Felicity stood with her arm wrapped around Oliver's neck and her face buried in it, she tried not to think about the prospect of everything they had done to be together to finally drown in this God Forsaken hole buried underneath rubble. The water slowly raised just below their knees, Oliver stood helpless he had no idea what he could do, if he had his quiver then he could try something but he was useless, to think all his training, his discipline to help him survive in this world in what he does to have it fail him when he needed it the most was disappointing.

"EMT's should be getting us out of here soon" Oliver finally breaks the silence.

"What if they …"

"They will ok, hey" he lifts he chin "we're getting out of here ok" he kisses her and rests his forehead against hers. He wasn't trying to convince her it was more of him trying to convince himself.

Underneath the rubble feet below Oliver and Felicity a pipe burst causing a small explosion which sent a rupture earthquake to what was left of the building. The explosion sent Oliver and Felicity flying, water splashed all over them as they lost each other's grip.

Felicity fell under the water tumbling around, once up she scanned around looking for Oliver, she pushed back her wet hair which had stuck to her face.

"Oliver" she screamed. "OLIVER"

Oliver finally was able to pick himself up, he stood up, realising that water had gotten extensively higher he was now floating. "I'm here" he answered Felicity's cries as he swam towards her. Felicity watches as Oliver gets closer, she tries to swim towards him to meet him halfway when she notices her leg is trapped under some rubble. She holds her breath and goes under to try and move the rubble and assesses the damage. Unable to shift the block of cement that had trapped her foot against another block she moves back up for air.

Oliver notices her gasp as she comes back up unsure of what was happening. "What's wrong?" he asks finally reaching her.

"I'm trapped" she reveals, as both her and Oliver hold their breath and go under, Oliver tries to push the cement off of her but it is no use, with the help from her they both try aimlessly to move the piece of rubble. After failing they head back up for air. "It won't barge" she says fear in her voice.

Both Oliver and Felicity's attention is drawn to a small noise which sounds like a drain, with the amount of water coming in from the pipes above them the hole located a few feet away from them does not drain the water quick enough. Oliver holds his breath and goes towards the hole; he makes his way through it and finds a clearing, something he believes can get them out of their situation. He quickly swims back to Felicity. "We can fit through the hole, leads to another room so to speak, I need to get this off of you, and there is less water" he says urgently, holding his breath.

Once back underneath Oliver does his best to try and push the cement of, with Felicity under the both go back to the original stance and try their hardest to push it off. They come back up for air, after swallowing in some air Oliver goes back down for another round. He pushes with all his might the veins on his face popping, he turns his attention to her leg he wraps his arms around her leg and tugs. Felicity is underneath the water too tugging her leg; Oliver twists it slowly and gives it a strong tug causing Felicity to scream whilst under water from the pain. With her screaming floods of water enter her mouth making her go up for air gasping until it is out.

Olive returns to her side seeing her try and catch her breath. His fear growing now because of how high the water is, he looks up he has about 10 minutes he thinks until he floats to the top where the water will meet the concrete laying above them. However with Felicity stuck it was only a matter of time before she could no longer hold her head above water. Fear kicking in he takes a breath and goes back down tugging on her, noticing the winces she is giving and the kicks from other leg he does not care, he would rather break her leg than have her drown.

He comes back up for air "I need you to help me with the rubble again" he states as they both return but fail miserably. They come back up for air. "I need to twist your leg possibly break your ankle, so when it turns it can come out"

"WHAT" she says

"Trust me?" he asks cupping her face.

"Always"

That is enough confirmation he needs to do what needs to be done to free her. Once under water he holds her knee with one hand and the top of her ankle with the other, the thought of hurting her kills him but he would rather her suffer on crutches than dead. He counts to three in his head unbeknown to him that Felicity is doing the same. He holds her knee firmly in place and snaps her ankle. He can see her shake in pain thankful that he is under water and that her screams and cries are not heard as loudly.

Felicity cries in pain, tears pool down her eyes, she has never experienced anything more painful, she could feel her bone snapping, her chest shakes uncontrollably as she waits for Oliver to release her foot so they could get the hell out there.

Oliver gently tries to pull her foot out of the concrete but coming up unsuccessful, with how the concrete is facing he ankle does not swift and come up released, instead it is trapped in between two blocks of concrete. He pulls up for air. Once up he notices how her head rests on her arm leaning against the wall. Her chest rising uncontrollably, not only had he broken her ankle but he knew he had dislocated it as well and as someone who has had his shoulder dislocated he knew the pain when it was not put back into place.

"I'm still trapped" she barely manages to say the water around her neck.

"I …" He moves towards her, holding her face leaning his forehead against hers and cries with her. He holds breath and goes back down. He tries and tries but it won't move, he can see Felicity tugging her leg knowing that it is bound to cause her indescribable pain. He moves and locates her ankle back into place and tries to reach for her toes through the small gap to see if he can reach and release them.

Felicity can feel the water rising, knowing that soon she will be under, she was never a good swimmer and the longest she could probably hold her breath was maybe 2 to 3 minutes she would never admit to anyone but out of curiosity she would try when she would have a bath. She goes under and pulls Oliver up.

"Clearly I'm not moving, you need to go you said that the clearing could possibly lead to outside, you need to go" she says firmly, trying to ignore the pain in her leg.

"What no" he says angrily as he goes back under but is pulled back up by Felicity.

"Oliver …"

"NO Felicity … NO" he says sharply attempting yet again to go under but is held, her small hands holding his face, tears pooling down her eyes.

"Oliver, you have a chance so go please, please go, get out"

"NO" he moves her hands away and goes back under tugging her leg, now more than ever not caring about the pain, he holds her ankle and twists it slowly again earning shakes and tugs as he could tell she was in pain.

Felicity bites the inside of her cheek, after screaming in pain and feeling the water rise close to her chin she pulls Oliver back up.

"Don't you dare be selfish, do you hear me please go Oliver" she says tears glistening on her face.

"I said no, I'm not going to leave you here"

"Oliver please" she begs him

"No, and for you to think of it as selfish …"

"It is … I'm not going anywhere I am coming to terms with that, I won't lie to you I don't want to die now but I will die happy knowing that I finally got you and what will not make my die happy is knowing you died to so please go"

"Felicity" he cries, he holds another breath but is stopped with her pushing him.

"GO" she pushes him; he grabs hold of her wrists and pulls her in for a hug as she cries into his chest. He can feel his own sobs and his own chest rising and falling.

"I love you please leave Oliver" she pleads with him "Pleassee"

"I'm not going anywhere"

"I hate you" she starts

"Fe-li-ci-ty …"

"No, no how can you not see that you staying and dying with me is the most selfish thing you have ever done please leave go live Oliver you deserve it go live …"

"No … you deserve to live not me, I'm not going anywhere …"

"Oliver I love you, you stupid ignorant stubborn man, please leave its selfish because …" she cries "go live for both of us please, go, go be happy, that is how I want you to honour me, by being happy"

"Without you …"

"Yes, every time you plant a smile on your face that is how you will honour me so please Oliver leave, find a beautiful woman to make you happy, start a family Oliver have the life I always wanted some day for me …"

"I don't want any of that if it's not with you" he goes back under pushing the darn rubble.

"OLiiverrrr" she cries. She goes underneath as well and plants and kiss on him as they slowly drift to the top. "Please leave" she holds her head as high as her neck will allow her as the water begins to slip into her mouth.

Oliver holds his breath ignoring everything she is saying, he pushes her arms away as she reaches to pull him back up, he moves positions trying to move the rubble. Failing yet again he lets out a scream under water hitting his head with his hands then hitting the rubble, he looks around trying to find anything sharp. Sharp, he needs to cut her ankle off it was the only way, searching on the floor he finds nothing. He goes back up for air, from the position where he had been searching for a sharp tool.

With his back away from her he begins "I need to find something sharp, cut your ankle off it's the only way …" he turns around and she's not there. He holds his breath and swims to her.

Underneath the water Felicity is holding her breath, her head no longer able to hold above, she sees Oliver swim to her, he tries to pull her up but it doesn't work. He goes up quickly taking in as much air as he could he comes back down and plants it on her lips, he releases the air into her mouth and the proceeds with trying to get the rubble out.

After a few seconds he goes back up repeating what he did before and releases air into her mouth. After a couple of minutes he goes back for air, his own supply running out as the water almost reaches the formed ceiling. He goes back under and plants another kiss to release air. However like before where she would hold him and open her mouth to him she hangs motionless in the water, her blues eyes now closed, her arms held above her beautiful blonde hair which lays floating in the water, she is beautiful. Oliver leans in again to plant a kiss hoping she moves, he does it again and again for a few seconds. He screams and screams, trying to push the cement nothing, he cries, he moves about, he holds her, he screams.

Unbeknown to what is occurring down below John Diggle has had enough of the EMT's work who slowly remove the rubble, after he had run to the lair he had returned with several explosions, he climbed through a hole and dropped the explosions, he hoped the explosions would work in his favour knocking down the side of the rubble allowing the middle to be exposed.

He knew it was risky and he could just easily cause everything to tumble he figured with burst pipes and the confinement which could be claustrophobic he had to risk it, if he didn't his family would be dead anyways.

Sorry for the late update, I have really neglected this story, mostly because of the ideas of a couple of other stories I'm writing, hopefully the next update will be sooner especially because I did kind of leave it on a cliff hanger, who am I kidding yes I left it on a cliff hanger.

So any thoughts? Will Digg's plan work, btw I have no idea what I'm saying if dropping bombs like that works but its fiction so go with it. Will Oliver and Felicity die and how ironic would it be if he was to die under water where he presumably was thought to have died.

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Enjoy – always enjoy reading the reviews so thank you ever so much and not for just this story but for the others too.