Forty minutes later, everyone was in position at the target location. As usual, Felicity stayed at the base, giving Oliver information when needed. Diggle came with Oliver as back up. He hadn't wanted Oliver to go at all, but he had passed the "okay to go" test by shooting the pieces of food that Diggle had thrown into the air.
"Okay, I'm about to go in," the Hood said quietly. "Anything I need to know?"
"Uh, no, don't think so," Felicity replied, sifting through computer code.
"Nope," was Diggle's curt reply.
"Great, tell me if-" Oliver took a few desperate breaths before sneezing loudly into his elbow. The sound on the comm was excruciatingly loud.
"God damn it, Oliver!" Diggle yelled. "What're you trying to do, give us a heart attack?"
"Sorry," he replied sniffing and rubbing his nose.
And a few minutes later Oliver was shooting bright green arrows through security guards at the entrance of the Jacobs mansion. Before going through the next door, he paused to cough, his lungs drawing in rough breaths.
"Oliver," Felicity said, wincing at each cough, "I don't mean to be rude, but do you think maybe you could cover the mic? It's just kind of loud for Diggle and I."
"'Kind of' is an understatement," Diggle said. He felt a little guilty about giving Oliver a hard time when he wasn't feeling well, but if he wasn't going to admit that he was sick, Diggle wasn't going to cut him any slack.
Oliver wrapped his gloved hand around the microphone at Felicity's request, but he was still coughing violently. He was definitely feeling worse than he was earlier. Though these coughs didn't hurt his throat as bad as dry-coughing did, they left his chest sore and the rest of his body shaky.
"Oliver? You sound really bad, do you want to call it off? We understand if you're feeling-"
"I really just want to finish this and go home. Is that okay?" Oliver snapped.
Felicity was even more worried for him. If he didn't even have the energy to insist that he was okay, then he must be feeling really horrible.
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I'm Fine (An Arrow Fanfiction)
FanfictionOliver Queen starts feeling sick, but won't admit it. Diggle, Felicity, and his family are getting tired of "I'm fine," because he obviously isn't. (I'm working on a cover, but it'll probably be a while...) I don't own Arrow or any of the characters...
