CHAPTER 1

Oliver and Felicity were standing toe to toe in the Arrow cave. Felicity had her arms crossed in front of her staring down the Arrow...the Vigilante...really he was to all of Starling City a hero but Felicity knew better than anyone the sacrifices he had made.

"Felicity are you sure? You don't have to".

"Oliver I will be fine. You'll be right there by my side the entire time. Also, Digg will be out front monitoring our every move. So yes I'm sure."

Oliver looked like he was going to say something else but Felicity held up her hand to stop him and said, "And that is my final answer".

And with that Felicity turned and walked towards the staircase which would take her to Verdant. She put one foot on the staircase and turned to Oliver and Diggle, who had been watching their interaction with much amusement, and said "Pick me up at six". And with that Felicity Smoak stormed out of the Arrow cave mumbling the entire time to herself. Oliver only caught a few words like "pig headed", "unbelievable" and something about her stabbing Slade. Also, he found himself staring at her legs as they disappeared up the stairwell.

"Oliver.."

He thought he heard someone say his name…

"OLIVER!"

He swung around to see Digg standing there…laughing. He stared Digg down but it didn't stop the laughter and all Digg could do was say "Oh man" and turn and walk away.

Oliver was not quite sure what that was all about but he did not have time to think about that or anything else. They had a job to do.

Oliver and Digg pulled in front of Felicity's brownstone promptly at six o'clock and Oliver was barely out of the limo when he looked up and saw that Felicity was coming down the steps.

He found himself staring at her…AGAIN. What was wrong with him? He was really letting that moment in the mansion get to him he thought. However, before he could rationalize anything else he went back to staring at Felicity. She had on a strapless floor length black dress with a slit almost to her thigh. It was sparkly and cut a little low in the front. Her hair was piled on top of her head in little curls. He also noticed little diamonds glittering in the setting sunlight.

It was odd what he noticed the most. It was the tendrils of hair hanging on the sides of her face. With every breeze they grazed her bare shoulders and he couldn't help but think for a minute that he was actually jealous of her hair because he wished for moment it was his fingertips grazing her shoulders.

He moved his eyes back to Felicity's face and he could see something there and before he did something stupid he said "You look nice".

"Well I couldn't tell from the way you are glaring at me".

"Glaring."

"Yes you could have burned a hole in me from that stare".

Oliver motioned with his hand to the open door of the limo and said "Sorry I just noticed that…ahem…do you have something to cover up with".

Felicity gave him a knowing smirk and walked past him to get in the limo and at the door simply said "Nope".

As Felicity dipped to get in the limo Oliver noticed the back of her dress actually the lack of the back of her dress. There were three little strings of what looked like diamonds crossing her back. This, of course, led Oliver to think to himself about what was underneath and was she wearing a bra. With that thought Oliver growled and thought to himself "it is going to be a long night".

The limo ride to the mansion of one Marco Drake would have been torture if he, Felicity and Diggle had not spent the time going over every last detail of their operation. Drake needed to be brought down. He was new in town but he had already garnered a healthy following of low-lives and criminals. He was the biggest arms trafficker Starling City had ever seen and Oliver was going to bring him down…tonight.

A few miles from the Drake mansion Oliver made a call to Detective Lance to let him know that he and Felicity were going under cover and he may need some backup from Starling's finest. Detective Lance told Oliver he would put the Captain on alert and they would do whatever they could to help. Oliver and the Police or should he say the Arrow and the Police had started a pretty good partnership ever since Slade and his men tried to burn down the City.

Finally, they arrived at Drake's mansion and as Diggle pulled the limo into the huge circular driveway Oliver grabbed Felicity's hand and said "Are you sure?"

Felicity heard the desperation in Oliver's voice so she was willing to let him slide on this one but with a firm tone simply said "Yes".