Researcher In Distress

Felicity was researching a new wronged man for Arrow to set straight when she thought to herself I wish Diggle would come back already with that Chinese; I am starving, she was about to make a breakthrough as to where the target is. When all of a sudden she heard a noise coming from upstairs but she knew it wasn't Diggle as he had only left 10 minutes ago although she was hoping it was him or Oliver but she knew it would take longer than that, she clicked on the CCTV feed to see if she could spot what she heard but no one was there. Once she had got her heart to beat normally again she carried on researching; that was when she heard that noise again but it was closer this time now she was certain that she heard it but still she saw no one on the CCTV. So finally she shut down the system so if anyone was here, they wouldn't see what she was doing she then picked up a pole that Oliver uses for training and cautiously walked upstairs to check for herself if anyone was in Verdant.

She was about to make her way back down the stairs when she saw something in the corner of her eye, with the pole raised ready to hit she slowly turned round and walked over to where she thought she saw the person. When she got there she saw no one so she decided to go back down to get her mobile phone; which she stupidly had left on the desk to call Diggle and see where he was. Once she had gotten the nerve to move an arrow whooshed past her head. She quickly ducked examined the arrow on the ground. It wasn't green like Oliver's it was a raven black arrow. She looked up and saw a silhouette dressed like Oliver but the outfit was black instead of green.

She ran downstairs to grab her phone to call Diggle to tell him to hurry up when she realised she had forgotten to lock the door. But it was too late by then; they were on their way down so she hid. The footsteps grow louder and scarier as they got closer she could hear them slowly take out another arrow and place it onto the bow as they searched for her. She started to send a text message to Oliver when whoosh another black arrow landed in the wall near her. She sighed with relief when she thought they had missed her but hadn't because on the end she could see a capsule and it was flashing red it started to quicken which made her panic and rush her text hoping it would make sense. She hid her phone in a pocket hoping if anything happened to her Oliver would use her GPS to find her. When the arrow exploded into a cloud of gas; she slowly lost the fight against unconsciousness. She saw the figure stalk over to her and kneel down next to her, as they got closer she realized she knew this person.

"Why….?" She whispered and then lost consciousness.