Hey everyone. Sorry for the delay on a update. I had some writers block so I rewatched some awesome olicity episodes to remember why I fell in love with those two! Anyways you guys know the deal. Comment, rate, review, and then I'll post another update. Seriously guys. I hate to be a jerk about this but plz plz plz comment and i say that with love. I finally have an idea for where I want to take this fanfic so I'm really excited for you guys to read it!

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Felicity began to wake up. It took her eyes a few moments to adjust to the different setting from the last one she remembered being in. Her neck was throbbing and her head was racing trying to piece together where she was and what was going on. She tried to reach for her neck only to realize her hands were restrained. She looked around and there was no one around. She immediately started looked for some way out. She should've known that the path she was going down wasn't going to end well for her.

"HELLO?" she screamed.

Ugh, if only I had kept my old phone so Roy and Dig could track me, she thought as she stared at her new phone laying on a table a few feet away from where she was being restrained. She kept struggling but the ropes were ripping into her wrists and the Vertigo hangover mixed with the pain wasn't doing her any good. She knew she should probably be saving her strength.

Felicity kept her voice at a steady scream, "Vertigo! Let me out of here."

Her head was pounding. She knew it was a side effect of coming off of the Vertigo. She needed more. If only Oliver was there she kept thinking. He always found a way to save her even when she didn't think she needed protecting. She heard the steel door open and footsteps approaching from behind.

"Nice to see you awake Felicity," Vertigo came into her line of sight with a syringe.

"I'm guessing that's not an energy drink" Felicity mumbled to herself.

"How are the headaches? Getting worse I imagine," Vertigo took another step toward Felicity as she wrestled to get out of her restraints, "C'mon Felicity. I'm just trying to help you. In here I have a more purified form of my new Vertigo. It should get rid of those pesky side effects I imagine you're experiencing at the moment."

"What's the catch? You know I'll take the Vertigo, so why bother restraining me?"

"Well you see. I was going to leave you alone but when you demanded that we meet you presented me with the perfect opportunity to test out one of my new products."

"So you're using me as a lab rat?"

"Of course not. If this is successful then you'll be a loyal follower of mine. Someone who I'll be proud to have on my side and on my team. You see once I give you the increased dose of Vertigo, all I have to do is inject a second serum that I've been working on for months now. The combination makes you more susceptible to suggestion and eventually I will have your brain programmed to be loyal to me. No more trying to double cross me. And your skills and your beauty would be such an asset to my team if I'm being completely honest. So think of this as a huge compliment."

"Stop! Don't do this! I didn't agree to this!" Felicity began to cry and scream and fight. This wasn't what she wanted.

"Don't worry sweetheart. You won't even remember this conversation."

Vertigo approached her and with one swift motion the Vertigo was injected into her neck.

Oliver, Roy, and Dig took to the streets. Roy apparently knew of a small building in the Glades where one of Vertigo's most loyal followers was supposedly residing. Roy and Diggle checked the perimeter.

Roy spoke into the comm, "There are two guards out front, and everything else is secure."

"Dig? You and Roy handle the two out front and I'll go in." Oliver gave his orders and waited till Roy and Dig had restrained the two guards out front. He hesitated going in. It had been months since he had suited up and he didn't know if he would again. He though it was something that he would handle when the time came and assumed he would get Felicity's advice on the matter. Felicty. That's who he was doing this for and in that moment he didn't hesitate and charged inside.

With an arrow pointed directly at the man's head Oliver began to speak sternly, "Where is Vertigo?"

"Woah I thought you were dead. I don't know," and with a swift motion he reached for the gun in his belt which Oliver promptly shot an arrow and the gun shot out of his hand. He had another arrow in position within seconds.

"Don't make me ask you again"

The man smiled. "Vertigo will be happy to know you're alive but you aren't going to find out anything from me."

"Then you can send him a message. Tell him the next time he sees me he'll wish I put an arrow in him that last time we saw each other and if he touches Felicity I will not hesitate to put an arrow in him."

Oliver knocked him out with one punch.

"Roy? Diggle? I need you guys inside."

John and Roy walked in the house with their weapons ready but Oliver motioned to them to lower their weapons.

"He's knocked out. But I need to plant a tracker on him and we need to search this place for any clue to Felicity's whereabouts."

Roy and Diggle didn't question Oliver. At this point they were just as worried and began searching everything. The place was relatively clean.

Oliver began to walk outside, "Can you guys plant a chip in his phone so we know who he is communicating with? I'm going to put a tracker in the car and then we can go."

Oliver walked outside. All he could think about was how he just wanted Felicity to be safe. He didn't expect this from her but he also knew that there was a lot about this that he didn't know. But still, his stubbornness was making him incapable of understanding the logic behind all of this. He could tell he was a few steps behind everything and he hated that feeling. He planted the tracker in the car but noticed fresh tire tracks leading to the back. He followed them and immediately called Roy and Diggle out back.

"Guys, tell me Felicity got a new car while I was gone."

"Unless she got a new car in the last few days, no she's had the same one. Why?" Dig and Roy were both confused until they got to the back of the house and saw Felicity's car abandoned in the back of the house.

"I'm going to kill him!" Oliver tried to hold back a scream.

"No stop Oliver!" Diggle pulled him back "Felicity wouldn't want you to go in there and kill him. She would want you to use the technology and resources we have to find her without killing people in her name. Be rational here Oliver, it's what she would want you to do!"

Oliver stopped in his tracks, turned his head and began to yell, "You think she would want me to be rational John? Because clearly she has her head on straight right now and she's doing the rational thing? Dig we don't know where she is or what she's doing. We don't know anything! I promised that we'd protect her!

"We will find her Oliver. But we need to go before this guy wakes up. The faster we get back the sooner we can track his movements and phone calls and we can start from there," Roy tried to reason with him.

Oliver got on his bike and told them he'd meet them back at the foundry.

"I hope we find her soon for her and his sake Dig" Roy said before getting in the car.

"I agree" Dig replied with worry in his voice as they began to drive back.

Oliver drove to his old house. It was still vacant so he walked in without worrying about anyone seeing him.

Felicity. I told you I loved you for the first time here. I didn't even know I meant it until the words made perfect sense once I said them. I have so much to tell you and explain to you and I don't think I could ever forgive myself if something happened to you. I will do whatever-whatever- it takes to find you. I promise.