Loyalty chapter 9

A/N: This chapter had given me a lot to think about. Felicity's father contacting her is a big part of this story and I had so many ideas of how he would do it: Just randomly show up at her house? Have his assistant pick her up/kidnap her from QC? Call her? Text her? Drug her again and kidnap her?

THE IDEAS WERE ENDLESS!

I came up with this last night (it was three in three morning but I wrote it down on my phone (typing on such a small screen at such an early hour is NOT fun nor do I recommend it!) I hope you guys like it.

P.S Have I mentioned his name yet? I thought I did? Oh well, If I haven't you'll find out here

The video looped on itself. It was always the same footage over and over again but he didn't mind. It showed what he feared would happen. His daughter in the arms of a man that, after some research and facial recognition, he now knew to be Oliver Queen.

Oliver Queen was kissing his daughter! He tried to conceal his rage. Oliver Queen was powerful and if he wanted to go ahead with his plan Oliver Queen was a problem. A big one.
More research was done and after much reading, clicking and following he had come to a conclusion.

When Adam Ryde returned to Starling City with his new untested cure in his hand, his only thought was of his lovely daughter and finding her. His wife's illness had snapped something inside him, he had to find a cure and save her and his daughter. After years of planning he had finally done it – he could come home and they could be a family again; once they were both cured of course.

Adam started slow, getting his assistant to follow her and tell him if she was experiencing any symptoms at all of his wife's illness. All of his reports came back negative she was healthy as a young woman of her age could be; albeit lacking a good night's sleep.
Adam was puzzled and instructed that she be followed 24 hours a day and to report back to him immediately – he was rewarded.

Apparently Felicity enjoyed clubbing and would go to the ever popular club known as Verdant. What puzzled him more so was that even though she would stay out late she never came home intoxicated or even the slightest bit tipsy; she would always be completely sober. She might be the designated driver? He noted that she would sometimes drive a young man in a hoddie home to The Glades or be driven home by a muscular black man. Felicity was always sober.

There was some other reason why she would frequent that club and it wasn't to socialize.

A weeks' worth of research had Adam coming to the conclusion that he was sure no one else had come to. One the news and in the papers there was talk of a masked vigilante known as The Arrow and he would fight crime and stop drug lords and the like.
Going through the police files and footage of various cameras led him to believe that The Arrow wore an ear piece at all times; someone was giving him information.
Adam hacked into their frequency and, being careful to cover his tracks, found them and according to his readings they were at the club Verdant.

Verdant was The Arrows hideout and Felicity was helping him. It was the only explanation.

His daughter was a vigilante!

This news didn't shock him; The Arrow was blessed to have help from his daughter, why wouldn't he be? Felicity was smart and a better than good hacker, with her he had managed to take down foes and help the city. The Arrow was lucky to have his daughter, he thought with a smug grin on his face. After another couple of weeks though he started taking an interest in Felicity's day-time job. She was EA to the stupid playboy CEO of Queen Consolidated Oliver Queen.
While stupid, Oliver Queen was powerful in the glamourous upper glass of Starling and usually got what he wanted, when he didn't the person who defied him would usually get an Arrow in them or a threat now since he had stopped killing people.

Did The Arrow answer to Oliver Queen? No! The Arrow was Oliver Queen! It was in the way he walked, the way he carried himself and in his eyes and the way he spoke.

How was Adam meant to carry out his plan now? He would have to go about this very carefully. Why did Oliver and the rest of his team have to get involved? Everything was going well until they meddled in his business!

Adam closed down the video file, showing Oliver all over his little girl, with an angry huff and called for his assistant "PRESTON!"

"Yes Mister Ryde?"

"I think we're going to move ahead with the plan. Another batch of the cure is processing, when will it be finished?" Adam asked not looking at Preston but rather taking his glasses off and rubbing the spot between his eyes

"At the end of the week, Sir. Are we going to test it soon? There are many candidates for it who are more than willing to pay –"

"NO!" Adam roared and spun to face Preston, a mad look in his eyes "IT HAS TO BE HER! I have to take care of her first! Those people are making this very difficult! They threw out all of her food so I can't monitor her hallucinations, I can't help her if she isn't having the symptoms!"

Preston nodded dumbly and left his boss to his work. Felicity Smoak was as healthy as could be, when he had filled in as her doctor and read her charts from previous check-ups there was no evidence of her being inflicted with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and yet his boss still wanted to treat her for it.
Questioning Adam about it was fruitless, he would either end up threatened or beaten until he agreed to do what he was told.

Preston couldn't wait until all of this was over.

Adam Ryde had found her number and put it into his phone in a matter of seconds, he felt excited, almost giddy as he thought about his plans for Felicity. Adam was going to help her, be a good father and together they would cure her and her mother and they would be a family again. It was all falling into place!

It was morning when he decided to call her, he waited until he was sure she would be out of bed and well rested, he pressed the 'call' option on his phone and waited.

Ring ring…ring ring…ring ring

"Hello? Felicity Smoak speaking" ahhh she sounded so much like her mother

"Sweetheart, it's been a long time"

He almost laughed when she heard her scream and drop the phone.

A/N2: I'm sorry to do this to you! I hate cliff hangers too and JUST WHEN IT WAS GETTING GOOD! I felt like I wanted her father (and his assistant) to have their own chapter. I didn't want any of the others there to cloud things. I wanted the focus to be on her father.

WHAT A NUT JOB! Yes I made him slightly crazy (exaggeration) and I can't wait for the café scene! OH MY GOD! I'm so excited for that and for you guys to read it!

A/N3: Yes I know that he figured out Oliver was The Arrow rather quickly but hey…he's Felicity's dad and he is, under all the craziness, quite brilliant (where do you think Felicity gets it from? Lol)

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