"What do you want?" Felicity spits out at Slade. She stands walking slowly towards the bathroom to alert Oliver of the call.
"I want you to retrieve a hard-drive which is in Robert Queens safe," Slade tells her.
"A hard-drive?"
"Yes, bring me the hard-drive or I will send you bits and pieces of your lovely mother and Roy every day for the next few months." Slade sniggers and hangs up the phone. Felicity puts the phone down slowly; Slade had shot at them at the party. And from the look in Oliver's eyes, she does not hesitate to believe that he would live up to his threat. Felicity knows that she has to follow his instructions, and she cannot tell a soul about it. At that moment, Oliver comes out of the shower, he is shirtless and only wearing a pair of sweats that hang loosely on his hips.
"Hey, I am going to go see Roy," Felicity tells Oliver, her back turned from him afraid he could tell that something was wrong.
"Felicity, I thought I made it clear until we sort this Slade situation you are not to leave this house" Oliver is sitting on the bed putting on a pair of socks.
"And how long will that take because I would really like to see my brother, you know the whole kidney thing. I don't want to wake up tomorrow to find he is dead because you would not let me leave because there is a psycho hell bent on hurting you." She yells and it catches Oliver by surprise. He knew that she was feisty, but she had never yelled at him before.
"Unless I am under house arrest, and there is a tag on my ankle I'm leaving," Felicity picks up her purse in a huff and turns to leave. However, Oliver is quickly there standing in front of the door. He studies her and can tell that something is wrong, she is biting her lip since he met her he knew that meant she was nervous about something.
"You are not under house arrest, but I would appreciate it if you ... is something going on that I don't know about? Is it Roy is he ok?" Oliver asks suddenly making Felicity feel guilty that she cannot tell him the truth.
"I don't know, mom is not answering, and I just want to go and check to see if everything is ok, can I?" Felicity says in a loud voice.
"Felicity if something is wrong ..."
"Well, if you got out of my way I could go and make sure that everything was ok." Felicity saw a look of hurt pass Oliver's eyes and then it was gone replaced with a look of anger. Felicity believed he was angry because of the way she spoke to him. However, Oliver was, in fact, angry because he could tell she was keeping something to herself and not trusting him to tell him.
Felicity closes her eyes and flinches as a reflex when she sees the anger flash in his face. "Felicity" he whispers, and she slowly opens her eyes, the anger is now gone and hurt and guilt show in his expression. "Did you think I was going to ..." he can't bring himself to say the words hit afraid that she would indeed confirm it.
Felicity had not even realized she flinched until Oliver brought it up. "I ..." she closes her eyes upset at herself that she had done that. Felicity knew she was in a dilemma and needed to find the hard-drive and save her family. She knew what she was about to do next would only twist the knife more. "I'm sorry I spoke to you in that way" she looks down at the floor not meeting his eyes, playing the victim. "I won't do it again" she whispers.
Oliver takes a deep breathe; he had never wanted to be that man, that man that laid a hand on their wife. He had seen it first hand with some of his men, yes he was their Captain, but he could not dictate the way his men treated their women. He had seen the bruises the way they kept their eyes low; their shoulders slouched in defeat. "Felicity, I'm not ... I'm sorry, let me grab my stuff and then I will take you to the hospital."
Felicity's eyes remained locked on the floor, but they widened, Oliver could not go with her; she had to try and find a way to stop him from going with her. Oliver watches her reaction and knows when he is not wanted. Needing to make sure she is safe but not wanting to make her feel any more uncomfortable than she already was he gives in.
"I remember I have something I need to do, I will get one the bodyguards to escort you" Oliver takes his phone out dials Diggle. The only other person he trusts to look after her. As Oliver talks to Diggle in Russian Felicity's eyes have not left the floor making Oliver nervous. "Ok, so Diggle will take you, he should be here in about 15 minutes," he tells her.
"Can I go for a walk before he comes?" She can't believe that after their talk yesterday her only options for getting away from him so she can get the hard-drive has resulted in her playing the victim card that she hates. She hates making herself small and vulnerable and weak in front of him. Felicity had been in a relationship before where her boyfriend thought it was ok to slap her. He had laughed it off but she was not ok with it, she had hit him back and then left him. She knew that the past altercations, if you have, with Oliver, had not been because he wanted to hit her. That was why in a way she had let it slide. She knew if he had in fact hit her and meant it like her mother said Bratva or no Bratva she would not stand for that.
"Yes" Oliver moves out of the way letting her leave the room, his tone low with a hint of hurt. Felicity walks out the room never meeting Oliver's eyes. When she hears the door, close she looks up and begins to walk faster heading towards Robert Queens study.
Looking around making sure nobody was watching she slides in and heads straight to the Queen safe. Hoping and praying to God it was electric otherwise she would be completely stuck she removed the painting and saw that it was not an electric one. She entered a few birth dates that she had learned and nothing happened. She entered the date Robert and Moira had married nothing again. Felicity knew she was running out of time, Diggle would be there soon, she would be caught and her family would be dead. Felicity continued with a bunch of different numbers even trying the old famous four zeros.
Unsuccessful, Felicity begins to rummage around the draws hoping the code was written down somewhere. Felicity hears a noise and before she hide someone comes in, one of Oliver's men and grips her arm harshly with one hand as the other goes round her mouth.
"Mrs. Queen" the greasy man smiles. "Slade sent me if you do not retrieve the hard drive your family will pay the price," he says in a strong Russian accent. Once his hand releases her mouth, he looks at her up and down admiring her.
"I can't get into the safe it is not electric," she tells him.
"Figure it out" he hisses and slides his hand down Felicity's arm.
"Get your hands off me," she says in a strong voice.
"I sure would love to know what the Captain's woman tasted like"
Felicity pushes him off her, and when he goes to launch at her she holds her phone out. "I can call Slade and tell him why he will not be receiving his hard-drive at the allocated time" she tries to remain calm and strong although she is nervous and scared.
The man walks back slowly and tilts his head telling her to hurry up. Felicity does not know what to do; she continues to search the draws. She stops when she feels something attached underneath the desk. She sits on the floor and looks up, it is a gun, she takes it from the holder and pockets it. She has never held a gun before and she does not know how to use it but for some reason she feels safer with it. Underneath the desk, she also notices four numbers. 1509. She does not know what those numbers mean, but she stands a quickly tries them. As the safe opens Felicity notices documents and pictures of the Queens. Spotting the hard-drive, she quickly takes it out.
"You need to stand outside and make sure no-one is coming while I check to see if this is the right one," she tells the man holding out two hard-drives in her hand. She had taken the hard-drive out of her laptop, thinking if worse came to worse then she could give him that one instead.
The man groans but does as he is told. Felicity quickly attaches the hard-drive to her tablet and has a look.
When she is done, she heads downstairs to where Diggle is waiting. As Oliver's second in command, she worried he would notice that something was wrong. "Mr. Diggle," she says with a smile.
"Mrs. Queen" Diggle returns her smile, as he turns to open the door the greasy man from earlier hits him over the head.
"OMG," Felicity gasps.
"Be quiet." The man drags Diggle to the coat closet, he ties him up and tapes his mouth. "Let's go" he grabs Felicity harshly and ushers her out of the door.
When they arrive at the hospital, Felicity spots her mother sitting in the waiting area with Slade beside her.
"Mom?" Felicity jogs towards her mother, afraid that something has happened.
"Hunny, finally I have been calling and calling but nothing, Roy is in surgery they found a kidney" her mother claps her hands in excitement.
"What? How? When? They can't just find a kidney out of nowhere" Felicity meets Slade's eyes, and she cannot help but stand in front of her mother trying to shield her.
"Hello, Ms. Smoak" Slade smirks, he places his hand in his pocket pulling out some money and handing it to Donna. "Donna could you get us coffee, Sam will help you" Slade gestures for the man who Felicity came in with.
Felicity wants to protest, but Slade grabs her wrist warning her. When Donna and Sam leave, Slade sits her down. No one else is in the waiting area, and she cannot help but think it is suspicious.
"Did you bring it?" Slade asks as Felicity takes out the hard-drive and gives it to him. Slade smirks and the grabs hold of her chin. "You did good." Slade pulls out his laptop and plugs the drive in. "You do know if this is not the one, I will kill them both, you not yet" he laughs. When the drive shows a list of names, dates, numbers Slade grins massively knowing this was exactly what he was looking for a while.
Slade stands and then leaves saying goodbye to a disappointed Donna. "He was nice" Donna giggles.
"Mom, did her hurt you, how is Roy getting a kidney?" She has so many questions that she needs to know the answer of.
"What? No, he was a gentleman; he just came in and then the doctors came in saying there is a kidney available" Donna speaks quickly and enthusiastically. "Slade said he was a friend of Oliver's; I have a funny feeling he has something to do with the kidney, but who cares Roy is going to be ok." Her mother hugs her tightly kissing her forehead.
"Felicity" Oliver walks through the door with his father and John Diggle followed behind.
"Oliver" Felicity stands, shit he knew.
Oliver takes her hand and pulls her to the side, so Donna is not listening. "What is going on? John said Sam attacked him, the truth now" Oliver demands.
"I am so sorry; Slade called my phone, from Roy's" She explains looking at the three men who stood too close for comfort.
"Go on" Robert urges.
"He asked me to retrieve a drive for your study otherwise he will send me pieces of mom and Roy in the post." Felicity closes her eyes and tears begin to pool down her cheeks. She is crying because of all the day's events finally letting it out.
"You did what? Are you crazy" Robert launches at her, but Oliver stands in the middle and Diggle places a hand on his shoulder?
"Felicity do you have any idea ..." Oliver's anger is flaring; he wished she had spoken to him, and they could have found a way around it.
"Oliver, I took the drive I made a copy; I knew Slade will look at it when to make sure it was the right drive. So I made so the device would self-destruct so to speak after being accessed." Felicity snorts and looks at the confused expressions on all the three men. "He has the drive but it has been completely wiped, which does not make matters better because he will come after mom and ..."
"We can protect them" Robert answers. He takes Felicity's hands in his and kisses her knuckles. "You have no idea what it would have meant if Slade has those files, I knew my son married you for a reason" he teases and winks at Oliver. Robert turns around and heads to Donna, sitting her down and started small chat with her.
"Oliver" she whispers as he cups her face bringing her forehead to his.
"When I heard Diggle groaning I was so scared Felicity," he tells her. When he found Diggle, he knew immediately something was wrong with her and all he could think about was finding her and not caring what it took to find her and bring her home.
"Oliver I'm sorry, I did not know how to leave without warning you, I was scared I would fail my family so I." Felicity begins to cry as he dries her tears as they fall. "I played the victim; I knew if I made it look like I was afraid of what you would do, you would leave me to it." Oliver smiles, he had considered that was what she had done when he found Diggle, but in the back of his mind he was terrified of the possibility of her truly being afraid of him.
"Don't apologize" he wraps his arms around her shoulders hugging her.
Felicity pulls back, and she looks at him, her nose touching his as she stands on her tiptoes and kisses him. At first Oliver is caught by surprise but he soon cups the back of her head deepening the kiss.
"Sorry," she whispers pulling back.
"Don't be, not for that ever" he smirks kissing her forehead and holding her until somebody told him they needed to let go of each other.