A/N: Again, I do not own any of the characters or the shows that are mentioned in the story. Be kind, I do not have a beta reader and I am only doing this to get the story out of my head and as therapy for how Oliver has been lately. :) This Chapter is dedicated to the one who gave me a keyboard so typing using my iPad would not be so hard.

Please remember that this is AU, so if it conflicts with how the shows go, note that it is how I see or wish to see them.

Sorry it took so long. I am realizing everyday that it is not easy to write a story.

Hope you all like it.

Witness to a city that never sleeps
Where sins are made then buried
Doesn't matter how deep or hidden
It's always, always there
Hold back the tears there's little reprieve
If you show you are weak
You're accepting defeat
Pick up the pieces and dust yourself off
Then banner away
-A Call To Arms by Urbandub-

Chapter Four - Call to arms

Liz, Fred, Caitlin, Cat and Julie, these were Felicity's best friends, closer than even sisters. Caitlin always called them sisters of the heart thicker than blood. True enough no matter the circumstances they met going through life, their friendship has thrived and endured beyond age, school and even their fleeting romances.

Cat and Julie were two of the most popular girls at The Masters School. Cat, a statuesque brunette and Julie, a gorgeous supermodel type blonde, were surprisingly kind and welcoming to Felicity. From their first meeting, they immediately became inseparable.

Like any typical boarding school Masters is mostly filled with wealthy students, Felicity was one of the rare exceptions. Her father abandoned them when she was four and her mother worked as a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas to support them. It was only by chance that Danny McCoy, the President of Operations for the Montecito noticed that Felicity had an affinity for computers when, at age seven she helped fixed the hotel's security feeds while waiting for her mom, Donna's shift to finish. From that day, Danny and his wife had made sure that she got tested and certified as an actual genius. They helped her apply to the best schools and one day, the Dean of Admission for Masters came to meet her and offered her a full ride to Masters. She started three years younger than her classmates and was more than a little overwhelmed by the boarding school. She never really understood what Cat and Julie saw in her the day they met and they took her under their wing. They helped her with the athletics part of school and taught her to play lacrosse and basketball. They even pushed her to join the fencing team when they saw that she had a natural grace that would be an asset while competing in the sport. Since her mom could not afford to travel to New York, she spent most of her breaks with Cat and Julie's families and Danny McCoy became her surrogate Uncle, attending events and ensuring that she wanted for nothing while she was studying.

It was because of these three people that Felicity finally knew what it meant to be valued and accepted for all that she was.

She enjoyed her years at Masters, the aeronautics program, meets and formals would forever be some of her favorite memories.

She graduated Valedictorian of her class and was accepted by several ivy league universities but she fell in love with MIT

At first she was apprehensive since Cat and Julie both decided to go to Harvard but any fear she had that their friendship would die or that her friends would abandon her, vanished when both Julie and Cat came knocking on her dorm room and insisted that they have an unbreakable Saturday night movie marathon tradition.

Felicity met Fred, Liz and Caitlin at M.I.T. and in them she found kindred spirits. Though they were pursuing different degrees and were interested in other fields of study, they found many things they had in common. All of them were MENSA smart and were all several years younger than their peers, except Liz, who was already married and divorced at eighteen and thus started college later than them. Physically they were all petite in stature with Felicity being the only blonde among the brunettes. They also became friends with Cat and Julie so they had an amazing sisterhood that saw them through assignments, exams, heartbreak and even loss.

Fred, Liz and Caitlin shared a room at the Fenway House, one of M.I.T.'s Independent Living Groups, until Caitlin moved in with her fiancé Ronnie in an apartment along Harvard Square. Julie and Cat, both sorority girls lived at the Kappa Alpha Theta House. Through Ronnie, they met and sort of became friends with Cisco, Ronnie's best bud.

Felicity's college years flew by. She only had one serious relationship and they were together during her freshman year, until her boyfriend, Cooper Seldon passed away and it was through their sisterhood that Felicity was able to deal with his death and the events surrounding it.

They were all graduating in a few months and all of them with honors and various job offers already. Felicity was currently choosing between, the offers from The Wayne Corporation, Stark Industries and Queen Consolidated.

"Ok, just so we are clear, you are all expected to join us at the Kite and Key Annual Tailgate Party tomorrow at Fenway Park. You had all better be there." Cat's excited voice broke through Felicity's short trip along memory lane and Julie chimed in. "No excuses City, we already excused you from supporting and joining Cat in the Hat this year."

Felicity couldn't help smiling as she replied "Fine, fine, we will tailgate tomorrow. Now come on, let's start heading to Mount Auburn Cemetery. I think Cisco and Ronnie are meeting us there with dinner i.e. burgers from Miracle of Science and if we don't hurry those two will eat all of it."

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"Ok, ladies, burgers as requested, grab a blanket and do tell us why we are having this picnic in the middle of the night near what appears to be a fresh grave. Not that were complaining, were not, right Ronnie?" Cisco, waited for his friend Ronnie to say something but rolled his eyes when he saw Ronnie ignore the question altogether and instead pull down his soon to be wife, Caitlin, beside him on the blanket and greeted her.

Cat decided to spare Cisco and give an answer "We are here to test a theory."

In typical Cisco fashion, this only inspired more questions from him. "Ooohhhh theory, what theory? Am good with those, tell me, what are we theorizing?" Noticing the uncomfortable looks among his friends. "Come on guys, why the secrecy? Is it dangerous? NSA, CIA, Bond type danger?"

Felicity decided to just cut him off before he spiraled out of control. "Just relax Cisco, it is not dangerous, I mean, I don't think it is, just make sure to stay with Liz, Fred, Caitlin and Ronnie if something happens, not that I think something will happen...I mean it might not, but if it does...3...2...1"

Cat, seeing a Felicity type babble gaining speed at full force grabbed hold of Felicity's hands and made her look into her eyes to calm her down. "Breathe City...Breathe. You will be fine Cisco, just remember that you need to stay with them and whatever does or doesn't happen, do not panic. All questions will be answered when we are on our way home. Got it?"

Cisco started moving beside Liz and Fred as instructed. "Got it."

The girls were all aware of Felicity's nightmares and dreams as well as her newly acquired skills and powers. Since Felicity said she felt the dreams were true, they decided to help her test her theory and found someone whose death seemed to have been caused by a vampire attack and agreed to stake out his grave to see if he would rise.

If this was true, it would not be the strangest or the most dangerous thing that they have faced as friends. I mean, they already dealt with alien life forms called skins and helped Liz protect her ex-husband and their friends and just before that, they helped stop an assassination attempt on Cat's parents and wound up meeting Vincent, whose DNA was genetically manipulated by the army giving him super strength and enhanced senses. Vincent, was currently watching over Cat's family keeping them safe.

They all had stakes, holy water and crosses and they agreed that Liz would stay close to Fred, Caitlin, Ronnie and Cisco in case she needed to generate a shield to protect them. Julie and Cat, who both had martial arts lessons would only aid Felicity if she is unable to handle the theorized vampire.

After about an hour and a half spent talking about tomorrow's tailgate, the ground covering the fresh grave started to shift and seeing that, the girls started moving into position with Felicity walking toward the grave.

Looking wide-eyed and disbelievingly at the hand which burst from the grave, Cisco started to freak. "Ugh guys, guys, there's, there's...a...hand...there's a hand." Causing Liz, Fred, Caitlin and Ronnie, to hold him down before he started making like a headless chicken.

Felicity took deep breaths and forced herself not to panic as she made sure to do what she saw the girl named Buffy do in her dreams and brought out her stake. As soon as half the guy's body was above ground, Felicity made her move, using her left arm to block his arms and thrust down the stake toward, his chest. Despite the stake in his chest the vampire did not turn into dust and instead fully rose and took out the stake and started moving toward Felicity. "Aww did the blonde gurly gurl miss? That's ok, you and I are gonna have fun and then I am gonna have dinner missy."

Felicity dove toward where the vampire threw the stake and kicked the vampire knocking him down. "I wont make that mistake again and eeeeew perv!" Felicity then straddled him and drove the stake accurately dusting him.

Breaking the silence, Cisco was the first to react. "Was that, a vampire? Like an actual vampire? Lestat? Dracula? Blade? It went poof! And when did you learn to fight them Felicity? This is so cool! Hey wait a minute, why did you tell me to stay by Liz? Do you have powers too, Liz?" Seeing the pained look on Liz's face. "This is so awesome! I mean bad hehe."

Ronnie, coming down from his shock, took out his wallet and pulled out a twenty and handed it to Caitlin. "So Vampires huh? Guess that means you win this bet Hon."

Still looking at the place the vampire was dusted, Felicity shivered and knew that at that point nothing in her life would ever be the same again. "It's true, my dreams, they were true, I'm a Slayer and it is now my responsibility to fight them. Just like Buffy did before she died."

Cat and Julie walked toward Felicity. Speaking first, Julie addressed her. "You wont be alone Felicity. We will be here with you and we will share this responsibility with you."

From the blanket, Liz, Fred and Caitlin looked at one another and Fred spoke out. "You told us Buffy had friends helping her, we have your back City." Liz then added "The same way you have never abandoned us, we wont leave you, were not just friends, we are sisters remember?" Caitlin, after an encouraging nod from Ronnie then spoke. "I mean, we may not be slayers, vampires or witches but were not exactly slouches and we are some of the smartest people in the country, if not the world, so were in for sure. Plus, just try and keep Cisco away." At that they could not help but laugh and hearing them, Cisco objected. "Hey! Ok, maybe that's true. Oh screw it, of course it is. I want in!"

Cat, noting the consensus, "This is also our fight. What do you want to do now City?"

Felicity, grateful for the support of her friends searched her memories and looked at her friends. "We do what they did, we research all that we are up against, train and prepare and then when we are ready, we set up nightly patrols to keep the area safe, I guess. I don't have a Watcher for some reason so we will need to do the studying and the research ourselves. We will also need to find a dojo or something where we can train."