It was Oliver's bachelor party. Tommy was amazed how things were going so well, he and Felicity had organized everything but they were both more sad then happy with this marriage so he was afraid they would over compensate, looking around and talking to some guest's he gathered they didn't.
"I'm leaving, Tommy."
Felicity was right next to him they were trying to survive this all thing together backing each other, supporting each other. But Tommy had the feeling she had it worst.
Over the last weeks, after Cooper sent her that message and SCPD had instructed her to be on her guard and take extra care mainly avoiding being alone, Oliver was overprotective and always around her. His constant presence made things harder for Felicity, he knew that, Oliver on the other hand was oblivious and kept being there.
"Already?"
"Yes. It's time for the boys to be without girls around" she smiled pointing to where the strippers were getting ready "except for them, of course".
He smiled back
"Your right." She had plan and organized this party, almost singlehanded, that he even forgot she wasn't a dude nor a lesbian for that matter.
"So I'm off."
Felicity waited for everybody to be engaged with the strippers coming in to the room to escape without being noticed. Diggle would send someone to watch over her and she didn't want that.
She had carefully planned everything, she knew it was unfair to leave Tommy like this but he would understand she couldn't take it anymore. Oliver was a constant presence in her life these last few weeks, if it wasn't him in person, it was one of his bodyguards and working at Queen Consolidated wasn't helping her need to forget she was losing Oliver forever.
He had argued with her on that but she knew better. He would have a wife to take care of and to worry about and later on he and Laurel would have kid's, Felicity would be a memory fading away as time goes by.
Then there was the Cooper situation. He had held her against her will some while back for he needed her to hack a particularly encrypted server, she managed at the time to held her own and SCPD got her out. Cooper managed to escape the SCPD that night.
Oliver and Tommy were both worried about her and visited her at the hospital but she got mostly shallow cuts and bruises and the Doctor had allow her to get back home. She felt fine and she was sure Cooper wouldn't be back so soon so she refused Oliver and Tommy proposed bodyguard protection.
But that was then now Cooper was back; SCPD could only provide advice and wait for him to make a move, and the bodyguards Ugh… She just wanted to be left alone while the happy world she once dreamt about crumbled down on her. Was that too much to ask?
Mr. Steel was shock receiving her resignation letter, that very morning.
"Ms. Smoak, you're leaving? You are one of our best IT experts. Queen Consolidated needs you. We can upgrade your reward package if that is the problem, or you can take some paid vacation, I know you have been under a lot of stress lately."
"It's nothing to do with Queen Consolidated or anything you could do or offer, Mr. Steel." It took some time to convince Mr Steel he couldn't do anything to retain her.
"I just have one request Sir. Don't tell anything to Oliver just yet. It's the happiest occasion of his life, his getting married; I don't want to cast a shadow over it."
Mr. Steel agreed not to tell his stepson only because he knew her decision to leave Queen Consolidated would definitely make him sad and worried about Felicity.
Felicity hadn't told Mr. Steel she was going to disappear altogether and not only leave Queen Consolidated.
She got her car in to the garage at her apartment building right next to the rental she got early that week. Using the excuse of finding out prices for limos and limo driver's for the wedding (as if that was even necessary) she had trick the young bodyguard in to waiting by the door of a dozen car rental's, in one she got this SUV with tainted windows perfect for her plans.
She got up stairs packed the rest of her stuff and, leaving the living room light and TV on, got back to the garage and drove off in the SUV.
A faint smile crossed her lips when she spotted Diggle looking up to her apartment windows.
She had a feeling he was too good of a bodyguard to let some stripper's distract him, nevertheless it would take him some time to find it strange that the living room light would stay on. And by then she would be far gone.
