Fortune Has It

Scene opens with a shirtless Oliver taking a drink of water after sparing with a tank-top clad Diggle who is wiping the sweat off his face with a hello kitty towel. In the background we see Felicity entering. Her arms are filled with large, hardcover books that resemble college text books. On top of the pile of books is a pink pastry box that she is securing steadily with her chin.

Diggle tosses his towel down stating, "The math seems pretty straight forward, Oliver. A billionaire minus one company and a mansion or two still leaves you a few million in diversified assets. Doesn't it?"

"What I know about big business you could fit in a thimble," Oliver painfully admits, walking over to meet Felicity. His face says he is happy to see her as he takes the heavy books from her arms. Felicity never releases her gaze from the pink box.

Felicity fondly takes the pink pastry box from the pile of books that are now in Oliver's arms before stating, "You can still be Oliver Queen CEO. Again. Someday. But for now you'll need to work with your rainy day 250 million trust fund and identify a few investments."

Oliver places the books down on a table and says, "So that must have been the bad news first. What's the good news?"

Felicity opens the pink box lid and holding it out towards Oliver and Diggle states with excitement and joy, "Pie!"

Diggle and Oliver just look, nonplused, at Felicity who in disbelief mumbles, "What. Sweaty, Greek godly shaped people don't eat pie. This one even has a 3.14 baked into the crust. Fun with math! And delicious too."

She is still met with the same noncommittal looks from both of them. In obvious disappointment she puts the pink box down and offers matter-of-factly, "Oliver's poor is still the average person's rich. I think you will survive the loss of your private jet, Oliver."

Diggle holds up the hello kitty towel and offers a noncommittal, "Meow."

Oliver finally leaves his pity party and joins Felicity's curiosity stating, "We just need to find a few joint ventures and some investment opportunities then."

Felicity confidently offers, "Way ahead of you. And I've got five possibilities you can run by Walter when you meet with him in twenty minutes."

Oliver looks at his watch. Felicity grabs a few papers from inside the cover of the top text book and places the papers on top of the now closed pink pastry box. She picks up the box and places the papers on top of it and hands both to Oliver stating, "Give Walter my best. And the pie. Can't leave that whole box here with just one blonde, interested party."

Felicity sits in her chair, reaches down to her purse, pulls out an apple and places it on her desk. Oliver and Diggle leave for their meeting with Walter.

Felicity takes off her glasses, closes and rubs her eyes. When she opens her tired eyes, Oliver and Diggle are entering the room.

"How did it go with Walter?" she asks, sliding a bit away from the glowing computer screen.

"He loved the pie and agreed with all you investment suggestions. He said we should start here." Oliver holds a paper out toward Felicity adding, "Kord Enterprises." Before Felicity could even grab hold of the paper in Oliver's outstretched hand, both Oliver and Felicity say the same exact thing at the same exact time:

"I've known Ted Kord for years."

Playfully, but quick as a whip, Felicity tags Oliver on the shoulder and says, "Jinx. You owe me a soda."

Oliver laughs that laugh which only Felicity can get out of him.

Diggle points to Oliver and states, "Well I know your yacht used to float in the same one percent waters as Kord, but how do you know him Felicity?"

With a deadpan face and just the slightest hint of indignation Felicity offers, "Ted was one of the volunteers at the soup kitchen where my mom and I would get our meals."

Diggle and Oliver stand silent. Felicity annihilates the awkward moment by adding, "Do you two really know that little about me? I met Ted at a tech conference in Vegas the summer before I left for college."

Oliver adeptly covers a look of shocked realization by stating, "I was at a conference in Vegas in July of 2005."

"No way were we at the same conference, Oliver. There were no scantily clad woman with strategically placed sequence dancing with poles at the convention I attended," Felicity insists. Thinking her comment came out a little harsher than she intended, so she quickly added, "Just geeks. And Ted Kord, the geek-god," she adds with a big, beautiful Felicity smile.

Oliver is a little put off by what seems to be Felicity's infatuation with Kord and asks, "And after your conference, you've always kept in touch with him?"

Felicity gets a secretive smirk on her face and offers the vague explanation, "More like on-again, off-again as opposed to always. He's amazingly brilliant. A prolific inventor. He has filed more than 2000 patents. Your bow is based on one of them."

Oliver walks over to the case that houses his bow and looks intently at it.

Diggle taps twice on the table closest to him and offers them both a quick goodbye announcing, "I will be back after I meet Lila. Don't call me." And he exits.

Oliver continues to contemplate his bow. Felicity pulls her chair back in front of her keyboard. She begins to type and quietly says, "Oliver. Not to rehash the experience of being the decoy woman you love-"

Oliver turns from his bow and looks directly at Felicity who continues to both type and speak saying, "I know it was more than five months ago. But I want you to know that I'm grateful-"

She stops typing completely adding, "-Not for the world's worst scenario of a gal's first 'I love you' moment. That was," she stumbles at a loss for words so she just repeats, "five months ago. But right now, five months later, I am grateful. Grateful to know that you trust me. So much."

Oliver replies, "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

Felicity's thoughts roll uncontrollably out of her mouth, "That sounds a lot like fortune cookie speak. I've read a lot of fortune cookies. From all the Thai food. And I'm a good tipper. The delivery guy always gives me extra fortune cookies."

Oliver has a smile of agreement on his face. As he walks toward Felicity he pulls a tiny piece of paper from his pocket and hands it to her stating, "This is my fortune from our dinner the other night."

Felicity holds the fortune and reads it aloud, "Trust is a greater compliment than love." She looks at Oliver and smiles then she does her level best to completely change the topic by pulling a piece of paper out from under her keyboard. She hands the piece of paper, which is a brochure, to Oliver stating, "And while we're on the topic of cutting edge technology."

"Worst segue ever," Oliver quickly and quietly comments taking the brochure from her hand while simultaneously taking back his fortune and returning it to his pocket.

Felicity pointing to the brochure and continues, "I need to attend this technology conference. It will have all the latest tech for me to catch up on. When it comes to tech, I need to stay sharp. You of all people should get that."

Oliver looks at the brochure, which clearly has a Kord Enterprise logo on it. He asks, "This conference is in Vegas. Will you be seeing your mom while you are there?"

"That's a conversation for another day. Right now I have to finish this."

"Then I will leave you to your task at hand, "Oliver states as he prepares to exit.

When he is completely gone, Felicity pulls out a lipstick case from her purse. When she opens the case there is no lipstick stored inside but rather one small slip of white paper. She takes the paper out and printed on it in red ink are the words, 'You will marry the man you had dinner with tonight.'