Cooper was sure the serum he used on Felicity would begin to work now. It had been three days since he had seen Felicity, she should be feeling it's effects by now – confusion, dizziness and her brain would experience some slight memory loss and memory rearrangement; she would begin to think she was back in college and back together with him before his 'accident' in prison.

He had been working on it ever since Felicity had disarmed him with The Arrow. Well, now Cooper was going to get her back and together they would do what they set out to do in the beginning; use her super virus and then disappear together forever.

Despite his best wishes, Felicity was back in the office the next day and fulfilling her duties as Oliver's EA. Felicity still felt a little jumpy after last night, Oliver urged her to stay home as they still hadn't found out what the substance Cooper had sprayed in her face was, Felicity told Oliver over and over again that she was fine. The last thing Felicity wanted was to appear weak if Cooper was watching her. Oliver had Diggle come up and check on Felicity regularly throughout the day and insisted they go to lunch together "you know how that will look to everyone!" Felicity had argued

"Let them look, let them speculate, as long as you're safe I don't care what people are saying" Oliver and said in return as they ate in the cafeteria; Oliver refused to leave the building.

Oliver was now writing his signature over and over again on various papers all the while looking at Felicity; she was acting strange despite her attempts to hide it. Every now and then she would pause momentarily and stare off into the distance as though she were confused about something, then decide it was nothing before getting back to her work.

Oliver was trying to focus, trying to care about meetings as Felicity sat beside him and was hurriedly taking notes – he could always count on her to keep him up to speed; but this Cooper business had him all up in knots. Was he watching her? Did he have eyes on her everywhere she went? What did he want with her? Thinking back to seeing Cooper with a gun pointed at his Felicity made his blood boil. He vowed that Cooper would pay for hurting her twice now.

"…Miss Smoak, I really don't think that tiny little hearts were part of this meeting, do you?"

A man's voice disrupted Oliver's thoughts as he was confronted with the man in control of the meeting standing over Felicity with her notepad in his hand. Indeed there were tiny hearts and the makings of a skull drawing in the corner. Felicity wore a look of confusion and annoyance as she tried to take her notepad pack "Dude, chill!" she snatched the pad back and turned in her chair away from him.

Had she really just told that guy to chill?

"Miss Smoak, would you care to explain these…these…drawings and how they fit in with what I'm saying?" the man waited impatiently for Felicity to respond and was surprised when she stood up and made him take a step back

It was like Felicity had become a whole other person in the last second, her eyes became dark and her body language spoke of someone who was pushed to the end of their patience and her voice was no better "Would you care to explain how whenever you're talking, all I hear is 'blah blah blah'! I had to doodle to keep from falling asleep!"

"Felicity!" Oliver sprang up between her and the business associate and pulled Felicity toward the door "excuse us gentlemen!" he said as Felicity was guided out the door and out of earshot "Felicity, are you okay?" he was shocked that Felicity had said those things and the look in her eyes scared him "what's going on?"

Now that Felicity was looking at him, the darkness had gone out of her eyes and her shoulders visibly dropped from tension finally being released and she was looking at Oliver like he asked her to choose between her computers and her tablet "What do you mean?" she asked innocently

"Wh-wh-what do I mean? Your attitude in there! You were out of line!" Oliver was concerned when Felicity started to come back to herself and looked genuinely shocked and confused, he knew this was a symptom of Cooper's spray "Felicity" Oliver said gently "I think you should go home, we'll talk later tonight but you shouldn't be here. I'll get Diggle to take you home"

As Oliver called Diggle and apologized over and over again to the entire meeting, Felicity sat down in her own chair in her office and tried to calm down. What had just happened? Felicity remembered nothing of the last few minutes except feeling angry and board because the man would NOT stop talking and she had better things to do – like surf the web looking for criminal to deface, governments to expose for fraud and study for her finals in a few weeks – "Wait, what?" study for finals? Where had that come from?

When Diggle came to take Felicity home, she was in the middle of apologizing to the man she yelled at "I'm really sorry! I've just been under a lot of stress lately!" she tried to explain

"I surely hope so, Miss Smoak!"

Oliver quickly led Felicity away from the office and to the elevator where Diggle was waiting "Take Felicity home please" he said softly "I have to do damage control in there"

"Everything alright?" Diggle asked

"Just an episode…thing. I don't know" Felicity rubbed her temples, she had a giant headache "I think I just need to sleep and I'll be fine" she sighed heavily and felt really drained; she was also annoyed that she hadn't gotten her usual call this afternoon from Cooper. Cooper always called her to check up on her.

Felicity shook her head to clear it as Diggle led her to the car, Cooper was gone and he wasn't going to call her AND she didn't need to study for her finals! This was getting scary. Felicity made a mental note to check on Coopers whereabouts to give herself a piece of mind.

LATER THAT NIGHT…

Oliver was finally done with the last of the paper work and calming down the man Felicity decided to yell at. Even though it had been hours since Felicity went home Oliver was still worried about her. It was like she was a whole other person, her attitude changed and her eyes…they weren't her usual happy bright eyes. These were the eyes of someone up to no good, someone confused and hurting.

Was Felicity secretly hurting? She had seen her ex-boyfriend that she thought was dead and as she had said that night 'old lovers have a way of opening old wounds'. What wounds and Cooper opened?

Deciding that he couldn't take any more of the office, Oliver left and went to the lift. He was going to check on Felicity. As he pushed the Ground Level button, Oliver's phone started to ring "Hey Dig, I'm just leaving to check on Felicity" he said into the phone

"You won't need to check on her, man" Dig sounded as if he was in pain "Felicity's not here"

"What?!"

"Felicity was taken! Well, not exactly taken…she went willingly!"

Oliver couldn't get to his car fast enough and broke all the speeding laws to get to Felicity's house but when he got there Felicity was indeed gone.

EARLIER THAT NIGHT…

Felicity was feeling weird after Diggle left, she was actually feeling weird throughout the whole car ride home. She was confused about the route they were taking and would constantly ask Diggle if this was the right way or even where they were going by the end.
Diggle had offered to stay but Felicity put it all down to stress and working such late nights in the lair. Felicity told him that she was once again fine, even though she was having trouble remembering his name as he was leaving and simply said "Bye! See you later" and watched as he drove away.

Felicity searched her house and food and all she could find was microwave meals, popped one in and while it was cooking Felicity went to explore her house.
It was large enough for one yet had a spare bedroom for guests, there were pictures that provided little information – one was of her with that ridiculers blonde hair of hers next to a younger woman with short brown hair in a red leather costume making goofy faces at the camera. Another picture was of her with a woman all in black leather as they tried to make sexy faces whilst doing piece signs.

Felicity had no idea who these women were.

A wave of panic hit Felicity as she saw a reflection of someone behind her in the photo and turned to see Cooper and her face lit up "BABE!" She jumped into his arms and kissed him quickly

"Felicity, are you alright?" Cooper asked concerned looking at her with wild eyes

"Wah…I thought you died…I got a call from the police station! What is going on?" She asked frantically

"I'll explain everything later but right now we have to get out of here!" Right as Cooper said that a man burst through the door aiming a gun at Cooper "Felicity, run!" Cooper put himself between her and the attacker "they're after you!"

"Who?" Felicity felt fear take hold as she backed away

"The Arrow and his gang! They're here and they want to hurt you! I can hold them off but you have to run now!" Cooper leapt at the man and they struggled on the ground, Cooper yelled at her to run but the man was telling her to stay and hide and that he was this guy called Dig.
That name didn't mean anything to her so she decided to trust her boyfriend and ran out the door while they struggled.

A gunshot rang through the night and Felicity hid behind some bushes as Cooper came staggering out holding his side "Cooper!" she cried as she ran to his side

"No time for that, let's go. I know somewhere safe" Cooper led Felicity to a car and together they sped off into the night. Felicity looked back at the man calling himself her friend and only felt fear and confusion but Cooper was here and he would keep her safe.

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