MY APOLOGIES FOR TAKING MONTHS TO UPDATE THIS STORY. I've been so busy. I went to Scotland over the summer and didn't even bring my laptop. Also I've been going to school and working, that I just haven't had the time to do much of anything. So here's Chapter 9! It's...well...messed up. Sorry...

Chapter 9

"Oliver!..." she yelped out as she froze up seeing him standing there with his arms crossed. He had this look of disapproval mixed with concern on his face.

"I uh…I…" was all that came out of her mouth. She did not know what to say to him.

"This doesn't look like the bathroom." He said in a serious yet smartass tone.

Felicity opened her mouth, but no words came out. She just lowered her eyes to the floor not knowing what to say to him.

"Felicity what is going on?"

She looked up at him with her innocent eyes and let out a deep breath.

"I needed to see Blade's brother…. I felt like the least I could do is apologize to him for what has happened."

Oliver nodded understanding now why she eagerly wanted to walk back into the hospital.

"The weirdest thing happened. I was holding his hand talking to him, and then he gripped my hand. Him in a comatose state held my hand!"

Oliver's eyes widened in surprise.

"He's a live Oliver. He woke up. He can talk. I didn't kill him! He's a live!" tears were forming in her eyes feeling happy.

Oliver smiled. "That's wonderful to hear."

"I know. I introduced myself to him and apologized to him. Although he was confused to why I was there and why I was saying sorry, but I explained to him everything that has happened. I honestly thought he was going to get furious at me for what I did to him…and for what happened to his brother, but surprisingly he wasn't mad at all. He said the only person to blame in this whole matter was his brother. He said Blade did all the damage himself."

Oliver nodded and knew Chip was right. No one was to blame than the monster that commits crime.

"I think Chip is going to make a full recovery." Felicity smiled in relief.

Oliver smiled too. He walked up and wrapped his arm around her.

Felicity winced very loudly.

Oliver's eyes widened a bit. "Oh sorry…"

"Ahhh it's fine.." she said.

"Come on, let's get you home."

He walked her out the hospital helping her keep her stance.

Diggle was waiting outside the entire time in the van wondering why they were taking so long.

Oliver helped Felicity get seated in the van as carefully as he could. She was wincing in pain every little bit, and apologizing for it.

Diggle drove them to Felicity's apartment. They both helped her get out of the van and up to her place.

"Thank you Diggle." Felicity smiled.

"No problem" he smiled back.

"I'll help her get situated inside." Oliver said.

"Okay, I'm going to go to the foundry for a bit. Let me know if you guys need anything."

"Will do"

Oliver faced the door and opened it. He slowly helped her walk to her room and gently helped her lay down on her bed. She took a deep breath the moment she sank into her mattress. Felicity looked so exhausted. The room was silent for several minutes, but Oliver finally broke the ice.

"Well I'm going to let you get some sleep. I have some stuff that I need to do, but I promise I will not be gone long. I'll be back shortly."

"W-wait." Felicity said stopping Oliver from walking out the door.

He turned around to look at her to see a very confused look on her face.

"What do you mean you'll be back?"

Oliver walked up towards her and knelt down beside her bed. He grabbed one of her tiny soft yet cut up hand and held onto it with both of his. "Felicity…" he whispered her name giving her a half innocent smile. "After everything that has happened in the last few days, do you really think I'm going to leave you here all by yourself?

Felicity's eyes grew when he said that. It made her heart melt. It was almost as if she was in one of her dream worlds. She hoped for the day of being with Oliver, or Oliver coming to her apartment and staying with her. She had many dreams about it and even daydreamed a lot about it, but now it isn't a dream. It's happening. She felt so happy thinking about it. A stray tear came streaming down from her right eye.

Oliver reached up to wipe it away. "What's wrong?" he asked in a very concerned voice.

Felicity shook her head, "Nothing…nothing at all." She assured him.

He smiled and chuckled. "Okay, well you get some rest, and I'll be back shortly." He kissed the top of her hand and gave it a small squeeze before letting it go.

"I'll be back, I promise" he said smiling at her.

She just nodded trying to hide her giant smile.

He walked out the door leaving Felicity alone.

She sunk down into her covers and felt excited. She was jittery at that point just thinking that the man of her dreams is coming back to her place. However the more she moved around, the more pain she was in. She finally just relaxed and tried not to move. Now that she has a ton of guilt off her shoulders, she finally felt comfortable enough to go to sleep. Maybe now the nightmares will not return. She buried her face into her pillow gently trying to avoid effecting the cuts and wounds on her face. She drifted off to sleep pretty fast.

Felicity's eyes shot wide opened as she jolted up out of bed. She was breathing rapidly. Her chest was extremely tight. She ached all over from all her cut wounds. Her heart was racing to the point where it hurt so bad each time it beats.

She jumped when she heard something loud. It sounded like lightening. She slowly looked out the window to see that it was storming.

She sighed in relief. She placed a hand over her heart wondering why it was pounding so fast. It was getting to the point where she was having trouble breathing.

*Door loudly creaks open slowly*

Felicity froze when she heard her bedroom door open. She tensed up not being able to move. It was like she knew who was there without seeing their face. Right as she got the feeling in her body to move, she felt a sharp piercing stab in her side.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed loudly in agonizing pain."

There was now a giant hand covering her mouth. She could feel someone breathing into her ear.

Tears were forming in her eyes. She knew who this was, but how?

"Miss me blondie?" the raspy voice asked. "You really thought you could escape a man like me? Well sweetheart that was a warm up round with what you went through. Now comes to best part. The actual pain."

He took his knife that was in Felicity's side and twisted it deeper. She tried to scream for help, but his hand was covering her mouth that it wasn't loud enough for anyone to hear her.

"Where's Oliver?" She thought. "He said he would be back shortly…."

Blade pulled the knife blade out only to stab her in the same spot again. She screamed in eternal pain. He kept making the knife go deeper and twisting it over and over.

Felicity was about to pass out. She was surprised she wasn't dead yet. She felt sick. She was in so much pain. She didn't want to be conscious for what was happening. Her entire body was shaking. She was shocked. She felt trap. She felt paralyzed. She couldn't feel any other part of her body other than the part where the knife was sticking out of.

She felt herself slipping away from consciousness.

"This was it." She thought. "This is the end for me…. "

Blade removed the knife so fast and was about to stab her again.

"FELICITY!..." A faint voice was calling out. "FELICITY!..."

Felicity looked around her room with a blurred up vision trying to see where the voice was coming from.

"FELICITY! WAKE UP! WAAAAKE UP!..."

The room began to spin around her. She quenched her eyes shut.

"FELICITY!..."

Felicity shot up out of bed, but immediately screamed in pain. She fell back onto her pillow trying to ignore the amount of pain she was in.

"Felicity?!..."

She didn't want to face her killer. She was too scared to see his face.

"Felicity?...wake up!"

She slowly opened her eyes up and saw nothing but blurriness. It soon faded away to where she could see. She realized the person there in the room with her was Oliver.

He had the most terrified look on his face. He was breathing very heavily and even shaking. Oliver Queen, a.k.a The Arrow was shaking in fear.

Felicity was shaking in fear as well. She was terrified, but confused. She wasn't sure what was happening right now.

"Felicity?..." Oliver said in a very worried serious tone. "What happened?!"

Felicity was breathing very heavily. Her chest still felt locked up. "I…." she gulped. "I don't know…" She looked down and saw something she did not expect. Blood. Fresh blood on her sheets. That wasn't all. There in her right hand was a knife covered in the blood. She frantically lowered her eyes down to her side and noticed a fresh wound. The pain instantly hit her the moment she saw it. She scrunched up and threw the knife down. The pain was unbearable.

Oliver was panicking. He is beyond worried. He has no idea what has happened, but Felicity was in more pain than ever.

So yeah... I'm a terrible person aren't I?