p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""I remember being handcuffed and being dragged onto the plane. I escaped by opening the doors at 15000 feet and using the parachute hidden in an above seat compartment. It's funny because I actually pulled the door before remembering there would be a chute on board, when I landed I found out that my little sister had been abducted. I thought they were safe but he got past Waller's men and took her./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /I rang my parents and they told me, they don't know it was Michael who took her and I hope that I wont have to tell them. I expect to hear from him soon, I just cant do it alone. I was hoping you could help me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" of course, but how do you think we can help you?" Oliver said a clear uneasiness in his voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"that's just it, I know a lot about you all. No specific's but I do know about lets just say your extra curricular activities." They all openly gasp and for the first time in all our conversation Felicity is the one to tense up./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Was it in your husbands files?" Oliver asks, neither confirming or denying what they all knew she was talking about./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No, he'd done his research but it was actually when I hacked into A.R.G.U.S. in order to hide where my tip came from I had to send it internally and tag files on you. I'd actually thought I would have to create the files then tag them, turns out they have a lot of info on all of you. I didn't read any specific mission related files but since they were all under tag : team arrow. It didn't take an genius to figure out the rest."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"So why not just let us know directly?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I went to A.R.G.U.S. because I designed their network when I was at MIT and getting in it was like riding a bike, I already had Waller protecting my family I couldn't count on a second favour. Where as any other system would be a lot more difficult as I'm more than a little rusty when it comes to hacking. I knew I wouldn't have much time with Michaels computer and it took me over half an hour just to break through the encryption, just to use it. "/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" but you said you were alone."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I was alone but I didn't know how long for and he thought the house was safe to leave me in. It had no tv in the house and only radio, no technology really. His computer, which he believed was un-hackable even to me was the only part of the modern world in the house. I haven't seen a movie, watched a tv show or heard music in 5 years. I was able to read books in paper back and he let me keep up to date with newspapers and periodicals it helped to keep me sane but hasn't helped keep me up to date with the changing face of I.T."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but why did Michael keep you around doesn't sound like he really wanted you. Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh." Roy spoke for the first time, making me smile with his frankness./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"he needs me alive for patent signings, see even though I refused to keep working. He still has all my designs from the first two years and they will continue to make a lot of money for a long time come. See he has blown through his families money and now most of his financial assets are mine, he just has access to them because we're married. If I die or disappear an investigation would take place and more importantly he would have to share the money with the rest of my family. He doesn't like to share."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"So how much are your patents worth?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Around 10 billion dollars." I see their faces drop and I can see them begin to understand why I'm still breathing albeit a little too shallowly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"So that's a lot of money to lose out on and in the event of my death he would only get half of what he gets now. So better alive than dead, at least till I escaped. Now he has my baby sister and he will want me to come back to him."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" Do you think he will hurt her?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Most definately hopefully not at first but he will eventually. The sooner I get her back the better, I'd walk through the gate right now if I thought it would save her."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you don't think he'd let her go."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"i think she's too good a leverage against me, he knows I'd do anything to protect knows I already have."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"so what do you want to do?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I'll go back but I need you to get us out before I get killed?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"YOU CAN'T!" Felicity yelled/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I don't have a choice." I replied putting my hand on Felicity's arm. " if I don't go, we wont find her or she'll be dead by the time we find her. So I don't have a choice, I have to go."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" I'm sorry but love you were a mess not an hour a go, how on earth are you going to face him?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I wont be doing it without help, I have a drug combo that will help keep me lucid, a drug that I'm not using right now and a drug that I will need to get out of my system as soon as this is all over."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"" So what your saying is, this drug is not good for you?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"exactly but it will help me get through this, but I don't care if you have to strap me to a table a forcibly put me through a minimum of 96 hour withdrawal. I will need you to do it because I'm not sure I'll be able to go off it again."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"what do you mean again?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"it's how I got out and I've also been using a milder version of it for 12 months but the current combo shuts down my entire emotional response. However, it's too strong and not healthy, moments like you saw earlier are the down side of coming down. It will be painful to watch and I will swear to you that I need the drug to function and in truth I may for quite a long time but I refuse to you understand. I'm not sure how I'll come out the other side or if I even will, I big dose was bad a second dose will be worse. "/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"cant you do it without then?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No besides I took that decision out of my hands. I have a time release capsule in my stomach, it will begin to take effect in about 6 hours and then I will have 48 hours of positive effects before I start to go into withdrawal. After that I will rotate between physical symptoms and emotional ones, I may start trembling, have a fever, my blood pressure will sky rocket one minute plummet the next and my heart rate will fluctuate. I will be all over the place and don't be surprised if I am the patient from hell and if you can I ask that you keep me out of the public eye."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"what about your family?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"especially my family I don't care if you lock me in a basement somewhere I'd rather they not see me going through this.. I know I'm asking a lot but that's all I can do, in 12 hours I will ring Michael and hand myself over. I will try to get out but I know without your help I will not succeed."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"is there anything you can do to help us?" Oliver asked, clearly understanding a little better than the others why I had taken the decision out of their hands./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Reaching into my pockets and handing Felicity a USB drive and a phone " everything I know is on these, now I really need a shower before I crash again. It's coming and its best I'm tucked away when it does./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" I'll show you and get you some clothes. They'll be a little big but they should feel better." Felicity said walking me upstairs, "is there anything else I can do?"br /"just save Lizzy, ok. If it's a choice between me and her, know I'll pick her every time."br /Smiling glumly, Felicity nodded and pointed to the bathroom. " everything you need is in there, come down when you're done."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"Walking down the stairs Felicity could hear Digg on the phone "thanks, hun. Let me know what you find out." Hanging up, he walked towards the two other men in the lounge room, as Felicity joined them he begun to speak. "Well everything she said checks out I didn't tell Lyla why I was asking about her but apparently her husband is a piece of work. Lyla has met him a couple of times and she say's he is an arrogant so and so and if his wife hadn't developed most of ARGUS's systems he would be on Weller's list of dirt bags. So if we get her and her sister free of him I'm sure ARGUS will take care of the rest."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"that's good to know but I have a problem with sending someone so fragile into an unknown situation." Oliver spoke up looking Felicity in the eyes./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I know Oliver and she is so different from the person I used to know but one things the same, her family is everything to her and I'm sure she'll hold together especially if this drug is half as powerful as she says. It scares me though" looking around at the boys " the Jo I used to know was the most emotionally driven person I have ever met. She was intensely loyal, heart on her sleeve open, the most energetic person in the room and quite a flirt. I'm not sure what to make of this version but I feel like she's still in there somewhere. It at least explains why she didn't help us with Slade last summer."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you asked her for help?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I sent her an encrypted email that I knew only she would understand but got no reply. I guess her husband wasn't as clever as he thought."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Handing Felicity the USB stick, Oliver spoke. "Can you pull up everything on this and see what we are up against?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Sure, just let me grab my other laptop. One without access to Arrow central."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Don't you trust her?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I do but she's changed and I prefer to be a little cautious."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""that's fair enough."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /15 minutes later, after going through all the information it was clear what they were up against. A freshly showered Jo appears wearing the pants and bra that Felicity had leant her, the bright shirt in her hand. Confusion on her face, Felicity asked "Doesn't it fit?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"no, it will but I need you guys to do something first. Do you have a first aid kit?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"sure, what do you need?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"on my back I have some stitches, I would really like them removed and I also need you to remove the tracking device from my hip."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"tracking device?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yes Michaels way of knowing where I am every minute, he just forgot that I also developed the technology so the signal is currently scrambled."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /During the conversion Oliver had disappeared to the kitchen where Felicity kept one the many first aid kits in her home "so where d'you want me?" turning around giving the guys their first look at her back. If Felicity had been shocked by Jo's front her back was so much worse. Felicity felt her heart break as she saw her friends once smooth skin reduced to what looked like an etcher-sketch gone nuts, there were scars all over , some clearly really old some still pink and from her right shoulder blade to her left hip one long line of stitches it had clearly been relatively deep and given Felicity's new found knowledge of scars and the weapons that created them she could tell this was caused by a sword. Smooth edges and the straight line, showing it was ready for them to be removed. "how'd that happen?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I didn't laugh at his joke." She said matter of a factly. "in my defence it wasn't funny."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"he did that because you didn't laugh at a joke." Roy asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No he did it because he could, that was just what he said it was for. Not sure how many stitches there are but I'm pretty sure it will take you some time. How about I sit against this chair and I'm sure you'll be able to get to the chip there too.", she said sitting reverse on the dining chair with her arms resting on it's back./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Do you care who does it?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No, but I think maybe do the chip first, it needs to be destroyed before his people hack into it."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Digg grabbing scalpel, gauze, antiseptic and a suture kit sat on the chair behind her while Felicity and the others stood to her right./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Ok, where is it?" Digg asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"about 2 inches above my right hip towards the back, you should be able to feel it. It's about the size of a quarter."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Do you want some pain killers?" Oliver asked though somehow he already knew the answer./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No, pain and I are old friends, besides I'll need to keep my head clear as possible. I think the drugs have entered my system anyway."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you mean they're already active?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yeah, I seem to be calming down way too quickly and I think it's best we hurry."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /It was a long and slow process as Digg removed the chip from her hip and then set about removing the 52 stitches, there had been little to no blood loss and as he pulled the final stitch through, he gave a sigh. "you're done."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /It was then that he realised that Jo had actually fallen asleep while he was doing it, her arms locked into place on the back of the chair, signalling to the others they walked into the kitchen. "So this tracker Felicity, is it dead?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yep, and it's good that it's been pulled out. It so rusty, why would he put such an old model in her."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I'd say, the rusting was a plus not a negative as far as he was concerned Felicity and I'd be betting that it was in there so long that he didn't realise it was still working."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"then why was Jo so worried about it?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"because she knew it was."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" her back has more scars than you?" she said to Oliver, "I know and that worries me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"if this guy has her sister I can't imagine he'll wait long to take out his vengeance on her."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"So do you think she'll wake up soon, or did she pass out."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""I think she's sleeping. I'd say this is the first time she's felt truly safe in a long time."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but she doesn't know us." Roy said looking through the opening towards her and then he looked at Felicity and he understood. Even in his worst moment he'd felt safe with her around, even when he didn't feel he was safe to be around. Hearing movement he noticed that she was starting to stir, and he went to walk back in before realisingthat she may be a little disorientated upon waking, fear came across her eyes but then it was gone. "it's ok, I'm back." She said noticing his inner turmoil. "you sure?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"not used to sleeping much, so is it all done?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yep, stitch and tracker free."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"good, so how bad was it?" Looking at them/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""the tracker?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yeah, I guess it had started to rust."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"how'd you know?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"as I said I designed it."sighing " it was supposed to be for ARGUS for short term tracking of agents not long term insertion and mines been in for 4 years. Way longer than the 3 month recommendation."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""oh, but it was still working?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yep but Michael thought it stopped working 12 months ago. He just left it in hoping it would make me sick."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""so he couldn't have tracked it?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"oh he could have, if he knew or if he had someone like Felicity working for him. Lucky he never thought she was a threat to him."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"what do you mean? She wasn't a threat."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"see in college I was the loud genius, Felicity was the quiet achiever. As a programmer, no-one could get near her but she never let anyone know. When she hacked it was under the name Oracle, and most people thought that was me. My actual handle was Cypher but she was more than happy to let people think other wise. Didn't you?" Jo said lifting her eyes at the blonde in question./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"of course, hey I was on a scholarship and I really needed it. We cant all make our first million before our 12th birthday."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you made your first million before you turned 12?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yeah, was one of those challenges set by a certain tech company that shall remain nameless. Lets just say they said their new system was un-hackable and so set a challenge. I broke into it, within 24 hours of its release and I think they were a little embarrassed by my age. So they doubled the payment and part of that was my silence, if handing out a payment wasn't bad enough paying someone not yet in their teens was worse. My parents retired and I kept quiet."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but why did they think you were Oracle if that was Felicity?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you see I was Oracle but in a drunken night she challenged me to a hack off. Neither of us needed money, we shared all our clothes and so we needed a prize. If I won she had to make me a coffee everyday for a year. If she won she got to pick new names for us to use. Lets just say I didn't win and instead of new names we swapped, she never did make me a coffee either. Just no-one knew."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""good to see I'm not the only one she wont make coffee for?" Oliver said smirking./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yeah, we shared an apartment for 2 years and I think she made the coffee like three times and I'm pretty sure that was just because she knew she wouldn't get one otherwise."br /That's when Felicity noticed that Jo was smiling, which seemed odd if the drugs had actually kicked it. "you sure the drugs have kicked in? I thought you said no emotions."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""you're right and I did. I was wrong, it hasn't kicked in, you'll be able to tell trust me, when it does it will be obvious I guess I've just relaxed. When it kicks in I'll be the most sedate version of myself and if you'll be able to tell don't worry."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but how can you be calm and relaxed. Hell, you fell asleep while Digg removed a 1000 stitches." Roy exclaimed./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"Smiling, Jo Answered "Roy, I fell asleep because I'm physically exhausted and there wasn't exactly 1000 stitches. Yes, I understand your confusion but I am in a room with people I trust, implicitly. Sounds odd since I just met you three but I know Felicity and I trust her more than anyone in my life. She trusts you guys the same way, so I feel the same way. In my mind I know I probably shouldn't. The truth is I can't explain why, but apart from my initial freak out I haven't felt this relaxed in 5 years, so I'm kind enjoying it. It's a false high I know, I will have a lot to deal with if I live through this but I don't care. I have control over my life for the first time in a long time and if I die, I die free. So whatever happens I thank you all, but my life is secondary to my sisters. She is an innocent 21 year old who has her whole life ahead of her and innocence and I parted company a long time ago. I do have to do something before we go any further. Felicity, can I borrow a computer for about half an hour, I have to set up a couple of fail safe's."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Sure, use this one. Is there anything I can do to help." Handing the laptop in her hands over to her, and giving her a serious look./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No, but when I'm done I'll need you guys to sign some things ok."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Over the next hour the guys rotated through the kitchen as Jo sat at the kitchen typing feverishly away on the laptop, even Felicity had no idea what Jo was doing but she was pretty sure that it was illegal./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Guys, can you all come in here please."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Streaming in they found, a huge pile of paperwork spread out across the table. Clearly Jo had gained access to Felicity's printer./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"What's this?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I'm giving you guys controlling interest in my company."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""WHAT!" Felicity said in her LOUD voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"it's only in the event of my death because I need someone to protect the rest of my family."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I don't think that's necessary."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I know but if this all goes to hell, my husbands only way to get to my money will be over my families dead bodies a price he will be more than happy to pay and he has the contacts to pull it off."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /After signing the paperwork and reading through it, Felicity stopped on the last page./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""Wait, this doesn't happen in the event of your death. We will be major share holders even if you live."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I know."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""but you said."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I'm giving you guys 51 percent of my company because I'm telling you that once I come down from this second dose. It's best that I don't have access to the billions of dollars, I will be on a stipend and you will be able to return it to me once I'm free of Michael and any side effects."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""what if we don't think you're ever ready."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""then spend it wisely, maybe donate proceeds to charity. I don't know, you could always use it to say fund a masked vigilante and his team"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you can't do that."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yes I can."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but why?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Felicity, I'm not trying to scare you but when these drugs take over I am going to be a whole different person a cold as ice bitch who only cares about getting the job done which is what I will need. This drug is an extreme version of the drug I've been self medicating with for a long time. It's the only thing Michael has let me use because it helps me concentrate and as such design I guess he was hoping I'd become more pliable but I took an overdose to get out and spent 3 days locked in a hellish nightmare once I escaped. Now I've taken a second overdose./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /I plan on coming completely off it, I have no idea how screwed up I'll be and I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to be helped if I can live the life of a spoiled billionaire. I was a pretty big fan of alcohol before my marriage if you remember and now I know I will really have a reason to drink. I'm sure I will and to excess but the last thing I will need is the ability to fly all over the world. I expect to need help and I hope you can give it, but mostly I will need you to protect me from me. I'm giving you guys the money because Felicity is the only person clever enough to keep the money from me if I decide" using hand gestures "I'm fine" smiling a smile that was more like a grimace "I know I'm asking way too much and the responsibility of my money is probably a step too far but I don't know who I'll be on the other side of this. I could be a good guy but I could also be a bad guy, and I cant have my finances going to the dark side even if I do."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"how could you be a bad guy, Jo. I know you."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Felicity, I don't even know who I'll be. I have carried out a lot of tests on the medication I've been taking and lets just say once in withdrawal the subjects lose a large degree of perspective. The last 5 years have been what I can only explain as hell, but I haven't really dealt with any of it because I've been self medicating. I also know from my tests that these particular chemicals will hit toxic levels in less than 6 months because of these 2 overdoses. So staying on them is not an option. The drugs levels in my blood stream are already having an effect on my body and my mind, I have lost an average of 3 kilo's a month for 2 years. I haven't had the ability keep an entire meal down for a year, my vision has gone from 20/20 to what I'd guess is about 10/20. I haven't had a period in 12 months, but then I guess everything has a silver lining, and I've lost the ability to keep my balance if my eye's are closed, these are all symptoms of some pretty serious things going on in my body and even if it's not as I suspect some form of cancer then I'm pretty sure it will take me a long time to recover. This is why I'm not scared to die, I may already be dead but I'm not going without a fight."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Felicity, my body has been through hell and back in the last 5 years. It has been broken more times than I care to admit and just to get through them I've taken a dangerous concoction of chemicals just to get through the day. I don't know how much they have effected my body and I wont until it is completely out of my system. What I do know is I'll be lucky if I make it out of this little rabbit hole unscathed. It's is s very dangerous thing Felicity to not have anything to live for but I'm sure some of you know what that's like." She said looking Oliver in the eyes, who simply nodded and took a seat./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /I rang my parents and they told me, they don't know it was Michael who took her and I hope that I wont have to tell them. I expect to hear from him soon, I just cant do it alone. I was hoping you could help me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" of course, but how do you think we can help you?" Oliver said a clear uneasiness in his voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"that's just it, I know a lot about you all. No specific's but I do know about lets just say your extra curricular activities." They all openly gasp and for the first time in all our conversation Felicity is the one to tense up./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Was it in your husbands files?" Oliver asks, neither confirming or denying what they all knew she was talking about./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No, he'd done his research but it was actually when I hacked into A.R.G.U.S. in order to hide where my tip came from I had to send it internally and tag files on you. I'd actually thought I would have to create the files then tag them, turns out they have a lot of info on all of you. I didn't read any specific mission related files but since they were all under tag : team arrow. It didn't take an genius to figure out the rest."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"So why not just let us know directly?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I went to A.R.G.U.S. because I designed their network when I was at MIT and getting in it was like riding a bike, I already had Waller protecting my family I couldn't count on a second favour. Where as any other system would be a lot more difficult as I'm more than a little rusty when it comes to hacking. I knew I wouldn't have much time with Michaels computer and it took me over half an hour just to break through the encryption, just to use it. "/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" but you said you were alone."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I was alone but I didn't know how long for and he thought the house was safe to leave me in. It had no tv in the house and only radio, no technology really. His computer, which he believed was un-hackable even to me was the only part of the modern world in the house. I haven't seen a movie, watched a tv show or heard music in 5 years. I was able to read books in paper back and he let me keep up to date with newspapers and periodicals it helped to keep me sane but hasn't helped keep me up to date with the changing face of I.T."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but why did Michael keep you around doesn't sound like he really wanted you. Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh." Roy spoke for the first time, making me smile with his frankness./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"he needs me alive for patent signings, see even though I refused to keep working. He still has all my designs from the first two years and they will continue to make a lot of money for a long time come. See he has blown through his families money and now most of his financial assets are mine, he just has access to them because we're married. If I die or disappear an investigation would take place and more importantly he would have to share the money with the rest of my family. He doesn't like to share."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"So how much are your patents worth?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Around 10 billion dollars." I see their faces drop and I can see them begin to understand why I'm still breathing albeit a little too shallowly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"So that's a lot of money to lose out on and in the event of my death he would only get half of what he gets now. So better alive than dead, at least till I escaped. Now he has my baby sister and he will want me to come back to him."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" Do you think he will hurt her?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Most definately hopefully not at first but he will eventually. The sooner I get her back the better, I'd walk through the gate right now if I thought it would save her."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you don't think he'd let her go."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"i think she's too good a leverage against me, he knows I'd do anything to protect knows I already have."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"so what do you want to do?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I'll go back but I need you to get us out before I get killed?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"YOU CAN'T!" Felicity yelled/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I don't have a choice." I replied putting my hand on Felicity's arm. " if I don't go, we wont find her or she'll be dead by the time we find her. So I don't have a choice, I have to go."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" I'm sorry but love you were a mess not an hour a go, how on earth are you going to face him?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I wont be doing it without help, I have a drug combo that will help keep me lucid, a drug that I'm not using right now and a drug that I will need to get out of my system as soon as this is all over."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"" So what your saying is, this drug is not good for you?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"exactly but it will help me get through this, but I don't care if you have to strap me to a table a forcibly put me through a minimum of 96 hour withdrawal. I will need you to do it because I'm not sure I'll be able to go off it again."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"what do you mean again?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"it's how I got out and I've also been using a milder version of it for 12 months but the current combo shuts down my entire emotional response. However, it's too strong and not healthy, moments like you saw earlier are the down side of coming down. It will be painful to watch and I will swear to you that I need the drug to function and in truth I may for quite a long time but I refuse to you understand. I'm not sure how I'll come out the other side or if I even will, I big dose was bad a second dose will be worse. "/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"cant you do it without then?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No besides I took that decision out of my hands. I have a time release capsule in my stomach, it will begin to take effect in about 6 hours and then I will have 48 hours of positive effects before I start to go into withdrawal. After that I will rotate between physical symptoms and emotional ones, I may start trembling, have a fever, my blood pressure will sky rocket one minute plummet the next and my heart rate will fluctuate. I will be all over the place and don't be surprised if I am the patient from hell and if you can I ask that you keep me out of the public eye."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"what about your family?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"especially my family I don't care if you lock me in a basement somewhere I'd rather they not see me going through this.. I know I'm asking a lot but that's all I can do, in 12 hours I will ring Michael and hand myself over. I will try to get out but I know without your help I will not succeed."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"is there anything you can do to help us?" Oliver asked, clearly understanding a little better than the others why I had taken the decision out of their hands./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Reaching into my pockets and handing Felicity a USB drive and a phone " everything I know is on these, now I really need a shower before I crash again. It's coming and its best I'm tucked away when it does./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" I'll show you and get you some clothes. They'll be a little big but they should feel better." Felicity said walking me upstairs, "is there anything else I can do?"br /"just save Lizzy, ok. If it's a choice between me and her, know I'll pick her every time."br /Smiling glumly, Felicity nodded and pointed to the bathroom. " everything you need is in there, come down when you're done."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"Walking down the stairs Felicity could hear Digg on the phone "thanks, hun. Let me know what you find out." Hanging up, he walked towards the two other men in the lounge room, as Felicity joined them he begun to speak. "Well everything she said checks out I didn't tell Lyla why I was asking about her but apparently her husband is a piece of work. Lyla has met him a couple of times and she say's he is an arrogant so and so and if his wife hadn't developed most of ARGUS's systems he would be on Weller's list of dirt bags. So if we get her and her sister free of him I'm sure ARGUS will take care of the rest."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"that's good to know but I have a problem with sending someone so fragile into an unknown situation." Oliver spoke up looking Felicity in the eyes./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I know Oliver and she is so different from the person I used to know but one things the same, her family is everything to her and I'm sure she'll hold together especially if this drug is half as powerful as she says. It scares me though" looking around at the boys " the Jo I used to know was the most emotionally driven person I have ever met. She was intensely loyal, heart on her sleeve open, the most energetic person in the room and quite a flirt. I'm not sure what to make of this version but I feel like she's still in there somewhere. It at least explains why she didn't help us with Slade last summer."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you asked her for help?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I sent her an encrypted email that I knew only she would understand but got no reply. I guess her husband wasn't as clever as he thought."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Handing Felicity the USB stick, Oliver spoke. "Can you pull up everything on this and see what we are up against?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Sure, just let me grab my other laptop. One without access to Arrow central."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Don't you trust her?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I do but she's changed and I prefer to be a little cautious."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""that's fair enough."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /15 minutes later, after going through all the information it was clear what they were up against. A freshly showered Jo appears wearing the pants and bra that Felicity had leant her, the bright shirt in her hand. Confusion on her face, Felicity asked "Doesn't it fit?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"no, it will but I need you guys to do something first. Do you have a first aid kit?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"sure, what do you need?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"on my back I have some stitches, I would really like them removed and I also need you to remove the tracking device from my hip."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"tracking device?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yes Michaels way of knowing where I am every minute, he just forgot that I also developed the technology so the signal is currently scrambled."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /During the conversion Oliver had disappeared to the kitchen where Felicity kept one the many first aid kits in her home "so where d'you want me?" turning around giving the guys their first look at her back. If Felicity had been shocked by Jo's front her back was so much worse. Felicity felt her heart break as she saw her friends once smooth skin reduced to what looked like an etcher-sketch gone nuts, there were scars all over , some clearly really old some still pink and from her right shoulder blade to her left hip one long line of stitches it had clearly been relatively deep and given Felicity's new found knowledge of scars and the weapons that created them she could tell this was caused by a sword. Smooth edges and the straight line, showing it was ready for them to be removed. "how'd that happen?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I didn't laugh at his joke." She said matter of a factly. "in my defence it wasn't funny."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"he did that because you didn't laugh at a joke." Roy asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No he did it because he could, that was just what he said it was for. Not sure how many stitches there are but I'm pretty sure it will take you some time. How about I sit against this chair and I'm sure you'll be able to get to the chip there too.", she said sitting reverse on the dining chair with her arms resting on it's back./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Do you care who does it?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No, but I think maybe do the chip first, it needs to be destroyed before his people hack into it."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Digg grabbing scalpel, gauze, antiseptic and a suture kit sat on the chair behind her while Felicity and the others stood to her right./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Ok, where is it?" Digg asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"about 2 inches above my right hip towards the back, you should be able to feel it. It's about the size of a quarter."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Do you want some pain killers?" Oliver asked though somehow he already knew the answer./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No, pain and I are old friends, besides I'll need to keep my head clear as possible. I think the drugs have entered my system anyway."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you mean they're already active?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yeah, I seem to be calming down way too quickly and I think it's best we hurry."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /It was a long and slow process as Digg removed the chip from her hip and then set about removing the 52 stitches, there had been little to no blood loss and as he pulled the final stitch through, he gave a sigh. "you're done."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /It was then that he realised that Jo had actually fallen asleep while he was doing it, her arms locked into place on the back of the chair, signalling to the others they walked into the kitchen. "So this tracker Felicity, is it dead?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yep, and it's good that it's been pulled out. It so rusty, why would he put such an old model in her."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I'd say, the rusting was a plus not a negative as far as he was concerned Felicity and I'd be betting that it was in there so long that he didn't realise it was still working."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"then why was Jo so worried about it?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"because she knew it was."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /" her back has more scars than you?" she said to Oliver, "I know and that worries me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"if this guy has her sister I can't imagine he'll wait long to take out his vengeance on her."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"So do you think she'll wake up soon, or did she pass out."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""I think she's sleeping. I'd say this is the first time she's felt truly safe in a long time."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but she doesn't know us." Roy said looking through the opening towards her and then he looked at Felicity and he understood. Even in his worst moment he'd felt safe with her around, even when he didn't feel he was safe to be around. Hearing movement he noticed that she was starting to stir, and he went to walk back in before realisingthat she may be a little disorientated upon waking, fear came across her eyes but then it was gone. "it's ok, I'm back." She said noticing his inner turmoil. "you sure?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"not used to sleeping much, so is it all done?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yep, stitch and tracker free."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"good, so how bad was it?" Looking at them/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""the tracker?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yeah, I guess it had started to rust."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"how'd you know?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"as I said I designed it."sighing " it was supposed to be for ARGUS for short term tracking of agents not long term insertion and mines been in for 4 years. Way longer than the 3 month recommendation."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""oh, but it was still working?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yep but Michael thought it stopped working 12 months ago. He just left it in hoping it would make me sick."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""so he couldn't have tracked it?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"oh he could have, if he knew or if he had someone like Felicity working for him. Lucky he never thought she was a threat to him."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"what do you mean? She wasn't a threat."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"see in college I was the loud genius, Felicity was the quiet achiever. As a programmer, no-one could get near her but she never let anyone know. When she hacked it was under the name Oracle, and most people thought that was me. My actual handle was Cypher but she was more than happy to let people think other wise. Didn't you?" Jo said lifting her eyes at the blonde in question./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"of course, hey I was on a scholarship and I really needed it. We cant all make our first million before our 12th birthday."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you made your first million before you turned 12?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yeah, was one of those challenges set by a certain tech company that shall remain nameless. Lets just say they said their new system was un-hackable and so set a challenge. I broke into it, within 24 hours of its release and I think they were a little embarrassed by my age. So they doubled the payment and part of that was my silence, if handing out a payment wasn't bad enough paying someone not yet in their teens was worse. My parents retired and I kept quiet."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but why did they think you were Oracle if that was Felicity?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you see I was Oracle but in a drunken night she challenged me to a hack off. Neither of us needed money, we shared all our clothes and so we needed a prize. If I won she had to make me a coffee everyday for a year. If she won she got to pick new names for us to use. Lets just say I didn't win and instead of new names we swapped, she never did make me a coffee either. Just no-one knew."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""good to see I'm not the only one she wont make coffee for?" Oliver said smirking./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yeah, we shared an apartment for 2 years and I think she made the coffee like three times and I'm pretty sure that was just because she knew she wouldn't get one otherwise."br /That's when Felicity noticed that Jo was smiling, which seemed odd if the drugs had actually kicked it. "you sure the drugs have kicked in? I thought you said no emotions."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""you're right and I did. I was wrong, it hasn't kicked in, you'll be able to tell trust me, when it does it will be obvious I guess I've just relaxed. When it kicks in I'll be the most sedate version of myself and if you'll be able to tell don't worry."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but how can you be calm and relaxed. Hell, you fell asleep while Digg removed a 1000 stitches." Roy exclaimed./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"Smiling, Jo Answered "Roy, I fell asleep because I'm physically exhausted and there wasn't exactly 1000 stitches. Yes, I understand your confusion but I am in a room with people I trust, implicitly. Sounds odd since I just met you three but I know Felicity and I trust her more than anyone in my life. She trusts you guys the same way, so I feel the same way. In my mind I know I probably shouldn't. The truth is I can't explain why, but apart from my initial freak out I haven't felt this relaxed in 5 years, so I'm kind enjoying it. It's a false high I know, I will have a lot to deal with if I live through this but I don't care. I have control over my life for the first time in a long time and if I die, I die free. So whatever happens I thank you all, but my life is secondary to my sisters. She is an innocent 21 year old who has her whole life ahead of her and innocence and I parted company a long time ago. I do have to do something before we go any further. Felicity, can I borrow a computer for about half an hour, I have to set up a couple of fail safe's."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Sure, use this one. Is there anything I can do to help." Handing the laptop in her hands over to her, and giving her a serious look./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"No, but when I'm done I'll need you guys to sign some things ok."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Over the next hour the guys rotated through the kitchen as Jo sat at the kitchen typing feverishly away on the laptop, even Felicity had no idea what Jo was doing but she was pretty sure that it was illegal./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Guys, can you all come in here please."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /Streaming in they found, a huge pile of paperwork spread out across the table. Clearly Jo had gained access to Felicity's printer./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"What's this?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I'm giving you guys controlling interest in my company."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""WHAT!" Felicity said in her LOUD voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"it's only in the event of my death because I need someone to protect the rest of my family."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I don't think that's necessary."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I know but if this all goes to hell, my husbands only way to get to my money will be over my families dead bodies a price he will be more than happy to pay and he has the contacts to pull it off."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /After signing the paperwork and reading through it, Felicity stopped on the last page./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""Wait, this doesn't happen in the event of your death. We will be major share holders even if you live."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I know."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""but you said."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"I'm giving you guys 51 percent of my company because I'm telling you that once I come down from this second dose. It's best that I don't have access to the billions of dollars, I will be on a stipend and you will be able to return it to me once I'm free of Michael and any side effects."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""what if we don't think you're ever ready."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;""then spend it wisely, maybe donate proceeds to charity. I don't know, you could always use it to say fund a masked vigilante and his team"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"you can't do that."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"yes I can."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"but why?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Felicity, I'm not trying to scare you but when these drugs take over I am going to be a whole different person a cold as ice bitch who only cares about getting the job done which is what I will need. This drug is an extreme version of the drug I've been self medicating with for a long time. It's the only thing Michael has let me use because it helps me concentrate and as such design I guess he was hoping I'd become more pliable but I took an overdose to get out and spent 3 days locked in a hellish nightmare once I escaped. Now I've taken a second overdose./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /I plan on coming completely off it, I have no idea how screwed up I'll be and I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to be helped if I can live the life of a spoiled billionaire. I was a pretty big fan of alcohol before my marriage if you remember and now I know I will really have a reason to drink. I'm sure I will and to excess but the last thing I will need is the ability to fly all over the world. I expect to need help and I hope you can give it, but mostly I will need you to protect me from me. I'm giving you guys the money because Felicity is the only person clever enough to keep the money from me if I decide" using hand gestures "I'm fine" smiling a smile that was more like a grimace "I know I'm asking way too much and the responsibility of my money is probably a step too far but I don't know who I'll be on the other side of this. I could be a good guy but I could also be a bad guy, and I cant have my finances going to the dark side even if I do."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"how could you be a bad guy, Jo. I know you."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Felicity, I don't even know who I'll be. I have carried out a lot of tests on the medication I've been taking and lets just say once in withdrawal the subjects lose a large degree of perspective. The last 5 years have been what I can only explain as hell, but I haven't really dealt with any of it because I've been self medicating. I also know from my tests that these particular chemicals will hit toxic levels in less than 6 months because of these 2 overdoses. So staying on them is not an option. The drugs levels in my blood stream are already having an effect on my body and my mind, I have lost an average of 3 kilo's a month for 2 years. I haven't had the ability keep an entire meal down for a year, my vision has gone from 20/20 to what I'd guess is about 10/20. I haven't had a period in 12 months, but then I guess everything has a silver lining, and I've lost the ability to keep my balance if my eye's are closed, these are all symptoms of some pretty serious things going on in my body and even if it's not as I suspect some form of cancer then I'm pretty sure it will take me a long time to recover. This is why I'm not scared to die, I may already be dead but I'm not going without a fight."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"br /"Felicity, my body has been through hell and back in the last 5 years. It has been broken more times than I care to admit and just to get through them I've taken a dangerous concoction of chemicals just to get through the day. I don't know how much they have effected my body and I wont until it is completely out of my system. What I do know is I'll be lucky if I make it out of this little rabbit hole unscathed. It's is s very dangerous thing Felicity to not have anything to live for but I'm sure some of you know what that's like." She said looking Oliver in the eyes, who simply nodded and took a seat./p