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The Secret Lives
Chapter 2: Fighting with Death
In the waiting room Oliver watched how everyone was anxious about Felicity while Connor was operating on her in the surgery.
"She will be okay." A girl that he heard her name was Sarah said to him with a sympathetic smile.
"How do you know that?" Oliver asked her and she smiled sitting next to him.
"A few weeks ago a boy named Danny came to the ER and he was part of a circle that makes adult movies…If you know what I mean. And his pimp had him on heroine and he wanted to get out. Felicity pulled some strings and next thing we know the whole circle was behind bars forever and Danny was free. We cut out his chip and send him to rehab. Now he is living with me and Ethan, my boyfriend. If it was for Felicity Danny would have been beaten to death and left for dead in his own pool of blood." Sarah rambled about this Danny boy and Oliver was left remembering the secrecy she and Sara with Roy had about a week ago.
"What are you trying to tell me?" Oliver asked in a tired tone.
"That Felicity if she wants to do something she does it no matter the level of difficulty. Hell she went to MIT and Med School! She is a badass!" Sarah said to him in an attempt to cheer him up.
"Dr. Reece we need you at the ER!" A nurse said to her and she rushed to leave but gave an encouraging pat on Oliver's shoulder.
As Oliver walked around the hospital he stumbled upon some pictures on the wall that showed people he didn't know. His eyes fell on one that wrote;
"Dr. Smoak, Dr. Rhodes with Dr. Downey before the last surgery together.
Rest in peace Dr. Downey! You'll be missed dearly!" Chicago Med December 2016
Oliver stare at the picture and suddenly all the anger and jealousy he buried for the sake of his undead friend came in waves back.
He wanted to punch something. They lied to him! Felicity loves Connor. Felicity loves Tommy. Tommy who supposed to be dead. Tommy who supposed to love Laurel till his last dying breath!
Oliver cursed and walked out of the hospital and started hitting the wall with his leg and his fists.
"OLIVER!" Connor's voice made him stop he was still dressed in the surgeons cloak. He had blood on it….Felicity's blood.
"YOU! YOU SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD! I…I SAW YOU DIE! I SAW THE IRON BEING PIERCED THROUGH YOU! HOW ARE YOU ALIVE, TOMMY?" Oliver yelled at him with tears as he pushed him in repeat.
"Ollie! I died! If it wasn't for Felicity, Shay, Dawson and Saveride with Casey, they ducked me out just minutes before I was completely dead…Felicity and the girls brought me back, stabilize me and I was off to the nearest hospital but they were too many victims in so an helicopter took me to Lakeshore where I went into surgery and ICU then. I was put into a coma because I was too weak. Then four months later I woke up." Connor said in hurry trying to keep Oliver from punching him again.
"What?" Oliver asked at loss completely confused.
"Yes, four months I was dead…almost dead. Then Felicity told me that you had made a funeral already thinking I was dead so Connor Rhodes came around and after awhile I went to Riyadh for my four year residence." Connor told Oliver as he held him steady.
"Do you want to know about Felicity?" Connor asked him and Oliver stare at him.
"Yes." Oliver said with a sigh.
"She okay, out of danger. Now we lay her on her bed in ICU." Connor said and Oliver let a breath of relief as he hugged Connor.
They walked inside the hospital and everyone started clapping.
"Well done, Rhodes!" Chief Boden said to Connor as he patted his shoulder.
"Thanks, Chief!" Connor said smiling.
Connor was ready to pack a bag and get out of the town just so he won't have to deal with Oliver falling for his girl…again!
Again!
Why does he have to be so weak and allow Felicity to reconnect them with Oliver? It's always the same, Oliver steals his girl and he is left again with nothing and no one!
He was smoking, a habit he had picked up in Riyadh, when Natalie and Sarah with Joey came to the balcony where he was and saw him.
"Oh uh! What's with the face?" Sarah asked in a joking manner earning a glare from Connor.
"I fucking hate Oliver Queen. I really do! He always gets the girl!" Connor said and Natalie sighed as she stole a cigarette from his pocket.
"How so?" Joey asked as he lights his own electronic cigarette.
"Oliver loved Laurel before the Undertaking I saw them having sex from the window and now this!" Connor explained half heartedly.
He still hadn't forgiven Oliver for that, he couldn't just say it was okay because he was thirsty for girls.
He remembered how broken he felt drinking alone tequila in a random bar outside Starling City, Kelly Saveride found him and they drank together.
"So what are you going to do now?" Natalie asked him curiously.
"What is there to do?" Connor asked her at loss and Natalie smirked.
"Show him that he isn't allowed to steal Felicity from you. Not this time! Besides you have the advantage here, you and Felicity have been friends for years and you know her better. You've been there through thick and thin. You and Felicity have something Oliver and her don't. You have history, you have strong structure for a healthy long lasting relationship! Am I right, Sarah?" Natalie told Connor while he held his shoulders making sure they had eye contact with each other.
"Yes, you are right. If I understood from what Felicity has told me about her and Oliver they only share a secret and this weird tension and in Oliver's head must be translated as sexual tension and lust but it's not because Felicity and I say this for fact, is head over heels for you and only you!" Sarah said smiling and with an authority in his voice that made Connor think of his Psychology Professor at college and how passionate she was.
"Don't doubt yourself, man. Girls can smell when a guy has no self-esteem and it's a turn off." Joey said half jokingly in order to ease the dramatic tension.
Connor laughed and wondered how he got so lucky to have such wonderful friends here in Chicago.
"Thank you guys! I don't know what I would without you." Connor said as he finished his cigarette and Joey turn off his.
"You'd probably let your future wife go because you were unsure of yourself." Joey told him as he patted his shoulder while they got inside. Something that didn't went unnoticed from Oliver who saw the group getting inside.
Oliver wondered since when Tommy…sorry Connor smoke and then he sighed in anger.
He felt as if he didn't know Tommy anymore like in front of him stood a whole different person.
As Connor took off his doctor cloak in the changing room when Oliver and Kelly Saveride walked in they saw a shirtless Connor.
Oliver held his breath while Saveride whistled at the sight of scars and the tattoos.
"I should have come with you and Felicity that night." Saveride said jokingly and Connor scoffed.
"I'm glad you didn't." Connor said seriously making sure to glare at Kelly. Oliver studied the whole exchange. Something was up.
"Yeah, Shay and you would have busted my balls if I did." Kelly said meaning that the period Connor and Felicity got the matching tattoos was a month after Andrew Darden died and Kelly was at his best.
"Why is that?" Oliver asked curiously trying to fit in and Connor sighed and explained.
"A close friend of ours died on the job which made Kelly get addicted on painkillers because he risked his life to save him causing in an injury that surprisingly didn't kill him." Connor explained looking at Oliver and at the end glared at Kelly who sighed.
"Okay, I will never ignore yours and Felicity's or Shay's orders again! Geez! It's like I have parents." Kelly attempted to joke while Oliver was hit with the reality that Tommy didn't have it any better here in Chicago.
"Where did you get all those scars?" Oliver asked suddenly interested.
He knew those scars were self-patched up so he might have been somewhere he couldn't get medical help.
"In Riyadh. A building collapsed on top of me and many civilians from a terrorist attack, we were taken hostages and tortured. Once we were saved from the fourteen we were only four of us survived I was the only adult the rest were kids, orphans. Then I met Ethan Choi and Vicky Glass who were Navy and the ones who saved us. I don't know why the Navy got in the middle but if it wasn't for those two the little girl, Samien, would have died." Connor said with so much sadness and Oliver noticed the haunted look on his ex-best friend's face.
"All those scars are from that one time? How long you were held hostage?" Oliver asked quickly.
"No, too many times I had to help the military in a hostage transaction and get people out of collapsed buildings, to be honest I lost counting. We were held for twelve months they said. It felt like years. After that I took a few weeks break and came to Hong Kong to look for you and I got yet again taken…it must be my luck." Connor said and Oliver felt shame since he was the one that scared him off that time.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Oliver said truthfully but Connor past him without acknowledging him and he might or might not shoved him intentionally with his shoulder.
Vicky Glass or else known as Amanda Waller's twin sister, who were separated after being orphaned, told Connor about his abduction in Hong Kong and that's why he told Oliver that.
Kelly glared at Oliver and said with an accusing tone;
"He never spoke about those times and now you forced him to do just that. I hope you are satisfied with your actions and the pain it cause."
The Oliver was left alone in the changing room lost in his thoughts.
Connor walked out of the changing room and broke down started crying hysterically and Kelly hugged him holding him tight.
"You shouldn't have said that you know. You could have just gave him some lame ass excuse…like when you broke my nose with your Anatomy book." Kelly said in a parenting kinda tone as he hugged him.
Connor just sobbed and hugged him back.
That moment Matt Casey walked by and saw them he instantly got worried and walk up to them.
"Where is Queen I need to beat him up for hurting you!" Matt said and Connor sniffed as he laughed at Matt's protectiveness.
"I don't need a knight, Casey!" Connor tried to joke but his tears got in the way.
Just then Ethan saw and heard the whole thing since he was in the changing rooms and texted Vicky and SOS text so they can cheer Connor up.
Vicky Glass was having dinner with her sister when he got the message which caused a sound of disapproval in a form of a sigh from Vicky.
"What's up, sis?" Amanda asked worried as she swallowed her bite of pasta with shrimp and tomato sauce.
"Oliver fucking Queen upset Connor, that's what is up. I mean come on, he has his town to take care of and now he butts in Connor's town, his safe heaven? He is not in town for more than twenty four hours and Connor is already reminded of the bad things that happened to him." Vicky rambled in anger as Amanda sighed in agreement.
Oliver Queen had that effect on people.
"And what does Connor need now?" Amanda asked and Vicky sighed.
"Ethan says we should cheer him up but Felicity is in coma and in the ICU so it's not the right time for tequila shots and bars." Vicky said while she texted the exact same thing asking for ideas from her boyfriend.
"What?! Felicity is in the hospital? What happened?" Amanda exclaimed in shock and worry. She had grown to respect that woman so finding out her life was in danger…well it worried her.
She might have faked her own death to get out of Arrow related business and vendettas but that didn't mean she stopped caring for the people she had met through that.
"She was shot by some asshole…him and her cousin had some vendetta that Ethan can't tell me since he swore secrecy to Felicity. They guy is dead, Lindsay texted me the info, Connor killed him. He deserved that I might add." Vicky explained as she set her phone down on the table.
"Well that sucks. But I have to say Tommy Merlyn…excuse me Connor Rhodes is a brave man and a knight, unlike his dad." Amanda commented and the twin sisters smiled in agreement as they cheered with wine glasses.
Felicity was tired that is what she knew at first. Next thing she knew was that she was in the hospital. She slowly turned and looked at her left side and saw Maggie and April going through her charts and being really serious and talking in slow voices.
"You know…gossiping about a near death patient is disrespectful." Felicity said in a hoarse voice which scared the girls as they let a scream of surprise from both.
"Welcome back from the dead, bestie!" April said as tears run down her face.
"I still get to be one of the aunts to the baby right?" Felicity asked in a joking tone as Maggie gave her a water bottle.
"How? How did you know?" April asked in surprise as she touched her belly.
Felicity just smiled knowingly and April hugged her.
"Where is Connor?" Felicity asked as she saw Kelly and the rest of the Fire Department 51 walked inside cheering for their girl.
"He wanted a little time." Kelly said and Felicity instantly knew that Oliver is to blame for Connor's time out.
She sighed as she got shocked when suddenly two small kids run inside the room one known as Tate Jerkin's son, Eric Jerkin.
"Hey, buddy!" Felicity said happily she as Eric jump on her bed and she laughed at his tiny hands hugging her.
She caught a glimpse of Oliver staring at her in confusion and shock.
"Will you be okay now? Can we go to your house and play with our Nidento?" Eric asked in a childish voice which cause all the people to laugh and Felicity to hug him.
"Of course did Tate bring mine?" She asked smiling as Tate gave her bag.
She and Tate had made an agreement that if anything happened to her or him during in MIT that they would each of them have a bag of clothes in case they need them. And now Tate raised the bag and Felicity smiled.
"Thank you, Tate!" Felicity said and she smiled.
"Well I owe you one." Tate said cheekily as he looked at April and Felicity smirked.
Unknown to all of them except of Felicity Oliver stood there watched how all of them acted around Felicity how it was shown that they knew each other years.
How this Tate got a bag of close that belonged to Felicity and how this kid jumped on her bed and hugged her.
"Vicky!" A voice exclaimed as Oliver was shoved, yet again, aside and an African American girl rushed to Felicity.
"Well, Felicity Smoak you officially have nine lives to live! Where you a cat in a previous life?" Vicky Glass asked in a joking manner.
Oliver gasped at the sight of Amanda Waller in a pink coat and light blue heels.
"Yes, I was a Mai." Felicity said laughing and hugged Vicky.
"Well you must have made a hell of manicure then just like Chloe King." Vicky said laughing as she hugged her friend.
"Chloe King?" Matt Casey asked confused.
"Yes, Nine Lives Of Chloe King a series of books." Both Vicky and Felicity exclaimed in a 'duh' tone.
"Oh! Of course! How didn't I know that?" Matt said with sarcasm and everyone laughed.
"Well, Smoak you are back on your feet and making jokes that is a good sign." Chief Boden said in a satisfied smile and Felicity let a few tears run.
"I saw them, Chief." Felicity said finally breaking down and hugging Eric closer to her and Chief Boden hugged them both.
Everyone knew who she meant, her dead twin babies, Artemis and Achilles. She wanted to name them after her grandparents.
Oliver felt out of place. He was out of place.
He didn't belong here.
Then he saw him, Connor walking with flowers. He didn't look at Oliver and walked straight in Felicity's room.
And Oliver saw him kneel before the bed and taking out a ring box.
"Felicity Megan Smoak will you be my wife or should I say my Sally to my Harry…only four years earlier?" Connor said with chuckling tone and Felicity froze gaping and crying.
"YES!" She exclaimed and Connor put the ring and kissed her passionately.
Those few moments Oliver's world shuttered to the ground. He lost Felicity to Tommy someone he never imagined.
His mind drifted back to the time when Oliver introduced them or should I say re-connected them.
"Isn't it sweet?" Mrs. Goodwin asked him happily and Oliver stare at her emotionless.
"They are seven years friends and now engaged…oh! Young love!"Mrs. Goodwin said happily as she walked to the newly engaged as Oliver turned and left from the hospital. Just as he stepped out of the perimeter his eyes teared.
Connor Rhodes was the happiest man, he had his best friend, his fiancé, his girl! He finally got the girl!
Joey's mention of the whole future wife made him realize what was in front of him all this time. The only solid thing, person that was there for him when everyone left him or betrayed him, Felicity Megan Smoak was that solid person.
The girl he loved all this time. A love that was deeper then what he felt for Laurel or any other fling he had.
Felicity was in his arms as she kissed him again.
"My fiancé!" Felicity giggled as she repeated the word again trying to wrap her head around it.
"My fiancé!" Connor said giggling back as they held each other.
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