Felicity was thankful that Oliver let her have the afternoon off; she was feeling horrible. Ever since that morning and after the spider attack she was feeling a little sick, she also felt Goosebumps on her skin and had insisted on having the heater on in the office despite Oliver saying that it wasn't that cold.
She was also experiencing a major headache and was breaking out in a cold sweat.

When she got home she had a hot shower to clean herself off, put on some warmer clothes and headed for the lair – she might feel like crap but Oliver and her team needed her to run scans, look up info and try to find another target for Oliver. They needed her and that was that.

The only one in the lair when she got there was Sara and she was so wrapped up in training that she didn't notice Felicity come until she sat down and booted up her computers "Hey Felicity" she said with a smile as she stopped training and reached for a towel

"Hey Sara" Felicity said without looking at her, too fixated on her programs

Sara's eyes narrowed as she stared at the blonde "Hey" Sara came up to Felicity's side and touched her shoulder "are you ok? No offence but you don't look so good" she took a note of all her symptoms

"Yeah, I'm fine, I just might be coming down with a cold"

"Then you should go home" Sara said matter-of-factly "and rest until you're better" Sara reached out to touch her forehead "you're a little warm, maybe take off a layer or two?" she gestured to Felicity's warm attire

"If I do that I'll just be cold again and put them back on, I can already feel the Goosebumps again" Felicity grumbled and started rubbing her arms "the office was freezing today as well! Took me ages to convince Oliver to turn the heat up"

Sara didn't like what she was hearing one bit, she wanted Felicity to go home and would talk to Oliver and Diggle as soon as they came in, she sighed "OK, if you say you're fine…just don't stay here longer than you need to" the last statement came out like an order but she softened it with a friendly smile.

Oliver, Diggle and Roy came in soon after their exchange laden with bags of food from Big Belly Burger "Food time!" Roy announced and started unpacking and giving each member of the team their share, he walked over and offered Felicity hers I didn't think it was winter yet? He thought to himself.

Sara pulled Oliver and Diggle aside quietly "Do you see that?" she gestured to Felicity "it's like she is dressed for winter, has she been like this all day?"

"Pretty much, yeah" Oliver stated in a concerned tone "she asked me to put the heat up after she took some spiders outside"

"Spiders?" Diggle asked "Our girl hates spiders!"

"That's not the only thing, there weren't any spiders to begin with!" at their confused faces Oliver went on "yeah, she said she caught these spiders out of nowhere, trapped them and took one outside. I thought I would help out and get rid of the other one but there wasn't anything there!"

"You're saying she made it up?" Roy came over to them, mouth half full of food

"No, she was 100% sure there were spiders on her desk"

"Also, she has a slight temperature, complaining of being cold and she has Goosebumps. She might be coming down with a cold?" Sara added "but if she is seeing things it might be something else"

Oliver wanted to know what was going on, he went to Felicity and placed a hand on her shoulder "Hey, you ok?" he asked in his soft voice "you don't look so good"

Felicity rubbed her forehead roughly before turning to Oliver "my head hurts is all" she opened her eyes when she spoke "can you turn the heat up?"

Oliver had had enough "Diggle, can you drive Felicity home please? I don't want her here any longer" his tone was so order-like Felicity didn't try to argue, she just said goodbye to the rest of the team and followed Diggle out.

"I hardly got anything done! Tomorrow I'm going to work twice as hard!" Felicity vowed

Diggle started up the car and they headed to her house, on the way he couldn't help sneaking glances at her checking to make sure she wasn't cold, she might not be cold but she was pale and her skin had a shine to it that could only be sweat "Maybe you should take it easy tomorrow, I'll tell Oliver that you're taking a sick day?"

Felicity didn't answer but rested her head on the window, hoping that tomorrow would be better. Then out of nowhere a dog ran out onto the road, she cried out for Diggle to stop the car, he slammed on the breaks.
The dog halted and then scampered off into the bushes on the side of the road, Felicity was grateful but Diggle was confused

"What?! What's wrong?!"

"Th-that dog! We almost hit a dog! Didn't you see it?" Felicity pointed to the bushes where the dog had disappeared

"No…no I guess I…I guess I didn't have my mind on the road" He apologised and continued driving. Felicity lay her head back on the window and closed her eyes, she gripped her hands together after realising they were shaking slightly. Maybe a sick day wouldn't be so bad tomorrow?

Diggle watched closely as Felicity walked to her front door, took a key out and opened it, she turned and waved "Thanks Dig!"

Diggle waved back and phoned Oliver to say that she had got home safe "Thanks Dig, we need you back here though"

"Be there soon" Dig hung up the phone and drove away.

After a nice hot shower, ignoring the fact that she had already had one, Felicity got into some comfy pants and an oversized thick jumper and went to the kitchen. After not eating the food the Oliver got for her, she was starving and opted to heat some left over soup, she sat down on to counter and thought about the day.

Oliver had seen what she was looking at. Her mother's illness. Maybe he hadn't really seen that much? Felicity shook her head the man's got eyes like a cat. There is no way he would miss it tomorrow she would go and see Oliver and explain. Felicity hoped that she would be feeling better by then.

The microwave beeped and Felicity attacked it hungrily, there was a strange taste to it but then leftover food didn't taste as good as it did when it was fresh so she ignored it and finished the bowl.
Feeling slightly better she placed her bowl in the sink and went to watch some TV in her room.

On the way to her room she started to feel sick again, her head felt lighter than air, her hands started to shake and the Goosebumps sprouted all over her body, her joints started to hurt as well. Something was seriously wrong, her body searing with pain Felicity walked as fast as she could to her bathroom and emptied her stomach, the bile mixed with soup burned her throat as it came up. Felicity tried to focus on deep breathing as she was sick again and again.

Feeling worse than she had before, stomach now empty again, Felicity crawled into bed and hugged her body close with the heavy quilt pulled right up to her chin. She felt like crying. She needed help but she couldn't find the strength to get up and look for her phone. Instead, all she could do was lay there until exhaustion and sleep overtook her and everything went black.

Oliver paced the lair up and down and up again "there has to be something that gives us a clue to finding out what's wrong with her" he growled, Diggle had come back and told them about the dog "What are her symptoms?" he went through them one by one out loud "Goosebumps and feeling cold, not eating, sweating and headaches"

"Sounds like a regular cold to me" Roy added

"Then what about the hallucinations?" Sara pointed out "the spiders and almost hitting the dog?"

"She was looking at something on her computer while I was in a meeting, I got a tiny look at it before she changed the tab on her computer" Oliver thought for a moment before he remembered "it was a medical journal! She said something about her mother's illness – caused by a lack of Vitamin B-something"

"Can you find the journal?" Sara went to the computer and tried to find the search history but came up blank "she's deleted the search history, clearly didn't want anyone to find what she was looking at, including us" she sighed

"She's taking a sick day tomorrow, Oliver. If you want I could check in on her?" Diggle stepped closer to Oliver "maybe ask her what's going on"

"Did you want me to go too?" Sara turned in the computer chair and faced Oliver "she might need serious help if this is about her being sick or something"

Oliver nodded his thanks and told them to call tomorrow and update him on Felicity's condition.

A/N: OK! They're worrying about poor Felicity and rightly so! I wanted to put a more dramatic hallucination in this chapter but decided that it was WAY to delicious and needed a chapter of its own! Can't wait to write and for you guys to read it!

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