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Still keeping things spoiler free!

Mic RiddyBanon, thank you for not only your assistance with the medical part of things, but also your amazing beta work. You are remarkable! (See what I did there?!)

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"Looks like he's been injected with something." Oliver answered as he looked around him quickly. It took only a moment before he noticed the syringe on the floor next to him. He picked it up and examined it closely. "Diggle we're taking him back in the car. I'll come back for the bike later." Oliver said to the man standing next to him. "Felicity!" He called into the comms as he lifted Roy into his arms and headed out to the car.

"Yes! How's Roy?" Felicity immediately responded. She hated not knowing what was going on.

"I found Roy but we have a problem." Oliver said surprisingly calmly. "He's been injected with Vertigo!"

Chapter 10: Treatment

Diggle drove back to the lair as quickly as he could, while Oliver instructed Felicity how much water to mix in with the herbs to counteract the effects of the Vertigo. He also told her to put it in a syringe as Roy was out cold and wouldn't be able to drink the mixture. Oliver simply hoped that they weren't too late to avoid any permanent damage to Roy's body from the drug.

"Felicity, I need you to do one more thing for me." Oliver said to her as they closed in on the lair.

"Yeah?" Felicity asked worriedly.

"I need you to call Thea." Oliver calmly requested.

"Why Oliver? You don't think..." Felicity cried. Surely he doesn't think Roy's going to die from this! She thought even as Oliver reassured her.

"No! Felicity, Roy is going to be fine." Oliver interrupted her, knowing where her thoughts were headed. "I just think he would like to have her around when he comes to." He explained. He knew that when he was injured simply having her there when he woke up helped calm him. He had a feeling that Thea could do the same for Roy. "Don't give her details, just let her know we need her at the lair. We will fill her in when she gets there."

Felicity turned back to the task at hand. She couldn't describe how worried she was for Roy, especially after she had heard, and seen, how Vertigo had affected both Diggle and Oliver. And they are the strongest guys I know! She thought as she dialed Thea.

"Hi Felicity!" Thea answered her cell on the second ring.

"Thea, hey." Felicity replied, as calmly as she could manage.

"Oh hey, how's it going?"

"Oh, it's going." Felicity took a deep breath to calm her nerves. "Hey, Oliver needs your help with something. Can you come down to the lair?"

"Yeah, sure. Hey, since Sin's here can she come too?" Thea asked, clearly pleased that they had asked her for help.

"Not just yet Thea. Maybe later though." Felicity answered noncommittally.

"Okay, I'll head right over." Thea sounded slightly disappointed but Felicity knew she would understand.

"Thea! One more thing." Felicity remembered just before they hung up. "Make sure you bring one of the security team with you. They need to escort you to Verdant but can go back once you've made it here safely."

"Felicity, is that really necessary?" Thea almost whined into the phone.

"Absolutely! You do not leave the mansion without one of them!" Felicity ordered, smiling a bit at the sigh of irritation from the young woman on the other end of the line.

"Fine! But you tell Oliver I'm not happy about it!" Thea grumbled before hanging up.

Felicity was happy that she had talked the younger woman into following Oliver's orders, even if he hadn't spoken the words himself, and knew that once Thea was aware of what was going on with The Dealer she would be more understanding. She heard the lair door open just seconds after she hung up with Thea and Felicity spun around towards the stairs.

"Oliver?"

"It's me Felicity." Sara called as she jogged down the stairs, two large cases in her hands. "Where is everyone?"

"Roy went to meet his dad." Felicity answered.

"Oh, okay. Did Oliver and John go with him?" Sara asked as she set the cases down next to the new display cases in the lair.

"Not exactly." Felicity said hesitantly.

"What do you mean?" Sara asked, suddenly worried about her Teammates. However, before Felicity could answer the door to the lair swung open again.

"Felicity?" Diggle called down.

"I'm here. Everything's ready." Felicity answered as she turned to grab the herbal mixture that she had prepared. Moments later they saw Oliver descending the stairs with an unconscious Roy in his arms.

"What happened?" Sara asked as she helped Oliver lower Roy to the medical table.

"The Dealer injected him with a lethal dose of Vertigo." Oliver explained as he injected Roy with the herbal mixture while Diggle hooked up the heart monitor.

"What?" Sara was outraged.

"He left without telling us. By time we got there his house had been trashed and Roy was knocked out. We think he had a fight with his dad who injected him with the Vertigo." Diggle explained as he finished hooking Roy up to the machine before then moving a bucket right next to the table.

"Why would he do that? What kind of man would do that to his own son?" Sara couldn't believe that anyone would want to hurt their own child like that.

"Sara." Oliver said quietly from where he stood next to Roy. He looked up to her and met her eyes. It only took a moment for understanding to show on her face.

"No." Sara whispered. She had realized what Oliver wasn't telling her and that thought angered her more than anything.

"Oliver?" Diggle asked, he knew immediately that he was missing something.

"Digg, think about it. Roy's own father fighting with him and breaking everything in his own home. Roy saying he couldn't face this alone. The way he was having trouble breathing on the phone when he first called the lair." Sara explained to her Teammate.

"You guys don't think this is the first time something like this has happened." Diggle understood what they were implying. "You think his dad was abusive."

"That would explain a lot." Sara commented.

"He hasn't told us yet for a reason." Oliver stated quietly as he took Felicity's hand in his.

"He'll tell us when he's ready." Felicity commented as she looked up at Oliver. "Until then we just need to be there for him."

The Team stood in silence for a brief moment before Felicity shook herself out of her thoughts and moved to grab a cloth and some warm water. She worked to clean the blood off of Roy's split lip, bruised knuckles, and the various cuts from the fight. Oliver moved to help her take off Roy's hoodie to make it easier to clean him up and helped Felicity with her task.

As Oliver and Felicity worked to tend to Roy's wounds Sara turned to the cases that she had brought in.

"Might as well unpack these." Sara said as she lifted the first case onto a table and opened it.

"These turned out great." Diggle commented as he lifted out the contents of the case and began placing them in one of the display cases.

Sara opened the second case that she had brought in and began to place the items in it into the second of the new display cases. The Team worked in silence at their respective tasks until Felicity's phone buzzed. It was a text from Thea letting them know she was there. Felicity looked to Oliver who gave her a brief nod letting her know to go ahead and let Thea in.

Thea was finally able to get rid of the security guy that had had to follow her to Verdant. She hadn't been happy about the tail, however, she also remembered Diggle's words about there being a potential threat in town and knew they just wanted to make sure she was safe. She hated the excuse, as she had heard it too many times, however, she appreciated the fact that Oliver and his Team were looking out for her. Once the door to Oliver's lair buzzed she bounced down the steps, ready to take on whatever task Oliver had for her.

Thea stopped suddenly as she reached the bottom of the stairs and she saw Roy, laying on the medical table in front of her, out cold. She couldn't help the cry that escaped as she ran over to his side.

"Roy!" Thea cried as she took in the sight of her boyfriend laying unconscious.

"He's going to be fine Thea." Felicity said as she pulled the younger woman into her arms.

"What happened?" Thea asked as she looked to her brother.

"There's a new guy in town that we've been tracking." Oliver explained as he walked over to his sister and pulled her into a tight hug. "He's an arms dealer who has also dealt with Vertigo. He caught up to Roy today. There was a fight and the guy injected Roy with a large dose of Vertigo. We've already given him something to counteract the dose but it will take a little while before he wakes up. We thought you would want to be here for him when he does."

As Oliver had explained things, albeit vaguely, Felicity had pulled over one of the computer chairs for the younger woman to sit in. Thea sank into it, dazed, as she looked at her boyfriend. Sure, she had seen him injured before, and she had also seen him unconscious, but the combination of the injuries she could see with the fact that he was out cold worried her, not to mention the fact that he had been injected with Vertigo.

"Don't worry Thea." Felicity said softly as she handed Thea a bottle of water. "He looks worse than he is. It's really only a few scrapes and bruises. Once the Vertigo is out of his system he'll be almost as good as new." Physically at least. She added in her thoughts, knowing that the emotional effects of the day would take Roy a bit longer to get past. Felicity moved back to her computers to do some more research on The Dealer as Oliver, Sara, and Diggle finished putting the new inventory away before then covering the new cases. They all worked in relative quietness, the only sound being of the heart monitor hooked to Roy.

"Sara." Felicity called to her friend. It had been about thirty minutes since Thea had shown up at the lair and she had just seen something on the security cameras.

"What is it Felicity?" Sara asked as she walked over to stand next to the other blonde.

"Look." Felicity answered as she brought up the feed from the club above them.

"Sin." Sara whispered as she turned to catch Oliver's eye. "I should go talk to her." Oliver gave her a small nod in agreement to her unspoken question. Sara nodded back before running up the stairs.

"Hey Sin!" Sara said cheerfully as she walked up to the young woman. "What are you doing here? You're supposed to be at the Queen Mansion."

"Yeah, well, it was boring. Besides Thea came here so I thought I'd come hang out with her." Sin explained, already knowing she was in trouble.

"Did you bring one of the security team like I told you to do anytime you left the mansion?" Sara asked, already knowing the answer.

"No." Sin sad as she tilted her head to the side and put her hands in her pockets. "I can take care of myself Bird."

"Yeah I know."

"Hey, have you seen Roy lately?" Sin asked the blonde.

"Actually yes." Sara answered, not giving any information away. "Why?"

"Well, I know he works with you and the Arrow, which I know is Oliver Queen by the way. I also know that there's a new bad guy in town. Rumor is he's really dangerous. I just wanted to make sure Ambercrombie is okay and hasn't gotten himself into trouble again." Sin explained, the worry evident in her voice.

"Come with me." Sara wrapped her arms around Sins shoulders and directed her to the back door in the club that led down into the lair. "Sin, this place is more secret than even the clock tower. It has to stay that way, you understand?" Sara asked as the reached the door.

"Yeah." Sin was nervous now. Their clock tower had been private, a secret that she had only shared with Roy, so she knew that whatever she was about to see was big.

Sara punched in the security code before leading Sin down the stairs to the Arrow Cave, as Felicity so affectionately called it. She could see the wonder in the young woman's eyes as she took in the display cases with Oliver's suit, then the one holding Oliver's bow and arrows, the table with Roy's bow and hoodie, Felicity's computers, Diggle's array of firearms, the training area, and then finally the medical area where Thea sat next to Roy.

"Thea." Sin called to her friend as she rushed over, meeting Thea in a huge hug. "What happened?"

"Roy was helping track down a bad guy when he was injected with Vertigo." Thea quickly explained as the two women walked over to stand beside Roy, she took his hand in hers again as she looked down at his face, worried.

Before either woman could say anything more the sound from the heart monitor changed slightly and Oliver and Diggle immediately appeared at Roy's side. Sara and Felicity gently drew the two younger women back a couple of steps so that they wouldn't be in the way.

As Oliver reached Roy's side, the younger man's back arched off the table and he opened his eyes wide, breathing hard. Just as soon as Roy had opened his eyes, Oliver could see that he was about to vomit and quickly helped him to twist and lean over the side of the table, guiding him towards the bucket that Diggle had provided.

Roy heaved until there was nothing left and even then he continued to heave some more. Once he was finished emptying his stomach of all of its contents, he gratefully took the bottle of water from Oliver and took a small drink, noticing that his hands were shaking. He stayed leaning over the side of the table as he tried to catch his breath. His ribs really hurt though and that made taking a deep breath impossible.

"Slow breaths. Focus on completely emptying your lungs in a long, slow breath out. Your body will then naturally inhale and it won't hurt as much." Oliver directed with a gentle hand on his Teammate's shoulder, seeing how Roy was fighting to get his breathing under control. He knew that Roy had at least bruised ribs and knew from experience how hard it was to breathe with injured ribs.

Roy focused on Oliver's words, drowning out all other sounds and simply tried to breathe. He realized that as Oliver was explaining how to breathe, that he was also demonstrating it as well. He looked up and met Oliver's eyes and mimicked his mentor. He formed his mouth into an O, slowly exhaling until his body took over and he was inhaling again as a natural reflex. It took several tries to get it right, but he found that the technique really did work.

"Anytime you're hurt just focus on your breathing." Oliver was telling Roy as he finally got his breath back. "It will help you disconnect from the pain and calm you." Oliver had been talking quietly so that only Roy, Diggle who was standing next to them, and Sara with her hearing, would be able to hear what he said. Finally after a minute he helped Roy into a fully seated position.

Once Roy finally got his breath back, Oliver helped him sit up properly with his legs hanging off the edge of the table. Only then did he take a moment to look around the lair. Instantly he saw Thea there, tears rolling down her face, and being held back by Felicity who was whispering comforting words to her. Once Felicity saw that he was truly awake, able to breathe, and ready for the whirlwind that was Thea Queen, she released her hold on the young woman and nudged her forward.

"Roy!" Thea sobbed as she ran to Roy and wrapped her arms around him. "You had me so worried!"

"Thea." Oliver said gently. He had seen Roy's flinch as his sister ran into him and knew that it wasn't helping his sore ribs any. "Careful."

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you! Did I hurt you? Are you okay?" Thea said in a rush as she quickly let go of him, suddenly aware that her boyfriend was hurt and she probably wasn't helping any.

"I'm fine Thea, just a little sore." Roy responded with a bit of a laugh. At Thea's questioning look he went on to explain, doing his best to ignore how every inch of his body hurt at the moment. "I think Felicity's rubbing off on you."

"What do you mean?" Thea asked, still confused.

"You're starting to ramble just like her."

AN: Yay, Roy's awake. So... What do you think of this chapter? Please let me know in a review! Thanks.