Call Me Irresponsible
Rating: 'T' for this first chapter, 'M' from Chapter 2 onwards.
Characters (In order of appearance): Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak, Roy Harper, Amanda Waller, Curtis Holt, Tommy Merlyn, Laurel Lance, John Diggle, Shado, Cooper Seldon, Malcom Merlyn, and Slade Wilson.
Summary: He's a veteran ARGUS agent with a penchant for bows and exotic motorcycles. She's a hacker, doing time for a murder she swears that she didn't commit. Season 1 re-write, sorta.
Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own Arrow or any of its related characters.
Chapter 1
After 5 years of working his way up the ranks of ARGUS, he thought he'd seen everything. It had taken him a long time to establish any actually credibility as an agent when everyone else saw him as just a kid, too young and too juvenile. He made a point of proving them wrong though – with homemade gadgets, unique tools and a talent for averting international crises in a way that was labelled as being far outside ARGUS' typical methods. They called him 'The Arrow', a name that had stuck since his very first mission as an ARGUS operative, back in China when Waller had just been using him as an expendable foot-soldier. He'd handled arms deals, broken up international smuggling rings, assassination attempts, a couple of plots to take over the world, the odd nuclear scare and he'd even managed to personally save the President's life on one occasion.
So needless to say, Oliver Queen thought he was ready for anything that would be thrown his way.
Then came Felicity Smoak. This job was painfully below his paygrade, some prototype had been stolen and ARGUS had got wind of the case. Oliver never handled corporate espionage; there was nothing that pained him more, especially given who his family were. The problem with corporate espionage, Oliver had decided, was that there was hardly ever a situation that could be resolved by putting an arrow through it. Yet, for whatever reason, Waller had decided to have him work the case, a complete waste of his talents as far as Oliver was concerned.
At least it had given him a chance to get to know Felicity Smoak, she was something else entirely. A hacker and international thief, she'd started out as a member of a small-time hacktivist group that called themselves Brother Eye before getting scouted by the elusive Helix. ARGUS had been after Helix for a long time, but they'd never been able to get any solid leads on them. That was until they captured Helix's founder, Cayden James. Much to the chagrin of Waller, James had given them nothing and Helix had carried on as if nothing had happened.
Enter Felicity Smoak. ARGUS knew about her of course, but they had no clue just how good a hacker she was. Smoak had all but replaced James as the frontrunner of Helix for almost 2 years until she was caught by the FBI. Needless to say Waller had been furious, ARGUS didn't exactly get on very well with the Bureau and they had been less than cooperative when Waller had requested Smoak be transferred into ARGUS custody.
He glanced to the file in his hands, at the picture of Smoak pinned to the front. She was beautiful, and he'd seen plenty of beautiful women but none so much as her, seen them flirt themselves into situations that would usually make any man resort to violence. That was the main reason Oliver enjoyed working with woman so much. They had so much more style, intelligence and common sense to the male agents at ARGUS. His only problem was that ARGUS had a lot of rumours going around about him and the high number of female partners he'd gone through. They said that he'd only gone through so many female partners because he couldn't decide which one he liked the most. There wasn't much truth to that, sure he might have been a bit of a playboy but he didn't leave his partners, they left him.
"You sure about this?" Smoak's warden pulled Oliver from his thoughts. "She's dangerous, get what you need and ditch her. Don't get involved in any of her games."
Oliver couldn't mask the grin that tugged at his lips, the problem was he rather liked games.
"Smoak's serving a life sentence for murder in the first, and there's a damn good reason she's in solitary. It might be a mistake trying to get her to help you."
"Well, what's life without a mistake or two, warden?" Oliver threw a cocky grin at the older man.
"This is why the Bureau hates working with you ARGUS characters, you don't take things like this seriously." The warden scowled.
"Of course this is serious warden, right now Smoak is our only lead on finding this prototype and she knows better than anyone who could have stolen it."
As far as Oliver had been made aware, Helix had been looking into this prototype before it was stolen, making them the most likely suspects for the theft. Apparently it had been under Smoak that Helix had been investigating the prototype, making Cayden James useless to ARGUS on this occasion.
"Well if Smoak wasn't already in this cell I'd be telling you to make her your prime suspect." The Warden continued as he opened the final door.
The two of them froze in place. The heavy metal door to Smoak's solitary cell had been left ajar. Leaving the Warden behind him, Oliver walked into the room.
Pinned to the far wall, just above a table, was a small white card. "Better luck next time" was written on the card in red pen, with a very distinct lipstick marking added to the bottom corner.
"She's escaped!" The Warden turn on his heel and began to run back down the corridor he and Oliver had just walked through.
Oliver stayed where he was stood, looking at the note pinned to the wall as a smile crept over his face. That certainly left a lasting first impression of Felicity Smoak.
Author's Note: So this is something I put together a year or so back, I'd completely forgotten about it until I stumbled across it earlier. I think this is going to be my next big project after I finish 'If You Believed in Me' so let me know if you guys think it's worth continuing.