Author's Note: Just like the previous chapter. This one was written the previous year but I had to edit large part of it because the story has taken quite a turn (or will take a turn). It has remained a crazy helter skelter ride for Oliver and Felicity and this chapter represents that.
A side note, this story is winding down soon. Dawn will finally break for these two, permanently.
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DARKEST BEFORE DAWN
Chapter 14 - Home Invasion
"This is nice." Felicity excitedly looked at the interiors of the Queens private jet, an accessory the Queens had for many years as part of the lifestyle they maintained.
"I thought you'll like it. Beats traveling coach any day." Oliver responded nonchalantly used to the glitz by now.
"Yeah well we mere mortals save up to travel first class or even business class. That's our thrill. Flying private was not even on the list."
"Well, it's the only way you will fly from now on sweetheart."
"Ah, that needs getting used to. But really, I don't want to get used to the extravagant life. I've always been a simple girl with simple needs, and I always will be."
"Well I for one could get used to this lifestyle," gesturing at the interiors of the plane, "this screams me," Cisco interjected.
"The only thing I hear screaming is the plane blatantly rejecting your statement," Barry egged Cisco.
"Quit it you two." Felicity scolded.
"Yeah you guys need to buckle up." Oliver pipped in ending a call he was having with his Dad. "We are getting ready to taxi." Oliver told the two guys as he carefully strapped on the seatbelt of his girlfriend.
"Everything okay?" Felicity asked curiously.
Oliver smiled then gave his girl a peck in the cheek, "looks like it."
"How many days again are Mommy and Daddy going to be away?" Emily asked both her Aunt Thea and her grandma Donna.
"They'll be back before you know it. They'll be back in two days," Thea answered her. Thea was tasked together with Donna to look after the kids as both Robert and Moira had business to attend to.
It was both Donna and Thea who brought the kids back and forth to school nowadays. A tasked they both enjoyed. It gave the two some bonding moments since Donna was less rigid than Moira Queen was, more like a cool older sister if Thea was to accurately describe Felicity's mother.
The three of them where waiting for Connor who had to stay in school for an extra hour for a special class project. The four of them where then to proceed to their favorite ice cream house for a scoop or two.
"I hope they never have to go away again. I miss Mommy and Daddy," Emily continued to say.
"I'm sure they're missing you too. Both you and Con." Donna told her grand daughter giving her a tight squeeze.
"It's just that the bad man. He's still out there isn't he?"
Donna and Thea looked at one another then at John Diggle who was seated at the front passenger seat of the SUV.
"That's right Em. I promise you, I'll protect you. You have nothing to worry about." John told her looking the little girl in the eye best as he can from his vantage.
"But who's going to protect Mommy. Con and I heard you and Daddy talking about the bad man being after Mommy," Emily eyed John right back.
"Em, Ollie is not going to let anything happen to your Mom." This time Thea was the one who gave little Emily a hug.
"Daddy saved me once." Emily told everyone what they all already knew.
"And he is going to save your Mom if she needs saving too." Thea answered.
"But Mommy is badass too. She saved Con and me."
"That right honey, that's why you don't have to worry about them. Barry and Cisco are with them too. Barry tells me he's a black belt. Isn't that right Thea?" Donna asked.
"What? How should I know," Thea answered defensively as both Emily and Donna smiled.
"Uncle Barry's sweet on Aunt Thea." Then Emily proceeded to demonstrate just how by hugging herself and making kissy kissy lips just as Connor opened the door of the car.
"Eeww Em, what are you doing!" Connor asked Emily as he sat down beside her.
"I'm just showing Grandma what we saw both Aunt Thea and Uncle Barry doing the other day."
"Em, that was a secret! We agreed not to tell." Connor's eyes widened at Emily's reveal.
"Oh my God! This isn't happening," Thea mourned, her face buried beneath her palms in shame and embarrassment.
"Oh don't worry about that dear. We all knew about the two of you already," Donna teased Thea further.
"Everyone?" Thea peaked from behind her fingers at Donna.
"Everyone, right John."
"Everyone. Where you trying to hide it?" John simply answered.
"Boo Hoo. Let's just go for ice cream before I change my mind," Thea said her hands now crossed as she eyed the two youngsters.
"Good, everyone's home. Tonight is family night. Even if Oliver and Felicity are out of town we should have one." Moira said.
"It's been awhile since this last happened." Thea embraced her mom.
"It's a tradition that should never be forgotten no matter the circumstances. Donna and Emily will be joining us for the first time. I've instructed John to give most of the men the night off, they've been overworked. John, Lyla will be joining us?"
"Of course Mrs. Queen," John answered just as the front door opened and closed, welcoming Lyla in, John's wife.
"Ah, here's Lyla. Pre-dinner drinks are served." Robert said as started to pass around drinks to everyone including Emily and Connor who got a glass of orange juice each much to the chagrin of both who were expecting something else for the occasion.
"Not 'til you're eighteen young lady," Robert's statement earned a snicker from Con who started to tease Emily before he heard his grandfather's next statement, "and that goes for you too Con," making Connor loose his smile and Emily gain hers.
"John," Lyla whispered to her husband, "i noticed that you have fewer men guarding the perimeter tonight."
John made a face at his wife before he answered her, "Moira's whim to give the men a day of rest and Robert took it as a golden opportunity. Oliver agreed after quite a lengthy discussion the three of us had so I didn't really have a choice."
"Let's just both stay alert then. That means, no drinking for you mister," Lyla told him cheekily as she took his drink away from him.
"Maybe I should give the kids a call."
"Sweetheart, it's early yet. Mom said they're having a family night tonight. Let them enjoy that. We'll call them in a few hours, I promise."
"Wait, what's family night?" Felicity asked Oliver confused.
"It's a Queen tradition we started when Thea was ten. Even back then I was always out of the house with my friends. One night, we all rushed back home because Raisa called us, Thea had very high fever and the doctors advised us to bring her to the hospital. It was a critical twenty four hours and when Thea recovered Mom asked her what she wanted most in the world and she'd have it. I personally thought she'd go for the doll house she'd been nagging us all about. But no, all she was asked for was time. She just wanted us to spend more time with her. She asked for a night, one night every month that the four of us would spend together. That's all she asked for. That was the first time I really felt guilty for not spending as much time with my sister as I did when we were both younger."
"You were busy charming the girls even then I take it?"
"Yeah," Oliver answered her sheepishly before he lamely tried to defend himself, "i was an asshat. Anyway, family night has always been a tradition ever since. It has evolved from being Thea's night to plan to whole night out to a family night of just hanging out together and just generally catching up. We don't do it quite as often now, but Mom makes it a point to have one once in a while."
"I think it's a nice tradition."
"It is. One that will continue in the next generation?"
"Why are you posting that as a question to me?" Felicity asked him confused.
Oliver embraced Felicity, wrapping his arms around her fully so they were not in full body contact, "because you will be playing a big part in the making of the next Queen generation?"
Felicity gave Oliver a face then punched him playfully, "Oliver Queen is there anything else that's on your mind aside from...that."
"Well," Oliver leaned in to kiss her for a moment, "my mind is also full of pride, for you. You really killed it with that presentation earlier. Even old man Jenkins was eating out of your hand after that kickass presentation. I would gladly be your bag carrier anyday for a chance to witness something like that again."
"I was badass, wasn't I."
"Yes you were sweetheart. And I am truly very proud of you. This is the reason why I will always support what you do. Felicity Smoak you are remarkable."
"Oliver Queen," she tiptoed so she could give him a tender kiss, "thank you for remarking on it. And thank you for coming with me. Truly, you being there helped me, a lot."
"It did? I did? Well then why don't you show me how much right now," Oliver grabbed his girls ass and lifted her so that she had no choice but to wrap her legs around him.
"Why don't you show me how much you love me!" Felicity responded giggling.
Oliver gently dropped Felicity in the middle of the King sized bed before he crawled on top of her, "i do sweetheart, love you."
Felicity circled her arms around his neck and pulled him down, "and I you."
"I'm stuffed!" Connor proclaimed as he tapped his tummy as he slouched on the couch.
"I still have room for chocolate," Emily happily declared.
Moira smiled at the antics of her grandchildren because that was what she thought of Emily too, blood relation or not, she was family. A welcome additions the Smoaks were to the Queens. Soon to be tied by marriage forever.
"I'll get Raisa to prepare some cake. I assume everyone prefers tea over coffee tonight?" Moira asked the adults in the room.
"Yes please," almost everyone said in unison.
They had now relocated to the parlour room of the Mansion, John and Lyla occupied on side of the couch, Donna was in one of the armchairs. Robert was keeping the couch warm for when Moira was to return and the kids where transferred from the couch to the rug and were now in their own world playfully arguing over nothing.
They were in the middle of a moment reminiscing about Connor's first steps as a toddler when all hell broke loose.
Armed men broke in through the windows, a couple more broke down the doors as pretty soon about a eight men in black wearing masks surrounded the group.
John had tried to defend them by reaching for his every present side arm but stopped last minute when one of the men pointed a gun at Connor.
The rest of the group were in shock with both Emily and Connor crying as they were appeased by Donna and Moira respectively.
Seconds later what remained of the Mansion staff were unceremoniously pushed inside the room by more men in black. Raisa, Esteban the house chef and a maid Stella. Even before the maid had fully stepped into the room she was shot in the head earning a round of screams again from all the occupants of the room.
"Don't shoot! Please stop. What do you want? Money?" Robert Queen almost trampled over his sentences in haste to ask to prevent further trauma on the children.
Finally one man removed his mask and the act itself earned a shriek from Emily as Connor shouted, "you!"
"So you do remember me...kid. Both of you do, that's good."
Robert Queen and John Diggle locked eyes in a silent message, an action caught by Lyla since she knew her husband that well.
"Slade. Are you Slade Wilson?" Moira asked bravely while still clutching her grandson.
"Ah, word travels," as he walked further into the room, "you didn't think I'd packed up and left did you? All I did was lure you into a false sense of comfort, wait patiently, until the day you would think this is all over and a thing of the past and lower your guard. It's such a shame that your son," he said to Moira before he turned to Donna, "and your daughter aren't here. But I'm sure a quick phone call would remedy that."
"Oh but," Moira started t say but was unceremoniously talked over by Slade.
"Oh but what? I know for a fact that both of them are in Atlanta at the moment carrying on as if it was business as usual that Ms. Smoak. Oliver Queen, that one is deeply, madly in love with Ms. Smoak. In his desire to protect his beloved, he exposed the rest of his family to the danger that was me. You know what," Slade walked over to the alcohol cabinet and poured himself some before he continued, "let's give the lovebirds tonight. One night of passion before everything changes."
"Changes? What changes?" Moira again engaged Slade as Robert and John looked at one another again.
Slade took several moments to look at his tumbler of alcohol before he addressed Moira's question, "catastrophic ones. Forever changing the city, this City."
"A thousand deaths, for what? Profit? You intend to profit from lost lives. Some of them will be children!" Moira said passionately. She loved Starling City, not only because this was the place of her birth but because she has invested her life work in.
Slade stared at Moira for a few seconds when she mentioned the children with what looked like regret but it was so fleeting that Moira thought she just imagined it. A man like Slade, if the information they had on him was all true had no remorse at all. Not even for children who would never live to enjoy the life they were meant to live.
"Hard sacrifices have to be made. That is the world we live in. That is the hard reality." Slade said solemnly.
"You're an evil man!" Connor made his voice heard attracting the attention of Slade who walked over to him much to the fear of everyone in the room as Moira tried to push her grandson behind her.
As Slade approached be pointed a shaky finger at Connor, "yes I am. Evil men do evil things. So don't expect any less from me," he directed his last statement mostly to Moira. "I don't want to hear another word out of any one of you. Let's all enjoy tonight. Enjoy the quiet while we all can. Unless you are all in need of another demonstration of just how evil I am. Maybe this time I won't choose an employee. Maybe it'll be one of you.
The kids had finally fallen asleep even if they tried to fight it. Both now peacefully sleeping on the couches. The rest of the adults had opted to stay awake except that at sometime during the early morning even Donna and Moira had fallen asleep.
Finally at dawn, Donna was kicked awake by Slade Wilson himself as he handed her own phone to her. Donna had been instantly awake noting that Robert, Moira, John and Lyla has guns pointed at them as did Raisa and the cook Esteban. All but the two children were now awake.
"I think it's time we woke up the lovebirds, don't you think? I hope you daughter had at least some sleep because it's the last one she'll be having in the next few days."
Donna took the phone from Slade shaking with fear as she started to punch in the numbers.
Oliver stirred as the ringing of a phone call finally registered. Both he and Felicity were asleep, tuckered out from all the action a few hours ago. He tried to lift himself but Felicity's body on top of his chest was locking him in place. Truth was, he didn't want to move at all. All he wanted was a few more hours of rest so that both he and Felicity would be recharge for maybe a few more rounds of lovemaking, but the persistent ringing continued.
Oliver grabbed his phone and after a glance realised it wasn't his. He glanced down again and had to smile at the still asleep Felicity, her hair scattered across his chest. He looked around again to see were the ringing was coming from and finally spotted Felicity's phone on the floor a few feet away making it even more of an effort for Oliver since he needed to leave the bed to answer it. But if it kept ringing it would eventually wake up his girl, and he didn't want that. He needed her rested.
So he gently untangled himself from Felicity and made his way to her phone bending over to pick it up, frowning after he realised who was calling. Donna. Why would she be calling her daughter in the wee hours of the morning?
He didn't think Donna would mind him answering the phone instead of her daughter. She knew they were together anyhow.
"Donna?" Oliver tentatively asked.
"Oh God Oliver," Donna's voice was shaky at best as she registered that it was Oliver not her daughter who answered.
"Hey Donna, you don't sound good. Felicity's still asleep, i'll wake her seems like you need to talk to her." Oliver answered Donna but as he finished his last word Slade grabbed the phone from Donna as he had been listening to the call as had everyone since it was on speaker.
"Just the man I wanted to talk to actually. Well you or the lovely Felicity. Maybe you're the better option anyway. As you can see I am currently with your mother-in-law, future mother-in-law that is. I don't want both of us to get ahead of ourselves here. Anything can happen between now and say tomorrow? I can tell you are starting to breathe heavily Oliver i suggest you try to control that anger because their is more coming." Slade paused dramatically for effect before he continued, "aside from your mother-in-law, i'm also currently staring down your whole family, that includes these cute bundles of joy little Connor and Emily. I suggest you and Ms. Smoak head home immediately if you want to see them at least in one piece say...within the next five hours. Why don't you give Ms. Smoak a good morning wake up kiss and give her the good news. We will all be here to welcome you at the Queen Mansion as soon as you arrive. And please, for their sake, do not alert the authorities."
With that, Slade Wilson cut the call and Oliver was left staring at Felicity's phone still not quite catching up with the conversation that just transpired.
"Are you sure?" The woman in white asked the dark skinned man again.
"Yes, 100%." The man answered as the woman nodded more to herself really as if arriving at a decision.
"Then I ask you," the woman approached the dark skinned man slowly and deliberately, "if it comes down to choosing a side. Will you be with me or not. I may have to do something I never thought I'd have to, but circumstances have changed."
The man nodded, "I don't expect any less from you. It is what drew him to you in the first place. And yes, you have earned not only my loyalty but my respect for what you are about to do."
"You know I once had a wife and a daughter. She would have been thirteen by now if she had lived. While I was always evil, as the little one here had put it," giving Connor a sarcastic smile before he continued, "i was an evil one with a conscious. Drawing the line on killing innocent lives, children. But alas, my family, my own daughter wasn't spared. It was right here in Starling City, ten years ago that my family had met their fate." Slade shared with the adults while they were all seated all so calmly as if it was one of those mundane morning brunches at the Mansion.
"And it wasn't even at all about me or any of my dealings. It was because of corrupt government officials who allowed businessmen to cut corners with sub-standard building materials," Slade continued his musings.
"This is about that collapsed Kelly building." Robert said recalling the incident from seven years ago before he turned to his wife, "the Kelly's they died shortly after that and all investigation on that matter seized after."
"Swept under the rug like it was nothing at all. Fifty eight lives were lost that day. Among them two of my own and the city chose to bury it under tons of red tape," Slade continued.
"This is about revenge then," Moira said as calmly as she could. On one hand she could try to understand if she just made an effort, but with what was about to happen to the city, how could she, "you killed the Kelly's didn't you? Wiped out the existence of the whole family." Moira continued a matter-a-factly.
"Like I said, I am an evil man. You shouldn't expect anything less from me. That is what put Starling City in the bullseye of my plans. It's been ten years, I've waited ten years for this to come to fruition."
"Killing thousands wouldn't bring back your wife or your daughter." Robert tried to reason with their captor.
Slade pointed at Robert as he answered, "I am fully aware of that. But you see, it has all been set in motion. For years what is about to happen has been cast in stone. Even I couldn't stop it now if I wanted to. Not that I want to stop what is about to happen, that is. There are forces greater than me at play. In this story of destruction, I am but a man with a part to play. I just get the bonus of personal satisfaction because it is the city that has brought me so much personal despair that will suffer destruction."
"Then who? Who are the people who you are working for. Maybe we could appeal to them." Moira was still trying to find reason with the man.
Slade gave a deep, hearty laugh. "I have already revealed to much as it is. Their is no stopping what is about to happen. I am only telling you all this as a courtesy gesture for hosting me last night. You Queens do live grandly, kingly if I say so myself."
Slade stood up, pushing back is chair, "I will make one final act of kindness as a token of good faith. If Ms. Smoak agrees to do what she's suppose to do, without further delay. I will allow her daughter and Mr. Queen's son together with Ms. Smoak's mother to leave the confines of this Mansion to a safer location of their choice outside of the city. To be escorted by my people of course, less she renegades from our covenant. There is a very tiny part of me that seeks redemption in the eyes of the future generation." Slade was looking at Connor as he said the words. "The heir to the Queen fortune will be kept alive to hopefully spearhead the efforts to rebuild the city two decades after the city has been razed to the ground. That is the best I can do."
"Let us help you. What are these men you work for holding over your head. If you are capable of sparing the lives of two innocent children then deep down redemption is still possible." Robert said.
"I've made my peace a long time ago. In the business I am in, you go big or you don't mess with the big boys at all." Slade paused before he continued, this time he returned to form channeling his most menacing self, "enough of this phsycho-analysizing bullshit. It's only a few minutes 'til that time. I suggest you use that time wisely and say your goodbye's to one another."
"You think this will work?" Felicity asked Oliver before she stepped out of the car.
"It has to, it's our only play."
"Oliver, if it comes down to the lives of thousands over the lives of our children, our families. I have to make the right choice."
"I trust you. I love you. Remember that, whatever happens. Know that I love you. I love those kids."
Felicity reached out to touch both of Oliver's hands as if she'd never let them go, "it's as if you are saying goodbye."
Oliver swallowed a breath before he answered, "if it comes to it. Your life, the life of our children for mine. Then yes. Their is no choice to make. I will always choose you."
"Oh Oliver. I can't loose you. Not when I finally found happiness. Not when I now have everything I've ever wanted. Fate wouldn't be so mean as to give us a taste of all this only to take it away."
"Then let's pray this all turns out the way we hope it would."
"Anytime now Ms. Smoak. It's almost midnight. Your mother, your child and your beloved's child are already safely out of the city and so is Mrs. Queen. That wasn't even part of the original bargain. But I can still use your fiancee, yes I know he proposed to you last night, that was the reason I gave you that one more night for yourselves. Or I can even use your future father-in-law, point a gun to his head so we could get this ball rolling. It's really all up to you, Ms. Smoak."
The moment Slade had mentioned the engagement to Felicity, she locked eyes with Oliver. They hadn't even told anyone else about it. For Slade to even know what transpired that night. This was a new level of creepiness, even for him. Had he been spying on them, had a camera installed inside their hotel room?
The reach and resources of the man was now even more real with the reveal.
Oliver for his part tried to block off as much of what Slade was saying as he could and focus his whole being on Felicity. Both he and his father were currently tied up in chairs inside the home office used by Oliver with Felicity seated on his work table that had now been converted to a control room with several computers and monitors surrounding Felicity.
John and Lyla, together with the other Mansion staff where locked in a room somewhere but before John was taken away at gun point, he winked at Oliver What that meant, Oliver wasn't quite sure but it had to be good news. He needed some.
Based on what was communicated. Felicity was coding and configuring a network of failsafes for a bomb that was set for midnight, tonight. To ensure that she was doing the right coding. Slade had brought in another man whose job it was, was to do nothing but look over Felicity's shoulder and make sure she was plugging in the correct data.
Felicity had tried a few trick codes just to gauge the level of competence of her watch dog and concluded that the man could spot basic flaws in her programming, she knew that because the man grunted every time she did it. She was confident however that the man wasn't entirely at her level of genius since he didn't react to the more skilled 're-programming' she did.
The way Slade had designed the bombs. Two smaller bombs were to detonate first by midnight at opposite locations of the City, sending the first and seconds responders near the outskirts of the city leaving the city virtually open to a wider threat. The threat of the bomb to be detonated in the middle of the city. Once the first bombs had been triggered, there was no way the main bomb could be stopped.
The 'investors' have been informed of the what was about to go down tonight and they where safely tucked away in the next town eager awaiting the proceedings.
It was almost midnight now. It was almost that time of the night and Felicity was starting to sweat thinking what she was doing and the lives she was playing with. She was never one to play god, even with the level of skills she had. She made a conscious effort to use her gifts for the positive, that was the main reason Emily's father and she had disagreed a lot. He wasn't one with much of a conscious. Lucky for everyone, he was small fries. Didn't have the mind for grand schemes.
"It's almost time now, Ms. Smoak." Slade interrupted her thoughts.
Felicity eyed Oliver for a few seconds before she gave Slade her full attention, "I need one last thing done. Oliver and Robert, they are to be set free together with the rest of the staff. I want them out of the Mansion and away from here. If the City is ground zero of the destruction, I need them away from here. You don't need them. You just need me."
Oliver started to protest but was stopped by Felicity, "no Oliver. One of us has to survive this. For Emily and Connor. Unless you learned how to code overnight then it's clear who has to be left behind." Felicity looked Oliver, a tear escaped her as she continued, "getting to marry the man of my dreams someday. It was always a farfetched dream and I guess it will remain one. I'm just glad we had this last few months together. They were the best days of my life. A taste of the life we could have had."
Oliver's tears started to fall, the man uncaring that this was seen by all as he once again struggled with the bonds that were keeping him in place. "This isn't how our story will end."
"Oh enough of the melodrama! I will agree to this last request of your Ms. Smoak. Untie the men and get the other prisoners organised. They are to leave the Mansion in exactly ten minutes."
The second Oliver was untied, he rushed to Felicity but was stalled by a firm hand by Slade. "No dramatic goodbyes please. Two minutes Mr. Queen, then Ms. Smoak and I need to be alone together."
Oliver pulled his arm forcefully away from Slade has he approached Felicity pulling her out of the chair and giving her a hard embrace.
"I love you," he whispered to her ear as Felicity started to whimper uncontrollably.
"Love you too Oliver."
Oliver grabbed both of Felicity's cheeks and gave her a hard kiss tracing her form with his hands. After a few more seconds of embrace, Oliver caught her eye once again before he turned to Slade with a hard look.
"This isn't over! There's still time to stop this. Let me help you. Work with us to find a..."
"Take them away!" Slade interrupted Oliver. His men pulled the father and son away from the room as Oliver continued to shout Felicity's name. Felicity for her part had tears running down her cheeks as all she could do was stare at Oliver being dragged away from her, thinking that this was the last she may see him.
Slade marched back to Felicity and unceremoniously turned her chair around to face the computer banks again. A silent order to continue.
Oliver and Robert Queen where in a car together with some of Slade's men. The rest, including John and Lyla Diggle, Raisa and Esteban the cook were in a second car following them out of the gates of the Queen Mansion when the cars were blocked by another set of cars.
Men alighted from the vehicles pointing high powered guns at the vehicles that contained the Queens and the Diggles who were with Slade's me.
Maybe because Slade's men recognised the group of men surrounding the cars, they were in no hurry to exit the cars. That was until a woman finally exited one of the cars.
A woman dressed in a red mid-thigh expensive looking dress, young, maybe mid twenties commanded the attention of not just the men she came with but surprisingly the attention of Slade's men too.
She beckoned the man riding with the Queens with a lift of a palm and the man followed the instruction immediately. A few seconds later the lady was in conversation with the man who was joint by another one nodding at whatever the woman was telling them as moments later she pointed out instructions to the other men which were followed without question.
Seconds later, the door on Oliver's side was opened and he was instructed to alight.
Inside the Mansion, all was in ready. Felicity has finally completed to coding to Slade's satisfaction as she earned a smirk from him.
"When I press this," Slade pointed to a red button, "the two smaller bombs go off signalling the start of the destruction of Starling City. If you did your part right, thirty minutes after the main bomb is to go off at the heart of the city. Since the systems of the bombs are linked, nothing can stop the second detonation from happening. Is that right Ms. Smoak?"
Felicity swallowed before she answered, "yes."
"Then you did what you were needed to do. I would have loved to have you permanently on my team but I don't think we will work together without the threat of a life hanging over your head. So this is where we part ways I think?" Slade started to lift something from the pocket of his pants that had Felicity's mind thinking this was it, he was going to shoot her. He was holding a gun.
But then the front doors of the Mansion burst open again. Well what was left of the front doors and since Felicity and Slade where both in the inner room they both had a few seconds wondering what was happening. Slade recovered faster as he used the time to press the red button to set to his plan in motion making Felicity gulp at just how significant that second was in changing the fate of a thousand people.
"What did you just do!" A shocked voice echoed in the room as Slade froze for a moment recognising the voice before he turned around.
cliff hanger. just who was that who dared to holler out to the mighty Slade Wilson.