Sorry for the delay, I've been busy and distracted. One chapter left after this one :)
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When Ollie returned alone to QC, Sara didn't think much of it; when she touched him she was telling him that she was there, they were going to win, and he was going to kill Slade. Then she heard her father ask about Felicity Smoak, and she realized that the IT girl was missing, but was satisfied when Oliver said she was safe.
Then the fight in the tunnel began and ended, and 'Team Arrow' were the victors.
"She is quite lovely… your Felcitiy."
Sara froze, carefully watching Oliver. His shoulders had tensed and she knew that he was going to go after Slade now. He had protected the city, but no one had been protecting him. A bitter feeling overcame her as she remembered what he had said, that the city was more important than Laurel. She understood his desire to protect the city, since that was the last way to take away everything, but it still stung that she couldn't go protect her sister. The reason she had returned to Starling City in the first place! Then, to make it worse, Oliver had told Slade to 'do what he must' after Slade informed him about having his 'beloved', which Sara had assumed meant Laurel. It seemed that while Sara's heart had stopped, Oliver's had kept right on beating without breaking rhythm. When she had broken up with him, telling him to find someone to harness the light inside, she had been hinting his return to the oldest Lance sister, thinking that they could somehow mend each other.
It wasn't a Lance that was harnessing that little bit of light in his heart, it wasn't even Oliver who had started it. It was a blonde IT girl named Felicity Smoak who had seen the potential for a sun and started nursing it slowly. The same IT girl who never backed down when Oliver was taking out his bad mood on a real person, and the same IT girl who ran towards a bullet. If Felicity Megan Smoak ran, it would be towards the disaster, not away from it.
Sara was suddenly glad that Diggle was not linked in to this particular moment, and she was very glad that he wasn't present, because she knows how he would be looking at her after hearing Slade's words and seeing Oliver's reaction. He would have seen how his friend had gone from angry victory stance to coiled and furious, terrified that something would happen to Felicity. Diggle, the black driver, would look at her and his face would be smug, his face would say 'I told you, you were not his', his face would say 'never bet against Felicity Smoak', all the while being just as angry, just as scared for Felicity as Oliver was after hearing those words.
Being as engrossed with her thoughts as she was, Sara almost missed the words Oliver whispered, words that reminded her that her friend was in danger, words that reminded Sara Lance that Felicity Smoak would never run:
"What has she done?"
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