A/N at the bottom!

9.

"Bruce?" she asked as they lay in the grass staring at the clouds above them.

"Hmm," he said his eyes closed hands crossed under his head.

"Why did Alfred and you tell the reporters to go away like you did?"

"Because, we didn't want them as close to you as they were, they can be vial. Plus, I don't want anything bad to happen to you, ever."

"You can't say that Bruce," she said pulling herself up, leaning on her elbows. "You saw what happened to Jamie, she was kidnapped from her own bedroom, and her parents were right down the hall."

"Felicity, I swear I will always come for you."

"Bruce, one of these days you'll forget about me," she said her voice sad. Bruce sat up looking at her.

"Felicity, don't ever say that, you're my sister in more ways than one and I will never ever forget about you," Bruce said kissing her on the forehead. "Now, you have to get ready for camp and I have a party to get ready for before Tommy and Oliver get here."

The first thing she felt was that she was floaty, if that was even a word. She felt at peace and nothing hurt. The next thing she noticed was she was strapped down to a chair, a small beeping sound coming from somewhere in the room. Opening her eyes she blinked rapidly, trying to focus on her surroundings.

Her mind was foggy, she knew she was drugged, hence the IV coming out of her arm. She wanted to so badly fight against her restraints but it was so hard for her just to keep her eyes open. Everything felt like it was in slow motion, even her movements felt slow. The door opened, slamming against the wall, making her jump….slowly.

"Ms. Smoak, welcome back to the land of the living. Please, don't get up. How rude of me, I know all about you and brother dearest, but you don't know much about my associates or myself. My name is the Joker," he said bowing in front of her. "This here is The Scarecrow, he's going to keep you medicated until we can make sure brother dearest can join us. Where is brother dearest?" he asked twirling something shiny in his hand. Not being able to respond she just mumbled into her gag. He turned towards her quirking his head to the side. She shook her head no and continued mumbling, he removed her gag. Her face hurt from where the gag had dug in.

"I don't know," she said softly.

"Ms. Smoak, don't play games with me. TELL ME WHERE HE IS!"

"I don't know!" she screamed, the scream getting caught in her throat as fire flared through her thigh the shiny thing was now embedded in her leg, the scream had turned into gasps.

"I see you need a little motivation then," he said, his breath ghosting across her neck. "Open your eyes Ms. Smoak, The Scarecrow would like to speak with you."

She didn't want to open tem, knowing her eyes were filled with tears, afraid of what she would see. She felt hands on her face moving her face to face him, she kept her eyes closed.

"Come on open your eyes, I promise it'll be worth it."

When she still didn't open them, he yelled at someone to come into the room. She can feel the warm stickiness on her thigh, she can feel blood oozing, making her sick to her stomach. Her head is forcibly pulled back and she can feel hands opening her eyelids forcing her to stare at the Scarecrow.

She watched him pull out a syringe with a red colored liquid, watching him inject it into her IV. She followed it with her eyes as it burned its way into her veins.

"This little toxin here will give you plenty to 'dream' about," he said as she felt the world go black around her.

She was awake and tied to a chair in the meeting room of Queen Consolidated, the Count teasing her. She was in trouble again. Oliver was coming, he always came. She sees Oliver look at her as he walks t9owards them. The Count starts running his mouth taking a shot at Oliver. She blinks and he's holding a syringe to her neck. Oliver quickly releases three arrows killing The Count while one impales her chest. She stares down in shock dropping to her knees, the Oliver staring at her earlier has transformed into The County who cackles. Her name being called in the distance terrifies her.

"Dig I'm in, what do you see?"

"Three on your floor, another six below. Let me know when you're clear and I'll meet you below."

"Copy," Oliver released arrows knocking out the men. "Clear."

"On 1."

They counted down, Digg broke his way through the front door shooting as Oliver fought some of the men. The men were down and Digg pulled up the thermals, placing an exploding arrow in the lock, they blew open her door. There was Felicity, the IV still attached to her arm, tied to the chair and whimpering unconsciously. Oliver handed his bow to Digg as they made their way towards her.

"Felicity?" Oliver said sweetly.

"You shot me," she whimpered his brow furrowed.

The glass above shattered as Batman and Robin landed right behind Felicity. Digg tossed Oliver his bow and he had an arrow knocked in seconds. All of them frozen in a standoff.

"Get away from her," Batman growled.

"No, she's with me," Oliver countered.

"Touch her and I will kill you."

"I'd like to see you try," Oliver said through gritted teeth.

Batman lunged at Oliver as the two began to fight. Robin and Digg both ran towards her, Dig put his hand up to show he was good.

"Listen, she's my best friend, please."

"Batman thinks you're a threat, then you're a threat."

"I don't want to hurt you."

Robin snickered and lunged at Digg, who got the upper hand placing Robin in a chokehold, knocking him out. Digg went over to her, removing the IV and began to untie her, he felt a breeze pass his cheek seeing a batarang hit the wall. Digg looked back and Oliver was holding Batman from behind with his bow. Digg kept cutting the restraints pulling her up into his arms taking the IV bag with him.

As he began to walk away with her in his arms, telling her she was okay he heard Batman roar and Oliver flew hitting the wall. Batman was in Digg's face trying to intimidate him. Felicity began to mumble and her eyes fluttered.

"You're okay, Felicity," they both said.

"Bruce? John?" she said going limp in his arms.

"Bruce?" John asked.

"Diggle?"

"Yeah, she needs a hospital man, I can feel blood on my hand," John said through his balaclava.

"Oliver?" he asked pointing to him?

"Yeah."

"Go, we'll meet you there, all of you have a lot of explaining to do."

"As do you," John said walking out of the room leaving the two unconscious men with Batman. Bruce got Robin up first and then Oliver.

"John's on his way to the hospital with Felicity. We're all going to be in trouble when she wakes up." Offering him a hand and helping him up.

Hours later they were all still sitting in the waiting room nursing their hospital coffees. A doctor finally walked out holding a clipboard. All four men looked up, Alfred asleep in a chair, didn't move. Oliver and Bruce walked over to the doctor.

"Family of Ms. Smoak, I'm assuming?" he asked.

"Brother and boyfriend," Bruce motioned.

"Okay, a few things and I'll let you back to her. The stab wound to her thigh received stitches and should heal very nicely in the next few weeks. The rape kit came back negative. She was dosed with some type of neurotoxin, we have seen this before with some of The Scarecrows victims. She's going to be here for a few days, at least. Victims can have vivid nightmares and what is called daymares lasting for up to a week after a dose. In those situations we have had to restrain or sedate our patients. The reason I tell you this is because it will get worse before it gets better. I want you all to prepare yourselves, we will be moving her to a private room where she will be monitored."

"Thank you doctor," Oliver said.

"When I have her in a room, I'll send a nurse out for you," he shook their hands walking away.

"Fuck," Bruce said rubbing his face with his hand.

"What?" Oliver asked.

"I've been hit with this stuff before. It was the worst thing I've ever experienced in my entire life. She is a prisoner to her own mind now."

"Dear God, who the hell were those guys?

"The Joker and Scarecrow, the worst part is that they're working together and they've hurt my sister."

As the days went by the trio dealt with Felicity's night and daymares. Seeing her terrified like that took a huge toll on the men. Three days in she was restrained to the bed after attacking a nurse. If it wasn't for Digg's quick moves that nurse would've made it out of the room with more bruises than she left with.

Day four she had moments of becoming lucid but would slip again, it was slowly killing Bruce to see her like this. On day five it was around noon when, she awoke. The night before she had only woken up once, Bruce leaned over and looked at her. Her eyes had become that clear blue instead of a glassy, hazy looking blue. She blinked looking at him as he put her glasses on her face. She went to move and realized she was restrained, her hear rate picked up according to the beeping.

"You're okay, they're going to come and release you soon."

"Oh God, Bruce who the hell were those guys. They put me through hell, where's Oliver? I have to get up."

"Calm down, he stepped out to get us some coffee. The nurse is coming, calm down," he said pressing the nurses button as he cradled her cheeks as tears began to fall. Bruce again felt helpless, the nurses, Diggle and Oliver all arrived at the same time. She was panicking, they weren't untying her fast enough, her breaths coming out in pants. Oliver rushed over and tried to calm her, the next he knew her eyes were rolling back and she went limp.

"What did you do?" he growled at the nurse.

"We gave her a sedative sir."

"Why the hell would you do that?! Do you have an idea what she's been through?"

"Sorry sir," the nurses continued and soon left the trio alone with her. She awoke again close to three am from a nightmare, her breaths coming out in short pants. Oliver took her hand placed it on his chest while Bruce and Diggle watched as she slowly calmed down finally.

"We're here now, nothing is going to happen."

"Oh God, this is the worst thing ever," she said sipping the water. "And you," she said pointing to Bruce, "you have a lot of explaining to do."

"As do you, I know everything." She glared at Oliver.

"HE asked, I answered. Maybe we should have this conversation at home."

"What the hell did they give me?"

"IT's a type of neurotoxin, it's not fun," Bruce answered.

"Lots of explaining. How long have I been here?"

"Almost a week." Oliver answered.

"OH my God, a week of my life just gone! Oh my God the one with the face stabbed me."

"Joker," Bruce said.

"That nutjob has a name?"

"Yes."

"Right now, I need a serious shower, a pint of mint chocolate chip and a gallon of coffee."

A few days later she was released, it was still hard for her to get around on her leg but with the help of Oliver she was able to go to the newly named "Batcave", which he swore they would never keep the name. They all discussed the situation and afterwards everyone had calmed down, a little about their own Vigilante businesses.

The doctor finally cleared her to fly back to Starling, the tearful goodbye hug at the airport had him promising he would come and visit soon. He stood on the tarmac watching the Queen Consolidated jet fly off, his heart filled with worry for his sister on one hand and on the other happiness that she found her true love.

A/N: I apologize I wasn't able to post quickly….my family came and attacked me…I was forcibly kidnapped (I even held a piece of paper on the passenger window and one did anything) and made to go have 'fun'. Okay so posting wise, I'm planning on having one more chapter up this week and one more next and then none for the following week, just an FYI. FYI, all of this done was done with my cell phone so if there are mistakes I apologize beforehand. Love you all, let me know what you think!