Oliver was entangled in his fight with Slade and all Felicity could do was watch from underneath the stairs. Diggle and Sara were already knocked out on the floor and Oliver was the only one left to fight off Slade. Felicity wanted so much to help but there was nothing she could do, she winced every time Slade hit Oliver and then Slade sliced his shoulder and it made her let out a small cry and then Oliver was down and Slade was standing over him. "Don't forget who taught who how to fight kid." Slade said as he kick Oliver and he was out.

Slade was about to leave when he noticed Felicity under the stairs and she knew it, she tried to stay hidden and out of the way but it didn't work, he saw her and walked in her direction. She was so scared and out of instinct grabbed to closest thing to defend herself which was a pipe wrench and it didn't do much damage against Slade with him having the mirakuru drug in him. Felicity knew that it wasn't going to do much but she had to try. "Stupid, stupid girl. Did you honestly think that a small metal tool was going to stop me?"

Felicity stood in a frozen state and couldn't say anything, Slade had his gun pointed right at her and she knew he wasn't afraid to use it. A drip of sweat was running down the back of her neck and she was starting to get really nervous. She finally got the nerve to say something to him, "Slade please don't do this, would Shado like you to do this?" she immediately regretted the last part, Oliver had told her how important Shado was to Slade and that all of this was for her.

"DON'T SPEAK HER NAME, YOU DON'T KNOW HER." The rage was filling up inside him and you could see it in his eyes, something was speaking to him and giving him more rage than he already had. She could only assume that her was speaking to Shado in some way and it just made him more angry and he then pointed the gun at Felicity and said, "This is for you Shado." He then pulled the trigger twice and two bullets hit Felicity, one in the lower abdomen and the other in the chest. The wind was immediately knocked out of her and she went down. Slade was up the stairs in no time and she was gasping for air, trying to hold the wounds but there was too much blood coming out.

There was movement coming from the other side of the liar were the others were and Felicity could hear them, she tried to call out for help but she was in too much pain to say or do anything. She heard Oliver speak first, "Sara, Dig, you guys alright."

Dig was quick to respond, "All good here, just a few scrapes and bruises. Sara fine too just a sprained wrist. What about you, you all good?"

"Yeah, just a headache. Sara you sure you're all good."

"Yes Ollie, fine." Sara looked just fine but her wrist did look a little swollen, he knew what a sprain looked like and he knew how it felt.

Felicity was still lying on the ground and she knew she had to do something in order to get their attention otherwise she was sure to die right there in the liar. The pipe wrench she used to hit Slade with was lying on the ground next to her and she reached over and picked it up just enough to drop it on the ground in order to make a signal. Oliver heard it and immediately turned around, "Felicity? Where are you?"

He walked towards the stairs where he left her before the fight broke out, she wasn't there but he looked to the left and saw that she was lying in a pool of her own blood, "FELICITY!" he ran to her side and immediately applied pressure to both of her wounds, "Felicity, open your eyes. Stay with me, you're going to be okay."

"Oliver, what's going on? What's wrong with Felicity?" Dig was worried and he ran over to where Oliver and Felicity were. "Oh my god, Oliver, quick bring her to the table." Dig always knew what to do when someone of the team got hurt. "Sara quick, grab the medical cabinet and anything else we can use to patch up these wounds." Dig went to clear off the closest flat surface so they could work on Felicity.

Oliver picked Felicity up in one swoop and he heard her wince at the pain, "Sorry, Felicity, I know it hurts but you have to stay with us." She was quite easy to carry since she was so light and he didn't have to strain at all carrying her to the make shift operating table. "Felicity, keep your eyes open. Focus your attention on me. Felicity, look at me, Felicity." Oliver was really beginning to worry, he couldn't lose Felicity, she was his light, his friend, his girl.

"Oliver…" Felicity barely was able to get his name out, she looked really pale and so weak, Oliver wanted so much to trade places with her right now. He would be able to take the gunshot wounds he was stronger when it came to things like this, not that Felicity wasn't strong because she is one of the strongest people Oliver knows, he just didn't want her to be in all of this pain.

"Felicity, I'm right here, hold on please. I can't lose you, please stay strong for me." Oliver was at her side the entire time and didn't let go of her hand the whole time Dig and Sara worked on stopping the bleeding and patching up the wounds.

"Oliver, we need to get her jacket off, I need to see what I'm dealing with." Oliver carefully removed her jacket and Diggle cut her shirt off, she was left in her bra on top, in normal circumstances she would probably be blushing right now in front of everyone, but she was almost as white as a ghost, she looked so fragile in her state and both Oliver and Diggle were thinking the same thing.

"Sara, grab a bag of blood, we need to give her a transfusion. She's lost a lot of blood and we need to give her more. Oliver put pressure on this wound, we need to stop this bleeding and I need to get these bullets out. I don't think they hit any major arteries or organs but they did enough damage and we need to work fast." Both Oliver and Sara did as they were told, she grabbed the bag of blood and started hang it up so they could start the transfusion as soon as the wounds were patched up. Oliver placed pressure on the chest wound and never let go of Felicity's hand in the process.

"Sara hand me that blade, I need to get this bullet out. Felicity, this is going to hurt a little bit but I need to do this." Dig didn't expect a response from her but he had to tell her so she knew what was going on. Dig started to pull the first bullet out and Felicity flinched in pain and instantly squeezed Oliver hand and he didn't mind. Oliver knew how much pain she was in and he could take the squeeze if he knew it was going to help her through her pain.

"Damn it," Dig became very frustrated and it worried Oliver even more than he was already. "The bullet is stuck, I'll need to open her up a little more. Oliver get Felicity's attention on you, distract her from the pain she is about to go through." Dig started to cut Felicity's wound open a little more and she winced again, it was killing Oliver to see her in such pain.

"Felicity, look at me, no don't close your eyes. Felicity open your damn eye, please." Felicity opened her eyes slightly and Oliver saw all the pain in her eye and he started to tear up himself, "There you go, focus on me, focus on my voice. Hey, fight for this, fight for me. Don't leave me, I need you. I need you here with me."

Dig almost had the bullet out, he was working fast but he was working carefully. He didn't want to put Felicity in anymore pain but he had to get this done fast, he still had the other bullet to dig out. "Alright, got it, Sara can you stitch this one up I need to get the other bullet out and fast. Oliver start the blood transfusion, she is way too pale and she needs blood now, I'm just going to have to work fast to get this bullet out." Oliver and Sara did as they were told. Sara couldn't help but notice how much Oliver cared for Felicity, Oliver was beside himself this whole time and Sara hated to see him this way but she knew that in order to get him back to his old self they needed to get Felicity back to her normal self, well as much as they could in the current circumstances.

The first wound was stitched up and Sara was placing gauze on it so no one could irritate the stitched and open the wound up anymore. Dig was just finishing up getting the second bullet out, "Alright, I got the second one out and it doesn't look like this one hit anything major either, Sara can you just stitch this one up as well and we will just have to monitor her through the night."

"Of course, Dig I think there are some pain meds in the top drawer on the cabinet, I think we should give her a couple so she can sleep through the night with as little pain as she can." Sara continued to stitch up the second wound and Dig agreed with the pain meds. Oliver stopped the blood transfusion because her color was back to normal and Dig said that it was done anyway. Yet Oliver still looked as worried as he did at the beginning of this.

"Oliver, we were able to stop the bleeding and get the bullets out, she's alive and that is all we can ask for right now. She's going to need time heal but I think she is going to recover soon. Oliver she's alive, lets just be thankful for that at this moment."

"Diggle, I am thankful that she is alive, but its my fault she's in this condition in the first place. I thought I was going to lose her." Oliver started to tear up a bit over Felicity, he was blaming himself for something that was truly out of his control.

"Ollie, don't blame yourself for Slade's actions, this is not your fault and you can't blame yourself for what he does. He's in a bad place and he's taking his anger about Shado's death out on you and he shouldn't be. But you cannot blame yourself for his actions."

"Sara, how can I not. Shado is dead because of me, I stood in front of you instead of her and that caused her death."

"Ollie, stop. Ivo shot Shado, not you. Stop blaming yourself for other people's actions."

"I can't lose her, I love her." He never admitted it before, but Diggle always knew that Oliver had feelings for Felicity and Felicity's feelings for Oliver were always apparent, but Oliver had never said it out loud and he had never told Felicity how he felt. Sara put a friendly hand on Oliver's shoulder, they had a huge history and she cared for him, but she knew as well as Dig that Oliver had strong feelings for Felicity and tonight just put them into perspective for everyone in the room.

"We know Ollie, we know. Why don't you rest for a bit, I'll stay with her and keep her comfort for the time being."

"I can't Sara, I can't leave her side right now. But thank you so much, I appreciate all the help you did tonight with her. Thanks so much." Oliver grabbed Felicity's hand in his own two and couldn't believe that this happened to her, he promised her he would keep her safe and then she gets shot and almost dies. There is nothing safe about that, he has failed her. "I'm so sorry Felicity, I never meant for anything to happen to you."

"Oliver, stop it." Dig interrupted his self-hatred rant.

"Dig, I can't just stop it, I've put you all in danger and now this happened,…" Dig interrupted him yet again.

"No stop, look at Felicity, her eyes are fluttering. It looks like she might be waking up sooner than we expected."

"Felicity?" she was still a little pale but that is very understandable. Oliver looked down at her with his sorry eyes and was happy that she was alive.

"Oliver, I'm going to take Sara to the hospital she needs to get her wrist looked at this is a really bad sprain and that way you guys can have some time alone." Dig left Oliver rand Felicity in the liar while leading Sara upstairs.

"Hey Dig, Sara, I just want to thank you again for everything you did for her. Take care of yourselves tonight."

Oliver was just left in the liar with Felicity as she was waking up, she was extremely weak yet Oliver couldn't stop admiring her beauty, "Oliver," Felicity was trying so hard to speak but he could see the strain in her face and he didn't want to make her hurt herself any more.

"Felicity, don't try to speak. You don't need to say anything now, I'm just glad you're alive and with me." He leaned in and pressed a kiss to her forehead, she shred what he can only think as a happy tear and spoke just to her, "Let's just live in this moment right here, right now." Felicity reached over and took his hand in her own.

In a very soft whisper she talked to Oliver, "thank you, Oliver, I love you," Oliver just sat there the rest of the night holding her hand while she drifted back to sleep, he heard those three words and wanted so much to tell her the same thing, but he had to do it when she was awake. They just lived in that moment.