A/N: Hey this is my first attempt at writing and publishing an Arrow story. If the characters are off, it's because I am still getting use to the characters! This is my attempt at telling what happened after 5x23.
**Oh and if you are my OUAT readers, I am still continuing my stories, but I haven't had much inspiration after knowing that some characters won't be back next year. But I will continue eventually.
Told you so
No... Felicity, no... Oliver thought as he looked at the island burning as he held on tightly to his son. A son that he might end up caring for if his mother didn't make it...
"My mom..." William breathed out in horror as he watched the island burn as well from the safety of his father's arms. "She's...dead isn't she?"
"We don't know that...my friends and family are good and would have done everything they could to get to safety." Oliver reassured him and if he was honest himself. The doubt was creeping in even as he said it. He wasn't sure if they made it, but he just knew they had to of made it. He couldn't lose his sister, his best friend, his son's mother, or his Felicity, not her...never her.
"But how could they have..." William asked as he looked at the island that was burning.
"I am not sure, but I know that they would have at least tried." Oliver answered softly. "We will have to wait for the fires to die down, but we can drive around the island to see if we see anything."
Oliver made sure to move and cover up Adrian's body so that William didn't have to see it before driving the boat closer to the island, but kept a safe distance.
Oliver touched his chest. "Felicity. Felicity. Come in." He asked through the comms.
There was silence for a beat before he heard static.
"Felicity? Felicity!" Oliver asked urgently. Someone one was trying to get through and he hoped it was Felicity.
"Oliver..." a man's voice said and he immediately knew who it was.
"Digg, are you alright?"
"Yeah."
"And everyone else?" Oliver asked urgently.
"I think so. Let me check." Diggle responded as more static came through.
"We are mostly okay, some injuries, but we made it." Diggle said after a few minutes.
"Good. Where are you?"
"Underground, we got down here just after the bombs started to go off. Slade thought it was the best option to come here."
"Stay down for now. The island is still burning."
"We will, but some of us are going to need some medical attention as soon as we can." Diggle said without saying who was hurt.
"Is my mom okay?" William asked in worry from Oliver's side.
"Is Samantha okay?" Oliver asked, wanting to put his son at ease.
"Yes, she's fine." Diggle answered.
"Good." Oliver said in relief for his son.
"I'm going to treat what I can. Let us know when it's safe to come out."
"I will. Is Thea and Felicity okay?"
"Thea is a little banged up, but will be fine. Felicity...she's going to need some medical attention, but will be fine."
Oliver took a deep breath. "Ok. Is anyone else injured?"
"Curtis, Lance, and Dinah have minor injuries. Thea and Felicity are the worst."
"Okay. I'll let you know when the fire dies down." Oliver said.
"Ok." Diggle responded before getting off the comms. He needed to tend to his friends.
*****ARROW*****
"Guys, I'm fine." Felicity said with a wince as she tried to get up, but Diggle and Lance both put a hand on her to stop her.
"You aren't fine, so stop moving." Diggle said with a smirk at her stubbornness.
Samantha kneeled down beside Lance by Felicity head. "You really didn't have to do that." She said kindly. Felicity had pushed her aside as a bomb went off, catching the brunt of the debris that came towards them.
Felicity smiled despite the pain she was in. "Yes I did. I couldn't have William losing his mother."
Samantha smiled back. "Thank you, but I wished you hadn't got hurt."
"Don't worry about it, I'm fine anyway. They" she looked between Diggle and Lance, "are being overprotective."
"We are not." Lance spoke up first. He was worried about both Felicity and Thea who got the brunt of the bomb that went off shortly before they got to the underground safe haven.
Felicity rolled her eyes, but then winced, her head was pounding. Hitting her head again after the car accident wasn't helping her any.
"Is Thea okay?" Felicity asked after a few minutes.
"I'm okay, Felicity. Just a little banged up." Thea answered for herself.
Lance grunted. "A little!" He shook his head. "Half the structure fell down on you and Felicity."
"You're exaggerating a little there..." Felicity said as she tried to look over at Thea, but then winced again at the movement. When they got down in the hidden bunker, the bombs caused part of the structure to start to crumble causing rocks and a beam to fall down, consequently, on to Felicity and Thea. The debris also hit the rest of them, but with only minor injuries. "And we weren't the only ones to get hit by the debris." She added with a cough. The smoke from the fires above was slowly seeping into their hideout.
Diggle sighed and touched his chest. "Oliver." He paused. "We have another problem."
"What is it?"
Felicity looked up in excitement at his voice. Diggle told her that he was fine, but hearing his voice was another thing.
"The smoke is coming into the bunker." Diggle said.
"The fire is dying down now. I'll make my way to you and help you get everyone to the supply boat." Oliver said.
"Ok."
"Is Felicity and Thea okay?"
Felicity touched her comms to speak for herself. "I'm fine, Thea however..."
"...is fine." Thea blurted out. "Felicity is worse then I am."
"Am not. These two knuckleheads are just being overprotective. I'm just a little banged up. That's it. John's hurt too, he just.." she paused to cough, "won't admit it."
"It's just a scratch unlike your injuries. Now please save your energy and stop talking." Diggle ordered with a smirk.
Felicity coughed again followed by a couple of the others coughing.
"I'm on my way." Oliver said urgently. They would all need to be treated for smoke inhalation with the way they were coughing. He needed to get to them soon before they started to pass out.
*****ARROW*****
Later...
"They are here?" William asked as they got to the underground bunker.
"Yes. Keep your mouth covered, okay? There's still a lot of smoke around."
William nodded and covered his mouth with the piece of cloth his dad tied around his face.
Oliver gave him an encouraging smile before pulling open the door. It took some work, but he got it to open.
"Dig? Felicity?" Oliver called.
"Kid, we're down here." Slade answered.
Oliver came down with William right behind him. He hadn't wanted to bring William with him, but he couldn't leave him either. William didn't want to leave him either so he brought him with him.
As his eyes adjusted to the the dark he saw that most of his friends were still awake which was good, but then he saw Felicity and Thea laying on the floor, they were passed out already.
"William! Oh my goodness, I thought I lost you!" Samantha cried as she ran to William and hugged him. She looked up at Oliver with grateful eyes. "Thank you."
Oliver smiled and nodded before looking at Diggle. "We need to get out of here and to the boat."
Diggle nodded.
Oliver walked over to kneel between his sister and his...well he wasn't sure what she was right now. Friend didn't seem like enough, but they hadn't established if they were dating and saying she was his girlfriend didn't seem like enough either since she had been his fiancé. "How long have they been out?"
"Not long, but I'm not sure if it was from the smoke or their injuries." Dig answered. "We'll need to carry them."
Oliver looked between Thea and Felicity, wishing he could carry both of them.
"I'll carry Felicity, you carry your sister." Diggle decided for him before picking up Felicity carefully.
Oliver nodded, but still looked torn.
"Don't worry, I'll keep her safe." Diggle reassured him.
"I know." Oliver said before turning to his sister and carefully picking her up.
They all made their way out of the bunker. Oliver looked around. "Where's Malcolm?"
"He didn't make it..." Curtis said with a look directed at Thea.
Oliver closed his eyes, feeling sick at his baby sister losing another parent despite how she felt about him. He held her a little closer. "Let's get to the boat."
They headed towards the boat which took a good forty-five minutes to get to. They wouldn't have made it to the boat if they tried. They barely made it to the bunker. Thankfully, Slade had been with them and knew where to go to keep them safe.
A cough broke him out of his thoughts and he looked down to see Thea waking up.
"Hey big brother..." She said sleepily.
"How are you feeling?" Oliver asked with a worried look.
"I'm fine and I can walk..." Thea said stubbornly.
"Not going to happen." Oliver said just as stubborn.
Thea sighed before looking around before realizing something... "Where's Felicity? Is she okay?"
"Yes, John is carrying her." Oliver answered her, wondering why she was so concerned about Felicity.
"Good. Good." Thea said as she relaxed and was silent for a little while. "You two better be getting back together now."
Oliver looked at her confused.
"Oh don't give me that look. I saw that kiss and the way you two were looking at each other at your birthday party. Now that we almost all died, you two better be getting back together."
Oliver just shook his head, but felt the same way. He didn't want to regret anything, but it did depend on Felicity. However, she seemed like she had been for getting back together with that kiss she gave him.
"She's special. Don't let her get away again." Thea said after a few more moments.
"I know. I won't." Oliver said. He would wait as long as took to be with Felicity. He just hoped it wasn't too long, but he would wait if she wasn't ready yet.
*****ARROW*****
Felicity felt herself moving, but that couldn't be right because she was sleeping. She slowly opened her eyes to see that John was carrying her. "What's...where are we?" She croaked out through her hoarse voice and then coughed at the smoke still in the air.
"We are almost to the boat." Diggle said as he looked down at her, relieved that she woke up, but also worried that she would be in pain.
"Boat?" Felicity asked confused.
"The supply boat that's going to take us home." Diggle told her.
Felicity slowly remembered and then her eyes widened. "Oliver?"
"I'm right here." Oliver reassured her as they came up beside him.
Felicity looked up at Diggle. "I can walk now."
"No." Both Oliver and Diggle responded at the same time.
"Don't even try. They won't budge, believe me I already tried." Thea spoke up before Felicity could argue with her two favorite guys.
"Well they shouldn't for you...but I'm fine and I can walk on my own. So please let me down, John." Felicity said with a look at Diggle.
"Hey your supposed to be on my side!" Thea said from her brother's arms.
"I am, but I can walk." Felicity said before looking back at Diggle who continued to walk with her. "Let me down."
"Nope." Diggle said without looking down.
Oliver hide a smile at the look she gave Diggle at his answer.
"Ugh why are you so stubborn?" Felicity glared up at him.
Diggle ignored her as she went into a winded rant that they all loved about her until she started to cough.
They were just getting to the boat.
"We'll be able to contact Lyla now and get you and Thea help now." Diggle said.
Felicity nodded, but then winced again.
"You might want to keep your head still. Two knocks to the head will do that to you." Diggle said.
They got everyone on the boat with Thea and Felicity settled on makeshift beds on the deck after a lot of protest from both girls. They even got some painkillers in both of them causing them to drift off to sleep. It would take a few hours to get to the mainland and they didn't want them hurting the whole time.
Later on the boat...
Felicity wakes up and slowly gets up since no one is there to stop her.
"Felicity, what are you doing up?" Oliver said as he made his way to her and put an arm around her to steady her. She immediately snuggled into him and closed her eyes.
She shrugged her shoulders as best as she could. She had one arm in a makeshift sling since Dig had to reset her shoulder. She really had been looking for Oliver. She hadn't got to really talk to him when they were reunited.
"I told you we'd make it." Oliver said with a smile.
"Was that a 'told you so?'" Felicity said with a smile, thinking of all the times she had told him the night they almost died in the bunker "I told you so" about climbing the elevator shaft.
"I guess it was." Oliver said with a smile.
"I'm glad you were right, but it was close this time." Felicity said, but then swayed a little on her feet.
"Are you okay?" Oliver asked as he held her a little tighter to keep her steady.
"Just a little lightheaded, that's all." Felicity said as she leaned into him more.
Oliver looked over her. "You're bleeding again." He then picked her up into his arms carefully. "Dig!"
"It's fine. I'm fine." Felicity grumbled.
"You're bleeding. You're not fine." Oliver said as he brought her back to the make shift bed on the deck floor.
Diggle came over quickly. "What's wrong?"
"She's bleeding again." Oliver said panicked.
Diggle checked her wound on her side. "I have to restitch this. She reopened it."
Felicity looked sheepishly at Diggle. She knew it was because she got up and was walking.
Diggle grabbed the kit as Oliver laid Felicity's head on his lap.
"This might hurt a little even with the pain meds in your system. Try to stay still." Diggle said kindly.
"I'll be okay." Felicity said bravely. "Just do it."
Oliver smiled softly at her braveness, but he didn't like seeing her hurt or in pain.
Diggle started to stitch her up and she tensed up. Oliver took her hand and let her squeeze it as hard as she needed to.
"There, done." Diggle said as he bandaged her up again. "Now no more moving around."
Felicity smiled and nodded.
"How did you get hurt?" Oliver asked, having realized he hadn't got all the details on what happened.
"She pushed Samantha out of the way when the first bomb went off and got the brunt of debris which caused her to fly into the bunker. Then once we got down to the bunker the bombs were going off and the bunker started to cave in. That's when most of us got hurt, but Felicity and Thea got hit with the most. They got pinned under a beam and were both knocked out as more debris from the structure fell on them. We managed to get them out as the bombs settled. I did what I could for both of them at the time, but there is only so much I could do with limited supplies."
"He's exaggerating...it isn't as bad as it sounds." Felicity said.
"I agree with Felicity. It isn't as bad as he makes it sound." Thea said as she looked over at them sleepily.
"Besides Felicity getting blown into the bunker. That's was pretty bad." Thea added.
"Hey! Not helping..." Felicity said.
Thea gave her a sheepish look.
"Sorry." Thea said with a smile.
"Try to rest, Felicity." Oliver said with a smile at Felicity and Thea getting along, almost like sisters.
Felicity nodded, she was worn out from getting new stitches and walking.
Oliver tucked her hair behind her ear and kept stroking her hair lightly as she dozed off.
After a few moments, Oliver looked over at Thea with a concerned look. "I heard about Malcolm. Are you okay?"
Thea looked away. "He died for me...just like Mom."
"He loved you, in his twisted way, but he did love you. He would have done anything for you." Oliver said softly.
"I know. I just didn't ask for him to do that..."
"You don't have to ask for a parent to do something like that."
"That's what he said. I shouldn't feel sad that he's gone, but I do..."
"I know and it's okay, he was still your dad." Oliver said softly as he reached over to wipe the tears from her cheek. "I'm sorry I wasn't there."
Thea smiled and chuckled a little as she looked at Felicity, remembering how Felicity comforted her after it happened. "It's okay, Felicity kind of took your spot. She's pretty great you know?"
Oliver smiled as he looked down at Felicity, his girl, the only girl for him. "She is, isn't she."
Thea smiled before laying back down and relaxing, but then frowned as she thought of her Dad's sacrifice.
Part of her was in denial that he was actually gone since they had thought he died before, but he hadn't. He had escaped death many times and maybe he did the same thing this time. But then again, how would he have escaped all the bombs scattered all over the island?
She couldn't believe he was actually gone despite the facts in front of her. He died for her...he actually loved her in his own way. Why did every parent of hers have to die? Two out of the three died for her. The other died for her brother. It just wasn't fair. Would she lose everyone she loved? She couldn't lose anyone else...
*****ARROW*****
"Is she okay?" William asked Oliver as he followed him over to where Thea and Felicity were.
"She will be." Oliver said confidently.
"Who is she?" William asked.
"Felicity is my friend. And Thea, over there is my sister, your Aunt I guess." Oliver answered, but still knew that Felicity was more than just a friend.
"Just a friend?" William said with a small smile before heading back to his Mom.
Oliver smiled to himself as he looked down at Felicity.
*****ARROW*****
"Come on, Felicity." Oliver said as he scooped up Felicity.
"Are we there?" Felicity asked without really bothering to look around. She trusted Oliver.
"We are to the mainland. The Argus plane isn't far from here, but we will need to get you and the others medical attention first."
Felicity nodded, but stopped pretty quickly, her head was still pounding.
"Your head is still hurting, isn't it?" Oliver said, softly noticing her wincing with moving her head.
"Yeah." Felicity answered quietly.
Oliver kissed her head.
"You'll call that kiss, kid?" Slade said as he passed them.
Felicity pointed to him. "We are still going to talk about that right?"
Oliver smiled. "Yes."
Felicity smiled up at him, thinking of what else he promised they'd talk about.
"Johnny!"
"Lyla!" Diggle said as he kissed his wife as he held Thea.
"We have medics standing by." Lyla said as she looked down at Thea and over to Oliver who still had Felicity.
Before she knew it, she was being put down on a stretcher. She heard a bunch of voices along with Dig's and Oliver's.
They started to take her away and she began to freak out. She just got back with Oliver, she couldn't leave him.
Oliver walked over quickly to her and put an arm around her middle. "Hey, hey, I'm here." He said softly.
"We just found each other again, I don't want to leave." Felicity said still feeling panicked.
"I won't be far and before you know it we will be back together. I promise." Oliver said as they injected her with a sedative.
"Ok." Felicity said tiredly. "Then we can talk..." she added as they began to take her away.
Oliver smiled. He knew now that there would be plenty of time to talk later. Felicity was safe and they could start rebuilding their relationship.
***Will continue if wanted