Chapter 3: reinforcements

"We need reinforcements and we need to get this cure mobilized!"

Diggle spoke up for the first time since Roy had awoken, "I think I can help with that..."

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"That was Lyla on the phone- Amanda lied, the drone is on it's way now; she's got the suicide squad en route. I'm going to meet them just outside of the Starling ARGUS headquarters. There are 60 vials of the cure in there and only about 20 guys, some of whom are hopefully already dead. Give me a couple and we can engineer it into some bullets, the same way Lawton laces his with Curari."

Oliver nodded and Dig wasted no time, he grabbed 4 vials and stopped in front of Felicity just long enough to hug her and softly tell her his goodbye, "you don't have to say it, I know, if I don't come back alive you will be pissed- I'm meeting Lyla in 20- get them ready for the league and stay here- don't even try to argue either- you have a concussion and your mobile office crashed a few hours ago. I'll be on comms and I expect you to tell me where to go once we take care of Waller." He winked at her and ran out, not leaving anyone anytime to question him or even say goodbye.

Oliver quickly caught Felicity's eye again, "the league?"

"My phone call, it was Sara- when she left she went back to Nyssa, she's in town, she was with Laurel and Lance at the station. She's on her way here now and she's got 5 league members with her. Apparently Sara told Nyssa about the Mirakuru when she first found her and Her father wants it all destroyed." Felicity glanced at her watch- "they should be here in 10 minutes or less, which means I need to make arrows. Dd you bring that case I asked for?"

"Yeah, the case is in the corner- Roy, can you put it on the table?" As Felicity crossed to the vials of cure he rushed to her side, just a breath's distance from her, "what about arrows?"

"Ever since Cisco said they might be able to make the antidote I have been making arrows to put the cure in, I used the design from Sara's venom arrows, just a little bigger. I wasn't sure how many you could use, figured 20 max in the quiver, but I have 50 hollowed out- and now that the league is coming, they can shoot the cure arrows too, so I need to get them all filled."

His mouth dropped open as Roy set down the case and opened it- it was full of hollow tip arrows to fill with the cure, and the heads were different than his normal arrows, he picked one up running a finger over it. "It's an aluminum carbon composite- Barry suggested it to get through the denser muscle tissue when we were dealing with Gold, it's taken this long to get them in and weighted right, I knew they had to match your arrow heads. And let me just say, it's great and all that they are way stronger, but they are also way harder to drill." She could see the slight smirk on Oliver's lips and her ears began to turn red, now was NOT the time to babble, "three, two, now, okay- so here are your arrows, you can practice shooting a couple I filled with water so you could test the weight, I also had to test how quick the liquid would drain once it hit it's target," Oliver's intense gaze was unnerving her, "so yeah, you go over there and practice and I will start filling these."

He grabbed the practice arrows and turned back to face her, gently placing his hand on her cheek to force her to look in his eyes- "Felicity Smoak you are remarkable."

He smiled and walked away, calling Roy as he did so they could go over the details of how many men there were and where they would be. As he shot the first arrow, which easily slipped through the tennis ball and into the concrete behind it he smiled watching the liquid run down the wall, looking back at Felicity he saw her biting her lower lip, concentrating on transferring the cure and he had hope once again, she was his light, his proof that not everything in life was tainted.

He went back to training and strategy, having comms on with Dig as he made his was to the ARGUS building when suddenly they were no longer alone.

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AN- sorry all, no real action yet, this was more of a filler chapter to set up future alliances and show how much the team is really working as a team these days as opposed to Oliver calling the shots.

Again, no beta, all mistakes are mine.

please review- should I continue?