Buffy sits on the floor of her room, leaning against the door as she rests the piece of paper in her lap, slowly she lowers her pencil and stares at the image in front of her. She had tried to draw the Dark Archer from memory but the main issue was that she couldn't draw, honestly her trying to make a stick figure would have been more useful. Groaning she stands and tosses the drawing on her desk, where hundreds of scrolls were laid, scrolls from the league, all written in Arabic, which guess what, she wasn't that good at either.

Sighing she flops down onto her bed before picking up the book next to her, no matter how hard she searched she should have realised by now that Ras was smart enough to make sure there was no trace of anyone's true identities.

Which left her utterly and totally screwed.
Grabbing a pillow Buffy lays it over her face before screaming in frustration.

"Geez, who died?" A peppy voice asks from the doorway causing the blonde to lower the pillow and frown when she spots her cousin standing there staring at her with an amused expression.
"Felicity?" Buffy asks in confusion, she wasn't supposed to be here till later, didn't she have work, Willow had work.

"Hey Buff." The blonde genius says with a grin as she jumps onto the bed next to her cousin before looking at the bullet wound "Cool. Is that a bullet wound? Did it hurt? I thought you healed fast? Shouldn't it be gone now I mean otherwise what is the point of your fast healing, oh is it gonna scar like the others—actually how did you get those were they—"

Felicity is cut off from her babble as Buffy groans "Fel-i-city" She says slowly drawing out her cousin's name, the annoyance evident in her tone, but clearly the other blonde was choosing to ignore the annoyance, as she merely frowns in confusion "What?"

Buffy sighs before moving the papers from the league off of the bed and into her arms to avoid her cousin looking at them and asking a billion questions. However the latter was unstoppable.
Felicity taps Buffy's bullet wound only making the slayer glare at her, so the blonde adjusts her glasses before continuing with her questioning "So you fought the woman with white hair?"

Buffy sighs before standing from the bed and placing her paper work on the table, she loved her cousin, but she obviously talked more than Buffy could deal with and that was saying something considering how long the veteran slayer had lived with Dawn.
"Yes, Lis."

Felicity nods before picking up the stuffed pig on the bed and placing it on her lap, as she continues to question her older cousin "Did you win?"
Buffy arches a brow in amusement "She ran off and I got shot, what do you think?"
"Not the stereotypical version of winning?" Felicity mumbles with a shrug before she picks up the old looking book on Buffy's bed, honestly it looked like a million years old "So what's this?"

Buffy sighs again before taking the book off her talkative cousin and trying to change the topic "Don't you have work?"
"Yep so..."
Buffy rolls her eyes "Go to work Felicity."
"But..."
"Go."

At the resolve face on her cousin's face Felicity pouts, she tries to hide her hurt expression as she nods and makes her way out of the room.

Walking into the living room she spots Xander standing by the kitchen counter drinking his coffee, when he raises his eyes and spots her he sighs sadly "Didn't go well?"
Felicity shakes her head before grabbing her bag and heading towards the door, before she left though she turns back to the young man "She's never gonna trust me is she?"

At the young woman's hurt expression Xander couldn't help but inhale sharply, he had been where she was once, when Buffy had first started to close herself off from everyone, he knew the struggle the blonde was going through, but considering Buffy was literally her family he could only imagine how much more it hurt.

So he did the only thing he knew how to...he told her the truth "Honestly...I don't think she'll ever trust anyone again."

As Oliver shows McKenna around his newly rebuilt nightclub he couldn't help but smile at her astonished reaction, it appeared that he could do more than just shoot people with arrows.

"So will you be my date tomorrow night?" He asks curiously causing her to turn to face him with a small smirk on her face.
"Is a club opening a proper date?" She teases.
Oliver smiles at the beautiful cop in front of him "I certainly hope so." He breathes out hoping she would say yes. When she stays silent he tilts his head slightly "Is that a yes?" He questions.

McKenna merely shakes her head at him after a moment of contemplation "No." She says quickly before stepping forward and placing a soft kiss to his lips, causing him to smile into the exchange.
"That's a yes." McKenna teases with a grin as she pulls away from the kiss before strolling away.

Buffy leaps across the rooftop as she makes her way through the Glades, using streets like a normal person was totally last season. Plus it was faster to leap across buildings and funnier.

As she rolls across the floor coming to a stop from yet another leap she pauses and stands dusting the dirt and dust from her uniform before running towards the edge of the building. There had been a stabbing a few streets down and given the amount of traffic there was no way in hell she would make it in time if she took the ambulance. So here she was running across rooftops.

Suddenly her feet come to a violent stop "Okay maybe Felicity has a point about the vigilante thing."
She sighs in annoyance, she did not want to be a vigilante, hell she hadn't wanted to wear that damn suit in the first place, but had only agreed because she didn't want anymore scars and then Xander added that stupid mask before she could object.

She couldn't help but sigh in amusement as she remembered back to the look of a gleeful child Xander had expressed seeing her in the suit ,which had only made her roll her eyes at that time.
Taking a deep breath Buffy smiles at the happy memory, it was nice having this small moment without any pain or misery filling her. But then again she was Buffy Anne Summers and her luck really did suck.

Just as the thought came to her, her body went crashing into a concrete pillar on the other side of the roof. Two of her right ribs shattering on the impact making her cry out in pain and clutch them with her arm as she rolled into a ball on the cold floor.

She takes a gasping breath before turning to face her attack only to groan in annoyance and slam her head on the ground lightly when she spots the man above her.

"Can't you stay dead for even a little while?" She hisses in annoyance as she grabs the scythe and stands preparing to fight with the death defying man once again.
"Down girl." Marcus chuckles before kicking her across the face causing her to grunt painfully and go crashing face first back into the pillar.
When she turns and glares at him he merely smiles before crossing his arms "I'm not here to fight. This is business."

Buffy stares at him for a long moment, he was seriously nuts, "Really?" She asks quirking an eyebrow as she stared at the giant man, well he was only a giant to her because she was so short but still.

Marcus smiles politely before dusting off his suit and pulling a photo out of his pocket holding it up for the Slayer to see, at the sight of the photo Buffy's eyes widen. It was an image of her and Felicity having lunch from a few weeks ago.
Buffy's eyes glaze over in fury "I swear to God if you touch her..."
"We don't intend to hurt your dear cousin Miss Summers." Marcus comments cutting the growling Slayer off before she could attempt to rip out his throat.

"Wolfram and Hart merely would like to remind you how much we value family...and we know how much the loss can be tragic."

At his words Buffy's fist clenches harder around the scythe as she watches him slowly leave the roof, it was taking every ounce of strength not to attempt to rip out his throat...with her teeth. She wanted him dead but she knew what he was doing, he was threatening her family. Xander, Willow, Dig...and Felicity. Him having that photo of her and her cousin meant they knew about the people in her life that she cared about. Which meant that she needed to make sure that they were safe.

She couldn't risk losing anyone else.

Diggle sighs sadly as he listens to Oliver, yes he was happy that Oliver was finally not focusing his entire life on getting the bad guys and was actually hoping to make things work in his personal life. With McKenna.

But Diggle knew he couldn't keep what he had found from Oliver, so turning his head back towards the computer screen he pulls up the file "Well, it's the bad girls that I'm worried about."
The smile that had previously been on his face falls as he spots the security footage on the screen, there holding a man at gun-point was his ex.

"Helena."

"Yeah...or as I like to call her, your psycho ex-girlfriend." Diggle informs him, he still to this day hated this woman "This was taken at Alley Cats, the strip joint. The police report lists the stiff's name as Gus Sabatoni." He informs his partner just as Helena pulls the trigger on the screen, killing the man.

Oliver clenches his jaw and turns away from the screen "Bertinelli's lawyer. Why would she come back to Starling City just for him?" He asks curiously as he begins pacing around the room trying not to stare at the screen that was burning an image in his skull "It's not like he did a good job."

Diggle groans in annoyance, he was still protecting her even after just watching her murder a man in cold blood "Her father's serving consecutive life sentences without parole. Come on Oliver, we both knew this was just a matter of time." He stands approaching his friend trying his hardest to get him to see the truth "You tried to help her, you couldn't. Now the only question is how long before she drops a dime on you, me, this whole operation?"

Buffy clutches her side as she falls flat on her face on the balcony outside her apartment, as she lands on the ground she knocks over a plant causing the vase to shatter making her wince at that sound.

She knew she had about 3 seconds till all hell broke loose.

3...

2...

1...

On 1 a panicked Xander and Felicity run out from the living room and onto the balcony, at the sight of the blonde Felicity gasps and quickly crouches down beside her.
"BB, are you okay? What happened? You told me you were at work? Why—why did you..."

At her cousin's rambling Buffy sighs before pushing herself up so that she was crouched in front of her "Fe-lic-ity" She says slowly before smiling kindly at her cousin "I'm fine, okay just a little banged up."

When Felicity merely stares at her cousin unconvinced Buffy smiles before hesitantly leaning forward and taking Felicity's hand in her own "I'm okay." She assures her again, before the whole reason she had rushed home came back to her.

Quickly standing ignoring the pain in her side Buffy grabs Felicity and Xander by the arm, yanking them into the apartment.
Quickly pushing them both further into the room Buffy quickly slams the balcony door shut locking it before moving towards their emergency lockdown system.

Metal bars drop down in front of the glass balcony door causing both Felicity and Xander's eyes to widen.
Xander turns to Buffy in shock "What-huh-how-what-when?" He stutters out in confusion, he had no idea Buffy had installed any of this.

Buffy sighs before walking into the kitchen and grabbing the plastic foil from the draw "Wrap and I'll explain." She says to her cousin holding out the foil towards her.
Felicity sighs before grabbing the foil and carefully wrapping it around Buffy's bruising stomach as the Blonde holds up her shirt.

Buffy winces slightly before glances over at Xander "Marcus knows about all of you..." Buffy gulps before looking over at her cousin "...even you Felicity."

Xander's eyes widen in panic "What he came after you?! Did he do this to you?!" He asks with a worried tone, not liking the idea that this psycho kept being the reason his best friend ended up hurt.
Buffy sighs not wanting to get into specifics right now "He threatened all of you. Marcus knows that there are people in my life I care about. I'm not risking you getting hurt."

Felicity glances over at her cousin, despite the fact that this psycho now knowing about her terrified her more than anything, she knew what her cousin wanted to do. She wanted them to run but she couldn't do that, she had only just gotten her family back and if Felicity Smoak believed in anything, it was that you never left family behind.

"I am not leaving you...I just found you."

At her words Buffy sighs but her lip tilted up slightly, almost forming a smile, it felt nice to have an actual member of her family back in her life again, one who was speaking to her. So going against her natural instinct to avoid all human contact she steps forward and wraps her arms around her younger cousin "I'll never let anyone hurt you." She whispers as she runs a hand through her cousin's hair.

Felicity who was stunned to silence lets out a small sob and smiles happily as she hugs the other blonde tightly "Me either."