I got to work this morning and sat down with my tablet and keyboard and then found out the internet wasn't working so I pulled up a blank document and out of no where, this happened.
It was a well known fact that Felicity loved her tablet, it was a lot like Oliver's notebook in that you were very, very lucky if you were permitted to touch it.
He had gotten to touch the tablet a grand total of one time and that was only because she needed him to hold it as she fixed her shoe once. Considering that he had let her hold and look at his notebook a lot more than that, it seemed a little unfair.
Oliver quickly flipped the lock on her living room window and then punched in the key code to the fancy alarm system he had all but forced her to install shortly after she started working as part of "Team Arrow" as she calls it.
They had officially finished their "Hood" business hours ago, crossing yet another name off the list, but as usual, Oliver couldn't sleep and ended up putting the suit back on and going out to patrol a little.
Normally he didn't do anything "Hood" related without at least one of them knowing in case something goes wrong but some times he just couldn't stand being still. But as his luck would have it, the second time he went out on his own he got ambushed and they didn't find him until the next morning passed out in an alley. He had managed to take out his ambushers but they got him with a sleeping gas and he was just very, very lucky no one came looking down that alley until Felicity and Dig got to him. And so now when he went out patrolling without them, he made sure to wear a device Felicity had made that would alert her and Dig if he got hurt.
Tonight, the city was strangely quiet. Which is why he ended up crawling through Felicity's window.
He wanted to make sure she was okay after the mission earlier, it didn't go badly but it was pretty emotionally draining on all of them since the guy they were after tried to use his newborn daughter as a hostage. They won though, and no one got hurt except for the man who deserved it but he knew Felicity had been pretty upset at the thought that that man could have even thought to use his baby like that.
But that was only part of the reason he was there. The other reason was simply that he just didn't want to go back to the mansion right now. It was too big, too open and it gave him way too much space to think and sometimes, he really just didn't want to think.
So he was here, sneaking in through the window to see his friend. He half expected her to be awake and in the living room, but then he caught sight of the clock in the darkened room and realised it was nearing two in the morning.
Just a quick peek to make sure she was sleeping soundly- because you know, she could be having nightmares about the mission or something- and then he would leave and try to get some sleep before he had to be at the office in the morning.
He pushed the door to her bedroom open as quietly as possible but then nearly woke her up by laughing.
Moonlight flooded into her room through the window, shining off the tablet as she lay curled around it in her sleep. He shook his head at her and got the feeling that she hadn't just fallen asleep like that since the case was closed.
He briefly thought of taking it from her arms and placing it on the table or just opening it or maybe leaving a note on it just to bug her but then he thought better of it. He would probably unintentionally mess something up and she would lock him out of his office at QC.
Again.
He left her and her tablet alone and backed out of her room slowly, closing the door back behind him and heading back to the window he came in from.
She would never know he was there.
Except, when she woke up in the morning she did.
She had some searches going last night before she went to bed so the first thing she did when she woke up was check her tablet and see if they had found anything.
They hadn't found anything yet but she had an alert from her modified security system and smiled when a video of Oliver sneaking in through her window popped up on her screen. She cropped an image from the video to use for future use- because who knew when she would need blackmail?- and then deleted the video just in case anyone ever found it. It wouldn't look too good for either of them if someone saw the Hood sneaking in her apartment.
Oliver didn't know that she had modified the security system he put in to alert her via tablet when someone tripped it or put in the code and to automatically switch on the video cameras she had put in separately.
Oliver also didn't know that the device she made for when he goes out patrolling alone also sends her alerts when it is activated and put on so she would know when he goes out.
So next time he decides to pay her a late night visit? She'd be waiting.
I sat down and this happened with no planning whatsoever so most likely this will end up being a collection of one shots that may or may not be connected.