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Everyone's head whipped to where Felicity is sitting up in Oliver's bed and screaming. Oliver and Lance run over to her as Diggle, Roy, Thea and Lyla keep Nyssa away from her.
"Felicity?" Oliver asked, gripping her face with both of his hands.
Her hands come up and cover his and she's looking at him through tears, "Oliver?"
"Yes, you're safe Felicity. You're in the foundry." Oliver goes to move his hands but she won't let him. She looks over his shoulder and sees Lance and fresh tears start to fall.
"Felicity? Felicity, it's okay. I promise you're safe now." Oliver whispered and pulls her into a hug. She sees Lance smile at her, "Felicity?"
"You're not mad at me are you? I didn't mean for Laurel to get killed." Oliver leaned back a little but didn't let go of her. He was still confused as to how she thought they were all dead.
Oliver felt more than saw Lance come around and sit on the edge of the bed, "Felicity, honey, Laurel isn't dead." She started crying again, softer but still crying, "None of us are dead including your mother."
Felicity's head whipped up at that, "She's not, I promise." Oliver murmured, "Diggle had some people check in on her and we've notified her though them that we have you. As soon as she can, she'll be here and you can see for yourself."
She looked from Oliver to Quentin when they heard Digg clear his throat. Oliver glanced over his shoulder and saw Nyssa standing there watching. Felicity looked over and tensed when she saw Nyssa, "Oli-Oliver, what is Ra's doing here?"
He looked from Felicity to Nyssa and back to Felicity. He also noticed Lance heard her and he put a hand on Oliver's forearm, "Felicity, I know this might sound a little crazy but humor me okay?" She nodded but never took her eyes off the group across the foundry. "Who do you see over there?" Quentin asked.
She glanced quickly at Quentin and then back to the group, "Laurel, Thea, oh Oliver she's not dead! They're not dead!"
"No, they're not dead but who else do you see Felicity?" Oliver asked.
"Umm," she squinted, "Roy, Digg, Lyla and Ra's."
Everyone looked confused for a moment until Nyssa broke the spell, "Mind control."
"What?" Digg asked.
"Mind control. I do not know how they did it but the target that I've been searching for uses it. May I approach?" she asked Oliver.
"Why?"
"As we have tracked this man across the world, we have only run into one other person who was alive. He too, thought I was someone else but before we could help him, he jumped off the building."
"Do you think that is going to get you close to Blondie?" Roy snarked.
"No, but she's thinks I'm someone I'm not and you are all here to protect her as am I. She was a friend of my beloved and I will not harm her."
Oliver looked to Felicity, "Is it okay?"
"You'll stay?" She whispered.
He nods then looks to Nyssa, "Okay but if she wants you to back off, you do it." Nyssa nods and walks to the bed.
She stands on the opposite side and Felicity looks at her, "Felicity, who do you see when you look at me?"
Felicity looks confused and tilts her head, "Ra's."
"You don't see long black hair?" Lyla asked.
"No."
"I've got it!" Curtis yelled and startled most of the people assembled. Felicity jumped but looked over towards her computers where Curtis was.
"Curtis." Oliver grumbled.
"Yeah? What? Okay, never mind." His eyes switched from Oliver to Nyssa, "You need to change clothes."
"What?" Lyla asked.
"Her clothes." Curtis said, like it should be obvious to everyone.
"More information Curtis." Digg reminded him.
He looked over from perusing Nyssa to the confused looks on everyone's faces, "Yep, right, well most of you are in normal," Curtis used air quotes for the word normal, "clothes, clothes that she has seen you in multiple times. Thea, even though you have on red leather, she knows it's you. From what you've told me over the past couple of months, the only time she's ever seen this get up" he motioned to Nyssa, "is when Ra's came after Malcolm and Malcolm killed him making him the new leader of some assassins right? Wasn't she right there with Thea and saw it up close and personal? Maybe it's the clothes, if not, what harm would it do to change?"
"I have no what you call normal clothes." Nyssa replied.
"No, but I do and we might be close in size." Laurel told her and went to rummage around in a gym bag. "Try these on." She tossed the clothes to Nyssa and pointed the way to the bathroom.
A few minutes later, Nyssa came out in jeans and a sweater and walked back to Felicity, "Hey Nyssa, what are you doing here?"
Everyone looked shocked except for Curtis, "See, told ya."
"You know I'm Nyssa now?"
"Who else would you be?" Felicity asked.
Quentin spoke up, "Laurel, would you mind going to the bathroom?"
It took a moment for Laurel to register what her dad was asking. When she did, she looked over to Nyssa who nodded and Laurel entered the bathroom.
"So Felicity, can you tell me anything about your time away." Nyssa asked.
"What do you mean?" She twisted so that she was still holding onto Oliver's waist but was facing everyone a little better.
"Did they feed you or let you watch television or go outside?" Digg asked.
"They fed me, it was okay. I thought it might be poisoned at first but after a couple of days, I got hungry. The only television they allowed me to watch was the news footage of your deaths," her voice broke at that but Oliver tucked her closer to him, "and I never went outside that I know of."
Lance heard the bathroom door open and nudged Oliver's arm, "Felicity?" She turned to look up at him, "Someone else is here, can you tell me who?" She nodded and looked around again, "Where?"
"Over by the med table."
"Oliver, the only person by the med table is Ra's." Laurel them stripped off Nyssa's robes and left Felicity's mouth hanging open.
"Wha--how--Laurel?"
"You see Laurel now?" Quentin asked.
"Yeah, don't you?"
"Yeah but we've seen her this whole time and Ra's has never been here." Roy added.
"Never?" Roy shook his head.
"What's wrong with me?" she asked Oliver.
"Whoa! I think that's what I'm here for." Caitlin said as Barry stopped by the bed.
"So did you get the blood analyzed?" Lyla asked.
"Still working on that," Caitlin answered as she walked up to Felicity, "you scared us." She told her, hugging her and Oliver since Felicity hadn't let go of him. "How about I check you out?" Felicity nodded and Caitlin sat down in the spot that Oliver vacated.
"Now," Caitlin started as she examined Felicity's eyes, "I see an assassin with regular clothes and assassin-y clothes near Laurel so can someone tell me what's going on?"
"Felicity thought Nyssa was Ra's and Curtis got the idea it was her clothing so they swapped out and once that happened, Felicity recognized Nyssa and thought Laurel was Ra's."
"Hmmm." Caitlin murmured.
"Hmmm, what?" Felicity asked.
"Felicity, can you tell me exactly what you see when you look at everybody?"
"Do I have too?"
Caitlin nodded, "It'll help."
At that moment it hit Oliver that she hadn't looked directly at any of them. He saw Felicity take a deep breath, "Who first?" she asked Caitlin.
"Oliver."
She tensed but looked directly at him for the first time, "Um, bullet hole through his skull, blood coming out of his mouth and other bullets holes in his chest area."
"Okay, what about Diggle?"
"Same thing."
"Roy?"
She stiffens so suddenly everyone notices, "Felicity?" Caitlin asks.
"Okay, um, black. Charred black, no noticeable features. Same with Thea and Laurel."
"But Felicity when we asked you earlier if you recognized anybody, you named everyone here. Didn't you think it was odd to see everyone?" Thea asked.
"I recognized the clothes, I didn't look at faces."
"So who can you stand to actually look at?" Roy asked.
"Lyla, Lance and Curtis. Oh! and Nyssa in normal clothes."
"Nyssa we need to know all about this guy. She can't live like this." Oliver begged.
Nyssa nodded, "I agree but first, Felicity, can you tell me what you did on a day to day basis?"
"How is that going to help?" Oliver asked.
"We have to figure out how he controlled her mind to see certain things otherwise, she will never look at you again."