Hey guys. I'm back! Sorry I could post only one chapter today. My college schedule is crazy. I have so much work to do and I'm trying to put up updates as fast as possible. I promised for Bruce/Felicity together but I'm sorry I couldn't touch up to much on it. Next chapter will be fully based on the two of them for most part of it.
I want to say one more thing. I got a review saying Imagining Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne was not proper because he's older than Felicity. I just imagined his characteristics from the movie and nothing more. Just wanted to get that across to the readers.
This chapter is about Bruce coming to the event and being his awesome self!
'A helicopter? Seriously? This guy was good, really good.' Oliver couldn't stop the stream of hate towards Bruce.
The media crew had actually been pretty quite at the fund raiser, but it was in full swing now. So many reporters had gathered near the other end of the road waiting to catch a glimpse of Gotham's finest business man.
One local news station had another helicopter hovering above with so many lights flashing. It was a serious frenzy.
The helicopter near the balcony had opened its door. It was the moment everyone had been waiting for.
Instead of a man, a rope ladder had dropped down. Everyone became quite.
And out of the helicopter and on to the rope ladder came a man. His face was not visible yet. The flaps of the suit he was wearing were flying in the wind. He came down the ladder.
No one could see his face. His shoes were shining in the light.
The lights were blinding her face. Felicity knew the man was popular but this was over the top.
He climbed down the ladder and he reached the second last rung. The distance between the balcony floor and the rung he was standing at was a pretty big distance.
Everyone was anticipating his next move when suddenly he jumped off the ladder onto the balcony floor with a huge thud.
Some girls shuddered a bit after he landed on the floor. But he recovered and stood up and adjusted his suit and held both his hands out to the side, looked around at everyone and yelled "Good evening everyone. Sorry I'm late.I know I'm going to be giving a speech inside but I want to thank The Amazing Moira Queen for letting me be a part of this event!"
"Thanks Bruce." She was yelling back at him in the midst of the sound.
Everybody was cheering and it was an acknowledgement that the party had started.
Bruce Wayne was here. It was probably a moment everyone was going to be speaking of for weeks to come.
He buttoned up his suit and walked towards Moira. Oliver and Thea had joined Moira.
Oliver looked around to see if Felicity was there but she had gone inside.
"Welcome Bruce. We're so glad you could make it. I have to say, nice entrance." Moira greeted Bruce and held his hand.
"Moira. It's so great to be here. I'm honored I could be here for this Wonderful cause. What can I say? I know how to get the party started." Bruce said in a deep voice. Laughing along with Moira, all his 32 whites in place.
He looked over at Oliver.
"Hello Bruce. How have you been? It's been way to long." Oliver came out and offered his hand to Bruce.
Bruce sighed and smiled back at Oliver.
"I'm doing well. It's been a long time indeed. You and I have a lot of catching up to do." Bruce said and shook his hand.
They were literally crushing their hands.
Bruce knew they were rivals, not in a 'I have to destroy him' way but a competitive way. He would have to leave their enemy status for one night, just to please the public.
Finally Bruce left Oliver's hand and gave him a smug smile.
"Long time? I agree. How has Starling city been treating you?" Oliver asked Bruce.
"I like the city. Pretty calm for my standards." Bruce was subtly saying to Oliver. The crowd had moved in to the hall by then.
"That's good. Enjoy your stay here. I hope you enjoy tonight as much as possible." Oliver told Bruce as politely as he could.
Thea could feel the awkwardness between the two. It was getting to its heights. She wanted to break the ice a bit.
" ! I'm Thea," She jumped in and put out her hand to shake his.
Before she could complete. "Thea Queen, daughter of Moira Queen. I know who you are." Smiled Bruce and shook her hand.
"I'm well acquainted with the honorary members of the Queen family and I also know you're a very capable young lady." Bruce explained proudly. He knew the Queen family pretty well.
She blushed a bit. "My mom does that a bit. Going around talking about me." Thea lovingly looked at her mom.
"Honestly we've all been waiting for your arrival. We are glad you could make it." Thea told Bruce and made way for him to enter the hall.
Oliver had excused himself and went in to attend the other guests.
Bruce, Moira and Thea walked into hall. "Wow! I'm really impressed with these arrangements you've made. The orchestra is amazing. How did Thea even allow you to bring an orchestra? I thought there was going to be a punk rock band or something? Isn't that the fad now days?" He jokingly asked Moira and looked at Thea.
Thea laughed. He was charming and funny. "Punk rock band? How old are you again?" Thea asked sarcastically.
"Trust me Thea, I'm not that old and I know a few bands like Greenday and Imagine dragons. I try to keep up with the latest trends." Bruce told Thea with much pride and dignity.
"You know these bands? Cool. I've been telling Oliver to listen to these things for long but he doesn't care about all this. Coming back from the island kind of ruined civilization for him." Thea openly told Bruce.
He knew Oliver had been stranded on an island for 5 years. It was all over the news he was dead but he had survived and come back alive.
Bruce really admired that in Oliver. You needed guts to survive crap like that.
"Thea, let Bruce have some fun." Moira interrupted their exchange.
"Ok, Have a great time." Thea told Bruce and walked off to meet Roy who had just come in.
Thea walked off letting Bruce enjoy the rest of the evening.
Moira laughed. "I'll tell you this." She lowered her voice a bit. "I just let everyone think that I arranged everything but trust me, it was mostly done by someone very special." Moira confided to Bruce.
He looked up at Moira surprisingly. "Who is this special person?"
"It was her." Moira pointed to Felicity who was standing near the bar.
Her body was resting on the bar slab. One hand was resting on the table and in the other hand she had a glass of red wine.
She had moved on to the bar after seeing Bruce jump out of the helicopter's ladder. It was a really stupid party trick according to her.
She observed Oliver's face when Bruce had arrived. He seemed angry. It wasn't obvious but she knew Oliver well by now.
She was intrigued by Bruce at first but after his stupid jump she wasn't even interested in him.
Felicity sighed and looked around the bar and spotted Bruce looking at her. He had been looking at her for the past 5 minutes, Moira was explaining a few things about the party and some arrangements she had made.
She didn't know what it was but she returned his gaze. It didn't seem like staring it was a different thing she couldn't explain it at all.
Bruce saw Felicity returning his gaze. His breathing became erratic.
She was breathtaking. He had eyed many women in the room when he entered. Many were looking at him when he entered the hall and he had to agree they looked amazing but she was different.
She was none like those girls he'd seen before. She looked simple yet graceful and her dress was a big hit in his eyes.
He had found some information about her. She looked similar to the picture of Oliver's assistant. He couldn't remember the name though.
She looked very different from the photos he'd seen.
Bruce wanted to talk to her. Before he could walk over to Felicity he was distracted by Moira.
"Do you know her? You both keep looking at each other."
"No I don't know her but she looks familiar to me." Bruce quickly covered up.
"She's Felicity Smoak. Oliver's assistant." Moira filled in Bruce.
'That was her name' Bruce remembered.
"Oh ok. Well maybe I should personally thank her later about the various preparations she's done to make this event a success. I applaud good talent" Bruce told Moira confidently with a smile.
"You can, right after you make your speech for the night. How's that sound?"
"Excellent." Bruce told Moira. He couldn't say no to her. He looked at Felicity one more time and walked towards the stage to make his speech.
Felicity was expecting Bruce to come speak to her but he walked away.
She drank up the rest of her wine and joined the others in the main hall.
It looked like Bruce was going to make his speech for the night. The music had stopped playing and everyone had concentrated on Bruce taking the center stage.
He looked like a hero. People could see the confidence in his posture. He looked lovely in the light.
Oliver looked up at Bruce thinking what he was going to say this time.
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I'm Bruce Wayne. Are you guys enjoying yourselves? Because I know I am."
"YES!" Everyone shouted from the crowd.
"That's the spirit! I'm from Gotham city. As some of you know I'm the CEO of Wayne Enterprises. But that doesn't matter tonight because we're all here for a good cause. My good friend Moira arranged this superb fund raiser not just for an evening of fun and frolic but for all of us to participate in a good deed tonight. To donate money for those children who have lost their parent or parents in any kind of mishap or accident" Bruce explained loudly, smiling at everyone.
"And for those who know and don't know I lost my parents at a very young age." He stopped and looked down trying to gain some steadiness.
"They were my life but they died and I've mourned them ever since. I can understand the pain children go through even when they lose their mom or dad by natural causes. It's even more difficult to be orphaned at such a tender age. No help, no one to talk to, being bullied by fellow classmates in class, feeling like a loser and moving through a bunch of foster homes." Bruce explained and paused. He wanted to let people get a minute of the reality of the situation.
"I'm not here to go on about my story but I'm here to encourage all of you to do something right. There are children who are going through a life they don't deserve and Moira is doing a good thing for the youngsters of Starling city. I promise you all on her behalf that this won't be a decision you will regret."
"So, take out your cheque books and wallets and donate for a good cause. Saying that, I would like to donate a sum of 5 million dollars to the Queen orphanage."
Bruce took out a cheque book from his breast pocket and signed a cheque for 5 million dollars. He called Moira to the stage and gave her the cheque.
"Finally I want to thank the Queen family for calling me over here for this matter and arranging such a great fund raiser. Thanks Moira." He thanked her gracefully and took the stage again.
"I just want to say one more thing. Special thanks to a Miss. Felicity Smoak. The true person behind this amazing fund raiser. A big round of applause for her. She's standing right there." Bruce pointed to Felicity and everyone looked at her. People started clapping for her.
Felicity didn't know what to do. She looked at Bruce and smiled at him. It was a beautiful gesture.
Oliver suddenly saw Bruce and Felicity looking at each other. He felt a pang of sadness.
Bruce openly applauded Felicity. He felt guilty he hadn't even thought of it. She deserved so much more credit than she received. He looked down out of guilt.
'No wonder Felicity was so interested in Bruce.' Oliver thought to himself.
Bruce walked down the stage. He was shaking his hands with everyone and moved to the back.
Moira took the stage and announced that dinner was ready. Everyone started shuffling out. Oliver went to Felicity to accompany her to dinner.
Before he could go he saw someone else beside her. He stopped in his tracks.
He saw Bruce going near Felicity.
Felicity was even more beautiful in person. "Good evening Miss. Smoak." Bruce introduced himself to her.
"Good evening Bruce."
"Would you like to have dinner with me?" asked Bruce in the most natural way possible.
The least she could do for what he had done for her was accept.
Felicity looked hard at Bruce.
"So?" Bruce asked her. He was kind of jumpy.
Dinner in a dinner hall? It wasn't a big deal Felicity thought to herself.
Finally she spoke out. "Yes! I would love to join you for dinner." Felicity replied.
"Excellent" Bruce said excitedly. He was really glad she accepted his offer.
To Felicity it was just a normal dinner in a dinner hall at a usual party, but what she didn't realize was her life was about to change in so many ways.
It was a night to be treasured.