Felicity had done everything to get the attention of anyone walking by her room: she had tried simply banging on the door, yelling, insulting anyone who walked by, when she found a camera in her room watching her she poked it and yelled that she wanted to see her father. Felicity searched the room: there were draws full of medical supplies, there was a heart monitor that wasn't on at the moment, a bed equipped with restraints for the hands and feet "guess that's where I'll be sleeping" she reasoned.

All she could remember was screaming and then a man had knocked her out, had she been here for days or hours? With no clock or calendar it was impossible to tell.

Felicity felt a stab of guilt when she thought about her team back home, no doubt they would be worried about her but she was sure that Oliver would be mad that she went behind his back again. Felicity preyed that Diggle was Okay, that the rest of the team would find her soon before her Father could try anything on her.

More time went by and finally Felicity heard her door being opened and turned around to face whomever it was; her Father and two other guys. One of them carried a tray of food: a plain looking sandwich along with a glass of water and set it down on the bed.

"Dad" Felicity didn't smile or nod her head

"Daughter, have you calmed down now or are you going to chuck another tantrum? I thought you would have grown out of them by now"

"Where am I?" Felicity snapped "when I called you I asked you to not hurt my friends, you didn't deliver your side of the bargain"

"I apologized for that Felicity, but he was in the way" Adam shrugged and gestured to her food "eat up now, we can't test or experiment on an empty stomach"

Felicity stood firm ignoring her stomach "I'm not hungry"

"Suit yourself" Adam made a gesture and one of the men approached the food, grabbed the sandwich and eyed Felicity. Before she could react, the man held her and tried to force the food into her mouth so hard she felt like choking. Next came the water, the food and water mixed together made an unpleasant mush in her mouth; Felicity had no choice but to swallow as she coughed and spat out what she could.

"Stop acting like a child! I'm trying to help you!" Adam said angrily "if you be a good girl and cooperate this will be much easier for you! I might even let you see your friends so they can see how healthy you'll be soon" an evil glint in his eye scared Felicity but the mention of seeing her friends made her think; she could suck it up just long enough she might be able to get a message to them.

Felicity nodded, her anger swelling inside her, the man picked her up off the floor and pushed her over to the bed "let's begin then" Adam clicked his fingers and they set to work restraining her to the bed while Felicity kicked and screamed again "you'll only make this worse, stop moving!" Adam reached over to a draw and pulled out a syringe and eyed it lovingly

"First testing of the cure, the first step to having my daughter back"

Everything around her swam and shifted, Felicity was almost grateful that she was tied to the bed otherwise she knew the floor would wind up being her best friend. She kept taking deep breaths trying to make sense of everything: Adam had left a while ago leaving his assistant with her to monitor her. Felicity could only hear him scribbling down on his notepad, he was out of her line of vision but every now and then he would talk to her and seeing if she would or even could respond.

Felicity screwed up her eyes, the darkness seemed to make it better but only a little "P-P-Please" she whispered "Please"

"What was that?" the assistant came forward and bent over her "what did you say?"

"Oliver!" Felicity's eye flew open and stared longingly at the assistant "Oliver, you came for me!"

"Another hallucination" he decided and stood up straight "I'll tell Mister Ryde" as he turned to leave though, Felicity's hand shot out and grabbed his wrist

"Please Oliver, you can't leave me!" she looked so desperate and sad that he could only oblige, the assistant pulled up a chair next to her bed and sat down

"You're going to be alright, once the doctor realizes that you're not sick he'll have to let you go" Preston smiled convincingly trying not to think about how long she would have to suffer "until then, you have to be strong Okay?"

"I'll be strong, for you Oliver" Felicity smiled back lazily and didn't fight the tears as they fell "I'll be strong for you"

"Sir?" Preston found his boss sometime later in an old nurses tearoom "it's about the girl"

"Yes, yes" Adam smiled happily "how did the first test go? I know it's only the first one and we haven't yet figured out the right dosage for her but it must have had some affect? What happened? Anything?"

"She still had a hallucination, Sir. About her friend Oliver" Preston sighed and put his report on the table for Adam to see "Sir, I looked over her file and there was no record in the past of her having this illness, would it be so bad if we let her go and try it out on someone who actually needs our help?"

"Someone who…? I have worked long and hard to protect my family! My wife is sick and now I want to make sure my daughter isn't! She needs me! If I can't monitor her hallucinations how will I know how much cure she needs? Give her more and start again!" Adam yelled "and don't come back until you have some good news!"

"But Sir! Don't you see that you're hurting her not helping her?! Don't you see how stupid this–" WHAM! Preston was on the floor holding his cheek as Adam stood over him leering down

"You will do what you're told and give my daughter the drugs, monitor her and give her the cure in small amounts until we find what works! DO IT NOW!"

Preston didn't wait to speak again, he staggered to his feet and ran out of the tearoom cursing Adam silently and went back to see Felicity who he found had fallen into an exhausted sleep on the bed. Preston unfastened her restraints and covered her with a blanket "Be strong" he said softly before shutting the door, locking it and walking away to write up another report.

Days went by and Felicity could feel herself breaking down, she no longer fought when food was brought to her but she ate as slowly as possible. Taking small bites and slowly sipping the water, maybe eating slowly would slow down the drugs? She had no idea but hoped that the next hallucination was an easy one.

The last one was nice, Oliver telling her to be strong, it was thoughts of him, Sara, John and Roy that kept her going but she hoped that they would find her soon.

It was a tap on her shoulder that pulled her out of her thoughts, Felicity spun around and gave a small yelp "O-Oliver?!" she stuttered and went to him but when she was nearly touching him he stopped her with his palm "Oliver? What's wrong?"

Felicity took in his appearance: he was wearing a black pants and a dress shirt, his jacket nowhere to be seen. He looked like he had come home from a hard day, his expression was tired and annoyed, he spoke "Felicity" he swallowed "You went behind my back again?"

"Only to protect you!" Felicity defended herself "I didn't mean for John to get hurt! Oliver I'm so sorry! Are…are you coming for me? Will I see you soon?" tears fell from her eyes as she tried to go to him but he avoided her "Oliver, I'm so scared and tired. Please I need you"

"No you don't. I have never felt more betrayed, Felicity! I tried to take care of you and you betrayed me!" Oliver yelled in her face, the anger in his voice echoing off the walls and finding its way into her heart shattering it with every word "you deserve this! The team and I are not coming for you, Sara and Laurel are more than capable to do your part"

"John said that I was…that you all needed me" sobs shook through her body as she held herself tightly "Please Oliver, no! I need you please!"

"You are off the team, I never want to see you again" Oliver came forward and spoke dangerously slow staring deep into her eyes making sure she understood "you are nothing to me"

Felicity's heart breaking scream rang through the room so loud and full of pain she was surprised that the windows didn't break. Oliver's words hurt her more than anything, they clawed their way through her body, found her heart and destroyed it. Felicity fell to the ground at Oliver's feet screaming, crying and desperately holding on to herself trying to hold herself together.

Felicity could hear someone entre the room, they ran to her on the ground and held her but nothing could calm her down. They picked her up and carried her to the bed, Felicity didn't try to fight as a powerful sedative was pushed into her arm; the darkness would help, sleep would claim her and she would try her best not to wake and experience this pain again. Felicity felt so lost, so helpless.

"It'll be over soon! It'll be over soon!" Preston cooed to her softly as she slipped into unconsciousness she won't survive this he thought and buried his head in his hands.

A/N: This chapter broke my heart. I know that it was only a hallucination and Felicity will figure that out but…damn my heart right now! In the next chapter there will be more Oliver and the team.

A/N2: I also quite like Preston, he means well and knows that Adam is being a stupid idiot! Please Oliver! Find our Felicity and save her!

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