Six
Slade closed his eyes trying to remember the way her blue-green eyes looked in the sun and the fire in those eyes. He could never forget her no matter how hard he tried and it hurt that he had believed so easily that she was dead but it was very convincing. The thirty eight year old man remembered very few times that he had cried and it amounted to a handful. The first time had been when his first wife had gone insane and killed his son Joseph. The second time had been on the island a year after Sophia had changed his whole life when he had thought he had lost her and the third was when Argus made him believe she was dead. Her image haunted him but he always held onto it despite the pain it caused him because he loved her with every fiber of his being. He felt sleep consume him as he remembered more of his time on the island with her, specifically the very first year after he had saved her from mercenaries.
"Lian Yu?" she asked looking at him confused and it made him pause.
Slade had come here on a mission to rescue Yao Fei only for it to turn into a shit fest when a man he thought that he could trust turned on him leaving him for dead. After everything he had been through he didn't trust easily so finding a girl about to be raped made him suspicious. He saw the anger in her blue-green eyes and had to admire the fire there just like he had to ignore the fact that he wanted to get lost in them.
"I am not going to be tricked by a pretty thing like you despite what Fyers thinks so I would just talk," he warned her sharpening his katana.
"I don't know anything!" she yelled surprising him and he smirked listening to her rant on. "I know that I was on a yacht with my twin brother and my father only for a storm to hit and the fucking boat to explode. The only reason I was there was because my dad was trying to get me to take over his company. I know that I am stranded on some stupid island and I was almost raped only to know be interrogated by an asshole."
Slade opened his mouth to say something when the girl surprised him by jumping up a piece of glass in her hand and swung at him. He was able to grab her arm and knock the glass away feeling stupid for not checking her because he had been deceived by her looks. He knew in that moment that not only was she not working with Fyers but she had a fire in her that would help to survive this island. He sighed as he wrapped his arms around her body trying to stop her and groaned at the way her curves felt against him knowing it was going to be a long life on the island if she stuck around.
~The Huntress: Black and Blue~
Sophia shook her head tears escaping her eyes as she remembered that day knowing he had not been the only one affected. The fact that he had been able to restrain himself for so long and it just made him that much more attractive in her eyes. His life had not been easy and when he had cried one night revealing to her the truth about his son it had changed everything. She stood looking over the property seeing that Thea and Oliver were talking by the graves when she heard the door open. She moved to grab a sweater not wanting the scrutiny about her scars only to hear an exclamation and looked up to see Tommy's dark blue eyes.
"I knew that the island had changed you and I heard about the scars but dammit Sophia," he told her walking over to take a closer look.
"It's nothing Tommy," she tried to reassure her friend pulling the black sweater over her head.
"I'm not an idiot Sophia. I see the dead look in your eyes and the way you move. I know that you were not alone on that island just like I suspect that Oliver has a certain night time activity. You can trust me Sophia I wish you would see that," he said turning to leave a sad look on his face.
"Wait," she yelled out.
Sophia didn't know what it was that made her yell out to him but looking into his dark blue eyes she knew she could trust him. They had been close friends growing up and he had treated her like a sister. He was the man that she lost her virginity too because she was afraid of losing it to anybody else. Afterwards they had both agreed that they were better as friends but losing her virginity to him was not something she could ever regret especially since the night it happened she had almost been raped by a jackass at a party. She remembered the way that Slade had made her promise not to close down and to trust if he had died and took a chance.
"Do you have time to go somewhere with me?" she asked him.
"I don't work so of course," he answered a smirk on his face teasing her and she smiled loving that he was able to joke with her trying to make her feel better.
Sophia felt his arm wrap around her shoulders and actually felt comforted for the first time in a while. She didn't love Tommy nor was she in love with him but he helped in a way that only family could and she wished she could tell him about his father but decided that instead she would trust him with a few of her secrets.
~The Huntress: Black and Blue~
Tommy waited patiently as he looked out over the water standing beside Sophia on the bridge. In another life he could have easily fallen in love with her but she had found love in hell while he had developed something with a certain employee at Queen Consolidated. He could tell that this was a struggle so he let her be as she collected her thoughts knowing it wouldn't be a pretty story.
"When the yacht went down I got caught in the storm before hand and ended up separated from everyone else. I didn't even know that Oliver had survived or that my father was dead until later. I woke up on an island and just figured that since I was dead anyway I might as well make my way through the woods. I ran into mercenaries that tried to rape me. I was able to fight my way through some of them but then I had help. Slade Wilson saved me and man was he a jackass but I fell for him anyway. The day I lost him I thought everything had ended but I had Oliver and I had my son then my son was taken. The island was hell in everyway imaginable but it gave me him and I can't ever regret that," Sophia explained tears falling down her face.
"I'm not going to tell you that it's going to be okay because I can't possibly begin to imagine what you went through but you aren't alone," he reassured tears springing to his eyes.
"In another life Tommy Merlyn I could have easily fallen for you," she told him hugging him letting the feeling of his arms wrapping around her offer comfort and while it wasn't Slade it was enough for now.
~The Huntress: Black and Blue~
Tommy waited in the parking garage for the red bug to arrive knowing she wasn't home yet. Sophia's story had inspired him in a way to tell the girl was having a thing with how he felt. He smiled when her bug pulled up with Nsync music blaring and it reminded him of the time Sophia had dragged him their concert when they were fifteen because Oliver refused to go with her. She smiled widely at him as she stepped out of the car her heels clicking on the pavement and her ponytail swinging.
"To what do I owe the pleasure Tommy Merlyn? I mean you don't need a reason to come here because I like having you here. I mean that I like spending time with you and now I'm just going to shut up in three, two, one," Felicity Smoak rambled looking down at the ground.
"I think I like your rambling more each day," he told her cupping her face in his hands, "I really need to talk to you."
"If you are breaking up with me then just," she started her eyes wide making to step back.
"I'm not breaking up with you," he reassured pulling her back in.
Felicity Smoak was an MIT graduate with a PhD so sleeping with an attractive man who was richer than god was only something that happened in her dreams. They had only really started out because he had helped her avoid a guy that would not take no for an answer and when feelings developed, at least on her end, she had basically kept her mouth shut afraid of losing him because she knew the reputation of Tommy Merlyn. Though she had discovered that Tommy was not all his reputation had said she was still afraid because she did not want to give up the feeling of having his arms wrapped around her knowing she was falling in love and she would not change it for the world.