Felicity debates on whether to go inside or not. She has been holding the door handle for about 10 minutes and every time somebody wanted to enter she would pull the door open for them to leave or enter but never moving herself. She takes a deep breath and then braces herself as she finally enters. She is looking around at all the sweaty people working out. She had gone out and gotten herself a gym outfit. She was wearing black loose tracksuits with a loose shirt which she had rolled the sleeves up showing some of her arms.

She walked over to where the class she needed to attend was running and snuck in slowly and taking a seat on the mats with the others.

It was her first class and she was ridiculously nervous. A clipboard was going round asking for their names and Felicity knew she couldn't write her real name on it. Printing Felicity Mason, Mason after her father's last name she handed the clipboard to one of the instructors.

She had heard about this class from a few people in the coffee shop and she needed to see if this was something that could help her.

"Ok ladies and gentlemen as some of you may know already I am Oliver Queen and this is John Diggle I can see a few new faces and just so you know this class starts off as self-defence class and then it advances but only after you have passed the self-defence" Oliver moves over and folds his arms as the other instructor John Diggle takes the centre and begins giving a speech.

Felicity had noticed just how ridiculously handsome Oliver was, who wouldn't notice, he was tall, had gorgeous eyes was built like a Greek God.

As John kept talking Felicity rubbed her palms together and then stood up and headed for the door. She begins to take faster steps as she heads for the exit.

"Hey wait" a voice calls after her as she turns she meets Oliver's eyes. She swallows and looks at him directly in the eyes. "This is the third time you have come heard the speech and then disappeared without taking the class are you in some kind of trouble" he asks with concern written all over his face.

"Erm wrong class again sorry" she says turning on her feels Oliver grabs her arm and she yelps in pain.

"Are you ok?"

"Fine" she bites back now turning and running out of the door.

A few days later Felicity enters the dojo again and heads to the self-defence class. Oliver notices her immediately and walks up to her, he can see that she is sporting a bruise on the bottom of her cheek and he knows all too well that the punch was the cause.

"Hey there again" he begins folding his arms again.

"Hi" she whispers returning her attention back to Diggle who is talking.

"You planning on staying for the actual class today?" he asks. He notices her fighting back tears as her eyes begin to turn red from the sting.

"Maybe" she whispers not meeting his eyes. As the class begins to start Oliver notices the twitch in her hands and stops in front of her as she turns to leave.

"Let me show you the first move" he says. It was people like Felicity why he and Diggle had opened their dojo and for 30 mins every day they gave free self-defence classes especially aimed at women from the Glades.

Felicity swallows and looks at him and nods slowly. Oliver takes it upon himself to show her all the moves and takes her to the side so she wasn't working directly with the rest of the group. After she had mastered the move the class was coming to an end.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" he asks.

"Maybe" she whispers as she turns and leaves.

Diggle works up to Oliver and places a hand on his back. "You can't save them all not if they don't want saving" he says and Oliver hangs his head loose.

"She came in with another bruise Diggle I should …"

"What go after her find out what sick son of bitch did that and what?" he questions.

"And see how he likes to be used as a punching bag" Oliver growls.

Felicity finally arrived home, the dojo was five minutes away and because of the 30minute session she was gone for only 40minutes meaning he wouldn't expect anything. She would say in that time she would do the shopping when in fact she did the grocery shopping in the mornings when he was still working on his hang over. She would hide the groceries in the storage room on their floor after the care-taker had given her a set of keys because he felt sorry for her.

Taking the groceries out of the storage room she walked towards her apartment.

"Finally I was thinking I would die of hunger" a man inside growled. Felicity walked to the kitchen and started to put away the groceries and put a lasagne in the oven. She was facing the oven when strong arms gripped her waist and started kissing her neck. For the last three years she found his touch revolting. She hated the man he had become and she didn't know how she had fallen in love with such a monster.

After they had eaten Floyd had gotten drunk and passed out and Felicity begun cleaning the house. She knew she couldn't leave him, well she could but he had some hold over her life and she just couldn't escape. That's why she knew she had to keep going to the self-defence classes she had to rid herself of him. He had to feel everything he had made her feel the past three years.