I would like to apologize for the typos and mistakes in the last chapter. I was not planning to write anything and I was writing on my tablet and I guess just didn't pay attention if spell check was on or not and didn't catch the errors myself when I reread it. But it's been edited now and hopefully that won't happen again.
And wow, this fandom is very, very supportive, it's amazing! Thank you all so much!
Shortly after Oliver came back from the island after the man made earthquake, he dragged in a decent sized cot from god knows where and stuck it in a corner of the foundry that wasn't being used yet. With Moira still in jail and Thea spending way too much time with her boyfriend, the mansion was just too big and too empty sometimes for him to be comfortable there.
Once it was set up in the corner, Oliver spun around to see both Dig and Felicity just staring at him.
"This is mine," he points at the cot, "no one uses it but me. If you are tired, go home. You two spend too much time here anyway."
"Like you don't?" Felicity asked.
"I own this place. I can do what I want. I don't plan to be here all the time anyway, it's just in case."
Felicity and Dig looked at each other, silently deciding not to point out how much like a child that sounded and just let it go.
Choosing to sleep on an old cot instead of in the mansion certainly wasn't the oddest thing Oliver Queen has chosen to do.
A few weeks later, Felicity sat at her computers waiting for the results of a diagnostic test to come back on her computer. Someone had tried to trace them back and hack into their system and although they didn't manage to get in, she was making triple sure they didn't try to leave anything behind or didn't damage anything.
But she didn't realize just how long this test would take since she was making sure to be very, very thorough.
Diggle had left hours ago and Oliver was out patrolling, not knowing she was still there. He was definitely not going to be happy that she hadn't left at the normal time with Diggle but she kept thinking what if the test found something? If it did she needed to get rid of it right away. What if the hackers left a virus and it took over the entire system because she decided to go home?
It would be highly unlikely but it could happen.
Probably.
You could never be too safe with an entire computer full of illegal vigilante stuff.
One hand continued typing, running searches on the names in the book while she didn't have much else to do and one hand was keeping her head propped up on the table and she tried to keep her eyes open.
She had the day off from Queen Consolidated tomorrow and didn't have to be back here until tomorrow night so if she could just stay up a little longer until the search finishes then she could sleep until noon tomorrow if she wanted.
But it was so quiet without Oliver making noise by either working out or sharpening his arrows that she was getting sleepier by the minute. She thought about turning on some music, but then she wouldn't hear Oliver come in when he's done patrolling and really didn't want to be startled this late at night.
Her head slipped off her hand and she caught herself just before her head slammed into her desk. If only she could just maybe take a little nap. Just for a few minutes while the search finished then she could check it, fix anything if she needed to and then go home.
But while her chair was very comfy for working in, it wasn't exactly suited for sleeping.
With a groan, Felicity leaned back in her chair and spun around a little, trying to wake herself up when she caught sight of the cot in the corner.
No.
She couldn't.
Oliver would be back soon from patrolling and he had made it pretty clear that they were not to use it.
But.
Sometimes his patrolling does take a while…
And it would only be just for a few minutes.
No, she couldn't.
But.
She bit her lip and looked between the computer and the cot before making a decision.
Just for a few minutes, he would never know.
Oliver slipped in the door to the foundry and then stopped in his tracks when he noticed that the lights were still on.
Diggle and Felicity should have left hours ago and it was kinda hard to forget to turn off the lights when you left thanks to the giant switch.
He silently pulled out an arrow and got it ready to fire as he hugged the wall and slowly headed down the stairs, keeping his eyes out for anything out of place.
He made his way into the lair and when his eyes landed on Felicity's computers that were still up and running and her shoes and purse still under the desk, he started to get worried.
He knew she was going to stay a little later than Diggle, did someone break in and take her while she was working?
They had cameras installed in the lair but they were set up not to come on unless a panic button of sorts was pressed- or Felicity just wanted to turn them on for whatever reason- so he quickly went over to her computers and started checking to see if the cameras had been turned on.
They hadn't been turned on and he was really starting to worry because if it was someone good enough to sneak in and sneak up behind her before she could trigger the cameras then it would be that much harder to track them down.
He quickly spun the chair around and got up, determined to find out how they got in to start with when he noticed blonde hair on his pillow on his cot.
Oh.
Oliver silently walked over to the cot and after checking to make sure she was okay and had just decided to take a nap apparently, he stepped back with a sigh.
Had he not been clear when he said it was his? And not to use it?
He was mildly irritated that he would have to go back to mansion now but he wasn't going to wake her up and make her go home now. She had clearly been waiting for something to finish on her computer but still. The vigilante took too much of their lives and free time already, he really didn't want them spending more time than they had to here.
He turned away from the cot and went to put up his bow in its case and then headed to the back where they had managed to rig up a shower room. Plumbers they were not but thanks to Felicity finding plans and giving them a general course on plumbing from the internet, they managed. It was by no means pretty but it worked. It wasn't like they could hire people to come down and install one.
Ten minutes later he came out dressed in a t-shirt and pants while drying his hair with a towel, when he had a thought.
He definitely should just go to the mansion but he had told them both that it was his…
And he really had planned just to stay here tonight since he didn't have to be at QC in the morning.
Oliver walked back over to the cot and looked at it. There was plenty of space left.
It would be invading her personal space though, however, technically it was his space she was in and they generally didn't have a problem being in each others personal space.
He hesitated for a minute more then glanced at the clock that told him it was nearly three in the morning and shrugged.
It would be awkward when they woke up but at least this wouldn't happen again.
Felicity slowly drifted back to consciousness and before even opening her eyes, she turned to the left and reached out a hand, intending to grab her glasses off of her nightstand but instead of finding her glasses, her hand whacked something that let out a grunt.
It took a second to register in her brain but when it did, she shot up in the bed, now fully awake.
"Wha-?" Everything was blurry since she didn't have her glasses on yet but she could definitely tell that was a distinctly Oliver shaped blur next to her.
In bed.
And then she remembered about her test last night and how she was only supposed to sleep for a little bit and get up before Oliver got back.
Clearly, that didn't work.
Oliver was awake now and watching her but she reached over to the other side and grabbed her glasses, slipping them on then grabbing her phone to see why the alarm she had set to wake her up after thirty minutes didn't go off.
Which was apparently because she was too sleepy to actually turn the alarm on.
Well. That was helpful.
She took a deep breath and then let it out before turning around to face Oliver who was propped up on his arms now.
"Um…Sorry? I was waiting for the diagnostic test to get done because I wanted to be very sure that the hackers from yesterday didn't leave us a little present. As in like a virus present, not an actual present present. But it was taking forever and I got so tired I was afraid I might completely miss a virus if it popped up because I couldn't keep my eyes open so I just was going to sleep for a little bit here because have you tried sleeping in that chair? It is not for sleeping at all and-"
"Felicity," he groaned, letting himself fall back on the bed, "I told you this was mine so that it will be available when I need it. And I'd rather you not spend all your free time here. I will sleep here when I want to regardless if you are using it or not because it is mine so if you don't want to wake up like this, don't do it again."
"O-Okay-" she was going to say more but then they both heard the door to the foundry open and Felicity sprung out of the bed and ran to her chair faster than she ever had in her life to see Diggle coming down the stairs.
"Felicity? You are still here?"
"Um, yeah. This test has been taking forever and I wanted to get it done before I went home."
"So you stayed all night?" Diggled asked as Oliver moving from the cot caught his eye and he raised his eyebrow at Felicity.
"It was supposed to be done hours ago but I guess I have more files than I thought but today is my day off so I can catch up on my sleep later- oh look it's done now and it didn't find anything so our systems are all clean. Well, guess I'll be going now," she stuck her phone in her bag and slipped on her shoes and quickly headed up the stairs and out the door before anyone could say anything more.
Diggle watched her leave and then looked back at Oliver, "Is there something I need to know?"
Oliver just looked at him and shrugged.
"I told her it was mine."
A week later, Oliver came back from patrolling to find the lights off but a certain IT girl turned EA sleeping in his bed again.
For anyone wondering, there will probably be a continuation of sorts to the first chapter (and probably even a continuation to this) eventually. I'm just writing as the ideas come to me.
I will also take prompts. I can't promise I will actually do them because sometimes for the life of me I just can't think of anything to work with prompts but I will try.