Felicity woke up the next morning feeling like she had a huge hangover. Her head was throbbing and her mouth was dry, and on top of it all, she wasn't even able to open her eyes. Somehow her eyelids just didn't want to cooperate. But the worst was when she remembered the night before, all the fear from that night overwhelmed her and she let a small, barely audible sob. In an instant she felt a hand on her shoulder and she tried to push herself away until she heard Oliver's soothing voice: "Hey, it's me you're safe now. Relax."

This time she was able to open her eyes and the first thing she saw was a pair of two blue eyes looking at her in concern.

"Oliver. What- what happened?" She asked, already knowing the answer. "Did you stay here the whole night?"

"I had to make sure you were alright." He squeezed her should in a reassuring way. He did stay with her all night but also he did more than just that. He carried her from the Foundry when she was sobbing violently in his shirt. He tucked her in bed. He whispered "You're safe now", reassured her and squeezed her shoulders and held her down to stop her from hurting herself every few hours when she was having unbearable nightmares that made her shiver and convulse. He held her hair when she woke up and started throwing up. He gave her water to help her with the burning sensation after it.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." She cried out but he just reached for her and hugged her, holding her closer than ever before.

"You have nothing to apologize for. Okay? Nothing."

"What happened?" She stopped sobbing but tears were still falling quietly down her cheek.

"What do you remember?"

"I- I remember the foundry collapsing and I was so scared, Oliver. I thought I was going to die there, alone on the cold floor. I thought I was never going to see you, or Digg. I was so afraid." She sobbed again and Oliver hugged her even tightly.

"Hey, you are okay now. And I would never, ever let you die alone on the cold floor. I will always come for you."

She heard him but she didn't know how to respond so she just continued with her story. "But when you came, when I opened my eyes, every- everything was fine. I don't understand. One minute everything was falling down on me and the next was like nothing happened. I swear I didn't make that up. I swear, Oliver, I didn't make that up, I'm not crazy." She needed him to believe her, but how could he? He found her crying and sobbing under the desk when everything was fine and now she was telling him how the foundry was collapsing on her.

"Hey." He realized her from his hug and cupped her face. "I need to show you something." He stood up from the bed and made his way to the living room.

"Oliver, I swear. Please, you have to believe me."

Instead of saying anything, he handed her a letter.

"I found it on your doors. It's from Scarecrow."

Her face lost all colour when she read it. "Oh my." Her hand flew to her mouth. She was poisoned. What she saw, the foundry collapsing on top of her, that was a hallucination?

"Are you okay?" He sat on her bed again.

"Yeah, yes I just I'm a little freaked out right now." She felt the tears in her eyes and she tried to blink them away along with the fear that was threatening to consume her. And she didn't want Oliver to see her like that. "I think you should go. I'm tired. I think I'm going to take a nap."

"I'm not leaving you alone, do you understand? He already got to you once and I'm not letting him do that again."

"Oliver."

"Yeah?"

"Thank you."

Diggle was surprised when he came to the foundry and Oliver and Felicity were there. He thought they were going to take a day off after he found out that Scarecrow poisoned Felicity. But here they were and Oliver never took his eyes off of Felicity. And he wasn't surprised that Oliver, when they heard about some attackers, stayed in the foundry with Felicity and sent him, Roy and Sara to catch those guys.

But what surprised Diggle the most was his front door was open. He drew his gun and walked slowly in his apartment scared of what he might find, now that Lyla was living with him, he thought he was going to be more relaxed but right now he felt like he was on the edge, that one wrong move and his whole world will come crashing down. As he walked in his apartment he dropped his gun when he saw Lyla on the floor passed out.

"Lyla, are you okay? What happened?" He shook her lightly.

"John? Oh, my head." Lyla's hand reached for her head. "I don't know. Some guy in a mask broke the door and knocked me out but I'm fine. Don't worry."

"The baby?" Digg's hand came to her belly.

"It's fine, really. He just knocked me out, it's nothing."

"Lyla, please, go get yourself and the baby checked out tomorrow." He pleaded, his voice cracked. This was Scarecrow, no doubt, he thought. This meant that he left a letter for him as his MO. So he searched his apartment until he found the letter and when he did he wished he never found it. He crumbled it beneath his fingers and threw it away. Too angry at Scarecrow and too scared for his wife and baby. When he laid in bed the only thought on his mind was that letter that said:

"Hello, Mr. Diggle

I hope you realize now just how easy it is for me to get to Lyla and her baby. Sleep tight.

-Scarecrow"

Hello :) Sorry it took me this much to update it is just that I have taken up boxing (and aside from great looking guys training, it's really really making me tired because we there have to do like 60 push ups, and 60 pull ups and every other torturing workout every day) so yeah i was so tired and i had muscle fever which really really hurts so yeah sorry.

Also I don't know if I'm going to be able to write another chapter this week (I'm really hoping that I'm going to) because next week I'm not going to be home so I won't be able to write next week at all (unless i find free wifi spot than the first thing I'll do is updating this) because I'm going in the town with a beach where I'll have to work so idk we'll see

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