Hi guys, i am so so so sorry for the reallly long delay in uploading. Unfortunatly my family had a tragedy and there were plans to be made etc beside i didnt really feel like writing during that time. Again i cant apologise enough guys. Thank you to all those who reviewed seriously you have no idea how much they have helped me the past few weeks. Anyway i wont ramble on anymore ill let you get to the story. I should be uploading the next chapter tomorrow, so ill see you all then.

"Wow where do I even start?" Oliver sat in silent contemplation thinking about Felicity and exactly what it is she was about. All of a sudden he started talking and found he could not stop. "She always rambles, about everything, you have to stop her because if she's completely comfortable then she won't stop" Ollie laughed "She intelligent, and I mean she's really intelligent, but she doesn't rub it in peoples face like you'd imagine. She won't admit it but she's super ticklish, her favourite colour is actually green, apparently it comes from a comic book she used to read as a child. Her favourite movie is Finding Nemo, she can watch it over and over again and never get bored. She will literally eat whatever you put in front of her, except cheese. She makes me feel like nothing else matters, like I haven't spent 5 years in hell, she doesn't treat me like Oliver Queen, I'm just me, I'm just Ollie." Oliver finished with tears in his eyes.

He looked around at his nearest and dearest; it seems that he was not the only one who had been moved to tears. He looked around at the people in the room and realised that everyone who truly mattered to him, except felicity of course was stood in this hospital room with him.

They had been sat in the same waiting room for two hours waiting for a doctor to tell them that it was ok, that they could come and see Felicity. Two hours passed in silence, no one speaking, no doctors or nurses giving them any semblance of information concerning Felicity. Finally shortly after they had reached the four hour mark, a doctor walked into the waiting area "Oliver Queen?"

"Yes!" Oliver said standing.

"She's starting to come round; there are a few things that I need to speak to you about before you're able to see her"

Oliver nodded waiting for the doctor to continue "She suffered a head injury in the assault, at current we aren't aware how much damage this could have caused, there was very little external damage but with head injuries it's the internal damage we need to be particularly cautious of"

"Okay, so what does that mean?" Oliver asked starting to get worried.

"We are just going to wait and see how she reacts when she awakens, we will then perform several memory tests on her as well as a few other tests that will measure any damage"

Oliver nodded, "I'll take you to her now" The doctor said, turning to walk down the dreay corridor, Oliver turned to look at Diggle.

Dig nodded his head and said "Give her my love"

It was a short corridor but to Oliver it felt like a thousand miles, they were soon at the room, the Doctor advised Oliver that he must first speak to Felicity to ensure that she would see him. At which point he would fetch Oliver. Doctor entered the room leaving Oliver standing in the corridor. While he waited there, all his mind could think was what if I had lost her? What would I have done? The truthful answer was that he didn't know, he had no idea what he would have done if she had been taken from him.

The doctor came our shortly after "She will see you, she's in and out of consciences so please be careful and make it short, she needs her rest, it's the only way her body will heal. Her mind will have to wait"

Oliver looked up at him, what exactly did that last statement mean? Oliver stepped forward and placed his hand on the handle, bracing himself before entering. What he saw he could not ever in a million years have prepared himself for.

Felicity was lying down in her hospital bed, machines around her beeping, he could see her face and arms, there was not an inch where bruises were not visible. A large portion of her dyed blonde hair was matted with blood, and there was what appeared to be a bolt attached to a wire protruding out of her head. If he had been a weaker man, Oliver would have broken down crying. Instead a single tear made its way slowly down his face, he stepped forward and made his way towards the bed, as he seated himself in the chair next to her, she stirred.

Her eyes flicked open, she looked up at him and for the longest time just stared into his eyes, before parting her lips and saying "Hello"

At that point Oliver faltered, he didn't know what to do, or what to say "Hi" he replied.

Then Felicity said something that made Oliver's heart go cold "Do I know you?" She asked

Oliver almost chocked out the next word "What?" He asked, he turned to the door then back to Felicity unsure of what to do.

"Relax my Green Arrow I'm just messing with ya" She smiled "Sorry you looked so sad I wanted to lighten the mood"

Oliver stared at her for another minute before breaking out in a mix of laughter and crying, "Don't do that to me, it's not funny" He said.

She smiled up at him from her position on the bed, "If I don't laugh Ollie then ill cry, an if I cry I'm afraid I won't stop" Oliver looked down at her fragile form, he leant over and kissed her on the head, before pulling back to speak.

Before he could Felicity spoke "You call that a real kiss?" Oliver couldn't help but smile before leaning down and placing his lips on hers, it was only for a second and ever so gently as he was afraid of hurting her.

"What happened?" He asked as he pulled back, Felicity looked at him and her eyes darkened, she pulled herself into a sitting position before turning back to face him.

"When you left me earlier this evening, I had just made it home when there was a knock at the door, I wasn't expecting anyone and knew it wasn't you as we'd just spoke so I was cautious. I went to the door and looked throught the peep hole. There wasn't anyone there, so I left it walked back into the living room when another knock came, I assumed it was kids messing around so ran back to the door opened it. I went to walk out into the corridor when two guys bundled their way into my apartment, they knocked me out. Next thing I know I was waking up in a dark warehouse type building, there were several men there, one came up to me, I think it was that man, the one you call the dark archer."

Felicity waited until he had absorbed this information before continuing, because what she had to tell him next was not something she relished.

"This man said to me, "I know you and the hood are, intimately known to each other, tell me who he is and you won't have to suffer"

Oliver looked up at this and clenched his jaw, Felicity saw this but continued anyway, he needs to know she thought.

"They tortured me, again and again wanting to know who you were, I never told them Ollie, not anything. So the dark archer finally said "Give him a message from me, we know what you weakness is now Arrow, she won't ever be safe again" next thing I know I woke up here with a doctor telling me I had a bleed on my brain, hence the bolt. And that I am apparently auditioning for a role in the next Avatar movie as I'm black and blue all over"

Oliver didn't understand how she could be so calm, how she could smile and joke about this, "Felicity how can you be so nonchalant about this?" He asked tears threatening to spill, it was his fault, he had done this to her.

"This is my fault" He said "If I had never involved you in all of this then you wouldn't be in hospital right now"

"No" She replied "Your right I wouldn't, I would be in a boring job fixing computers, no boyfriend, no friends, no family. Instead because I do what we do, I save people every time I go to fight with you, I have you and Dig who aren't just my friends but my family. And I have you Ollie; I would take this again and again every day for the rest of my life if it meant I got to keep you"

Oliver looked down not knowing what to say or do, Felicity reached out and placed her hand on the back of his head, he looked up at her "I love you, you idiot" She said "Haven't you figured that out my now?"

That was the last straw for Ollie his tears freely flowed, but as they did he found himself laughing and smiling. "I love you too" He replied before sitting onto her bed and gently holding her then kissing her again.

"I'll keep you safe, you understand" He said still holding, "They won't ever get near you again"

"I know" Felicity said "and that's the reason I can laugh and joke about it"