Time Ten

"Honey, what's the worst that could happen?" he said as he gave her that smug smile of his.

"Seriously? Oliver, having everyone come here, our place for Thanksgiving? I don't know about this."

"Nothing's going to happen, I promise."

She threw herself on their bed, her right arm covering her face as he closed their bedroom door. He stretched, cracking something in his back. Anything that could go wrong today went wrong. First it started when he heard Felicity scream in the shower, apparently their hot water heater decided to stop working, so she was forced to take the rest of her shower in ice cold water. Then as he began to cut and peel the potatoes he heard a gurgling sound in the sink to find the pipes were backing up.

After he got everything cooking Thea and Roy showed up and apparently they were mad at each other and refused to speak to each other. John, Lyla, Sara and John Jr. arrived and seemed to take all the tension out of the room. Sara ran to Felicity who pulled her up in her arms to hug her, Sara peppered her face with kisses. John Jr. was still too young to even try walking but he did his grabby hands very well.

After a while Donna and Lance arrived with a bottle of wine, announcing they would be leaving for vacation next week to somewhere tropical she said. Oliver and Felicity locked eyes and mouthed "Bali" to each other as their little inside joke. They were sitting in the living room watching the game when there was a huge booming sound shaking the house and putting all the men on alert. Apparently a blown transformer, so dinner had to be thrown out and the crew had to go out for dinner. The only place open was the Chinese place, one they hadn't been to before.

After telling their server maybe ten times that Felicity had a nut allergy the food arrived and soon they were all digging in. The laughter engulfed the table at something Lance had said and everyone seemed truly happy. After dinner everyone said goodbye and Oliver and Felicity decided to go home. They were stopped at a red light by the old Foundry, where it all happened, when they were blocked in by three vehicles.

Oliver looked over at Felicity, worry etched across her face, Oliver pressed the small button on the steering wheel alerting the team they needed help. Men dressed all in black and guns came out aiming and yelling at them. He gripped the steering wheel tight knowing there was no way they were getting out of this, unless he showed his true colors.

"Felicity, they're going to take us but I want you to know that everything is going to be okay, okay?" he said calm.

"Okay," she said barely above a whisper. The men were on both doors telling them to get out, Oliver took his seatbelt off and so did Felicity. He unlocked the door to the quarter of a million dollar sports car, it was yanked open and both were told to get out of the car.

"Take whatever you want just leave my wife and I alone," Oliver said putting his hands up like they demanded.

"Mayor Queen, you're coming with us and so is Mrs. Queen. We here you two are very valuable. Get in the SUV now," the man said.

"Take me leave her out of this. It's me you want. You want money you're going to need her to be able to go to the bank to get it right?" The man contemplated for a minute and smiled.

"Two Queens are better than one," he smirked as the butt of the gun hit Oliver in the head, his vision blurring. She screamed out and before she could run over to him, she was yanked back by her hair. "Now Mrs. Queen, I do like me a screamer but scream one more time and I will have to make you quiet, permanently," he said in a threatening tone. She closed her mouth, her bottom lip quivering, hell her whole body was shivering and she was thankful for once she had decided on wearing jeans and a pink sweater and her converses.

The sound of an arrow cutting through the air was what broke the moment. Oliver broke out of their hold and began hurting the men around them, Felicity swung at the man behind her elbowing him in the gut catching him off guard. Soon they were sounded by Team Arrow. The click of a gun and then a yell had them all stopping for a moment.

"Let me husband go," she said growling at the man holding Oliver at gun point. She had looked over and for whatever reason Oliver didn't see the man come up behind him, she reached down grabbing the closet gun and aimed it at the man. "I will not tell you again," she said the anger permeated the air.

"Please Mrs. Queen, you wouldn't," he said. She looked at the man and shot him, she shot him in the shoulder catching him off guard enough for Oliver to disarm the man. "You shot me, you fucking shot me, you bi-," he began to say but didn't get far enough after Oliver kicked him hard enough to knock him out. She rushed over to him hugging him tightly, he took the gun out of her shaking hand and handed it to John.

"Are you okay?" she said cupping his face and looking him over.

"You just shot someone and you're asking me if I'm okay, God how did I get so lucky?"

"Oh my God I did shoot him, he's okay right?" she asked looking at the man and Oliver.

"He'll live," he said.

"Target practice has been working then," John said.

"I was aiming for his knee," she said sheepishly.

"Oh," they all said in unison.

"Let's not do the shooting again okay?" Oliver suggested.

"Agreed, Thank you guys for coming," she said, her voice still shaky.

"We're family, where else would we be," Roy chimed in.

"Right now you guys need to go, I hear the sirens. We'll see you all tomorrow," Oliver said hugging Thea and Laurel and then shaking John and Roy's hands. Soon it was just Oliver and Felicity, he knew the adrenaline would wear off soon so he guided her to the passenger seat of the car. After giving their statements and seeing the men get carted off to jail and the hospital they were released to go home.

As soon as they made it up the stairs to the bedroom she collapsed backwards on the bed and covered her face with her arm. Oliver took his jacket off cracking his back and feeling a little soreness coming in. He looked at Felicity and walked over to her, placing himself in between her legs. She moved her arm and sat up.

"Do you know that every time you say that sentence something bad always happens?"

"What? No it doesn't."

"Really?" she said sassy and arching her left eyebrow at him.

"Okay, let's go shower and enjoy the rest of this Thanksgiving. I have a lot of thanks to give to my hero," he said caressing her cheek making her shiver in anticipation. Oh and did he give thanks to her for everything, for being his light, for changing his life for the better and for saving his life once again.