The car ride home was quiet, only Felicity's occasional quiet sobs were heard. Even though so many questions were left unanswered in Oliver's mind, he didn't say a thing. He didn't want to push her, force her to talk when she was still so shaken up from everything. He will give her time to process everything and once she gets better he will talk to her, right now he will only let her know that he is always by her side, no matter what, he will be there for her.

Once he was outside her apartment, he looked over to her and saw that she had fallen asleep somewhere along the ride. Not having the heart to wake her up, he pulled her into his arms and carried her into her apartment. He unlocked her doors and opened them, all with Felicity still secured in his arms. Secured, he mentally laughed at himself. She was the furthest thing from secured. In the span of few weeks she was drugged and kidnapped, all because of him. He laid her down on her bed and tucked her in. As gentle as he could, he caressed her cheek and kissed her forehead, lingering for a moment. He really did love her. It wasn't just a simple crush, no, this was something he heard so much about, in books, in songs, in movies, but he never felt it, until he met her. Until he met Felicity. Thinking about it, her name did serve her well, she most certainly did bring happiness in his broken life.

He left her room and went into the living room. He sat the couch and thought about today. He had almost killed a person today. When Diggle located the warehouse Felicity was supposed to be in, he went there without a second thought. But she wasn't there. Instead there was a man standing guard there. He questioned him and when the guard didn't answer he started beating him, without mercy, stopping only when Diggle yelled in his ear: "Oliver, if you do this, Felicity might not forgive you." Oliver knew that wouldn't be the case, if anything she would never forgive herself for him killing someone for her, but her name brought him back, just like she brought him back from his inner darkness and into the light.

He was interrupted from his thoughts when he heard her screaming. He ran into her room with hands formed into fists ready to attack the assailant. Instead of someone trying to hurt or kill Felicity he saw Felicity trashing and screaming in her bed. She must have scratched herself since there was fresh blood on her wrists where the ropes were. He went up to her and grabbed her both arms so she wouldn't hurt herself further, and he started whispering in her ear: "Hey, Felicity, it's just a dream." When she didn't seem to hear him and she continued screaming and trying to get out of his grip he raised his voice slightly. "Felicity, wake up. It's just a dream."

She bolted upward, eyes wide, tears coming down her cheeks. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Please don't hate me."

"Hey, Felicity it's okay. You're okay. And you have nothing to apologize for."

"Please don't hate me." Felicity was now full awake and again she started sobbing.

"Hey, hey look at me." Oliver reached her chin and moved her head so that she is looking him in the eyes. "I could never hate you. Why would you think I would hate you?"

"He told me that. I didn't believe him but he had a point. I'm sorry." Felicity threw her covers and ran to the kitchen. If he saw her cry, he would think she is a liability and if he thinks that he might find someone stronger to take her place.

Oliver ran to her. He found her on the couch crying with her legs to her chest curled up and shaking. He moved slowly to her, careful not to make her even more upset. He sat next to her and pulled her to himself so that he was holding her tightly.

"Felicity, I need you to talk to me. Okay? I need you to tell me everything that happened. Please let me in, it will help you, I promise."

"He just told me some things that upset me. It's nothing, I'm fine. I'm not a liability, please don't think that."

"I know that you are not a liability. You are the strongest person I know, okay? Now please, what did he say to you that it got you this upset?" Their eyes met but as soon as they did Felicity turned her head away from him.

"He said that you are going to leave me just like my father as soon as you realize I'm a liability and you will replace me. He told me that I, that I'm nothing to you." Felicity stopped for a second to swallow the bile forming in her throat. "He said that you're just using me. And as soon as you find someone better at what I do you are going to replace me and leave me broken and used. I'm sorry, Oliver. I'm so sorry."

"Hey, look at me, just look at me." Oliver waited until Felicity's eyes met Oliver's. "Do you believe that?"

"I tried not to, I told myself that you would never leave me, that I mean to you, well not mean mean, but like I'm your friend and that, but he brought up my father. And, and then I had a dream with you in it. But not like that, it was actually a nightmare, not that dreams with you are always nightmares, something they aren't nightmares, sometimes I like the dreams with you not that I-"

"Felicity." Oliver interrupted her with a smile on his face. This was his Felicity.

"Sorry, I, in the dream you said all the things Scarecrow said, you said that I meant nothing to you and that you just used me." Felicity let go and started sobbing violently. Just the thought of Oliver saying that to her made her heart break.

"Come here." He pulled her into a hug. Rubbing her back and letting her cry on her shoulder. Once her sobs quieted down he started talking. "Let me tell you something. I would never leave you. And I would never replace you and you want to know why. Because I can't replace you, no one could ever be as perfect as you are, as smart, as beautiful, as loving, as lovable as you. I wouldn't be able to live without you. I would go crazy without you. I need you more than I ever needed anyone. My happiness was never dependent upon one person before you came in my life. You showed me I could be a hero and not just a broken shell, you showed me how to love someone. I need you, Felicity and I would never leave you."

"Thank you." With those words and in his embrace, she let herself fall asleep.

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