"Hey, are you okay?" You ask Oliver your heels clicking on the courthouse ground as you approach him and Thea, "I just heard. I was helping Felicity take care of John."
"Yeah, yeah, we're fine. How's Dig holding up?" He embraces you once you're within reach and places a platonic kiss on your forehead.
"Eh. Stubborn as ever. Fel is close to getting a hit on the origin of the Vertigo, then I'll go check it out," You take a sit on the bench and pull Oliver down with you.
The two of you talk about Moira's ongoing case, John's current addiction, Laurel's cross-examination, and just about anything and before you know it the court resumes and Oliver leaves to support his mom.
Once the doors to the courtroom close behind him you sigh and rise from your position on the bench. You head for the exit when you hear the courtroom open again, when you swing around you see Oliver on the phone and you squint, confused as you approach him.
"Felicity?" He answers the phone and your heart falls when you see his face drop.
You quickly pull your phone out and see you have two texts from Felicity.
17:14: Fel: Coming from a Flu Vaccine truck. Come back to HQ
18:00: Fel: I'll go check it out.
"No..." you groan shoving your phone back into your pocket and breaking into a sprint out of the courthouse with Oliver right on your tail.
~
Oliver filled you in on his chat with Vertigo while the two of you suited up in HQ and John filled you in on Felicity's location.
Your leather-clad feet pad gently behind Oliver as he leads the way to his office where the Count is holding Fel. When you enter the room Felicity is zip-tied to the Office chair and Count patronisingly runs his fingers through her hair. Oliver approaches slowly, he is masking his fear as best as he can but you can see right through it.
He met this girl last year and he loves her.
Your heart clenches as he removes the hood and lets it hang loosely around his shoulders.
"Pretty swanky offices," Vertigo mocks from behind felicity, using her as cover,"You can see all the destruction that your mom caused from up here."
"What do you want?" Oliver growls, his hand clenching tightly around the bow.
"World peace and personal satisfaction," he smirks coyly as he brushes Felicity's hair to the side and kneads her shoulders with his hands,"Though the personal satisfaction could be accomplished right now," he makes an ill-mannered gesture towards felicity's exposed cleavage.
His face scrunches up quickly as he resumes his spiel, "You poisoned me and threw me in a hole. You have no idea how much i hated you for that." he takes a deep breath and regains his composure, "Turns out, someone else hates you too."
"Who?" you step forward next to Oliver and the Counts' gaze switches to you immediately as he takes in the skin-tight leather and curves of your body.
"Who?" he mimics your voice with a slight giggle and you narrow your eyes at him, "You're going to be surprised when you find out. He's a man of means... he set me up with my new operation so i could draw you out," he turns his attention back to Oliver.
"To do what?"
"This!"
He pulls out a gun and begins firing at Oliver and immediately you dive through the glass he broke from the windows and take cover behind a desk.
