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Ray furrowed his brows as their eyes met, "Smoak?"

"H-hi." She stammered blinking rapidly under his disapproving frown. She could feel her cheeks getting warmer by the second. Was she always this nervous around him before?

Ray arched his brow, "What are you doing in my house Felicity."

"That is actually a great question." She said with a nervous laugh. She looked down at her chest that was soiled by the drink, "Great, my dress is ruined."

Ray removed his suit jacket and put it on to cover the stain, "Follow me, I'll find a shirt you can change in."

Felicity nodded as she followed Ray into his house, they walked upstairs into a bedroom. Felicity sat on his bed while Ray looked through his closet.

"Nice room." She said politely.

"Just don't touch anything." Ray said with his head still in his drawer as he searched.

Felicity rolled her eyes, she noticed a pile of books on Rays bed. She looked through them and noticed they were all in French. She picked a book with an orange cover, "Hm... let me see if I can pronounce this, atomes un coup d-d-d. Wow. French is hard."

"You're making my ears bleed Smoak." Ray said sarcastically. "It's Atomes un coup d'oeil"

Felicity smiled, was it weird to say she missed his cranky remarks? She skimmed through the book, "I just think it's pretty cool you can read all these books."

Ray turned and arched his brow as he tugged the book out of her hand, "Didn't I tell you not to touch anything?"

"Whatever." Felicity said with a smirk.

Ray sighed and pulled out a shirt and sweats, "This is the only thing I have."

Felicity frowned, "Seriously?"

Ray rolled his eyes, "Well sorry if I don't keep extra dresses in my room. Next time you should watch where you're going."

"You bumped into me." Felicity said with her arms crossed.

Ray smirked, "Whatever floats your boat Smoak. If you want to go around the gala with juice all over yourself be my guest."

"Fine." Felicity muttered as she grabbed the clothes from him.

Ray stayed out his room as Felicity changed. He chuckled to himself as he heard her fuming furiously.

"Are you laughing?" He heard Felicity ask.

Ray smiled to himself and talked to the door so she could hear him, "Of course not."

"Good." He heard her mumble.

Ray shook his head as he checked his watch. He knocked on the door impatiently, "Smoak, are you done yet?"

"I'm not coming out Ray, I look awful."

Ray rolled his eyes, "Quit whining. I have a gala to host."

Silence.

Fine

He stood up when the door opened, revealing Felicity in his Ivy College shirt and sweats with her black heels in her hands.

Felicity sighed as they walked downstairs, "I honestly don't understand why I have the worst luck. First falling into your bush now this."

Ray arched his brow, "What were you doing in my bush?"

Felicity blushed under his glance, "Uh… it's complicated." She tied her hair up into her classic high ponytail, "Can you sneak me out. I don't want the journalist getting a picture me looking like this."

Ray nodded, "I know just the place."

"Where?"

"My garden at the back. But you'll have to go through the kitchen. And there are probably going to be a few people there."

"The less the better." Felicity muttered as she walked behind him.

Ray looked around at the people who were staring at them.

As they exited the kitchen, he glanced at Felicity and laughed, "You're right. You do look awful."

Felicity smiled as she sat on a bench, "I bet you're enjoying this."

"Of course I am." Ray said with a confident smirk.

"Shut up." Felicity said hitting his arm softly.

Ray tapped his chin, "I wouldn't be rude if I were you. I could call the paparazzi to come here in a second."

Felicity rolled her eyes. To think that she had traveled half way around the world for this guy.

"Don't you have a gala to host?"

Ray frowned as he stood up, "Your right, I do."

Felicity inwardly kicked herself as she watched Ray walk away.

"Great job Felicity. You scared him away. Again." She muttered to herself.

"I can't believe you still speak to yourself Smoak."

Felicity looked up to see Ray with two glasses, "I thought you were—"

"Hosting the gala?" Ray sat next to her and handed her the glass of juice. He took a sip and swirled his glass, "You know I hate talking to people."

Felicity smiled slightly, she knew that very well, "Yet you're talking with me?"

Ray frowned at her comment and avoided her gaze, "Try not to spill your drink this time."

Felicity rolled her eyes, "It's already bad enough that I ruined a dress that costs more than my apartment."

Ray furrowed his brow, "What were you doing with a dress that expensive."

Felicity bit her lip, she couldn't tell him about Waller yet. "Uh... a friend bought it for me."

Ray frowned and looked away, she was probably talking about Oliver, "Your friend won't be happy about that."

"Who cares about my friend, I soiled a Couture!" Felicity exclaimed, "That's probably the best dress I've ever worn in my life. Ruined in the mater of two hours."

"If it makes you feel better I think you looked amazing in that dress." Ray said with a half-smile.

"Thanks." She said shyly while staring at her drink.

"No problem." Ray replied.

She looked up from her drink to see Ray was staring at her with a frown.

"Why are you staring at me?" She whispered.

Ray furrowed his brows, "Because I'm trying to figure out why you're here."

"It because I—"

Felicity, this is Waller again. Tell Ray to call off the gala. His life and Ted's is in great danger.

Felicity stood up and pressed the comm in her ear, "Alright, I'll tell him right now."

Ray arched his brow, "Who were you talking to?"

Felicity bit her lip, "I'll explain later, but you need to call the gala off now."

"That isn't funny Smoak." Ray said sardonically.

"I'm serious Ray." Felicity said narrowing her eyes at him.

Ray stood up, "Ok, the jokes over. "

"Do I look like I'm kidding?" Felicity exclaimed while gesturing to her face.

Ray texted a number and looked up, "Everyone is leaving the gala now. But there better be a good reason for this."

Felicity sighed, "I promise it'll make sense later."

"No. I want an explanation now." Ray said crossing his arm.

Felicity noticed a red dot focusing on Ray's chest.

Oh great, the assassin is here.

Felicity took Ray's arm, "We need to hide, your life is in danger."

Ray frowned and tugged his arm away from her. "Smoak, I honestly don't understand you. I haven't seen you in a year. You come uninvited to my gala, force me to call it off and you still haven't answered my question. What are you doing here?"

Felicity turned with urgent eyes, "Ray, look, I'm really sorry, but you're just going to have to trust me on this."

She touched his arm, "Please."

Ray's frown deepened when he realized Felicity was being serious. He took her hand, "I know a place where we'll be safe."

Suddenly a gunshot sounded.

"Too late. You should have listened to your girlfriend when you had the chance."

Ray turned to see a man in a suit with his gun pointing at Felicity. His eyes widened, "Leave her alone."

The man laughed, "I didn't come for her. I came to kill you."

Ray stepped forward cautiously, "Then let her go."

The man grabbed Felicity's arm, "My boss knows you're the Atom. Hand me the suit and I'll let your girl go."

Ray glanced at Felicity before turning to the man, "Fine."

"Don't, it's a trap Ray." Felicity said with a tremble in her voice.

"Shut up." The man growled as he clipped a collar on Felicity's neck and pushed her to Ray, "I attached a bomb to your girl's neck. The time is ticking Mr. Palmer."

"Don't do this Ray." Felicity demanded.

Ray ignored her demand and took her hand as they entered his study room.

"Is this a joke?" The man asked angrily.

"No. It's not." Ray said while searching for a book.

Felicity watched in amazement as Ray pulled on one of the books like a lever. The bookshelf opened to reveal a large lab with bright blue lights. In the center of the room was Ray's suit.

As they stepped in the man aimed his gun at Ray, "Thanks for the suit. I'm done with both of you now."

"We had a deal. Disable the bomb now," Ray demanded.

The man frowned, "I don't take orders from anyone."

Suddenly Sara appeared with a gun, "Don't move or I'll shoot."

The man laughed, "Then you'll die with all of us. I installed a bomb on that woman's neck. It will go off any second now."

"Iwouldn'tbe so sure about that."

Felicity and Ray turned to see Ted in his Blue Beetle suit.

"I disabled it with my radio decoder." Ted said with a smile as he pressed a button on his suit.

Felicity felt the bomb detach from her neck and fall to the floor. She let out a huge sigh, "Thank goodness, I don't think I'd look pretty with a decapitated head."

The man stood angrily and pointed his gun at Ray, "Do you know what you've all done?"

Ted grabbed a bow staff from Ray's wall and hit the gun out of the man's hand, "Yeah, I'm saving my friends butt."

The man tried running away but Sara held him by the collar. Ted laughed while watching the man squirm, "Now if I were you I'd stop moving, because my bodyguard can be pretty convincing."

Sara arched her brow, "I don't know…I think you let this guy off a little too easy Ted."

Ted winked and held the man for her, "Then be my guest"

Sara smiled before knocking the man unconscious with a punch. Ted dropped the man to the ground, "That's one heck of a punch Cassie."

"I know." Sara replied with a smirk.

Ray frowned at Sara, "Why is Ted calling you Cassie."

Ted frowned at Ray, "How did you know I'm Blue Beetle?"

Felicity rolled her eyes, "The same way you figured out Ray is the Atom Ted. You two are terrible at keeping your secret identities."

Ray arched his brow, "Smoak, I figured out Queen was the Arrow because you're a terrible liar. I wouldn't be bragging if I were you."

"Oliver has nothing to do with this Ray." Felicity said hurt Ray would resort to bring Oliver up.

Ray shook his head, "Of course you defend him, you always have and always will."

Ted stepped in front of Felicity, "You have no right to insult my co-worker like that."

"Co-worker?" Ray glanced at Felicity before stepping closer to Ted, "You work for him Smoak?"

Ted smirked, "Yeah, they both do. And why do you keep calling her Smoak?"

"Would you all stop arguing!" Sara shouted.

The room went quiet.

Felicity turned to Ted, "My real name is Felicity, and her is Sara. We lied to you because Amanda Waller needs out help."

"I thought I told her I didn't want anything to do with her." Ray mumbled.

Ted laughed, "Same here."

Felicity grabbed a tablet from Ray's table, "China White owns the third biggest technology company after you guys. She wants to kill both of you she can gain control of both your companies."

"Meaning you two need to man up and put whatever difference you have aside and work together so we can take her down," Sara said with a hand on her hip.

"Fine." Ted said with a sigh.

Ray crossed his arms, "I'm not working with him."

"Ray." Felicity exclaimed.

Ray turned to Felicity angrily, "You can't just barge back into my life and force me to work with Ted. We don't talk to each other for a reason."

Felicity crossed her arms, "Stop being stubborn, is risking your life worth holding a grudge over someone you've hated since college?"

"You hate me?" Ted said with a frown. Ray rolled his eyes, "I don't hate you Ted. I'm just sick of always trying to compete with you for everything."

"Me too." Ted said with a sigh, "I've been trying to apologize to you ever since." He extended his hand to Ray, "Friends?"

Ray looked at Ted's hand with a frown before accepting it, "Whatever. Let's just take this psycho down and move on with our lives."

"Yay!" Felicity said clapping her hands. Ted laughed at Felicity as Ray rolled his eyes. Ted gently hit his fist on Ray's shoulder, "You're still the same grumpy prick from college."

Ray frowned, "And you're still the same overconfident goofball."

"You mean handsome overconfident goofball." Ted replied.

Felicity and Sara glanced at each other.

"Men." They said at the same time.

Ted walked to Ray's suit, "This is a nice piece of work you got here Ray."

Ray smirked, "I know."

Felicity rolled her eyes, "Funny how you fail to mention how I helped you program the suit."

Ted raised his brow, "Ray let you help him? He was never much a teamwork person."

Felicity laughed, "Making Ray trust me wasn't easy," She glanced at Ray , "But he did anyway."

Sara glanced at Felicity and Ray, she sensed they needed some privacy. Sara took Ted's hand, "Wanna go for a walk?"

Ted smiled, "Definitely."

Ray and Felicity laughed as they watched the two leave.

"Ted always had a way with ladies." Ray said rolling his eyes.

"I can imagine. He is a charmer." Felicity said with a small smiled while staring at Ray's suit. Ray walked next to her and crossed his arms, "So what do think?"

She turned to him, "I think the suit is amazing." She gestured to the lab, "All of this is. I'm really proud of you Ray."

Ray grinned, "Could you please repeat what you just said?"

Felicity rolled her eyes, Ray was so full of himself. "You heard me Ray. You're awesome."

Ray chuckled, "That's nice to know."

"Soooo…Can I touch it?" Felicity asked.

"No."

"Please?"

"No." Ray said with a stern frown.

"Ray."

He rolled his eyes, "Fine, but we have to be holding hands if you do."

She arched her brow, "Why?"

Ray took her hand and placed it gently on the armored suit, "I installed a security touch pad on the suit. That way, I know no one can access it but me."

"What would happen if I accidently touched it without us holding hands?"

"The suit would self-destruct in 2 minutes."

"Cool." Felicity smiled. "Wait, isn't that based off one of the programs you asked me to help you with?"

Ray nodded, he smiled as she looked at the suit in awe.

"You want to see something cooler?"

Felicity nodded eagerly.

Ray took her other hand and stepped behind her and murmured, "Just don't freak out ok?"

Felicity bit her lip, "I'll try not to."

Ray placed their palms on the chest of the suit. Felicity could feel the suit silently hum under their hands. The it felt...alive.

It's like the suit is its own separate person." Felicity murmured.

"You feel the humming under our fingers? What does it feel like?"

"Like…a really fast heartbeat." She answered.

"Our heartbeat to be exact." Ray said with a nod. "I programmed the suit to replicate my emotions so it would be able to detect if something wrong were to happen to me."

She frowned as she stared at Ray's hands which were on hers. "But why is it humming so fast?"

"I can feel your fingers tensing up under mine. You're anxious. And I'm calm. It doesn't know which emotion to pick."

Felicity furrowed her brows as the suit hummed even quicker, "So how do I slow it down? It's not working"

"Our heartbeats need to synchronize Smoak. Just do as I say."

Felicity nodded.

"Close your eyes." She closed them.

"Now, take a deep breath and relax."

"Listen to the sound of my voice. Breath in. Breath out." Ray murmured soothingly.

Breath in…Breath out… I can do this… Breath in…Breath out…

Felicity opened her eyes in surprise as she felt the humming slow to a normal beat.

"We did it." Felicity said with a laugh.

After three seconds the suit lighted under their entwined fingers. The white light branched from the base of their palms throughout the whole suit like the root of a tree.

"Woah…" Felicity whispered. Ray chuckled, "It gets better."

"Raymond Palmer, suit is ready for use." Said a robotic voice from the suit.

Felicity blinked in disbelief, "Uh…Your suit talks?"

"Uh huh." Ray said with a smirk.

"I see you brought a guest Raymond."

"Yeah, this is Felicity Smoak." Ray glanced down at her, "She's a friend."

"Pleasure to meet you Felicity Smoak."

"Y-you too." Felicity turned her head "I recognize that voice…you used the Lennx 07 processor right?"

"Impressive Ms. Smoak. You are definitely correct."

Ray arched his brow, "The suit is right. That's something no one would have guessed."

"I do my research." She said with a smile, "It's nice having a dork around me that understands tech language again." She paused, "Well technically now I have two dorks—including the suit."

Ray smiled slightly, "I missed that about you too."

Felicity pretended to gasp, "Call the presses, Raymond Palmer has actually given me 3 complements today."

Ray rolled his eyes as he took their hands off the suit, "Don't get too used to it."

Felicity looked down at their hands, "Ray, I know this sounds weird but I think my skins tingling. A lot."

Ray chuckled and turned her hands palm up to demonstrate. "That's because the atoms from my suit are reacting with your skin. I'm used to it. It'll wear out in a minute or two."

"I'm I the first person whose touched your suit, aren't I?" Felicity whispered while staring at their hands.

"Yes."

She blushed, "That's nice to know."

After an awkward moment of silence Ray cleared his throat, "We should probably stop holding hands now."

"Oh. Right." Felicity said with a shy smile as she let go of his hand.

Ray put his hands in his pockets, "Should we go check on Ted and Sara?"

Felicity nodded, "Sure, they've been gone for a time now..."

'''''''''''''

The next day Ted, Felicity and Sara met at Palmer Technologies.

"So, what's the plan for today?" Ted asked them as they entered the building.

"Waller said she'd contact us when we're all together." Sara answered.

"So now we just need to pick Ray." Felicity replied.

Sara grabbed Ted's arm, "Actually, you should pick Ray while me and Ted go grab a table for all of us for lunch."

Ted furrowed his brow, "Are you sure we shouldn't all—"

Felicity arched her brow as she saw Sara whisper in Ted's ear. Ted blinked, "Oh right, you and Ray still have issues to deal with."

Felicity blushed as Sara pulled him away.

"Ted, you don't need to say everything you think out loud."

Ted smiled apologetically at Sara, "Sorry?" Sara rolled her eyes as they walked.

Felicity laughed as she watched them leave, "Those two would make a strange couple."

She sighed and walked to the front desk, "Excuse me. Can I please talk to Mr. Palmer."

The man who was on his computer looked up, "Je me excuse, but you have to schedule an appointment with him."

"Just tell him Smoak wants to see him."

The man nodded, after speaking on the phone he looked to Felicity, "My apologies but he's busy."

Felicity sighed, "Great."

"I'll give you the number to his office. You can wait outside till he's done."

Felicity smiled and accepted the paper, "Thank you."

When she located his office, she noticed his door was wide open.

"Hello? Ray?" Felicity asked as she entered the empty office. Felicity sat down on his chair.

"Comfy," she said to herself.

"Smoak. What are you doing here?"

She jumped when she looked up and saw Ray crossing his arms disapprovingly. She exhaled a deep breath, "You scared me! Why couldn't you knock?"

Ray arched his brow, "I don't know… maybe because this is my office?"

Felicity swiveled in his chair, "Swanky office by the way."

Ray sighed, "Smoak, why are you here, I'm a bit busy."

"I was thinking, maybe the two of us could grab some lunch with Ted and Sara before we meet with Waller."

Ray frowned, "I'm sorry, I can't."

Felicity arched her brow, "Why no—"

"Bonjour l'amour."

Felicity stopped midsentence as a beautiful woman entered the room. Felicity was stunned; the woman looked a lot like Jean. Ivory skin, black hair, full lips, and amazing cheekbones.

The woman placed her hand on Ray's chest before kissing him.

Felicity's heart sank.

Ray had gotten over her. Perfect.

Dun dun dunnnn... ahaha you guys knew it wasn't going to be that easy right?

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