Although Felicity apologized to Oliver for finding out that she was dating Ray the way that he did, Oliver felt like it was him that needed to apologize. Diggle had been furious when he came down the stairs after Oliver had wrecked the foundry. Digg expressed to Oliver that Felicity had called him crying, adding salt to Oliver's wound, wanting Digg to find Oliver and make sure that he didn't do anything stupid.

"She knows you too well," Digg said as he went to grab the broom, "the first thing you do is something stupid."

"I was angry," Oliver spat back, "I still am."

"Oh you're mad are you? Mad that Felicity found someone who wasn't going to play with her emotions, someone who as far as I am concerned is a great guy and adores her, you cannot, no you do not deserve to be mad at her."

"I told her that I loved her Digg, I can be mad."

"Yeah I know, that's twice now. The first time you told her you were trying to fool a madman and the second time you did to essentially break up with her."

Oliver wasn't a man to make someone chose, he learned pain and heartbreak from choices. Chose between Sara or Shado, his mother or Thea, the Arrow or himself. Oliver was a man that disliked choices and he never liked to give people ultimatums. But as a month passed with Felicity and Ray dating, he wanted to lay it on the table for his girl Friday. Chose between Ray and the Arrow.

Besides the face that Oliver knew that was a selfish and cruel decision to give Felicity, Oliver couldn't ask her to chose because he was afraid of her answer. Would she chose her new boyfriend over him? Felicity had told Oliver that she wasn't going to spend her life down in the foundry, she wasn't going to wait for him to die down there. It had broken Oliver's heart to hear those words, not that he expected Felicity to spend the rest of her life devoted to their cause, but he hadn't had the idea of her not being with him put into perspective yet.

Tonight was the fourth night in a row that Oliver had pondered what Felicity had said to him. It was mainly because he was left pacing around the empty foundry waiting for Felicity to show up. Roy spent time blowing off steam by patrolling constantly, Digg was on father duty until 10 pm sharp, and Felicity usually worked until 6. It was quarter after nine and this was the fourth night now that Felicity was late. She had stopped telling everyone if she had a date because the tension that instantly appeared and remained was too much for her. So now she showed up late to the foundry or to Big Belly or to wherever they were supposed to be at.

From across the room Oliver's phone began to trill and Oliver hurried to it expecting it to be Felicity mumbling an apology and offering Oliver some peace. He was always somewhat on edge without her around. However the caller ID disappointed him as it flashed Roy's name repeatedly.

"Talk to me," Oliver demanded into the phone.

"It's QC Oliver," Roy panted, "it's QC and there was a business meeting taking place and…"

Oliver didn't need to hear anymore. His suit was already half on, he quickly zipped his hood up and was bolting for his bike. Oliver didn't even know what he was going into, what was wrong with QC, but he knew that Felicity was there and she was in trouble. That was always his reaction, he never knew the whole story but if he knew that it was Felicity then he didn't hesitate to run to the problem.

As Oliver sped through the streets his phone trilled again and again. Not being able to check the caller ID was part of the reason why he didn't answer but also the fact that the three seconds that it took for him to press the button to answer the call was three seconds without his focus and his mind it slowed him down. But his phone didn't stop and Oliver had no choice but to answer.

"What," Oliver growled as he revved his bike to make up for those three seconds.

"It's Lance," the captain spoke quickly, "we have a situation."

"I know, I'm on my way."

"I don't think you know though. There's a hostage situation, 20th floor, executive floor."

"Lance I know that Miss Smoak is in there," Oliver grumbled. He was getting closer to QC.

"She's the only hostage man, she's the only one they took and there is no one else up there with her and the tweaked out man and his gun. There are no eyes and ears because he made her hack everything and block all access, she's alone and we're in the dark," Lance huffed out quickly.

Oliver sped faster, seeing the flashing lights and hearing the commotion. He spotted Roy off to the side in his suit and he nodded to give Roy permission to head in. The bike was left around the corner and Oliver sprinted towards the building. He wanted to be seen going in there, wanted there to be some sort of way that Felicity knew he would save her, if there was any communication going on then she would hear that he was there, that he was coming to get her.

Right as Oliver sprinted by a strong hand gripped his arm. Quickly he whipped around to see a wide-eyed Ray Palmer. His hair was mussed up and his tie was undone. He looked scared and pitiful and Oliver was angry with him. How does a man let someone take Felicity away? How could Ray leave her unprotected?

"You've got to save her," Ray pleaded, "please, I think I love her and i couldn't save her so you have to!"

Oliver was too quick to rip his arm from Ray's hold. He was angrier now, furious! Ray couldn't love Felicity. And now he knew that Ray didn't deserve Felicity. Oliver ran up all twenty flights of stairs, anger pushing him forward. He found himself on the executive floor and he heard silence. Roy was somewhere hidden up here, so he wasn't alone, but the silence scared him.

This was too nostalgic for him, racing to QC to save a hostage Felicity from a madman. Just like the time before, Oliver was ready to kill for her. Although he had help now and another option than just killing, the rage inside of Oliver was pushing Oliver and nothing else. When he saw Felicity tied to the chair, her face was calm with a hint of anger similar to the time when Roy had tried to use her computers to tweet. Of course she was unaffected by being held hostage, Oliver felt a pang of guilt for that.

Pacing behind her was a man who looked like he had one too many cups of coffee. Obviously it wasn't coffee that had this man hyped up but Oliver couldn't care less about what he was on, mission was to get Felicity out and safe. The mission was fairly easy, the man was pyscho and tried shooting Oliver and Roy came out to help handle the situation. As the madman rambled on about keeping pretty blondes in his pocket while firing off random bullets, Oliver was able to free Felicity.

Roy handled the madman, called him tweaker a few times so Oliver knew that would be the name in the papers. Felicity stayed and made sure that the guy was taken care of before thanking her boys and heading for the elevator. Oliver hurried out so that he could change and be seen at the scene of the crime so no one would be suspicious.

Immediately Felicity had been taken into the hands of the police for questioning and medical attention, giving Oliver time to change and make his way through the crowd. Honestly all he wanted to do was touch her, make sure, even though he knew, that she was safe. When he arrived at the front of the police tape he made eye contact with those beautiful blue eyes and she smiled at him. When she was released she hurried to his side.

"Thanks Oliver," she murmured as she kissed his cheek.

Oliver was in the process of leaning down and caressing her arm when she dashed away from his touch and off into the crowd. He followed her blonde, bobbing ponytail and watched as Felicity hopped into the welcoming arms of Ray Palmer. His arms wrapped around her body and she clung to him. He was speaking to her quickly and she was nodding and smiling and laughing as he prodded her and gave her several once-overs.

It probably wasn't Felicity making her choice because she had yet to be given an ultimatum to have to choose but to Oliver it felt like she had. She ran to Ray to seek his comfort and Oliver ran to the empty foundry to seek it's solitude.