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Reunion Part 2
General POV
We walked inside the restaurant admiring the whole place while Frakle took care of the reservation.
"This place is huge!" Zay whispered in Felicity's ear as he held her arm.
"Tell me about it." Felicity said gaping at the chandelier.
As an Olympic Athlete you'd think she was used to expensive restaurants and riches but she was living a life full of abuse and grief she never went anywhere with her parents in public…she and her coach only went and whenever they did she had to pretend that she was not astounded by how beautiful everything was just for the cameras. That she was used to that type of life which was not the case. Her first home was an apartment in Manhattan that needed all sort of repairs and then when she moved to her aunt for a few months she living in a two stories house that came close to the idle white peaking fence fantasy. After that when she moved with her dad they lived in the same neighborhood with Maya where the apartments weren't that safe or that new…the woods were cracking and she and her dad had to change the floors and the windows.
Thankfully her dad as a Professor in Julliard made enough money that helped to do the repairs but they didn't bought expensive houses or things just so her dad can save money for her as a security for her future, her dad loved her there was no question about it but sometimes love can make you twisted enough to become possessive and abusive.
Thankfully once her parents locked away to jail (in the first place) and then a Psychiatric clinic her dad had told her that he had made one of the teachers to swore to him that whatever happened to him that his daughter, Felicity, was always welcome to study at Julliard with full scholarship as a apology gift and thank you at the same time since her father realized that something was wrong with him. While her mum…well her mum never really wanted to see her…she heard from her dad that she hadn't forgave her and that she never wanted her as her child.
Felicity felt wounded and a little unsure if it was per say what her mother said but her dad was the most sane out of both parents besides her mum was always distant from the time she stopped breast feeding her…she remembered that her dad would change her diapers, take her to walks, to movies and be a mother and a father. So she had a gut feeling that what her mother had said to her dad was true indeed.
Her mother never really came to any of her figure skating competitions while her dad and aunt were the ones that cheered for her from home and waited for her in the airport and in the hospital when she was injured.
Once she learnt what her dad suffered from she got herself tested for the same thing and urged her aunt to get tested too thankfully the tests came out negative and she calmed down. You see her dad's mood swings caused him to become abusive towards her and that's what made her lose trust in people and men in general.
Her dad gets better and better each time she visits while her mother worse and worse.
Zay pulled Felicity towards their table since she was left looking at the chandelier that action caused her to be pulled back to reality from her walk down the memory lane of her life.
The dinner was not as awkward as she had thought and she was smiling and laughing and teasing and being embarrassed and embarrassing her friends to NASA Daniel.
"So let me get this straight…you were an Olympic Athlete and graduated both MIT and Julliard?" Daniel asked amazed and Felicity nodded while being chocked by her wine.
"Yes, I was but then I injured my hip and I gave it up all together." Felicity said while smiling with pride.
"And how you were allowed to attend both Julliard and MIT?" Daniel asked confused and interested.
"Well it was tricky to be 100% honest. I first went to MIT and I graduated four years later but two of those years I wasn't physically attending classes. I was attending Julliard and doing my essays for MIT and sending them from my dorm at Julliard with e-mail and when I graduated it was with two years apart. Then I was hired by QC that took them a year to book an interview. As you can see I have a habit of multitasking. What about you? How did you end up in NASA?" Felicity explained the complicated but exciting college life she had with a very fond smile since it only brought happy memories and amazing people she met in mind.
She made a mental note to contact some of her friends from Julliard and plan a get together as a Reunion party just after she is done with the Middle/High School Reunion.
"It was a hell of a marathon to reach that high to say the truth. My parents were writers for science fiction novels so money were a lot but with a big cap between payments so I had to work part times at car wash, fast food shops and bookstores all my life while going to school. When I was six my dad took me to a planetarium and that was when I fell in love with the stars. Then I start search for books and documentaries about the stars, planets and the future. By the age of sixteen I was hooked like it was a drug at the time I was working at a bookstore and the owner's son was already working at NASA's labs so about Carrier Day he visit our school and instantly I asked him if I could become like him. He laughed and said that I need to be passionate about such subjects and that I should give up my life for it. At the time I lived by those rules he told me, I got into Oxford and Majored in Astrophysics and one day I heard that the bookstore owner's son died in a freak plane crush and NASA was searching for someone to replace him…I booked an interview and here I am now. The bookstore owner told me that he couldn't imagine anyone replacing his son as good as I did which surprised me I was expecting him to be hostile towards since I took his son's job months after his tragic death." Daniel rambled and everyone in the table listened to him like he was spilling the deepest secrets of the universe. To them he was…Daniel was like a great mystery and having Isadora's trust and love meant that he was special and worth of it so her friends wanted…no needed to find out what made him worth of it.
Especially Frakle and Felicity wanted to know who Daniel was.
"Fascinating, isn't it?" Isadora said with a huge smile and looked at Daniel with so much love that Felicity couldn't imagine one person having it inside him…she didn't. Not for Oliver or anyone…not even herself.
"Where did you grew up, Daniel?" Lucas asked as Riley and Maya kicked him under the table for his rudeness. Lucas was between his Texas alter ego and his normal self right now…ready to beat the guy for being an asshole and taking advantage of Smackle and congratulating him in his choice of a woman at the same time.
"I grew up in Settle but moved to Atlanta when I was three and from there to Nashville where my parents still are. But right now I live and work in Washington DC." Daniel said with a smile and Lucas visible relaxed and Smackle glared at him.
"How you two met?" Riley asked Isadora and Zay chuckled darkly and everyone looked at him in confusion…well not everyone…Isadora and Daniel had widen eyes and trying to shut him up.
No one could know that they met in a Strip Club…yeah…Smackle was attending a Bachelor party of a colleague of hers and Daniel himself was dragging his little sister out of the club since he didn't like that she worked there and as they rushed to the exit Daniel fell on Isadora spilling her margarita on her white dress and hair.
"We met in a club!" Both Isadora and Daniel said in sync and really really tense.
"Oh!" Everyone said and the table fell in silence as they ate their main course.
About half hour later the awkwardness fade away again and Felicity with Frakle and Daniel start talking about planets and stars while Smackle and Riley with Maya were trying to sort some last minute preparations for the reunion while Zay and Lucas were searching (secretly) Daniel on Google.
Suddenly the waiter came and asked for Maya, Riley, Lucas and Frakle in the kitchens for some weird reason and Felicity got curious but Zay kept her from leaving the table. Ten minutes later Frakle and Lucas walked toward the table with a huge birthday cake and Maya filming while Riley passed party hats all over the tables and all the restaurant start singing Happy Birthday to Felicity.
Felicity shocked and overwhelmed stare at her friends with tears in her eyes. With everything she went through she had forgotten her own birthday! She looked at her watch and saw it was 1 am which meant that in one hour it would be 28 years old.
"Happy birthday, sunshine!" Riley exclaimed with happiness as she kissed her cheek putting a hat on her head.
Daniel was also taping the whole thing on his phone with a smile. He liked his girlfriend's friends they were like a family something his friends will never be to him.
His friends were all married and businessmen so there was no time to admire the small things in life like the people before him. His sister stopped talking to him and his parents…well rarely has time to visit them with such important job.
"Thank you guys! I had forgotten that tomorrow…well today is my birthday!" Felicity said with happy tears in her eyes before blowing the candles and the whole restaurant applauded.
After the heartwarming birthday the waiter and Frakle with Lucas took the cake back to the kitchen to have it cut and offered to all the people in the restaurant even the staff.
Felicity with Riley and Daniel watched the videos and photos they had taken and some of them Felicity uploaded them on her social media along with the rest of her friends did the same thing with her.
In the other side of the town Oliver was being scolded by Lyla and Diggs while Sara was watching confused and eating chips like she was in the movies.
"I can't believe you did such a cruel thing, Oliver!" Diggs yelled at Oliver in so much anger that Sara expected any moment his ears to see smoke coming out of them.
"SHE LIED! SHE TOLD US THAT SHE WAS FROM LAS VEGAS NOT FREAKING NEW YORK!" Oliver roared in matching anger.
"She never said anything about Las Vegas, Oliver! She never spoke about her family to us…you only saw that from the background check you did on her before letting her in your team!" Lyla yelled supporting her husband.
Sara was watching the exchange and understood that they found out about Felicity being an Olympic Athlete…she recognized her the moment she met her after all she was her idol before the island. She wanted to follow her footstep that was the reason she was going to Julliard and studying ballet and modern dancing.
"Can I say my opinion on the matter?" Sara said loudly and all of them turn to look at her.
"Felicity had a reason why she never spoke about her family, agree? We have a reason why we don't talk about the island or Afghanistan or the League of Assassins, right?" Sara said as she closed the chips and dusted herself and walked up to them.
She felt like Laurel in a court room right now that made her chuckle lowly to herself.
"Yes, but.." Oliver started but Sara raised her hand in a stop sign and Oliver shut up.
"There is no but, Oliver. Everyone is entitled to secrets big or small. Besides we know her for what? Three years…for you but for me it's been only a few months if not a year…do you expect someone to open up so easily? It's not the 60s where people were more open to their emotional side it's 2010 and we are not most people we have went through shit normal people will take away their own life so they don't have to suffer more. Felicity went through shit too and overcoming abuse isn't easy…I don't talk about the abuse I went through because talking about it is like accepting that it happened and it's easier to deny that it happened. Would you Oliver love your body if you knew that someone else had the power to scar it, tear it, invade it and make it bleed and you had no way of protecting yourself? Would you feel like a hero if you told the whole city what you let other people do to you? The answer is no. You will feel like a nothing, a coward and you will think that the public thinks the same thing…some will do. Some people will say if he allowed others hurt him how can we trust him with our town in his hands for protection?" Sara rambled as Oliver looked at her with a gaped mouth while Diggs and Lyla looked at her in amazement.
"Do you think Felicity, with a self esteem that low because of the years of abuse, would trust that easily someone that has anger issues just like her parents? Do you know why she flinches every time you fight with her? She awaits the moment you will raise your hand and strike her…beat her till there is no bone left unbroken just like her parents used to do." Sara finished her rant and took her chips and jacket and walked out of the foundry letting a shocked Oliver looking at her.
She was planning to go see Laurel talk about what happened with Felicity and if she was right saying what she said to Oliver…deep down she knew she was right but she wanted someone who had a small knowledge about psychology to ensure her of that.
She knocked at Laurel's door and her sister smiled at her as she step aside letting her in.
"Hey! I was about to eat Lasagna, want a plate?" Laurel said with a bright smile and Sara nodded eagerly.
They sat in silence as they ate when Sara spoke for the first time.
"Oliver found out about Felicity's past and he kicked her out of the team." Sara blurted out and Laurel's cutlery fell on the plate with a big thud.
"That is so unfair!" Laurel exclaimed in anger.
"I know. I ranted about it to him but I think I might have caused more damage than defending our friend." Sara mumbled and Laurel reached for her little sister's hand and stroked it.
"I know that you know more for post abuse feeling than anyone. You understand how Felicity must feeling right now more than anyone so whatever you said was the right thing to say and it needed to be said. Oliver has to learn to look things by many perspectives not only his own." Laurel told her little sister and remember how Sara panicked as he watched Felicity's back and arms one day she caught her off guard at the Foundry testing some techniques Diggs taught her and she wasn't wearing anything but a tank top and leggings and she was bare foot.
"Do you think Felicity will talk about her abuse to anyone else besides me and you and her friends back home?" Sara asked Laurel in worry and Laurel sighed.
"I don't know…would you speak to anyone about your abuse knowing that one of your friends might see this as betrayal that kept it from him instead of being like "Hi, my name is Laurel Lance and I was abused by my parents. Nice to meet you!"? Laurel said and Sara laughed a little by her imitation she did and the high pitch voice she used.
"So I was thinking…I go talk to Felicity once she wakes up and beg her not to shut us out." Sara said once they finished dinner and start washing the dishes.
"I think that you should make them talk to each other without getting in the way." Laurel suggested while fixing the couch for Sara to sleep in.
"Alright! Tomorrow first thing!" Sara agreed and fall asleep as Laurel smiled.
Since when she became Team Felicity on this? God only knows!
She shook her head and walked to her room and fell asleep.
On the other side of the town Felicity and Zay sang off key to a 40's song called "Oh! Johnny Johnny" by Andrews Sisters while Maya taped them and Frakle with Riley shook disapprovingly their heads. Lucas was texting on his phone while Isadora and Daniel were just watching them while enjoying how foolish they looked.
Just then a cab driver got out of his cab and waved at Zay and Felicity who their return they waved back and hugged him.
"Hey! Guys! Meet Taxi Daniel!" Drunken Felicity yelled and Zay laughed even more.
"Okay…guys I think you need a ride home." Taxi Daniel said and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Listen, man, take Felicity, Zay and Lucas with you we will walk there besides we are not so drunk." NASA Daniel said to Taxi Daniel with a smile.
"Alright. You sure you don't want me to call my colleague to get you?" Taxi Daniel asked as he received a big bill by NASA Daniel.
"Yes, we are sure. Lucas, are you sure you can handle them?" NASA Daniel asked Lucas who was trying to put Felicity in the back seat of the cab.
"Sure, I've done it many times for Maya…I had practice. Trust me!" Lucas said and Maya exclaimed offended.
"Hey! You were my flat mate you were supposed to be doing such things when your rommie gets super drunk from a Rave party!" Maya exclaimed slightly offended and in a teasing tone.
Lucas did the "whatever sign" to her before climbing in the cab and driving off.
From the rooftop of the opposite Felicity's building a shadow was sitting and staring at her window. The shadow's posture tensed when the lights of the apartment light up and a blond guy walked in carrying an unconscious Felicity and another man behind him carried a super drunk African American guy.
"Thank you again, Daniel! I haven't thought of how I could bring those two up here." The blond guy spoke with slightly Texas accent.
"No problem! Besides I was on my way to my fiancé's house she was waiting for me." Daniel guy said and the blond nodded.
"I didn't know you were engaged. Congratulations are in order!" The blond guy said offering his hand to Daniel guy.
"Thank you. We are getting married in June right after she gives birth to our twins." Daniel guy said and the blond smiled.
"That is awesome!" He said as he offered the man beer from the freezer.
'How did he know where the freezer was?' The shadow wondered.
"I know! So how about you? Getting married soon?" Daniel guy said and the blond smiled.
"I hope soon. I want to get married to Maya and have a family but I know she is not ready yet for that…maybe she is not the one." The blond said with a sigh that revealed how troubled he was.
"If I could give you an advice it would be that the one will be the person that was there for you through thick and thin." Daniel guy told the blond.
"Both Maya and Riley were with me…it was hard to chose between them and Felicity was the only one that supported the idea of not choosing between them and just go out there and search for someone new. She and Josh had the weirdest relationship…this 'Long Game' thing almost drove her mad. I saw it like a cage…Josh was in college with so many sorority girls and parties that I knew for fact attended and Felicity was back in New York from a court room to another and he didn't even care to come and see her after they locked her parents up. Later that year I learnt that Josh had cheated, sort of, on her with many girls in the Campus…oh! How angry I was with him!" The blond said with anger that reminded the shadow of a bull.
"Josh sounds like a jackass player. How did she take it?" The Daniel guy asked the blond.
"She didn't seemed to care…she smiled and walked up to the girl he caught him with and gave her condolences to her for choosing an untrustworthy pig and walked out of Josh's dorm where I waited for her with Mr. Mathews." The blond said and Daniel guy whistled in approval.
"She has guts. Look thanks for the beer but I have to go. I hope we see each other again." The Daniel guy said with a smile and the blond helped him out of the apartment.
The shadow looked at the blond with a jealous glare as the blond caressed Felicity's hair off her face and took her shoes off and helped her on the bed.
"Lucas?" Felicity mumbled in her sleep.
"Yes?" Lucas whispered.
"Help me take off the dress…it's expensive and doesn't deserve my drools on it." Felicity mumbled as she sat up and tried to take it off.
"WOW! Wait a sec, Licity! I need to find your pjs…where are they?" Lucas exclaimed as he covered his eyes. The shadow chuckled darkly at the blonde's reaction.
"Don't have…I put them in the laundry." Felicity mumbled already half undressed and in her underwear.
"Okay then…where can I find clean ones?" Lucas asked as he looked at the wardrobe. Lucas found a Hello Kitty shorts and World Of Tanks t-shirt…to be honest this T-Shirt was his. She stole it during college when she became addicted to that game.
"Hey, Fee! Here is your pjs." Lucas threw them on her bed and on her face.
"Oh! Tanks! Thank you, Lucas!" Felicity said and started dressing. Lucas went and took Zay's jacket and shoes off and put a blanket on him in the couch.
Lucas walked into Felicity's room and watched her as she fell asleep half dressed with her shirt half on.
"Classic Felicity…" Lucas mused with a small laugh as he closed the door and walked to the guest room and went to bed.
The shadow stayed for a little while till he left. It was no time to speak to Felicity while she was that drunk and her house was that crowded.
The Next Morning: Felicity POV
I woke up with a massive headache and half dressed in my apparently clean pjs. I walked with a frown on my face to the kitchen and I saw a sleeping Lucas and Zay, they looked funny, both too tall for the couches almost their limbs spilling to the ground.
"Don't scream." Sara's voice scared her as she saw her behind the kitchen counter.
"You should stop doing that!" Felicity hissed in a low voice as she clutched her chest in a startled manner.
"Sorry, I need to speak to you…before they wake up." Sara said and Felicity nodded as she scratched sleepily her head and walked to the coffee maker and started making coffee.
Twenty minutes later both girls were seated in her balcony from her bedroom's side with cups of hot coffee and bowls of cereal.
"So, from what I heard from Diggs and Lyla you've been kicked out of the team. Don't worry Diggs, Lyla and I even Laurel supported you against him. I even rambled angrily at him about how you must feel talking about it. I hope he took the time to think and get himself in your shoes for a while and see how you must feel." Sara said quietly so they won't be heard by rude neighbors.
"Thank you, Sara but I didn't want you or anyone to defend my honor against Oliver. If he didn't understand and wanted me in him team after learning the truth is his problem not mine. I can do without being a target and associated with You Know Who…I would just miss you and your friendship guys." Felicity said with a cold voice but in the end she let a little sadness drip in her tone.
"I know…but we wouldn't stop talking to you even if you left the team. You are our friend, Felicity…and I believe I speak for the majority on the team on that." Sara said and rubbed Felicity's knee reassuringly and smiled at her friend and idol.
"I don't think you would…we don't have anything in common besides the team." Felicity mumbled unsure.
"You talking bullshit right now!" Sara exclaimed in disbelief.
"We have many things in common. We love each other as family! That is enough to keep us together and I don't want to hear any of that shit again, am I clear Felicity?" Sara scolded her and Felicity nodded as she ate her cereal.
The rest day went by smoothly with her playing the tourist guy and Sara with Laurel joined them for lunch while later that day Diggs and Lyla suggested to drive to the beach for a bonfire party some of Lyla's old college classmates were throwing.
The days went by in blur as Felicity had her friends over pretty soon the day for the reunion came and found Felicity boarding the plane with Sara and Laurel by her side.
Laurel and her became close friends after the second week of her not being on the team. Although she missed the feeling of saving lives she liked to see Oliver struggle…it was like her payback for him being so rude and harsh to her.
She didn't have the mental stamina to start a verbal fight with him and during the day work they would be civil and Felicity will act coldly towards him while he would ignore her and speak to her if only needed.
"So, any embarrassing story I should be aware to not say to your classmates?" Sara teased Felicity as they were seated. Felicity looked at her sideways with a smirk and shook her head no.
"I don't have but my friends do…so you'll hear and see photos of them in the power point Riley prepared." Felicity told her and she nodded.
"I can't believe this!" Laurel exclaimed in annoyance from the seat behind the two blond girls who turned concerned to look at her.
"I told my boss that I would be in New York for the weekend and he made me cover the issue about the NASA exhibition in New York! It's just the day after Felicity's Middle School Reunion…Damn it!" Laurel said in sadness and stress.
"It's okay, I have a friend who invited my friends and I to that too. We will be all together and Sara can be my plus one…in non-romantic way of course because I'm not rolling like that…no offense, Sara!" Felicity rambled slightly embarrassed.
The girls laughed and nodded as Laurel sighed in relief.
In Starling City: General POV
In Starling City Oliver was training in the Foundry just as Diggs walked it while typing away in his phone.
"So, Felicity has gone to New York for her Middle School Reunion. Oliver for how long will you stay angry to her?" Diggs asked slightly tired from the feud that is going on between Oliver and Felicity.
If he was frank the feud went between Oliver and his head…Felicity to accept the fact that Oliver was angry with her and he kicked her out of the team.
She seemed cold towards Oliver and normal towards him.
"I don't know, Diggs! How long will she keep secrets from us?" Oliver said sighing clearly angry at Felicity or was it at Diggs' question…no one knows but him.
He didn't want to be the one who would apologize…Felicity hadn't spoken to him since their last call…not in the friend manner only in the professional way.
Diggs sighed in frustration and left the Foundry and went to speak with his wife on the phone.
He didn't see the friendship or whatever that was but he wished it would be soon!
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