"Diggle, what's wrong with her?" Felicity whispered to Diggle as she watched him frantically hand Oliver the first aid kit and then walk over to a cabinet filled with three backpacks. He proceeded to pack a bag full of medical supplies, cash, and Oliver's extra work out clothes.

"She going to be fine, Felicity. She drove to the Queen mansion and found it being ransacked by a bunch of people so as she was speeding out of there she got into a small car accident. I found her by the side of the road using the GPS in her phone. I checked her over at the scene and she only has a few bumps and scratches. We have to get her and Oliver out of here, Felicity, it's not safe out there for a Queen anymore. The city is in ruins and it seems that everyone is out for blood from the Queen and Merlyn families. Do you have any more clothes in you locker? I need to pack Thea a bag." Diggle spoke so quickly for a moment Felicity thought he was the one who was usually caught rambling between the two of us.

He helped himself to her locker and quickly emptied it of all of the clothes she had inside placing it into another bag along with a satellite phone. She turned and watched Oliver as he bandaged Thea's wounds and gently woke her up. They spoke quietly and Felicity felt as if she was invading on a private moment so she turned back towards Diggle, who was already on his phone arranging transportation.

"Wait, a minute! Dig, where are they going to go? You can't honestly expect people to just let them fall off the face of the Earth. And what about Oliver" She whisper yelled at Diggle.

"He just lost Tommy, he hasn't had time to breathe let alone go on the run." Her heart clenched at the idea of Oliver leaving. Minutes ago, Oliver and Felicity were laughing and now he has to disappear and worst of all leave her behind she thought. Felicity felt like the world around her was spinning out of control even more so than it had in the last twenty-four hours.

"Felicity, he's right. Thea and I need to leave." Oliver spoke up from the couch as Thea shifted on the couch to try to figure out where she was.

Gone was the playfulness in his eyes when he was teasing her. Gone was the boy that died on that island and made way for the strong man she saw before me. He was on another island again except this time he put himself there. He no longer looked at Felicity as a person but surveyed her as if she represented some sort of threat. Oliver had done it. He had turned off all his emotions and now she hardly recognized the frigid blue eyes staring at her. Snapping herself out of it she turned and began helping Diggle pack the second bag. She went over to wear she kept some extra tech devices like trackers and communication systems and threw them into the bag. Oliver's bag contained his clothes, a few small weapons, and the cash that was kept lying around the foundry in case of emergencies. Thea's was filled with Felicity's clothes, all of the medical supplies they could possibly need, and a satellite phone. While Diggle and Oliver spoke quietly in a corner Felicity wrote Oliver a quick letter and stuffed it into his bag. Diggle told Felicity he would call her later as he carried Thea Queen back up the stairs to the car that was waiting for them.

"So, I guess this is goodbye." Felicity turned as she heard a voice behind her as she finished zipping up Oliver's bag.

She felt a blush creep onto her cheeks at the thought of being caught by Oliver. He stepped towards her and put both hands on her shoulders and she saw him wage an internal war.

"Goodbyes are sad, Oliver. A goodbye should only be said to someone when you are sure you are never going to see them again so don't you dare say goodbye to me. How about instead of goodbye we say until next time because it leaves room for the future. It gives us some hope. It gives us something to hang onto."

"Felicity Megan Smoak", He paused for a moment staring at me. She watched his eyes for a moment show an emotion she couldn't discern flicker through his eyes before he locked it down.

"You truly are remarkable."He said as Diggle called for Oliver at the top of the stairs and he yelled back that he would only be a moment. Oliver opened his mouth to speak and then shut it abruptly.

"Until next time." He said before he turned abruptly on his heel and headed up the stairs leaving her all alone in the lair.

3 MONTHS LATER

Felicity had not had more than a moments worth of silence all day when she finally made it back to her office after spending all morning in a meeting with the directors of each department and the new President of Queen Consolidated, Oliver Queen. Three months and not a word from him were enough to make her feel uncertain about where she stood with him. During the meeting, she glanced down only at the documents in front of her careful to avoid his penetrating gaze but caved and looked up to find him staring at her so intently that it made her feel like they were the only two people in the world let alone in the room. She sat down in her office chair and began to go through her emails.

"Hi, is this Felicity Smoak's office?" A voice asked as Felicity looked up to find no other than Thea Queen walking into her office.

"Thea-I mean - yes it is I'm Felicity Smoak. How can I help you?" She stammered out as Thea Queen walked around Felicity's office surveying the book cases and diplomas on the wall. Internally Felicity wondered if any of the Queens ever seemed to knock.

"Please call me Thea. You know you seem familiar, have we met before? " Thea asked as she began to study Felicity like a rare species.

" - I mean Thea, we met briefly when I visited Walter, your stepfather, while he was in the hospital. Your brother introduced me as a friend but in all reality I am more like a work acquaintance." Felicity replied hoping that her answer would be enough to end this sure to be uncomfortable line of questioning.

"How exactly do you know Ollie?" Thea asked as Felicity suddenly became very interested in her hands as she mentally wished that she was anywhere but here in her office having what was probably going to be known as the most uncomfortable conversation ever with Thea Queen.

"Ollie? You mean ? I met him last year after he came back from the island when he asked me to rescue his laptop after he spilt a latte on it." Felicity said as she tried to hold back a smirk at the memory of Oliver walking into her office with a bullet riddled laptop and bad lies. She had never realized before that it was that short ten minute encounter with Oliver that would change her life forever.

"I know I don't look like much in the way of brains but don't patronize me Felicity. I read the letter." Thea said with a smirk as she watched Felicity begin to freak out internally.

Oh god she read the letter. Oliver's sister read the letter I wrote for him and now he has sent her here to politely tell me how much he never wants to see me again or how I am fired for being enough of an idiot to fall for a guy who only saw me as a means to an end.

"I-I didn't mean to patronize you Thea- I mean and I am so sorry you felt that way. And what letter did you read exactly? I read somewhere that billions of letters are written every year around the world." Felicity replied while contemplating the ways she could crawl under her desk and hide.

"You're not his usual type as I'm sure you know but I like you. The letter made me like you and then I come in here and find out that you are the polar opposite of Laurel which makes me like you even more. When we got to our other home in Metropolis, after the Undertaking, I woke up to find Oliver unpacking our bags and placing a piece of paper in his back pocket. Later on when I questioned him about it he got all evasive like he does and left the room and sure enough a white piece of paper was still in his back pocket. For weeks, it drove me insane as I tried to figure out what could be so important to Oliver that he would not show it to me. So I played the only card I had left. I snuck into his room while he was showering and stole the piece of paper. Imagine my surprise when I saw it was a love letter. My first assumption was that it was from Laurel but the letter sounded completely different from anything that she would say and then at the bottom you signed your first name. Suddenly everything made sense. At night when Oliver thought I was asleep I would hear him talking to Diggle on the phone about someone named Felicity and after some serious harassing Diggle on my part I now stand before you. " She said with a smile on her face as Felicity felt her heart thud loudly in her chest.

" Ohmygod. I don't even know what's worse the fact that you read the letter or the fact that Oliver read it and hasn't mentioned it which means he probably thinks I'm insane. And it was not a love letter it was just a regular kind of letter that one writes to someone they have a crush on. Who am I kidding it was a love letter and now you're here. God could this day get any worse, not that you being here has made my day terrible or anything but I couldn't figure out why he wasn't talking to me and now I am being interrogated by a seventeen year old and she's winning, no offence of course Ms. Queen. I knew today was not going to be a good day when I saw that my DVR forgot to record last night's Supernatural. Have I mentioned how much I love working here and how great it would be if you never mentioned any of this to your brother as I pretty sure he is already looking for a reason to fire me because now he knows I like him more than platonically and he doesn't know how to let me down easily and I'm gonna die alone with only cats to keep me company which is saying something because I don't really like cats that much. And I am going to stop talking in three, two, one." Felicity said as she watched Thea burst into a fit of laughter.

To say Felicity Smoak was mortified was an understatement. She chewed her lip while she twitched uncomfortably waiting for Thea to finish laughing.

"You know when I walked into your office this morning I understood why Oliver would hold onto a letter from you. You're clearly beautiful and extremely intelligent but now I understand that it's not you looks or brains that have attracted my brother to you but your heart." Thea said as she got up from her chair and started towards the door.

"I do hope we meet again Felicity. Oh and one last thing don't give up on my brother just yet I'm sure that if you searched his jacket pocket you would find the very letter you wrote to him. He's stubborn and pretty blind when it comes to certain things but I have a feeling that you must have snuck up on him and he has no clue what to do about it." Thea said with her hand on the door knob.

"Goodbye Ms. Queen" Felicity

"Not goodbye Felicity, you see I hope that we will see each other again and Oliver told that someone special once told him that goodbyes are only meant for people you are never going to see again. So, in order to keep holding onto the hope that we will meet again instead of goodbye we will say until next time." Thea said as she pulled open the door to Felicity's office and stepped out.

Felicity racked her brain for reasons to rationalize that what had just happened was a figment of her imagination but to no avail she realized that it had all happened. In the last hour she had learned that not only did Oliver read the letter but so did his sister. Worst of all he had read the letter and now he was avoiding her. She needed wine and ice cream to make sense of the day she was having. She looked at her cell phone and counted down the hours till she could be in her apartment sitting on her couch wearing her favorite sweat pants with a tank top as she ate ice cream and drank a glass of the most expensive wine she owned while watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Until then she would just have to hide out in her office hoping that she would not be needed. A knock at her door brought her out of her internal monologue and she mentally cursed at herself for jinxing herself.

"Come in." She called out hoping that it was anyone but Oliver Queen but of course that was not the kind of day she was having.

"Hey, we need to talk." Oliver said standing in her doorway and Felicity wondered what crime she must have committed to have the kind of bad karma day she was having. We need to talk. Great she thought what good conversation every started with we need to talk? She thought to herself as she motioned for Oliver to sit. Maybe instead of a glass of wine she was going to need the entire bottle.