Loyalty chapter 14

A/N: This is not how I wanted this chapter to go but I like how it turned out. Olicity at the end and in the next chapter! Enjoy!

Oliver was sprawled out on the med bay table in the lair, blood from his wound not pouring out as much as before.

With Felicity on his lap he did his best to ignore the pain but it soon became too much and he had ordered Digg to stop the car. Felicity's flimsy hospital gown was soaked with his blood, Roy took her from him while Diggle and Sara helped Oliver: he refused to go to hospital, not that that surprised any of them, but ordered them to do a needle-chest decompression to help him breathe. Sara and John went to work while Roy looked after Felicity.
Once Oliver was taken care of and Felicity returned to him, they set off again for the Lair. Not long now Felicity, please hold on.

"You should be better soon, stop moving Ollie I have to stitch you up!" Sara urged Oliver to lay still while she worked but he kept trying to look at Felicity and bark orders

"Oliver, Felicity is just sleeping now. Once she wakes up we can check on her" John reasoned with Roy standing next to him

"She looks like she hasn't eaten properly in a week! And those drugs they kept giving her" Roy shuddered "will she be Okay when she wakes up?"

"We'll have to wait and see" Sara finished stitching Oliver and put the used medical supplies in the bin "she's strong, she'll pull through"

Voices. Felicity remembered voices.

I let him go and you're mine!

I won't have you stay here and be treated like a lab rat by a mad man!

Restrain her again and kill him!

OLIVER! NO!

One voice was trying to harm her, one was trying to save her and one was her own so full of pain it tore at her heart. Felicity tried to remember the last thing that happened: she sacrificed herself so that Oliver could live but he was shot. A tear fell from her eye and made its way down her temple, it didn't matter that she was alive, Oliver was dead and she wished that she was too. Adam would test on her for the rest of her days; she would never see John, Roy or Sara again. Felicity was a lab rat forever now.

Felicity began to pay attention and listened to her surroundings, still not opening her eyes. She heard beeping of a monitor, could feel tubes connected to her body and smell…she could smell that unmistakable damp smell and the smell of metal? This new facility her father had brought her to reminded her of the Lair back home. The thought of home sent a urge of power through her, Sara had always said that she was strong and brave. Even if Oliver was gone her other friends needed her and now was the time for action!

Felicity opened her eyes, without her glasses all she could see were fuzzy shapes, tilting her head to the left Felicity saw a large figure of a man one of father's men getting ready to test on me she thought angrily. The man didn't notice Felicity as she sat up on the hard metal table and unattached herself from all the tubes.
Felicity stood on her feet, quickly grabbing the table to keep from falling, the noise caused the man in front of her to turn around "You're awake!" he said sounding pleased

Felicity balled up her fists and took a swing while lunging herself at him. THWACK! Felicity's fist found its target and the man stumbled but threw out his hand the grab her. Felicity squealed and tried to pull her hand free all the while the man tried to calm her down

"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Felicity bit down on his hand, the man let her go and called for help. Felicity took her chance and, with her eyesight being as bad as it was, found what looked like a door in the distance. Felicity ran for it and just as she reached it, strong hands grabbed her and spun her around

"Felicity! Look at me!" a female voice soothed "it's OK you're home!"

"NO! NO! I'll never go home!" Felicity shrieked and struggled out of the woman's grasp

"Stop her before she hurts herself!"

More hands and arms came out of nowhere and held her still, Felicity struggled again and again and felt herself getting tired but she continued to scream "LEAVE ME ALONE! GET OFF OF ME!"

"Felicity, it's me! It's Okay now! You're safe!" a familiar voice – his voice – came from behind her and Felicity became aware that she was pressed against a hard body "Felicity it's alright now" he continued to soothe her

"No" Felicity shook her head sadly as tears spilled from her eyes "no it's not true! You're dead!" Felicity struggled harder and harder, her fear and adrenalin giving her the strength she didn't know she had, Felicity fought her way out of the man's grasp and ran for the door again. All Felicity could see was shapes but she pushed herself to go on, she ran and stumbled up the stairs and out into the sunlight. Felicity shielded her eyes from the harsh light and ran for the nearest car. A red mini-cooper.

This mini-cooper looked strangely like her own car; it even had the same cute butterfly pendent hanging from the mirror inside! Felicity tried opening the door but it wouldn't open "any minute now they'll come after me" Felicity said out loud in a frantic voice and tried to find something, anything to break the window.
Felicity found a large rock and, promising herself that she would pay whomever this car belonged to for the damage, smashed the window open and crawled inside; ignoring the broken glass cutting her hands and arms as she crawled through.

Felicity noticed the keys still in the ignition and turned on the engine. Her captors were outside now and looking for her, Felicity put the car into reverse and put her foot to the floor. Let them try to catch her now! Felicity could see the fuzzy shapes of her captors in the rear-view mirror frantically pointing in her direction and worrying.
Felicity didn't think about them as she drove off into a random direction. She had to find her way home. She had to find her team before it was too late and Adam's men caught her again.

"Is she crazy?!" Roy asked as they watched Felicity drive away "how is she able to drive?"

"Felicity thinks that this is all in her mind, a hallucination. We have to get her back before she hurts herself" Oliver and Sara picked up their bikes "we need to find her. Sara and I will try to find her on our bikes, Dig you search for her in your car and Roy I want you here tracking her if you can"

Team Arrow set to work with their tasks and set out to find Felicity. Oliver went north, Sara went east and Diggle went south, with Roy tracking her they would find her soon Oliver hoped.

Felicity drove for what felt like hours, she was panicked and near hysteria by the time she simply stopped the car at a park and turned off the engine. The sun was going down now and the swings were free, Felicity got out of her car and sat on the swings, letting the breeze rock her back and forth.

Felicity wondered why she wasn't cold and looked down at herself for the first time – she didn't even remember changing into normal clothes but she was thankful that she did change.
Felicity tried to calm down and think, this park was familiar to her, maybe she had driven all the way back to Starling City? But from where?
With no phone on her or money she couldn't even call for help from the rest of her team. She was lost and alone and felt so scared and confused.

"It's OK Roy, I found her" Oliver pulled his bike up next to her car and took off his helmet "she's in a park, I'll bring her home"

"Be careful, Ollie" Sara responded caringly "we'll meet you both back at the foundry"

Oliver slowly walked over to blonde girl on the swings, she looked far away and her face was pale and her eyes were glazed over like she was in a trance.
He took up the extra swing next to her "Felicity" he spoke softly so as not to scare her again "it's me, Oliver"

Felicity seemed to come out of her trance and slowly brought her eyes up to meet his but she looked like she still didn't fully believe what she was seeing "Oliver? You died. My father shot you"

"No, Felicity" Oliver got off his swing and crouched down in front of her "no, I'm right here. You think you're hallucinating" he took her hand between his warm ones and rubbed them together "I'm right here Felicity"

"You're…you're alive?" Felicity felt her heart start to warm up for the first time in days "but you said you didn't want me? That Sara would replace me" hot tears fell from her eyes is that really you Oliver? She thought

"Felicity, you're my girl. My Girl Wednesday! I will always want you" Oliver cupped her cheek and smiled when she nuzzled into his touch "I'm real. I'm right here, you're not hallucinating, see?"

"Oliver?" Felicity stood up from the swing and studied him in front of her, every hair, every muscle was right there. Her fingers gingerly touched his chest and her lips formed a smile when she found that Oliver was in fact solid; that he wouldn't fade away. Felicity's eyes travelled up his body only to meet his blue-grey eyes with a smile "It's you" Felicity's smile grew even bigger as she flung her arms around his neck "Oliver! It's you!"

Oliver held her as tightly as he could as she cried all over him, he didn't care that his jacket was getting wet with her tears. Oliver had his Girl Wednesday back and, for now, that is all that mattered.

"We're heading home" Oliver said with a smile into his ear piece.