Felicity had been sleeping for a good part of the past twelve hours, and Oliver was by her side the entire time. She was beginning to stir a little and Oliver could only think that she was having a nightmare and he was blaming Slade for her torture. He hated to see her in such pain, he didn't want to wake her up but he knew he had to in order to release her from the pain of Slade. "Felicity, hey, it's okay. Felicity wake up, I'm right here." She woke up in a complete panic and was fighting Oliver to let her go, she honestly thought she was in danger with him. "Hey, Felicity, hey relax. It's me, Oliver."

"Oliver,…" she started to tear up and then could not hold it in anymore she completely let her guard down and let the tears flow out. Through tears and gasps for breathe Felicity was able to get out a couple of words for Oliver, "I'm sorry Oliver."

"What do you have to be sorry for, I'm the one who should be apologizing to you? Your hurt because of me, and I'm so sorry this happened to you." Oliver was very caution to not open her stitches up but he embraced her in a loving hug and didn't want to let her go.

She hugged him right back and didn't care that the area around her stitches was hurting she didn't want to let him go either, she wanted to stay in that moment forever. "Oliver, I got myself shot. I said something that put him off the edge and got myself shot, that's what I'm sorry for. I can't imagine what this whole thing must have been for you."

"Felicity stop, none of this is your fault. I should have been there to protect you, I promised myself that I would be able to protect you and I failed you, for that I'm sorry. I promised that I will protect you from him and anyone else who comes to hurt you."

"Oliver, I don't blame you for any of this. Slade is the one who had the gun, he's the one who put two bullets inside of me. I tried to fight him, I knew it was no good, I wouldn't go down without trying, I, I saw you go down, I watched you fight him. I saw you get hurt, I tried to hide, I tried, I, I, …" she was getting caught up in her words and could let anything else out, Oliver saw her struggle and just took her hands in his.

"Felicity, I know, I know. Don't worry about that now, the important thing is that you're alive and you're here with me. I thought I lost you and I'm glad that I didn't, I don't know what I would have done if I lost you."

"I feel the same way," she was coming around back to her normal self and was just glad that Oliver was there with her. She was dreading the next question that came to her mind, but she just had to know, "Oliver, how bad was it. I need to know."

"You lost a lot of blood, Dig had to give you a blood transfusion. The first bullet got stuck on something and he had to open you up a bit more to get it out, the second bullet came out easier but you lost a lot of blood I can describe how much it actually was, I was so scared for you."

"Show me."

"What?"

"Show me the blood, I need to see it. I need to understand what I lost."

"Are you sure, it's not a pretty sight."

"Oliver, I know it's a weird question to ask, but something inside of me needs to see it. I need to understand everything that happened to me. I guess it's just the computer part of my brain that needs to know, not that part of my brain is a computer because that would be impossible but…" she was babbling again and showed Oliver that she was getting back to her normal self.

"Felicity, I understand, I'll show you but don't say I didn't warn you." Oliver stood in front of Felicity and braced himself to be her support, he knew that she wouldn't be able to hold her own weight when she stood up. Felicity knew the same thing, she was weak, she slowly pushed herself off the table and stumbled into his arms. Oliver steadied her enough so she could at least stand by herself. "whoa, okay, here we go." she was holding on to his biceps and they were so close in that moment she wanted to close the distance between them but she wanted that to be under different circumstances, she looked down instead so Oliver wouldn't see the hurt in her eyes. She wasn't fast enough because he noticed something in her eyes, "Hey, you okay."

"Yeah, I'm fine, let's just get this over with so I can put my weird mind to rest." Oliver placed one arm around her waist being careful not to touch anywhere near her one wound and he held her hand in his other hand so that she could steady herself as they walked to where her blood pool was. He didn't want her to see it but he knew she wouldn't be able to get over this until she saw it. They reached the spot near the stairs and Oliver saw it for the first time with Felicity, the span of blood on the floor was indescribable he had no words for it. Felicity was unnaturally quiet when they saw it, Oliver looked down at her and saw her eyes start to water but what came out of her mouth next surprised him, "I should be dead."

"What?"

"Oliver, I should be dead. Do you see how much blood is on the floor here and all the blood that is around the table, that's a lot of blood and I should be dead. How did I survive this, how am I alive right now, how, how,…" she was starting to babble again but not in her normal way, this was a panic kind of babble and Oliver hated where this was going. He reached over to her and brought her into a gentle hug and just let her cry in his arms, she needed to get these tears out and he knew that.

"Felicity it's alright, you're alright." He stroked the back of her head while she continued to cry in his arms. He hated to see her cry, it was probably one of his weaknesses but she needed this. "ssshh, you're going to be just fine."

"Oliver?"

"It's okay, I'm here."

"No Oliver, I'm bleeding." Oliver pulled back from their hug and immediately looked down and saw that her abdomen wound had somehow popped open. He also noticed that she was not as steady as she was before, the sight of her blood coming out of her body had made her woozy. Her knees began to buckle under her weight and Oliver picked her up before she fell, her carried her back to the table and laid her down so he could take a better look at her abdomen.

"Felicity, this is going to hurt a bit but I need to see what's happening and I will probably need to stitch you up again which is really going to hurt."

"I understand, do what you need to do Oliver."

He took the bandage off her stomach and five of the stitches Sara put in her had opened up, they must have popped open when Felicity stumbled off the table in the first place. He looked around the table to find the stitches and to find something for Felicity to bite down on, he spotted a small towel close by. "Oliver what's wrong, how bad is it?"

"I have to stitch up five of your original stitches, I know this is going to hurt but I need you to be strong for me, it's going to be hard for me to do this knowing I'm putting you through pain. Here I want you to bite down on this every time you feel pain." He folded the towel up a bit and handed it to Felicity, she didn't know what kind of pain to expect but she knew Oliver had to do this.

Oliver started with the first stitch and Felicity immediately bit down on the towel, it hurt Oliver to see her like that, but if he didn't stitch her back up she would lose more blood. He was moving along with the stitches and he was on the last one now, the pain in her face was still apparent but he was done now. "Alright, done, that was the last one. Let me just bandage it up and then you need to rest."

Oliver what cutting the gauze to size and taping it onto her stomach but she wasn't looking too good in color, her skin was paler now and she felt cold to the touch, "Oliver, I'm not feeling to well. Something doesn't feel right, Oliver, I think, I, …" she trailed off in thought and Oliver knew where this was going, she lost consciousness and he lost it.

"FELICITY, no don't do this, Felicity wake up. Please."

A/N: I didn't do this before but I do not own Arrow or the characters, I just borrowed them for my own pleasure. I wrote this chapter pretty late last night and I didn't know where it was going at first, but I feel it had to go this way. I hope you like it please review and I hope you enjoyed.