A/N: The faves and follows of my first story inspired me to try again so thank you for the warm welcome! I loved last night's episode (Three Ghosts) as I think it really showed the dynamics of Team Arrow! This story is basically Barry's rambling mental monologue focusing on the team! I tried to keep true to the rambling style of speaking but I'm still new to writing so my apologies if I don't actually capture that well – he's really just my vehicle to play!

DISCLAIMER: Definitely not mine as while I can't write M works I certainly enjoy reading them so that's where I'd take the show!

Riding the train back to Gotham, Barry was able to sit back and review all he had learned over the past days.

Felicity was wrong – it was amazing to meet your hero. No, Oliver Queen wasn't what I was expecting for the Hood, Arrow, whatever they call him, and it was rough at times but it was fascinating. His exploits are the stuff of legends already (not kidding when I said I'd had been keeping score) and the technology was surprising…I hope Oliver liked my contributions including the gift, it really was simply to create the mask…getting off track. Being around Felicity only encourages rambling apparently.

Anyway, it was Felicity, Oliver Queen and Diggle themselves as a whole who are fascinating. Dead people really are my area of expertise but these three have to be particularly unusual, right?

First, simply the fact that it was a playboy billionaire who fronted as the Hood was mind-blowing. But he appears to actually share the responsibilities equally with not one but two other people…one of whom is a seriously hot IT girl. Felicity was amazing, beautiful, smart, funny, fun…and desperately in love with Oliver Queen. Insert long suffering sigh here.

Get back on track Barry – what I realized while working with them (I can't believe I helped the vigilante) was that I was only partially right about the Hood having "help". Yes, clearly it is his secret (didn't Oliver say that after choking him) but Diggle is more than his back-up and Felicity is more than tech support – they are certainly more than just help.

Clearly Oliver respects Diggle – I didn't get to hear their conversation in the Lair but it was clear it was a discussion among equals, partners really. I did hear Diggle joke about the "black driver" thing but it was clearly an inside joke. Diggle was the one who stepped out to investigate with Oliver as his back-up and that said something. Didn't it?

However, when Oliver was on the table, Diggle allowed Felicity to make the decisions. Those two are clearly friends but without the tension that she and Oliver have. But why would Diggle bow to her decision…unless he not only trusted her but could also believe Oliver would have done the same?

Oliver waking up was scary – that island must have been something for him to be so primal, instinctive and strong. And yet, he simply stopped when Diggle spoke, reined all of that in just as Diggle's voice…or perhaps it was Felicity's touch as well that helped him come back down? Hmmm.

But when Felicity spoke, he didn't just listen, he argued. She argued – she yelled at him…and me, come to think of it. Neither really looked at me as they were entirely focused on one another and remarkably unconcerned that he did say he was considering shooting me with an arrow – yeah, Oliver is scary but Felicity was too really. Definitely a lot of emotions on both sides, which is weird, really.

Oliver had been staring at me – a blank expression really and whenever he spoke to me it was just as blank. I noticed this at our initial meeting…even as a playboy billionaire he's a little scary really. But when he looks at Felicity and when he speaks to Felicity there is emotion in his voice and his expression! And a lot of emotion as they were really loud when they argued – who argues with the Arrow, anyway?

But after that, he listened to her (and let me live). He then explained that "they" had work to do and pointedly met her eyes. It was as if all was forgotten and the team was still together – like they routinely argue about what to do and how to do things! Again, who really argues with Oliver Queen or the Arrow?

I still separate them in my mind….I wonder if he does that?

Anyway, even though I told Felicity I know what it's like to not have your feelings returned, I think there is clearly something there. The hallucinations of beautiful island girls? Fantasy Island? He could have shot her down, told her she didn't have the right to question him just as he told her it was his decision who found out his secret…but he didn't. He just let her speak and took it.

And, when he was ready to go after the bad guys – yeah, Felicity's concern is a dead giveaway of her feelings but the guys' reactions were even more interesting. First, Diggle appeared neither surprised by her words or actions nor did he feel the need to back-up either of them during that particular discussion – he acted like it was par for the course. Of course, they are so focused on another I guess it's hard to get a word in sometimes. And yet, it's not like they are a couple and he's the third wheel – focus!

Ok, yeah, she jumped up quickly and stood close to him to explain her fears for his safety but he could have shut her down then too, could have stepped back but instead he explained his view, meeting her eyes and speaking just to her. I think we all noticed he wouldn't promise to return – I wonder if she realizes how amazing it is in his world of lies that he chooses not to lie to her? Come to think of it, he didn't even lie about wanting privacy when he returned to the lair – he didn't actually ask me to leave (he didn't really speak to me at all unless necessary) but she knew what he wanted and gave in without any thought or worry, no offense taken. Again, like all of this is normal!

I wished I could have stayed to see his return – I'm sure that was something to see. I bet Felicity hugs him…and I bet he lets her – he's gotta realize she's a beautiful woman, right?! Really though the physical connection between the three is just as obvious as the verbal one and kinda more telling. Clearly if your instinct to survive is as strong as his (he did wake up choking me), I doubt he lets anyone get close enough to be a threat - real touching would definitely mean something to him. I'm sure he does the casual touching thing with others just as he smiles and lies to them but that's not how he treats Diggle or Felicity. It's easy to see the friendship in his interactions with Diggle – there's trust and respect there. It's even easier to see in how he touches Felicity. Like when I got to his office and he pulled her with him to question her about me being there – it's not like I could overhear and it's clear now that Diggle is in on the secret so why bother?

Yeah, she's definitely not going to be calling me as she has him – even if they haven't figured that out yet.

Either working with dead people has skewed my view of friendships or what they have is really amazing. They may not accurately label any of their relationships but it's clear they are beyond close. Yeah, the Arrow 's exploits are amazing, I wasn't wrong about that but I was wrong to think he just had "help". I wonder if any of them understand that it's the three of them together that make the hero?