Arrow - Come Knock On My Door
Synopsis: Felicity gets some unexpected guests at her apartment. Definitely non-canon because we don't see any of these interactions on the show. Hints at Olicity (OTP!), of course, with Sara x Nyssa thrown in later (I think they make a cute couple).
First chapter takes place between Season 1 and 2.
I. Thea Queen
The first time, it was Thea Queen showing up after a fight with Roy. Felicity was surprised (and to be honest, a little drunk as she was on her way through her second glass of a fabulous Cabernet), but she had managed to get out an awkward invite and usher the crying girl inside her apartment.
"Thank you," Thea sniffed, wiping awkwardly at her nose before blinking when she found herself offered a box of Kleenex and a hefty glass of red wine. "I'm underage."
"And when has that ever stopped anyone?" Felicity asked, taking her own spot on the couch. "From my own experience, fights require alcohol. If this was a break-up, I would have broken out the ice cream."
Silent, Thea wiped her nose before taking a hefty swallow of wine. Felicity silently watched the young Queen as she took a sip of her own, still surprised she had come here of all places.
"None of my friends like Roy, so they would have just talked crap about him," Thea muttered, and Felicity blinked. Had she said that out loud? "And I didn't want to go to the mansion, since it's still closed up."
Right, no Oliver to keep the home fire burning. He had disappeared just around 2 months ago, leaving Thea with no family support with her mom locked up in Iron Heights.
"Jerk," Felicity muttered, still bitter he hadn't told her – or Dig – where he had disappeared off to.
"What?"
"I said, "Men are jerks"," Felicity said louder and Thea snorted.
"Totally. Do you know why Roy is mad at me?" Thea asked, knocking back the rest of her wine and holding her hand out for a refill. Felicity complied, contemplating opening a second bottle as she topped off her own glass. "He accused me of flirting with one of our distributors today."
"The horror!" Really, flirting was second nature to any Queen. Roy should have known better.
"Right? I mean, this is coming from the guy who spends his nights flirting with customers to get better tips!" Thea groused before turning to Felicity, curling her legs up under her. "Which, have I ever given him crap about? No!"
"Men are bastards," Felicity reasoned and the two women clinked glasses before Felicity reasoned this night definitely called for a second bottle of wine.
"Speaking of jerks, have you heard from Ollie?" Thea asked and Felicity juggled her glass, thankfully managing to prevent spilling anything on her couch.
"Uh, no. Why…why do you ask?" Felicity stuttered nervously. "I mean, it's not like we're friends at all. I just helped him with some random IT projects. So, it's not like he has any reason at all to keep in touch with me. And even if he did have, like, one single reason to stay in touch with me, that he would. Because this is Oliver Queen we are talking about. Total. Flake."
Finally pausing for breath, Felicity looked up to see Thea staring at her with an amused expression.
"Sorry," Felicity muttered as she flushed. Maybe more alcohol around Oliver's sister wouldn't be good a good idea.
"I don't buy it," Thea told her, tilting her head to the side. "Ollie kept a lot of people at arm's length when he came back, but not you."
Unsure what to say, Felicity finished her drink before going to her wine stash.
"Another Cabernet ok?" she asked and Thea nodded, smirking and obviously knowing Felicity was making a poor attempt at changing the conversation. In her kitchen, she opened the wine and fished out a box of crackers before shuffling back to the living room to see Thea flipping through one of her computer journals.
"You can actually read this?" Thea asked, frowning as Felicity topped of their wine and settled back into the couch.
"I'm multi-lingual in the language of computers," Felicity boasted.
"Well, better you than me. I'm happy to be done with the whole school thing," Thea sighed. "Running a night club is better than college, any day."
"You just want a challenge," Felicity told her. "You're doing good things with Verdant."
"Too bad that isn't helping Queen Consolidated."
"Did Kessler come by again?" Felicity asked about the temporary CEO of QC.
"It was an enjoyable hour of listening to him bitch about Ollie and Mom," Thea said. "As if I have any control over either of their actions."
"Have you talked to Walter?"
"He says Kessler is a good man and that I should trust that he has the best interests for Queen Consolidated," Thea intoned, placing a soft British accent to her words before resting her head against the back of the couch and staring up at the ceiling. "But, I just wish Ollie was here."
"I know," Felicity said, reaching out to pat Thea's hands. She knew Oliver's sister had faced a lot in the past two months with her mother's arrest, Oliver disappearance, and taking over Verdant. It was why Felicity had kept a close eye on her as she worked on re-modeling the Foundry and had stopped by every once in a while to help the younger woman with the club's computer system, under the guise that Oliver had asked her.
The silence was broken by Thea's phone chirping next to her and Felicity watched her look at the phone before smiling.
"Roy apologized?" she asked, guessing that was the only reason for her to smile with a stupid "I'm in love" look on her face.
"Yup," Thea said before setting down the phone without replying, "but he can stew for a bit longer."
"Movie, then?" Felicity asked, reaching for her TV remote. "That'll give him a few hours to wallow."
"Sounds like a great idea," Thea said, and the two women clinked glasses again before settling back on the couch.
A/N: Let me know if you like this? I hope to have the second chapter up in the next week.
Disclaimer: Arrow, it's characters, and blah, blah, blah don't belong to me.