Just a short little something that popped into my head.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Swing.
Clang.
The bar moved up to the next rung on the salmon ladder and Oliver took a breath to start the cycle over again when he started to hear voices heading out of the back room.
"-there is no way this is going to work, Sara. Absolutely not."
"Relax, it will be fine. I just need you to show up for a few minutes so that Laurel will stop thinking that I'm Black Canary."
Oliver quickly flipped around so that the bar was under his knees so he could do crunches and see what the two female members of team arrow were up to without it being too obvious.
"But I'm going to end up tripping over my own feet in this get up and shes going to know. I'll probably end up cracking my head against something or snapping my neck and it will be all your fault for making me do this. This is absolutely not a good idea."
"Look, you've already got the outfit on so just put on the mask and let's go get this over with, okay?"
They finally came into Oliver's line of sight and his eyes traveled over to Sara who was dressed in normal street clothes and then…
Then his eyes were drawn to the woman next to her who could only be Felicity but she was wearing Black Canary's outfit.
Black Canary's leather outfit.
Tight, black leather outfit.
On Felicity.
Felicity jumped and Sara reached for the nearest weapon she could find as a loud clang and crash came from the salmon ladder.
"Oliver? Are you okay?" Once Felicity realized that he was the source of the crash she rushed over to where he lay underneath the ladder.
He sat up and rubbed his head, "I'm fine… What are you… Why?" he turned to her but then quickly turned to look at Sara instead.
He was used to seeing Sara in the outfit, but Felicity in it? That was a whole new and very unexpected thing.
"Laurel is pretty suspicious after the whole Huntress thing earlier so Felicity here is going to help me by playing Canary for a little bit."
"And you think that's a good idea?" he said and Felicity quickly stood up and looked at Sara.
"See? Even he doesn't think it's a good idea. I'm just going to go change and then we can think of something-" Felicity didn't even get a chance to take a step before Sara grabbed her arm and started dragging her towards the door.
"We are going. Bye, guys!" Sara called out as she dragged Felicity through the doorway while Oliver continued to stay on the floor until Diggle came over to make sure he really didn't knock something loose when he fell.
"You okay there?" Diggle extended a hand to Oliver and Oliver finally snapped out of it, taking his hand and pulling himself up before getting back on the ladder.
It was going to be a long, long time before he was going to be able to look at Felicity the same way again.
I'm sorry, I just absolutely love Oliver falling off the ladder.