Everyone was whispering as to not wake Felicity but everyone wanted answers but more importantly they wanted to know what the hell scared their girl. They all were talking when they all heard a shuffle looking at the girl slowly getting in a sitting position. Oliver was the first at her side.

"Easy, take your time getting up" he said while everyone not crowded but gathered around the couple.

"Please tell me I was just dreaming and that I didn't picture me opening a message with a picture of a note and a glass swan, please tell me my past is not coming back to haunt me" she looked up from her hands inher face looking at her family. "but from the silence I am guessing it was not a dream and that my past is her to haunt me" she said laying back down with a little purpose, looking up at the ceiling and not the muiltiple people staring at her.

"Felicity I know you just woke up but do you mind giving us some clarity and telling us who from your past sent you the package" Oliver said running his hand up and down her thigh.

"If I tell you guys, will you all promise me that sense that it is my past that I will handle it on my own and if and only if it escalates then I will ask for help when needed" she looked at everyone in the room

"But..." Oliver all but got out before Felicity looked right at him

"This is not up for discussion Oliver, you handled Merlyn, Slade, and Ra's all on your own, and we all respected that but this is my past, my problem, and I am damn sure I am not going to let you guys protect me from something that I tried to put past me" she said trying not to sound angry

"Do you understand me, that goes for everyone" she pointed her finger at everyone making her argument

"Fine but the moment you are in danger or threatened, all of us are going to get involved" Oliver said with a growl and head nodds from everyone agreeing with him.

Felicity looked at everyone "Ok fine, first things first I need a burger fries and milk shake, I cant tell you guys until I have food in my stomach" Felicity was freaked out but she still was able to put smiles on their faces.

Hours later Oliver, Felicity, Thea, Digg, and Laurel are eating at Thea's and Oliver's loft, all sitting on stools in the kitchen. Felicity was about to eat a french fry when Thea was just to antsy and couldn't wait any longer.

"So you going to start spilling or we going to have to pry it out of you" Thea blurted out

"Thea" Oliver looked at her with this look like shut up and be pacient.

Felicity took a deep breathe "Do you guys remember Cooper"?

Thea and Laurel look at each other then they both said "Who is Cooper"

"He was my boyfriend from sophmore to senior year of college, when we first meet he made me laugh, he made me feel special, we got to know everything about each other and senior year we did something stupid and the after effect was worse cause Coop was in jail and I was... I was my usual self and I blamed myself because it should have been me who was in jail not him, the day before he was to go to sentencing I visited him and told him i was going to go to the FBI and tell them that it was me, but Coop being Coop told me not to and that he never ever wanted me too tell them that he already told them that he did it" she had a stray tear going down her cheek which was caught by Oliver

"I was getting ready to go to his sentencing when my phone rang and a guard said that there wasn't going to be a sentencing that early that morning he had hung himself in is cell" she looked down at her place that still had a half eaten burger.

She looked up "It all began from last year of high school to freshman year of college, after my dad left I turned m hair black and started getting piercings, the one thing that I keep doing after he left keep me strong and it let me focus or just clear my head, I keep figure skating and going to any ice rink, a friend at the ice rink in vegas he knew what i was doing and he gave me the keys to the front door incase I wanted to be there at night with no one there" she looked and was meet with surprised faces.

"What" she said

"Just learning more and more about you thats all" Oliver said picturing her in one of those performing attire.

"Ok moving on, senior year of high school I began performing more and so I looked for a coach and i found one He was just a couple years older than me, I though it was just weird but on our first lesson he impressed me and helped improve my stance, balance and timing"

"Just how much older was he from you" Digg said

"I was 16 and he was maybe 22" she said with a little raise of her eyebrow

"Was he hot" Laurel and Thea said at the same time

Felicity took a french fry from her plate and put it in her mouth chewing as slow as possible but she forgot that she was blushing. Thea and Laurel caughting on and giggling like little girls. Oliver looking a little smug himself. She looked at the girls and had a very serious face on.

"Do you guys want to hear the rest cause I can leave" she said moving her head from the girls to Oliver and Digg

"No the girls with shut up and listen for now on" Oliver said looking at the girls and not backing down

"When it was time for me to get ready for college and moving day I had to tell Ryan that I got into M.I.T. and was getting ready to move in a couple weeks and that I woudn't see him anymore..."she paused waiting for her heart to slow down for the last part

"When i told him he didnt give me a reaction. He was just looking at me and then he started talking and he told me he got a new coaching job somewhere near M.I.T, I was a little happy that i would still be able to see him, when it was my first week into college I got a call from him telling me to meet him at the ice rink right off campus, that he had to tell me something" she got up from the stool and started pacing the lenght of the livingroom

Everyone didn't take their eyes off of her the whole time she was pacing. Oliver on the other hand was getting a little scared and nervous for the next part of the story sense she was up and pacing. Making him start tapping his foot on the stool foot support. He couldn't take it anymore so he as softly as he could told her to sit down on the couch, everyone gathered with her. Diggle sitting in the one seater next to the couch, Oliver sitting next to Felicity lightly moving his hand on her thigh to help calm her, Laurel and Thea took seats on the floor just waiting for her to finish the story.

"I got to the ice rink and no one was there, I had stopped at the locker room to put my skates on and when I got out he was standing in the middle of the rink, his back toward me. When i got closer he turned around and he had something in his hand. My heart was pounding when I saw what it was, I was just excited, the first time in my life that someone has brought me flowers, but not just any flowers, my favorite flowers. For a second I just pushed that thought out of my mind because he was there just being so nice and romantic." she looked at Oliver and started to ramble like she used to which made everyone take a deep breathe and smile.

"Not that you arn't romantic Oliver, cause you are, you have your own romantic things like cooking me omeletes in the morning, or knowing that I am cranky without my first cup of coffee, or just saying my name like you do cause lets just say it has a warming effect on me'' she was not on the verge of embasassment

"None of you heard anything i just said" she looked at the faces that were trying not to laugh.

Felicity was a little nervous to tell the last part. Oliver felt the heat coming from his girlfriend and he just started rubbing circle on her thigh. She took the opportunity to gather all of her strengh and before beginning she rested her head on Olivers shoulder releasing a breathe she didn't know she was holding. Oliver being Oliver and placed a kiss on her forehead. He hovered a little bit cause she needed to feel she was with him. He even got used to the forehead kiss and just waiting a second to make note of the specific smell that made him sure that Felicity was with him. It was a combination of strawberry and light, if you ask me he was just making it up but the way he was hovering over her head made him think of the arguments they had before they were afficialy a couple, she would always stand up to him like she wasn't scared and call him on his bull crap of lies. It made him widen his smile even more.

"He gave me the flowers and asked me on a date. I told him I will have to get back to him cause I was starting up classes, and I hadn't unpacked my boxes. Then what he did next scared the crap out of me, he demanded that I got on a date with him said that we were ment to be together, that he has not stopped thinking about me sense he knew me, I started to get out of there and when I was leaving I spotted his back and I froze, there was hundred if not thousands of picture" she had a tear falling and before it was to her cheek Oliver wiped is away. Their eyes were locked and they were having a silent conversation like always.

"I walked over to his bag and picked it up dumping all the photos on the floor" she was looking at Oliver just looking at his eyes feeling calmer knowing he was with her right now making her feel safe.

She took a deep breathe before she spoke the haunting pictures in her head.

"All the photos were of me and the scary part was some of them were before I even meet Ryan. He was stalking me before I had known him, he started saying something about how pretty the picture were, how my smile just made him want to kiss me, that I was the most daring, feisty, and smart person he has gotten this close to in ages" she looked to her left and look out the window not looking at the people staring at her.

"When he started picking up the photos I took my time to undo my skates, not trying to get his attention, I was about to take them off when he looked at me and showed me a picture of me when I was dancing in my kitchen, there are not windows in my kitchen and my next thought had me shaking realy hard while I took the picture from him. From the angle the picture was taken there is no way he could have taken it, I would have seen him. I asked him if he had anymore. He turned around and started looking for more so I took the opportunity to slip out of my skates and start running. I got all the way to my car when i notice i didnt have my keys, I was so scared I didn't notice him come up from behind me. He tried to get me to his car but I put all the adrenaline I had left to elbow him in the side and started screaming for help. He told me it was no use, no one was around, no one would hear me die, no one would even care. I couldn't do anything my body was just to tired, my adrenaline was wearing off. The last thing I said before the lights went out were 'I need to stop falling for the bad guys'."