Felicity was supporting herself by holding onto the cord provided that was hanging from the aircraft's roof. She looked over at Laurel who looked as if she were deep in thought. "Laurel? Are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah. I'm focused, Felicity" Laurel answered in a monotone.
The two of them flying over Lian Yu, where a foe called Prometheus was holding Oliver's team hostage. These team members included: John Diggle, Thea Queen, Quentin Lance, Curtis Holt, Rene Ramirez, and Dinah Drake. Prometheus had failed to capture Oliver's fiance, Felicity, because when people started to go missing, Oliver had sent Felicity to Gotham so she could get help from Laurel (who was busy with her own team called "The Birds Of Prey"). Felicity would do anything for Oliver, but she didn't like that he wanted Laurel's help... Oliver and Laurel had a long history together... Oliver insisted what was past was past, but Felicity knew that lovers or not, Laurel and Oliver would remain the most important person in one another's life for as long as they both shall live.
Laurel had agreed to go with Felicity right away when she heard her former team was in trouble. Though she had not been part of team arrow very long, she loved her brothers and sisters in arms very much. Plus her own father was among them.
The propeller of the helicopter whirled above them and Felicity had to ask Laurel: "Laurel, your willingness to leave Gotham to help Oliver did not have to do with having feelings for him... right?"
"Felicity, is now the time, honestly, is it?" Laurel barked, somewhat annoyed.
"I know the timing is not perfect" Felicity whined. "and I know that you and Oliver have history. He talks about you all the time and you need to understand that Oliver and I are getting married. He is going to be my husband. I need you to take that seriously. I saw the way you were looking at him and teasing him before we left. And the only reason he was feeding off it is because he hasn't seen you in a while, but Oliver loves me, Laurel".
"Okay, okay, Felicity. I know he loves you and that I am old news to him. Is that what you want to hear? Does that make you happy?" Laurel had always felt slightly annoyed by Felicity. Felicity was immature and not a good fit for team arrow or Oliver. Felicity was not the reason that Laurel left team arrow, but there was some influence. There was some hurt there... Oliver leaving Star City with Felicity because she was the one who he loved... everybody else be damned.
What Laurel had really wanted after that was to build up The Black Canary's identity beyond The Green Arrow and Oliver. So moving away from the city where her involvement with Oliver began seemed only appropriate. Oliver had used her and messed with her head and history only repeated itself when she fell for Bruce Wayne... that is a story for a different time.
So while Oliver lived out her dream with Felicity Smoak, Laurel would become the greatest heroine Gotham City had ever seen. She needed help of course, which came in the form of her own team: Barbara Gordon (Oracle), Helena Bertinelli (The Huntress), Cynthia Reynolds (Gypsy), Kendra Saunders (Hawkgirl), Tatsu Yamashiro (Katana), and Mari Jiwe McCabe (Vixen). The team was close-knit and Laurel felt like she was moving on after everything Oliver and Felicity put her through, with the support of her close Felicity ran her mouth, Laurel was seriously starting to regret coming to team arrow's aid.
She got it. She couldn't turn back time and hold him again. He didn't choose her. Every time, he would choose younger, prettier, and so much more alive. Everything she wasn't. Everything he wasn't anymore. Felicity was all the things that Oliver had destroyed in his former lover.
Felicity scratched her forehead with her free hand. "Laurel? I am not trying to put you up on the stand here and I know you understand that Oliver is mine... I- I just wanna make sure the wedding is perfect and Oliver says he just won't get married if you aren't there to witness it".
Laurel swallowed and nodded her head. "I'll be there, Felicity" she assured her former friend.
They were quiet for a moment and Laurel tried to focus in on the comms, hoping Oliver, or Nyssa, or even Malcolm Merlyn would say something to cut through the tension up above.
After several minutes of silence from both women, Felicity cleared her throat and asked: "Laurel, tell me you don't have feelings for my man? That you are no longer in love with him, and that you did not come back here over matters of the heart... because he is not in love with you!"
"I am working on not being in love with Oliver Queen, Felicity" Laurel finally lost it. "I loved him first though, and for so long, so it's hard... but I am working on it. And why aren't you pushing Ollie like this, huh? If he talks about me as much as you want me to believe that he does, then why are you so concerned about my feelings for him, huh?"
Felicity let go of the cord and used both of her hands and all of her weight to push Laurel. She pushed Laurel with so much force that the cord Laurel was supporting herself with was ripped from the helicopter's roof and taken with Laurel on the free fall.
Laurel was spinning downward, slicing through the hot summer air. She had learned not to be afraid of a circumstance such as this one. She spread out her body into a position Supergirl would take whilst flying and focused on a spot on the land that she was falling towards. Her well-controlled canary cry would save her life. She let it roar only inches from the ground and it blasted her upright so that her feet brushed the ground and then she finally landed flat on her back. She drew in a large breath and let it out.
Meanwhile, realizing what she had done, Felicity immediately strapped on a parachute and jumped after her former friend. She landed on the ground.
"Laurel!" she cried out.
"Felicity! I'm here. I'm here. I'm fine" Laurel assured Felicity.
"My God! You must hate me!" Felicity cried out in horror and humiliation over what she had just done. "I almost killed you!"
"I am fine. I wasn't going to die. I am not that easy to kill" Laurel replied. At that moment, the two women heard explosions erupt from far away. Felicity's terrified eyes called out to Laurel for some sense of security. Laurel reached out and grabbed Felicity's hand. She looked at the sky and she saw a plane leaving the island, and assumed team arrow was aboard.
The explosions grew closer. Laurel hugged Felicity to her body and let her cry out, creating a force field around the both of them as fire and smoke surrounded them. Several minutes passed before Laurel took a breath and the force field was demolished.
Felicity's eyes were wide as she looked into Laurels, tear threatening to spill from them. "Laurel, will I ever see Oliver again?"