Summary: Death is only the beginning. The ones we love never really leave us. And sometimes we have to die before we can really live.
AN: Oh wow thanks for all the reviews and follows and favorites. You guys are awesome. I try to write everyone back. So to the ones that I can't all my guests thank you so much for reviewing. You guys let me know to keep on going. So thank you to everyone. I wrote another story, a fluffy story to make up for all the hurt in this one. Go check it out and let me know what you think. It's called Bless the broken road. So this chapter is well. It's different. Let's just say that. There is going to be a AN below the story to talk about something. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and where this story is heading. Again swearing be warned. And sorry for the long ANs.
Disclaimer: I do not own Arrow sadly. If I did Oliver would be with Felicity right now or at least really explaining himself to her. But hey endgame right?
As the heavens open up and the rain pelts down on all of them everyone's head whips to him. They all look at him in distrust and he knows he deserves it but they only have a tiny window to save her. So they really should be hurrying.
"Yes you heard me correctly. I can save her. But if we are going to, we need to hurry. She won't last much longer." He yells over the rain to them. It's John Diggle who answers him.
"If you think we are going to let you turn her into a raging angry killing person you are crazier than we all thought." He says to him with such venom as he cocks his gun.
"Yes I am talking about the mirakuru but I don't think it will do that to her. She has all of you to keep her grounded plus I know she has been working on a cure. Don't talk to me like I am stupid. I have been watching you all for months now. Remember that. But if you want to save her, now would be a great time to do it. Otherwise prepare to lose her." He looks at Shado and sees a smile upon her face he is finally doing something right. Who answers in return surprises the hell out of all of them.
"You're sure you can save her? That we can keep her sane? Because let me tell you I have everyone trying to help me and it's still really hard to stay in control. But if you can save her than please, please save her." And that boy's voice just about breaks his heart.
"Well as long as you keep her out of fighting than yeah I think you can keep her together. But can we go now? Otherwise it won't matter." And Oliver stands up holding her and looks directly at him with such hate and anger.
"After we save her Slade you will answer for all of this believe me you will." And just like that he turns around and walks away from them.
"Yeah kid I know." He whispers into the night. The rain covering up his words. A secret for him and him alone. And follows Oliver into the night.
John Diggle watches all of this and says nothing. He never thought he would see the day where Oliver would do something this stupid. He won't let it happen, that girl deserves more and he will make sure she gets it. But it surprises him that no one else is fighting this. They all want her to live and he gets that he does. But not like this never like this. She needs to be laid to rest not turned into a monster. So he will go to the foundry and tell Oliver that no he will not do this. And he will not let them do it either. If they try, they will have to go through him. Everyone else begins to follow him out all except Detective Lance; he goes over to him to ask why he is not going.
"Someone needs to stay behind and keep this quite. What they plan on doing, it will turn her like him?" Lance asks not sure if wants to know the answer to his question or not.
"Yeah, yeah it will." John replies quietly to him.
"Then stop it. She can't be him. There is too much light and goodness in that girl for it to all turn to ash and darkness. Save her, let her rest in peace. Don't let her death be for nothing. Do what they can't, let her go." Lance wants her to live he does, just not like this, never like this. He would rather her be buried then to see her become something she isn't. And with that John gives a nod in his direction and walks off after the others. May they all be forgiven for the sins Lance prays into the night sky.
John comes down the stairs and sees that they are preparing to give her the blood transfusion that will condemn her to her fate. So with no other choice he pulls out his gun and fires it off to the side before training in onto them. Everyone swivels around to him none have their weapons on them. So the odds go in his favor just a bit.
"Stop this right now. You will not do this to her. I can't let you." He tells them calmly looking at each one making sure none of them make a move. "I will put a bullet into whoever tries to turn her."
"John she's dying we have to save her." Sara implores to him. They have to save her they need her. They all need her. None of them can do this without her. None of them want to do this without her.
"I get that I do Sara. She, she is my little sister. I would die for her, hell I would kill for her but I won't let you destroy her death or her life. She died to save us, to save him." He points to Oliver who hasn't taken his eyes off of Felicity but he does flinch at the words. "So I won't let her death mean nothing. I won't let her light become darkness. I won't let you take all the good out of her so you can see her again. That's too selfish for you. None of you are thinking of her you're only thinking of yourselves. You Sara, because she never judged you like your family did." She closes her eyes and turns away. "Or you Roy because she never expected anything from you when she went out of the way for you. She was the mother you always wanted." He clinches his fists and looks back at her. The words ringing in his ears. "You Slade because she made you think, made you remember who you once were. Something you were not willing to do." Slade stares right back at him unflinching. "And you Oliver-"
"What about me John?" He interrupts with a dead voice that makes them all turn to him. "You want to know why I will tell you why. Because without her there is no me. Without her this" he gestures all around him "doesn't exist. Without her-"
"You will be the killer we all fear? That you fear? You will burn the world? Yeah I know Oliver." Everyone's head turns back to him and Oliver raises his eyebrow at him in confusion. "I know all about what you would do if she dies. But what will she do Oliver? What will she do when she finds out what you did to her? Oliver she will end it. She will take her own life so she won't be this, this thing that she hates so much. Don't you see by doing this you are condemning her to a fate far worse than death. Her people don't believe in suicide, but she would do it. Oliver she would forsake her people and her beliefs so she wouldn't have to be this thing. Can you do that to her? Can you destroy everything she is everything she has believed in for your own selfish reasons? Because if you can I don't know you anymore and I don't want to know you." John finishes hoping he got through to him.
"Yes I can. I have to. It's the only way. I'm sorry John but I can't let her go." And with that he nods toward Slade who begins the process.
"No, Oliver don't do this. I am begging you know. You have to let her go. You owe her that." It's too late though. They have already started so he throws his gun to the ground and says for all to hear.
"God forgive us for our sins. And may you have mercy on our souls." He turns around and walks up the stairs. But before leaving he tells them something they never wanted to admit. "It won't be her when it wakes up. It won't be Felicity. It will be the nightmare we have been trying to stop. But she will never forgive and she will never forget and she will kill you Oliver Queen for what you are doing. She will kill us all. And we will have deserved it." With that he steps out the door never looking back. The door slams shut and with it the finality of what is going to happen and what just ended.
Oliver can't care about that right now though. He needs to be focusing on keeping her alive and keeping her safe. He will listen to those words later when he can finally breathe. But he does know that Felicity will never forgive him. But as long as she lives he is okay with that. But she won't hurt him he knows that. When she wakes up it won't be an it, it will be Felicity. There is too much good in her for her to come back as something else. At least he hopes anyway. No, there is no other choice. She is all that is good in this world. She will come back just as good.
"There that should do it. Now it's just a waiting game. She is strong she should make it through it." Slade says before sitting down against a pillar in the basement his eyes still trained on Felicity. Sara has her hooked up to a heart monitor that is connected to her computers. Everyone is looking between that and her waiting for any movement. Any beep that indicates it worked.
"How long is this going to take? Should it happen instantly or does it take a few hours?" The voice rings out in the silence everyone looks to her.
"Why got someplace to be Laurel?" Roy asks her, daring her to say yes. He really wants to hit something. He needs to hit something.
"I just don't like waiting. I want to know how long it takes for her to wake up." And everyone notices how she expects Felicity to wake up. She looks at them looking at her. It is really disturbing her that they are looking her like they are. Felicity is going to wake up she is too strong not to. She wants to thank this strong woman and shake her hand for being the better person they all wish they could be. And being the good person that is taking care of Sara and Oliver which they both needed.
Everyone goes back to looking at Felicity or the monitors expecting to see something anything but nothing. Nothing is happening and everyone gets more worried as time goes by. Just when they are about to give up thunder shakes the whole building. And they hear lighting crash outside. An alert pops up on one of the monitors it's a flashing a serve storm warning. And before any of them can do anything another rumble of thunder erupts through the building sending dust down on them and the building begins to shake. And everyone is beginning to think another earthquake is happening right now. They hear rain beat down outside and the wind is howling with angry shouts and no one is sure what is going on.
"We should unplug her guys in case lighting hits." Roy says to them and just then lighting strikes down outside hitting a transformer and they can see the sparks traveling down the wires next to the computer and to Felicity. They move to rip off the wires but it's too late the power goes out and a deafening scream runs through the foundry ripped from her lips. Felicity begins to convulse and it takes Oliver and Slade to hold her down.
"What the hell is going on Slade?" Oliver yells to him as sparks are flying all around them.
"I don't know this has never happened before. Keep holding her down kid. We don't want her to hurt herself." They both duck their heads as sparks shoot out above their heads. Laurel cries out and Sara rushes to her side in an instant. The emergency lights come on and everyone looks around except it's not the lights that come on its Felicity. Her body is glowing a bright white light and they all jump back.
"What the hell?" Oliver yells to Slade.
"Don't look at me. This is something new, something very new." He replies still keeping his eyes trained on her. And just like that her light goes out and the lights come back on. Everyone looks at her and each other trying to figure out what just happened. No one moves everyone to freaked to move. And then the computers come back on and the machines that were fried come back on and gasp breaks through the silence. She jumps up into a sitting position and Oliver runs to her.
"Felicity, shhh calm down. Its okay you're safe. You're safe now." He holds her and she is shaking in his arms. "Everything is okay now Felicity." And just like that she pulls back from him. He tries not to be to upset with that.
"Oliver? What happened? The last thing I remember is the talking to you on the rooftop." Everything is blurry in her mind. She remembers the sword and the speech she gave to him and then the numbness and then nothing. "Oliver, I died I remember that. I died Oliver. Why am I not dead?" She is shaking and nothing is making since and then just like that she remembers where she was and what happened. And she jerks away from him and she stands up and turns around and sees everyone looking at her. And she sees Slade Wilson here in their safe place and Oliver is looking like he doesn't want to answer her. And she just knows they did something bad, something very bad. The computers behind her start going haywire and the lights start flickering.
"Felicity calm down. Okay just calm down." Oliver says to her and then she sees it the bloody tube and she knows just what happened. She remembers what it was like to be dead. What happened to her in those moments. She remembers being at peace and then pain, absolute pain. She looks to them and they all step back. She doesn't see it but they do her eyes are glowing and before they can say something to her, she strides up to Oliver and grabs him by the throat raising him off the ground and demands in a voice not belonging to her. Something dark, something tainted. Something not human.
"What did you do to me?"
Uh-oh Oliver is in trouble. And what is going on with Felicity. Okay just to give you guys a heads up I am apparently combing a couple heroes together. Not intentionally though. I am not a big comic person so I thought I was going one way and then when I did some research turns out I went a different way. Sorry about that. Hope you still like it. Don't forget leave me a review. And yes all mistakes are still mine. I am doing this without a beta. Can't wait to hear from you guys. I want to hear all your thoughts on the story and on Wednesday's episode.