Chapter 1: You did not break me, Im still fighting for peace

Chapter by JayGriffiths15

Summary:

Felicity's willing to do just about anything to save Oliver's soul, even going toe, to toe against the Demon himself, and offering herself up as a new League member.

Chapter Text

Fighting For US

And another one bites the dust
Oh why can I not conquer love?
And I might have thought that we were one
Wanted to fight this war without weapons

And I wanted it, I wanted it bad
But there were so many red flags
Now another one bites the dust
Yeah, let's be clear, I'll trust no one

You did not break me
I'm still fighting for peace

Well, I've got thick skin and an elastic heart,
But your blade - it might be too sharp
I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard,
Yeah, I may snap and I move fast
But you won't see me fall apart
'Cause I've got an elastic heart

I've got an elastic heart
Yeah, I've got an elastic heart

And I will stay up through the night
And let's be clear, won't close my eyes
And I know that I can survive
I'll walk through fire to save my life

And I want it, I want my life so bad
I'm doing everything I can
Then another one bites the dust
It's hard to lose a chosen one

You did not break me
(You did not break me, no)
I'm still fighting for peace

Well, I've got thick skin and an elastic heart,
But your blade - it might be too sharp
I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard,
Yeah, I may snap and I move fast
But you won't see me fall apart
'Cause I've got an elastic heart

Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh

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Well, I've got thick skin and an elastic heart,
But your blade - it might be too sharp
I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard,
Yeah, I may snap and I move fast
But you won't see me fall apart
'Cause I've got an elastic heart

I've got an elastic heart

Chapter Two - You did not break me, I'm still fighting for peace

"Felicity" Oliver's voice echoed around as he walked to her standing in front of her and turning his back to the army waiting for her.

"Thank you for trying, I love you all the more for it, but I have a debt to repay, there's no way out of this" Oliver said cupping her cheek he leaned his forehead against hers before placing one gently kiss there.

He then stepped forward all trace of the love he just shared with his women gone, and replaced with ice, the man stood in front of them all was cold, and calculating and looked ready to kill.

Oliver stood his arms out in front of him, he could feel Felicity stood behind him trying to push his arm's down, he gritted his teeth as he seen the assassins holding there weapons up, Ra's Al Ghul was stood watching the scene no doubt seeing how it played out.

"Put your weapons down" Oliver said, his voice deadly.

No one moved, not even Felicity whom had grabbed the back of Oliver's shirt at the tone of his voice neither were sure whether it was to comfort him or her.

The silence in the room was deafening, but Oliver knew it was literally seconds before the assassins would attack if there master uttered the word's.

"I am heir to Ra's Al Ghul, Al Shah-him Heir to the demon and you will OBEY" Oliver roared stepping forward towards them.

All at once they seem to lower there weapons and kneeled down bowing to him.

Felicity shivered as Ra's Al Ghul stepped forward clapping his hands, a sinister smile gracing his lip's.

"Well, well it seems I may have underestimated Miss Smoak's earlier threat" Ra's said his smile seeming to widen.

Felicity gulped her eyes widening, as she took a step forward so she stood next to Oliver, she noticed his eye's looking at her, before quickly going back to Ra's Al Gual

Felicity swallowed before she spoke "I never make threat's, I make promises, and you didn't underestimate my threat, you underestimated me"

Ra's grinned towards Felicity before he turned to Oliver stepping closer, "Did she come to you, like I suggested, tell you she loved you, shown you how much she feels for you" he grinned wider seeing through Oliver's facade of showing no emotions.

"I told her, she needed to let you know what she feel's, before she say's good bye, I allowed you to use the Lazarus Pit to resurrect your sister, in exchange for you to become Heir to the League, You and you alone, your friends, need to be gone with in twenty four hours of there arrival time we have much to do, in the ritual of you becoming an official member of the league" Ra's spoke the words as if they were final, just as he turned he nodded to the remaining league members so they left.

Just as he turned to walk away Felicity suddenly spoke up.

"You again are wrong Demon Head" She spoke loud, causing Oliver's head to spin around and look at her in shock.

"Five of us arrived, and two will be remaining not one" Felicity said her eyes not leaving the man whom she should be afraid of, a man who could kill her, yet she didn't she took another step towards him, ignoring Oliver's hand that reached out for her.

"I may have told Oliver I love him, I might have even shown him how much, but there is no way I am saying goodbye to the man I love, to the man I AM going to spend the rest of my life with" she stood practically toe to toe with the ruthless man yet she stood tall and proud.

Ra's Al Ghul hid the shock quickly, his eyes turning to look at Oliver whom looked like he wanted to hide Felicity away, Ra's turned back to the girl in question, his eyebrow raising in wonder "Non League Members are not permitted to stay in Nanda Parbat as you are aware Miss Smaok, you are not a member, therefore I expect you to join your friends when leaving" he spoke as if leaving no room for argument, he nodded once to Oliver as if to make his point final.

But before he could look back to Felicity she laid all her cards on the table "I know that Wife, and children of the Demon Head may stay in Nanda Parbat under the leagues protection" Felicity replied her eyes locking on the man in front of her.

"And you are not the wife, nor do you share children" Ra's replied

"Maybe not, but there could be a chance I now carry Oliver's child" Felicity spoke loud enough for Oliver to hear, before she leant in closer and whispered to Ra's "And if you force me to leave, do you really think Oliver wont come looking for me, you know as well as I do, if there's even a fraction of a chance I carry his child, a child that could become the Heir you cant refuse me refugee here" she said pulling away unable to hide the smile on her face.

Ra's didn't reply he just looked at her once, before moving his eyes to Oliver's then turning and walking out the room.

Oliver walked towards Felicity grabbing her hand with out speaking he pulled her towards his room.

Once inside the memories of what they had done earlier hit him, but he pushed them down, part of him hurt from what Ra's had told him.

"You're playing a dangerous game, trying to go against his rules, wont end well for either of us, Felicity and you know it, if you really wanted to stay why didn't you discuses it with me, instead of stated you could be carrying my child, we both know that that isn't possible due to protection used, was this your plan all along, or did you just decide to sleep with me when he made the suggest" he spewed out as he paced in the room.

Felicity stood straight watching him, his words hitting her like daggers "WHAT" she gasped out "No, oh god ... no Oliver he " she stopped shaking her head. She thought he would understand, that he would get what, and why she was doing this.

"I came here to support you, because I love you, I cant loose you, I wont Oliver, would I have told you had he not put the idea in my head, I honestly don't know, but I didn't come here to sleep with you Oliver, when I walked in this room, and you started talking, you was giving up, you was retreating into yourself, and Yes his words were in my head, but only about the grief he felt when he didn't show someone he loved them, I said them words because I've been holding them in for a while, and this, this was the last time I might get to say them to you, I drugged your drink, that was my initial plan yes I'll admit that, but that would of happened regardless of us sleeping together" she stopped feeling a tear leak down her cheek.

She looked to see him stood still watching her before she continued "All I thought about was when I thought you had died, how them weeks we're for me, you'd told me you loved me before you left, but then when you came back and I thought finally we had a chance, you chose the Arrow again, you might of thought it was me pulling away, but by you training with Malcom regardless of his relationship with Thea you chose Him, and it was like the words you told me, were only said because you, yourself wasn't one hundred percent sure you'd be there again to ever say "

She walked towards the bed sitting on the edge "When he demanded I leave, it was like you was slipping away from me again, Id just got you, finally got you Oliver and he was going to separate me from you, so I used something against him I knew would work, I cant say I'm sorry not if it leads to me being here with you Oliver, I am sorry your hurt, I'm sorry you think so little of me, you'd thing I'd intentional say I love you, and sleep with you in order to get one over on the leader of the League of Assassins, if that's true maybe I should leave with the others" She said, she stood and before he could reply she walked out the room.

Oliver sighed shaking his head, everything that had happened since they arrived here, running through his mind, not ten minutes after Felicity walked out the door, he followed looking for her, he almost laughed as the reescalation that this what Ra's had planned in order for Oliver to become Al Sah-him he needed all the reminders of Oliver Queen gone, and Felicity and him had both played right into his hands that was what the smirk Ra's had given Oliver was about he realised they had played into his game.

No more, when Felicity had told him she loved him, Oliver knew the words to be true, and what they shared, he knew was between them, nothing more, he wasn't about to let Ra's Al Ghul take something else from him, someone else, Felicity had done all this to stay, and Oliver was going to make sure that happened.

He walked past the room they had left earlier and stopped hearing Felicity's voice, he realised she was shouting and stopped waiting to see what was about to happen.

"YOU KNOW I FELT SORRY FOR YOU, WHEN YOU EXPLAINED HOW HARD LEAVING YOUR FAMILY ONE'S, WAS FOR YOU, YOUR WORDS PUSHED ME TO BE HONEST NOT TO TRICK OLIVER BUT YOU KNEW THAT WOULD HAPPEN DIDNT YOU" she roared.

Oliver stepped forward to enter the room but stopped as he heard Ra's reply.

"At first no, I was simply giving you the chose I was denied, but after when I realised the connection you had to Oliver, yes I admit miss Smoak, I hoped it would work to my advantage, how did you know of the rules of the league" Ra's voice seemed neutral,

Oliver was torn himself wanting to know Felicity had found the information she had, and another part of him wanting to protect her from the Demon Head.

"You should know Demon Head, for a loved one you would do anything, you say you left your family to spare them torture, Oliver means everything to me, I've spent the last four years by his side making sure I protected him, I'd do anything for him, and I wasn't about to walk through here with out some information, something to protect us in case my original plan to get him out didn't work, I planned on me staying here" Felicity's voice was calmer

"Why" the one word Ra's said seemed to have so many answers Oliver wondered which part of her answer he was referring to.

"Because I love him, and because I see who he really is, Oliver Queen, Bravta Captain, The Arrow, he has to be so many different things, and each time he has to be someone new a part of Oliver's soul is chipped away, and he's scared he wont admit it, but he thinks that nothing is left of Oliver Queen anymore, you told him he couldn't live by Two names, but you was wrong ... he has always been Oliver, even as the hood he was still Oliver, and even as Al Sah-him he will still be Oliver Queen to me, and I'm not about to let you, or anyone else take that away from him, from us" Her words seemed to Echo around the room.

Oliver stood feeling proud, and the love he felt for the women whom was keeping him whole seemed to want to burst free, he took a step forward intent on enter the room when Ra's question stopped him.

"We both know if your not pregnant which If I was a gambling man Id say your not, he will marry you, because he loves you, but are you really going to give everything up, are you really going to become a member of this league, become an assassins, a killer, will you really become something you've stopped him from becoming"

Time seemed to stand still, Oliver wanted to burst through into the room and tell her no, she wasn't going to become that person, but what stopped him was the fact Felicity was in there fighting for him, for them, and he knew she needed to fight this on her own, if he walked in there and made this choice for her, she may never forgive him for it.

"No" Felicity said her answer seemingly shocking the man in front of her "I'm not a killer, but what I am is a genius, I graduated MIT top of the class, and I can hack any organization, I wont be a killer, but I will join your league, I will marry him, and I will protect the league, because I'll be protecting my him in doing so, you think I'm going to take something away from you, but you should see it as me bringing something to you, you may live old-fashioned ways , but I can bring methods to this league and help you become better" She spoke with such conviction neither men seemed to know what to do.

After a few minutes, Ra's asked the question Oliver had been dreading as he knew the answer would be something that would weigh him down.

"And what about him, can you just sit back and watch him turn back into the killer you've stopped him being" Ra's said.

Oliver's fist clenched at the thought of them words being thrown at Felicity, he knew that she would take them to heart, but this was Oliver's choice, and as much as he knew they was another way, he had made this choice in order to save Thea, and he knew the consequences of what he had to become.

"You say it like Oliver chose this, you gave him no choice you took away the Arrow from him, You made Oliver Queen and outcast in his own home town, even if you hadn't done what you did to Thea, Oliver would still not be the same, You hurt Thea knowing he would come here, it was a guarantee for you, am I thrilled were both going to be connected to a man like you" she stopped for a minute before continuing "No, but I'm warning you know, your tricks in manipulating him are Over, he's here, you got what you wanted him to become the next you, am I thrilled he's going to have to become that man again, no but I'm going to be here after each mission, after each person that died from his hands, to remind him he had no choice, its going to be him or them, and as much as the thought of someone dying by him used to hurt me, this time the weight of his actions aren't his own, there YOURS, his soul wont be tarnished and I wont allow him to become that person again, because its the only choice he has, and I love him, every part of him, and I wont allow anyone to turn him into something he isn't, so train him, have him do your missions, have him become the leader of the league but don't expect me to let the darkness take him, because I wont allow that, I will be the doting wife, I will stand by his choices, I will guide him when I can, but each night I will remind him of the man he is, the man he will always be, and that is a hero, who would do anything, include go back to killing for someone in order to protect his family and loved ones" Felicity spoke with so much conviction, she herself wasn't sure were it had all come through.

The quite in the room after her words seemed to last for minutes rather than seconds, Oliver stood her words still digesting to him.

"will you take the League's branding for him, become a true member of this league" Ra's asked seemingly knowing he had lost the battle of shipping Miss Smoak back to Starling city.

"Yes" her answer seemed to echo around the room, as Oliver entered the doors, Ra's nodded once to him as he turned and left the room leaving them both to absorb what had happened in the last few hours.

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