When the Darkness Comes

Chapter Three: I hate to go, but I'd love to leave…

John Diggle got to the town car he drove for the Queens and went to Big Belly Burgers to get burgers, fries, and a milkshake for him and Felicity. As he drove, he thought about what he saw in the foundry and worried about Felicity. He knew the girl had feelings for Oliver. It was easy to see, from the way she looked at him to the way she tends to worry about him on missions and the way she is the first one to reach him to tend to his wounds. He also knew that Oliver had feelings for her, too. That much was obvious. From the subtle, intimate touches to the way he always grows paranoid when he thought she was in danger. So he was confused at what he saw in the foundry. Why were Sara and Oliver flirting with each other? Why didn't Felicity look surprised? He thought. Because the minute he saw them sparring, he looked straight to Felicity's face and saw disappointment. But the most obvious emotions were rage and hurt. It was flowing off of her all day. Just by looking at her, he saw the tension in her body and a very dark aura surrounding her in ways that if you just look at her, you would think that she would snap your head off. He never saw Felicity like that before. How would Felicity react to this? He asked himself. How will this change the dynamic of the team? But the most important question he had in his mind was how will Felicity cope with this?

He still had to talk to Oliver about what happened the night before, but, right now, his favorite IT Girl, the one he treats like a little sister, needs him. While he was mulling over his thoughts, he nearly passed through Big Belly's but luckily turned just in time.

'Urgghhh' Felicity thought, 'I hate this thing, I feel hot all over. And not in a good way!' She sighed and went to her kitchen to grab a bottle of water as she waited for Digg with burgers. 'At least I haven't gone batshit crazy!' As that thought popped up in her head, she wondered whyshe haven't gone insane with rage, because from what she gathered, the Mirakuru did stuff to you physically andmentally. 'Maybe I'm much saner than the average person. It certainly seems that way, especially with what I had to grow up with and my nighttime activities.' As she thought that, Roy's face suddenly popped up in her head. 'But then again, Roy has had a worse childhood that I did, and he nearly went insane! Like a crazy dude ready to wreck havoc! Huh. Maybe I'm just really sane.' As that thought crossed her mind, she went back to her navy blue couch and sat crossed legged on it as she shrugged each shoulder up and down, suddenly over-exceedingly happy, then just as the happiness crossed her face, her mood suddenly dropped as she told herself in her mind, 'I have got to stop this mood swings, I mean, seriously, how can somebody stand to be so mercurial! Oh no! Maybe I am going insane; I'm having a debate with myself in my head! Aaaah! I am going crazy! Just in a different way!' She gripped her and leaned her elbows on her knees when she suddenly realized something. 'Wait, I'm having a debate with myself in my head? That's normal.' She lets out a frustrated sigh and drops her head in her open palms. 'I have got to stop doing that!' She lets out another sigh before leaning back on her couch.

As she leaned her head back and closed her eyes, she sees the image of Oliver and Sara the night before in the foundry. She suddenly felt a surge of rage as her mood had gone south. She reached over to her coffee table and grabbed the fruit bowl on top of it and dumped all its contents, grape fruits made of wax, and was about to throw it at the flat screen LED TV when her doorbell rang. She raced a slim eyebrow and put the bowl back to its proper place before she got up to answer the door.

She reached her front door and looked through the peep hole and saw Diggle standing there holding a paper bag from Big Belly Burgers. She opened the door for him as he dropped her raised arm that was holding the bat she took from her umbrella stand before she looked through the peep hole.

"Really?" Diggle asked as he looked down at the bat she was holding.

"What?"

He answered with a shrug and entered her townhouse. Felicity placed the bat back to the umbrella stand and followed Digg to the living room where he was about to sit on the couch when he was the coffee table was a mess with the wax grape fruit strewn around the table and some on the carpet.

"What-" Diggle was about to say but Felicity cut him off.

"I threw a temper tantrum like a three year old." Felicity simply said as she sat down on the couch crossed legged and cleared the table and placed the grape fruits back in the bowl. "So," She said as she rubbed her palms together, "You got me my Belly Burgers Regular?"

"Yup," Diggle replied as he took the contents of the paper bag out. "Two half pound cheese burgers with bacon strips and extra cheese and chocolate milkshakes with whip cream and cherry on top and some chunky, crispy French fries!"

"Oooohhhh! That looks mouth watering!"Felicity grabbed her burger and milkshake and started eating.

John did the same and after taking a few bites he asked Felicity; "So, Why did you ask me to come here and bring over some take out?"

"Eat first, talk later" Felicity answered with her mouth full. Diggle chuckled and took another bite of his burger.

Oliver never got the chance to explain to Felicity what she saw in the Foundry early in the day. And he doesn't really know what he and Sara were, were day together or was it just a time thing. When he decided to sleep with Sara, he didn't think about the consequences or what would happen after. He sighed to himself as he thought of Felicity's face. He saw anger, disappointment and hurt in her eyes that morning.

As he was contemplating on whether to do the salmon ladder or beat up a dummy till it's destroyed, he heard the foundry door opening and he looked at the stairs and saw Sara, standing there, looking at him. She made her way to him and grabbed his neck to pull him down for a kiss. He didn't resist her. He had been lonely these last couples of months and Sara was there, just like him, she knows all his dark sides, and it was just easy, she was safe. So he decided to give it a try with Sara, knowing he was hurting Felicity in the process. 'It's for her own good.'

Felicity and John finally finished their burgers and just as Diggle was about to ask what this was all about, Felicity suddenly spoke.

"I'm quitting the team and QC." She said in a really fast way that Diggle didn't understand a word she said.

"What?"

"I said I'm quitting the team and QC." Felicity said in a much slower pace and Diggle chocked on his milkshake.

"WHAT?!"