Felicity took in a deep breath and walked down the stairs of the new foundry, heading straight toward Oliver.
"Oliver can I talk to you for a moment?"
Oliver looked up and saw Felicity looking tense and nervous.
"Felicity are you ok? You don't look well."
"Yes Oliver I'm fine...No actually I'm not fine! Everything is messed up. This was only supposed to be a short thing, but now it has the potential to be big, you know the big one and I have no idea what to do. Did I mention the big one, cause that cannot be understated. What do I do? Tell me what do I do?"
"Felicity! Take a deep breath and calm down. I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about."
"Its Daniel. He's kinda asked me to move to Seattle with him.
A few weeks after Slade's army had wreaked havoc around Sterling City, Felicity had been contacted with a job offer. Daniel Ward had been hired by QC to re-build their network main-frame. He in turn had hired Felicity as a consultant to help him out, once he learned that she used to be the best and had built the last one. They were instantly attracted to each other and started dating after a few weeks. Daniel was kind, considerate and above all did not question the fact the Felicity was still close to her old boss. Nor did he believe the rumours of how Felicity had "earned "her promotion as Oliver's EA.
Now 8 months later, Daniel was moving back to Seattle and has asked Felicity to move with him. He had even gone as far as arranging a job for Felicity in a former software company he used to work for.
"What do you think I should do?" she asked sliding into her chair.
Oliver leaned on her desk and took a deep breath.
"What do you want to do Felicity?"
She groaned and put her head into her hands.
"I have no idea what to do. Part of me wants to go and run off with Dan. I haven't felt this way about anyone in a really long time. Plus we have so many similar interests that we never run out of things to say to one another. But then there is this other part of me that will hate to leave what we are doing here. We all have invested so much off ourselves into this that I cannot just up and leave. I truly believe that we are making a difference to this city. Oh! I'm just so confused."
Oliver took Felicity's hand in his and stared deeply into her eyes.
"Felicity tell me does he make you happy?"
"Yes," she instantly answered nodding her head. "So unbelievably so."
"Then what are you doing wasting your time here? Get up and tell him that you are going with him."
"What?" she gasped, her eyes widening in surprise. "What do you mean?"
"Felicity what is the point of doing all this if you can't give yourself a bit of happiness. Dig has finally found some and by the looks of things so have you. With everything that has happened in the last year, with my mother and with Thea, I have learnt, that if something comes into your life that make you happy you grab hold of it with both hands and never let go. Daniel is that for you. Don't let him go because of the hood. I won't be able to forgive myself if you did that and more importantly you won't be able to forgive yourself. Believe me that type of guilt is not easy to live with."
"So you're telling me to leave all this and run off with Daniel?"
"No I'm telling you to do what will make you happy."
With that he walked bake to sharpen his arrows, whilst Felicity contemplated what he had just said.
Two weeks later Daniel stood outside Felicity's townhouse with a cab. He looked down at Felicity.
"So I guess this is it then" he said trying to judge what she was thinking.
"Yep." That was the only thing she could say, with tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
Daniel pulled her into a hug and placed a chaste kiss on her forehead.
"I'm sorry" she sniffled into his chest. "I just didn't think this would be so difficult."
"I know. You don't have anything to apologise for."
Felicity pulled out of his embrace and grabbed her suitcase. Daniel took her hand in his and smiled at her.
"Come on Digg and Lyla said they'll be at the airport to say goodbye to us. You don't want to keep your friends waiting now do you?"
Felicity just shook her head and gave a short smirk.
"Let's just go and live the rest of our lives."
Later that evening Digg walked into the foundry and saw Oliver punching the training dummy.
"She was asking after you."
Oliver just grunted and continued punching the dummy.
"You know you could have stopped her from leaving. All you had to do was tell her how you really feel about her."
"No I couldn't"
"Why not?"
"Because I can't give her what she deserves!"
"And what is that Oliver?"
"A happy story."