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Sara was sitting in a chair off to the side of the room, she was reading something on Felicity's tablet and didn't even notice that Felicity had woken up. "Sara?" Felicity's voice was weak because she was so tired and drain, she really didn't get good sleep that night. She kept waking up from nightmares, but around 3 in the morning she finally fell back asleep knowing that Oliver was sitting with her and now it was about 7:30am and Sara was in his place instead.

"Felicity, hey, how are you feeling?" Sara was now right at her bedside.

"Like I've been shot, and then punched in the gut." Felicity tried to lighten the mood by playing it as a joke but Sara wasn't buying it, she had concern written all over her face.

"Hey, this isn't funny."

"I know, I just don't know how to deal with a situation like this. I'm not used to going out and getting hurt, not that I'd want to go out every night like you guys and get hurt, not meaning that you guys get hurt every time you go out, I'm sorry, I'm babbling and I'm going to stop talking in 3, 2, 1." Sara had a small smile on her face, it always amused her when Felicity started her babbling.

"It's okay don't apologize for being yourself. It's nice to see that we have some part of your normal self back. But you were shot twice, so I don't expect everything to go back to normal overnight. You need time to heal and we are all going to help you get through this."

"Thanks Sara," for the first time Felicity noticed the brace on Sara's wrist "hey, how are you doing by the way?"

Sara was confused at first by the question because she was fine, but she noticed that Felicity gaze on her wrist, "Oh, yeah, it's nothing. I'm fine, you are the one to worry about. Now I'm going to get the nurse so she can check your dressings, she said to come get her as soon as you woke up, I'll be right back."

Sara left the room leaving Felicity alone for about a minute or so. Felicity saw her tablet sitting on the chair that Sara occupied minutes before, she tried to gauge whether or not she had the energy to get up and grab it. She knew the night before that she couldn't sit up on her own, but she thought that after some sleep she would be able to do it. She went to push herself up from the bed and clenched her teeth at the pain she felt around her stitches, the movement she made was pulling on her stitches. Before she could move anymore Sara was back with the nurse and the nurse was ordering Felicity to lay back down. "Miss Smoak, you need to lie still and take it very easy, you can't be moving like this without help for the first couple of days. We don't want to irritate your stitches." it was still the same nurse from the night before, Shirley.

"I was only trying to see if I could move by myself, but I understand its going to take time, I'm sorry."

"Nothing to worry about dear, but the next time you want to move use your call button or I'm sure one of your friends would gladly help you." Sara was more than willing to nod at the statement and Felicity smiled back at her, Shirley was getting ready to check the dressing on Felicity's wounds, "Now this might sting a little bit because I have to clean the wounds, but its going to go by fast." Shirley wasn't wrong as soon as she placed the cotton swap on her wound Felicity winced a bit, but she quickly bit down on her lower lip to take her mind away from the pain. A few short minutes later Shirley was done and was putting new bandages across the stitches, "Alright, all done, the doctor should be in within the next hour, he's just getting started on his morning rounds. I'll check on you after he's made his way around."

"Thanks Shirley," Felicity stated as the nurse left the room, she turned her attention towards Sara "would you mind handing me my tablet, there is something I need to check on right away?"

"Of course not, here you go, I hope you don't mind I was looking into something on it earlier."

"No that's fine, I'm just glad someone thought to bring it here in the first place."

"Yeah, that was Oliver, he knew you would want it as soon as you woke up."

"Speaking of Oliver, where is he now and what about John," Sara hesitated to answer her because she knew that Felicity was not going to like the answer she was about to give, "Sara, what are those two up to, please just tell me."

"Felicity, try not to get mad," Felicity gave Sara a look of impatience and waited for her to continue, "okay, while you were in and out last night and early this morning John started looking into where Slade could have gone and he got a lead on a warehouse in the Glades, so as soon as Oliver was sure you would sleep through the rest of the morning he took off with John to scope out the warehouse and I've been by your side ever since he left so you weren't alone at all." Felicity was silent, which was so unlike her, "Felicity, say something."

"I don't know what to say Sara, I don't know if I should be glad or mad at those two. I know they want to get Slade, trust me I want to get him as well, but they can't just go after him without back up."

"Well they both did go, so it wasn't like Oliver went in there alone, John is right by his side."

"Yes, but Slade has the mirakuru and Oliver and John can't take him on by themselves. They need you with them and they need someone talking in their ears from the outside, telling them what to expect from the building they are about to enter, they need the whole team not just half of it, they need us and I feel useless being in this hospital bed not doing a damn thing to help, I feel bad that you can't be there to help them because you are babysitting me,-"

Sara interrupted Felicity babbling, "Whoa, calm down there. First off, I'm not babysitting you, I'm here for you as a friend. No one deserves to wake up in a hospital room alone, that's why I'm here and it was the only way Oliver would leave. Second you are not useless, it may feel like it at the moment, but you were shot and none of us expect you to get right back to work after this ordeal. Lastly Oliver was going to do this no matter what, any lead he gets on Slade he is going to take it very serious and now that Slade put you in the hospital this feud has just gotten so much worse. We need to trust Oliver and John on this one, they can handle themselves and if they get themselves hurt they will have to answer to me which is not going to go well."

"I know, you're right, but this doesn't change the fact that I'm still angry with them for going into something this serious with no backup, and they will have to answer to me as well if they get hurt, one little scratch and I will go off."

"Alright, hot head, lets worry about you first though, okay." Sara tried to calm her down so her blood pressure wouldn't rise, that is the last thing they need right now. "You okay now, have you settled down a bit."

"Yeah I'm fine, I'm completely calm," Felicity took a couple of deep breaths to show Sara she was okay and calm for the moment, she then remembered she had her tablet on her lap. She was going to check to see if she could find any leads on Slade but John already beat her to that one, but she was not going to stay out of the loop for long. She opened her tablet and immediately went to her phone tracking app, she wanted to know where exactly the rest of her team was. She located their phone at the lair, which was a shock to her because Sara had told her that they got a lead on a warehouse in the glades, so either something went wrong and they were back at the lair or they left their phones at the lair so Felicity wouldn't worry where they were, but either scenario worried her. Then the track on their phones started to move and they were headed back into the city, she calmed down a bit and closed her tablet.

Sara noticed the frustration on Felicity's face and began to get worried, "Hey, you okay, what's going on?"

"Yeah, I just wanted to know where they are and from the looks of it I don't think the mission went very well, right now they are headed back to the city, I hope they got something."

"Me too, we need to hope for the best right now."

"I know, you're right, I'm just getting antsy. I just want to go home, but I know that's not going to happen anytime soon."

"I understand you want to go home, but we don't want you going home before you are ready." at that moment there was a knock on the door and the doctor from the night before entered the room.

"Hello there Miss Smoak, I'm Doctor Daniels and I preformed your surgery last night. The surgery was a success like I told your friends before, but now that you are awake and aware I'll tell you how it went. We had to open your one wound on your abdomen up more in order to get the internal bleed under control, so that area is going to be a lot more tender than your chest wound. Both wounds however are going to take a while to heal so you will have the stitches is for at least ten more days and we will address them at that point, I want to keep you here for the next 3-5 days depending on how well you do with therapy you may be able to leave after the 3 days but if you don't improve your mobility the way I would like you'll have to stay the 5 days. You are young so I expect that you will take to therapy well and I can get you out of here as soon as possible. I know this is a lot to take in but don't worry you have a very supportive team of nurses and doctors here for you and from the looks of it very supportive friends as well."

"You're right this is a lot to take in, and its very overwhelming at the moment, but yes my friends are very supportive and I hope to get out of here very soon, no offense to you doctor or anyone else here, I just don't like hospitals very much and I try to stay away from them. Not that in this certain circumstance I could avoid the hospital or would want to, and I'm babbling again which will stop in 3,2,1." she turned away from the doctor trying to hide her embarrassment.

"It's very normal for someone to feel overwhelmed in a situation like this, I would be more worried if you were taking this in stride like it happens every day." Felicity almost flinched at that last statement because in a way that is a very high possibility in their line of work, they are put at risk every day because of the life they led but she held her composure in front of the doctor and she was glad he didn't seem to notice a change in her, "I'm going to finish my rounds and I'll call to the physical therapist and see if we can get you started on simple therapy for today, is there anything else I can answer or do for you, Miss Smoak."

"Felicity, can you just call me Felicity."

"Of course, Felicity is this anything else you need before I leave?"

"No, I think I'm good for the moment, but if I think of something I'll let you know."

"Alright, just take it easy," he turned towards Sara now and spoke to her, "don't allow her to get up on her own."

"Got it doc, don't worry about a thing she won't be doing anything by herself for a while." and at that the doctor left the room to finish his morning rounds. Sara was about to return to the chair she was sitting in before when Felicity spoke up.

"Sara, umm," she hesitated what she was about to say.

"Yes, do you need something, what can I do."

"Well I really need to use the bathroom, this is embarrassing to me, I'm sorry, I can't believe I have to ask for help to use the firkin bathroom."

"Hey don't worry about it, at least I'm here and its not one of the boys right."

"Yeah I guess, I would be even more embarrassed with one of them, thanks."

Felicity slowly swung her legs to the side of the hospital bed and sat up by pulling on Sara, Sara planted her body in front of Felicity and just allowed her to pull herself up to the sitting position. Just doing that little motion left Felicity almost out of breath, Sara saw the strain on her face and paused, "Are you okay to continue,"

"Yeah lets just get this over with," Sara braced herself yet again and allowed Felicity to pull herself up to a standing position, Sara then draped Felicity's free arm over her shoulder and the arm with the IV in it held onto the walking pole. Sara placed one of her arms around Felicity's waist to steady her on the walk to the bathroom, the walk was slow but Felicity didn't stumble too much. They made it to the bathroom and Sara helped Felicity inside and then waited outside the room until she was done. It took longer than normal given the circumstances and Sara didn't mind waiting, about 7 or so minutes later Felicity was done and Sara was ready to help her back into the bed. Once they got back to the bed, it was like everything was drained out of Felicity she looked weaker than she did when she first woke up and Sara could tell that she needed her rest.

"Hey why don't you try and sleep a little, you look exhausted, I'm sure you could use the rest after that little walk you just did."

"I feel like I've been sleeping for ages, I don't want to just sleep the day away."

"Felicity, you can use the sleep, it's okay to sleep the first couple of days.'

"I suppose you're right, a couple hours of sleep won't hurt now, but as soon as Oliver and John get back I want someone to wake me up,"

"Don't worry you'll be the first one to know when they return, I'll make sure of it."

"Thanks Sara,"

"You're welcome."

"Thanks for just being here as well, I don't think I could go through any of this alone."

"Of course, now please get some rest."

Felicity allowed herself to sleep for a couple hours, only until the boys returned, then she would want to have a little chat with them about what they were doing that morning.

A/N: I know Oliver wasn't in this chapter like at all and it may seem unlike him because he would be the last person to leave Felicity in a situation like this, but I wanted Felicity and Sara to bond a little just by themselves, so that is why this chapter went the way the way it did. I'll try to update the next chapter as soon as I can, thanks for reading.