Begin Again

Chapter 1: Reality Sucks!

Setting: Arrowverse: Post 3x09 AU in the Arrowverse. Flashverse: Second season. Marvelverse: One year before CA:TWS.

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Chapter 1: Reality Sucks!

"This is a duel...Oliver, with one of the most dangerous men that has ever walked the earth." The concern and worry was shown heavily on Felicity's face; she didn't want the man she loved going to fight Ra's. It wasn't that she didn't believe their love could conquer anything, it was that she wasn't ready for the prospect of losing him forever.

"I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think I could win." No matter what he said she was never going to shake this bad feeling that she had, she knew that she had to say something, anything, to somehow convince Oliver to stay.

"I don't worry that you can beat him. I am ter-ri-fied you won't kill him, that's not who you are anymore. And I'm afraid that Ra's is going to use your humanity against you." Before she could continue on her epic speech he said it, the words she needed to hear.

"You're right...I'll stay." Hearing those words from him took her aback, she was ready to say more, ready to profess her undying love, ready to tie him to her chair to get him to stay. But instead he said exactly what she needed to hear.

"Really? Are you sure?" As much as she wanted him to stay she didn't want him to come to that decision just because of her, she knew that even if Oliver stayed Ra's would still be coming and Thea would be the target. Was she really that horrible of a person that she would sacrifice Thea just to save Oliver?

"I'm sure of one thing...I love you" And that was it, all she needed to hear to know he was making the right decision, cupping her face in his palm he bent his head down ready to kiss her but something was wrong. Blood dripped from his mouth as a scream came out of Felicity's throat, this wasn't happening he said he was staying, he said I love you. "No, NO Oliver please, NO, OL-I-VER!!!!"

Felicity woke from her dream, sweat dripping off of her face desperately trying to catch her breath. It had been 4 months since Oliver went off to fight Ra's Al Ghul and since that time there was no word from him, and no trace of him on the planet. When it had been 1 week and still no word from Oliver Felicity asked Barry Allen, now known as The Flash, to see if he could locate him. The results were what Felicity already knew in her heart, Oliver was gone, the only trace left of him was blood found on a blade at the top of a sacred mountain in Nanda Parbat.

While the news came as a shock to others, it only verified what Felicity knew in her heart. She knew the moment he left this would be the last time, she knew the moment the blade went into him because she felt it. People say you know when your soul mate dies, that link the connection you had to them is severed and is an indescribable feeling.

Since then time was a blur, crime in the city was at an all-time high, new criminals tried to take over, and as hard as Diggle and Roy fought it, it just wasn't the same without Oliver there. Oliver was the glue that not only held the team together, but held the city together. Without him there, the city would fall, that was until a couple weeks ago.