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Chapter 12 A Killer

Oliver

They weren't finding anything. There were no bank accounts, no cellphones to trace, no known living accomplices, and nothing showing up on the facial recognition software Felicity had installed. It was like he was a ghost. Oliver knew he had to be somewhere but he had no ideas about where he would be. He had no ties to Starling City so he had to have someone helping him.

It had to be someone with money and who also wanted to take down Oliver. That narrowed the list. Oliver had taken down so many people and made so many enemies that the list of who would want to hurt him would be longer than he would like.

It was already 7pm which only left them with 2 hours until they were supposed to meet at the docks. He was no closer to finding Felicity and his hopes of finding her before the deadline was growing smaller and smaller.

Then out of nowhere it was like everything hit him at once and it exploded out of him as he pushed the computers off the desk and flipped the table. He stomped and stomped on the computers before letting out a scream that reverberated around the whole room. Dig had never seen him act like this before. Yes he had seen him get mad but this was something different. Oliver was trembling as all the emotions inside came flooding out and he collapsed onto the ground. Dig bent down right next to him and put his hand on his shoulder.

"I can't lose her John. I just can't."

"I know how you feel man but we can't lose hope. If we give up now we already lose."

"I have never had someone like her in my life before. She has complete faith and trust in me and always believes in me even when I don't believe in myself. Without her here I don't know if I can do this and I know she needs me now more than ever but I feel like I'm missing a piece of myself. I love her more than I have ever loved anyone in my whole life she changed me and I need to get her back."

"LISTEN TO ME OLIVER. We will get them back I promise you that. But you have to promise me that you will not lose yourself in the process. I know you love Felicity and she loves you but you need to be able to do this without her. She can't always be the one who pulls you up or prevents you from doing something you'll regret. Be the man Felicity Smoak loves and we will get them back."

He soaked in everything John had said. He slowly rose to his feet and went to grab his bow.

"Let's go get our girls back."

John nodded, grabbed his gun and headed up the stairs behind Oliver. They would head to the docks just like the note said but it didn't say anything about coming unarmed. He would not go down that easy.

Felicity

She had tried to sleep because there was nothing better to do but that was no use. The bed was hard as a rock and the blankets were so itchy it made her skin crawl. Lyla continued to pace back and forth trying to find some way out but eventually she just sat down on the bed next to Felicity.

Felicity leaned her head on Lyla's shoulder and they both just sat waiting. They sat there for what could have been 10 minutes or an hour when the door finally opened once again. Blinded by the light they both staggered to their feet.

"Time to go ladies we have places to be and someone to kill."

"Still think your plan is going to work. How does the saying go if at first you don't succeed maybe you suck and should stop."

"Unfortunately for you our plan is going to work and there is nothing Oliver can do to stop us. We have him right where we want him."

"Oh so vague and threatening I think you will do the same thing as you two always do. You will use us as bait and then fight Oliver when he is distracted. Well guess what he has changed and your plan won't work."

"You would be right Ms. Smoak if that's what we were going to do."

"You see I've traveled a lot and I have found certain plants and drugs that can do wonderful things. Make people sleepy, make people crazy, make people wish they were dead, make people susceptible to persuasion. We have been toying with these things and we found a combination that is quiet amazing if I might say so myself."

"Good now you two are into drugs I don't see what that has to do with killing Oliver."

"Well don't you see Ms. Smoak it has everything to do with it."

Felicity still had no idea what was going on. They were being so cryptic.

"Felicity its no use their not going to tell us, they are just going to talk and talk and…" Lyla began to slur her words and she wobbled back and forth. Felicity grabbed onto her and gently lowered her to the floor. Then she realized Lyla had a dart in her neck.

"What the hell did you do to her?"

"Don't worry she's not dead and soon you will find out exactly what our plan is. Sweet dreams."

She felt a quick pinch and then slowly darkness overcame her.

Oliver

Pulling up to the docks he made sure to stay extra vigilant. He didn't want any surprises. They were about 15 minutes early and they didn't see anyone there yet. He had his quiver on his back and one arrow notched in his bow. Dig had his glock loaded and ready.

He had thought this part of his life was behind him but it always seemed to come back and find him. All he wanted was to move forward, he thought he had atoned for his sins but he was still being punished. The worst part was it kept hurting those he loved the most. He could handle it if it only effected him but that was never the case.

He needed to see Felicity. She would center him and make him think clearer. All the silence and time was getting to him, he just wanted this to be done and over with. Then he would take Felicity and they would get away for a while. Just the two of them.

Finally a van pulled up breaking him out of his reverie. Two guys came out of the back with two people with hoods on their heads. Oliver knew immediately the one on the right was Felicty. He called out to her right away. "Felicity I'm here." But she didn't react at all. He tried again but still no response. If he hadn't had saw her walk out of the van he would have thought she was unconscious. Her and Lyla just stood there like zombies neither flinching. Their hands weren't tied and the guards weren't even holding them. Something was wrong. He wanted to run over and just grab her but then he saw the front door of the van open.

Slade stepped out dressed in a suit and tie and didn't look prepared to fight at all. He had his stupid walking stick and he looked over confident with a small smile on his face. "Hello Oliver quiet a lovely night we're having."
"Cut the shit Slade how the hell did you escape and what do you want?"

"Let's just say I found someone who hates you almost as much as I do."

If he thought they were in a dangerous situation before he didn't even know how to describe what they were in now, when he saw Malcolm Merlyn walk out from behind the van. That solidified it for Oliver there was going to be a lot of death tonight.

"Oliver I'm so glad you showed up. Slade and I have this perfect plan and your playing right into it, as always you're so predictable."

He pulled back his bow and said, "give me one reason why I shouldn't just kill you both right now. It would be easy. Then Dig would take out your guys with two easy shots. Neither of you came prepared I'm shocked that you guys would be that careless especially since I assume you guys have been planning this for while now."

"Well someone is picking up habits from our Ms. Smoak over here. Such the talker Oliver. To answer your question we have planted small bombs on these two lovely ladies that will trigger if we die so I wouldn't do that. But you're right we have been planning this for a while. Once I found out that Slade could be an ally I easily broke him out of that prison on Lian Yu."

"We knew Argus wouldn't say that I had escaped so we had time to come up with a plan and Mr Merlyn had enough money to hide us away for a while. Now here we are at the climax of our great plan."

"You say I'm predictable. You do exactly what you two always do you go after those we love and use it against us. You think it will distract us but it's only going to make us stronger. So enough of this standing around, let's get down to it."

"Agreed Oliver. Enough talking I'm ready to watch you die. I always thought that killing you by my hand would bring me the greatest joy but then we thought of another way. You once had a choice of who lived and who died and you chose wrong by letting Shado die. Well now you're going to have a much more difficult choice."

Oliver didn't understand, was Slade not going to fight. "What are talking about?"

"I think we will let Ms. Smoak and Ms. Michaels answer that question. Gentlemen please take off the ladies hoods so we can get on with this."

As the hoods were removed Oliver's heart dropped in his chest. On the outside she looked fine. No scratches, no bruises, nothing that would show she was harmed but then he looked in her eyes. Her eyes were blank the life and light that he usually saw in them were gone. It was like she was staring right through him, like she didn't even know who he was.

"Felicity baby it's me. What's going on?" She didn't answer which scared him even more. "What the fuck did you guys do to her?"

"Just wait and find out. Felicity, Lyla I want you two to kill these men in front of you." The guards behind them handed them both guns and they pointed them straight at Oliver and Diggle. They both were so shocked that they barely had time to duck for cover when the bullets starting firing past them. They hid behind a shipping container and heard the bullets cease.
"Oliver there is something wrong Lyla doesn't look right."

"I know. I've heard of something like this its a drug that makes people susceptible to persuasion and makes the person forget what they are doing."

He peaked his head out to see if they were still coming and immediately they started firing again.

"I'm going to kill them for doing this to Lyla. What can we do? We can't fight them. Felicity might not be that great of a shot but she knows how to shoot and Lyla is one of the best marksman in Argus."

Oliver had no ideas. This was the choice Slade was talking about either fight back and risk losing Felicity or let her kill him. Diggle was right they couldn't fight them but he knew Felicity was in there somewhere he just had to get through to her.

Felicity

Kill Oliver Queen. Kill Oliver Queen. This was what she was told to do. The two men told her to stop firing and go get them from behind the crate and bring them out in the open. She found them easily. Pointed the gun at his head and led him out in the open. The two men talking to the other two men. Oliver Queen down on his knees in front of her. Her gun pointed at his head.

He is familiar but that doesn't matter. She was told to kill him now while his friend watches. Her friend has the gun pointed at the other guy but she is to wait that is the plan. The guy is talking but she doesn't hear.

She points the gun at Oliver's head once again. He is saying something. The gun feels strange in her hand but that doesn't matter she must kill him.

She hesitates. She listens harder. "I love you Felicity Megan Smoak." Felicity, that was her name, flashes of memories come back to her but they're fuzzy. "I will always love you." Her finger is still on the trigger and she feels it start to press down, but she doesn't want to. This isn't right. "You are my always and I need you." "Ms Smoak kill him."

She knew this man, he was bad and tried to kill her before. Why was she listening to him? "Please come back to me baby." Everything was so fuzzy and she was fighting something that was controlling her. "Felicity." He always said her name like it was a prayer. So gently and so soft. With so much love in his voice. He loved her and she loved him. But she could feel her finger pressing the trigger and she felt like she had no control of her body. She fought and fought but the sound of the gun going off let her know she was too late.