I think I got lost nearing the end but in the next few chapters it's clear what's happening so don't worry about that, but anyways hope you enjoy and reviews are greatly appreciated.

She wasn't sure what had happened next. She remembered finding a cabin at the top of one of the mountains and her breaking open the lock on a drawer, a phone hidden inside.

She remembered it saying that she wasn't far from Starling City, actually bordering the outskirts of the city and upon exiting the cabin she had found a path winding down the safe side of the mountain.

She remembered how she had hitched a ride from a truck driver, who was thankfully married so no annoying flirty comments there, and had gladly given her a ride to the outside of the city, where it was less busy and more quiet then smack bang in the centre where the rest of her friends were.

Then everything just seemed to freeze. One second they're just driving along and the next they're part of a huge collision on the freeway into the city. The last thing registering was the feeling of her body being thrown forward like a rag doll.

Opening her eyes, everything around her is crumpled up, broken, completely trashed. The world became dizzy and blurry, reaching up she felt a sticky substance on her forehead, and when she pulled back she saw it was her blood. Picking up a shard of broken glass from the window, she saw the deep gash on her forehead which began to slowly heal itself. She felt weird but she couldn't put her finger on it though, so she focused on getting herself out of her current situation instead.

Scanning her situation, the truck had ended up on its side with all the windows broken, remaining glass threatening to stab whoever is unfortunate enough to come near it. Looking over at the man in the driver's seat, Felicity saw that he had sustained a nasty leg wound and was currently unconscious with his head resting against the ground.

It looked as if her side was the side that was mainly targeted in the collision; she had taken the brunt of the damage. Leaning over to inspect the driver's position, it seemed that his leg was caught beneath the steering wheel.

"Hey! Hey, wake up!" gently patting his right cheek in an attempt to wake him but it was no use.

"Urgh…great"

Carefully climbing out the now-broken windscreen, she ripped off the obstacle that was trapping his leg so she had full access to pull him out and to safety.

Bringing him over to the side of the road, Felicity laid him face down on the grass with his jacket pillowed beneath his head. Taking a seat beside him, she scanned over the site of the crash. The long line of collided vehicles trailed on from behind the truck.

Moaning coming from the man next to her made her open her eyes.

"Urgh, what happened and why is my leg wrapped up?" during his unconscious state, Felicity had checked his leg over and splinted it with the materials she had access to. He would need to go to the hospital but it didn't look too bad.

"You've broken it...sometime during the crash"

"Crash" he repeated, confused so she just gestured towards the pile up of cars. "You saved me?"

"Don't worry yourself over it any sane person would've done it" cutting out the part where she had practically ripped the steering wheel right out of the truck to get to him, she decided to just leave it there. "Here…you might want to call your wife and let her know you're alive" she handed him a phone that had been in the glove box and she had managed to save, it didn't receive much damage luckily.

"Thank you" he dialled in his wife's number and on the third ring, she picked up "Hey honey…no calm down, I'm alright…yes I'm sure…I gave a woman a ride and she ended up saving me when I was out, also she splinted my leg…hey don't worry, she's taken care of me…we're just waiting for the ambulance so I'll see you soon, I love you…tell the kids I'll see them soon too" he made kissy noises into the phone, to her dismay she hated when people did that. Don't they know the rule of PDA on the phone it's not allowed.

"Speaking of which, here's the ambulance" Felicity stated, standing up and waving over to the medics.

"Are you two alright?"

"He's broken his leg but I managed to scrape together enough to splint it for the time being…I'm fine though, I don't think I need a trip to the hospital just take care of him right now"

"Are you sure? So you got out of all this unhurt?"

"No, I got knocked unconsciousness and must've collided with something but it's just a bruise, it'll heal with rest"

"Alright" one of the medics ordered a team to go searching for others that had been included in the accident.

"I never got your name" the driver called her attention back to him again.

"Felicity…and?" gesturing to him.

"David…thank you Felicity for saving my life, I don't know how to thank you"

"If you haven't noticed you already have, more than once too…look we both did each other a favour, you gave me a ride and I splinted your leg…we're even"

"Sounds fair"

"It's been nice meeting you, take care"

"Same to you"

Everyone was staring at the screen in awe of what they've just witnessed.

"So that's how she lost her memory" Digg mumbled to himself.

"What do you mean?" Sara asked in curiosity.

"The brain is a very complex thing with thousands of networks running information to each body part so if anything interrupts or messes with that network, it can upset the brain and cause different things to happen, ultimately causing loss of certain memories, this accident must have caused Felicity to lose everything that she has remembered previously…that is what Digg meant" Aiden clarified.

"But she's not aware of the fact is she?" Oliver chipped in.

"No she is not I'm afraid"

"So now that she has seen those forgotten memories, is there a chance that they will begin to register again?" Sara joined into the conversation.

"There is a good chance of that happening but for now, we will just have to watch to see if anything else might have another interference in the process of her recollection of memory"

As Felicity walked away from the crash site and into Starling, she tried to keep her head down as much as possible but something just told her that something was off, felt different but she didn't know what it was. Just then she heard the distinct noise of a bow and arrow but not just any bow, the one she had custom made for a certain green-hooded man. No it couldn't be him. But just to make sure though she followed the noise, including the fact that she now possessed super hearing.

Tracking the sound to an old building that was clearly abandoned, seriously another one, and smothered a gasp last minute when she saw four of her old team mates strung up to the ceiling obviously knocked out.

"What the hell?"

"This'll teach you four to mess with the Masters of Disguise again" another voice joined the party.

She took a quick analysis of the place. To her left was a large pile up of crates full of god knows what, she could use that as a cover. Dropping from the high platform she was crouching on to just behind the boxes, Felicity knew she had to come up with a way to get the douche away from her old team.

"Hey! Boss wants to see you!" to her advantage, another man guided him from the room, leaving it completely empty. Besides if anyone came in she would know about it.

Making sure to keep her footsteps light, she checked for cameras before sprinting over to where her friends hung. Glancing up at the chains securing them to the ceiling, Felicity's gaze followed the chain along to where the machine holding them up stood. It was in the shape of a computer, now's where the fun began.

Assessing the buttons on the motherboard, she already knew this make and you couldn't access anything without the key, which she guessed the boss probably had. Brilliant!

An idea hit her hard, moving to the back of the machine she saw all the network of wires trailed out. Honestly, she didn't want to touch any of them in case one of them let off an alert to the other men in with the 'boss'.

Gathering up all of wires in her right hand and wrapped them about her wrist while she placed her left hand on the table top holding the machine up from the floor. Counting down from three in her head Felicity yanked out all the wires at the same time. Waiting for a second in case of any alerts, she saw the chain release and dropped the team members to the floor. She winced at the sound.

"My bad, okay maybe that wasn't the best idea I've ever had…oh well they'll be fine, hopefully"

Moving over to where their bodies laid on the floor, she saw how the handcuffs still cuffed them all together. She could work with this. In her peripheral vision she could see a blanket, they probably used it for covering up the monitor.

Placing the covering underneath them all, she began to drag them all out of the building and out the back. Someone groaning broke her attention back to her old team, they were beginning to wake up. Speeding up slightly, she saw Oliver slowly begin to gain consciousness but never made a move to open his eyes. Looking behind her, she saw a shed-like building behind her. In a flash she was scaling the smaller building before Oliver even had his eyes properly open. As soon as he saw where he was, he began looking around the place, searching for something and she had a feeling it might be the reason how they had made it out.

Hiding herself further in the shadows when his gaze fell upon her direction, he looked to be squinting maybe he saw her.

Later on in the day she had found an old warehouse underground and decided to build it up herself to something that she could call her home. Finding a bunch of old computers, she had spent ages building it up until she had ultimately built Aiden from nothing.

"So that's how we got out of there" Roy wondered out loud.

"She was right in front of me the entire time?" Oliver's face looked like he'd just been slapped.

"Well isn't this just so much fun to watch" sarcasm was the only thing that came out of Laurel's mouth and it made Oliver snap inside and before he could do anything to stop it he turned to her.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Ollie?"

"Ever since day one she's been fighting for not only her life but for the lives of the women that were in the same horrid place as she was! She's been putting her own life on the line for those she didn't even know non-stop, she's been tortured and we've had to witness her trying to cut off her own screams which are full of nothing but agony! Since you've shown up here you have done nothing but abuse her as well, you're just as bad as those bastards following her every step trying to turn her into some sort of weapon and you know the worst thing?! SHE'S NOT EVEN SURE IF SHE'S GOING TO HAVE A FUTURE!" his breaths were coming out in short bursts and judging by the tears streaming down Laurel's face, he's really hit the soft spot with such a force that it's knocked any words clean out of her mouth.

"I didn't know" she whispered.

"You didn't care"

"Oliver enough!" Sara cut in "None of this is helping anyone!"

He knew Sara was right but nothing could calm the raging sea thrashing inside him.

"Ollie?" Laurel tried again.

"STOP CALLING ME THAT! OLLIE IS DEAD AND HE'S NEVER COMING BACK!" the waves lashed out like whips cracking, pulling him further and further out to sea, further into the heart of the storm.

"I-I don't understand" Laurel's voice reduced in sound until it was barely a whisper.

"All these years you've been calling me the name of the playboy who died in that shipwreck and never came back…you've been too caught up in the past to see that everything has changed, including me…ever since I've come back you have been judging me for decisions that he made and not seeing me for who I truly am, you saw me for the scars but didn't see what any of them meant"

"That's because you never let anyone ever see them!"

"WHY DO YOU THINK THAT WAS?! Do you honestly think it was easy for me to go through what I did, to know that I'm the cause of so many deaths of people I hardly even knew? Do you have any idea what it's like to go through something like that and spend every second of it wishing that you were dead?"

The sound of something crashing onto the ground brought everyone's attention back to where Felicity laid hunched over on the floor, looking like she didn't have a single bone in her body to hold her up.

"They're all dead aren't they?" a voice came out so broken and lost and when she picked her head up from where it was currently bowed close to her chest, her eyes seemed so distant and empty. It hurt just seeing her like that.

When nobody answered, she got her answer.

Picking herself up off the floor, Felicity whipped the tears from her face and strode over and up the stairs.

In all the years they had worked beside her, nobody had ever seen her as shattered as then. Maybe remembering what happened was too much for her to cope with all at once.