Seriously the love I have received from the Love Begins has been super amazing! I have received some messages with requests and I promise I am working on them too! To Amanda who requested a Bratva Oliver AU story...I have up to three chapters, I will get it out as soon as I can.
Please, your reviews, messages is truly love and fuels the fire. Let me know what you think.
I have no Beta so if there are any mistakes they are my own, I do not own Arrow...
1.
"Felicity, I need you to hurry up. We're going to be late to the gala and you know how that's going to go over," he said pacing in the gallery of their penthouse three bedroom home.
"I need your help I can't reach my zipper," she said coming around the corner wearing a long sapphire blue dress that fit her like a glove, she had on sky high heels that had a few gems on the heel side, Oliver looked at her gawking at his fiancée. "What? You don't like it?" she joked.
"God, I can't wait to get you home," he said zipping her up and running his hands down her back smacking his hand away.
"That's right you are going to have to wait," she smiled, "now I'm ready."
They rode the elevator down to the lobby and climbed into the awaiting limousine. The gala they were hosting was a fundraiser for Felicity's new project, getting kids off the streets and onto computers. Oliver had never been so proud and backed her 100%. They arrived at the beautiful hotel and walked into the main ballroom that was hosting the event.
"You take right and I'll take left," he said.
"Such a dangerous mission," she whispered in his ear, he kissed her on the cheek as she took off to greet people.
After about an hour she met back up with Oliver, he placed his hand on her waist kissing her on the cheek.
"Miss Smoak, may I have this dance?"
"Why Mr. Queen, I thought you would never ask.
He led her to the dance floor and spun her around, they danced until the music stopped.
"I guess we need to take our seats now," he said.
"I guess, I'll meet you there soon, I need to use the little girls' room,"
She walked away leaving him with his hand still out, he watched her walk away. 'God I'm the luckiest man alive' he said to himself. He made his way to the table and sat down. A few minutes later she showed up and sat down next to him, their meal was placed in front of them and they enjoyed it, Felicity ate every bite. Oliver smiled at her, the auction began and everyone was bidding high amounts of money. Oliver went up to give a speech and thank everyone for coming and spending their money on something him and his fiancée were excited to be a part of. Oliver sat back down next to her, she wasn't looking so good.
"You okay?" he asked with concern in his voice.
"I think I should go home, not feeling so good," she replied back, small beads of sweat on her forehead. He reached over putting his hand on her cheek, looking at her. "You need to stay, I'll have the driver bring me home, and I just need a cold shower,"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I need you to stay here, we need to raise this money,"
"Let me walk you out at least," he insisted.
Oliver walked her to the front of the lobby, the driver pulled up and then opened her door. Oliver kissed her on the cheek and made sure she was completely inside.
"I love you, feel better," he said.
"Thanks, I will see you at home,"
The driver took her back home and she rode the elevator to her home with Oliver. She climbed out of the dress and started the shower, she dimmed the lights to help her relax and hopefully get over the headache that was now forming. The water was lukewarm, different from her normal scalding hot showers. She felt a little better but her stomach was still in knots. She pulled her hair up in a ponytail and got dressed in a pair of black yoga pants and a pink tank top and sat down on the bed. Her phone rang, it was Oliver she smiled.
"Hey," she said.
"Hey, I was just checking up on you, how are you feeling?"
"A little better after the shower I just took,"
"Well, I should be coming home soon."
"Don't leave early because of me," she said.
There was a crash in the living room, her breathing started to hitch.
"What was that?!" he growled into the phone.
"Oliver someone is here, oh my God," she said running to the bedroom door closing it and locking it.
"I'm on my way, hold on! Do not hang up."
Felicity went into the closet grabbing her trusty baseball bat, she heard whoever at the door jiggling the lock. When that didn't work the door was kicked in, she had nowhere to run. The 'Jason' wearing masked intruder had a gun in his hand staring at her.
"Felicity Smoak, you have failed this city," the voice modulator said. He lifted the gun and placed two shots into her stomach and left her bleeding on the floor. The screams from her phone let the intruder know he had done his job correctly.
Oliver's heart was in his throat as he rode the elevator up to his home, the front doors were off the hinges and he made his way to the bedroom. There he found her breathing, slowly and holding her stomach. He rushed to her side and looked her over.
"Oli-ver," she forced out.
"I'm here, ambulance is on its way I need you to hold on, what did you see?"
"Jason mask," she coughed out "all in black, modulator" she began to gasp her eyes closing.
"Damn it Felicity, stay with me," he said putting more pressure on her stomach causing her to wince.
He heard a noise in the living room, EMT's.
"Hello, Starling City Emergency services," the man called out.
"In here!" Oliver yelled with panic in his voice.
Within a couple minutes they were on their way to the hospital. She was breathing and was still conscious when they arrived at the hospital. After she was taken away from him he sat down pulling out his phone and calling the one person he had to talk to, Dig.
"Oliver?," he said sleepily.
"I'm at Starling General, Felicity.."
"Don't, I'm on my way," he hung up.
Within minutes he was in the hospital searching for Oliver. He found him and sat down next to him.
"What happened?"
"She said she didn't feel good and made me stay and she went home. I called her and then he broke in, he told her 'Felicity Smoak, you have failed this city' and then shot her twice. I should've gone home with her Dig," the tears were pooling in his eyes.
"Oliver this isn't your fault, you wouldn't have known it was coming."
"At least I could've defended her, protected her,"
The double doors opened and the doctor came out staring at Oliver.
"Mr. Queen?"
"Yes," Oliver practically ran to the doctor.
"Please have a seat,"
"Is she?"
"She's okay. Let me start from the beginning, the bullets were found still inside her body, we have them for the police as evidence. Her tox screens came back, she was poisoned. Do you know where she was?"
"We were at the gala and she ate everything and had a glass of wine and some water. Then she went home and showered, that was it."
"It could've been in her food or even the wine. There's a lot of scenarios, we have her back to normal but we don't know they affect it will have on her body."
"When can we see her?"
"You can head on back, she's going to be out for a while."
"Thank you doctor,"
"Just doing what I do best, I'll check on her tomorrow, goodnight."
The doctor showed them to her room, she was asleep in the bed her blonde hair splayed out on the pillow behind her and the IV bags were on the pole, four different bags and also a morphine drip. The machines rhythmically beeped, he walked over to her and kissed her on the forehead and sat down in the chair next to the bed.
"I think we've all be in this position way too much," Dig said sitting down.
"I know, I've considered hanging up the hood, but not with this copycat on the loose," Oliver said exasperated pinching the bridge of his nose.
"This is what we do best, we're a family and family always comes together." Dig smiled.
Hours passed and the sun rose and she was still asleep, Oliver held her hand while he placed his head on the bed and fell asleep. Her fingers started to twitch a little causing Oliver to wake up. She was moving her head side to side and soon was awake. She blinked at him, letting her eyes focus on him.
"Hey, I'm here,"
"Did you get him?"
"Not yet, but I will find him and when I do," Oliver's hand began to shake.
"Can I have some water, please?"
"Hang on, let me get a nurse first okay?"
She nodded her head yes and laid her head back on the pillow. Oliver left the room and soon came back with a nurse who checked her tubing and also checked her vitals and anything and everything else on the list. She left a small Styrofoam cup with a straw in it on the table and left the room.
"How bad am I?"
"Well, other than the fact you were poisoned and shot twice in the stomach, I'd say you're doing pretty good."
"Poisoned? How?"
"The only thing I can think of is at the dinner and so far you are the only one that was affected, they're probably going to keep you a little while to make sure you're okay."
"Get me a tablet or a laptop or something, now" she growled at him.
"Um, you need to rest."
"Now!" she yelled at him waking Dig up.
"What is going on here?" Dig said groggily stretching.
"I told him to get me a tablet or a laptop and he's still standing here," she said giving Oliver the death stare.
"You need to rest, I will work on getting you a tablet, promise me you're going to rest," Dig said placing his hand on her shoulder.
She let out a huge sigh, taking her sights off of Oliver.
"I know you're angry right now and you want to find out who did this but you need to rest so you can heal and that way you can help me find out who did this," Oliver looked at her lovingly, his puppy dog look she loved.
"I hate it when you give me that look," she said.
"Promise me, you're going to rest? I need you healed, unless you forgot what's in less than three weeks?"
"I know, I know," she relented with her argument and relaxed. Oliver bent over kissing her on the forehead and then he kissed her on the lips.
Dig cracked his neck and stretched, he sat back down again.
"Get some rest kid,"
Dig pushed some buttons on her morphine drip, which she didn't even realize he was doing.
"Hmm? Why is the room spinning?"
"I think you should close your eyes," Dig suggested.
"Okay," she said closing her eyes and soon falling asleep.
"Thank you," Oliver mouthed to Dig.
The nurses came in and checked on her every hour and the guys would wake up. At one point Dig left to go the cafeteria to get some food and some coffee for them, Felicity was completely out, she even let out a few snores. Oliver paced the room as the night came again, he stared out the window of her private room. She awoke again and called out for him.
"Hey," she said to him.
"Hey, how are you feeling?"
"Better, where's Dig?"
"He went home to get us a change of clothes and some things you requested,"
She smiled at him and he walked over to the bed kissing her on the forehead, she blushed. A knock on the door caused them to look up, a nurse walked in with a few things in her hand.
"Hello Miss Smoak, Mr. Queen would you mind stepping back a little bit?" Oliver stepped back as the nurse fidgeted with her IV lines and then stepped back to her. "Mr. Queen would you give us the room? I need to remove her catheter," Felicity's eyes got really big and looked at him.
"Can he stay and just hold my hand?" she asked.
"Fine," the nurse amused her. Oliver positioned himself next to her and held her hand as the nurse did what she did. Soon she was sitting her up on the edge of the bed as Oliver held her arms as the nurse helped her put the robe on and got the socks on her feet. "All right we need to get you walking, Mr. Queen would you assist her in the hall? I'd like you to do three laps in the hallway okay?"
Felicity nodded her head as Oliver and her took off with the IV cart she winced a few times, making Oliver angry at knowing she was in pain and there was nothing he could do about it. When they finished their laps they had walked back into her room where the nurse had just finished making the bed with fresh linens. Dig was also back with a duffle bag with clothes.
"She can put on the pants and underwear but not the top," the nurse told Dig. Felicity smiled as she grabbed the gray yoga pants and underwear and walked into the bathroom with Oliver next to her. He helped her put them on and she smiled at him.
"Never thought this would happen huh?" she said giggling.
"I figured maybe if we got you drunk enough maybe but no," he stood back up helping her put her gown back down.
She got back in the bed and the nurse looked at her bandages and saw she had to change them for sure. She took the two patches off and cleaned the site, Oliver's fist were clenched at his side when he saw the two sites, the nurse finished cleaning them and redressed her sites and put her gown back down.
"All done for now, your dinner should be up here shortly, nothing too exciting but it'll do," she said as she grabbed her mess and threw out the trash and her gloves and left the room.
Oliver pulled out a pair of jeans and a green t-shirt and went into the bathroom and got changed. When he came out there was a tray in front of Felicity that had some chicken broth, yogurt and a cup of chocolate pudding. She looked very unhappy and was negotiating with Dig.
"Please a Big Belly Burger would be perfect, this is like torture and worse than what you guys made me eat on Lian Yu."
"Hey what you ate was not as bad as what I ate for years," Oliver retorted.
"Fine, I'll do it," she pouted.
After a while and after she had finished everything, Dig handed her a tablet. She smiled at him and then got to work on it.
"Alright, so I've hacked the coordinators main frame, we were sitting at table 1 last night, our server was Jackson Hill but he called in sick and was replaced by Thomas Baker who started last week," she said tapping away at her screen. "Hmm," she said causing them to look at her.
"What is it?" Oliver asked.
"He also moved into our building last week also, month lease paid cash." Oliver paced the room, she sat up some more. "You two need to get to work, I'm not going anywhere," she said looking at her IV's.
"Out of the question," Oliver countered.
"No, you need to get to him before he leaves, we need to find out who he works for," felicity said trying to sound tough, which always made Oliver laugh but he'd never tell her or she would probably punch him in the face.
"Dig, you stay with her and do not let her out of your site, "Dig nodded in agreement, Oliver made his way to Felicity's side again. "I think you need this," he said placing her engagement ring back on her hand," she smiled and kissed him on the lips as he left. He arrived back home and noticed the door had been replaced by a much sturdier door, Dig's doing he was sure of it. Inside he went into the bedroom and saw the wood floor was stained from her blood, making his blood boil. Inside the closet he typed a code and his spare Arrow suit and bow were waiting there for him. Oliver used his grapple hook and made his way to the unit he needed to get into, inside he found the unit was empty. There was nothing moved in, the whole place was spotless. He did one more pass through and saw a piece of paper in the bottom of the trash can in the bathroom, an address.
He went back home and showered and changed and headed back to the hospital to be with his love. He arrived and she was asleep again, snoring.
"How long has she been out?"
"A while now,"
"Snoring?"
"The last thirty minutes,"
"Oh but I don't snore, she says," Oliver joked.
"I told her on the island she did but you know her very well,"
They chuckled and then began their waiting game, keeping watch on whoever came in the room and trying to figure out who this person was that was attacking their fiance and their sister.
Felicity was dreaming that she was being shot, over and over again, the nightmares were coming back. She heard Oliver's voice, waking her up from her sleep. The look of fear and panic that was on his face and in his eyes caused her to cry.
"Shh, you're okay, you're safe you need to understand that, shh" he rocked her back and forth until she calmed down. Dig walked back in the room and saw the scene in front of him.
"What happened?" he said putting the tray of coffee down and walking over.
"Nightmare," Oliver said. Dig looked at him and sat down next to her on the bed.
"Felicity do you remember our training? Breathe, you are safe," he said. She nodded her head at him and soon after a few minutes of her breathing techniques she was calm again. A knock on the door caused them to look, the nurse came in.
"Miss Smoak it's time to do a few more laps, this time I'd like you to do ten laps this time."
"Okay," she said as the nurse helped her to the side of the bed and soon she was standing up with Oliver to her side and walking down the hall, every once in a while she had a little pain but mustered through. "I'm pretty sure we have done this plenty of times, with Dig and you and now me," she said jokingly.
She finished her laps and was back in the room getting back into bed, Dig had just come back to the room from getting dinner for him and Oliver while she had to endure hospital food. The nurse came in to remove her morphine and a few of the bags of IV fluids, making Felicity smile. A little while later a Doctor came in with his clipboard.
"How are we feeling Miss Smoak?"
"Better, more like I was run over by a truck, which sounds a lot more painful than this really," Oliver cleared his throat to make her realize she was rambling.
"Well, Mr. Queen would like you to go home but I need to keep you on these antibiotics for a few more days. What that means is you will require a 24 hour nurse to be with you. I have our representatives contacting an in home group that would be able to assist you. You will also need to come back in a few weeks to get your stitches taken out. Other than that, take it easy and walk a few times a day to keep everything circulating and change your dressings twice a day. Do you have any questions for me?"
"No, thank you Doctor, for everything," she said smiling at the doctor as he left the room.
Dig walked out of the room as Oliver helped Felicity put on a bra and got a t-shirt on her. He helped her into a pair of her sneakers and tied her shoes before a nurse came in.
"That was quick,"
"I'm ready to go home so I can watch Netflix and eat Mint Chocolate Chip Ice cream till I puke," she joked.
"Okay, your nurse is Irene and we gave her the address, she should be there within the hour. This bag should last you for most of tonight, she will be coming with supplies that we will be giving her when she arrives here," she pushed the wheelchair closer to the bed. The nurse and Oliver helped her into the wheelchair while Dig grabbed the duffle bag and her tablet and soon they were heading out. Dig left to pull the car up to the front and Oliver helped her get in the car. Soon, they were home.
"That's new," she said looking at the new front door, Oliver had his hand around her waist.
"Dig,"
"I like it," she said.
Inside their home he led her to the bedroom and helped her into their King size bed and placed a lot of pillows so she could sit up and be comfortable. She looked over at the closest and saw the blood stain on the floor and a shiver went through her body.
"Hey, I'll get it fixed," he said reassuring her she just nodded in agreement.
After getting her settled and relaxed in bed the doorbell rang, the nurse had finally showed up. She came in the room messed with her IV lines and soon was led to the guest room where she would be staying, Oliver came back to the bedroom locking the door behind him and snuggling next to Felicity as she slept. He was happy to have her home and safe, or so he thought.