Title: The Secret Smoak

Summary:

Could anyone ever have thought that the IT girl of Queen Consolidated has more to her life than just being crime partners with the arrow? Is it possible that she leads a life very similar to Oliver? A life of a secret agent? Could the arrow cave handle the secret side of Felicity Smoak or would they just laugh at the fact that she belongs to the world's most deadliest and biggest secret intelligence of them all? Well. This is her story.

AUTHOR NOTE:

Hey guys, the first chapter is a bit rushed so please bear with me on this. Next chapter will be a little stretched out so it will easier to process things. Hope you like it.

Chapter 1 - Perceptions ****EDITED*****

Felicity huffed in annoyance as she slammed a phone call from Director Fury. Someday she's going to bankrupt that pirate. Fury had just told her that the long dead son of Moira Queen is alive and is on his way back to Starling City. Apparently, he knew that Oliver Queen was alive but didn't bothered telling Felicity about it. Something about right time? Screw the right time. She's been on this undercover mission since past two years. She was sent here to catch up some loose ends of the criminal world and maintain a SHIELD network within Starling. So, for the past 2 years she had spent her every single minute trying to eliminate and tracing criminals while she worked in the I.T department of Queen Consolidated. Unfortunately, the dam city was full of criminals at every turn. She wanted to do other missions but Fury kept her here because he believed that there is an asset here that might help them in the future. And after two year, she finds out that the asset he kept talking about was none other than Oliver Queen! The man who was presumed dead 5 years ago, in the sea was alive and well. That's bullshit. She's an agent. That pirate should have told her about this.

"FUCK!" She cursed loudly as she thought about her next orders. Fury wanted her to keep an eye on Oliver because he's apparently mixed with the wrong types? She had tried to ask-No wait, hacked into his systems to get more Intel on him but Fury didn't even give her a chance. According to his recent reports, Oliver Queen is involved in pretty bad stuff. This didn't surprised felicity at all. Considering Every Starling City's citizen's history, almost all of them had done something bad, whether it was stealing from the rich or cancelling worker's payments or making people the Queen's family had their hands full. Felicity remembered the numerous times she had seen Thea Queen with drugs. Felicity was 100% sure that Moira Queen was involved in something too. It runs in the whole Queen's family. It was only Walter Steele who seemed like a nice guy. They were also reports that Oliver Queen was also seen working with or for ARGUS! And that's saying something. ARGUS and SHIELD never really went together. They are nemesis. So, it was reasonable for fury to know everything about Oliver. He suspected that the man returning now was a different man. He wanted felicity to find out if Oliver is a threat or, not. There was still something that Fury wasn't telling her. She could feel it. Was it possible that maybe, just maybe Oliver Queen might have tumbled into SHIELD during his death period?

Felicity cursed her bad luck in return. It's not the fact that she has to keep an eye out on Oliver Queen, it's the fact that he's Daa Oliver Queen that she had spent her time dreaming over. He's a total playboy and an asshole, but a lady's man. Unfortunately, he's Felicity's man too. Well, not technically but it's a little crush that she has developed on him just by looking at his pictures. It's not big, just a little small attraction. It was his pretty face that got her thoughts in him. Now that he's alive, she's going to have a hard time keeping herself at bay. Luckily, her cover was of a babbling geeky I.T specialist totally fit into it. So, it shouldn't be a problem if she stumbles over her words infront of the male queen.

She really hated the fact that Fury told her to use her real name on this mission. It left her expose to the outer world. Now, being a SHIELD agent wasn't exactly easy. Secrecy was important to them. Their lives dependent on it. Considering that she had done many other missions before this one, is a risk. Her record is not exactly clean. There were still people out there that wanted their revenge on the blonde girl. Heck, she even had some arrest warrants but luckily, they were on different names. Even ARGUS has a history with her. Luckily, they don't know who she is. So far, fury had kept her agent life hidden. Even if someone was to do a search on her, they would only find the information that she's using right now. A 25 year old blond women with a MIT top class degree, working at Queen Consolidated as a I.T specialist for the past 2 year. Short and simple. Nothing on her personal life or her agent life except her name.

She looked up towards the T.V as she scrunched up her Big Belly's bag. The news reporter was talking about the latest big news. Oliver Queen is Alive. That phrase was the only thing that was plastered on each and every single news channel. Previous Videos of Oliver Queen kept playing on repeat. Felicity felt sorry for the guy. He just came out of a hellish island and the moment he was in Public, he's photo raped by the paparazzi. It's bad enough that you went through such a tragic experience, and people except you to share it with them. Stupid reporters. Throwing her empty Big Belly's bag in the bin, she headed towards her I.T office. It's been a week since Oliver Queen was back. Felicity heard that his mother was finally going to bring him to Queen Consolidated today. Felicity was hoping if she could catch a peek of him so she can maybe analyse him. As far as her experiences were concerned, someone who's been through a lot never stays the same person. It always has a bad effect on them. Take Oliver Queen as an example. On his first day back in Starling, he for some unknown reason gets attacked by fully masked goons. And not only that, he managed to escape from those armed gunman unharmed but also a green hooded hero decides to show up to help him. Oh wow… Mr. Green Hoody saves the day!

Any genius could figure out that the supposed 'green hood' was Oliver himself. Felicity was just wondering why it was taking such a long time for the local police to figure this out. The moment she had seen Oliver's story about the green hood, she knew something was wrong. She could just smell it.

Taking a turn, she entered the QC. She managed to get a glimpse of Moria ushering her son inside the elevator. Yep. Definitely something fishy. No doubt. Felicity thought as she picked up rigidness and stiffness in his stance. The man she just saw wasn't the man she had fanned over. He had this sharp slow tensed structure in his movements that clearly shows he's on his guard. Felicity could literally pick up the 'mess-with-me-and-I'll-put-an-arrow-through-your-heart' look. In those moments, she even saw a little pocket knife in his back jeans. To others it may seem like a lighter or something but Felicity knew better. After all, she carries her knives with her too. Deciding that she wasn't going to get anything from the dead-alive Queen male, she headed to her I.T floor.

It was late in the evening when she had just finished hacking into ARGUS's files. Like it was mentioned earlier, ARGUS and her had a long history. She would always use their satellites and systems to search for files on criminals. Such as the time when she was tracking China White. Unfortunately, the Assassin had already escaped from Starling before Felicity could get to her. But that doesn't mean she hadn't informed SHIELD about it. She hoped Fury must have done something about the issue. Otherwise having the assassin back in Starling will be a big problem. Not only for her but for the whole city.

"Let's see. What to do? What to do?" Felicity mumbled as she went through ARGUS's personal files. It was in her everyday nature to trip some security alarms in the agency's systems from time to time. It brings her endless amount of joy and giggles whenever she would trip the alarm and the whole agency would go berserk on trying to find the intruder. It kept her well entertained and gives her a chance to brush up some of her hacking skills.

But sometimes her luck would run out, and ARGUS would eventually manage to trace her footprints. Last time they managed to trace her in Chicago when she left starling for a weekend fun with her best friend, Maria. But in the end, she always escapes them narrowly. Since her job right now was to just sit around and fix people's computers in QC, she really needed an exercise.

Working her way around the endless number of files, she searched for anything that give her a lead on the rich Queen boy. She knew the agency wasn't stupid. They wouldn't name a file 'Oliver Queen's bad deeds' written on top of it. Infact, they would keep it under a false name. That may or may not be related to Queen's status.

As she searched through the database, she stumbled on something disturbing.

Starling City

(Under-watched)

"Under-watched?" Felicity repeated with a frown. ARGUS was keeping a close watch on Starling City? That's not good. If ARGUS is here that means the stakes are high. There is something going on.

Quickly but carefully, she speeded up her search. A number of files popped up under 'Starling'. One of them stood out to her most. SHIELD.

Somehow ARGUS had managed to locate multiple sightings of few SHIELD agents including her best friend, Maria. Not to mention a SHIELD safe house in Peru that might be compromised if Felicity doesn't do anything about it. She was kind of shocked and surprised. ARGUS had never caught a trace on SHIELD before. It was impossible unless they had the clearance or knew who SHIELD was. Someone must have been helping them... Or maybe not... She thought as she saw few clippings of CCTV footage where two gangs were cross-firing at each other. She instantly recognised the clippings. It had happened two weeks ago, when the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) were hunting SHIELD. Felicity wasn't sure if ARGUS knew about IMF but whether it did or not, it was using IMF's traces to locate SHIELD. She made a note to inform Fury about this.

Knowing she had no other choice but to make it obvious for ARGUS, she deleted all the traces on SHIELD from ARGUS's system. Changing all the operation's orders to false locations before wiping the whole internet SHIELD-free. After all, making sure that SHIELD stays hidden was part of her job. Now, she's only worried about Amanda's anger which will flare up to no-end. Oh well, it's not like she knows who I am… The IT girl thought happily as she logged out and walked down towards the lobby on the bottom floor.

It hadn't even been a week since she last saw Oliver Queen that she finally got the pleasure to meet him in person. Technically he was the one who came to her first. The reports of the green hood sighting at various points around the city confirmed her suspicions on Oliver Queen. Also, the fact that his ridiculously weird stories were pointing towards the same direction. Dropping a latte doesn't really create big bullet holes in a thing such as a laptop, Hoody boy… Felicity thought none the less she helped him, trying to stay on his good graces. She was really considering putting Personal researcher of Oliver Queen in her job title. His stories were just getting ridiculously annoying week by week. It's been over a month and she can finally pick up the pattern in Arrow AKA Oliver Queen's killings. He was crossing off the list in the diary. The diary that Felicity got from Walter, who acquired it from his not-so-innocent wife. He had asked her to do her own investigation on Mr. Robert Queen's gamblet and on the diary. He even suspected his wife in this and asked her to keep it under wraps. She did and was surprised to find that the Gamblet was sabotaged. Looks like someone really wanted the Queen family dead.

Felicity consider herself lucky, that she was getting approached by billionaires for her hacking skills. It made her job much easier. The fifth-time Oliver Queen showed up infront of her seemed like he was dragged. His bodyguard was with him. The moment he held up the syringe, she tried not to lash out at him. Energy drink in a syringe? Couldn't he come up with better stories? The bodyguard just gave him 'I-give-up-I'm-outta-of-here" look before walking off leaving Felicity with Oliver. It was later on that she realised, the bodyguard was actually the ex-soldier John Diggle who later joined Oliver's little crusade. Without commenting she took the syringe and got to work. It was better not to say anything. It would just cause more complications between them.

After few days, next thing she knows that Walter Steele has been kidnapped. And Moira Queen's panic towards her husband's kidnapping didn't even seemed real to the agent. She knew it was better to involve the arrow on this. So, she took up the diary to Oliver. And next day she found him in his Arrow attire bleeding in her car. She had panicked a little when she found the male Queen in her car. She hoped that he hadn't found any of her weapons that she kept hidden in her car. It was her motto to keep some weapons with her all the time. Even though she's a weapon herself, you never know when you need one. Besides, she was occasionally out for her SHIELD work which would mainly involve maiming, running, chasing and killing. Yep. Nothing new. Just Everyday Arrow work.

She notched her red-rim glasses closer to her eyes as she caressed the computers infront of her. She was in Arrow's Secret über base called 'The Foundry'. She was offered to join the team and had accepted the offer on various conditions. First one was definitely Walter. Until he is found, she will continue to help Oliver and Diggle with their little crusade. Deep down she believes that it was kind of her fault that she didn't look out for a good man like Walter. The man has always been generous and nice to her. She didn't know why he was kidnapped but she has our suspicions. As for the other reason, which was to keep an eye on Oliver, she continuously kept Fury updated, and convinced him to conclude that Oliver was not much of a danger. The guy only wanted to save his city and make his father proud. It was a noble act but it was the killings that make Felicity a little uneasy about Oliver's intentions. According to her, killings should only be performed in extreme measures, but the type of criminals she had come through so far in this city, she didn't think not killing was possible. Of course, everyone else had different beliefs on this matter. Only the people who could understand Oliver's reasons would be people who have been gone through a tragic event or people from Felicity's background. The whole city still considers him as a killer. The blond Agent laughed as she Imagined the time where Oliver finds out her secret. Would he show the same trust and support that he shows now? She's still the same babbling I.T girl but with more badass skills and a dark history.

On the other hand, she was happy that she took up the offer because now she has Oliver's fighting equipment at her disposal. Of course, she'll have to do it in secret but still. Especially the Salman ladder that was mainly used by Oliver. It's a big distraction for her. Oliver's routine on that ladder makes it harder for felicity to focus. She had actually done some rounds on it making sure that when she's in the foundry, she disconnects all the cameras. Also, the fact that sometimes when it's late, she could feel herself being followed by Oliver. Now, she truly appreciates his concerns for his team mates but come on, she's a secret agent herself. She can take care of herself. She knows her way around the criminal world. Her whole existence is a game of survival. Also, his constant following restricts her from doing any of her SHIELD duties. Especially her own personal runs on leads that she does every few days.

From the moment, she had accepted the offer, her life has become a hassle. She has to multitask everything which is hard when you have to deal with three different lives. Her nights with Oliver & Diggle were getting exhausting week by week as they crossed off the names. Her personal investigation was getting her no-where too. Her habit of babbling wasn't helping either. It was around few weeks later that a new criminal showed up in Starling. His motto is to steal from the rich. The arrow team made it their personal missions to catch him. So here she is now, dressed in her two-strap golden dress with her hair pinned to one side while activating the tracker she had recently put on Queen family's antique Jewel at the local Auction in starling in the hopes to draw out the deadly thief, Dodger. She kept her eyes on her phone as she saw the GPS signal moving. Knowing the thief has taken the bait, she tracked him down just before he could escape.

"Hey, that brooch was donated by the Queen family, if you want it you have to bid on it." She said straight away in her firm voice.

"Actually love, I thought I'd just take it." The man replied deeply before he pulled her to the side by her arm. She didn't fuss or resisted. She needed to get close to him so she could plant a new tracker on him since he removed the first one from the Jewel. She can't attack him infront of this many people, especially when Oliver and Digg were also watching. That would totally blow her cover. And fury had made it clear that her cover shouldn't be blown otherwise she's in big trouble. Felicity would rather be dead than be in trouble with Fury. The pirate has mad skills when it comes to punishing.

Back to the fight, Dodger pulled her behind a wall and slammed her against it. Grabbing a hold of her shoulders, he moved closer to her body. Felicity used this to her advantage as she managed to slip a tracker in his pocket just before he blocked her air pipes with his elbow. Moving on instincts, she aimed a kick at his soft part.

"Bitch!" The man screamed in pain as he moved back. Felicity smirked.

"I told you." She taunted as she fished out the Jewel she had managed to steal back from his pocket. "If you want this, you have to bid on it." This apparently got him angry. He tried to attack her again but this time, Felicity has already anticipated his moves. So, for the next few seconds or so she continuously blocked him as he tried to make few jabs at her hands before she finally scored a punch on his face. Dodger staggered back in amazement. The sheer amount of strength she had put in that punch had definitely surprised him. He smiled evilly before moving in to attack her again. In few seconds, she had him in a steady head lock. It was at that moment when they heard a small gasp. They looked up to find one of the female guests who had by accident stumbled upon their awkward position. Well, to felicity it was kinda awkward since she was doing a head lock in a dress. A very man-ly move. Her legs were spread out and hands wrapped around Dodger's neck while his face was near her upper chest. Yeah, totally normal for her Agent life. The white old lady obviously staggered a bit with her large eyes open wide in shock. It was at this moment when the thief took advantage of Felicity's slight distraction and had clasped one of his bomb collars to her neck before managing to free himself from her hold and pushing her into the old lady.

"I actually like you. You're a feisty one." He said before he vanished from Felicity's sight. Felicity looked angrily at the metal collar around her neck and then at her empty hand. The guy had taken the Jewel from her. Again.

"Damn it!" She cursed as she pushed herself off the old lady that was now flat as a pancake.

"You are so heavy young lady." The old women groaned much to Felicity's displeasure.

"Oh SHUT UP you Old hag!" Felicity screamed in anger before leaving the women flat on the floor. Deciding it was best to go to Oliver as she didn't know how to deactivate this thing, she quickly looked around for the two boys.

"Hey, I think we have a problem..." She started as she walked up to them. From then on, it was a time race. Digg was trying to deactivate the bomb while she was trying not to panic as she told Oliver about Dodger's location. She was mainly worried about the amount of people here. If the bomb does go off, they could all die. If worse comes to worse, she'll find an empty spot before she gets blown into millions of pieces. Killing bad people is one thing, but killing good, innocent people is a totally a different act. Luckily, Oliver managed to kill the thief and now she was bomb free.

"I totally swear, I thought my body would be flying everywhere. In pieces. Not that I would feel anything but Flying. Definitely flying. Never thought I would fly." She babbled in relief as Dig looked at her in his 'your-so-weird' way. "Yeah, I get that look a lot. Don't worry, I don't mind."

She really needed to think about how's she going to approach situations like these anymore. Maybe she should just play along her cover until the situation really calls for it. That's when she saw Oliver coming up to her.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah" she nodded. After tonight's events, one thing is sure. Life is going to be so hard for her if she's going to stay with Oliver. Her night job with Arrow and her I.T job with the Queens and... Her SHIELD job... It's going to be a struggle for her. Oh well, that's her life now. She better used to it.