I live for your reviews, favorites and follows. Thank you. There is something I need to get of my chest though. I found the pictures of "Felicity" and "Barry" (awkwardly) holding hands and stuff, very disturbing haha. I hope Barry tries to kiss her and she'll be like "I'm sorry. I can't. Oliver.." I seriously don't want them together, unless it is to make Oliver jealous, but Felicity is not like that, so..
But I'm looking forward to The Flash though, I think it's going to be a great show.
Note: I changed chapter 20 a tiny bit, the hero part. I added something with Slade, nothing special though, but it feels better this way.
CW OWNS IT ALL.
Enjoy ;)
Even before she could open her eyes, pain and panic shot through her. Scenes flooding back, her fight with Paige, Waylon showing up, her possibility to flee. She jolted up, limbs flailing, eyes opening to find herself.. in a plain, clean room. It was not the same room she had been in before though.
Felicity tried to lift her hands, but she was tied up to a bed. She swallowed, flashing back to moments ago, to the other room where she had been bounded also, until the man had freed her but thereupon hit her.
She was able to sit up a bit, resting herself on her elbows. As she looked around, she saw a desk with a computer. One that could have come in handy if she was able to free herself. Maybe she could code something to Oliver, Diggle or even the Police Department, but as she looked down at the knots, she knew she couldn't untie them.
She shifted on the bed as she tried looking over her shoulder. There was a metallic cabinet standing behind her. Beside the cabinet stood another desk. On the desk were tubes, syringes, stethoscopes and bottles with liquids. She tightened her lips. She didn't want to come near that desk anyhow, but she knew there was a reason why she was placed in this room and she was sure it had something to do with the desk she actually wanted to avoid.
Her heart started pounding fast, she had to get out of here. She still didn't know who her enemy was, but she did know it wasn't the sweetest. She licked her lips as she noticed they were dry and hurting a bit. She really had to drink something, or she was going to pass out soon.
She lay down again, breathing slowly to steady her heartbeat. Last thing she wanted was for Oliver and Diggle to find out she had died from a heart attack. Felicity let out a little chuckle, as she thought of that ironic scenario.
A door handle was heard, the door to the room opened and Paige revealed herself.
"Well, well. You're awake. Took you awhile though." She said as she closed the door behind her.
She was wheeling another desk with a lot more bottles with liquid on it, one bottle even seemed filled with water. When Felicity saw the bottle, her eyes widened. Paige noticed.
"Thirsty huh?" Paige said as she grabbed the bottle and then took a cup out of a drawer. Felicity observed as Paige opened the bottle and poured some water into the cup.
"Good thing my partner didn't want you to dehydrate." She said as she walked over to Felicity and held the cup in front of her.
Felicity pushed herself up and leaned on her elbows again.
"Who's your partner?" Felicity asked as she looked Paige straight in the eyes.
Paige frowned.
"Can't you drink first? You talk a lot." She said in an irritated voice as she placed the cup against Felicity mouth.
Felicity tightened her lips again. First, she wasn't offered with any food or water and now she just simply got it, that was strange in so many ways.
Paige sighed.
"If you don't open your damn mouth now, I'll force you." She said as she pressed the cup harsher against Felicity lips.
Felicity clenched her teeth for a second before deciding to open her mouth and fill it with the water she had been waiting for. It wasn't enough though. Her head was still throbbing and her lips still felt like they needed the ocean to hydrate it again.
Paige threw the cup in a trashcan that was, apparently, under the bed Felicity was sitting on.
"Can you now tell me whom you're working with?" Felicity quietly asked as she watched Paige walking over to the please-avoid-me desk.
"I'm not here to chit-chat with you, Felicity." Paige said as she grabbed a tube and a syringe.
"If you're still angry about the whole fight between us, I just really needed to have some air.. I mean.."
"Oh safe your words."
Felicity pursed her lips. This woman was stiff and unsocial and really wasn't here to chit-chat. Nevertheless, she kept on trying communicating with Paige.
"Okay. So you won't tell me whom you're working with. Could you at least tell me why you need me? Look, I'm not special, you said that yourself. So.. why me?"
Paige let out a loud sigh, attached the syringe somewhat to the tube and walked over to the desk she had been wheeling.
"You seemed approachable and you were approachable." She suddenly answered.
"Approachable? By Waylon you mean?"
Paige flinched when she heard Waylon's name and Felicity let out a little 'oh'.
"That son of a bitch betrayed us. His job was to approach you and drug you."
"But.. he did that, didn't he? I was approached.. and I guess I was drugged.. so.. he did his job."
"Exactly. He did his job and he shouldn't have involved himself again. But I guess Waylon shat himself when the Arrow didn't stop running after him. That's why he tried to free you. Don't think he is a nice man after all, because he isn't. He never liked you Felicity. He only liked hookers, younger girls and himself. I'm glad he's gone."
Felicity stiffened to that last part.
"Gone?" She whispered loud enough for Paige to hear.
Paige looked up as she let the liquid from the tube get into the syringe.
"Yes, Felicity. Gone as in dead. The poor man died after all."
Felicity bit her lip as she tried picturing a lifeless body of Waylon. He had died right after he had tried helping her escape. She couldn't feel entirely sorry for him though, she felt disgusted too. She'd truly believed he liked her, but to find out he slept with hookers and younger girls.. that made her want to throw up.
Paige noticed the shock on Felicity's face.
"You didn't really have any feelings for him did you?" Paige said with a chuckle, however, Felicity didn't react.
The door opened again. A man got in the room. He had the same build and height as the man whom had hit her early, but this time the man wasn't wearing a mask nor dark clothing.
"Hello Felicity."
Nor was he using his robotic voice.
"Grayson.." Felicity said quietly as her eyes widened.
"You know my name. What a surprise." Both, Grayson and Paige, started grinning.
Grayson walked over to Felicity. Felicity bit her lip and closed her eyes as he cupped her face and planted a kiss on her forehead.
"So precious, yet so vulnerable." He whispered as he pulled away.
"Why?" Felicity let out in shock.
Grayson sighed and placed himself on the side of the bed.
"Unfinished business as we may call it." He said as he placed a hand on her leg. Felicity quivered, but tried not to show Grayson or Paige.
In the meanwhile, Paige had removed the tube from the syringe and had added some other fluid into the syringe. When Paige seemed satisfied with the syringe and the liquid in it, she handed it over to Grayson.
"What is that?" Felicity asked, anxiety written all over her face. Paige stayed silent and grabbed a wet towel to clean the spot where the needle was supposed to go in. Felicity looked down at her arm where Paige was disinfecting it.
"This, my dear, is something you know already. In fact, you had many encounters with it. You even thought it was all vanished." He paused. "In for a surprise?" he paused again. "It isn't all vanished."
"No…" Felicity said quietly. "That can't be.. it isn't.. we.. the explosion.. how did you get.."
"You're talking too much again." Paige said annoyed as she rolled her eyes and turned her back to Felicity and Grayson.
"Oh darling, let her be. It is a shock to her." Grayson said to Paige before focusing back to Felicity. "My beloved partner did some great blood research on you and apparently, your body can handle this. We can give this to you."
He looked at the syringe in his hand.
"We can give this last bit of Mirakuru to you. You won't die from it, you'll get stronger and better." He said with a grin, still focused on the syringe.
"No." Felicity said in disbelieve. "It's impossible." She was still thinking about the explosion.
This made Grayson snap. "Nothing is impossible! It is here, it's been here all along. And you will be injected by it. You'll be working with us. Why need your Robin Hood when you can have us, dear?"
Felicity inhaled deeply before reacting. "You are pure evil. I don't want anything to do with you." Felicity said as she started moving. Grayson removed his hand from her leg. "I don't understand why. I don't understand why you'd use your last bit of Mirakuru for me. Don't you want more? Don't' you want the power" She added quizzically.
Grayson started laughing now. "Oh dear, we only need this for you. We don't need more."
Felicity flinched and started screaming at the top of her lungs. Paige turned around immediately and placed her hand firmly over Felicity's mouth.
"Just inject her with it already. She's a pain in the ass." She said loudly as the screams softened.
Felicity started shaking and didn't try to control it. Tears started welling up, she tried fighting those. However, she failed. They started rolling down her cheeks. Grayson saw the tears and wiped one away.
"Oh hush, Paige. She's scared. That's alright. She won't be after. All be fine." Grayson whispered as his grin returned.
Then he stood up. He placed a hand firmly on Paige's shoulder and nodded. "Go ahead. She's ready." He insisted. He glanced down on Felicity, cocked his head and wheeled. As he started to the door he looked around one more time.
"You'll be fine dear, Paige will take care of you."
He smiled at Paige one more time before heading out.
"Will you stop screaming now?" Paige said, remaining her hand over Felicity's mouth and crouching down to get to eye level.
Felicity slowly nodded in anxiety and Paige removed her hand.
"Now sit still and let me do this." She murmured as she placed the tip of the needle against Felicity's clean skin, but Felicity started moving uncontrollably. This way Paige couldn't stick the needle in the right spot.
"G'd damn it." Paige yelled in disbelieve as she threw her hands in the air. She walked back to the desk and grabbed another syringe, filling it with some other liquid, but Felicity couldn't tell what it was.
As soon as Paige was finished she strolled back to Felicity and crouched down again.
"You're not the only one who can play games, dear." Paige spit to Felicity.
She showed the other syringe that didn't have the Mirakuru in it and placed it against Felicity's neck. This was the point where Felicity started screaming and moving again, but it didn't prevent the needle from going into her skin. Paige held onto Felicity's head as she pressed syringe, making the liquid go into Felicity.
Felicity could feel it running through her body already and her body started adjusting to it too. Nothing happened to her screams, however she weakened. Her body slowly stopped moving, she couldn't control it.
She was numbed.
"Better." Paige said ironically as she then showed the syringe with the Mirakuru.
Felicity stopped her screams, because she knew they weren't going to help her now. As she saw the needle coming closer, she bombarded herself with memories. Talks with the old lady on the bench, coziness in her apartment, firm hugs and comforting talks with Diggle, laughs with Roy, when Sara learned her how to have a strong foundation and the moment in the Queen mansion with Oliver.
I love you
Felicity closed her eyes and inhaled deeply.
"I love you.." She whispered back
Paige heard the words. "Is the Mirakuru making you crazy already? I don't fall for girls." She said with a laugh.
Felicity kept her eyes closed, ignoring Paige, because apparently, Paige kept on talking to Felicity, but Felicity couldn't hear. She was drifting off. Drifting off to somewhere unknown and she couldn't run away from it. She was scared, but she had no choice than to let it go. She exhaled one last time before everything shut down.
THE MIRAKURU. WHAT?!
please review, it motivates me ;)