BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
He didn't want to come back – he didn't want this in his life anymore, but there was one thing that he needed more than just a normal life and that was Felicity. Ever since he made the choice of having her, being with her he never wanted to let that feeling go – ever.
There were four possible locations and even though they hated splitting the group up, they had no other choice. His heat signature device showed not traces of life inside the warehouse but chasing after the ghosts and Damien Dhark the last couple of months taught him that nothing was ever what it seemed. He searched every possible crevice and all he could find was a big fat nothing. He was ready to make his way back to his bike when he heard it – it was some sort of trip switch and he knew he wasn't going to make it out in time. His body prepared itself for the hit and when he came too he was lying buried under rubble in what seemed to be the middle of the basement of the abandoned warehouse. He couldn't move. After the explosion his comm went dead and all he could hear was distortion.
He tried breathing but everything hurt. He took quite a fall if he was lying in the basement. He couldn't feel his legs. At last he stopped trying to move and instead decided to focus on her. To focus on her face, her eyes, her smile, her smell, her voice…and then he heard it. He didn't know if he was hallucinating but then he heard Thea's voice frantic with worry in the background he knew they solved the problem with the comms and it was all real.
"Oliver? Oliver can you hear me?" Felicity yelled.
He tried talking but when he opened his mouth to speak a loud cough erupted out of his lungs and that's when he saw how serious it was…blood was trickling down his neck over his lips. He knew he didn't have a lot of time. Even if they sent help now, he knew there was a huge chance that they would be able to find him right away….he could die.
In almost a hoarse whisper he managed to say her name "Felicity" and started coughing again.
"Oh thank God Oliver. Are you okay? Where are you?"
"Felicity" he said again, his voice a bit louder but it hurt so much.
"Oliver, where are you, your tracker went dead, please tell me where you are?" He could hear her trying to hide the hysterics in her voice.
"I'm at the warehouse. There was a trip switch on one of the doors and a bomb went off. The floor collapsed. I'm lying in the basement with rubble on top of me."
He heard people yelling orders in the background as her breath hitched. "Okay, just stay calm honey, everything's gonna be okay. Dig's coming to get you. Please just stay with me."
"Felicity, I need…say something."
He could hear her sob on the other side.
"Felicity, you know I love you right?"
"Yes I do and I love you Oliver. So so much, but don't talk too much. You need to save your strength. Dig's on his way."
"I'm so happy that I have you in my life….you make me happy Felicity. I want you to know that I couldn't imagine my life without you. I'm so sorry I took so long for us to be together. I never meant to hurt you Felicity."
"Oliv…"
"You were right about dinner that night when Thea and Laurel came to our house in Ivy Town. It was something more than just dinner. I was planning on proposing." He started coughing violently now and the more he coughed, the more blood started spewing out of his mouth.
"Oliver? Are you okay? What's happening? Are you still there?"
He finally got the cough under control, but his eye lids were getting heavier with each breath he took. He would lose consciousness soon and he knew he needed to say what he wanted to say before it was too late.
"Yeah, still here….Felicity, I need you to know that I wanted to build a future with you, have a family with you and I know I might not have that now, but I need to know…..Felicity will you marry me?"
He barely said the words when the distorted sound returned to his ear and then everything went dark.