Would You Love Me Less? > Arrow / Flash x Reader

Chapter 29

I spent the entire day at home to relax and heal my leg. The herbs Vitka gave me were doing wonders for my wound. However, spending the entire day in one house got boring.

I walked into Verdant, hoping to find the team hanging out here. Instead, I walked in to see Felicity visibly shaken and on the verge of tears. "Felicity!? Are you okay?" I frantically asked, throwing down my bag and rushing over to her. "Stay back!" She panicked. I stopped dead in my tracks, 'What on earth?'

"Felicity?"

"I got a visit from our Australian pirate today..." She began, barely able to speak through the horror. You felt a wave of the same terror sweep over me. "Did he hurt you?"

She shook her head, "Not physically..."

I furrowed my brows, trying to search her face for any hint as to what she was talking about. My efforts proved fruitless, so I was forced to ask with my words. "Okay... What does that mean, Felicity? You have to talk to me."

Instead of talking, she showed me.

Shit.

When she turned the computer monitor around to face me, I saw a collage of videos playing simultaneously. Each video was me dressed up in Assassin gear and killing someone, basically.

All I could do was stare at it with my mouth parted slightly, "Wh... Who is that?"

"He thought you might say that..." Felicity sniffed before clicking the tab on her keyboard. This time, there were only two separate videos side by side: The footage I deleted of fighting Oliver, along with one other video that came with audio footage.

Somehow, Slade had captured a video of me in full gear, but with my hood behind me and my face mask pulled down around my neck. I listened to my own voice crack through the computer speakers, discussing what happened after Oliver stabbed an arrow through me to Echo.

"How did Slade get these?" I asked flatly, knowing there was nothing now I could say to convince her it isn't me.

"Really? That's your question, where did he get these?" She turned the computer back to face her. "Y/N... you killed all of those people..."

I dug down deep for any way for Felicity to understand why I had to kill for them. I did it for the League, I would die for them as well as kill for them... More importantly, they helped me protect my family. My sister.

The lightbulb went off in my head, 'Wait... My sister... that's it!'

"I couldn't but help notice he left out some very specific videos in that propaganda he handed you...

моя сестра."

The words seemed to click in her mind as I hoped they would. I gave Felicity time to process the familiar words.

The words were Russian for 'my sister,' they were also the same words I said to her 4 years ago when I saved her life from those 6 men. Then it hit her, "Wait... that was you?" I simply nodded as a response.

Felicity sat down in her seat, staring at her computer and trying to process.

"Felicity... you used to watch Oliver do the very same thing every single day. He was doing what he had to do, just as I do what I have to do... You even accept Sara being in the same league as I am. More importantly, Felicity, you know how important and how hard it is for them to keep the secrets they do to protect the ones they love. Hell, you kept Oliver's secret identity from me..."

It was an amazing stride of luck for me that Sara never met me in the league. I thought of it every time I saw her, which is why I also chose to keep a distance from her.

"You're right... It's just the shock from all of it, honestly. I know we don't talk much about those 6 years that you were gone, but now I understand it's because you couldn't tell me." Felicity's voice was soft and genuinely understanding.

I walked closer to my sister, the computer desk still between us. "One thing-" I waited for Felicity to look at me in the eyes before continuing, "Please don't tell anyone about this."

Felicity furrowed her brows, "No, no... Y/N, you have to tell Oliver- he needs to know."

"I know... But I should be the one to tell him. Not you, not Slade, no one except me. Okay?" I responded, being sure that she heard every word I uttered. She nodded in agreement.

"Good," I took the silver flash drive from my coat pocket and handed it to her, "Now that I don't have to figure out a lie about how I got this information, this contains every bit of information you need to prove Brennan's innocence as well as prove Howard is in fact 'The Soldier.'"

Felicity curiously grabbed the drive from me and immediately started searching through the files, "This is all legit... Woah, this is amazing work. Where did you get this? Is this why you were protecting him?"

"Yes... One of my old mentors came to me for help protecting him; I had no idea Oliver would show up there." I explained. I walked over to the bag I threw down at the door before returning to Felicity, this time sitting next to her at my desk.

"Okay... Give me a day or two, even I couldn't have gotten all this information so fast. They must have been working on perfecting this case for months." Felicity requested, typing on her computer.

"Sure thing; do you happen to know where Oliver is?" I asked curiously. To be quite frank, I hadn't been able to stop thinking about last night. Man, it sucked having to turn down Oliver Queen. Why'd he have to stab me?

Maybe it's for the best.

Felicity's voice snapped me back to reality, "Um, I think he's upstairs actually..."

"Thanks..."

I sent my computer to sleep then got up and made my way towards the music.