's side. "Call 911," she ordered a shocked Ray, clutching the lapels of his suit and making him focus on her instead of Felicity who was gasping on the floor. "Snap out of it and call 911!" she yelled right on his face before leaving him to fish for his cell phone and pressesd the emergency number.

Laurel remained by Felicity's side while Ray hovered, one hand deep in his pocket and the other raking his now dishevelled dark hair with his fingers. He was the one who accompanied Felicity inside the ambulance once it got there. As soon as the ambulance left she fished out her own cell phone and pressed her speed dial number for Oliver.

"Felicity's shot. Ambulance is on its way to Starling Gen," was all she said as soon as someone answered on the other end, then hung up to follow the ambulance to the hospital. She might have just recently been accepted as another member of Team Arrow as Sarah's replacement, but Laurel knew how much Felicity Smoak meant to everyone on the team, most especially to Oliver.

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ROY WATCHED Oliver's face ashen after answering Laurel's call. They were discussing the League's next move when Oliver received a call.

"What's wrong?" Roy was on alert as soon as he saw Oliver's reaction.

"Call Diggle. Tell him to meet us at Starling Gen. Felicity's been shot," was Oliver's curt order and explanation before turning to grab his jacket and left HQ like a bat out of hell.

"Shit," Roy cussed and fished his cell phone from his back pocket. He found Diggle's name and pressed enter. Diggle answered after the second ring. Roy repeated Oliver's words verbatim to the other man then followed his mentor to check on their favourite blonde's condition.