An Entangled History Chapter 9: I'm All Alone (I Need You Now), an arrow fanfic

Title: I'm All Alone (I Need You Now)
Words: 2282
Pairing: Laurel/Oliver
Status: Done.

Summary: Team Arrow goes to fight Slade and he goes to kill Sara when he kills Laurel instead. Oliver holds her in his arms till she forgoes life.

"I'm going," Laurel stood her ground.

Oliver wanted to make her stay away. This shit was dangerous and she wasn't quite ready. But the look in her eyes, he couldn't. She had lost so much to the darkness and she wanted to take a little bit of it back. He could understand why. He sighed. She wouldn't let him tell him no anyway. "Okay, but you need to stay safe, okay?" He asked.

She smiled and gently pressed her lips to his as she turned away, "Always, Ollie,"

He smiled. That was the girl he loved. She had her smile back and it was the most beautiful thing that he could see. He looked to Felicity and thought about her behind him. "Are we ready to get into Slade's compound?" He asked.

She typed furiously into her computer and turned around to him. "Yes, we are. Laurel's voice modulator has a locator and it will chirp when you're there," She told him as she turned back to her computer. "And I'll be monitoring from here,"

"Why does mine not have a locator?" He asked.

She turned back and smiled at him like he was an idiot, "Because you have never asked. And Laurel decided that I was more than just a code monkey. So if you want to stop treating me like a code monkey, maybe I'll make you some nice things," She said as she smiled at Laurel, who waved back to Felicity. There was something going on there.

"Right," He said as he looked back to his glass case. "Time to suit up,"

Laurel went to the dressing room, something she was insistent upon, because dressing in the tiny bathroom and waiting for him was barbaric. He actually had to admit that it was a pretty good idea, and he liked having them in the foundry, the arrow cave, whatever they called it now.

He took his costume out and went to the other dressing room and suited up. It was easy enough when he did it in the bathroom, but having more room to suit up was kind of nice. It wasn't like it was the lap of luxury the man he was before the island would be used to, but it was nice. It was nice to have the an inkling of the days before the darkness back.

Laurel knocked on the door, "You ready? Roy and Sara are itching to be out," She asked him with smile.

He nodded, "Let's get the this over, the sooner, the better."

And they were off, Roy and Sara in a car that Roy had hotwired and Laurel and Oliver on his motorcycle. He drove and she hung onto him for dear life, all of curves molding to him.

Her voice modulator chirped its canary song and he stopped. It seemed like a regular building, but he knew Slade and it would be far from ordinary on the inside.

Sara walked up and stood beside them. "You ready?" She asked.

"Yeah," Laurel said in a quiet voice and he squeezed her hand. She was going to do great. Her mission was to help them and then she would be given the case if he could be taken alive.

Oliver looked over to Roy who just laughed. "We're ready," He gritted. Stupid kid didn't know anything.

It was a flurry of bullets and men when they walked in after Felicity hacked the system for them. "I couldn't make it any easier," She said into their ears. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay, pink. You did as much as you could," Laurel reassured and her voice soothed all of them as the only sound that they could hear anymore was cracking bones and people going down. "Shit," She muttered to herself and he looked over to her.

He went over to her and tried to find what happened, "You okay?" He asked, worried.

She shook her head, "It was just a graze," She said, showing him her arm where the bullet had taken some of her skin, but hadn't lodged in. "I'm fine. Come on," She told him.

His girl was bigger than he thought. They opened the next door together and saw Slade. He was sitting in a chair like he had nothing better to do but wait for them because obviously they were going to lose. "So you have survived the onslaught, but you will not survive now." Slade said to him as he signaled to someone who took a hold of Roy and made him useless in the battle.

He then shot at Sara. "Now, it's just the two of you. The Arrow and his true Canary." His face brightened a little and he smirked a little. "I had to admit that I didn't see her coming to your side, but I should have known. I should have known that the woman you loved would be just as pig headed as you are. And now you'll both have to endure a devastating loss."

They were wrapped up by minion hands, Blood took Laurel and the look in her eyes, he had never seen it. It looked like fury on steroids. There was enough hate to power a small country in those eyes. Her fight had clearly only gotten better. And Isabel took him. She had mirakuru in her that she hadn't had the last time they'd met.

"He chose you," Slade spat at Sara. "They will pay for his ignorance."

Sara cried a little, "He didn't mean to. He wanted to save her. He was trying to save us both. Slade, please, you have to believe me,"

"The time is too late for that," He said, finally. "Do you have any last words?"

"She loved you. She wouldn't want this. The person she was would hate the way you are now." She told him, trying to give him as good as he got.

He rolled his eyes, "Right, well, be prepared to tell her how terrible I am without her. After all, you were the reason she's not here." He told her and fired the bullet, but he didn't hear a scream for Sara.

He heard Laurel's scream and he looked down, seeing her clutching her stomach, "Oh boy, my lucky day," He said with a smile. "The canary there to fight for her sister. You are stupid as he is." He said, nodding over to where he thought Oliver should be.

"She's smarter than you," Oliver gritted as he broke Slade's neck and then looked down at Laurel, "Laur," He said as he got on his knees. "Where'd he get you?" He asked.

Her hands quivered away from the wound. Right in the middle of her stomach. She wasn't making it out of here. "You're gonna make it," He sobbed. "We're gonna get you out of here, I promise," He trembled. Sara took Roy by the hand and took him out.

"Ollie," Laurel smiled sadly, "We both know that's not true."

"Dammit, Laurel," He cried as he cradled her in his arms, "You were supposed to make it out of this. You were supposed to be there with me. Forever."

"I'm scared," Her voice quivered.

He rocked her back and forth and smiled sadly. "You were so brave,"

She lifted her hand up, filled with the metaphorical lead of dying and wiped away some of his tears. "Sing to me?" She asked him.

He couldn't think of any song to sing except an old lullaby he remembered singing to Thea and to her when she couldn't sleep. "Okay, I can do that," He told her as he tried to calm down but only ended up working himself up even more. "God, I'm so sorry. This was never supposed to happen," He said as he held her and started to sing.

You are my sunshine, My only sunshine
You make me happy when clouds are gray,

He crooned it brokenly as she smiled sadly back up at him. "That's it," She encouraged him. God, how could he let this happen? Even as she lay dying in his arms, all she was thinking about was that he knew that he was doing a good job and helping her.

You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away.

His dear Laurel, he could see her eyes closing because they were too heavy now. The love of his life and he sobbed once more because this was it. "Hold on for a little longer," He pleaded. "Please don't leave me, Laurel, dammit, I don't know that I can do it without you,"

"I'm so tired, Ollie." She stated and tears streamed down her face. She was in a lot of pain. "Sing to me a little more,"

You are my sunshine, My only sunshine
You make me happy when clouds are gray,
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away.

He sang the verses and finished the song up. And then she gone. Slade killed her. He killed Slade, but it still made him feel empty because he didn't have the one he loved to share the victory with him. And he took away her second chance away from her.

When her heart stopped beating, he pulled down her eyelids. "God, I loved you so much," He said, giving her one last kiss while her lips were still warm and let her go for a minute.

He stood up and wiped away the tears as he looked down at her body and sighed. He picked her up bridal style and put the ring he had in his pocket on her finger. She should know in death that he wanted to be hers forever.

He went out the front door and looked at Sara and Roy who didn't know what to say as they saw Laurel's lifeless body. "She's really..."

"Yes," Oliver said. "You two need to take the bike," He told them, handing Sara the keys. "She deserves to be buried,"

He put her in the car and it honestly just looked like she was sleeping. She'd have never let him hear the end of it if she had known that he put her in a hotwired car. Her sense of justice would beat him senseless for that. He cried silently as he drove very fast to the foundry. Faster than he drove before when he didn't understand consequences, when only she could make him see the light.

He stopped at the foundry and Felicity opened up. "Oh god, she needs help," Felicity said as she saw Laurel's eyes closed and just assumed she was unconscious. Once she opened the door though, "Oh god, she's dead," She sobbed

"She is," He told her as he got out of the car and picked her up and gently laid a kiss on her head. "She died a hero when she shouldn't have had to die at all. I told her she should have stayed away. But she was so damn brave," And the tears kept coming more and more. "I should have stood up to her. Told her that she could stay and be just as brave."

Felicity held her hand and cried a little. "You know she told me that she always loved you. Loved the parts that made her crazy. She said when she gave you that picture of her, she had one of you in her wallet at all times, so she could talk to you."

"Yeah?" He asked. He spent so much time on that island just wondering what it would be like to talk to her again and it comforted him that she would have thought about the same thing.

She nodded to him, "Yeah, she said that whenever she was sad, it was always a thought of you that brought her back to reality," She told him.

"She's exactly what I need to bring me back to reality, but she's gone. She's really gone and I can't believe it. I never imagined a future without her. Where do I go from here?" He asked her with water running down his face.

Felicity pushed him to look at her. "You go where she would. To the justice. You make the world better. And you fight for her. This isn't over. It's not over until the doctors say it's over. You take her to a hospital."

"I don't know if I can. I already lost her once. I don't know if I can deal with a doctor telling me she's gone for good."

"Well, then I'm taking her there, but dammit, I'm not letting her deal with you never knowing where you're going. Let her moral compass be your guiding light if she's dead. But dammit Ollie, she would not want you wallowing and I will be damned if I let you dishonor her memory like that."

"You called me, Ollie," He said. She blinked at him. "You never call me, Ollie."

She rolled her eyes at him. "Don't get used to it. I know she used it. And I knew it would snap you out of it. Get in there and take the hood off and then meet me at Starling General." She said as she got in the car.

He didn't want to hope, but if felicity believed it, even if it was blind hope, maybe she could still be alive. That pain hurt his heart, but it was better than thinking that the skies were gray forever.