Roy and I left shorty after and I was sure that I would be able to convince him to keep this meeting with my dad a secret. He rode with me in my car and I could tell he knew something was up with Oliver and me.
"Felicity?" He asked.
"What's up Roy?" I knew his question already but I let him ask it anyway.
"Well I couldn't help but notice the tension between you and Oliver. I asked Oliver about it but he gave a very vague answer, so what's going on between you two?"
"My dad's in town." I stated.
"I didn't know Oliver knew your dad, to be honest I didn't even know you had a dad really." He questioned.
"He doesn't but he doesn't like what he's heard about my dad so that's why he won't let me go talk to him. It's kind of irritating because he's my dad and I should be able to deal with him the way I want."
"He must have done something really bad if Oliver feels this highly of the situation."
"All my dad has ever done for me was hurt me, he left my mother and I when I was little. I don't have any good memories of him and I have no idea why he is back in town. I sort of freaked out when I first found out he was back in town and Oliver saw how much him being here freaked me out, but now I just want to know why he's here and to get rid of him. But Oliver won't let me, that's where you come in."
"Whoa, wait a minute. How do I fit into this whole scenario? I don't want to get in the middle of you two that would not be a good thing."
"I won't be able to get anywhere near him with Oliver around." I stated.
"And again what does that have to do with me?" He asked, probably not wanting to know the answer.
"Well if you go with me then I can say that I didn't go alone and Oliver won't get as mad." I exclaimed.
"I don't know Felicity, what if something goes wrong, Oliver will kill me if he finds out I went with you and you somehow got hurt. I don't think we should chance it." He had his reservations about the plan but there was no room for argue, this was what I was going to do.
"Roy Harper, I'm not asking you to go with me, I'm telling you this is what we are going to do. What could go wrong, I know deep down somewhere in my father he would never truly want to hurt me again." I demanded and at that we arrived at my apartment, "Now call Oliver or text him that we are at my apartment and that we are safe. Don't tell him about our other plan otherwise you won't like your consequences." I really didn't have any consequences thought out but I had to say something so he would go with the plan.
"Felicity, please just think about this." He pleaded.
"Roy I've done my thinking. I want my dad gone and this is the only way to do it." I argued.
"Well I could think of another way," I gave him my don't say Oliver face and he said it anyway, "you can just sick the neighborhood hero on him and I'm sure he'll go away."
"Not likely, we will try my way first." With that I opened my apartment door and walked inside ushering Roy to follow me. He did and I could see him fumbling with his phone and I was happy he was seeing this my way. To be honest I can't believe I'm actually going through with this myself, this is so unlike me. I would never go up against anyone without Oliver or John by my side, but something kept telling me that this was my dad and I needed to face my demons head on.
"Alright so as far as Oliver knows you're here for the rest of the night. Now what's the plan for us?" Roy was finally coming around to my plan which I was happy for.
"I just texted my father to meet me at the park a couple of blocks away. We are going to walk there so that my car stays here to make it look like I'm home just in case. I just want to change out of this dress and then we can go."
I went to my bedroom got out of my dress and threw a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt. I threw my hair up into a high ponytail and shoved my phone in my back pocket. I joined Roy in the living room and was ready to go. I grabbed my keys and we headed out the door. We stopped at my car before we left I wanted to astray on contact with Roy the whole time so I grabbed the extra intercoms from my trunk and gave him one as I placed my own in my ear, these were smaller than the normal ones we use but you couldn't see these ones.
The walk to the park was going to take us about fifteen minutes so on the way there I discussed my plan with Roy. "I don't want him to see you so when we get there you need to find a place to hide and stay out of the way."
"Got it and if anything goes wrong I've got this," he motioned toward his bow and arrow.
"I didn't even see you grab that, I don't think we will need that."
"Wouldn't you rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Plus I'll only use it if absolutely necessary okay."
"Okay, it does sound good to me." I was really hoping that Roy didn't have to use it so I put it out of my mind.
We walked in silence the last ten or so minutes to the park. When we got there, there was a small courtyard with a couple of benches and trees surrounding it. Roy perched himself up in one of the trees surrounding the area and I choose a bench on the opposite side of where Roy was and waited there. We waited in silence for the longest time and all of a sudden I jumped to the voice in my ear.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" It was Oliver and I started to get really furious with Roy, he betrayed me and told Oliver the plan.
"Oliver? What are you doing here? Roy how could you, I trusted you?"
"I'm sorry Felicity, I had to because this whole thing just felt not right."
"He's right Felicity, I'm glad he told me. This was a stupid thing to do without consulting me."
"It's not like I was here alone, I brought backup and this is something I must face alone so if you're going to stay you better stay hidden or so help me god." I was now furious with both of them but there was nothing I could do about it now they were here now and I could hear a car pulling up nearby.
"Felicity are you ready for this, you're shaking!" I didn't notice until Oliver said it but I was shaking and I think I was only doing so because it had been years since I last saw him. I had to pull it together and just breathe.
"I'm fine, now no more talking he's coming up the walkway now."
I could see my father walking towards me in the light of the street lamps. I could see that he's aged quite a bit but I wasn't expecting him to look the same as he did the night he walked out on us. He was getting closer to my spot so I stood up and took a few steps toward the middle of the courtyard. He stopped about ten feet in front of my position, "Hi dad." I said.
"Felicity, you've grown up so much. I can't believe it, you look gorgeous." He was just trying to get on my good side but I wasn't here to get compliments, I wanted answers.
"What are you doing here, why did you come back?"
"I made a mistake leaving you and your mom all those years ago, I never meant to hurt you guys. I wasn't ready to be a dad yet, so my answer was to leave and let your mother raise you the right way."
"Well that planned failed. She wasn't the best parent in the world, I had to learn things on my own. I didn't really have a parental unit my whole life so thank you for leaving I guess, it probably wouldn't have made a difference if you stayed."
"But look at you, you went to MIT and are very good at what you do." I was shocked at what he said because there was no way he would have known that, how did he know that.
"How the hell would you know any of that?" I demanded he answer me.
"Just because I left you physically doesn't mean that I left you completely. I was always around just in the shadows, I was never going to be a good present father so I distanced myself."
"Oh please, you expect me to believe that when you left all those years ago you never truly left. How am I supposed to believe that, I never saw you? You know how much I wanted to have a normal life, I wanted to have both my parents in my life. How could you just stand on the sidelines and not show your face, I don't believe it." I could feel the tears start to form in my eyes and I was trying so hard to keep them from falling.
"Believe it. Felicity, I was there throughout your whole life. I watched you grow up, you're my daughter and I couldn't completely walk out on your life."
"Except that's exactly what you did. You walked out and never came back, stop lying to me. You couldn't have been around, I would've known."
"Felicity when you turned seven you were really into computers am I right," I nodded at him, "if I'm not mistaken you built your first computer when you were seven."
"How," I choked on the rest of the words I was trying to say.
"It's like I've been telling you, I never really truly left. When you turned sixteen you bought your first car by yourself. It was a green neon wasn't it."
"Yes, but that could just be a lucky guess." I couldn't help it but the tears started to flow down my cheeks and Oliver saw them because he spoke to me in my ear.
"Felicity stay strong, you've got this." I wiped the tears away and focused again on what my father was saying.
"Felicity, you graduated MIT top of your class and landed an IT position at Queen Consolidated and that's not the only thing you do for the Queen family." His words stuck with me there, did he really know what I do with Oliver at night. He can't possibly know that, there's no way.
"What do you mean?"
"Come on Felicity, don't you know by now I know everything about your life and your secret life with the arrow, that's what you call him isn't it?" I started to get a bad feeling about this whole meeting, what does my dad need with the arrow.
I stood in silence trying to figure out what the possible reason my father needed Oliver for and nothing came to mind. My dad however took my silence to walk closer to me, he was now only a foot in front of me. He leaned in and whispered in my ear, "Felicity I truly do care about you and if there were any other way to so this I would. I'm sorry."
"What are you talking about, sorry about what?" I looked down at him and saw him pull out what I thought was a gun but I found out soon enough that it wasn't. Oliver noticed it as we'll and the next moments went by really fast.
I heard two distinct sounds, the sound of a bow leaving its strings and the sound of a Taser. My dad didn't have a gun at all, it was a Taser and I felt the burning pain of it but one of Oliver's arrow was lodged in his shoulder. Before Oliver could get down from the tree he was in I could barely see my father running away with something else in his hands. I was in too much pain to move so I just lied on the ground motionless until I felt a presence next to me.
"Felicity, can you hear me. Felicity please." I could tell that the voice belonged to Roy and my first thought was where Oliver went.
"Roy, where did..." I tried to speak but the Taser knocked everything out of me. I tried to sit up as well but that wasn't happening, I felt the entry point of the shock on my stomach and it hurt the more I moved.
"Hey, please don't move too much. He went after your dad, your dad took your phone but I think he got away because Oliver is headed back this way." Roy stated, I looked in the general direction of where Oliver was coming from and my vision was really blurry so I could barely make him out.
"This is why I didn't want you to meet with your dad, I told you nothing good was going to come from this." He yelled at me but I wasn't really hearing what he was saying because I started to have a sudden pain in my chest. I swear it felt like a heart attack and then everything went dark.
A/N: The next chapter will most likely be in Oliver's perspective and I hope it adds a little more depth into the story so please review and I hope you enjoy it.