"Fine, fine" Diggle accepted. "I wanted to make sure, that's all. Even with all my bravado... I think I'll be going home to rest" he admitted. "I should be better in a day, maybe two. Please, don't do anything too crazy. I can see that whatever happened on that island got you prepared for the worse, but having backup can save your life, I learned that before and learned it again tonight" he confessed his worries for him. Going outside, Diggle noticed where they were. "I'll tell Felicity that I checked this place and there was nothing on it, so she doesn't keep asking for the energy consumption here. I won't tell you how to handle your secret, but she's smart and will end up discovering it" Diggle said before heading to his home.
When Oliver arrived at the manor, he found Felicity sleeping on a chair outside the room. Of course, neither of them had a chance to sleep and she wasn't as accustomed as him to that kind of work. Scattered all around her were a pile of scribbled notes, some of them pointing to the possibilities of being more than one hooded figures in town, since there was no way to know if it was the same person. One of the notebooks had some notes about Vertigo, wondering about the chemical composition, citing observed symptoms... but most interesting was the treatment part on the other page. There was noted a high metabolic rate to burn the effects, enumerating things like hot baths and physical exercise, but a few notes at the bottom noted another method: sexual stimulation.
It was weird picturing the nerdy woman writing that, but there it was, accompanied by how the higher production of Oxytocin during it helped to counter most of the effects, not to mention the effect of heat that also helped. When Oliver headed into the room, he saw that Thea was getting worse, whatever dosage she had took it had to be a big one. She trembled and moved on the bed, but she was still unconscious. The hot bath had seemed to help, but it wasn't near enough.
