A/N: Here you go, next chapter everybody. I feel so proud of myself for uploading it the after a gap of two days :P Yay me ... I am too proud. (cue my evil laugh ;)) Anyways ... This is the 4th and there are only two more chapters left. After that I'll start a new one of the NOW timeline. But it will be after sometime. BDW ... I wanted to thank all of you who reviewed, Favorited and followed. Thank you so much for the love :)
About this chapter, Oliver finally grows a head, I think, or may be not, you'll have to read to find out ;)
So go ahead, have at it :D
Felicity called Dig up, once the food was delivered and paid for.
"Did you have lunch?" she asked when Dig came in through the door?
"Nope. I will get something on our way back to the foundry." He said and looked around but didn't find their boss/friend/partner.
Felicity saw Dig looking and answered before he could even ask the question.
"He's at the foundry. Sara needed to … umm … so anyway. The thing is I ordered lunch for all of us. But I can't really leave the office right now, I have some work. So you get to be the delivery boy." She said, winking at Dig which only made him sigh.
"Oliver said that he wanted to train anyways. So take it" she said holding the brown paper bag "and go eat with the two. I will join the two of you when I am done here."
Dig didn't know if he were to laugh at how hollow she sounded or wrap her in his arms and protect her from everything, including herself and of course, Oliver.
But he did neither, just took the bag from her hands and with a small shake of his head, left her in the office to go to the foundry.
Felicity sat in her chair and started running another search. Hopefully she would find something this time.
Back in the foundry, Sara was pacing a hole in the ground. Oliver sat on the couch that Felicity had insisted they had to have and looked at the girl in front of him. They had not told anyone about what happened last night when Sara and Nyssa met on that abandoned road, not even talked about it themselves.
"Sara, stop pacing. We will get your mother. Just sit and take a breath, Felicity will find out what she can soon and we will get Dinah back." He said looking at her.
"Are you sure about that Oliver?" at his confused expression she continued. "About Felicity, that she will find my mom? I mean, I know she is good, but its been more than half a day, how can she not find anything yet?"
"She has been trying this whole time to find your mother, atleast try to be a bit appreciative" came Dig's voice from the stairs as he walked down.
"I am sorry, I am not trying to be a bitch here, I am just …" she trailed off and Oliver stood up and walked to her.
"Hey! We understand. Dig is just a bit protective of her. And like I said, we will find your mother" Oliver said and Dig shook his head.
"I am just sorry that you're not" he murmured lowly and then added so that both of them could hear. "Anyway, she sent lunch for you, us. We should eat, we will need the strength." He said handing Oliver the paper bag.
None of them said anything and sat to eat. Oliver opened the paper bag and took out the three containers and handed the two of them their food before starting with his own.
They were halfway through their lunch when Diggle noticed it first and cursed. He should have asked her before leaving. Oliver noticed and asked what happened.
"Did you and Felicity have lunch plans?" he asked straight to the point.
"What do you mean?" Oliver asked confused.
"Did you and Felicity plan on having lunch before you came here?" he asked again.
"Ya! She ordered the food and let me know that she did it. For the three of us." He said and Dig sighed.
"So what is she having for lunch then?" he asked and again Oliver looked at him like he didn't understand. "I am asking coz her food is here" he said pointing to the container in Sara's hand.
"Shit!" Oliver cursed, realizing what Dig was indicating.
"Whats the big deal? She will have something from the QC cafeteria." Sara said. Her phone rang just then and it was her father so she walked to the back of the foundry so that the boys couldn't be heard over the phone.
"Yeah sure! She will have something once she is free of her duties of being his EA by day and tech girl by night. Well, day and night doesn't even matter anymore I guess." Dig said bitterly.
"What is your problem Dig?" Oliver asked back and this time Dig didn't hold back.
"My problem is that the girl hasn't eaten anything in two days, except the cups of coffees she keeps gulping down her throat. My problem is that it should be you who should have noticed all these before I had to point out but you didn't. The problem is that you are not in the office when you know there is a board meeting and Isabel will be there and when she doesn't see you, it will be Felicity who will have to listen to whatever she says.
"My problem Oliver is you. You should have noticed how she retracts every time you try to touch her in anyway, that she is trying to not be in your space unless your need it. That I was wrong when I said I was okay about the two of you when I should have known that sooner or later you will destroy the girl she was and only a shell of her will remain for us to look at. I just hadn't realized it would be this soon."
Oliver felt like he had been slapped but before he could say anything, his phone started ringing. He looked to see it was Felicity and slowly picked it up.
"Hey listen! I found where Nyssa and Sara's mom is. They are in the abandoned Styx warehouse by the docks of 34th. You guys should hurry. And don't worry about Isabel, I'll handle her during the meeting and takes notes as well so that you know what is going on. I hate dealing with that woman." She murmured softly, as if to herself, "Anyway, I will stop talking and let you get to your arrowing." She said in a line before he could even get a Hello out and then huffed, taking a deep breath.
"Just … just be safe" Felicity said softly, like she always does before he leaves for a mission.
"Felicity.." he said her name like he does when they have their own conversations without words. For Felicity, her name, the way he said it, was enough for her to understand what he meant. But just this once, it wasn't enough. She couldn't let herself to keep thinking of the changes that were taking places or what it meant for them.
"I … I will walk you through the place but since there are no CCTV cameras I can't exactly do much. I have the blueprint of the warehouse but, you should get the file in a second, I am sending it in your phone. I will be with you people through the comms but I cant do anything about telling you beforehand of what is inside. I pulled up the satellite view but its not much help." she kept talking so that he wont say anything more.
"Tell Sara to wear the comms properly and that I am sorry it took so much time for me to find out her mother's whereabouts. She must be going out of her mind. umm … So I'll connect the comms and umm … take care of yourself and Sara, of course, yeah both of you. Bye!" and before Oliver could say anything, she hung up.
"What did she say?" Dig asked once Oliver was back in his senses and put the phone on the table.
"She found Dinah! She … Sara" he called out loud "Felicity got your mom's location." He said and Sara came out from back. "Dada I've to go, I'll call you if we find anything, okay?" she said and then hung up on the phone.
"We have to go now" he said as he stalked towards the bathroom to change into his suit.
The two of them suited up in their leather suits and left for warehouse and Dig was just a few blocks away as their back up if anything went wrong. Felicity had walked them in through but not being able to see much left way too little for her to work with but she did best to her abilities.
They had found Dinah and Nyssa very easily but. There was a fight, a quite lethal one at that and he could hear Felicity through it all, but at the end Dinah was safe. Nyssa had released Sara from the bounds of League of Assassin and everything was okay.
Felicity had the cut the comms after informing that the police was on its way and that Oliver should leave. Dig informed him that he was going straight home since none of them were badly injured or in need of medical attention. But in truth Oliver knew that Dig just dint want to be in his presence right now after what he had done.
Sara had left with her family and now everyone knew she was alive and Oliver had come back to an empty foundry. Dig had left and Felicity was nowhere in sight since she didn't even come to the foundry that night. He sighed.
Oliver had no idea how he had missed out on everything that Dig had pointed out, but somehow he had. She was his girlfriend, he loved her for god's sake and he didn't even realize when she had started to distance herself. Hell even he had done the same. Probably that's why she pulled away because she thought now with Sara here she wasn't enough.
Especially after what she had told him about her father, her family, he feared that she was building a wall around herself to protect her from him.
But Oliver loved Felicity, he loved Sara too but he wasn't in love with her. That was Felicity for him. Only her and he had done a piss poor job at showing her that, especially lately. He had to make it right and soon.
So before he could wallow in self guilt he took the quickest shower known to mankind and left to go home, to his Felicity.
A/N: So Oliver is finally going home after two days, and we'll see what happens there on the next chapter.
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