A/N: hey everyone so this is my first story ever. I love Arrow, i think Felicity Smoak is like the most awesome character ever so this is a story about her and how a genius like her struggles through normal life especially when she has to deal with enemies of equal levels. How would a puzzle hater solve that mystery.

English isn't my first language, this is a new experiment to me so feedback is really appreciated and needed. In other words, simpler ones "i need you to Review".

Also this one is really short, the others are going to be way longer i'm having a 4k margin in mind.

And one more thing, this is set in the beginning of season 3 with Oliver taking back the company from Ray with Roy still firmly in team Arrow and Felicity having A LOT differences in her canon background after all changing her story is the reason i wrote this fic in the first place, there will be flashbacks for just that purpose probably in most the chapter but not sure yet.

-Don't own Arrow- Happy Reading. till next time be safe.

-Farah-

Chapter 1 : WHERE IS SHE?

It's almost a year since Oliver and Felicity moved in together and it still took him by surprise whenever he came home after work on one of their free Arrow days to find her already all settled there let it be her on the couch watching TV or in the kitchen cooking the Donna Smoak chicken soap or his personal favorite, her laid out on their bed trying to fix an old radio or an out of service computer, seeing her lost in her techyy stuff made his heart skip a beat because that was the felicity he fell in love with. The remarkable one and only.

But for a couples of weeks something was bothering his babbling blond friend and the reason he noticed that was the evident lack of babbling from his partner, she barely talked with him beyond the basics, something was wrong.

So when she almost cut her hand misplacing the glass of water on the corner of the kitchen table, he had to speak up: "Felicity are you okay?" He asked with worry.

"what yeah totally fine got lost in thought I guess" he kept his questioning gaze on her telling her she better elaborate on her answer until she sighed in defeat "mm…m It's been a distracting couple days for me" she looked at him with fear and a little bit of anger but he knew he wasn't the source of these feelings, it was whatever felicity was about to tell him next "cooper got out of jail, he broke out two days ago and nobody knows where he is right now I'm trying to find his location but…but the only place I'm getting at is frustrating land".

"Oh, that is a fair reason to be distracted but wait you've been strange for weeks" there was something more worrying her and he knew it. "FE-LI-CI-TY what are you not telling me" he finished looking at her guilty expression and her pressed lips.

"I think I am being followed" she whispered he almost didn't catch it". Oh now she was in angry Oliver's land, noticing his iron melting glare she whimpered " well I didn't tell you because it's probably stupid and you had so much on your plate didn't want to bother you I mean between running verdant with Thea and pulling QC back up after getting it back from Ray you barely had time for the city, the last thing you needed was me telling you about a delusional something stalking me besides when it comes to stalking I'm an expert I handled myself before I can do it again "she said in one breath.

"Felicity after everything we've been through we're way past the point where you hide these things from me, I need to know when something like that happens, well some things "he corrected himself "at least you could've told Diggle, we'll look into this tomorrow ok?"

She nodded and turned to clean their dinner with him collecting the leftovers to put them in the refrigerator and picking up the broken glass off of the floor.

The next day seemed to start on a good feet considering the glorious make out session she just had with Oliver, the fact that she was early for work hence the delicious cup of coffee she was holding from her favorite coffee shop. Oh how she was wrong because right now, she was blindfolded, she had coffee all over her and she was biting the hell out of her already swollen lip, and she had no idea where she was or who had taken her.

She should have listened to Oliver and waited for him so they can drive to work together but it was latte special day and if she didn't go early she'd be stuck in the morning rush meaning she wouldn't get to work on time and the girl loved her coffee besides she really didn't think the stalking thing was real let along life threatening and honestly she wasn't even sure whoever took her had anything to do with that so let's not jump to conclusion shall we? However there was no single cell in her genius pretty brain that would have concluded the face that she saw when light was allowed again to her eager eyes.

The Army was a changing experience to Diggle, it changed every fiber of his being some for the best and some for the worst, after coming back home he had to deal with his war syndrome as he liked to call it when you have to force yourself to let go, to stop glancing around every fifteen second anticipating the enemy; When death wasn't in every corner you take. He learned the hard way that peace is something you lose so easily yet gaining it back was anything but.

Everything and everyone around you is so still and you're in vibrating mode, you're trying to shake them so they would see the danger and fight back but they don't. Their negligence infuriate you, it frustrate you that your loved ones won't fight for their lives which leaves the saving on your shoulder unbeknownst to you that there is no saving needed, because the only danger your family is facing is life and life is not something you can fight with guns and grenades, you can never control life and what challenges its throws at you. Once you surrender to that fact, until you let go, only then you'll have your peace of mind again and you can connect with the world again, you can see the beauty again, and you'll anticipate life instead of death.

Diggle survived that phase, he let his demons go and channeled his fighting energy until he reached the point of physical and emotional stability, the one that allowed him to have a healthy family without having to sacrifice his mission with Oliver. That is exactly why Diggle knows what Oliver is going through right now because Oliver is still a soldier and danger still surrounds him and his loved ones.

At this point Oliver anticipates death and he's got family to protect, except that danger isn't an illusion, Felicity is missing and they have no clues on her whereabouts. It's been ten hours and the only lead they had was the place they lost contact with her from, a waitress from the coffee shop across Queen Consolidated said she saw felicity getting in a blue car. Of course the car turned out to be stolen and was left on the city's borders. who ever had her, they made sure to not leave any trace, they were professionals and that scared Diggle the most, he knew that Oliver would explode any minute now and it's going to be ugly, that's why he made sure to keep him away from people and to calm him the best he can because Oliver freaking out won't get them any closer to Felicity.

Captain Lance was also shaken when Oliver called the police, he had a father-daughter relationship with felicity and he swore they are going to do their best.

Oliver was expecting every devastating scenario at this point, he felt helpless and just thinking what Felicity could be suffering right now made him want to set the city on fire. He was lost in thought when Diggle's voice called him out. He turned around to see a disturbed look on his friend's face "they found her or she found them, she collapsed on the door of the police station, they took her to the hospital".

A/N: I know not much Felicity in the first chapter of a Felicity-centric story, but trust this will probably be the only one.

So what did you think? should I keep going? are you interested in more ? hit me in the comment section.