Sometime after the club closed, Tommy also called an end to the night and forced Felicity to shut down the computer so he could drive her home, Oliver hadn't been back for over three hours it was nearing five in the morning and Felicity was obsessively staring at her screen hoping the answers would jump out at her; the exact thing he wanted to avoid tonight, Felicity stuck in the cave with Oliver playing Hood but he understood why… kind of.
At least she had come out for the night and had fun for a few hours before Wang Wei the American Dragon weapon smuggler crushed into her life with his gun and stuff, even thinking that sentence made Tommy's brain hurt.
On the bright side they had stopped at the cafe for breakfast so all Tommy had to do once he got home was shower, sleep and send a text to Laurel making sure she and Thea had gotten to the spa in one piece.
x.x
A bleary eyed Tommy found himself back in the lair within eight hours of leaving it carrying a chicken sandwich and a caramel latte for Felicity, he was being way too nice to the woman who had taken upon herself to hack his phone and the alarm making as much noise as she could with all the tech in his apartment because he was too busy sleeping while she was calling him.
The only plus side to having woken up to his tv, radio, microwave, phone and Roomba all going off at the exact same time was the fact that Felicity had also turned on his coffee machine and had his bath running, if there was ever any doubt about Felicity's ability to 'hack his life' this morning's fiasco erased all of that, ever high end piece of tech he own at the apartment that could make a noise all went off.
Tommy wasn't going to think about the invasion of privacy or the fact that she was being a little manic and just chalk it up to the after effects of her running into 'the American dragon' whilst he had a gun, also he could tell from the insane amount of red bull cans scattered around the floor behind her that Felicity had not slept.
She probably hadn't even stayed at home long enough to do anything more than shower and change clothes.
"Let's play a round of good news- bad news." Felicity stated as soon as she saw Tommy approaching. "Good news I found out how Wang got the gun into the club, bad news he been bribing one particular bouncer for the last five weeks the bouncer has suddenly been getting a five thousand dollar deposit into his bank account every Friday night. Also he (the bouncer) disconnected the alarm on the fire exist but I am sure it's because Wang paid him to, I've reconnected it for you because you never know when you have a surprise inspection from the city's inspectors, they could shut you down or even send you to jail if like a fire broke out or something not that a fire should break out but then again there shouldn't have been a gun in the club and your security shouldn't be on the take so…."
"Morning Felicity." Tommy greeted pulling up the spare seat next to her and placing the sandwich within arm's reach.
It was a statement to how tired Felicity was that she didn't tell him off about bringing food near her keyboard as she just dove in and stating eating.
"Thank you I'm starving" she mumbled around a mouth full of sandwich before swallowing. "Good news is you can always hire another bouncer, they are loads of people in the glades looking for work, maybe hire a woman."
"Cause women don't commit crimes or?" Tommy asked trying to figure out Felicity's reasons along with finding a way to get her to sleep.
"Don't be sexist women can commit any crime a man can." Felicity replied throwing a small glare at Tommy's direction."What I meant was as much as I love your bouncers it will be better if you offered you female clientele the option of getting rubbed down by a woman … three, two, one."
Tommy could have easily made a joke about Felicity's sexuality with that statement and he really wanted to but he figured he had made enough fun of her in the past two days and she was too sleep deprived to be made fun of. Had Tommy mentioned how sleep deprived Felicity looked cause she was barely hanging on. "Not a bad idea"
"And if you like I can keep an eye on the cameras upstairs for you or look into the accounts of anyone you hire make sure that all their sources of income is legal."
"Thanks for the offer but don't go breaking the law on my account."
"Oh it's no bother, it will take me three minutes if I am properly motivated to breach a bank's firewall" Felicity replied missing the point, it wasn't that Tommy didn't think she could do it he just didn't want her to commit a crime and he didn't want her to stay awake for a second longer than she had to.
"You are really good at this" He replied instead taking a bite of his BLT. "Have you slept at all?" He finally asked broaching the subject.
"I think I got an hour around … not sure what time but the computer was doing it's thing and I was just waiting to the results… for the results."
x.x.x.x
"Hey Felicity" Diggle greeted as he came down from the club."Tommy, good to see you down here for a change." If Diggle was surprised to see him inside the foundry his face didn't show it, instead he took it in stride as if Tommy could usually be found spending his weekends there.
"Hey Diggle" Felicity turned upon hearing Diggle greeting offering him a smile, her eyes trailed a little further up over Diggle shoulder to watch as Oliver came down or to be more accurate the Hood came down the stairs bow in hand and everything.
"Carly was asking about you last night said she has an idea for a new pie and wanted to know if you are still up for being her guinea pig"
"Sure. Free food how can I say no." Felicity shrugged.
"So what did I miss and are you guys still running a mission from last night?" Diggle asked taking in the sleep deprived state Felicity was in and the fact that Oliver was just coming back in as The Hood.
Tommy, Felicity and Oliver all paused to shoot silent but not so subtle looks at each other before Felicity began speaking, "Well I didn't find the weapons but I found the guy who was smuggling it and coincidentally he loves coming to Verdant on Friday night and Oliver learnt a lesson in the correct way to ask for something." Felicity summarised shooting a smile over to the leather clad guy frowning in the corner.
Diggle let the tense moment sit for a few more seconds, he was sure that whatever it was, Oliver definitely deserved Felicity's ire. "Wait there was nothing on the news about the Hood being at the club last night."
"The Hood wasn't, Oliver Queen was. The Hood visited Wei after he left the club" Oliver stated staring at the way Tommy and Felicity were sat next to each other, he was trying to figure out why Tommy was down here, he understood why Tommy decided to follow him yesterday there was a man with a gun in the club but why was he here today.
"And how did that go?" Diggle questioned refocusing Oliver's attention.
"Mr Wei had a… run in with the pointy end of some of my arrows, so we still don't know why he smuggled in such a large amount of guns or who hired him."
"So we have no leads?" Diggle clarified, maybe he should have been here yesterday, a lot seemed to have gone on.
"I won't exactly say that." Turning around facing the computer once more to pull up all the information she pulled during the early hours of this morning "We have one Phillip Days who works in StarBank by day and at night is the money guy for criminals, there are several offshore accounts in his name and the IRS should have really picked up on the fact that he is living beyond his means with all those unexplained income. I mean you look at him you wouldn't think he was involved I know I didn't, in fact I spent the better part of an hour making out with him." Felicity cringed.
"Do you have his address?" Oliver addressed Felicity directly for the first time since last night. "Please." he finished mulishly still haven't forgotten the dressing down she gave him.
"Phillips Days address? Of course I do, would you like for me to send it to your Hood phone?" Felicity asked with a hint of false pleasantries, showing that she was still upset about the way Oliver spoke to her.
"Thank you." Oliver replied hearing the text alert on the burner go off, he wanted to get out of there, maybe pay Phillip a visit before finally going home to rest.
"Wait." Tommy interrupted watching as Oliver walked towards the wooden crate he had placed his bow in a few minutes ago. "You've already killed this weapons smuggler if Phillip's the only lead you have left do you think it's such a good idea for 'you' to go see him" he said waving at the Hood get up Oliver was still in.
"Fine I will set up a meeting at StarBank." Oliver offered he didn't care how it was done, Phillip Days was going to be tell him what he needed to know one way or the other.
Diggle hated to rain on Oliver's parade but he saw an obvious problem to the plan, namely Oliver Queen being Oliver Queen.
"Yeah that not going to work man. If Oliver Queen is asking for a meeting at the bank they are not going to send some middle management guy to take it, you are going to get the bank president and the red carpet treatment." Diggle chimed in, he had seen it enough times, where ever Oliver went he was treated like the prodigal son returned.
"Then if I can't go see him as the Hood" Oliver started looking at Tommy "and I can't go see him as Oliver Queen." this time he turned to look at Diggle. "How exactly do you expect us to figure out what's going on, if I can't approach the target?" Oliver threw out to the two men.
"I can go see him. I may not be the Hood but I can get him to spill what he knows."
"Okay I can't believe I going to suggest this… especially seeing as she needs her bed before anything but why don't you let Felicity try?" Tommy hesitantly asked aware he was sat next to her, meaning she had very easy access to pummel him.
"Sure whilst we are at it why don't I find the solution to global warming" Felicity snapped, she was still in the middle of running a deep dive into everyone Tommy had working at the club last night; she had gone into the murky past of at least thirty people that was employed at Verdant and so far everyone was clean.
The last of her programme was still going so she wasn't ruling anyone out; not even the nice cleaning lady who had lined up all the lost property from last night and placed them on the bar, people really did lose a lot of things when drunk but the fact that someone happened to 'loose' their underwear was something Felicity and the cleaning lady didn't need to know about this morning.
"Think about it. He won't be expecting the girl he was dancing with last night to be an undercover spy. If Diggle goes around asking question he just going to tell his employer and they will change the plans or just kill this guy."
Tommy really shouldn't be advocating for Felicity to approach Phillip but reading between some of her words this morning he felt like she needed this, she needed to deal the consequences of her 'poor judgement' her words not his. Maybe confronting Phillip and bringing down the weapon trade would help her deal with last night, or maybe Tommy was over-stepping and Felicity just needed sleep.
"I don't know if you know me but I am not exactly the scary one here. There's no way I can get him to tell me what's going on and my loud voice isn't all that scary to people involved in the crime world"
"I'm not sure about that, you loud voice could have men running, I still don't touch any burger before you call dibs." Dig teased remember the time he had taken Felicity to Big Belly after a long day's work at QC where she use her loud voice on him since he reached for one of the five burgers he had ordered for the table before she could make a decision on which burger to eat first.
"That food, I get scary when it comes to food." Felicity waved off with a small smile on her face she could tell Tommy was curious to know what Diggle was talking about but she cut him off with a promise to tell him about it later, they were in the middle of brain storming and the last idea was that she should be the one to do the field work.
"You have his number why don't you send him a worm or something and pull the info from his phone, you don't even have to see him." Tommy stated, with Felicity's ability she wouldn't even need to leave this place to take Phillip down.
"Because it doesn't work that way." Felicity replied rolling her eyes. "You see that types of things in movie way too much something as large as a worm can't fit into a text maybe his email…. Plus it will be better if I had his phone near by… we could clone it, see all incoming calls and text figure out who else is involved." she admitted reluctantly. "I could even infect the phone directly make it patient zero and have it infect his other devices"
"So then text him and see if he wants to meet up for coffee, I'm sure you can clone his phone then."
"How long will it take for you to clone his phone?" Oliver could admit that Tommy was right, with Wang Wei dead, the entire weapons operation would be looking for anything suspicious, they couldn't go poking around anymore without causing the whole operation to go underground and they will never find out why someone ship over two thousand hand guns into Starling. What were they planning, who were they arming?
"Maybe twenty minutes but I still think is a bad idea. What do I say to him 'hi can you give me all the info on your criminal friends and while you are at it do you know anything about a bunch of guns being shipped?' oh and does anyone realise that Days may not even know anything about the guns, he deals with the money I doubt they invite him for dinner and tell them their plans."
"Felicity" Oliver warned not wanting to hear what she had to say next.
"What, I'm just saying the one person we know who actually had the information about why and who shipped the weapon is now dead and Philip may not even have the information you want, I know I don't tell my accountant why-"
"Felicity" Oliver huffed in that growly voice of his.
"She's got a point Oliver." Diggle defended, the statement may not be appreciated but that didn't means she was wrong. They may have hit a dead end with Oliver killing this Wang Wei guy. "But on the off chance that he does know something it won't hurt to meet him and clone his phone just send a text you have nothing to worry about as far as he know this someone he met last night reaching out to him."
"Okay I can do this, be flirtatious, be non threatening and non spy like" Felicity said pumping herself up to send a text digging her phone out of her bag.
"You seemed find with him on the dance floor why don't you try that" Tommy suggested.
"Because I was half drunk and I now know he is involved or at least knows a weapon smuggler." Felicity pointed out. "Okay how does hi sound?"
"That's it, Hi." Tommy questioned sharing a quick look of disbelieve with Diggle, Tommy really hope it was the lack of sleep causing it, sleep deprived Felicity was really entertaining, he couldn't wait to remind her that she thought Hi was being flirty.
"Yeah, it non-threatening very breezy" Felicity pointed out. Hi was good, everyone said hi. Hi was non-suspicious…. Hi funny how it sounded like high. Did other people realise this hi… high, hi high
"It's not exactly flirtatious and he's just going to ignore the message." Tommy said snapping Felicity out of her inner ramble, she might need another energy drink or maybe a cup of coffee before her I-am-here-to-clone-your-phone-because-you-are-secretly-a-bad-guy coffee date.
"How about, 'hi it's Felicity from last night'"
"You could try that…."
"What wrong with that?" Felicity questioned not seeing the problem. If she was a guy she would reply back to that.
"Still not flirtatious enough." Oliver reluctantly pointed out while Tommy nodded his head.
"Do you have a picture in that dress from last night?" Tommy asked, Felicity heisted in nodding, she didn't like where this was going. "Then text that to him"
"Seriously?"
"Trust me he see's a picture of you in that dress and he will be calling you within the hour"
"She is trying to set a meeting in a neutral place not see what colour his bedroom walls are painted." Felicity sat quietly blushing at the implication while Tommy and Oliver began their pissing contest."She just needs to clone his phone."
"And I am telling you once he gets a reminder of what she looks like in that dress he will practically sign away his life savings, he was already salivating over her yesterday and if he thinks she is interested…"
"That isn't the objective of the mission."
"The objective" Tommy mocked. "Is to get her close to him and keep him distracted enough that she can do her computer magic. Are you trying to tell me if Felicity sent you that picture before asking to meet you that you could actually think of anything else apart from the way she looks in it." Tommy needled, he'd seen the look on Oliver's face last night as Felicity walked past, then again when she started dancing.
Every single time Felicity got hit on by someone, didn't matter if they were boy or girl Oliver got that murder look on his face like he was about to start punching people.
For Tommy last night had answered all the question he had about why Oliver kept Felicity around and whether he would admit it or not, a part of Oliver was interested in Felicity.
"Okay maybe you might not" Tommy pretended to give up. "But I and any of the other guys in the club last night looked and I am saying this as someone who is happily in a relationship. Send the picture, it doesn't even have to be the whole dress just a selfie would be enough."
Felicity was just going to skate on pass Tommy's admission to checking her out because as he pointed out he was in a committed relationship plus he was probably saying this to get his point across even with all the compliment he had just given her a part of her felt sad because in one night even Tommy could tell Oliver wasn't interested in her.
"If anyone wants my opinion" Diggle began calling attention to himself. "I think Felicity might be the best option, cloning the phone can lead us to someone who actually knows what's going on. We can set it up for tomorrow or tonight after Felicity has gotten some sleep"
"I'm find I can-"
"Felicity you are not fine," Diggle corrected wondering just how may hours Felicity had gone without sleep, they had all spent Thursday night looking for the smuggled shipment in the Glades so if she spent yesterday tracking Wang Wei then the last time Felicity had a proper night's rest was on Wednesday night. He needed to have a word with her about her work-life- vigilante balance.
"There's five different energy drink on the floor, you won't be running this mission sleep deprived and we need time to set up surveillance and scout some things out"
"Are you making things up?" Felicity asked squinting at Diggle, the fluorescent light were starting to hurt her eyes.
"Yeah you definitely need to sleep, come on, I'll drive you home, make sure you actually stay there."
"Are you guys even playboys when Diggle is the one taking me to bed?" the words slipped out of Felicity's mouth before her brain even registered the innuendo, there was that split second where everyone paused letting her words settle in right before Tommy lost all control and burst out laughing.
"Please tell me you guys have cameras down here, there has to be a record of this." Tommy gasped watching as Felicity blushed.
It was really amazing the things Felicity came out with in any other situation but sleep deprived Smoak was something else, her words were quick to leave her mouth but she was slow to react to their meaning.
