This is an AU idea I've had for Arrow. I'm not sure how far I'll take it. If there is interest, I'll keep up with it. It's just been in my head, and I wanted to get it out. The AU is Magical based. Think like Merlin-ish. Let me know what you think.

Felicity had her nose buried in whichever tome she picked up that morning to study. If someone were to ask her, she doubt she would admit to having read almost every tome housed in the Tower Library. It was her job, though, to be the Keeper of Knowledge for the kingdom. She liked her job. It let her keep to herself most days. Felicity got rather nervous around people, and she got scared someone would find out her secret.

A small dragon whelpling peeped at her from over the top of her book, "Hello there, Ember." Felicity smiled and scratched the fire dragon's chin. "You are going to get me in trouble," she fussed at the whelping.

It tilted its head to the side, "I'm sorry, Lady. I just figured you would like some company."

Felicity smiled. She stood up from the table and picked up the whelpling. It climbed her light pink robe and perched on her shoulder. "I don't mind your company, sweet girl. What have you been up to today?"

"Sneaking about the castle!" Ember flapped her tail against Felicity's back.

"If the royal family caught you who knows what would happen." Felicity walked over to the tower window. "Some people are still terrified of natural magic. They prefer that which can only be done with tomes and spells. You, my dear friend, are the product of some of the purest natural magic. So please be careful."

"I promise, Felicity." Ember pressed his warm nose into Felicity's cheek. "Someone is coming, m'lady!" Ember disappeared in a poof of red sparks.

"Keeper Felicity?" A gruff voice asked behind her.

Felicity jumped when she saw the owner of the voice was the prince. "Oh, uh, yes, your majesty." He was dressed in a dark blue tunic, leather pants, and an intricate belt around his waist.

"No, Your Majesty was my father. Just Oliver is fine." He smiled this infectious smile that flustered Felicity.

She fidgeted with her ponytail, "Yes, and he drowned, but you didn't. You survived and now you are in the Tower listening to me babble. Which I shall stop in three, two one." Felicity knew she was blushing. "What can I help you with? I usually don't help the royal family personally."

"I need you to see if you can salvage anything from this tome." He placed a partially burned tome on the table in front of her.

"What happened to it?" Felicity looked back at the tome and then up at the Prince.

"I was reading and tipped over a candle." He gave her the fakest looking grin she'd ever seen.

"This looks more like it was tossed in a fire pit." She poked at the charred edges of the binding.

"It was a really big candle." Oliver smiled again.

Felicity opened her mouth to say something but thought it better to keep that thought in her head. You are so lying. Adorable, but lying. "I will see what I can do. Check back with me in a few hours."

"Thank you, Felicity." Oliver nodded his head and left.

When the door to the library shut, Felicity locked it. She quickly ran back to the table. Ember had already reappeared next to the book. "Why would the Prince lie?" She asked Felicity.

"I have no idea. I know he just came back home after being ship wrecked for years. Maybe it's some secret from there?" Felicity sat down and opened the tome. It was heavily burned, but some pages were still readable. "This can't be the Prince's book, Ember."

"Why?" The curious whelping peaked her head around to see the pages. A small gasp slipped her passed her lips accompanied by a tiny spark of flame.

"Tell me about it!" Felicity kept reading. "This is a tome of blood magic. It's more feared and definitely more illegal than we are."

"Is the Prince a mage perhaps?" Ember asked.

"As far as I know, none of the Queen's family is magical." Felicity flipped through more of the pages. "I'm worried for Oliver…"