A/N: Thanks for the reviews, sorry its been a while since my last update, I've been working a lot the last week and haven't had a change to finish writing this chapter. I know some of you were worried that the last chapter was my last, sorry if I scared you guys but no that was not the last update and this chapter won't be the last chapter either. I know I said that this was taking place during Season 2 Episode 19, well it started out with that but it's going to go in a different direction now. I also understand that the characters aren't acting always like they would in the show, but this is how I feel they would act in these certain circumstances, I hope you will still like the characters. Thanks for reading and please review as always. As always I own nothing.

"Felicity, please." Oliver desperately tried to get Felicity to wake back up, but it was no use. She was unconscious and it was going to take a lot for her to wake up. Suddenly he heard the door open at the top of the stairs and out of instinct grabbed his bow and an arrow and pointed it at the person.

"WHOA, Oliver, it's just us put that down before you hurt someone."

"Dig, Sara, I thought you might have been Slade coming back."

"No, I don't feel he'd be coming back this soon. What's got you so spooked out now?"

"Felicity, I had to fix her stitches and now she's unconscious. Something isn't right, she's too pale for my liking. John what do we do?" Diggle could tell that Oliver was in a bad state because he used his first name instead of his nickname when he addressed him.

"They only thing we can do is take her to the hospital, but you have to understand they are going to ask questions and they are probably going to ask why we didn't bring her there in the first place. Are you ready for that?"

"We can think of a cover story later, if it's going to save her life we have to do it. Let's go."

"Alright, I'll go grab the car." Diggle hurried up the stairs and was out the door in no time. Sara was standing out of the way but she had to say something to Oliver before they left.

"Ollie, it's going to be okay. I'll get my dad on the case he'll understand. But first we need to get her to the hospital."

"I know, but I don't want to put your father in a bad place."

"You're not doing anything, I'm the one who is going to ask him. Plus he has a soft place in his heart for Felicity, he'll do it for her no questions asked."

Oliver hoped Sara was right, he knew Quentin had a soft spot for Felicity. He looked back at Felicity and carefully picked her up as to not move her too fast, he didn't want the stitches to pop open again, but he moved as quickly as he thought he could. Sara lead them upstairs and held the door open so Oliver could get through easy, he paused for a quick moment and laid a kiss on Felicity's forehead. It was a sweet moment, he needed to do it, and he wanted Felicity to know he was with her the whole time. Sara didn't want to interrupt the sweet moment but she had, "Oliver come on, we need to go now, you'll get another chance to do that later, let's save her life first."

Oliver agreed and he carried her to Diggle's car, he placed her in the backseat on top of his lap while Sara jumped in the front with Diggle. Diggle was careful not to hit too many bumps in the road, but he was also aware that they needed to get to the hospital soon. Dig could see Oliver and Felicity in the back of the car every time he looked in the rearview mirror, he was just as worried as Oliver was about Felicity, she was family to him ever since they started this team.

Sara called her father on the way to the hospital and Oliver could hear that she was on the phone but couldn't tell for sure what she was saying, only that she would call again when they know something when the get to the hospital.

They arrived at the hospital five minutes later, Sara jumped out to open the door for Oliver. He very carefully carried Felicity into the emergency room, with Diggle and Sara right behind him. They immediately found a nurse, "Please help her, she unconscious." Sara spoke before Oliver could get the words out.

"Place her here and may I ask what happen to her?" the nurse asked once she saw the stitches in Felicity.

"She was shot, we removed the bullets and got her stitched up but a couple of the stitches popped open and we had to fix the stitches she seemed fine to begin with but then she lost consciousness and she turned really pale." Dig told the nurse.

"Why wasn't she brought in when she was first shot?" the nurse asked.

None of them had thought of an answer for this question, they agreed that they would have to think of something, but they didn't think they would have to answer it right away. The three of them looked around at each other while the nurse was stilling waiting for answer. "There was no time, we were stuck in an abandon building in the Glades we didn't have a working phone and the car was broken down. Luckily we have a first aid kit in the car and we were able to get the bullets removed and get her stitched up." Sara answered, she was always good at thinking on her feet and both Oliver and Diggle were grateful she was able to come up with something that believable.

The nurse gave them all a look that they weren't sure if she actually believed them but it passed as she went to work on Felicity, the doctor was at her side now as well working. He spoke to them next, "Alright never mind why she wasn't her sooner, she is here now and we have to do whatever it takes to keep her alive now. You three can wait in the family waiting room down the hall, we need to get your friend here into surgery to see what's going on on the inside."

Oliver, Diggle, and Sara were ushered to the waiting room while the doctor and the nurses wheeled Felicity off to surgery. They sat in silence for the first hour just wanting to hear good news about how the surgery had gone, but no one had come to talk to them yet. Sara was the first to break the silence, "Ollie why don't you get cleaned up, we can let you know the minute she is out of surgery." Oliver had some blood on his clothes that was transferred when he carried Felicity, it was some leftover blood that hadn't gotten washed off of her.

"I can't go anywhere until I know for sure she is okay," he didn't even look up when he spoke to her, he was too worried to even move from that one spot.

"You being here isn't going to change anything, she'll probably be in surgery for a couple more hours at least. You could be home and back before anyone noticed."

"SARA STOP," Oliver had raised his voice at her out of frustration, but regretted it immediately, "sorry, I didn't mean to yell. But I have to be here, I have to be here when she comes out."

"Ollie it's okay I understand, I didn't mean to pry." she was seated next to Oliver now and placed her hand on his back to comfort him. He was so broken up about this and Sara could tell it, she placed her head on his shoulder because she didn't know what else to do to comfort him.

"Oliver, she'll pull through this, she'll make it. Don't forget she's strong," Diggle spoke up and walked over to where Sara and Oliver were sitting. His words were encouraging but there was still a worried tone about them, he wanted to be strong for her sake but he also wanted Oliver not to beat himself up about the whole situation.

"Dig, how am I going to live with myself if she doesn't?"

"This isn't your fault Oliver, and you need to stop blaming yourself."

"I brought Slade into her life, into all of our lives, this is in part my fault and I swore I would protect her and then this happens, she gets shot and I wasn't there to protect her."

"Oliver enough, stop doing this to yourself, none of this is going to help her. She is going to need us to be strong for her when she gets out of this, and she is especially going to need you to be strong for her. Now snap out of this self-pity spiral of yours and prepare yourself for what's to come with her recovery." Sara didn't mean to sound so harsh but Oliver needed to hear it that way to get him to snap back to reality and not live in what he could have done and plan for what he is going to do next.

After that they sat in silence for what seemed like hours but only an hour had passed since they had their conversation, Sara sat next to Oliver holding his hand within her own two. She felt bad for blowing up in his face but she still had to comfort him in her own way. She loved him and didn't want to see him hurt like this, she was also hurting herself over the whole situation, but she had to deal with Oliver's feelings first before her own. Felicity was like another sister to her and just like Oliver she hated to see anyone of the team hurt.

Diggle was the first to break the silence, "I can't do this, I can't just sit here and wait. I need to get some air, coffee or something."

"Coffee sounds like a good idea, why don't you take a walk and get some coffee for all of us. I'll call you if any news comes about Felicity." Sara was trying to be strong for everyone, she knew that Oliver wasn't going to say anything until the doctors came to talk to them about the surgery, so she had to give Dig the reassurance that it was okay for him to leave for a bit.

"Oliver, I'll be back I just need a little air, be strong for our girl." with that Dig left the waiting room and was on his way to get coffee for the three of them.

They were the only people in the waiting room and yet it still felt like they weren't alone, Oliver didn't want to talk about anything for the fear that someone might hear about their other lives. He is always so cautious when it comes to talking about Arrow stuff and he didn't want to slip up tonight because he wasn't thinking straight and tell the whole secret to the first stranger that walked through that door. But he had to let Sara know what was on his mind, "Sara, I'm sorry."

"Sorry, for what?" she was confused, what could he possibly be sorry for.

"I'm sorry for the fact that I'm not myself tonight,"

"Oliver that is not something you need to be sorry for. Someone from our team is seriously hurt and I wouldn't expect for you to be yourself. If you were yourself you would have gone after Slade and if you did that she might not be here in the first place getting this help. So I'm glad you weren't yourself tonight" Oliver looked at her and then he looked down at her hands, he completely forgot that Sara was hurt throughout this whole ordeal as well.

"Sara, your wrist."

"It's nothing, just a simple sprain. When I was here earlier they had to reset my wrist and then gave me this brace, don't worry I told them I fell down the stairs, they didn't suspect a thing. But I can't say the same for Felicity. I could tell the nurse didn't completely believe the story I told her, I'm lucky she wasn't the nurse that tended to me earlier, otherwise she would sure not believe a word I said."

"I'm sorry, I didn't check to see if you were okay this whole time, I was just distracted by Felicity."

"Oliver stop apologizing, Felicity is hurt way worse than I am you should be distracted by her, plus I know you love her and hate to see her hurt." those words hit Oliver really hard, the fact that he loves Felicity. He never said those words to her before, he wanted to when she was shot but he also wanted her to remember when he told her. Yet he felt guilty for loving Felicity because he loves Sara as well and he saw the look in her eyes when she said that he loves Felicity.

"Sara you know I love you too right, and Dig. I love everyone that is a part of this team."

"I know you love us, but we see the way you look at her, I see it. She has a different kind of spot in your heart than we do. Damn she has a different spot in my heart, I love her like another sister what's not to love about her."

"There's so much between us though you know that, I don't want to hurt you."

"Oliver, we have a history, we have a big history but that doesn't mean your history has to be your present. If you want her to be your present that's fine, I can see why you would."

"Sara?" Oliver was a little confused by her words, what was she saying and was she just saying this because Felicity was hurt.

"Don't wait to tell her how you feel, you might not get another chance to do so and doesn't she deserve to know that her feelings for you are not one-sided. I love you Ollie, but I can't be her, she is something special."

"I love you too and I never meant to hurt you, please don't hate me."

"Ollie I could never hate you, we've had a good run and maybe it's my turn to step down and maybe it's not, we won't know for sure unless we try something new, but don't let this one go, don't let her go." Oliver knew that some part of Sara was hurt by this but she was right, what they had was a history. Some of it was good history and some of it was bad history but whatever history it was they still loved each other and wanted the best for each other. Right now Sara knew that Felicity was best for Oliver and she had to take a step back, which she was fine with as long as Oliver was in a good place. She leaned over and placed a kiss on Oliver's cheek, he responded by grabbing her for a hug.

Just as they both released from their embrace the door to the waiting room open, "Miss Smoak's family?" was all they heard before they both stood up. "Miss Smoak's surgery was a success, she suffered some internal bleeding but we were able to get that under control. Although the bullets didn't hit any major arteries or organs, they still did enough damage to cause the internal bleeding. What you guys did with removing the bullets probably was one of the only things that saved her life, they would have put more pressure on her and getting them out relieved some of the pressure but not before causing her to bleed a little bit." Oliver and Sara were both speechless as they listened to the doctor talk about Felicity's surgery. "She's going to have a large uphill battle moving forward since we had to open her up wider to get the bleeding under control, but the most important thing is that she is alive now."

"When can we see her?" Oliver spoke up wanting to see her as soon as possible.

"She's in the ICU right now recovering from the surgery, I can allow one of you to go see her now and then once she gets her own room she can have more visitors, which one of you would like to see her first?" Oliver looked at Sara for reassurance to know she would be okay if he went to see her. Just before Sara was going to speak Dig arrived with their coffees.

"Hey, what's going on? Is she okay?" he questioned as he handed both Oliver and Sara their coffees.

"Everything is fine for now, she's out of surgery and is in the ICU right now but only one of us can go see her in there. Once she gets her own room the rest of us can see her." Oliver answered him.

"Oliver you should go see her, we'll be fine here. We can wait for her to get her own room." Sara told him and gave him the reassurance he needed in order for him to leave her.

The doctor led Oliver through many halls and turns and finally into the ICU, he led Oliver into a small room where Felicity lie motionless on a bed. The sight of her hooked up to all these machines broke his heart, but he knew that she was fine for the time being and that he should be thankful for that fact. "I'll leave you to be alone with her until we get a room for her." the doctor spoke before leaving Oliver to be with her by himself.

"Thanks doctor." Oliver walked over to Felicity's beside and dragged a chair close to the bed, he sat there and grabbed her hand. He brought her hand to his lips and brushed a light kiss against her knuckles. He knew she wasn't going to wake up for a while but he didn't care, he was going to stay there until he knew she was awake and fine. He looked up to her face and noticed that her eye lids were fluttering a little bit so he only assumed she was dreaming about something. He watched her sleep for the rest of that night and didn't leave her side one bit, he just lived in that moment with her yet again just like the first night when they first removed the bullets. This time was different though, he knew that she would be okay when she awoke this time, she was in good hands here.