Guess who's back-back again! Me. Sorry about the A/N last chapter personally, I hate them like really really detest them but it had to be done. Maybe I'll delete it? I don't know.

Back on topic! This is one of my favourite chapters by far so far! It's funny and cute and adorable and character building and so cute! I just love it. Let me know what you think in the comments I can't wait to read your reactions because you're all so fantastic. Thanks so much for the reviews I have already you're all fantastic and don't realise how much a little message can mean.

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Chapter 6

Felicity jumped back into Oliver who wrapped his arms loosely around her thin frame. She looked around in amazement at the thought that had been put into it-it was more than she's ever had before even back with her mom.

There was streamers hung on the wall and balloons were tied in bunches around the room, there were also some helium ones floating from the ceiling! There were paper ornaments taped to the walls, and laid on tables. Then in the middle of the dining room she spotted an enormous table topped with cakes and party food. There was a huge cake in the middle saying: YOU'RE SEVENTEEN!

She turned behind her to see Laurel and Sara waring matching grins and up to Oliver who was looking down at her softly. "Do you like it?" he whispered and she nodded turning in his grasp to hug him.

The large group was mostly her friends but Moira, Robert, Thea and their maid Raisa who were all smiling happily at her. She grinned back and traitorous tears filled her eyes. Felicity moved forward to hug them all and when she reached for Moira the older women gave her a small squeeze and whispered "You're doing so well, honey, so well" Then Robert grinned at her and hugged her lightly, Raisa kissed her cheek and stepped back.

"I'm so happy for you!" Caitlin smiled when Felicity turned to talk to her friends after thanking Moira and Robert profusely. "Here!" she thrust a rectangle box at her to which she stared at blankly in confusion "Erm, your birthday present?" Felicity nodded and thanked her before moving to put it in the dining room. Oliver walked up to her on her way and grabbed her hand.

"You okay?" he asked when they were alone.

Felicity turned the box over in her hands and her eyes stung "It's just I've not celebrated my birthday in almost ten years much less get present'. It's all so different but it's a good different, just might take a bit to get used to. Thanks so much by the way" he smiled sadly and pulled her in for yet another hug-they seemed to be hugging a lot today-not that she was complaining.

They walked back to the dining room where everyone was stood in a line smiling. He pulled her to the side of the queue and walked along side her as they passed her the presents "family tradition and now you're officially part of our family… well, it's a burden you'll have to bare" he muttered with a smirk. She blushed with every gift she received and hugged the giver but soon her hands were full so Oliver reached for them and placed them where they placed Caitlin's.

"Thanks so much" she smiled when everyone had given her their present. They all wore matching grins and followed her into the dining room for food. "Hey, Barry, how'd things going with Iris?" Barry turned to look at her sharply glaring mockingly at her.

He took the seat beside her and offered her to share his plate, she took some everynow and again but listened intently when he talked "How'd you know I liked Iris-not that I do! Because she's my sister and… no I really do and all she sees me as is a brother. She even told me that Eddie was cute, EDDIE!" He stressed and Felicity couldn't help but allow a few giggles to escape. Felicity looked over to where Iris, Caitlin, Sara and Thea were talking about something rather animatedly their eyes turning to the boys in the corner. "Why aren't you with the girls?" he asked earning a shrug.

"I don't know, initially my plan was to stay near Oliver but he's snuck off somewhere with Laurel so I'm a bit torn…" She explained and he nodded.

He stood up and brushed off his jeans before beckoning her to follow "Girls, I have a gift" he grumbled when he reached their group and left Felicity standing there with a small grin on her face.

Sara turned to her and hugged her tightly "Oh my god! We totally got you, I'm so happy for you" she rambled on about whatever they were talking about after that and Felicity only imputed with a smile or a nod as she watched the girls talk about boys and their future. Her eyes began to wander and she spotted Laurel talking to Oliver while he watched her with a soft expression. His eyes lifted to meet hers across the room and he rolled his eyes at her before motioning with his head towards his girlfriend. She had to stifle a giggle.

Felicity got up and excused herself walking upstairs to where her phone lay discarded on the bed from when she forgot to get it this morning. She dialled the familiar number and hoped it didn't go to answer phone, it didn't but no one answered either.

There was a knock on her door as she looked up to find Oliver looking at her confused. She patted the bed next to her and continued to listen in hope of hearing her voice.

"…Felicity?!" the voice on the other end of the line was slurred but still sounded reasonably excited "I was just about to call! How are you, you're at a new home, am I right? How is it?"

Felicity sighed and twisted her fingers around until Oliver caught them and tangled them with his "No you weren't, you're drunk and don't have a clue what day it is, am I right?" her voice cracked and she looked over at Oliver who opened his arms in invitation. She settled into them still listening to the phone.

"No Felicity, I was honest!" Donna cried over the phone.

"I'm okay, yes I am at my new home, and it's amazing" Felicity answered when a small tear escaped. Oliver mouthed who is it at her but she shook her head and held up one finger. "It's my birthday mom." Oliver raised his eyebrows in question but she shrugged. "Y'know, 23rd of June?" Her mother gave a drunken laugh and Oliver squeezed her fingers.

"Of course I do, sweetheart. Oh I got married the other week!" she passes it off as nothing but Felicity's mouth drops open, her eyes get wider and she shakes her head. Her mother could never have the attention off her for more than five minutes and that's where they differed.

Felicity swallowed the lump in her throat "Yeah? Who to?"

"Oh, he's the kindest man. He's here actually, one minute-" she cute the phone for a few minutes and Felicity sighed leaning back into Oliver's chest, the tears she was trying to hold back escaped "Felicity!" her mom called through the phone so she clear her throat and brought the phone back up to her ear "meet, Kyle, we met at work." Then the voice changes and she knows it's not her mom anymore.

"Hello. You must be Felicity's daughter, the one she gave up for adoption. How long until this family gives you back? Poor little Felicity Smoak never able to keep a family…" he slurs on but felicity's no longer listening her head is burrowed in Oliver's chest sobs wracking her body. A hand cradles her head while the other is wrapped securely round her waist.

She ends the call quickly and returns to her former position, tears still leaking into Oliver's shirt. "I-I'm so s-s-sorry" she stutters and the tears keep coming "she… erm, she's a waitress in Vegas and that means she has some drinks free in some bars. Every time I ring her she's married someone new and drunk. One year I rang her up and she was in prison for drug abuse. That was the year I came out of the Rochev' custody and…"Oliver nods and hugs her tighter.

Finally she dries her eyes but they're still a little red when she walks down stairs, Oliver's top is wet with tears and everyone is smart enough to put two and two together but thankfully no one mentions it. The rest of the party goes without fault and she spends the whole night laughing and joking with her friends, "I'm so happy for her" Oliver mentions to Laurel at some point.

"Yeah, she deserves to be happy. Thanks for thinking about it, she seems so much happier" Laurel answers in turn making him nod.

He rakes a hand through his short hair"Yeah, I'm glad I did. I seriously don't think I could live without her now, Y'know, she's my best friend" then at his girlfriend's smirk he adds "My seconds bestfriend to you, of course" At that she grins and shakes her head.

"No, she is your best-friend, I don't want to get in the middle of that. You're good for her and it sees she's good for you too, Mr anti party" Oliver smiles and laughs quietly but Felicity hears and her head shoots up to find him laughing with Laurel they grin at her and she rolls her eyes turning away.

Felicity spends most of her night laughing and joking with her friends and steeling rare glances at Oliver to make sure he's still here. When she can't see him she makes sure someone knows where he is-this night is too perfect… Felicity is waiting for something to go wrong. Thea spends her night close to Felicity's side or in front of the chocolate fountain leaving her extremely hyper, much to Moira's delight… not. However the older women is extremely happy to see Felicity, who not a month ago was panicking at a touch, was now able to freely talk and hug her friends while living in the safety of her home. She noticed Oliver was happier too and marvelled in the fact all her children were in this moment content.

"We should dance!" Thea shouted over the endless talking and unfortunately for Felicity everyone agreed almost instantly. "Felicity you have to dance with me first 'cos I'm the bestest sister ever, right?" Felicity nodded at the younger girl.

"Right" she agreed and pulled the younger girl into the middle of the room where music started playing. To her confusion a slow song started to play and Thea giggled putting a small hand on Felicity's shoulder and the other clasped around Felicity's. She grinned down at her and started to sway earning bigger grins and giggles causing everyone around them to laugh and join in their childish fun.

The song changed yet the mood didn't and Thea pranced off to Barry's awaiting arms leaving Felicity to watch as every smiled around her. She grinned and looked at her hands thinking of how this was the best birthday she'd ever had and how she wouldn't change anything for the world. Oliver slipped up next to her and pulled her in a position similar to Thea but this time took her round the wide open space "Oliver! I can't dance, what are you doing, I'll fall over!" he grinned and carried on holding most of her weight in his arm around her waist.

"It's all in the leading" he grinned and she rolled her eyes and the most over used line in the book but settled herself in his slight embrace. "Are you having a good time?" he whispered, resting his head on her head, which he lifted to let her nod enthusiastically. "Good, I'm glad, that's all I wanted" she grinned.

Sara came up to her soon after and stuck her tongue out at Oliver before dragging her away. They were all sat in a circle on the floor talking when she arrived being tugged along by Sara. They looked up at her arrival and smiled before going back to their conversations. Cisco then walked in with an empty beer bottle swinging between his fingers. Felicity's stomach flipped and she took a hesitant step backwards away from him earning a confused look but Oliver smiled at her gently and tugged her hand to the floor where they sat, her wedged between Oliver and Sara.

They were playing spin the bottle and Caitlin demanded for oldest to go first. Surprisingly, that was Laurel who took the bottle with a smirk and spun it with professional technique- landing straight on Oliver. He rolled his eyes but pressed his lips to hers quickly before sitting back down. Oliver spun it and, lucky for her, it landed on Iris who blushed deeply before pecking his lips. Iris spun the bottle and it landed on Barry who looked up wide eyed and allowed her to kiss him quickly before sitting down and wiping her mouth. He spun it and it landed on… Felicity. She swallowed deeply and reached over to kiss his cheek "sorry, not… I can't" she apologised, her past coming back for her. He smiled sweetly and she spun the bottle which landed on Thea. Thea grinned and pressed a quick kiss to her cheek before spinning the bottle. Trust her, it landed on Oliver who grinned at her and kissed her on the forehead. Oliver spun again and it landed on Caitlin who blushed but kissed his lips. She then spun it and it landed on Eddie who grinned at her making her giggle and press a chaste kiss to his lips. He spun the bottle landing on Sara who grit her teeth but kissed his mouth quickly before pulling back and whispering to Felicity "I, personally, would've preferred your brother." Felicity grinned and rolled her eyes, watching as Sara spun the bottle, it landing on Cisco who giggled and kissed her lips. Cisco spun it only for it to land on Iris who kissed his lips gently and then spun it for it to land on Laurel. The older girl lent over and kissed her cheek "Sorry, don't want to get done for rape" Iris nodded with a grin neither girl noticing how Felicity's breathing shallowed at the word. Oliver reached for her hand and squeezed it gently pulling her back with a reassuring smile.

"Are we done?" Oliver asked when her breathing returned to normal "because I think it's time for Felicity to open her presents" She glared at him when everyone else agreed but the smile dancing around her lips took the edge away.

They all walked to the living room where Moira and Robert sat on the sofa talking to a dark haired man with deep blue eyes. Oliver walked in and his eyes immediately found the man, a slight hardness to his stare. Said man stood when they entered and flashed Felicity a flawless smile "Hello. I'm Malcom Merlyn, you must be the latest Queen, Felicity, it's nice to meet you and I wish you a very happy birthday"

She smiled slightly but the way Oliver stood made her nervous "Hello, and thankyou… for the birthday wish I mean." He nods at her and turns to Moira and Robert.

"Shall we take this… somewhere else?" they nod and the adults leave the room without another word "It really was nice meeting you Felicity, I hope we see each other again sometime" Malcom calls over his shoulder leaving Felicity with goose bumps, and not the good kind.

Oliver turns to her with a serious expression "are you okay? He is… Just try not to talk to him very much please" Felicity nods in answer to both the question and the request "Now, presents!" he calls and they all sit on the sofa with the music channel playing softly from the latest smart TV in the middle of the room. "Mine first!" he laughs.

He passes her a square box, she peels back the bow wrapping paper slowly and gasps when she sees what's inside. It's a jewellery box and when she opens it she finds a stunning thin silver bracelet with links. Dangling from one of the links is a small camera charm. She looks up at him teary eyed but he motions to the paper again and inside is a small wallet sized photo of the three of them that Moira took, Thea, Oliver and herself she grins at him and pulls him in for a hug. He hugs her back tightly, holding her close to his chest. "Will you put it on for me?" she asks him and he nods slipping the bracelet around her tiny wrist.

"Me next!" Thea squeals and passes her a large box. She looks at Thea confused and unwraps it finding another pretty wooden box inside. It has unique patterns dancing over the edge of it "Open it" Thea whispers and when Felicity looks inside she finds hundreds of small little cards in tiny envelopes. She picks one up and reads the writing:

OPEN WHEN: YOU MISS ME

"Oh Thea!" she cries and the young girl pulls her in for a hug "This is beautiful, thank you so much" they pull apart and Oliver looks over at the box and grins, nodding, at his sister when he reads the words.

Sara passes her hers next and when she teared the paper she finds an empty notebook with parchment paper and engraved with her name in golden ink. "Check the first page" and she flicks to the very first page and written in Sara's loopy handwriting the words:

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Felicity smiles and nods "I agree…"

Cisco passes her a small box with a green bow. She unwraps it to find 3 smaller boxes with wooden things inside and as she reads the labels she gives Cisco a grin "Just what I need" she mumbles and Cisco grins.

"Thought you might enjoy it, stops you being bored in class right?" she laughs and nods. She lets Oliver take the puzzles from her and he passes them around earning knowing smiles.

Barry's next and then Iris and then Eddie. When they're done Felicity thanks everyone profusely earning a few rolling of eyes. Moira and Robert come in then with a small, thin rectangle box and Oliver and Laurel share a knowing smirk before he budges over to let Moira sit next to Felicity.

She looks at it confused "You…You didn't have to get me anything, you gave me a home. That's more than I could ever want" Moira laughs and Robert gives a throaty chuckle.

"Tough, we have money and we want to spend it on our children, especially on their birthday!" Moira says and Felicity smiles holding back tears at the way she said "children."

They hand her the small box and she stares at it before opening it. When she sees the car key hidden in the soft velvet she looks at them in disbelief "But I can't drive" Robert smiles and hands her an envelope she opens it carefully reading the dates for her driving lessons. "You're giving me a BMW before I can drive?" she calculates making all the Queens giggle. "Thankyou!" Felicity wraps her arms around Moira's slender form in a tight embrace. She hugged her back gently.

"You're welcome, tomorrow, Oliver could take you out in it if you want?" Felicity looks at Oliver in question but he shrugs and nods with a grin.

They all pile upstairs into Felicity's room and she turns to Laurel "Are you staying with us or Oliver tonight?" At that Laurel laughs out loud.

"I'm pretty sure, Oliver is staying with us tonight, right?" Oliver looks down at her with a sheepish grin before nodding "We're watching a Disney film tonight" she says as they all sit around the room. "Have you seen little mermaid?" Felicity shakes her head-nope.

They turn that on and everyone starts to sing along with the familiar lyrics leaving Felicity laughing and their terrible voices (to be fair some of them-Barry-had a really good voice.) After that Cisco demands Finding Nemo much too every ones delight. They sit staring at the TV unblinking and Caitlin points out a specific Tumblr post which sets them all into fits of laughter.

When Thea starts to fall asleep Oliver lifts and places her onto Felicity's bed where she falls asleep almost instantly. "It is almost 2 in the morning, she did well to be honest" he mutters when Laurel smiles at her sleeping figure nodding along with Oliver's statement. "Where are we all sleeping?" he grumbles when the film finishes.

Caitlin, Cisco, Iris and Sara take half the floor space and Laurel and Oliver take the window seat. Barry and Eddie sleep close to the bed leaving the rest of the bed to Felicity. She knows that she won't be able to sleep tonight, not with so many people in her room, so she insists on another film while they go to sleep. When they all eventually fall asleep Felicity pulls out the notebook Sara bought her and turned to a fresh page.

Dear Diary friend,

Today's my birthday and originally the plan was for us to throw a party next Friday but it wouldn't be much of a surprise party if I knew about it, right? So they threw me one tonight. It was perfect, to be honest I'm so happy I'm beginning to doubt it. Oliver and I are friends again, which is good, I missed him when he was going through that…phase?

I'm writing this during said surprise party because despite how much better my panic attacks are I know I'll never be able to sleep with all these people in the room. Not after… So, I decided to try it out and oh my god this paper is lush! The Queens are so nice, and rich, but as people they're so kind and giving. Don't get me wrong they have an extravagant style but I think it's a nice touch.

I'm kind of glad I went through what I did because if I didn't I'd never end up here in the middle of my room with all my friends asleep. It may have been and extremely hard time but it lead me here and for that I'm-

Got to go, Felicity

She snapped the book shut and slid it under her bed staring at the computer screen as Oliver sat up gently removing Laurel from his chest. His eyes scanned the room, locking on her as though she was his target.

Rather unstealthily he made his away across the sleeping bodies to where she was half lead in bed, computer on her lap. She moved over so he could sit/ lie next to her and he slipped into the duvet staring at her new program in confusion.

"Hello, why are you awake?" she whispered, softly tapping away at the keyboard.

He smiled at her "I should be asking you the same question but I think I know the answer, I'm awake because I had a dream of your first night here and remembered that you probably wouldn't be sleeping" She sighed and rolled her eyes before running a hand through his lengthening hair.

"You need to get a haircut" she mumbled and he nodded laying his head on the pillows tiredly "You're going to be grumpy in the morning if you don't get some sleep- go to sleep!" she half yelled half whispered. He smiled and nodded before turning on his side and staring at the screen "Please go to sleep Oliver" she whispered and he scrunched his eyebrows in confusion. "I don't want it to be my fault that you didn't get a god night's sleep, plus I'm not going to be very good company just typing up this"

He sighed and nodded but he didn't move "Okay, but only if I can stay here"

"Why?"

"Because I know you'll get at least some sleep if I'm here" he answered trying not to sound cocky. She nodded and carried on her work as he fell asleep. It didn't take long for her eyes to start drooping so she closed the laptop and placed it gingerly on the floor next to them before lying down her mind going 1000 m/h.

When she awoke in the morning it was to coo's and squeals. She blinked and felt the familiar weight on her waist, pushing it off she sat up only to be met by cameras and phones. "What are you doing?" she asked tiredly.

Laurel grinned at her knowingly and turned her head to the sleeping figure next to her with raised eyebrows, earning a small blush. "You looked so cute, so we took some photos. What's he doing?" she asked her with a giggle. Felicity looked at her confused.

"You're not mad I'm sleeping with your boyfriend?" she asked and then her eyes widened and a blush crept up her cheeks "Not like sleeping sleeping but like rest sleeping. Going to sleep is what you do in a bed, well it's not the only thing but it's what we were doing. We were sleeping like resting not the other sleeping I wouldn't do that. And 3..2…1…" Everyone was grinning at her babble which only made her blush harder. "The first night I came here I didn't want to sleep because I had nightmares and he had a dream or something and remembered that I wouldn't be able to sleep with so many people. So, initially he came over to keep me company because I was writing a program then I told him to go to sleep, he did. I fell asleep to it seems. Sorry Laurel"

The older girl just laughed and waved her off "Least he's not going to be grumpy today"

"That's what she said!" Oliver whined from the duvet. Everyone laughed and Felicity gently tapped his arm in admonishment.

"You were awake and didn't help me!" she blamed and he shook his head laughing making the whole bed rattle. "I can't believe you, you get me into this mess and then when I try to get myself out of it you let me babble and make myself look like an idiot!" He grinned up at her cheekily and she ruffled his hair "You can make me breakfast for that!"

Sara sat up and looked at her expectantly "Doesn't he anyway" Everyone laughed at Felicity's blush.

"Well yes but he should do it today because he was a meanie!" she says with a giggle. Thea looks at her knowingly and she scrunches up her nose "You don't want Oliver to make me breakfast, what do you think he should do instead" Thea grins and whispers something in her ear making her grin evilly "According to this evil genius you're to carry me everywhere for today?" They all laugh and high five Thea who smiles at the praise.

Oliver rolls his eyes and nods.

They watch another movie before going down to breakfast and don't talk for almost 2 hours allowing everyone to wake up properly. When everyone does finally get too hungry that they can't ignore it they make their way down stairs, Felicity on Oliver's back.

He makes her breakfast anyway earning a light hearted grin. "Your own girlfriend doesn't get breakfast you're cutting it short Queen!" Laurel laughs from the corner and Oliver turns to her apologetically. Whipping her up some breakfast too.

"What about your sister!" Thea cries.

Oliver lifts her up and places her on the counter "C'mon Speedy just ask Raisa." She nods with a pout and dashes to find the house maid, who gladly comes in and makes the rest of them breakfast. They eat around the large table and then head upstairs to get changed. "What time are we going out for a test spin?" he asks walking into her room with wet hair and no t-shirt on.

"Jesus Christ Oliver! Knock next time!" Felicity screams when he comes in but she can't help but let her eyes travel. She notices that the other girls are also having a hard time looking away, Laurel rolls her eyes and points to the door to which he pouts but leaves. "He has, like, no sense of time and place does he!?" She mutters to Laurel while the others are trying to get over the fact Oliver Queen just walked into her room topless. She shakes her head with a laugh.

"No, no he doesn't! He sleeps topless sometimes and one night he was wandering round my house in the middle of the night and nearly gave mom a bloody heart attack!" Felicity laughed and the others stared on as though they were mental.

"I know" She quipped and then backtracked looking at Laurel with wide eyes.

She giggled "That mouth is going to get you in trouble one day" Laurel grinned and Felicity nodded sadly "but, lucky for you I know you sleep together, no not like that, and I know that he's always happier when he knows you've had a good night's sleep so no I'm not going to stop you. Even if I wanted you too he wouldn't" Felicity grinned and hugged Laurel tightly while she smiled hugging her back softly.

They finished changing quickly and called Oliver back in. He grinned at Laurel mouthing a quick thankyou before lifted Felicity up and downstairs to the couch. She stared at him in shock when he dropped her on the couch "I didn't, it didn't happen again did it!" he muttered frantically when she wouldn't answer him. She shook her head and he sighed in relief "Thank god, I still feel bad about that" she nodded smiling slightly but something was off.

"What's wrong" he asked her. She shook her head looking distracted then shook her head more firmly and the confusion in her eyes cleared "good, when every ones gone we can go see it"

They watched some TV and soon people started to leave. Felicity waved them off at the door and when everyone was gone and Laurel, Sara, Thea and Oliver sat in the living room they all had matching grins.

"TEST DRIVE!"

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