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Felicity woke up on her couch in nothing but her towel. Realizing she had blacked out she was furious. She had put so much on the line for these pills and if it meant seeing Oliver she wouldn't think twice about but she wanted to be able to stay awake long enough to have a full conversation with him. She went to her room and put on some clothes, grabbed her purse and ran out. As soon as she got in the car she reached the cellphone she had newly purchased after discovering that Diggle and Roy had been tracking her with her previous one.

"Hey it's me. I need to meet with him," she spoke sternly to the person on the phone.

"Well I'm sorry. He doesn't just like to see everyone and as far as the world knows he doesn't even exist anymore. Staying discreet is his number one priority at the moment," the woman on the other end responded.

"Well tell him that unless he wants to end up on America's most wanted list he'll make time," Felicity hung up. She had a pit in her stomach and couldn't tell if it was because she hadn't been eating or because of the pills. She turned on the ignition and got a text with gps coordinates.

Oliver arrived at the warehouse. He hesistated walking inside. All he ever wanted was for Felicity to be happy and as much as he wanted to be with her this was proof enough of how bad things could get. The life he had chosen was a dangerous one and something could go wrong at any point. He never wanted Felicity to feel like this and it was killing him that she had been putting herself through hell for him for the past few months. He couldn't handle the suspense anymore and walked in. The place looked like nothing he recognized. The structure was the same but you could tell someone had been down there. There were blankets on the ground and some lamps.

"Felicity, what has happened to you," Oliver mumbled to himself.

He got a call right as he was starting to take everything in. The caller ID read Roy.

"Hey so I heard you were back from the dead," Roy said on the other end.

"It's nice to talk to you too. I'm just looking at some stuff and re-familiarizing myself with some places but want to meet in the foundry later? I told Dig I'd meet him around then and then maybe we could talk about where we go from here."

"Yeah sounds good. Oh and Oliver?"

"Yes Roy?"

"Thanks for not abandoning me in the end."

"Never," and with that Oliver ended the call.

Oliver continued to inspect his surroundings. Felicity must have spent several nights down here but even taking the grief into account something didn't feel right to him. The old Oliver might've just ignored his gut feeling but with the experience he had, he knew better than to just ignore a feeling. He continued to search around. Dig was right, Felicity clearly wasn't the same person he left behind. He began to walk towards the door when something red caught his eye behind one of the table legs. He bent down and knew whatever he was holding probably wasn't just an Advil.

Felicity pulled up to the bar that the GPS coordinates led her to. She walked in and took a seat at the bar. She was offered a drink and settled with a glass of wine. As she waited not really sure what or who she was looking for she felt someone take a seat next to her.

"Follow me," the gentleman who was significantly larger in height and weight said to her.

In her head she kept reminding herself of the pepper spray she kept in her purse. A few months ago she felt safe because she knew Oliver was always a phone call away or he would track her but now she had no real sense of security. She was led into a room in the back face to face once again with Vertigo.

"Well hello . To what do I owe this pleasure?"

"The side effects of the drug. It's putting me an almost paralyzed state once the effects start to wear off. I need that to stop."

"Well I'm sorry that you feel like my product isn't everything you wanted. Maybe you should take up your concerns with the police?" Vertigo said sarcastically.

"Stop playing games with me. We had a deal," Felicity said unnerved. The old Felicity would've been concerned for her safety and would've started to get worried. It's wasn't that she had a death wish, she just didn't care anymore about things that she used to. Her light had faded.

"You know there was one effect of the drug I failed to mention to you Felicity," Vertigo stood up and began to pace around her, "the new batch of Vertigo makes you more susceptible to suggestion when reacted with another substance."

Before Felicity could even comprehend the information being thrown at her she felt a sharp pain from a needle slam into her neck and just like that the light faded to black.

Oliver hurried down the stairs of the foundry where he came face to face with Roy and Diggle bickering about their next mission.

"Look before you guys say anything. Roy I appreciate how hard you've worked since I've been gone and for now I want you to keep doing what you're doing. My head is all over the place and my priority right now isn't being the arrow. As soon as I figure out everything I need to we can all have a discussion about where we go forward from here but for now this is what I want."

Roy just stared in shock, "Are you done now?"

Oliver smiled, "Yeah I think so and it's good to see you," Oliver's mood shifted, "look I need to have Barry and STAR labs do an analysis on this." Oliver showed them the small red pill from earlier, "I found it on the floor of the other warehouse and I wonder what kind of drug this could be that Felicity is messing around with."

"Wait we've seen this before Roy," Dig managed to get Roy's full attention.

"Yeah Oliver. This really isn't good." Dig and Roy both sat in silence neither one wanting to say a word.

"Would someone like to just tell me what is going on? Guys what is this?" Oliver became frustrated.

"Well while you were gone I guess you could say I took over where you left off. There were some comments here and there about the change from green to red but I've always like red and—"

Oliver interrupted Roy, "and the point of this story? Other than to tell me your favorite color."

"Well like I would've said if you let me finish, there have been a few cases of teens getting some drug that has been making people hallucinate. It's a red pill and there have been multiple deaths just from the side effects and multiple from people hallucinating things and just walking in the middle of the road. It's awful. But when we heard about these cases we started to remember the similarities between this case and Vertigo."

Oliver interrupted Roy, "Yeah but I captured Vertigo and his drug made you see your worst fear so it can't be him."

"Oliver when Roy told me his suspicions I called Lance who told me that according to Vertigo's record he is clean and they released him. A few days later we couldn't even find his file anymore. It was like he disappeared. We talked to the families of some of the victims that we knew about and they said that the kids were all hallucinating loved ones before they passed," Dig hated telling Oliver someone he put away was still around.

"Wait so are you saying that this drug supposedly makes people see loved ones that are gone?" Oliver questioned.

"Yeah I think so," Roy could see the gears in Oliver's head turning but he didn't know where he was going with it, "where's your head at?"

"Well who would be capable of erasing someone's digital records" Oliver asked already knowing the answer. I mean the pill he found was evidence enough of what was going on.

In that moment Diggle and Roy began to put the pieces together. Oliver walked over to the case that held his green Arrow suit.

"I guess it's time to suit up."