Silly Alice. You're not suppose to go near there. Get away from the bomb Alice. It's addressed to the Queen.

He stared at the screen in his office, watching as Alice moved the package on her desk. He knew that the bomb had only about fifteen minutes left otherwise it would go off, and Alice could get hurt.

Alice, darling get away from there.

She turned away as the phone rang. She smiled and started to gather her things.

He huffed, aggravated that he could only hack this camera in the offices. The Queen was still in his office, Alice should have told him that there was an evelope for him by now. Yet, nobody went to the envelope. He growled, quickly pulling up the faked paperwork for helping a cable in the upper office. It was risky but in the end, him being there would be easier to grab Alice.

Pushing back his chair, Jervis grabbed the paperwork that he printed out, and moved towards the elevator.


"Hello?" Felicity breathed into the receiver.

"Yes, I have an order from Big Belly Burger for you Miss Smoak."

Thank Google. Lunch.

"Yes, you can send it up Charlie."

"Miss Smoak, Mr. Queen stated that you have to come down to the front desk for deliveries that aren't inner office ones."

Felicity rolled her eyes. Oliver Queen, one of these days I'm going to hit you so hard your hood will be on backwards.

"I'll be on my way down in a moment Charlie."

She put the phone down, and reached in her purse pulling out her wallet. The elevator dinged. The hair stood up on the back of Felicity's neck. Slowly she turned, surprised to see a Mr. Tech, looking at her.

"How can I help you Mr. Tech?"

His eyes widened when she said his name"Yes. Yes, I have a request for the fixing a cable running through your upper office." He handed her the clipboard.

Felicity reached out and took the board, quickly scanning the papers, it looked sound, the cable ran a lot of the base network, which had been having trouble lately. Not that she noticed much, she just hacked into the lair's servers to figure out who the guy was.

"It's right through there." Felicity pointed to the left, and watched the man scurry over after he blinked twice at the empty office. As the man worked in the ceiling, Felicity knew she couldn't leave to get her lunch, and that started to aggravate her. Her stomach grumbled, and Felicity's thoughts turned mean as she thought of Oliver, Laurel and Dig eating lunch at a fancy restaurant across town. She looked at the time on her table, inwardly fuming, wanting her mint chip milkshake.

Why did Roy have to work today?

"It's all fixed now Miss." Felicity jumped as the man appeared next to her. Placing a hand over her pounding heart, she looked over at Mr. Tech.

"Thank you. I'm glad that whatever happened it is fixed."

He nodded, and pulled a pocket watch out of his pocket, and noted the time.

"Do you need to go down?." He smiled at her, and Felicity smiled back.

"Yes, I do." She started walking to the elevators, the man keeping pace with her. He was muttering something under his breath, something about being late.

"Are you going to be late for something?" She asked, being polite.

"Yes Miss. We're going to be late." Felicity felt a prick on her neck, and she fell down.

The last thing she heard after being dragged into the elevator was an explosion.


Oliver ran into the lobby of QC, his lungs burning as his eyes searched, hoping, that Felicity was in the lobby.

"Mr. Queen!" Several people yelled seeing him.

His eyes searched around as Dig stopped next to him. "Oliver. We have to be cautious about this. Felicity could be anywhere."

Oliver nodded. Hoping that she was in the IT department, the garage, anywhere but the penthouse floor.

"Mr. Queen! Mr. Diggle!" Charlie, the day desk guard waved at them. They ran over to him.

"Charlie. Any contact from Ms. Smoak?" Dig asked as Oliver tried to find any words. Charlie nodded. "She was coming down for the lunch she ordered, but that was about ten minutes before the explosion. The executive elevator was activated though. It stopped but I managed to override it. It should be here any minute now."

With that a scream was heard from across the lobby, and Oliver turned, seeing the executive elevator was open. He started to run over towards the open doors, hearing the cries that came around him.

"Is she alright?"

"That's Mr. Queen's secretary!"

"Dear God is she dead?"

"Call an ambulance!"

"Call the police!"

"Did someone get the guy who ran out of the elevator!"

"HELP HER!"

Oliver skidded to a stop at the edge of the group, seeing two security guards check Felicity's vitals as she laid on the floor of the elevator. Her eyes were closed, face pale, her tablet smashed next to her. Oliver walked to her, and looked at the guards. "Is she alright?"

One of the guards looked up. "She'll be fine I think. The ambulance is almost here Mr. Queen."

Oliver nodded, and knelt next to Felicity. He didn't care what his employees thought. They would see the truth about their relationship, the truth that Oliver was beginning to understand and want. He reached out and moved a piece of hair out of her face. Oliver turned and saw Dig helping direct the security officers and now the police to get the crowd into the courtyard.

Lance walked up to Oliver, next to the EMT and grabbed his shoulder.

"Stand back son. Let them work on her and you can ride with them."

Oliver nodded and swallowed before moving back. "How did you know?"

"Laurel called me as soon as the explosion was reported." Lance shook his head as the two EMT worked over Felicity.

"Do you have any enemies Mr. Queen? Any that would harm you or Ms. Smoak?"

Oliver shook his head. "None that I'm aware of."

"Well, let's hope that Ms. Smoak can help us catch this guy. I'm releasing CSI in your office and the elevator. I recommend you work from home for a few days."

Oliver nodded and felt Dig walk up behind him. "They're ready to transport her to the hospital Sir." Oliver could hear the anger in his voice.

"I'll be right there." Oliver nodded to Lance, and moved next to the EMT, grabbing Felicity's hand as they ran to the ambulance.

His heart had never felt so heavy.


Stupid foolish Hatter!

He hit the wall, knocking down pictures of Alice.

Should have gotten her right away! Should have had her walk to her car! Not the elevator! Stupid Stupid!

He growled, knowing that he had barely gotten away. And Alice was back with the Queen.


Oliver watched Felicity as her eyelids fluttered. He leaned back and looked over at Dig and Lyla sitting on the couch. Roy was sitting outside of the hospital.

"I like the name Sarah. What do you think John?" Lyla asked, trying again to brighten the mood.

"It's lovely. But it might give Sara a big head when she visits."

"But Sara did save your life, and I think it's lovely." Lyla rubbed her belly, laughing a little bit. "She thinks so too."

"I think it's pretty." a voice piped up from the bed.

"Felicity! How do you feel?" Lyla asked from the couch. Oliver leaned forward, taking the cup from the beside table and putting the straw to Felicity's lips. She greedily drank. Dig hit his comm link, alerting Roy to Felicity's status, and went over to the door to get a nurse. After he pulled the cup away, Oliver turned back to Felicity and smiled softly.

"How do you feel?"

"Terrible. Groggy, little confused."

"Hello! Ah Ms. Smoak. How do you feel?" Doctor Hamilton walked in the room, a nurse following him.

"I feel like a parrot is talking to me." Dig, Lyla and Oliver laughed. Felicity was fine.

"Well, what can you remember from today?" he started to check her vitals, and the bruising on her wrists.

"Oliver and Dig went to lunch with Laurel. About an hour passed. A man came in and delivered an envelope from Applied Sciences. Then I remember getting a phone call for food, something about being late for something, then waking up here. Why? What happened?" Felicity's pulse sped up and Oliver squeezed her hand to try and calm her down.

"There was an explosion on the top floor of QC Ms. Smoak. You're lucky you got to the elevator. You have some bruises, scrapes and a mild concussion. Are you sure you don't remember anything?"

Felicity shook her head, wincing at the movement. "No. I'm sorry."

The doctor nodded. "It's alright. Mr. Queen may I see you for a moment?" Oliver nodded, and brushed a kiss over Felicity's forehead. He followed the doctor to the hallway and faced him.

"What is it Dr. Hamilton?"

"Mr. Queen, there was a tiny hole on the side of Ms. Smoak's neck. And I did a quick toxicology screen."

Oliver tensed.

"Somebody drugged her Mr. Queen. I believe that whoever did this, wanted Ms. Smoak alive, and you dead."


Alice, sweet, sweet Alice.

He looked at the clocks on his walls, rocking back and forth as he clipped the newspaper. They covered the bombing well.

"But the Queen lives Alice. And we were so close." He pinned the clipping next to his shot of Alice on the gurney being rushed past him with the Queen at her side. He had melted into the crowd, and felt foolish for not calculating enough.

"Soon Alice. I'm perfecting my control. The dodo bird did his job, but next comes the flowers. Soon Alice my love. Soon."

He smiled looking at the currents running through the tech pieces.

You will be MINE Alice. And only MINE!