Fighting for the Heart

Untitled Part 38

Oliver walked into Felicity's hospital room after having gone to get some coffee. She had been in the hospital since last night and was unconscious, oxygen still fitted over her mouth. Oliver had called Donna and Quentin and they were going to try to catch the quickest flight out and were hoping to arrive that evening. John and Lyla had come by, as had Tommy and Slade and now it was just him and Felicity. He had not left her side the whole night and it had taken everything in him to let the nurses take her for testing. He was waiting to hear from the doctor and he took the seat next to her bed as he sipped his coffee and just watched her.

He was exhausted having barely dozed off all night because he wanted to be awake when she finally woke up. Unfortunately, she had not and so he had gone to get some coffee to give him some energy.

He heard her hospital room door open and he looked up to see the doctor walking into his room. His face looked grim.

"Mr. Queen, may I speak with you for a moment?" The doctor waited for Oliver to walk over to him before he looked at him with concern.

"Hi, I am Dr. Williams. We have some concern because after running very extensive tests we have found a high level of arsenic in your wife's system. That is what caused her lung to collapse."

Oliver looked at him literally stunned. "But that is impossible. How would she get arsenic in her system?"

The Doctor looked at him and said, "You tell me."

"You don't think that I....." Oliver looked at him in shock. What was he implying?

"I am not saying that. But we have to figure out where this poison could have come from. What did your wife have for dinner last night?"

"We....we didn't eat dinner. We were both so tired we took a shower and went to bed." He left out the part about the lovemaking. That was none of his business.

"What was the last thing your wife ate or drank yesterday?" Dr. Williams wrote down some notes as Oliver thought back over the day.

"I was not with her at lunch. The last thing she had to drink was some coffee from....." he froze. She had stopped and bought coffee at The Coffee Bar. Oliver's eyes widened. Laurel had been there as well, but Felicity had said they had talked. He doubted she could have gotten a hold of the coffee to poison it. "Umm she had some coffee that she bought at The Coffee Bar on Fifth Street."

Dr. Williams wrote down some notes and then looked at Oliver. "I am going to have to contact the police. I need you to be available to answer some questions."

Oliver nodded numbly. "I'm not going anywhere."

"We are going to start her on an IV that will hopefully flush her system as well as some antibiotics that will help with the lung infection. Her collapsed lung has been responding to treatment."

"Please when will she wake up?" Oliver asked, but a part of him was almost scared about what the doctor was going to say.

"Right now, she is unconscious her body is fighting to not shut down from the arsenic. That is probably why she got the lung infection. Her body could not fight it off. As the arsenic is flushed from her system, she should start to gain back her energy." Dr. Williams patted Oliver's shoulder and then walked out of the room.

Oliver stared at Felicity completely in utter shock. How could this have happened? He walked over and picked up his phone. He needed to call John.

***

Donna rushed into the hospital room with tears in her eyes as she saw her daughter lying in the bed lifeless, oxygen, and IV and tubes running from her body to machines that beeped. She did not see Oliver standing by the window and as she grabbed her daughters' hand and kissed it, she heard him walk up behind her.