A/N: thanks for the reviews, I really appreciate them and they help me with my writing. Like I said last chapter this chapter is going to be in Oliver's perspective because if events that happened in the last chapter. So as always please review and enjoy it. Thanks.
"Damn it." I yelled to myself because Felicity's father got away. I swear I'm going to find him and he is not going to like it when I do.
I headed back towards the courtyard to where Felicity and Roy were, I could see her looking at me and I hated to say I told you so but, "This is why I didn't want you to meet with your dad, I told you nothing good was going to come from this." I knew she was in pain but she needed to hear this.
"Oliver I think something's wrong." Roy said which snapped me out of my anger state, and I could tell that she was not breathing, the shock from the Taser must have resulted in cardiac arrest. We needed to act fast.
"Lie her down flat quickly, we need to start compressions." He did as I said and I started compressions on her chest, I started to worry when they didn't work but I continued anyway. There was no way I was going to let her die not like this.
"Oliver I don't think it's helping, I think she's gone." Roy said but I was not going to believe it.
"She's not gone, not yet." I snapped back at him and immediately went back to the compressions. I'm glad I did too because five minutes later I could feel a pulse, a weak one but a pulse still the same. "She's breathing."
"Alright now we need to call 911, she needs a hospital." Roy stated and I knew he was right, she was breathing but she wasn't awake yet. "You need to get out of here." I also said.
"I can't leave."
"I know you don't want to leave but you kind of have to." He gestured toward my outfit and I had totally forgot that I was dressed as the arrow, I wanted to stay but Roy was right.
"Don't leave her side, I'm going to change and meet you at the hospital."
"Of course, here take these with you." He handed me his own bow and arrows which was smart because if anyone saw his bow there would be a small step to connect him to the arrow and we didn't need that. I was headed back to my motorcycle and I could hear sirens in the distance which meant that Roy had called 911 right away and I needed to get out of there real fast. I drove back to the club and hurried inside, I needed to change fast and get to the hospital.
Diggle was downstairs and I had to fill him in on everything, I left in such a hurry when Roy told me what was going on and didn't have a chance to tell Dig what was going on. "Are you going to tell me where you were?" he asked.
"She went to meet her father even after I told her not to, she enlisted Roy's help in the process. I'm just glad he had enough sense to get me involved otherwise she would probably be dead right now." I answered back in a rush, I didn't wait for him to respond as I went to change.
"Whoa, hold up a second. What the hell happened to her?"
"Her father pulled a Taser gun on her and I can only assume he was going to take her somewhere but I shot an arrow through his shoulder. He got up and hobbled back to his car and I went after him but he got away."
"What do you think he wanted?" Dig asked and I was trying to figure that same thing out but I have no idea what he wanted.
"I have no idea but he took her phone so he's going to have access to whatever is on it and that is not a good thing." I answered.
"What happened to Felicity, where is she?"
"She went into cardiac arrest and stopped breathing. I couldn't believe it was happening in front of me but it was and we acted fast; I started compressions and when everything seemed like it was over she started breathing again, it was very weak though. Roy called 911 and I had to get out of there before anyone saw me but I'm headed to the hospital now. I swear when I find that son of a bitch he's going to wish that he stayed away." The thought of losing Felicity just made me angrier and I knew that Dig could sense it on me.
"I know you're mad but none of this is going to help Felicity, we just need to be there for her. But trust me will find him and he will get what is coming to him, you said you got an arrow in him maybe that will lead him to seek medical attention but if not we will find him another way." Dig said to try and calm me down but it wasn't working.
"This whole thing have been avoided if she would've just listened to me and stay away from her father."
"Dude, you know she is stubborn and nothing you could have said would've changed her mind. Once she has a plan she sticks to it, it was just matter of time before she acted on the plan." I knew he was right but this still could have been avoided if we had planned the whole thing out together beforehand.
Dig drove us to the hospital and it felt like it took forever for us to get there but when we arrived we went immediately to the emergency room. Roy was sitting in the waiting room by himself and as soon as he saw us stood up and walked our way. I was the first to break the silence, "Where is she, what happened after I left?"
"I called 911 immediately and they arrived pretty fast, everything seemed to be going well but something happened on the way here." Roy stated and his words made me worry, what happened, what wasn't he telling me?
"What happened, where is she? Roy answer me right now." I demanded and I didn't realize I was speaking really loud until heads started to turn in our general direction.
"She went into cardiac arrest again and the paramedics started compression right away. They were able to revive her and as soon as we got here they took her back there but wouldn't let me go with them." Roy answered and I started to walk the way he said but he stopped me, "Oliver there's one more thing, I heard them say that since she is so small the shock from the Taser gun has a bigger impact than it would on someone like you or John." I wasn't liking what I was hearing and I needed to get answers straight from a doctor.
I walked up to the nurse's station and demanded answers. "I need to see Felicity Smoak." I said to one of the nurses.
"Are you family?" she asked.
"No but I need to see her right away."
"I'm sorry sir, patients in the ICU are only allowed visitors from family members." She told me but I wasn't having it. I pushed away from the desk and started to walk in the general direction of the ICU. "Sir, you can't go back there, Sir." I could hear her yelling at me but I didn't want to listen. "SIR!" she stepped in front of me before the doors and I was surprised a bit.
"Do you not know who I am?" I asked and I could tell that she was a little confused, "I'm Oliver Queen, you've probably heard about me on the news and I need to see Ms. Smoak right away. She doesn't have any family in town and I'd like to see her now."
"I'm sorry Mr. Queen but she does have family, her father is with her. I looked on the computer and it said her father came in asking for her at the main desk, they just sent him down to her a few minutes ago." I could not believe what I was hearing, how could he show his face again and come here?
"He's the reason she's in here in the first place." I said to her and she was in disbelief, I wasn't going to stand there any longer either. I pushed my way past the nurse and ran to find Felicity's room. I found it right away and when I got there her father was standing over her body doing something with the cords that were attached to her. I acted on instinct and quickly grabbed him from behind, I turned him around and punched him in the face but he fought right back and as soon as he heard the security guards coming he took off. I pointed in the direction that he went and the security guards took off running after him. I stayed with Felicity and demanded to talk to her doctor right away.
"Mr. Queen, I'm Dr. Mueller and what is your relation with Ms. Smoak here?" she asked.
"She's a very dear friend of mine and I need to know that she is going to be okay." I asked and I feared the worst was going to come out of the doctor's mouth.
"Under normal circumstances medical information can only be given to the patient's immediate family," I was about to interject her but she continued, "These are not normal circumstance and I'm sure she would be fine with me divulging the information to you. Am I right about that?"
"Yes ma'am, now please tell me she is going to be okay." I asked desperately
"Ms. Smoak suffered a lot from the Taser shock. She has such a small frame and small body, when she was shocked it made her heart go into overdrive basically. Her heart was beating too fast for her body and it eventually shut down all together. When the young performed compressions on her it jolted the heart back to life but the heart was beating very weakly, it wasn't working fast enough for her body and again it shut down. We were able to get her heart beating again but we put her on a ventilator to aid in getting the heart back to a normal rhythm." She stated and I was trying to take everything in all at once but it was all coming to fast.
"So is she going to make a full recovery or what's going to happen?" I asked.
"The ventilator is going to get her breathing a normal pace and she should wake up tomorrow sometime and when she does we can take the ventilator out and she'll be able to breathe normally on her own. That's not my only concern though, the spot where the Taser hit her created a significant burn pattern. We dressed the wound but we are going to need to monitor it to make sure no infection starts. Other than that I believe that she will make a full recovery within a few days."
"Thank you Dr. Mueller, is there any way she can be moved to a more private room with more security." I would have said I'd pay for the trouble but we didn't get the company back yet so my money was still frozen.
"As soon as her vitals improve to my liking we will move her upstairs and I can make sure the police are aware of what happened here tonight and make sure they place officers with her at all times starting here." She offered.
"Thank you so much." I said as the doctor walked away to call the police, there was a chair at the end of Felicity's bed so I sat down in it and just stared at her body. The tube going down her throat and all the wires attached to her chest and arms were making her look weaker than I know she is. I wanted to help her but at the moment I did not know how to.
My phone buzzed in my pocket, I looked down at it and it was a text from Diggle, What's going on, did you find her? I had to fill him in and Roy, they needed to be kept in the loop.
I found her. Her dad tried to finish what he started. She should hopefully recover within a few days.
That son of a bitch. What can I do to help? I could tell that Dig was just as angry as I was and he too just wanted to help.
Send Roy to her apartment to grab some of her belongings, anything he thinks she might want here when she wakes up.
Done, what can I do now?
Can you go to the club and see if you can get camera footage of this guy leaving and see if you can find where he went. I want to stay here with her in case he comes back. I sent him back even though the police had sent two officers here already, I had to be sure that she was going to be safe.
Sounds good. I'll let you know if I get anywhere. Good luck.
You too.
I went back to watching Felicity in silence and it was killing me. I hated to sit around and do nothing, I don't know how people do it I was about to go out of my mind.
Another two hours had gone by; Roy had come and dropped off a bag of Felicity's things and then I sent him to go help Diggle back at the club with the camera footage. The doctor was finally back and Felicity's vitals looked good to Dr. Mueller so they could finally move her up to her own private room. Dr. Mueller told me the number of the room they were moving Felicity to and I went up there ahead of the team moving her so I could make sure it was safe for her up there.
Everything checked out and a few moments later Felicity was being wheeled in with all of her machines, until now I did not realized how many machines she was actually hooked up too. It was all too overwhelming for me but I had to stay strong for Felicity's sake. The doctor was checking her vitals again once she was settled into the room and it sort of worried me, "Dr. Mueller, is everything okay?"
"Yes Mr. Queen, it's just that I wanted to make sure that the move didn't affect her at all and it didn't. She is doing very well and I like what I'm seeing. I don't have her on any pain medication yet but as soon as she wakes up she might need it, so as soon as she wakes up if you're here can you notify a nurse right away."
"I'm not going anywhere, I can't."
"Would you like me to have a nurse bring a cot up for you to sleep on?" she asked and to be completely honest sleep was the last thing on my mind. There was no way I could sleep well her dad was still out there.
"Thanks but I'll be okay, there's no way I can sleep now." I answered.
"Does she know how much you care for her?" her question threw me off guard a bit.
"Excuse me." I asked.
"You should tell her before it's too late. She's lucky to have someone care so much for her." she answered and I knew what she meant but the last time I told Felicity how I felt she thought it was just a ploy and that it had no meaning what so ever. Dr. Mueller was absolutely right though, I care deeply for Felicity and I needed to tell her before it was too late.
"Thanks again doctor." She nodded and then left us in the room alone.
I grabbed the chair in the corner of the room and dragged it over to the side of her bed and sat there, I was taking what the doctor said to heart and had to come up with a way to show Felicity that what I said that night was indeed true. I decided to talk to her, she might not hear what I say but it wasn't going to hurt. "Felicity I know you probably can't hear me but I want you to know that he won't get away with this. We do however have to have a talk about going behind my back in the first place but that can wait for another time. I'm just glad that you're going to recover from this and that I can tell you this to your face. The doctor's right you know." I grabbed her hand wanting to feel her touch when I said these next words, "I care so much for you and you need to know that, I meant what I said that night you know. I know you thought it was all a ploy to get to Slade but it wasn't. I love you Felicity, so please wake up soon so I can tell it to your face." For a second I thought I felt her fingers twitch within my grasp and deep down I knew that she could either hear me or she sensed my presence, I placed a kiss on her knuckles and just sat there in silence the rest of the night and into the early morning.
I eventually dosed off myself, I had to admit I was exhausted and needed to rest.
