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Chapter Seven

Lacking

Oliver gently pulled Felicity into his lap, surveying the damage. She groaned as he moved her.

"Felicity!" Oliver exclaimed in relief as she opened her eyes.

"Are you okay?" Felicity ground out, clearly in pain.

"Me? I'm not the one who just took an arrow to the shoulder! Come on, we've gotta get you to the hospital." Oliver was picking her up in his arms even as he spoke.
"No. No hospitals." Felicity said as she gripped his jacket tightly.
"What? Felicity you are going to the hospital." Oliver said as he began carrying her down the rest of the fire escape. He juggled her and his phone, while trying not to jar her shoulder. Diggle picked up on the first ring.

"What's up?" The man asked immediately.

"Dark Archer shot Felicity. I'm at her apartment. She needs to go to the hospital." Oliver said tersely.

"Already on my way." Diggle said before hanging up without asking questions. When Oliver looked down, he noticed Felicity's eyes fluttering.
"Hey. No. None of that, Felicity. Come on and talk to me. What the hell happened?" Oliver asked frantically.

"He came in through the glass door. I ran to my room. Blocked the door. He got through, so. So I went through my bedroom window. Had to get to the fire escape. Had to get out. To you. I knew you'd come." Felicity's speech was getting worse. Oliver didn't want to pull the arrow out of her shoulder, for fear he would make it worse. He could still remember the pain when Yao Fei ripped the arrow out of his shoulder what seemed like so long ago. The best he could do for Felicity at the moment was stop the bleeding as much as possible and hold her. Reassure her that he would take care of her.
"Guess we missed our date." Felicity said lowly.

"There will be plenty more. I promise." Oliver vowed.

Felicity opened her eyes slowly and took in her surroundings. It didn't take her long to realize that she was in the hospital. She must have passed out at some point. She didn't have any idea of how she had gotten from her apartment to here, as she was sure Oliver didn't bring her on his bike. Felicity huffed as she thought to herself that he shouldn't have brought her here at all. Speaking of Oliver, Felicity realized that he had his hands wrapped around one of her own and had his head laying near her hip. He was fast asleep. Any frustrations Felicity felt towards him slipped away as she felt a small smile appearing on her face.

"Felicity. Thank God." Thea whispered from the other side of the bed. Felicity turned to look at her as the young girl gently wrapped her in a hug.

"I'm okay. I think." Felicity whispered back.

"I was terrified when Ollie called me. Why would the Dark Archer come after you? Is it because he found out you work with Oliver? You know, at night?" Thea asked. It took Felicity a few moments to before the words truly sunk in. Thea knew. Everything.

"Don't freak out. Ollie told me everything. I kind of suspected from the beginning. And I've decided that I want to help." Thea spoke proudly.

"Thea-" Felicity started before Thea held up a hand, interrupting her.

"Listen, I have serious archery skills. Probably better than Roy. I won a ton of trophies as a kid." Thea boasted proudly.

Oh. Um. Well, I still think you should talk to Oliver about this." Felicity said.

Oliver raised his head slowly, his eyes immediately going to Felicity's face. He let out a sigh of relief as he saw her not only awake, but speaking quietly with Thea. Before he could tell her how relieved he was that her eyes were open, he heard his sister talking to Felicity about her archery. It only took him moments to realize what his sister had been talking to Felicity about.

"Absolutely not. If you think you are joining this team, you are crazy." Oliver growled at his sister.
"You can't stop me." Thea glared back at her brother.

"Wanna bet?" Oliver said menacingly.

"Okay, okay. Injured party here, remember? Can we maybe table the arguing until, like tomorrow?" Felicity interjected. The siblings' attention immediately went back to Felicity. After one last glare at each other.

"How did I get here?" Felicity directed to Oliver.

"Digg got to us in record time and we raced you here." Oliver explained as calmly as he could.

"I told you no hospitals." Felicity said, agitated.

"And I didn't listen to you. Sorry. I know you hate it when I don't listen to you. But, I won't ever risk your safety. Don't ask me to." Oliver's tone brooked no argument.

"Thank you." Felicity said grudgingly.

"I was scared." Oliver quietly admitted.

"I'm going to go get John and let him know you're awake." Thea said as she walked to the door. She thought her brother and Felicity needed some time alone.

"I'm sorry I scared you." Felicity said sincerely as she gripped his hand in hers.

"Did he say anything to you? Why would he come after you?" Oliver was trying to understand. But he didn't have much to go on.

"No. He didn't say a word the entire time. It was really terrifying." Felicity couldn't help the shiver that went through her at the memory of the archer's silence.

Oliver could see how upset it was making Felicity to talk about it again and tried to rein in the questions so she could get better. Getting her worked up wasn't going to help. He let a sigh loose as he thought about how lucky she had been. How lucky they had all been not to lose her. The arrow had pierced her shoulder all the way through, not hitting anything vital. The main concern of the doctors had been the amount of blood loss. But they had stitched the wound and given her blood, telling Oliver that she should be fine. Oliver wanted to stay with her, so he sent Roy out to patrol and look for any clues from Felicity's apartment. He also made sure Quentin got the arrow as soon as the doctors had removed it from Felicity's shoulder. He wanted anything Lance knew about it. As soon as the police captain had heard about Felicity, he was willing to do anything to help. John had gone down to check in with Roy and grab them all some coffee when Felicity had woken up. Oliver told her to just rest and brushed a hand across her brow, partly to reassure her that he wasn't going anywhere and to rest. And partly to reassure himself that she was here and whole and that she was going to be okay. He swore to himself that he was going to find out who the Dark Archer was and he was going to pay for coming after what belonged to Oliver.

When Thea found John, he was talking quietly to Roy not far from Felicity's room. She quickly approached the men, noticing the nervous look Roy was throwing her.

"Hey. Felicity's awake." Thea told them with a smile.

"Good. I'm going to go see her and give Oliver this." John said as he held up a coffee. Thea nodded, watching him as he walked to her room. Leaving Thea and Roy alone together for the first time since Thea had found everything out.

"Why are you being weird?" Thea smirked at Roy as she asked him the question.

"Why are you not being weird?" Roy retorted. Thea rolled her eyes.
"Because I'm not dumb. I've been suspicious of my brother since pretty much the moment he came home. I will admit I was a little surprised to find out you are the other one. A little. But it really isn't a stretch, either." Thea explained.

"And you aren't mad?" Roy asked suspiciously.

"I'm not happy that you felt you couldn't tell me. And I'm a little pissed that you have lied to me god knows how many times. But I understand. At least I'm trying to. I'm a little more concerned with this whole Malcolm Merlyn being my father thing and my mother lying to me my whole life." Thea finished angrily.

"I'm sorry, Thea. For everything. Lying to you, hiding things from you. I'm really sorry about what you found out about your mom." Roy said sincerely as he pulled her into his arms. Thea hugged him back, absorbing the comfort.

"I'm just glad for Felicity. That she told Oliver immediately. Even though my mother threatened her if she did exactly that. Wait. No." Thea pulled away from Roy with a look of utter horror on her face.

Before Roy could ask her what was wrong, Thea was sprinting for Felicity's room. Roy had no choice but to follow her. Thea burst into the room, making a beeline for her brother who immediately went on alert when he saw the fear on his sister's face. John jumped up and put his hand to his gun, looking for any kind of threat. Felicity's eyes widened and she visibly tensed as she prepared for the Dark Archer to walk through the door the same way he had at her apartment.

"Thea! What's going on?" Oliver asked frantically as he grabbed his sister's shoulders.

"Oh, my god, Ollie!" Thea exclaimed as she held her brother tighter.

"Thea! You need to tell me what is happening!" Oliver spoke as he pulled her away to look into her eyes.

"I think I know why the Dark Archer came after Felicity." Thea said in a scared whisper.
"Why?" Oliver demanded as his brow furrowed.

"I think it was mom's fault." Thea said brokenly. Oliver reared back in shock.
"What? Why would she-? No." Oliver shook his head in denial as he spoke the words.

"It's too much of a coincidence not to at least look into her, Ollie. You know it." Thea said firmly.

"What is she talking about Oliver?" John questioned his best friend.

"I told you that Felicity was the one to find out the truth about Thea's parentage." Oliver stated as Roy and Diggle nodded.

"What I didn't tell you is that she confronted my mother with the information first. She wanted to give her a chance to tell Thea and I the truth herself." Oliver said tightly.

"So our mother told her that she would do no such thing. And she told Felicity that if we found out, Felicity would regret it. She threatened her." Thea added angrily.

"And our mother is not one for idle threats." Oliver said as he clenched his eyes shut.
"No. Oliver. I really don't think that this is what your mother meant when she said I would regret it." Felicity said.

"Are you really defending her? Come on, Felicity. You are so smart, I know that you realize the timing is way too close. Like I said, we need to at the very least look into it. Who she has spoken too since you came to the house the other night." Thea reasoned.

"You know, Thea's right Oliver. She seems to be thinking about this reasonably. You know if it was anyone else, you would look into them." Diggle tried to reason with Oliver.
"Like Thea said, at least do it to be sure." Roy threw in.

"Dammit. Okay. I swear, if she-" Oliver started only to be interrupted by Felicity as she grabbed his hand.

"Let's not borrow trouble. Right now, we are just looking into it." Felicity gave him a reassuring smile and he squeezed her hand tightly in response.

"You stay here with Felicity. We will look into mom." Thea spoke as she kissed Felicity's forehead and began walking to the door.

"Uh, we?" Roy questioned as he looked back and forth between Oliver and Thea.

"Yes. We. I'm a part of this team now." Thea walked out the door, not waiting to see if Roy and Diggle followed. With a shared glance with Oliver, they did.